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Michelle’s hair-raising theory: ‘White folks’ stop blacks from learning how to swim

No, this isn’t a satirical Babylon Bee headline: “‘Black Women Can’t Swim Because of Societal Expectations’: Michelle Obama’s Viral Claim Sparks Controversy.”

The former first lady, in a live podcast, recently said: “Let me explain something to white people. Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern. So, when we’re straightening it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped by the straightness.

“That’s why so many of us can’t swim, and we run away from the water. People won’t go to the gym because we’re trying to keep our hair straight for y’all. It is exhausting, and it is so expensive, and it takes up so much time!”

Who knew that black women straighten their hair to conform to the expectations of whites? Even worse, who knew this oppressive white standard of beauty, according to Obama, has the real-world effect of preventing black kids from learning to swim?

Now, Obama is partially right. I grew up in then-all-black South Central Los Angeles at a time when virtually every kid in the neighborhood had a mom and a dad in the house. The fathers either taught the kids to swim or expected the kids to learn. The public pool was almost a mile away, and we had no problem walking there and back with a rolled-up towel under our arms with our swimming trunks inside.

Today, most black kids are raised by their mother or grandmother – and they DO NOT want to get their hair wet. Therefore, the kids aren’t learning to swim. Virtually every neighborhood, no matter how poor, has some sort of recreational center and/or public pool nearby, and there are often swimming lessons available for little or no money.

It’s just not a priority for the mothers to get their boys to learn to swim. And, like Mom, the girls don’t want to ruin their hair. But I NEVER heard any girl or woman say they straightened their hair to meet expectations of white people.

As for black kids failing to learn to swim, this is a real issue. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Drowning death rates for Black people under age 30 are 1.5 times higher than the rates for White people. Disparities are highest among Black children ages 5-9 (rates 2.6 times higher) and ages 10-14 (rates 3.6 times higher).”

I received a letter from a self-described “white woman with broom straight hair”: “When I grew up in the late ’60s to mid ’60s, my peers, as well as my mom, wanted curly hair. Mom had her hair permed, maybe every three months. Very few of the girls in my high school had naturally curly hair, so most of them got perms. I was in the first or second grade when Mom started home perming my hair. This continued until I was out of high school.

“One girl I remember had naturally wavy hair and that wasn’t enough. She got a shag and then frosted her hair. Who knew we were engaging in ‘cultural appropriation’ to make our hair more curly, while blacks, according to Michelle, make their hair more straight?

“Oh, the humanity!”

Speaking of straightening hair for white folks and being “trapped by the straightness,” one wonders whether Obama discussed this with her friend, “civil rights activist” Al “no justice, no peace” Sharpton, who has long straightened his hair.

Permit me to suggest a matter perhaps more deserving of her attention than hair oppression? In Obama’s hometown of Chicago, there are at least 30 public schools, nearly all located in the mostly black Southwest Side of the city, where 0% of the kids can read or do math at grade level. The study failed to note how many kids in these failing schools straighten their hair.

Finally, Obama had another complaint. At a forum with mostly white attendees, Obama, in response to a question about the possibility of a female president, said: “As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready. That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running ’cause you are all lying. You’re not ready for a woman.”

Only in America do white liberals pay good money to enrich and hear America’s first black first lady tell them that their “racism” oppresses black ladies.

The Epstein grifters

There are plenty of serious questions to be asked about Jeffrey Epstein.

Where did he get his money?

Why did so many major figures hobnob with him long after his plea agreement on sex charges with minors?

But when it comes to the ongoing Epstein fallout, there’s something else going on: an enormous amount of cynical politicking.

Let’s begin with the figures who are supposedly deeply concerned with the Epstein scandal – and who have been promoting evidence-free conspiracy theories. Take, for example, Steve Bannon. Bannon, who has spent his adult life as a political parasite finding new and larger hosts, glommed onto Epstein in the middle of 2018, by text records. As The Guardian reports, “the pair were devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his favorable treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful figures in business, politics and academia.” The two “frequently spoke on the phone.” Bannon even spent “months in the financier’s homes in Manhattan and Paris,” according to the The Insider; he still has over a dozen hours of footage with Epstein he has never released.

