Welcome to H&C,,, where I aggregate news of interest. Primary topics include abuse with "the church", LGBTQI+ issues, cults - including anti-vaxxers, and the Dominionist and Theocratic movements. Also of concern is the anti-science movement with interest in those that promote garbage like homeopathy, chiropractic and the like. I am an atheist and anti-theist who believes religious mythos must be die and a strong supporter of SOCAS.
Nearly
two dozen food processing plants have gone up in flames this year.
This isn’t out of the ordinary — there are thousands of fires at
manufacturing facilities every year, according
to the National Fire Protection Association — but the blazes
have drawn extra attention because of the food shortage. Greene is
among several conspiracy theorists to suggest foul
play may be afoot, writing in a tweet earlier this week that the
fires are “supposedly” random while making a point about how “our
food supplies are in trouble.”
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Greene
elaborated during an
appearance on Infowars earlier this week, suggesting to Alex
Jones that Democrats are starting the fires on purpose in order
to deprive the nation of food, which would be advantageous for them
because they’re playing some sort of globalist long game and don’t
want anything to be manufactured in America … or something like
that. It’s not totally clear. “The Biden administration and the
Democrats … are destroying the very important, most critical part
of the fabric of America, and that is our farmers,” Greene ranted.
“They’re doing it on purpose. They want to be the global economy.
They want to be completely involved. And here we have these ‘random,’
supposedly accidental fires at food processing plants.”
Gates
owns approximately 242,000 acres of farmland. While this is certainly
a lot of acreage, it represents less than 1% of all the farmland in
the United States. While conspiracy theories claim that Gates is
buying up farmland in order to starve Americans for some unknown
reason, there’s likely a simpler explanation: Gates makes money off
this land. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-gates-own-farmland/
Historian
Angus Johnston notes:
“Chalking public sidewalks is legal in Bangor, where Collins
lives.” He points to a 2020 WABI
article that reports “Bangor has no ordinance against chalk writing
on public property, something the Mansion Church has done for years.”
You would think that an individual in her position would know better or
at least have the resources to know what the law states instead of
wasting the time of the police.
Roe
v Wade was NEVER about the fetus, “You
have no choice. Not your choice, not your body, your body is mine.”
A
Louisiana House committee by a vote of 7-2 advanced a bill that
decrees human life begins at the moment of fertilization, abortion is
felony murder, and the state has the right to ignore any federal law
or court ruling – even the Supreme Court – that is in opposition
to those claims. Any pregnant person who obtains an abortion, and
anyone assisting them could be charged with homicide, prosecuted, and
sent to prison if convicted. Louisiana has a death penalty statute on
the books.
You
will live in a state where the "religious beliefs" of a
subgroup of "Christians" are the law, much like in Iran.
And if you resist, you will be arrested. How long till they give the
death penalty for those violating the new "religious" laws?
While
this is currently happening in Oklahoma, I can guarantee it is
happening elsewhere. And just because the majority of people likely
share Cook’s views doesn’t give her the right to push her
ridiculous beliefs on kids when she’s literally being paid to
educate them instead.
A
concerned Tulsa Public Schools student has informed the state/church
watchdog that Amy Cook, a biology teacher at Memorial High School,
has been abusing her position and proselytizing her students. Cook
reportedly set up a prayer room in the back of her classroom, which
had a wall covered in prayers and bible verses where she encouraged
her students to pray. A few weeks after our complainant placed a
non-Christian prayer in the prayer room, Cook reportedly pulled the
person out of class and told our complainant of the need to repent or
the consequence would be to “burn in hell,” saying that she was
required to intervene as a “good Christian.”
Cook
describes on a website
why her personal religious beliefs trump her secular duties as a
teacher and how she views her position as a teacher to be
political,,,
So
this commercial has garnered much attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju3Jm7pvI-o
Kandiss Taylor, a Republican candidate for governor in Georgia,
released a campaign ad claiming that a Satanic "New World
Order" has taken over the world. Taylor's ad touted her
candidacy to "stand up to the Luciferian Cabal" and "bring
the Satanic Regime to its knees."
As
David Pakman noted, “Kandiss Taylor releases one of the most
bizarre and disturbing campaign ads in history .”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEdbuJcKGFI
In less than 2 minutes she lays it all on the line, informing us
what she holds dear:: anti-vaxx, demons, anti-semitism,
anti-abortion, dominionism, and defeating the NWO.
A
final note to this debacle, Stew Peters revealed that his film crew
and executive producer—white nationalist Lauren Witzke—are
responsible for producing Kandiss Taylor's Georgia Guidestones ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdBvyN45dts
Disclosure:: After this conversation Hannah and I became connected via Facebook due to having a mutual friend.
