‘Get You a Bible’: Couple Married 84 Years Delivers Powerful ‘God’ Response While Sharing Secrets to Love, Long-Lasting Nuptials
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A couple with the longest-running marriage in the state of Arkansas has some simple advice for a successful marriage:seek the Lord.
Cleovis Whiteside, 102, and his wife Arwilda Whiteside, 98, got married in 1939, and with 84 years of matrimonial ups and downs under their belt, the couple recently delivered pointed advice to others.
“Pray,” Arwilda told USA Today, speaking to anyone considering walking down the aisle anytime soon. “Know how to get on your knees, and get you a Bible, because that Bible is going to have to take you through all kinds of storms.”
The couple openly credited God for their long-lasting nuptials, with Arwilda saying the Lord placed them together to “love one another.”
“We can hardly believe this is happening to us because we feel like we were the least, but God said, ‘No. You’ll glorify my name and love one another,’” she said, according to KATV-TV.
The Whitesides were honoured by the Arkansas Family Council, a Christian organisation that celebrates traditional families and marriage. The organisation honours the longest-married couples in the state, with the Whitesides reportedly currently holding the record in Arkansas.
The couple told USA Today about how their love story began, with the two meeting when Cleovis was 13 and Arwilda was 9; they married just a few years later.
The loving husband and wife had 12 children of their own and also housed others in need of families, with the duo being described as “pillars in the community.” Generosity, it seems, is ingrained in the fabric of the family, with Arwilda praising her husband’s kindness.
‘Get You a Bible’: Couple Married 84 Years Delivers Powerful ‘God’ Response While Sharing Secrets to Love, Long-Lasting Nuptials
Photo by Jeremy Wong Weddings on Unsplash
A couple with the longest-running marriage in the state of Arkansas has some simple advice for a successful marriage:seek the Lord.
Cleovis Whiteside, 102, and his wife Arwilda Whiteside, 98, got married in 1939, and with 84 years of matrimonial ups and downs under their belt, the couple recently delivered pointed advice to others.
“Pray,” Arwilda told USA Today, speaking to anyone considering walking down the aisle anytime soon. “Know how to get on your knees, and get you a Bible, because that Bible is going to have to take you through all kinds of storms.”
The couple openly credited God for their long-lasting nuptials, with Arwilda saying the Lord placed them together to “love one another.”
“We can hardly believe this is happening to us because we feel like we were the least, but God said, ‘No. You’ll glorify my name and love one another,’” she said, according to KATV-TV.
The Whitesides were honoured by the Arkansas Family Council, a Christian organisation that celebrates traditional families and marriage. The organisation honours the longest-married couples in the state, with the Whitesides reportedly currently holding the record in Arkansas.
The couple told USA Today about how their love story began, with the two meeting when Cleovis was 13 and Arwilda was 9; they married just a few years later.
The loving husband and wife had 12 children of their own and also housed others in need of families, with the duo being described as “pillars in the community.” Generosity, it seems, is ingrained in the fabric of the family, with Arwilda praising her husband’s kindness.
Want to talk to the Son of God? There’s an app for that. Text With Jesus, a Los Angeles–based product that launched in July, replicates an instant messaging platform and features biblical figures impersonated by the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT.
Among the characters available on the app are the Holy Family, the apostles, various prophets, Ruth, Job, and Abraham’s nephew Lot. Mary Magdalene is also available, but only to premium subscribers for $2.99 a month. You can even chat with Satan, who signs his texts with a “smiling face with horns” emoji.
Perhaps such an app provokes fears of blasphemy. Not to worry: Stéphane Peter, the app’s developer and the company’s CEO, ensured that character responses always include a Bible verse. “Our AI always generates responses that are in line with the teachings of the Bible,” explains the website. He also invited unnamed “church leaders” to try the beta version of the app. Though some pastors had reservations at the beginning, the app’s final version received “pretty good feedback.”