And yet earlier this year, Bannon appeared at a Turning Point USA conference at which he spewed conspiracy theories about Epstein: “Epstein is a key that picks the lock on so many things … intelligence institutions, foreign governments and who was working with him on our intelligence apparatus and in our government.”

This is, to put it mildly, suspicious.

Bannon should know the answers to those questions – he was a close confidant of the sex trafficker. But instead, he has decided to promote conspiracy theories regarding Epstein – theories that seem to implicate President Donald Trump in a coverup.

And Bannon isn’t alone.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene adopted the Epstein case as a club with which to beat the Trump administration. She made no push to release the Epstein files while Joe Biden was president; instead, she waited until political differences on foreign policy emerged, particularly over Trump’s bombing of the Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow, and then signed onto the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The same holds true of Rep. Thomas Massie, another opponent of Trump’s foreign policy.

It’s no surprise that these anti-Trump personalities are finding allies on the political left, all of whom despise Trump. That’s because these figures are attempting to undermine Trump’s policy by attacking him collaterally on Epstein. Their goal is to seize control of the “Make America Great Again” movement from Trump, driving it in a far more alt-right-aligned direction. Their true target, of course, is Vice President JD Vance, whom they hope to rope into their ideological maneuver.

We’ll see if it works for them. But as they split the GOP for their own ends, implying that Trump is himself involved in a coverup of a sex trafficking scheme – all in order to push the GOP to adopt a far less popular or morally palatable platform – it’s clear that the hubbub surrounding Epstein is far less about Epstein than about targeting Trump. And Trump ought to take note.

GOP should focus on young voters’ problems – or lose big time

Hard times have hit young Americans, who are a pivotal voting bloc. Jobs are scarce, housing is unaffordable, student debt is suffocating, and foreign labor has taken away opportunities from American workers.

A downturn in the hiring of college graduates leaves the class of 2026 victims facing the weakest job market in five years. A National Association of Colleges and Employers survey found that 51% of employers rate the job market for college grads as “poor” or merely “fair,” and only 2% said it is “excellent.”

This does not bode well on Election Day for the GOP. The landslide victory by socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City was propelled by young voters, despite warnings that electing him would be a big mistake.

Polling indicates that 75% of young voters in New York City cast their ballots for Mamdani, and there was a surge in youth turnout. The blowout victories by Democrats in New Jersey and Virginia were also propelled by sharp increases in turnout by young voters.

The redistricting ballot initiative in California to send more Democrats to Congress was enacted with 80% support by young voters, and a large turnout by them. While some of this is due to a superior get-out-the-vote operation by leftist groups, young people are struggling financially today.

Young adults should not face astronomical costs for health insurance, as they are mostly healthy and typically need coverage against only catastrophic losses. They should be able to purchase low-cost health insurance that is not dependent on their employer, so that they do not lose it when they are laid off or switch jobs.

Young adults are vastly overpaying for health insurance, as they are required to fund costly care they typically never need. The current system of tying tax breaks to employer-based health insurance no longer works, as the record 14.8% of American-born, working-age men who lack a job has increased from 4.2% in 1960.

Young men today are additionally burdened by gambling debts, due to the explosion in sports gambling that is heavily promoted with advertising. One out of every four of these men is unable to pay a bill because of his gambling losses.

Only 44% of young voters aged 18-29 have any investments in the stock market, so news of Wall Street records does not help with that demographic. Most of those voters are in debt.

In an interview with Tucker Carlson weeks before he was assassinated, Charlie Kirk explained how debt has radicalized the young generation. Kirk explained that in the 1970s and 1980s, the price of a home was about three times the average income.

Today, the price of a home is as high as seven times the average income. The average age of a first-time homeowner has increased by 10 years, from 30 to 40, and people are marrying later, perhaps likewise due to economic difficulties.

“Gen Z owes the most money in any generation in history,” warned Charlie Kirk in the interview. He added that young adults are not living beyond their means, but “most are actually doing this to meet their means.”

