D-Day Heroes > Where did they come from? Ronald Reagan, Joe Biden, Ben Shapiro

 

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The question we should be asking on the 80th anniversary of D-Day is the question Reagan asked: where do we find such men? The Greatest Generation was produced by a generation of churchgoing Christian mothers and fathers. 4% illegitimacy rate. 96% belief in God. 73% church membership. We've rejected all of those things and produced generations of narcissists instead.

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'Ideological Sex Clubs': Alberta Gay-Straight Alliance Law Faces Court Challenge

War on Christianity and Families in NDP Alberta

Parents want right to know when their children join GSAs

The Canadian Press 

Education Minister David Eggen speaks with teens after the passing of Alberta's controversial gay-straight alliance bill in Edmonton, on Nov 15, 2017. A Court of Queen's Bench judge in Medicine Hat is to hear arguments on the ban Wednesday. (Canadian Press)

Alberta's law banning schools from telling parents when their children join a gay-straight alliance faces its first legal challenge.

A Court of Queen's Bench judge in Medicine Hat, Alta., is to hear arguments Wednesday filed on behalf of 25 faith-based schools and others to put the law on hold pending a constitutional challenge.

Education Minister David Eggen said he wants the issue cleared up as soon as possible, because legal wrangling leads to confusion and concern on the part of students.

"Uncertainty created by a court case like this ... seeks to counter a lot of the progress that we've made to create safe and caring environments for kids and I find that pretty disturbing," Eggen said in an interview.

The lawsuit was filed in April in response to a law passed by Premier Rachel Notley's government late last year.

Gay-straight alliances are peer support networks organized by students to help gay kids feel welcome and to prevent bullying or abuse.

Parents kept out of loop

Leading the legal challenge is the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. The group argues in court documents that keeping parents out of the loop violates multiple charter freedoms, including freedom of religion and expression.

It also says gay-straight alliances are "ideological sex clubs" where graphic information on gay sex is available.

The group also says the law has "stripped parents of the ability to know fully where their children are, who they are involved with, and what they may be encouraged to think or do."

Schools have until the end of June to file information to the government showing they are complying with the new legislation.

The lawsuit asks the judge to put that order on hold pending the full airing of concerns over the law's constitutionality.

The government, in its legal filings, says the applicants have misstated the role of the alliances and adds that charter freedoms have not been infringed.

"[The applicants] speculate that GSAs are clubs aimed at providing children with sexually explicit material and at making children vulnerable to being preyed upon," says the government.

Safe space

"In fact, GSAs focus on creating a safe space where students can socialize, be themselves, make friends and help other students understand the importance of being respectful to LGBTQ people."

The peer groups have been the subject of heated political debate for years.

Notley's government made the change to the law last year after Opposition United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney said he believed parents, in cases where their children's safety was at risk, should be told when they join a gay-straight alliance.

Kenney has never explained how teachers should be able to effectively judge when a child's safety is at risk.

Entering a gay lifestyle, even the increased probability of experimenting with a gay lifestyle, is putting a child's safety at risk. That should be obvious! For Christians, it is far more serious than the threat of HIV-Aids; it is a threat to the child's Eternal destiny, and to the continuity of the family line.

Advocates say children can tell their parents any time they want about being in a gay-straight alliance. They say even the possibility that parents could be told would keep kids from joining.

The United Conservatives have a troubled relationship with GSAs. At the party's founding convention last month, rank-and-file members clashed with Kenney after they voted in favour of having the party endorse the principle that parents always be told when their children join the group — no matter the circumstance.

Kenney said he wouldn't include that in the party platform, because it must reflect the needs and values of all Albertans.

The Trans-Bathroom Nonsense Is Just One Small Step in Overall Scheme of Things

What you may have been suspecting has been confirmed. LGBT activists' end goal is not ruling over the bathroom. It's obliterating the family.

Riki Wilchins, a famous transsexual who recently wrote a piece in the gay publication The Advocate, revealed that many conservatives and even LGBT activists are missing the forest for the trees.

Titled, "We'll Win the Bathroom Battle When the Binary Burns," Wilchins says the real goal is to kill the notion of male and female altogether. The "binary" refers to gender distinction, and getting rid of the “heterobinary structure” is the goal. Wilchins writes that the fact that we are arguing over male and female facilities is proof that we still have far to go--that there should be no gender distinctions in general.

In fact, Wilchins points to an emerging group of people who don't want to affiliate as any gender. Life Site News explains, “'Non-binary' people don’t identify as male or female and they often want to be referred to as 'they' or 'hir' or 'zer.'  So the fact that there are even intimate facilities that reflect the “binary” truth about gender should change, Wilchins wrote."