I generally do not argue the abortion issue. For me it is simple, choice. The decision should only be a consideration of the women, her family, and doctor; caveats apply. I don't even care what science says on the topic; it all becomes moot. But this, was too much even for me,,, I am a product of adoption.
The following speaks for itself,,, simple mind, simple solution. Except it's not that simple. "They" never, ever, consider the children currently in the system.
"They" never honestly consider cost of raising a child, thinking it as a badge of honor. One look at this here blog will demonstrate not all think that way. Keeping in mind I only focus on one facet of abuser.
Correction:: I should have stated worked when I was still living in NY. Although a very similar situation applies where I live now.
The point I was making, I know of no narrative that fits this description but 1, in TX at an unknown time period. No examples or reports, etc. were cited in support of this claim. Simply put, abortion clinics will not perform an abortion on an unwilling patient, regardless of whether their parents believe they should obtain an abortion.
This is one reason why I believe comprehensive sex education with parental participation should be available and mandatory via the schools or comparable means beginning at age 10. Not just issues surrounding the physical act but all ramifications of having a child underage and unmarried. As teen pregnancy is an issue, I also feel that K-12 schools need to be on the front line accommodating needs so a teen parent can finish. Discussions like such also illustrate the need for comprehensive birth control methods to not only be made available but free of charge to all women age 10 or up. Too many lives are impacted to have such a attitude. (I would like to also see our higher education system offer some type of mandatory education and services as well, but that is a whole other sticky wicket as cost is already spiraling out of control.)
It is a very simple question to ask, if no to abortion, do you then agree to supply other means of pregnancy prevention? I already know the answer but I wanted him to admit to it; took 3 times asking.
And there it is, the "god" card. As I have debated this individual before I was expecting it. Doesn't change my argument any but I wanted to see I was right. I purposely kept my argument god-free and religion free as TBH I didn't want to go that route today. I wanted to avoid the long drawn out discussion that boils down to "does a god exist".
I am not quite sure where M was head with his HIV/AIDS retort, but thought his appeal to personal experience added a nice touch. And yes I am guilty of it too, but its use highlights very well how asinine that type of argument can be.
I find his "objection" (for lack of better) to the topic of providing birth control in relation to abortion kind of odd. If he was trying to conflated the rate of HIV/AIDS infection to the failure of birth control he did a lousy job.
Basically this fuck-nut wants unmitigated pregnancy. I am hazarding a guess he is probably Quiverfull and an end-timer who doesn't believe in climate change. The more children the bigger the army for god.
Besides the issue of his argument being weak, it annoys me that individuals like M cant even take the time to get information factual correct. I would rather run into a factual but otherwise possiblely faulty argument than lies. Coming from religionists weakens an argument even more when they lie for Jeebus or Mohammad.
On Tuesday the Eighth Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled on The Satanic Temple’s appeal in their case to claim
religious exemption from the state’s informed consent and mandatory
waiting period abortion restrictions. In a unanimous decision the court
has overturned the case’s dismissal and transferred the case to the
Missouri Supreme Court.
“Ms.
Doe’s claims challenging the validity of certain sections of the
Informed Consent Law under the Religion Clauses are real and
substantial,” wrote Judge Thomas Newton in the ruling’s conclusion.
For
over two years, The Satanic Temple (TST) has pursued a lawsuit against
the Governor and Attorney General of Missouri, alleging that the State’s
mandated “informed consent” materials, ultrasound, and 72-hour waiting
period violated a member of The Satanic Temple’s First Amendment rights.
This September, TST’s abortion lawsuits in the State of Missouri will
reach a turning point when the Missouri State Court of Appeals and the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit will hear oral
arguments in a case that could change state regulations for religiously
motivated abortions.
On
May 8, 2015 TST filed both state and federal lawsuits against the State
of Missouri on behalf of Mary Doe, a pregnant woman seeking an
abortion. Missouri law requires that all women seeking to lawfully
terminate their pregnancy must be given reading materials claiming that
life begins at conception. They must also endure a 72-hour waiting
period between their initial appointment and actual abortion procedure.
TST objects to these restrictions on religious grounds because they
violate the organization’s belief in the inviolability of one’s body.
While it would take new legislation from Congress to narrow the kinds
of carte blanche discrimination (e.g. denying campus housing to
transgender students that is consistent with their gender identity) that
Title IX’s religious exemption permits, the ACLU has urged the U.S.
Department of Education to act where it can. As a bare minimum, LGBT
students and their families should have a right to know about the kinds
of taxpayer-funded discrimination they can be subjected to by their school.
Last week, the head of the Office for Civil Rights within the
Department of Education — in response to a letter from several senators,
led by Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) — stated that the department would provide
greater transparency about requests for religious exemptions by
publishing them online for the public to view for themselves. Up to this
point, it has often taken FOIA requests and investigative journalism
for this information to come to light.