Verizon just announced its biggest layoff ever, cutting loose a breathtaking 15,000 jobs. Layoffs by large, typically profitable corporations just reached their highest level for an October in 22 years.

Ending the racket of allowing hundreds of thousands of foreigners to continue to take jobs away from American college graduates would help. For fiscal year 2025, the four highest exploiters of H-1B visas for foreigners are Amazon, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft and Google.

Private equity is a culprit in increasing costs and eliminating jobs, and Republicans are allowing Democrats like Mamdani to take the lead in scrutinizing predatory practices. Mamdani picked as co-chair of his transition team Lina Khan, the former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair who investigated private equity tactics.

Toys “R” Us was a well-liked retailer employing 31,000 people, until private equity acquired it in a leveraged buyout. Private equity typically loads its target with debt, and a company acquired in this way is 10 times more likely to go bankrupt as Toys “R” Us then did.

Other companies that spiraled downward into bankruptcy after being acquired by private equity include Red Lobster restaurants, Payless shoes, Party City, Sears, Envision Healthcare and the multi-state hospital system Steward Health Care. Each time this happens, jobs and healthy competition are lost, and prices increase.

An estimated 40% of emergency rooms in our country are controlled by private equity firms, and deaths increased as a result. Billed charges for visiting an emergency room are far higher, even after adjusting for inflation, than a generation ago.

Republicans should address the economic hardship of young voters as a high priority to have any chance of electoral success.

Hell freezing over?

Biden regime arrested monk, now he files multi-million dollar claim for false imprisonment

The Department of Justice

The federal government is facing a million-dollar-plus claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act for the Biden administration’s raid on a Massachusetts monastery and various related groups because authorities claimed officials there were misusing COVID funds in a case that shortly later was dropped.

It is Judicial Watch that this week announced the launch of an effort to obtain justice for the people and groups Biden targeted.

“Judicial Watch is honored to stand up for Father Andrew and Ms. Stockton for their horrendous anti-Christian mistreatment at the hands of the weaponized Biden Department of Justice,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

The case involves Father Brian Andrew Bushell, Tracey Stockton, a lawyer, the Shrine of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, St. Paul’s Foundation, the Annunciation House, and the Marblehead Brewing Company, all described as “victims of the acts of federal government employees acting in the scope of their official duties.”

The damages are being sought for both economic and non-economic damages that were inflicted because of government’s “malicious prosecution, false arrest and imprisonment, assault and battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”

The battle dates back to Oct. 13, 2022 when federal agents raided the St. Nicholas monastic complex in Marblehead, Mass., and arrested Father Brian Andrew Bushell, 50, and Tracey M.A. Stockton, a lawyer.

“The Biden Justice Department accused Bushell of being a ‘purported’ monk and alleged that he and Stockton improperly used COVID relief funds,” Judicial Watch documented.

However, the case proved to have no substance and charges were dismissed later.

Bushell now is accusing former Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins of weaponizing “the DOJ, FBI and other federal agents to manufacture a pack of lies to destroy St. Nicholas, me and intimidate God-fearing Orthodox Christians,” Judicial Watch reported.

Later, Rollins, a Biden appointee, was publicly reprimanded by state bar regulators based on a DOJ investigation that found Rollins improperly attended a Democratic fundraising event in her capacity as a prosecutor with then-First Lady Jill Biden.

Rollins also was accused of “knowingly and willfully” making false statements while being interviewed by former Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz’s office.

The dispute charges the federal government with deliberately malicious acts by “federal agents who participated in the preparation or execution of the warrants on October 13, 2022.”

Judicial Watch reported St. Paul’s Foundation is demanding at least $1,777,124.66 for legal fees incurred in the war, while the Shrine of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is seeking at least $518,700 in damages.

 

‘Elon had it right’: Watch congressman explains why tech titan was run out of D.C.

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told podcaster Benny Johnson this week the reason Elon Musk was shunned by members of both political parties after the tech titan got too close to Washington’s corrupt dark-money pipeline.

