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‘In the presence of greatness’: Dr. Dobson’s memorial service

My wife and I had the privilege of attending the memorial service for Dr. James Clayton Dobson Jr. in the greater Denver area this past Saturday. (He had died Aug. 21.) The audience got to hear just a taste of Dobson’s incredible impact and of his humble, thoughtful and Christian character.

Dobson was a bestselling author with multiple titles of books aimed at helping bolster the family. He earned his doctorate in child psychology at UCLA. In his work, he discovered the power of radio and utilized this incredible tool to reach a vast audience. At the height of his broadcast ministry, he was reaching about 300 million people worldwide.

Dobson founded Focus on the Family and the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute. At its zenith under him, Focus on the Family became a media empire with worldwide outreach.

In the service itself, his surviving widow, Shirley Dobson, was honored by all. Speaking that day were former U.S. Reps. Bob McEwen and Michele Bachmann. Also speaking were his daughter, Danae, and son, Ryan, who gave very powerful, heartfelt tributes to their dad.

In her speech, Danae Dobson mentioned that about 25 times in his life her dad had faced a potential death – such as a stroke that kept him from speaking for 24 hours and a heart attack. But he recovered from these things – so much so that Danae started to nickname her dad, “Laz” – short for Lazarus, the man in the Bible Jesus raised from the dead.

It was also brought out in the service that Dobson was so committed to his own family that he had a private phone line installed in his office, just for them to be able to call – his wife, his daughter and his son. No matter how busy he was, he made himself available to them.

Other speakers included Dr. Dobson from previous recordings, as well as Gary Bauer, Rev. Jim Garlow – who delivered a powerful eulogy – and Alan Sears, the first president of ADF, the Alliance Defending Freedom. The ADF is a significant legal organization Dobson helped create. To this aspect of his legacy, we now turn our attention.

The ADF was co-founded by Dobson, as well as my long-time boss and pastor, Dr. D. James Kennedy. Also founding this Christian legal group were Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, as well as Christian broadcasters Larry Burkett and Marlin Maddoux.

Although all these men are dead, their work lives on. Their website notes: “ADF is the world’s largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights.”

They have been quite victorious, as their website highlights: Since its founding in 1994, “we have played various roles in 83 Supreme Court victories, and since 2011, we have directly represented parties in 16 victories at the Supreme Court.”

It is significant that Dobson and Kennedy, et al. saw the need to protect God-given freedoms in the courts (and in the courts of public opinion) in order to guarantee the freedom to proclaim the Gospel in America.

For the most part, America was founded for religious freedom. Many of the original settlers who came to these shores came for conscience’s sake – to worship Jesus without harassment, as they had experienced in their European countries of origin.

In the 1643 New England Confederation, these settlers declared: “We all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel in purity with peace.”

Jews and other groups also found safe haven here.

Jumping ahead to the 1780s, when the Constitution was written and ratified, many Americans insisted on a Bill of Rights, so the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1791. And what was the first liberty written in the First Amendment? Religious liberty.

That is what America is all about, as the settlers and founders of this nation conceived it. But in the last several decades, secularists have gnashed their teeth against religious freedom and biblical morality. This is why the legacy of Dobson, Kennedy and the others is so consequential on this front.

The brochure for Dr. Dobson’s memorial service noted: “I will consider my earthly existence to have been wasted unless I can recall a loving family, a consistent investment in the lives of people, and an earnest attempt to serve the God who made me.”

The Dr. James Dobson memorial service on Oct. 4, 2025, in Hawthorne Hills, Colorado, is a memory I will long cherish. I think my wife put it best. I asked her for her opinion about the service afterward. She said, “We were in the presence of greatness.” Hear, hear.

Spiritual insight from some unlikely places

I was listening in the car the other day to an old Jackson Browne album.

Don’t judge. The man has talent, even if, in his 70s, he still suffers from chronic liberalitis.