A Florida state House subcommittee heard testimony on Monday that the
“white culture” would be destroyed if white women were “outside the
home not having babies” while other ethnicities had a higher birthrate.
During a House Criminal Justice Subcommittee meeting on Monday,
lawmakers discussed HB 865, a bill that would ban all abortions except
in cases where the health of the mother was at risk.
Republican Rep. Charles Van Zant, who sponsored the bill, argued that life began at conception, and that even zygotes were “citizens of Florida.”
While testifying about the bill, an anti-abortion activist named Paul injected race into the discussion.
“We see the destruction we’re bringing upon ourself as a nation,” Paul opined. “The Muslims, they don’t kill the babies.”
Please come to this special event in Toronto on Feb. 26th:
February 26th, 2016, marks the passing of one year since the brutal extremist attacks that left Avijit
Roy dead and his wife, Rafida Ahmed, seriously injured. CFIC members,
friends, and supporters are encouraged to join us as we present the
first Avijit Roy Day in honour of murdered atheist writers, publishers,
and activists. CFI Canada is proud to work with Mukto Mona (Bangladeshi
Freethinking) for this special event.
Time: 7-9 PM
Venue: Albert Campbell Auditorium (Toronto Public Library)
Address: 496 Birchmount Road, Toronto, ON, M1K 1N8
“Those radicals need to be lawfully dealt with because they are
radical, they mean to divide and conquer, they mean to make war against
real Christianity.”
“I’ve yet to find a situation where a
homosexual could actually verify the fact that they were the victim of
someone actually hating on them,” he said. “I have yet to see it.”
From February to April last year Bodnar, 59, treated the mother, who came to her to help cure her newborn son of eczema.
She allegedly convinced the mother, who cannot be identified, that the
only way to help the baby was to adopt a diet of raw vegetables, fruit
and seeds.
The court heard the mother was "intimidated by the
accused" and made to feel guilty for using steroid creams to treat the
eczema "as it was best to use nothing to allow the skin to breathe".
Bodnar allegedly told the mother "Are you 100 per cent raw? You have to be 100 per cent raw if you want to see your son heal."
Police allege that when the baby developed a fever Bodnar told the
mother to adopt a water only diet, telling her that her baby would not
get better if she ate.
When the child was six months old his
mother asked Bodnar if she could feed him vegetable puree but the
naturopath allegedly advised her to put raw food in a net and let the
infant suck it.
Bodnar is also accused of telling the mother to feed the child goat milk.
"I personally had not received any complaints on that property, and
after I went and looked at it, I was a little surprised that I hadn't."
According to the assessor's office, the property has been owned by Michael J. Williams for 10 years.
We knocked on his door twice today, but no one answered.
But plenty of surveillance camera systems equipped with microphones, were watching us.
" I personally wouldn't like it, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's illegal."
Building Commissioner Ron Beane says the city's legal team is examining this case closely.
Do these phrases violate city ordinances to property maintenance, or is
this the owner's right to use his house as a canvas for social issues?
"I think it might be offensive to some people but I think it might be a
freedom of speech. We're used to it, we've laughed about it and made
comments about it," explains a woman who lives nearby.
Staunchly right-wing pundit Larry Tomczak recently unveiled a little
challenge he presented to himself: The “30 Day Bullseye Challenge,” to
be exact.
The project consists of producing 30 short, blippy
videos that demonstrate the proper etiquette and desired worldview of a
practicing Christian.
The series touches upon all the hot-button
issues one might expect, particularly homosexuality, which Tomczak
suggests leads to a lifetime of disease and abject misery should one
venture down that shadowy left-hand path:
“With all the hoopla about this one and that one, hey, they’re coming
out and it being a time to celebrate gay marriage and gay lifestyles as
normal, natural, beautiful. People need to awaken … to the reality that
this so-called love story doesn’t have a happy ending.”
A Georgia lawmaker says religious adoption agencies, schools and other
nonprofits should be able to refuse service to same-sex couples; months
after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized gay marriage
nationwide.
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Gay rights and civil rights organizations
already have bashed the proposal, calling it anti-LGBT and broader than a
federal version. Those groups warn Kirk’s bill would let religious
nonprofits or organizations deny same-sex couples even if receiving
taxpayer money.
The federal lawsuit has not yet been decided. But the state lawsuit was apparently thrown out last month, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
A Cole County judge last month dismissed a Missouri woman’s case claiming the state’s abortion restrictions violate her religious beliefs.
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Judge Joe Beteem last month dismissed those claims, saying Doe’s “pleadings fail to allege facts, which if true, state a claim for relief under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”
Doe already had the abortion.
Despite the setback, Beteem issued the ruling “without prejudice,” meaning The Satanic Temple could re-submit the lawsuit if they were more specific about how this violated RFRA. And that’s exactly what they did last week.