WATCH:

Rep. Tim Burchett reveals why Elon Musk was run out of Washington D.C., He was getting too close to exposing corrupt officials getting rich off dark money from NGOs:

"Elon had it right. He was getting too close. That's why both parties shunned him. He said NGO money floods to… pic.twitter.com/xsG8ecRDP8

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 19, 2025

New State Department policy targets ‘destructive ideologies’ in other nations

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Oval Office on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald Trump’s State Department is classifying “destructive ideologies” formerly promoted by the Biden administration in the United States as human rights violations.

The State Department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices will now account for transgender procedures for minors, DEI hiring, attacks on free speech, and state-funded abortions, a State Department official told The Daily Signal.

“In recent years, new destructive ideologies have given safe harbor to human rights violations,” principal deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott said. “The Trump administration will not allow these human rights violations, such as the mutilation of children, laws that infringe on free speech, and racially discriminatory employment practices, to go unchecked. We are saying enough is enough.”

The State Department submits Human Rights Reports on all countries receiving assistance and all United Nations member states to Congress in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Trade Act of 1974.

Member states will be required to count the number of abortions taking place in their countries, and they will be denounced for funding abortions or the distribution of drugs which end an unborn baby’s life.

The new instructions for the report require that U.S. officials note the following “infringements” on human rights in foreign countries:

Sex-change procedures for minors, such as hormone replacement regimens or irreversible transgender surgeries.Government funded abortions or abortifacient drugs, as well as the total estimated number of annual abortions.Arrests, administrative penalties, and “official investigations or warnings” for speech or “hate speech.”The enforcement of policies like affirmative action or diversity, equity, and inclusion that “provide preferential treatment” to workers on the basis of race, sex, or caste.The facilitation of mass or illegal migration across a country’s territory into other countries.Attempts to coerce individuals into engaging in euthanasia.Violations of religious freedom, including antisemitic violence and harassment.Medical abuses, including forced testing, forced organ harvesting, and eugenic gene-editing practices on human embryos.

[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]

‘Pick a f***ing side’: Chris Murphy delivers rant over Trump calling for the seditious to be executed

Chris Murphy

First, it was a coalition of Democrats in Congress who called for members of the U.S. military to disobey orders from their commander-in-chief that were “illegal,” although that wasn’t defined.

Then President Donald Trump noted that such actions, determined to the insurrectionist or treasonous, could result in penalties up to and including execution.

Then a “hyperventilating” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., took to the social media stage to demand that Trump’s comments cannot be tolerated, that it is time for Republicans, Democrats, business leaders and everyone else to “pick a f***ing side” against Trump.

Editor’s Note: Be aware of Murphy’s use of objectionable language:

NEW: A hyperventilating Democrat Senator Chris Murphy drops the F bomb while raging about President Trump’s recent Truth Social post.

Murphy fumed over Trump’s suggestion of the death penalty for Congress members who called on the U.S. military to refuse orders.

“Maybe it’s… pic.twitter.com/lGNXYBOR9D

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 20, 2025

Murphy’s rant:

The president of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. This is not normal. We cannot allow this to feel normal. This, as far as I know, has never happened before in the history of the country. Every Democratic member of the Senate and the House, their life is in jeopardy right now, especially those that were specifically targeted by this social media post. Democratic senators and House members who were simply saying that no member of the military should act illegally or in violation of the Constitution.

The president of the United States just called for members of Congress to be executed. If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it’s time to pick a f***ing side. If you are a Republican in Congress, if you are a Republican governor, maybe it’s time to draw a line in the sand and say that under no circumstances should the president of the United States be calling on his political opposition to be hanged. We are at a very dangerous moment right now. The president is engaged in the wholesale incitement, endorsement and rationalization of political violence in this country.

This is a very slippery slope that we are on. This is a moment for people to step up, for republicans to step up, for business leaders to step up. Anybody who has a voice or a soapbox in this country needs to draw a line in the sand and say that it is not acceptable for the president of the United States to call on the murder of his political oppositions.”