Curious that he would use the word 'truth' in that statement. LGBTQs have to abolish truth in order to win. Meanwhile, we are occupied with a skirmish while the war is raging behind us. It doesn't look good for us Christians. But God....

If you are confused, you are not alone. But beneath all of the titles and non-titles, the insidious plan is the destruction of the family, reveals Stella Morabito, senior contributor to The Federalist.

“What we are really talking about is the abolition of sex. And it is sex that the trans project is serving to abolish legally, under the guise of something called ‘the gender binary.’  Its endgame is a society in which everyone is legally de-sexed.  No longer legally male or female.  And once you basically redefine humanity as sexless you end up with a de-humanized society in which there can be no legal ‘mother’ or ‘father’ or ‘son’ or ‘daughter’ or ‘husband’ or ‘wife’ without permission from the State.  Government documents are already erasing the terms.  In such a society, the most intimate human relationships take a hit. The family ends up abolished.”

Morabito hits home the point: “Sex distinctions are the germ of all human relationships. Abolishing them legally basically abolishes family autonomy.  And this is an act of violence against children because it would serve at some point to separate them from their origins. Every child's first transcendental question is ‘Where did I come from?’  If the law will not allow the child to see his own origins and wholeness in the faces of a mother and a father, it destabilizes the child's sense of self.  It creates personal dysfunction in children and basically ends up spreading more dysfunction and even dystopia in society.”

This is scary. If Morabito and other cultural watch-dogs are right, the bathroom battle is far more serious than many think. We need to really pray and ask God for help--before it's too late and our future generations end up really damaged. Do you agree?

Syrian Christian Families Fleeing ISIS Scattered All Over Europe

Families scattered by civil war seek passage to more comfortable life in Europe

The Samatya Syriac Church isn't easy to find. There is no ornate entrance, just a slim, simple cross on a makeshift bell tower on a narrow street in suburban Istanbul.

The wall that surrounds it and the barbed wire above give the impression of a crumbling military barracks, not a house of Christian worship. But beyond the door, there is a quiet courtyard and the sound of prayer.

Syrian Church

Mass is celebrated at a Syriac church in Istanbul. (Nil Köksal/CBC)

The tiny church is full of female parishioners squeezing into every available space for a special mass during Lent.

There will be a luncheon later, with the money it will raise expected to help run the church and also aid the people living in an apartment building across the street.

At any given time, there are about 70 refugees who have fled the war in Syria. They share the bunk beds inside, six to a room.

They are among the two million people Turkey has taken in.

Many are housed in state-of-the-art refugee camps throughout the country, but those who have connections and more money choose to come to Istanbul in hopes of easier communication with foreign embassies, faster passage to what they hope will be a more comfortable life in Europe.

Scattered families
Nour Bekandy has been staying at the church's shelter for seven months.

"We lost everything," the university student says, tearing up.

Nour Bekandy and her 12-year-old sister have spent seven months
 in the church's shelter. (Turgut Yeter/CBC NEWS)

She points to her 12-year-old sister on the bunk bed beside her. "She needs her mother."

The sisters stay in this room with three other women and their children. The war has split and scattered all of their families around the world. Bekandy's father is still back in Syria, her fiancé and mother are in London.

Bekandy was studying economics in Syria before the war. She's now trying to be a mom to her little sister, trying to be strong.

"God gives the power. We don't know we have this," she says.

Hoping for a reunion
Two floors down, on the ground level, Naim Lezieh lights a candle in his room.

He helps run the shelter in exchange for room and board. He hopes his good deeds might somehow help reunite him with his family, which is now split into three parts, spread across Europe.

His bags always remain packed in one corner of his room, his cellphone always close by. But that phone is more than a luxury for him. It is a lifeline.

The telltale ringtone of a Skype call comes through as we sit down to talk. He asks if he can answer it and we nod — of course.

Calls like this are frequent, but short, and almost always end in tears.

His wife and six-year-old son are on the line from Athens. Their eldest daughter — just 15 — is in Germany.

The family was supposed to get out of Syria and into Europe together.

Naim Lezieh's wife and son are in Greece but his daughter, 15, is in Germany.
(Turgut Yeter/CBC NEWS)

Kidnap threats
The final push to make that move was "a mark" left on his house, he says, drawing an X into the air.

Lezieh says ISIS drew that X on his house in Aleppo, marking it to show his was a Christian home. He says militants tried to recruit him, threatened to kidnap his children and bombed his new business.

They would get out, but not without more loss.

He says his family was conned by smugglers in Turkey, ready to prey on desperate Syrians looking for passage to other countries.

Thirty-two thousand Euros are gone, he says. That's nearly $40,000 Cdn, stolen in three separate attempts to get to Europe.

Now Lezieh gets by with donations from parishioners and hopes to see his family all in one place soon. He tries to smile through the tears. He has to. His daughter is calling.