Lucien Greaves explained in an email:
On January 20th, we filed an amended complaint, which spells out the RFRA claim in explicit detail. This amended complaint has been thoroughly scrutinized by our legal team and we anticipate that it will be sufficient for the case to proceed.
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The importance of these lawsuits couldn’t be clearer given new developments in Missouri. While our lawsuits provide just about the only high-profile [pushback] against government intrusion into reproductive rights, the situation in MO has grown ever darker and uglier. Sen. Kurt Schaefer, who provoked a minor outcry for attempting to block a Missouri University graduate student from studying the effects of MO’s mandated 72-hour abortion waiting period, has successfully extended the life of his Senate Interim Committee on the Sanctity of Human Life. The committee, which was originally formed to investigate debunked claims of an underground fetal parts market operating out of Planned Parenthood clinics, betrays religious bias in its very name. Their activities — pursuing and harassing Planned Parenthood executives and employees — have all the trappings of a new inquisition and the nation at large is fighting similar battles in an alarming number of States.
With a regressive trend against abortion in motion, and an unreliable Supreme Court, we feel strongly that Religious Exemptions are the best, and perhaps final, refuge for Freedom of Choice. With this in mind, The Satanic Temple is looking to partner with and/or eventually establish clinics of our own where our deeply-held religious convictions regarding bodily autonomy will have to be respected.
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The other day I posted a story about how certain groups are using the mRFRAs as tools to challenge "conservative Christianity’s encroachment on U.S. law." In that posting mention was made concerning The Satanic Temple's effort on behalf of a woman in Missouri trying to gain access to abortion.
Since 1973’s Roe v. Wade ruling by the Supreme
Court of the United States safeguarding the legality of abortion, the
conservative religious right has grown violently hysterical in defining
anti-abortion initiatives in terms of supreme moral significance.
Lawmakers (primarily Republican) have steadily introduced “weasel bills”
transparently designed to make the process of receiving an abortion
more difficult, and overall as emotionally and logistically harrowing as
they possibly can. Those who define the issue in terms of personal
choice often find their views marginalized as indicative of values
existing outside of the benefits of religious protection. While
religio-conservative views seek to undermine abortion rights, they have
also steadily worked to define “religious liberty” to be understood in
terms of reserving the the right to deny contraceptives and oppose
rational family planning practices. In fact, religious liberty works the
other way, too.
As Satanists we believe in individual
autonomy, personal choice, and the inviolability of one’s own body.
Further, we believe one should be free to make one’s own decisions,
uncoerced, based on the best available scientific evidence, whether or
not the science comports with the religious and/or political views of
others.
This past Summer, The Satanic Temple made an
exemption available, for women who share our values, against “informed
consent” materials — State-mandated informational material, imposed upon
women in some states, that is often scientifically dubious (at best),
and openly meant to dissuade from abortions, or create guilt about the
procedure.
Recently, a member of The Satanic Temple, “Mary”,
reached out to another TST member informing him that she will be seeking
an abortion in her home state of Missouri, and that she intended to use
our exemption form. She was put in contact with our St. Louis chapter,
where the membership began to work diligently to provide Mary with
support and safe passage. It was brought to our attention that an
obligatory waiting period (72 hours) is burdened upon women seeking
abortions in Missouri, a requirement we feel our deeply-held values
exempt Mary from as well. We believe the the State Government should
bear the burden of establishing a case for an imminent need to deny
timely service, as such a requirement violates our sense of religious
identity relating to personal choice and individual sovereignty.
The
waiting period is another facile and insulting attempt at making
abortion services less available. With a dearth of abortion clinics,
some women are made to travel a great distance for services they then
have to wait three days to receive, adding the expense of accommodations
and time away from work.
We created an exemption form for
the waiting period that we expect Mary will deliver upon her arrival.
We will seek to pursue legal action if that waiver is not respected.
From the heavily-edited videos that made Planned Parenthood staff look like insensitive fetal tissue profiteers to presidential candidate Carly Fiorina’s erroneous ad campaign,
the past months have unveiled the general misinformation and coercion
behind many anti-abortion groups. Now, one state has taken the leap to
combat these types of harmful anti-abortion propaganda at the source:
inside anti-abortion organizations disguised as health clinics. But not
without a fight.
On Friday, California became the first state to pass a law regulating the nearly 170 anti-abortion clinics in the state. Barely 48 hours later, two clinics had already sued California Attorney General Kamala Harris, deeming the new law unconstitutional.
The law, called the called the Reproductive FACT Act,
requires clinics commonly referred to as “Crisis Pregnancy Centers”
(CPCs) to inform their patients about how they can obtain affordable
birth control, abortion, and prenatal care. If the CPC does not have a
medical license, staff must inform each patient that their their clinic
is not licensed to provide health care.