Trump’s comment:

Trump just reposted this.

It is a call to hang Democratic lawmakers who spoke out against Trump. pic.twitter.com/8u4SJn5yID

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 20, 2025

And the original call for a military insurrection:

BREAKING: Elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and DEFY orders from Trump and Hegseth pic.twitter.com/Sm4calnccR

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 18, 2025

Murphy’s diatribe failed to fully explain the call from his own party members for military members to defy the military’s chain of command and follow orders of their own choosing, a circumstance that would deprive any military organization in the world of its ability to operate.

The Democrats didn’t define “illegal” orders, but those presumably would be orders with which Democrats disagree politically.

Trump accurately pointed out that offense like insurrection, treason, and the like, have been dealt with harshly in America’s past.

Further, it is Trump who has survived at least two assassination attempts in the last year or so, and it is Trump who repeatedly has been labeled a “Hitler” by Democrats. In fact, a newly elected Democrat state official openly called for the murder of his political opponent and his children — and Democrats still elected him to office.

‘Punishable by death!’ Trump notes ‘execution’ is traditional penalty for sedition

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‘Are they just playing pretend?’ Mark Kelly gets scorched for defending video telling military to disobey president

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‘Moral clarity’: Fox News host grills Democrat who urged military to refuse orders

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‘You must refuse illegal orders’: Democrats in Congress encourage U.S. military to DEFY Trump and Hegseth

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‘Had maybe 20 minutes’: Jasmine Crockett wants us to believe her Epstein-Zeldin comment was honest mistake

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed Wednesday that she wasn’t trying to “mislead people” when she falsely claimed that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin received political donations from registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Crockett made the false allegation during the debate on the floor of the House of Representatives on legislation to force the Trump administration to release files about Epstein. Crockett told “The Source” host Kaitlan Collins she had “maybe 20 minutes” before the debate took place.

“I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein,” Crockett claimed. “Just so that people understand, when you make a donation, your picture is not there. And because they decided to spring this on us in real time, I wanted the Republicans to think about what could potentially happen, because I knew that they didn’t even try to go through the FEC. So my team, what they did is they Googled, and that is specifically why I said ‘a Jeffrey Epstein.’ Unlike Republicans, I at least don’t go out and just tell lies.”

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“Because it was not the same one, that’s fine, but when Lee Zeldin has something to say, all he had to say was, ‘It was a different Jeffrey Epstein,’” Crockett continued. “He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein, so at least I wasn’t trying to mislead people. Now, have I dug in to find out who this doctor is? I have not. So I will trust and take what he says, is that it wasn’t that Jeffrey Epstein, but I was not attempting to mislead anybody. I literally had maybe 20 minutes before I had to do that debate.”

Zeldin pushed back against Crockett’s claims in a sharply-worded post on X Tuesday, refuting the claim.

“Yes Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein (who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein) donated to a prior campaign of mine,” Zeldin wrote before inserting clapping hands emojis in the next sentence.

The Daily Caller News Foundation took less than ten minutes to confirm that the donation to Zeldin took place in April 2020, months after the disgraced financier apparently committed suicide in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial after he was arrested in 2019, and that the Epstein in question was a self-employed physician.

“I literally did not know. When you search FEC files, and that’s what I had my team do, I texted them and I said, ‘Listen, we’re going up. They are saying that she took donations…’” Crockett claimed before Collins interjected with, “Right. But somebody might say, well, your team should have done the homework to make sure it wasn’t the convicted sex trafficker.”

“Within 20 minutes, you could not find that out, not from just doing a quick search on FEC,” Crockett replied. “So, number one, I made sure that I was clear that it was a Jeffrey Epstein, but I never said that it was specifically that Jeffrey Epstein, because I knew that we would — we would need more time to really dig in.”

President Donald Trump told Republicans to back the legislation to release the files on Sunday, leading to the bill passing the House in a 427-1 vote on Tuesday. Trump announced he signed the legislation on Wednesday night after the Senate passed it via unanimous consent.

