[YouTube] The Surprising Truth About Homosexuality: Voddie Baucham's View. In this video, Dr. Voddie Baucham shares his view on homosexuality, debunking common beliefs (lies) and addressing important truths. Hear what he has to say on this controversial topic.
He’s right that for at least some people, homosexuality is a choice. For others, possibly not — it seems to me we don’t know enough about either biology or psychology to say definitively. Faith is often described as taking a leap exactly because it skips over the need for external proofs.
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Just two questions. Regardless of the metaphysics or "science" on the issue, is homosexuality necessary or essential to the continuance of the human race? Why does the left have a maniacal need to promote homosexuality?
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^Why the need to flood their countries with 3rd word immigrants? The need to destroy education?
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It is true that we haven't identified a gay chromosome. It is also true that no event identified that effects 'in the womb' to make a person gay.
Those facts do not, however, lead to the conclusion that homosexuality is a choice or that it doesn't exist.
Our knowledge of this subject is limited because human psychology is so complex.
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Just one question for me - why are all of the French post-Enlightenment philosophers (Satre, Balzac, Proust, Foucault) gay? Ima gonna say it's a Paris / Sorbonne thing, but what do I know?
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Wouldn't have a sorbonne if they weren't sticking it in the wrong place.
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^ *rimshot*
literally
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The 'born that way' argument is a double edged sword. If true, then it's potentially 'curable.' In other words, whatever is happening genetically or in the womb can potentially be altered to produce a different outcome.
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The Bible tells us it was going on way back when. After the Fall, all manner of unfortunate human behavior began and is with us still.
The argument that something has historically occurred is not a legitimate argument that it should occur.
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#12 There are a dozen of theories. My favorite one: heterozygote advantage. For example: if you have two gene alleles (one from each parent) for sickle cell, you die. But if you have one sickle cell allele and one normal - you're immune to malaria.
So, imagine (it's just a hypothesis) there are two different alleles in the same genetic locus: G & H. GG = gay. HH = hetero, GH makes you more attractive (possibly to both genders).
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It could be a variation of the grandmother theory that applies to later children in a family who get less investment in their raising than earlier children. Which would be consistent with it being conserved by social/genetic inheritance over generations, even though it is not helping either the grandmothers nor the later children.
But no one is saying that, so it is probably true.
Our nation is being confronted with three wars: the war in Ukraine, the war in the Middle East, and the looming war over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
Actually, make that three and a half wars, if you include the war of influence we are losing in the Sahel region of Africa as U.S. forces abandon bases in Niger.
Biden, seemingly caught in the vice grip of November electoral calculus, is refusing even to acknowledge that we are already in World War III, let alone take the necessary measures to win it. As a result, our nation’s military, weapons and munitions production capacity, and its ability to engage with the cyberwarfare and disinformation emanating from Moscow and Beijing, are all woefully lacking. All require an immediate remedy.
Winning this increasingly kinetic global ideological war is our only way forward if liberal democracy is to prevail against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s shared vision of a so-called multipolar world, militarily and economically dominated by Russia and China and anchored by BRICS.
Defending Michigan’s 15 electoral votes seemingly became more important than safeguarding Israel.
Mark Toth writes on national security and foreign policy. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Sweet served 30 years as a military intelligence officer and led the U.S. European Command Intelligence Engagement Division from 2012 to 2014. This is the intelligence community speaking directly to us. Will we listen?
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Why do we keep blaming Biden?
Clearly, the 25th Amendment should have been exercised years ago.
It seems even the R's have avoided going the 25th route for "their" reasons. All despite the harm this administration has done and is still causing to all of its working class citizens.
Seriously, does anyone really think 99.9% of what is blamed on Biden, actually originated from this mindless sock puppet?
Those playing puppet master need to be exposed and jailed?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Mikhail Moshkin
[REGNUM] On May 24, Russia, Bulgaria and Transnistria celebrate the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture. On the same day, North Macedonia celebrates the Day of Saints Cyril and Methodius. In all cases - among us, and among the Bulgarians, and among the Macedonians, and in the unrecognized republic on the Dniester - the triumph is associated with the names of the monastic brothers who, almost 1200 years ago, created the first Slavic alphabet and the Church Slavonic language. On July 5, missionary brothers are remembered in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The choice of dates is related to church tradition. Once upon a time, in Orthodox churches, the day of remembrance of the “holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Slovenian teachers” fell on May 24 (11th according to the old style). And Catholics commemorated the same saints on July 5th. When Cyril and Methodius set out on educational journeys, church schism had not yet divided the Slavic world.
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[Regnum] In the conditions of a hybrid war, Germany has ceased to fear Russia and is now demonstrating its true attitude towards the events of World War II. This opinion was expressed to a Regnum news agency correspondent on May 23 by political scientist, historian, publicist, candidate of pedagogical sciences, deputy director of the Institute of CIS Countries Igor Shishkin, commenting on Germany’s refusal to recognize the blockade of Leningrad as an act of genocide.