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However, the lawsuit claims
this act “unconstitutionally compels [the clinics] to speak messages
that they have not chosen, with which they do not agree, and that
distract, and detract from, the messages they have chosen to speak,”
therefore undermining their free speech rights guaranteed by the First
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
This constitutional argument has been the key to shutting down similar laws in the past. Cities like Austin, Baltimore, and New York City
have all been sued for violating clinics’ freedom of speech and
religion with laws regulating CPCs. In each case, the laws were
overturned. Supporters of the Reproductive FACT Act, which is the first
law passed at the state level, hope it won’t see the same fate.
In the process of crafting the bill, state and advocacy groups like
NARAL tried to ensure they wouldn’t fall into the same legal trap as the
cities before them. They expected a lawsuit. In the past, Everitt said,
courts have upheld that that the state has authority to regulate speech
done in the course of a profession, like in providing medical services — which could negate the free speech argument.
What the CPC system is so terrified of with California’s new “truth in advertising,” or prohibition against “false advertising,” law is that the entire crisis pregnancy center system is founded on the principle
that it is necessary and acceptable to lie to women to trick and
frighten them into giving birth and in many cases getting pregnant. It
is just a typical and standard anti-choice procedure closely related to
the Mormon concept of “lying for the lord” which is all well and good to garner more tithing adherents, but it is unacceptable for deceiving women with “medical advice” borne of religious mendacity to make them birthing machines.
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However, the evangelicals at CPCs actually know for a fact, and believe, that not only is “abortion incredibly safe,” it is actually 14 times safer than giving birth. CPCs claim that “abortion
is bad and has many adverse side effects. Abortion is associated with
preterm birth, emotion (sic) and psychological impact, and spiritual
consequences.” As the pro-choice organization NARAL reported in a study
of California CPCs, lying is the norm and most important tool that CPCs
use to pressure and frighten women into giving birth no matter the
consequences to the woman. Lying for religion is what CPCs regard as
sound, fact-based medical advice, and now the organization is very, very
angry that California passed a law forcing them to be truthful.
A coalition of women’s health-care providers, on behalf of Texas abortion providers, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the legality of the nation’s most radical set of anti-choice policies.
“This case will determine whether Texas can force more than 75
percent of the State’s abortion clinics to close,” opens the brief filed
with the Roberts Court late Tuesday night.
The brief asks the Roberts Court to review a June 2015 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which upheld portions of HB 2
that advocates say would close more than 75 percent of abortion clinics
in Texas and cut off access to safe and legal abortions for millions of
Texans.
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Advocates argue in their filing that if the Roberts Court fails to step
in, only ten clinics will remain open in the state, down from 41 prior
to HB 2’s enactment and a net reduction of more than 75 percent of the
abortion facilities in the state in a two-year period. Should this
happen, advocates say, “every woman in Texas would have to live under a
legal regime that fails to respect her equal citizenship status and
would force her to grapple with unnecessary and substantial obstacles as
a condition of exercising her protected liberty.”
Providers contend the 5th Circuit’s decision is in “direct and acknowledged” conflict with decisions from the 7th and 9th Circuit Courts,
as well as the Iowa Supreme Court, which hold that courts, “must
examine the extent to which laws regulating abortion actually further a
valid state interest in assessing whether the burdens they impose on
abortion access are undue.” While the 5th Circuit applied a narrow
approach (and didn’t seriously factor in barriers women face), the 7th
and 9th Circuit courts used a so-called balancing test for undue burden
that weighs the obstacles for women against the state's purported health
interest, creating a divergence in Circuit court rulings.
Abortion providers argue the ruling “flouted longstanding [Supreme
Court] precedent” by defying standards set by seminal 1992
abortion-rights case, Casey v Planned Parenthood. The 5th’s
inability to find that the “abrupt closure” of more than three-fourths
of Texas abortion clinics would create substantial obstacles to abortion
access, “makes a mockery of the standard articulated in Casey,” they write. Such “blatant defiance” of the Court’s precedents calls for review.
Providers also call into question the law’s ability to uphold Fourteenth Amendment
guarantees as it, “fails to respect [a woman's] equal citizenship
status and would force her to grapple with unnecessary and substantial
obstacles as a condition of exercising her protected liberty.” Review
from the nation’s highest court is needed to avert “profound and
irreparable harm” to Texas women, they conclude.
As hard as it is to believe after seven and a half years of existence
and nearly 2,400 posts on SBM, every so often, something reminds me
that we here at SBM haven’t discussed a topic that should be discussed.
So it was a couple of weeks ago, when I saw a familiar name in a news
story that wasn’t about vaccines. You might recall a news story last
month when a shadowy group with ties to radical antiabortion groups, the Center for Medical Progress, led by a man named David Daleiden, ran a highly questionable “sting” operation (complete with fake IDs) to “prove” that Planned Parenthood was selling aborted fetuses for medical research.