Text With Jesus’s characters typically avoid any stance that might be perceived as offensive, instead maintaining a line of inclusivity and tolerance. If asked about gay marriage, for instance, the app will respond that it is “up to each individual to seek guidance from their own faith tradition and personal convictions,” and that users should “prioritize love and respect for all people regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity” (followed by a rainbow and red heart emoji). If queried about feminism, app Jesus will explain the importance of “empowering women and breaking societal barriers that limited their opportunities.”
So far, so “healthy.” The app aligns with our clinical culture, which emphasizes personal affirmation and physical and mental wellness. Text With Jesus offers a moral, therapeutic god for a moral, therapeutic age, as sociologist Christian Smith calls it in his 2005 book Soul Searching. It replaces the arcane “second person of the Trinity” with Jesus the therapist and social worker.
This Jesus is not here to condemn (obviating less “warm and fuzzy” Gospel episodes such as the improperly dressed wedding guest of Matthew 22:1–14, or Jesus’s statements about the “Sign of Jonah” in Luke 11:29–32). He is here to affirm us and our behaviors and opinions. He certainly wouldn’t want you to feel bad about yourself and repent (unless you are repenting of “bigoted,” “patriarchal,” or “fascist” opinions on race, sex, or gender).
Text With Jesus represents the age-old human vice of pride. Through our creativity and brilliance, we seek to ascend to God’s level, to be like him, and even to dictate terms to the divine. Or rather, the app is a diabolical inversion of this: Instead of being transformed into God’s image, we aim to make him into our own. Is seeking to communicate with and control God through a handheld device really all that different from the ancient metalworkers who fashioned little totems to whom they could offer supplication for their own health and prosperity?
The app’s insistence that its content is “Bible-based” is curious, given that the biblical characters sidestep Scripture’s more controversial and provocative claims. It does then seem to reflect the embarrassing biblical illiteracy even of those claiming to be Christians, and that people, even the pious, tend to prefer a religion that avoids uncomfortable truths in favor of what we want to hear.
Yet perhaps most sadly, that Text With Jesus would even be conceived and consumed reveals how deeply wedded we have become to our smartphones. Prayer is such a remarkable human experience because of its universality, both in terms of who can do it (everyone) and where it can be done (anywhere). I pray in my bedroom, on my commute, waiting in line, and while exercising. I can pray the divine liturgy, a rosary, or simply talk and listen.
Indeed, one of the most beautiful things about Christian prayer is the quality of the access. “Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. . . . If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:9–10, 13) What has happened to us, that anyone would contemplate inserting a gimmicky Silicon Valley tool into something so profoundly human and liberating? (I should note that I do not intend to “throw shade” on apps such as Magnificat or Hallow that help facilitate prayer through Scripture readings, meditations, or the divine liturgy.)
To be a people formed by prayer, we Christians need to protect and cultivate our little spiritual gardens, where we can let Jesus be himself, in all his terrifying glory. Because it is in “practicing in the presence” that we can appreciate the reality of an omnipotent, omniscient God who deigns to care about us and our problems. But in order to walk with him, and talk with him, and share that joy, I wager we’ll need to put our phones on silent.
Casey Chalk is a contributing editor at the New Oxford Review.
Wouldn’t you know — to make paper straws resistant to water, it seems we have to add Teflon type chemicals that stick around for thousands of years.
Researchers analyzed 39 brands of straws in Belgium and found two thirds contained PFAS, and the paper straws were the worst. Fully 90% of all the paper straws contained some form of PFAS. 80% of Bamboo straws did too, as did 75% of plastic straws. Even 40% of glass straws contained PFAS. The only type of straws that were free of it were steel.
The UK, Canadian, Belgium, New Zealand, and Australian governments banned plastic straws, as did some US States because “they were bad for the environment”.