Shishkin noted that Germany, which was defeated in World War II, was forced to admit its crimes. However, this does not mean that she admits her guilt for these crimes. Also, one should not conclude that today's Germans really condemn the actions of their ancestors, the political scientist added.
“They celebrated May 8th as liberation day, but did anyone really believe that the Germans on that day sincerely believed that they had been liberated? These people fought to the last drop of blood near Berlin or at Lake Balaton in Hungary. Now, in the conditions of the hybrid war of the West against Russia, the Germans believe that they can already openly express their opinion about the events of the Second World War. However, they will not say anything similar in relation to the USA and Great Britain,” the historian noted.
He recalled that the Berlin authorities on May 8 and 9 officially banned the use of symbols of the Soviet Union, which liberated the city. A document was adopted banning the symbols and songs of the Red Army, which dealt a mortal blow to the Third Reich.
The political scientist added that against this background one could expect that they would not admit that they had committed an act of genocide. This is what you would expect. They are no longer afraid of Russia in the context of a hybrid war against it, believing that the West can now defeat the Russian Federation. That is why they openly demonstrate their true attitude to the events of World War II.
“If they had the opportunity to do the same with the Americans or the British, they would do it. Russia needs to successfully complete the special operation and achieve the complete defeat of the West in the hybrid war. Then the Germans will again bring flowers to the memorials to Soviet liberating soldiers. It is important to understand that they used to do this out of fear. And the disappearance of fear has led to the fact that they now dare not recognize the crimes of Nazism,” Shishkin emphasized.
As reported by Regnum news agency, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated that the German authorities refuse to recognize as acts of genocide the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis on the territory of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War, primarily the blockade of Leningrad. This is exactly the answer Berlin gave to the corresponding note from Russia. The Russian Federation condemns this position, considers it immoral and disgusting, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized.
On March 18, Russia demanded that Germany officially recognize the siege of Leningrad and other crimes of the Third Reich as an act of genocide. The Russian Embassy in Berlin sent a corresponding note to the German Foreign Ministry.
On April 18, Zakharova stated that the German leadership had not responded to the specified note from Russia within a month. Berlin will not be able to avoid answering this question; Moscow will continue to persistently and systematically convey to the public the truth about the crimes of Nazi Germany, the official representative of the ministry emphasized.
In April, the Foreign Ministry announced a notification that the Russian embassy in Germany had received that Germany considered the participation of Russian officials in commemorative events dedicated to the anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp prisoners undesirable.
The siege of Leningrad lasted from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944. More than 100 thousand high-explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped on the city, and 150 thousand heavy artillery shells were fired into peaceful areas of Leningrad. Almost 17 thousand people died in the shelling, and famine claimed the lives of 632 thousand inhabitants.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia condemns the decision of the Berlin police to ban symbols associated with the Great Patriotic War (WWII), the USSR and the modern Russian Federation on May 8 and 9, and calls for it to be canceled and to stop rewriting history.
The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, commenting on the ban on Victory paraphernalia in Germany, called it “blasphemy and impudence.”
According to the deputy, the Germans see a threat even in the St. George’s ribbon and this is not the first time they are trying to “retouch the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Soviet people by Hitler’s Germany.”
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[Regnum] US and French military personnel committed crimes against residents of occupied Berlin in 1945. Archival documents about this were published by the Russian FSB.
Since May 1945, the Soviet zone of occupation of Germany was administered by the Soviet Military Administration. The zone was divided into 14 operational sectors. One of them, Berlinsky, observed the situation and behavior of the Allied troops in the American, British and French zones of the city.
“As has been established, cases of hooliganism, robbery and violence against Germans by American military personnel do not stop, and these facts are increasing daily,” reported the head of the Berlin operational sector, Major General Alexei Sidnev, to the Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Ivan Serov in November 1945.
Sidnev, in particular, reported that on October 21, two American soldiers stopped two Germans on Potsdamer Street who were returning home from work and asked for a light. Then, for no reason, they fired at the Germans, seriously wounding both.
On the evening of September 27, the materials say, three French soldiers raped a resident of a Berlin suburb named Agnes and the girl Riess, who was in the house. After that, they beat the woman and left, taking 200 marks and a gold watch from her.
Artist Kalin Paul was beaten on October 26 near the intersection of Südwestkorzo and Wiesbadenorstrasse after he prevented two American soldiers from raping a woman. Paul's nose was broken and his head was fractured.
On the same day, the American military - there were up to 50 people - burst into the Femina restaurant in the Berlin-Schöneberg district and demanded that the Germans there hand over all their valuables. The Americans took possession of watches, gold rings, women's fur collars and money.