While reading news stories about Daleiden and CMP, I came across a
familiar name, a name that many of us who discuss antivaccine
misinformation are familiar with. I’m referring to Theresa Deisher,
founder of the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute. It turns out that Deisher helped to prepare Daleiden
for his role as a biomedical representative that he assumed in order to
deceive representatives of Planned Parenthood. She taught him how to
talk the talk and walk the walk, so to speak, so that he was convincing
as a representative of a biomedical research firm.
I can hear you asking: So what? What do Daleiden and CMP have to do
with vaccines? It’s not CMP per se, but Deisher who is relevant. The
reason that Deisher is so relevant to Science-Based Medicine (SBM) is
because she is one of the foremost promoters of a particularly
pernicious form of antivaccine misinformation that tries desperately to
create a religious basis to oppose vaccines with antivaccine activism.
It is a form of misinformation designed to deceive those who believe
abortion is a moral wrong into thinking that vaccines, too, are a moral
wrong because some of the viruses used to make specific vaccines are
grown during the manufacturing process in cell lines derived from human
fetuses decades ago. But Deisher goes one huge step beyond just guilt by
association for vaccines. She is, as the news story cited above notes,
the foremost promoter of a related and equally pernicious form of
antivaccine information that claims that DNA from the fetal cell lines
used to grow vaccine strains of viruses is a cause of autism. The truly
depressing thing about Deisher is that she is, in fact, a real scientist
(or at least was).
In any event, it occurred to me that, although I’ve mentioned Deisher briefly
before in the context of the Disneyland measles outbreak, I’ve never
deconstructed her antivaccine misinformation in detail here. Yet, her
work is often cited by antivaccine activists to persuade those whose
religion tells them abortion is morally wrong that they shouldn’t
vaccinate their children by adding to the false claim that somehow
“fetal parts” are used in the making of vaccines the even more false
claim that fetal DNA somehow gets into the brain, recombines with the
DNA in neurons, and causes autism. She’s also just released what appears
to be a new paper claiming to show how fetal DNA causes autism. The
confluence of her name coming up in stories about CMP and Planned
Parenthood and her release of this new “paper” makes this a perfect time
to write about Deisher.
Zachary King is a Catholic wannabe version of Mike Warnke and believes that Satanic rituals are being performed at your "local" abortion clinic (in other words, Planned Parenthood).
Why does he believe so, according to Hohmann:
King said he was hired to be there, casting his spells, by the abortionists.
“You have to be part of the procedure,,,They have hired you to perform a satanic spell and, in order for that to happen, your hands have to get bloody.”
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“My left hand guided the way, and the right hand had a scalpel. The woman never winced or anything. Both hands were bloody. I participated in 141 abortions. I doubt my actions actually killed any children, but I was still there.”
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He said [referring to King] the women whose abortions he attended would get pregnant with the intent of killing their unborn baby as a sacrifice to Satan.
“So the women knew why I was there,,,,King said. “They know there’s a satanic ritual going on.
“In 1987 (at the age of 19), I became a high wizard, and I did my last abortion in 1997,,,,From the time I was 14 to age 19, I did probably five of them.”
So I did a bit of digging,,,
The interview originated with Michal Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute; it was then "reported" on by LifeNews.com, ”an independent news agency devoted to reporting news that affects the pro-life community." And finally reached Leo Hohmann of WND. His article is just a repetitious bunch of junk with no fresh perspective or novelty.
Now I'm not going to get into the differences between theistic and atheistic forms of Satanism (not to discount The Satanic Temple) nor any of the other batshittery that always surrounds this topic (ie Hitler, Manson, Mengele and Margaret Sanger always make an appearance from the religious fucktards). But I want you to think about what he said, and how fucking stupid he is. It is a point our very own Heretic Woman made before she was banned and her comments deleted.
Satanists don't have covens
Although not mentioned in Hohmann's article, King states in the original interview, "I had been in the World Church of Satan,,," I have never seen reference to such and organization nor have I been able to FIND any reference to such
There are no substantiated claims of human sacrifice by any Satanic groups,,,EVER
And WTF is a non-medical person doing in an operating theater
Exactly what type of abortion was he providing - My left hand guided the way, and the right hand had a scalpel
This last one is self explanatory - I doubt my actions actually killed any children, but I was still there
So dude can't even seem to get his terminology correct. Let alone provide any evidence that these "Satanic" rituals are occurring besides the fact that abortions do take place. The author doesn't do much better, relying on innuendo and rumor: "In December 2010, Life Site News, a pro-life website, published a profile of Abigail Seidman, who from the age of 10 was working in an abortion clinic managed by her mother, a nurse."
