Single people should be valued and Jesus was single, Church of England says
What a lot of nonsense. Jesus was a bachelor and bachelors have long been regarded as glamorous. Nothing new to see here
Single people “must be valued at the heart of our society” just as much as couples and families, a major new report by the Church of England has stated.
Pointing to the fact that Jesus himself wasn’t shacked up, the 236-page report, Love Matters, said that the church should “not regard [singleness] as lesser than living in a couple relationship”.
“We have an amazing opportunity to reimagine a diverse society in which all families and loving relationships are valued and strengthened, promoting the stability that enables us all to thrive in a variety of family constellations, including being single.”
The result of a two-year commission examining relationships and families ordered by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, Love Matters was the third in a trilogy of commissions; the first two reports dealt with housing and social care.
The report acknowledged that an increased number of people elect to be single, adding that loving relationships matter just as much to singles as to anyone who is married with a family.
“Singleness can be a deliberate choice – sometimes the right partner has not been found, and sometimes separation, divorce or death has resulted in the loss of a partner,” it said.
“Inevitably, singleness does not imply celibacy, although this is the choice some single people in faith communities make.
“The Commission believes strongly that single people must be valued at the heart of our society. Jesus’ own singleness should ensure that the C of E celebrates singleness and does not regard it as lesser than living in a couple relationship. Loving relationships and being able to give and receive love matter to everyone.”
The Church of England was also recommended to offer relationship preparation and support “to be available to all couples planning to marry. Ideally this would also be available to couples planning to cohabit and those planning to marry in a civil ceremony”.
It urged the government “to invest in accessible and affordable relationship support … for all couples facing relationship difficulties, long before the relationship breaks down”.
The call to “honour” singleness comes after the Church of England in February announced it would consider introducing gender-neutral pronouns for God when conducting religious teachings.
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The Truth About America’s History of Slavery
The kids are given the impression that America was uniquely bad and that American slavery was uniquely bad. They learn nothing about slavery elsewhere. Among the many lies they are told are that “black slaves built America” and that America is systemically racist.
Since the only mortal enemy of the Left is truth, here are some truths about slavery.
America’s Slavery Compared to Slavery Elsewhere
If you are interested in morality and committed to truth, you do not ask, “Who had slaves?” You ask, “Who ended slavery?”
Who had slaves?
Every civilization throughout history had slaves: Asian societies, Africans, Native Americans, and other Indigenous peoples around the world, and the Muslim/Arab world, which may have had the most slaves of all.
Who ended slavery?
There was only one thing unique about slavery in the West: It raised the issue of the morality of slavery, ferociously debated it, and finally abolished it there, before it was abolished in any other civilization.
If you care about moral truth rather than, for example, promoting America-hatred, you must recognize—and you must teach—that America was one of the first slave-holding societies to abolish slavery. This even includes Africa.
Cornell professor Sandra Greene, a black scholar of African history, notes, “Slavery in the United States ended in 1865, but in West Africa it was not legally ended until 1875, and then it stretched on unofficially until almost World War I.”
The numbers of slaves.
According to the authoritative SlaveVoyages.org, the total number of black slaves imported from Africa into America was 305,326. The number of black slaves other countries imported from Africa into the rest of the New World—i.e., into the Caribbean and South America—was 12,521,337.
In other words, other countries imported 41 times the number of black slaves into the Western Hemisphere than the United States did, including the years before American independence).
Yet, the American Left never mentions this important moral point—because the Left-controlled education system suppresses facts it finds inconvenient, and the Left is not interested in morality or truth, but in vilifying America.
And then there is Arab/Muslim enslavement of blacks. Professor Paul Lovejoy, in his “Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa” (Cambridge University Press, 2012), reveals that from the beginning of Islam in the seventh century through the year 1600, the estimated number of Africans enslaved by Muslims was about 7 million. After 1600, it was about a million per year.
Do American students ever learn about the Arab/Muslim slave trade? How many know, for example, that a great percentage of the African male slaves were castrated so that they could not have families?
‘Black Slaves Built America’
This is another lie of the Left.
Those who make this argument point to the lucrative cotton manufacturing and trade in the 19th century—the industry in which black slaves were primarily used in the American South.
But University of Illinois professor of economics Deirdre McCloskey answered this:
Growing cotton, unlike sugar or rice, never required slavery. By 1870, freedmen and whites produced as much cotton as the South produced in the slave time of 1860. Cotton was not a slave crop in India or in southwest China, where it was grown in bulk … That slaves produced cotton does not imply that they were essential or causal in the production …
The United States and the United Kingdom and the rest would have become just as rich without the 250 years of unrequited toil. They have remained rich, observe, even after the peculiar institution was abolished, because their riches did not depend on its sinfulness.
But one need not know anything about cotton to understand how false “Black slaves built America” is. All you need is common sense.
First, even if slavery accounted for much of the wealth of the South, the Civil War that brought slavery to an end in the United States wiped out nearly all of that wealth and cost the Union billions (in today’s dollars).