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‘Unintentional comic relief’: Jasmine Crockett delivers ‘disastrously wrong’ sermon in Congress about Epstein

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‘Jesus does not love chaos and disorder’: When religious ‘leaders’ actually distort the Bible

There are a lot of damaging agendas in the United States these days, from promoting the industry that destroys unborn babies to the failed agenda of Joe Biden to bring in millions of illegal immigrants and the LGBT extremism of transgenderism, in which children are given chemicals, even body-mutilating surgeries to try to make them into something they’re not – the opposite sex.

And at least part of the fault for those ideologies can be traced directly to “Christian” leaders who are using their own agendas to present “a distorted gospel message.”

The comments come from Gary Bauer, who served in the Reagan administration as under secretary of education and head of the Office of Policy Development.

He was president of the Family Research Council, senior vice president of Focus on the Family, and was appointed by President Trump to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

He has written online at the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute, founded by the late James Dobson, explaining that among Dobson’s top priorities was boosting Christian participation in the “privileges and responsibilities of citizenship.”

Christian involvement, he believed, is needed to bring about solutions for America’s problems.

“But what if some Christian leaders get involved in the public debate only to throw the Bible away and instead side with some of the most radical forces in America? Two groups claiming to speak for Christians recently issued statements that are deeply disturbing,” Bauer explained.

The first involves illegal immigration, which was addressed in a recent “special pastor message’ from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“It essentially took the side of open borders and opposed the enforcement of our immigration laws. The bishops’ statement presented a distorted gospel message,” he charged.

He noted the “compassion” for illegal aliens. “But there was no compassion for taxpayers, including Christians who are footing the bill. Yes, Christ loves immigrants, but He loves taxpayers, too,” Bauer wrote.

“There was no compassion for the victims of criminal illegal aliens. During the Biden years, not only did the bishops not say anything about victims of criminal illegal aliens, but most of America’s media also downplayed those stories. What about poor minority communities that are most at risk from illegal alien crime?”

He cited the leftist campaign now that calls police “fascists” and leaves officers compared to Nazi “storm troopers.”

“Where is the bishops’ concern for the men and women of our federal immigration enforcement agencies? They are following the laws of the United States, securing our border, and attempting to remove illegal migrants from the country. … There is a massive increase in assaults on law enforcement personnel enforcing our immigration laws, including attempted murder. Their families have been threatened, and the police have been ‘doxed,'” he noted.

“Jesus does not love chaos and disorder. I can find nothing in the Bible suggesting that the teachings of Christ call for millions of people to walk into our country without obeying the duly passed laws of our nation. That would turn Jesus into globalist George Soros or Marxist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. It is a distortion of the gospel,” he said, pointing out that many religious leaders in Europe also are adopting the agenda.

Vice President JD Vance has raised similar concerns, explaining at one point, “I believe the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, if they’re worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide open border of Joe Biden.”

The second distortion comes in society’s promotions of transgenderism.

“Some leaders of so-called ‘mainline’ Protestant denominations and some Jewish groups issued a statement that tries to portray Christ as a supporter of the entire transgender agenda. They claim that transgender individuals are being oppressed and that Jesus certainly would not support their oppression,” he explained.

“In fact, there is no ‘oppression’ of trans people. Instead, there is growing opposition to the policy demands of the transgender movement. Jesus would not want boys who ‘identify’ as girls being allowed to violate the privacy of girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. The American people do not want that either. They reject allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports. They don’t want their children indoctrinated with transgender ideology in kindergarten or any other adult sexual concepts in elementary school. Jesus would want our children’s innocence to be protected,” he wrote.

That particular belief system is based on “lies about God’s creation.”

“The Bible is clear that God created only two sexes—male and female,” he said.

The “religious” leaders he cited include the leader of the Unitarian Universalist Association, a self-described “queer, multiracial, AfroLatine first-generation daughter of immigrants,” as well as leaders of several other well-known denominations.

“These two examples of misguided leaders using the gospel of Christ to promote radical, destructive policies are reminders that Christians must be wise and discerning, because we live in an age of deception,” he wrote.