[Side::King can't even seem to get his narrative correct either, one minute he is in an operating room; next it is some, "farm house that was surprisingly more sterile than many of the other abortion clinics I had done abortions in." Also note this comment is referencing his "first [abortion] one I did was about 3 months before turning 15."]
BUT that is not my interest,,, It is the hyperbole and god awful rhetoric being spouted by these insane lunatics that bother me.
So with said, a little back story for context and understanding my interest.
Flash back to the early 80s and the mentality that originally sucked me; a bit of:
Seventies-era “former Satanic High Priest” John Todd, "but no one had to take Todd down: Pleading guilty to rape and child molestation ended his career as a Satan-chaser. Todd alienated many mainstream Christian groups by accusing them of being Illuminati fronts. Todd’s teachings still have a following in conspiracy circles and fundamentalist Christian religious sects."
And last but not least, Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore, who in 1985 formed the Parents Media Resource Center (PMRC) - the group responsible for the “Parental Advisory” stickers found on music because of back-masking
It is this sort of Christianist masturbatory fantasy that is still extant, that its promulgators think that "the rubes" will actually believe it. As Deb and I found, the religious fucktards soak this shit right up; and I'm not just talking the Christo-fascists either.
This is truly unbelievable, that people would allow themselves to be so over taken by the devil that they would make human sacrifices to satan, but after seeing what PP does, selling babies by the piece, I guess anything is possible, I still have a hard time understanding how people can be so depraved and evil. Their days in eternity will be long and hot, and they deserve it.
When I was an LEO, I researched this crap to find out more about a coven
working in my district. What I found was so repulsive I almost threw
up. Baby Sacrifices, Group Rape, Eating Feces, Kidnapping Children in
other states and forcing them into this sick lifestyle and the list goes
on forever. They had a nation wide network from coast to coast and this
was in the late 70s. I could only imagine what they have now.
I agree. Whether or not there is a Satanist there performing a spell,
it's still offering up a child, a human life, on the altar of pleasure
and convenience. And given that truth, should it be any great surprise
that the enemy of our souls, the enemy of all human souls and life
itself, would wish to be present, cheering the practitioners on? Of
course they wish to remain in the shadows, because evil hates the light,
so also don't be surprised by the many naysayers who will flock to this
article to leave their mocking comments, seeking to discredit the man's
truthful testimony. [Article's author]
Do you mean evidence as in hearing it on the main stream media? I have
heard testimony from many different ex-satanist that state child
sacrifice is a common practice among them. I was told i was crazy years
ago for stating that baby parts were being harvested and sold on the
black market. Guess what? Its main stream news now. Also, thats not
the worst of it. Those baby parts are being used in our food, cosmetics
and other areas. Sounds crazy huh! That will come out too. My
evidence is discernment. Any a people without God will do evil beyond
imagination. Grace is available for those people if they just trust in
Jesus and repent.
Imagine being 19 year old, away from home in a heavily fundamentalist atmosphere. Imagine having a mental illness, but not knowing you have a mental illness. Imagine having psychotic episodes, delusions of grandeur, uncontrollable moods swings all fueled by an addiction to Tylenol 3s (codeine) which eventually led to Oxycontin. Imagine being a cutter but not knowing why.
Now add to that a culture where mental illness is perceived as a spiritual issue that can be solved by prayer and Bible study. (Sound familiar) That it is Satan and his minion demons and those he controls that are the cause of all your woes. Then add to that a jackass named Bob Larson. (Yes, the current master of Skpye exorcisms (for the low price of $295) and the brains behind teenexorcists.) I think without much help you can see where this is going to lead because it is still happening today. I am an "exorcism" survivor
[SIDE::Now there is a lot of small detail in discussing Larson and my experience. Larson actually performs, in modern parlance, "Deliverances" not the Rite of Exorcism. No he was not present, but his early teachings along with the hype mention above were influential. Yes I have "met" Larson and have heard him speak. I was also and avid fan of his two-hour weekday call-in show "Talk Back" (no, I don't think I ever called in at least I don't remember ever doing so). Yes I have read many of his books and so on,,,
I say survivor because, it didn't kill me. But the aftermath nearly did. I say survivor, because, today many individuals subjected to this type crazy talk don't. That fucks me off!!
Over the course of the past 5 years, I have posted numerous stories concerning "Demons, Deliverance and Exorcism" and the false narrative behind it. People say that religion does not result in harm but I beg to differ.
These are just some of the stories I haven't published...
"Christianity" is dying a slow death and the Christianists don't like it. They don't like the idea of their way of life is, their dominance of the way things ought to be, their beliefs are becoming extinct.
Zachary King said satanism, in the same way abortion and homosexual rights activists have mainstreamed their ideas, is unveiling its true agenda in increments.