Second, if slavery built the American economy, the most robust economy in world history, why didn’t Brazil become an economic superpower? Brazil imported 4 million black slaves, about 12 times as many as America. Why did the slave-owning American South lag so far behind the North economically?
Why did England, which, though it played a major role in the transatlantic slave trade until the beginning of the 19th century, had almost no slaves, become the most advanced economy of the 19th century?
“Black slaves built America” is left-wing propaganda to vilify America and to discredit capitalism.
“America is systemically racist.”
This is the Great Left Lie.
Four million black people have emigrated to the United States since the 1960s—and tens of millions more would if they could. Are they all fools? Why would anyone move to a country that is systemically bigoted against them? Did any Jews emigrate to Germany in the 1930s?
Blacks have emigrated to the United States because they know what Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the black woman who fled her homeland of Somalia and who now writes and lectures in America, knows:
What the media do not tell you is that America is the best place on the planet to be black, female, gay, trans, or what have you.
Blacks emigrating to America know what Algerian writer Kamel Daoud, writing in Le Monde and Le Point, knows:
It is forbidden to say that the West is also the place to which we flee when we want to escape the injustice of our country of origin, dictatorship, war, hunger, or simply boredom. It is fashionable to say that the West is guilty of everything.
As regards American slavery and everything else, always remember this: Truth is a liberal value, and truth is a conservative value. It is not a left-wing value.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/18/slavery-the-left-and-truth
**************************************************Why Dems Must Defend Deviancy
It curries favour with their female voters
It must be spring!
Rainbow-colored virtue-signaling yard signs are sprouting up in front of some homes in wealthy suburbs, an indication they are occupied by affluent “white privilege” Democrats. Many of these leftist protagonists are inheritance welfare liberals, the effluent of generational wealth and privilege, who choose to live in the safety and comfort of suburbia, with their enclaves of clubs and finer eating establishments.
These “truly enlightened” Demo elitists harbor fear of and contempt for grassroots Americans, in part because they have little social intersection with those who form the backbone of our nation. They arrogantly deride the foundational family and faith values that are common among grassroots folks. And they certainly don’t understand our embrace of American Liberty, the antithesis of the statist government power they advocate.
Despite their confident facade, these suburban lefties are an insecure lot who are quick to embrace the latest virtue identity fad.
When Donald Trump was president, they displayed their “Hate Has No Home Here” yard signs, expressing their disdain for “We, the [Deplorable] People.” Ahead of the 2020 election, they put out their phony “Black Lives Matter” signs while dispensing barrels of their BLM elixir, thinking it would ingratiate them with those off-color minorities who mostly loathe rich liberals.
They would never acknowledge that black lives don’t matter to the Demo hate hustlers they put in power — those who long ago betrayed the legacies of Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington, and Martin King in order to keep poor black and brown people their dependents.
After the virtue signalers elected Joe Biden, who promptly enabled Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, they laughingly replaced their Biden yard signs with plastic Ukrainian flag signs.
The vast majority of these suburban leftists have never raised their hand to “to support and defend” our country, or anything else. They depend on the grassroots folks for their protection, whether from gangbangers who venture into their neighborhoods or despots in foreign lands.
One of the virtue-signaling signs that reemerges once the other signs have worn out their usefulness is the Rainbow Mafia version — you know, variations of rainbow colors that also adorn the backs of vehicles. That theme, in support of the Left’s gender-confusion cult, has become the most prolific of the Demo virtue projections, an excessive emphasis that at first glance seems curious.
Amid all the issues that Democrats should focus on if they’re serious about “lifting up” their constituents, why do their national, state, and local leftist cadres expend so much highly visible political capital defending abject gender deviance?
That deviance now increasingly includes the most offensive of the aberrant offenders, including “transgender” men competing as women in sports, trans groomers infiltrating elementary schools as teachers, drag queen kindergarten groomers, and now, even the most grotesque of the bunch, child gender mutilators who are profiting from cutting body parts off of children.
Democrats are even passing legislation to remove children from parents who won’t allow their child to be chemically or physically mutilated.
Defending even these absurd outlying manifestations of gender confusion is critical to the Demos’ gender cult agenda, which struck deep into the heartland of normalcy when Biden signed the so-called Respect for Marriage Act — which is anything but. Last week, every House Demo voted against a bill to restrict men from competing as women in sports. Biden had already signaled he would veto it.
So, what is the political strategy behind the Demo defense of their most deviant and delusional constituents? Why expend so much political time and energy on this defense?
So quick are Demos to defend these “special” constituents that after a gender-confused assailant murdered six people at a Nashville Christian school, they pulled out all the stops to deflect attention from the assailant’s gender pathology, including by promoting yard signs that note “Protect Kids, Not Guns.” Ironically, those signs include rainbow lettering.