In the first analysis of its kind in Europe, and only the second in the world, Belgian researchers tested 39 brands of straws for the group of synthetic chemicals known as poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
PFAS were found in the majority of the straws tested and were most common in those made from paper and bamboo, the study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Food Additives and Contaminants, found.
PFAS are used to make everyday products, from outdoor clothing to non-stick pans, resistant to water, heat and stains. They are, however, potentially harmful to people, wildlife and the environment.
They break down very slowly over time and can persist over thousands of years in the environment, a property that has led to them being known as “forever chemicals.”
They have been associated with a number of health problems, including lower response to vaccines, lower birth weight, thyroid disease, increased cholesterol levels, liver damage, kidney cancer and testicular cancer.
Maybe accidental, maybe not…
It isn’t known whether the PFAS were added to the straws by the manufacturers for waterproofing or whether were the result of contamination. Potential sources of contamination include the soil the plant-based materials were grown in and the water used in the manufacturing process.
However, the presence of the chemicals in almost every brand of paper straw means it is likely that it was, in some cases, being used as a water-repellent coating, say the researchers.
Calling these straws “paper”, 100% biodegradable and fully compostable seems like false advertising.
The Covid scam-demic knocked the last remnants of belief in Government and science.
If you still think that our leaders were only interested in keeping us safe, have a read of this. It is USA- centric, but if you change the names and reduce the dollar amounts, some people became quite wealthy from promoting fear, lockdowns and vaccines.
There is a reason why no political leader has any interest in a Royal Commission into Pandemic Responses.
Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Francis Collins were among the recipients of the royalties, as an ethical shadow is cast over their Covid legacy.
While Americans suffered under draconian mandates and struggled to put food on the table, scientists from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) were collecting millions of dollars in hidden royalties, according to a new report.
More than US$325 million in royalties were paid to thousands of government scientists between 2009 and 2020, the documents reveal. Among those to cash in were former White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr Anthony Fauci and former NIH Director Dr Francis Collins, who together took home 58 payments relating to Covid-19 mRNA products.
The release of the records — which ran 1,500 pages long and detailed tens of thousands of transactions — had been stonewalled by the NIH but were eventually surrendered and made public last week by taxpayer watchdog group Open The Books.
Dr Anthony Fauci’s Conflict of Interest
The generous patrons listed in the report included Chinese and Russian entities and pharmaceutical companies. Some benefactors had in turn received U.S. federal grants and contracts, funded by taxpayers, raising serious conflict of interest concerns for government scientists who were in on the take, such as the high profile duo Fauci and Collins.
Collins, for example, was paid by at least four firms that have been awarded nearly $50 million by the U.S. government since 2008.
The revelation may help shed light on the otherwise unexplained fortunes of Fauci, who served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for almost four decades until his retirement in 2022. Between 2019 and 2020, Dr Anthony Fauci’s net worth almost doubled from US$7.5 million to $12.6 million, despite his federal government salary totalling US$450,000 per year.
While Dr Fauci has been a government bureaucrat for more than 55 years, his household net worth skyrocketed during the pandemic. Fauci’s soaring net worth was based on career-end salary spiking, lucrative cash prizes awarded by non-profit organizations around the world and an ever-larger investment portfolio.
Despite becoming a figure of controversy, the system has rewarded Dr Fauci handsomely. For example, he is the top-paid federal employee, his first-year golden parachute retirement pension is the largest in federal history, and he’s accepting US$1 million prizes from foreign non-profits.
In light of the revelations, it is difficult to see how Fauci’s tireless promotion of Covid-19 injectables remained untainted by personal financial incentive.
Francis Collins, Once Praised By Christian Leaders
The Open the Books report likewise casts an ethical shadow over Dr Francis Collins, once celebrated as an exemplar man of faith by top evangelical leaders.
During the Covid era, leaders like Ed Stetzer, Russell Moore, Tim Keller, Rick Warren and N.T. Wright praised Collins for using science for the glory of God and the benefit of humanity, and they promoted him widely via their platforms.