In the American sector, ordinary Germans like the night watchman or the shoemaker often suffered from violence and robbery. In the French zone on October 27, the military robbed a Berlin resident and took away his radio. In the English zone on October 30, three servicemen took valuables from an apartment on Hosterstrasse.
In addition, Soviet counterintelligence recorded an increase in the activity of American, British and French intelligence services directed against the USSR. It was noted that the British and Americans tried to recruit prisoners of war released from camps, whose families lived in the Soviet zone of occupation of Germany, as well as young people from the Hitler Youth.
As Regnum reported, from documents previously declassified by the FSB, it follows that the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, was waiting for a split between Great Britain, the USA and the USSR in 1944 in order to start fighting together with Washington and London against the Soviet Union.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Enormous turnout for Trump's rally in deep-blue Bronx is revealed... as hilarious clip emerges of ex-president telling drill rapper guests that he wants diamond dental grill.
Donald Trump campaigned before thousands of fans in one of the most heavily Democratic and non-white areas of the US on Thursday in a push to do what his critics believe is unthinkable: Win New York in 2024. The rally crowd in the South Bronx's Crotona Park extended far beyond the 3,500 slated to appear, and thousands were forced to wait outside the fenced in area hoping to catch a glimpse of the 45th president.
Worryingly for the Democrats, the rally was packed with black and Hispanic people - two groups who Joe Biden has been accused of taking for granted - and who make up most of the population of the surrounding area.
As Trump fights to win minority voters, the real estate mogul delivered an hour-and-a-half speech about the decline of a city he loves - vowing to 'make New York City great again' and be the first Republican to win the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
'Everyone wanted to be here,' he told the crowd who waited for six hours to hear Trump. 'But sadly this is now a city in decline.'
'But if a New Yorker can't save this country, no-one can'
He also brought on stage rappers Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow. Trump admired the dazzling diamond 'grills' on their teeth, with the bling-loving Republican joking he wanted to get one for himself.
At one point during Trump claimed that immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere were 'building an army' to attack Americans 'from within.'
Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow hopped on stage to a cheering crowd and briefly addressed the massive group.
Sheff G said into the microphone: 'One thing I want to say, they're always going to whisper your wins and shout your failures.
'Trump's gonna shout the wins for all of us,' he added.
Sleepy Hallow simply said: 'Make America Great Again,' which was met with uproarious applause.
As Trump thanked the gentlemen for their endorsements, he once again focused on on Sheff G's grill.
'Thank you very much,' he said to the rappers. 'I like those teeth. I want to find out where you did that.'
'I got to get my teeth like that. I want that to happen to me,' he added, as the pair made their way off the stage.
Sheff G was recently released from prison, where he spent fourteen months for charges related to gang activity - Sleepy Hallow was indicted along with 30 others for the same charges. Sheff G previously spent two years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal possession of a weapon in 2021.
Trump, himself a former Democrat, faces an uphill battle to win New York, with recent polls showing the president about nine points ahead of his challenger in the Empire State.
In 1984, incumbent President Ronald Reagan became the last Republican to win New York in the last half-century. He had also achieved victory in the state in the 1980 presidential election, and prior to that, Richard Nixon won the state in 1972.
Margarita Rosario, a 69-year-old who has lived in the borough for more than 60 years, said she saw Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York on television the night before suggesting that the Bronx wouldn't support Trump. It spurred her to show up, holding a Trump flag and a poster that said, 'Make America Great Again.'
'I got so annoyed with that. I said, 'How dare she speak for the whole Bronx?' Rosario said.
Muhammad Ali, a 50-year-old who lives in the Bronx and said he planned to vote for Trump in November, said he once used to think the former president was a racist but his views have changed.
'We need a patriotic president at the moment and I find Donald Trump more patriotic for the moment than Joe Biden,' said Ali, an immigrant from Bangladesh and worker for New York's transportation agency.
At least one New Yorker in the crowd said he knew Trump from his days as a local billionaire real estate developer. Alfredo Rosado, 62, said he'd been a Trump supporter since 1998 when he worked for several months as a fill-in summer doorman at Trump's Trump Tower building. Rosado recounted how Trump had asked his name and stopped to chat. 'He's the same person you see,' he said of the former president.
The Bronx happens to be the bluest county in the US. Biden won it with more than 83 percent of the vote in 2020. Trump earned less than 16 percent. In 2016, Trump fared even worse, earning less than 10 percent of the borough's support.
But the ex-president is campaigning hard across the Big Apple, while he's stuck in town for his Manhattan hush money trial. In recent weeks, he's made stops at a firehouse, a construction site, and a bodega. But the Bronx rally was his first event open to the general public as he insists he is making a play to win an overwhelmingly Democratic state.