The Nashville case provides the evidential trail exposing the Demo deviant defense political strategy. Hint: It’s all about female voters
After the attack, Nashville Police Chief John Drake announced, “We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident,” including “a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.” He added that the assailant was “prepared to do more harm than was actually done.”
Drake indicated the writings would be released to the public, but as I wrote at the time, I doubted that would happen because that “manifesto” might connect the dots confirming this was a hate crime.
Recall that the Nashville attack occurred just ahead of the “Trans Day of Vengeance.” And on that day of vengeance, a gender-confused Colorado Springs man was arrested after the discovery of his hate manifesto detailing his plans to attack schools and churches. (Notably, information about that case was not released to the public until six days after the suspect was arrested for reasons not explained.)
Now, four weeks after the Nashville assault, the assailant’s writings indicating her motive have still not been released. No dots to connect here; move along.
As for why her sociopathic rants have not been released, professor Joseph Giacalone of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice speculated, “I think what the FBI is really concerned here with … is that if there is something in there that is truly damaging for the transgender community, I think they are hesitant to do it because they are afraid of a violent backlash against that protected class of people.”
Actually, there is most definitely concern about a “backlash,” but “against that protected class” is not the backlash Biden and his Demos are worried about.
And herein lies the answer to the question of why Democrats expend enormous political capital defending deviance.
The delay in releasing the assailant’s writings is because she is among the Left’s prized “protected class” of gender-confused constituents. If the release of her rantings indicated that the motive for her attack was hatred for those who disagreed with her identity and ideology, thus fitting the criterion for a hate crime, the Department of Justice would be obligated to classify it as such.
The Biden administration will vigorously reject any effort by the DOJ to do so.
Why?
Because that would result in an immediate political backlash from their Demo base — those who support the whole LGBTQ+++ ad nauseam spectrum of gender deniers, especially if that hate crime declaration implied a connection between her gender confusion and mental illness.
Again, why?
Democrats know they can give no ground regarding defense of their deviant gender-outlier constituents because they connect the dots to the 5% of Demo constituents who are in the “gay and lesbian” category, and that group is broadly supported by the Democrats’ largest and most critical voting bloc, women. As reported in National Review’s gender gap analysis: “In 2022, men voted Republican by a 14-point margin, while women voted Democratic by an 8-point margin. That’s a 22-point gender gap.”
Yes, ironic that a large number of leftist biological women support the tiny but very vocal “nonbinary” identity group.
Democrat strategists believe their female voters are emotionally incontinent idiots who can be manipulated into dependably voting Democrat by promoting emotionally provoking issues.
So, rather than risk offending women voters, make the issue about guns instead of gender pathology. And then give all those emotionally incontinent “white privilege” virtue signalers “Protect Kids Not Guns” yard signs. Throw in some statehouse protests to bolster that diversion.
Of course, we ALL want to protect kids from the Demos’ rising generation of sociopathic killers, the vast majority of whom are killing each other, not schoolchildren. And fortunately, most school kids are protected by resource officers with guns.
If those “enlightened” suburban leftists were really concerned about children, they would be posting yard signs that read: “Protect Kids, Not Groomers.” Tag team that with “Protect Kids, Not Failed Demo Social Policies.”
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Texas Law Enforcement Officials Shut Down Antifa Counter-Protest Of ‘Protect Texas Kids’ Demonstration
Law enforcement officials with the Fort Worth Police Department shut down Antifa agitators over the weekend who counter-protested a small group of demonstrators from “Protect Texas Kids” who were protesting a drag show event.
The Protect Texas Kids group arrived at a restaurant on Sunday to stage their demonstration at the event across the street when the counter-protesters showed up “dressed in black, wearing helmets and outer tactical vests, and many of them were armed with handguns and long guns,” officials said in a statement.
The FWPD monitored both groups using city cameras. The department said that while they respect everyone’s constitutional rights to free speech and assembly, they are also focused on ensuring there is “a safe environment that respects all participants’ constitutional rights, while effectively maintaining public peace and order … those who choose to violate the law and assault others will be arrested and charged.”
During the event, “officers observed a member of the counter-protest group, later identified as 20-year-old Samuel Fowlkes, approach the ‘Protect Texas Kids’ protesters and spray them with pepper spray,” police said.
When police tried to arrest Fowlkes, he allegedly “began to evade officers and then swung his closed fists at officers who tried to stop him.”
“While the officers were attempting to place Fowlkes into handcuffs, another member from the counter-protest group, later identified as 33-year-old Christopher Guillott, interfered with officers’ efforts by swinging an umbrella at officers,” police said. “Guillott struck an officer in the face and was then placed under arrest.”
While officers tried to place Fowlkes and Guillott under arrest, backup was called to help secure the scene.
Police instructed the counter-protesters to stay back on the sidewalk, at which time “a third counter-protester, later identified as 37-year-old Meghan Grant, attempted to charge past FWPD officers multiple times to gain access to the Fowlkes and Guillott.”
Police tried to keep Grant back, but she allegedly did not comply and was later taken into custody.
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