However, many of Collins’ scientific claims later fell flat — including that the lab leak theory was a “conspiracy”, that Covid-19 injections immunised those who took them, and that a cloth mask was a “life saving medical device” (which even the CDC refutes).
Worse, it ultimately came to light that at the same time pastors were hawking Collins as a fellow believer, Collins was secretly colluding with Fauci to discredit factual information about Covid-19 in the mind of the public.
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, we now know that at the same time these interviews were taking place, Collins knew that top U.S. and British scientists suspected the Wuhan Institute of Virology — not nature — as the source of the virus. And he was eager to bury the theory, fearful of “great potential harm to science and international harm”.
No doubt, Collins was also concerned about harm to his own reputation. In his role as National Institutes of Heath director, Francis Collins has long supported — and his agencies have generously funded — the gain-of-function research that probably explains the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Uncovered emails also show Collins smearing eminent lockdown critics as “fringe epidemiologists”, and calling for a “a quick and devastating published take down” of their ideas to shift public opinion.
Eye-Watering Pharmaceutical Profits
The NIH permits its employees to take up to 15% for royalties between $2,000 and $50,000, and up to 25% for royalties above $50,000. The department’s scientists are not allowed to receive more than $150,000 annually from royalties.
Fauci has previously claimed that he donates all royalties to charity, however he is yet to provide evidence of the donations.
In a seperate but recent matter, Dr Fauci was referred to the Department of Justice by Senator Rand Paul for allegedly lying to Congress about government funding of Chinese labs. His fall from grace follows his earlier, repeated claims that “I represent science”, and that “attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science”.
Dr Anthony Fauci is not the only public figure to have feathered his nest while Americans suffered under Covid policies that devastated the economy.
An investigative report by The People’s Vaccine Alliance found that Covid-19 injectables helped create at least nine new billionaires with “a combined wealth greater than the cost of vaccinating the world’s poorest countries.”
Their combined net wealth of $19.3 billion came thanks to “the excessive profits pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on COVID vaccines are making.”
In 2022, Pfizer’s revenue reached a record US$100 billion, and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla took home a US$33 million salary after receiving a 36% pay raise.
Fatherlessness is a growing problem in the Western world. Whether caused by divorce and broken families, or by deliberate single parenting, more and more children grow up in Australia without fathers. Concerned groups have argued that a mother and father are crucial in the raising of children. Father absence has been shown to be detrimental to the well being of children. The following is a summary of the evidence for the importance of fathers and mothers.
One expert from Harvard medical school who has studied over 40 years of research on the question of parental absence and children’s well-being said this:
“What has been shown over and over again to contribute most to the emotional development of the child is a close, warm, sustained and continuous relationship with both parents. Yet this vast body of research is almost totally ignored by our society. Why have even the professionals tended to ignore this research? Perhaps the answer is, to put it most simply, because the findings are unacceptable.”
Educational performance
A number of studies show that children from mother-only families obtain fewer years of education and are far more likely to drop out of school than children from intact families. For example, American children from intact families have a 21 per cent chance of dropping out of high school whereas children from broken families have a 46 per cent chance.
Moreover, the presence of fathers seems to strongly impact on the educational performance and intelligence of children. Research shows that school children who became father-absent early in life generally scored significantly lower on measures of IQ and achievement tests.
One study examined the academic records of more than 18,000 students. The researchers concluded that “one-parent children on the whole show lower achievement in school than do their two-parent classmates”.
Criminal involvement
Studies show a connection between delinquent and/or criminal behaviour, and broken families. One study found that girls in divorced families committed more delinquent acts (e.g., drug use, larceny, skipping school) than their counterparts in intact families.
A British study found a direct statistical link between single parenthood and virtually every major type of crime, including mugging, violence against strangers, car theft and burglary.