Besides creating a spectacle of rallygoers and protesters, the rally also gave Trump an opportunity to highlight what he argues are advantages on economic and immigration issues that could cut into key Democratic voting blocs.
Trump is currently facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over the payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Closing arguments are slated to begin when court resumes on Tuesday.
Trump supporters at the rally told Dailymail.com that they don't especially care abut the criminal trial and haven't been paying attention to the testimony on either side of the case.
Thursday was also Trump's first rally since former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said last Friday that she would vote for Trump. Her tacit endorsement came months after dropping out of the primary during which she attacked her former boss mercilessly. But Trump made no mention of his one-time rival.
As he wrapped up his speech, Trump said he woke up Thursday uncertain of the reception he'd get in the Bronx.
'I said, 'I wonder, will it be hostile or will it be friendly?' he said. 'It was beyond friendly. It was a lovefest.'
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Joe would need Taylor Swift to get the same crowd. She is too smart of a businesswoman to do that.
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Trump will do what the donors want just like last time
He never built a wall or even tried. Did not make e-Verify compulsory either, to make it hard for illegals to work.
Corporate donors want cheap labor
They Don’t want to pay a living wage to the maid and pool cleaner or worse, clean their pol themselves.
They want cheap servants
So, no wall, mass invasion to continue, USA destroyed.
The only anti-corruption candidate you have is Bobby Kennedy.
RFK jr would resist the corporations
But Americans are too tribal to get over his Democrat roots and vote for him.
Some of us older very early days Internet Geeks have known, or know of Karl Auerbach. Karl has been involved in Internets design since the early 1970s. Over Karl's career he has designed and fielded initial early VOIP, WiFi working prototype devices.
As a Lawyer he has even come out and stated his contempt for the SCOTUS, given its growing Political and not Constitutional rulings.
His appraisal of the current SCOTUS are felt by a growing number of American Citizens. Quotes:
[CaveBear] SCOTUS is no longer an institution with honor or integrity.
The court has replaced its historical intellectual honesty with selective, goal-oriented, tribal pseudo-logic. The enormous increase in shadow docket decisions, lacking both argument and opinions, has further eroded faith in the court.
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He right. The judiciary has screwed up a lot of things playing social architect rather than being the protector of the Constitution. Power corrupts. So many times they should have told people to go punt, its not the power of the courts to alter the Constitution. That is the sole power of Congress and the States.
[FoxNews] Pope Francis issued a decree on Thursday announcing the recognition of a miracle attributed to Bl. Carlo Acutis — clearing the way for the Italian teenager's canonization in the near future.
Pope Francis, along with Cardinal Marcello Semaro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, announced the recognition of the miracle along with news that three others will be deliberated for canonization.
"Many Catholics around the world are overjoyed at the news that Carlo Acutis will be declared a saint," Courtney Mares, Vatican journalist and author of the book "Blessed Carlo Acutis: A Saint in Sneakers," told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London, was a devout Catholic who created a website to document Eucharistic miracles, Fox News Digital previously reported. He died on Oct. 12, 2006, in Monza, Italy, shortly after a leukemia diagnosis. He was 15.
After his death, his website and legacy lived on — and in 2013 a miracle attributed to his intercession was approved and recognized by the Vatican. He was beatified, or given the title "Blessed," in Oct. 2020.
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And see, I was expecting the Bee...
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They made the kid a saint because he created a website? Please tell me I am reading this wrong.
I realize some may find HTML mysterious and ineffable, but it's not exactly DaVinci Code.
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It is somewhat miraculous these days to find a devout young person.
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Re #2. He's being called 'Blessed' because of his intercession in a miraculous healing. Per the article:
"This latest miracle attributed to Acutis involved the healing of a young woman from Costa Rica who suffered a serious head injury in a bike accident.
On July 8, 2022, Liliana [the girl's mother] prayed at Blessed Carlo’s tomb in Assisi, leaving a letter describing her plea. Six days earlier, on July 2, her daughter Valeria had fallen from her bicycle in Florence, where she was attending university," said Vatican News.
The girl suffered "severe head trauma" in the accident, said Vatican News; doctors had to remove part of her skull to relieve pressure on her brain. They were not optimistic that she would survive.
Liliana's secretary, who was devoted to Acutis, began praying for his intercession, said Vatican News. The day after she visited his tomb, the injured girl began to breathe on her own — and her recovery continued at a rapid, inexplicable pace.
The girl made a full recovery and required only a week of rehabilitation.
On July 18, a CAT scan proved that her hemorrhaging had disappeared, and on Aug. 11 Valeria was moved to rehabilitation therapy," said Vatican News.
She made a full recovery and required only a week of rehabilitation.
She herself made a pilgrimage to Acutis' tomb on Sept. 2, said Vatican News.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