"It's becoming more popular, because, remember, Satan has removed himself from the picture in many respects, trying to prove he doesn't exist [18],,,,So many people think of Satan as this character the church invented to keep people in line, and then you look at everything else that's ramped up.
,,,
It's the same with abortion and satanism,,,
"Everything satanic is coming out in the open, they're not denying it anymore. They're not hiding it in the basement and out in the woods anymore," King said. "It's just out in the open like everything else." [19]
And that my friends is the crux of the whole matter. The political agenda aside, they do not want their beliefs challenged. They do not want people to think for themselves. They want happy little sheep.
Last month, End Times preachers Jim Bakker and John Kilpatrick got together to discuss the “direct link between sin and the land, the earth.”
Bakker warned
that the legalization of abortion will cause “the worst shaking man has
ever known and I believe it is all going to start this year.” He said
that the recent appearance of blood moons tipped him off that the great “shaking” is imminent.
“God put up the biggest billboards, they’re bigger than the earth,
did you know that?” he said. “The sun and, I don’t know, the moon, a
little bit smaller maybe, big billboards, they’re God’s billboards.”
GRTL’s pledge,
which the group says Cruz signed, asks candidates to affirm that “a
continuum of human life and personhood begins at the moment of
fertilization” and promise to protect “the civil rights of the pre-born
at an embryonic or fetal level.” In practice, personhood
would not only criminalize all abortions, it could also endanger some
common forms of birth control and put women who have suffered
miscarriages at risk of prosecution.
In his interview
with fellow End Times preacher Rick Wiles this week, televangelist Jim
Bakker announced that his ministry is buying horses just in case a
nuclear EMP attack takes down the electric power grid.
“If the grid goes down, you’re going to be thankful to have a horse,”
he told viewers, also boasting that his Model T truck “will run if the
grid goes down.”
Jim Bakker, the televangelist who served time in jail for fraud in the 1990s, declared on his program earlier this week that he may very soon wind up in jail again … this time as a victim of the made-up Jade Helm 15 federal takeover of Texas.
Bakker discussed Jade Helm 15 with Rick Wiles during a series of programs in which the two floated a varietyofunhingedconspiracytheories.
The two pastors agreed that the military exercise is meant to foment
civil strife and, according to Wiles, target Texas because the state is
trying to subvert the Federal Reserve system through its gold depository.
"We, as people, I believe are seeing a red line put down by God,"
Beck said, "and He is saying we are a covenant nation; the only one that
has ever been this is ancient Israel ... We will be His people if we
choose Him as our God. He has made these things so clear that people
must stand together and choose him as our God."
"We choose light over darkness, we choose God over Satan every single time," he continued. "I am a secular broadcaster and I am almost all God now because we're out of time."
The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, "Trump shall become My trumpet
to the American people, for he possesses qualities that are even hard
to find in My people these days. Trump does not fear man nor will he
allow deception and lies to go unnoticed. I am going to use him to
expose darkness and perversion in America like never before, but you
must understand that he is like a bull in a china closet. Many will want
to throw him away because he will disturb their sense of peace and
tranquility, but you must listen through the bantering to discover the
truth that I will speak through him. I will use the wealth that I have
given him to expose and launch investigations searching for the truth.
Just as I raised up Cyrus to fulfill My purposes and plans, so have I
raised up Trump to fulfill my purposes and plans prior to the 2016
election. You must listen to the trumpet very closely for he will sound
the alarm and many will be blessed because of his compassion and mercy.
Though many see the outward pride and arrogance, I have given him the
tender heart of a father that wants to lend a helping hand to the poor
and the needy, to the foreigner and the stranger."
“Creating one problem that is horrible — let nobody be misled, a
10-year-old girl being raped is horrible — but does it solve a problem
by taking the life of an innocent child?” Huckabee said. “And that’s
really the issue.”
,,,
“When an abortion happens, there are two victims,” he
insisted. “One is the child, the other is that birth mother, who often
will go through extraordinary guilt years later when she begins to think
through what happened, with the baby, with her.”
...
“I just come down on the side that every life is precious. I
don’t think we discount the intrinsic worth of any human being, and I
don’t know where else to go with it.”
Atlanta “prosperity gospel” minister and megachurch pastor
Creflo Dollar briefly addressed his desire for a multimillion-dollar
Gulfstream G650 jet over the weekend, saying people who criticized him
didn’t have a godly worldview.
“See, don’t get upset when the world says stuff and talks
about stuff, and all that. They’re just looking through the wrong lens,
they don’t understand,” Creflo said in a sermon uploaded to his
ministry’s website.
“‘What does a preacher need with an airplane?’ They don’t
know,” the preacher added. “They’ll never know because they’re not
looking through the Word. They will never know, never never know.”