A 1987 study of adolescent murderers discovered that 75 per cent of them had divorced or never-married parents. Another study of violent rapists, all repeat offenders, found that 60 per cent came from single-parent homes.
Or consider a study that tracked every child born on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1955 for 30 years. It found that five out of six delinquents with an adult criminal record came from families where a parent – almost always the father – was absent.
One study even arrived at this startling conclusion: the proportion of single-parent households in a community predicts its rates of violent crime and burglary, but the community’s poverty level does not. Neither poverty nor race seem to account very much for the crime rate, compared to the proportion of single-parent families.
Involvement with drugs
Offspring from non-intact families are more likely to engage in drug and alcohol use than offspring from two-parent families.
Fathers, it seems, play a particularly important role in prevention of drug use. A 1987 UCLA study pointed out that inadequate family structure makes children more susceptible to drug use “as a coping mechanism to relieve depression and anxiety.” Another study concluded that, although “mothers are more active than fathers in helping youngsters with personal problems…with regard to youthful drug users, the father’s involvement is more important.” Among the homes with strict fathers, only 18 per cent used alcohol or drugs at all. In contrast, among mother-dominated homes, 35 per cent had children who used drugs frequently.
Psychological/emotional well-being – mental and physical health
Studies show that the absence of a parent contributes to many forms of emotional disorder among children, especially anger, rebelliousness, low self-esteem, depression, and antisocial behaviour.
Children of divorce make up an estimated 60 per cent of child patients in clinical treatment and 80 to 100 per cent of adolescents in in-patient mental hospital settings. From nations as diverse as Finland and South Africa, a number of studies have reported that anywhere from 50 to 80 per cent of psychiatric patients come from broken homes.
Marriage is an important factor in all of this. Indeed, one of the most consistent observations in health research is that married people enjoy better health than those of other marital statuses. Compared to married men and women, the divorced and separated suffer much higher rates of disease morbidity, disability, mental neuroses and mortality.
A study of countries like Japan, Sweden, England, Singapore and New Zealand found that “in all cases, despite any differences in marriage behavior that may exist, married persons experience a lower mortality rate” compared to single, divorced and widowed peers.
Suicide rates also tend to be higher amongst those from broken homes. A 1987 study linked the increase in suicides in America to the proliferation of single-parent households. Another study found that youths who attempted suicide differed little in terms of age, income, race and religion, but were more likely to live in nonintact family settings.
Children having children
Children from mother-only families are more likely to marry early and have children early, both in and out of wedlock, and are more likely to divorce. Also, age at the first marriage will be lower for the children of divorced parents who marry, when sex, age, and maternal education are controlled.
For example, a recent British study found that girls brought up by lone parents were twice as likely to leave home by the age of 18 as the daughters of intact homes; were three times as likely to be cohabitating by the age of 20; and almost three times as likely to have a birth out of wedlock.
Conclusion
Broadly speaking, several trends can be observed from the evidence: 1) a child’s development, by every indicator, is best served in the context of a natural, two-parent home; 2) the absence of a parent seems more devastating for a child than poverty or bad neighbourhoods; and 3) single-parent families are more likely to produce a new generation which has the same or even worse problems than the last.
It’s official. The best-looking woman in Holland is a man.
Well, of course. Ever since Caitlyn Jenner was named Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year back in 2015, we’ve all known that dudes make better chicks than chicks.
And so this week, continuing in that fine tradition, a male who identifies as female took out the Miss Netherlands 2023 title.
Transgenderist Rikkie Valeria Kolle became the first man to be voted most beautiful woman in the pageant’s 94-year history. This is presumably because, up until three minutes ago, no one seriously thought a woman with a penis was, er, beautiful.
But does anything surprise anymore?
Eyes on the Prize
Kolle will now compete at the Miss Universe pageant in December.
He told Dutch media that he…
“Envisions a world where no one’s path to authenticity is obstructed.”
I think what Kolle meant to say was that he envisions a world in which men identifying as women obstruct every authentic woman’s path.
Envision no more! The world Kolle wants is well and truly here.
We let it happen. And we continue to endorse it every time rubbish like this is allowed to occur with nary a shrug.
From Lifesitenews.com:Conservatives warn new ‘Barbie’ movie contains pro-LGBT, feminist propaganda
The film features a gender-confused man portraying a female doctor and themes that belittle men.
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(LifeSiteNews) — Conservatives are spreading the word about details contained in the highly anticipated “Barbie” movie, warning the public that the film includes LGBT and feminist narratives.
A gender-confused man portraying a female doctor and overarching themes that belittle men in the name of gender equality are some of the concerns raised by conservatives ahead of the July 21 release date.
The film is based on the wildly popular fashion doll Barbie, which was originally released over 60 years ago by the American toy manufacturer Mattel. In the first live-action interpretation of the dolls, the main characters — a Barbie accompanied by male counterpart Ken — leave the safety of “Barbie Land” and venture out into “the real world” on a self-discovery mission.
The movie is categorized as a comedy, fantasy and adventure and is rated PG-13 (parental guidance suggested for children under age 13). Conservatives, however, have gone a step beyond this general age recommendation, emphasizing left-wing content that may not be at the forefront of parents’ minds when their daughters ask them to see a movie depicting their favorite toy.
Normalizing transgenderism
In a June 29 Twitter post, Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olohan repeated the fact that a self-identified “transgender” actor would portray a female doctor in the film, despite being a biological male.
“There’s a TON of hype around this movie,” Olohan pointed out, adding that the gender-confused actor “is well aware of the impact that a biological man playing a female Barbie will have.”
Olohan referred to an April 4 post by the actor — who goes by the name Hari Nef — in which he announced he would play a female doctor in the upcoming film. Nef reportedly wrote to the director and requested certain scheduling changes to enable him to be able to take the role. In his previous post — shared again by Olohan — Nef shared a piece of the letter.
“Identity politics and cinema aren’t my favorite combination, but the name BARBIE looms large over every American woman,” he wrote. “Barbie’s the standard; she’s The Girl; she’s certainly THE doll.”
Nef added that he and his “other transgender girlfriends” refer to themselves as “the dolls,” ironically noting that “underneath the word ‘doll’ is the shape of a woman who is not quite a woman — recognizable as such, but still a fake.”
“’Doll’ is fraught, glamorous; she is, and she isn’t. We call ourselves ‘the dolls’ in the face of everything we know we are, never will be, and hope to be. We yell the word because the word matters. And no doll matters more than Barbie.”
But Nef isn’t the only person intent on sending a promotional message of gender ideology through the film. Director Greta Gerwig told the LGBT magazine Out that “we are opening the doors to the Barbie universe” with the movie.
“There’s no way we could have told this story without bringing in the LGBTQ+ [sic] community, and it was important for us to represent the diversity that Mattel has created with all of the different Barbies and Kens that exist today,” she said.
Three of the project’s actors, including Nef, have also been featured on the cover of the magazine’s latest issue and described as “the LGBTQ+ dolls of Barbie.” Actress Alexandra Shipp self-identifies as “queer” and actor Scott Evans as gay.
Belittling men and traditional gender roles
On top of the LGBT themes, the “Barbie” movie is also inundated with feminist narratives. As sarcastically noted by Daily Wire co-founder and podcast host Ben Shapiro, “we need another movie saying men are unnecessary in society — because that’s worked out amazingly well for feminism over the course of the last 50 years, in which women, by every metric, are unhappier than they were in the 1970s.”
During a recent episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the conservative host commented on an interview wherein “Barbie” actresses discussed the left-wing message the film sends about gender roles. Specifically, Shapiro reacted to a statement made by Kate McKinnon, who declared that “gender roles deny people half of their humanity.”
He promptly rejected “the notion that women ought to be feminine and men ought to be masculine … as a general expectation … denies people.”
“You know what denies people their humanity? Not allowing them to be what they are. Women are feminine. Men are masculine. Telling them that women ought to be masculine and men ought to be feminine is absurd.”
Shapiro also pointed out that the determination to portray the men in the film as supporting characters wasn’t necessary, as “Ken was always an afterthought” next to Barbie.
McKinnon, who also stars in the film, has openly shared her lesbian lifestyle for years.
‘It’s not for kids’
A conservative mother and writer who uses the pseudonym Peachy Keenan told Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk last week that she was originally excited for the “Barbie” movie but “had no idea” the LGBT themes that were present. After seeing a cover story in Time Magazine that featured the gender-confused Nef posing as a female, Keenan dug deeper and found that the film had been given a PG-13 rating and inserted a “dirty sex joke” in its official trailer.
“I was kind of prepared for Barbie as the feminine girl boss escaping her dream life for the real world … but I was really surprised to see a man as a Barbie,” she said. “I’m not afraid a transgender woman — in other words, a biological man in a dress — is going to molest my children, is a pedophile necessarily, [but] it’s really about psychological grooming.”
Keenan explained that taking her 7-year-old daughter to see the “Barbie” movie could easily lead to the child later realizing that one of the female characters “was actually a boy,” and that such impersonation could be justified as reality by not being able to tell the difference between the male and female actors.
“But that is sort of psychologically grooming them to accept it, to think it’s totally fine, completely normal, and that little boys can, in fact, grow up to be female Barbie dolls,” Keenan added. “It’s not for kids.”
Though the most recent example, this is not the first time that gender ideology has been pushed on children through Barbie dolls. As LifeSiteNews has reported over the years, the manufacturer Mattel has caved to left-wing agendas through accessories promoting gay “marriage” and entertained the idea of creating same sex couple toy sets. In 2019, the company launched a line of so-called “gender inclusive” dolls with a ”transgender” figure following in 2022.
Labor Left Insists: Safe, Legal and Rare Should Become Free and Compulsory
Delegates to Labor’s upcoming national conference will urge Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to provide free abortions across Australia.
Not only should abortions be free, but delegates from the powerful Emily’s List faction will insist that publicly funded hospitals be forced to provide them.
Oh, and the bus fare for women travelling to abortion providers from regional areas should also be borne by the taxpayer.
The policy recommendations will be made by Labor’s influential Emily’s List members including Tanya Plibersek, Anne Aly, Penny Wong, Linda Burney and Katy Gallagher — who a few years ago successfully pushed for women’s quotas within the Party.
Have you noticed that the Left typically believe everything should either be free, or illegal?
That’s the immovable binary of the non-binary crowd.
As for the slippery slope — wait, I mean WATER SLIDE — of abortion policy… well, first we said it should be safe, rare and legal. Now we say it must be free.
And the taxpayer will drive you there if you need a ride.
Totalitarianism
Oh, and if you’re a Catholic hospital that has been providing care and assistance to people in need for the past 100 years, start doing abortions or we’ll shut you down. And provide euthanasia while you’re at it. If you’re going to end the lives of babies, you might as well end the lives of seniors while you’re at it. What’s the difference?
And don’t think we’re joking.
If we can take over Calvary Hospital in Canberra because of its “problematic” views, don’t think we won’t take over every other Christian institution that fails to sign up to the death cult.
Also, love, tolerance and inclusion.
Irony
Imagine arguing that killing a baby in the womb should be free for everyone, but infertile couples wanting to build this country via IVF must pay around $10,000 per cycle.
Attempt to arrest the declining birth rate, and you’ll get zero help from the government.
But ensure we have so few people being born that we need to continually ship in hundreds of thousands from overseas, and the government will pay to pick up your cab fare.
If the motions, to be put to the conference in August, win the support of a majority of delegates, they will become part of Labor’s policy platform for the next term of parliament.
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