Contracted in adolescence, liberalitis is a mental block against reality that usually fades in most people with the passing of time. For some reason, people in show business seem more inclined than others to have an antibiotic-like resistance to the kind of life lessons that constitute a cure.

For example, consider actor Robert De Niro, whose anti-Trump rants grow more profane by the day. Or any number of Hollywood stars who have taken to social media to warn us that the Trumpapocalypse is upon us.

Anyway, in “My Problem Is You,” one of Mr. Browne’s songs from his 1993 “I’m Alive” album, he proclaims a heartfelt desire that could at first be misread as a yearning for God.

“I wait for the sun to rise over the mountain, I wait for your touch. I wait for your angels to carry me home, but I wait too much. Waiting for you.”

The rest of the song makes it clear that he’s not waiting for God but for a woman with whom he is perhaps in love but who is wary of entanglement.

At first, I took a sort of “Waiting for Godot” meaning from the song, thinking that it was along the lines of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist, 1953 play whose message is not to expect God to be real or relevant any time soon – if ever.

No wonder the liberal critics love this play, and Broadway keeps staging revivals. Artful existentialism will never go out of style as long as people want to pretend there’s no God.

John Lennon’s song “Imagine” is still wildly popular. It’s a catchy, atheist anthem that I imagine Mr. Lennon is now somewhere regretting.

Speaking of such folks, at a recent Washington Nationals baseball game, I sat a few rows behind a bearded guy in a hat who wore a shocking yellow shirt, the back of which was emblazoned with this:

“‘When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.’ – Sinclair Lewis.”

This was just two days after a trans-inspired “anti-fascist” shot Christian conservative activist Charlie Kirk to death at a Utah college on Sept. 10 and a couple of weeks after a leftist transgender shooter killed two children in a Catholic church.

The yellow-shirted man’s open bigotry was on display where people go to enjoy a great American pastime together regardless of race or politics. It was annoying, but it was not worth my ruining the game for everyone near us by asking him a series of pointed questions. There were lots of kids around us, too.

Given the left’s penchant for politicizing everything in life, the man’s bluntness wasn’t as shocking as it should be. It probably didn’t matter to him that Lewis’ authorship of that quote has never been verified, although it does reflect Lewis’ atheist philosophy and his 1935 communist-inspired book warning about fascism in America, “It Can’t Happen Here.”

I turned my attention back to the game. The Nationals were wiped out, 8-0, on a nearly perfect game by White Sox pitchers, who gave up a measly single to the home team to end the 162-game season for both squads.

The only highlights for Nats fans were when the incomparable D.C. Washington sang “God Bless America,” and the giant “Teddy” mascot won the President’s Race.

Upon leaving the stadium, I thought of the yellow-shirt guy and felt sorry for him. Why had he felt the need to inflict his views on the rest of us? I know why I do it.

Some more lyrics from Jackson Browne’s song came to mind.

“I need your wonder and I need your light; I need your tender touch to heal the night.”

This could have been about what happens when people stop resisting the pursuit of the Hound of Heaven and accept God’s love.

That’s what Sinclair Lewis’ fellow atheist, C.S. Lewis, did in 1931 after conversing with J.R.R. Tolkien.

A scholar in Old and Middle English at Oxford University, Tolkien wrote “The Lord of the Rings.” He explained to his friend Lewis, a professor of medieval studies, that all the pagan myths about dying gods and resurrection before the coming of Christ moved the human heart because they were “splintered fragments” presaging the real thing. Allegorical poetry, in other words.

The difference is that the Gospel account is true. Jesus Christ came, died and was resurrected. Which makes all the difference.

The question every seeking soul might want to ask is, “Who is waiting for Whom?”

This column was first published at the Washington Times.

Mamdani vs. Cuomo: Sudden death or a slow-acting poison

In explaining how the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand said: “You can’t beat something with nothing.” That’s why, even with New York City Mayor Eric Adams out of the race, socialist Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani is destined to be the next mayor of New York, and the Big Apple is doomed.

Rand, who lived through the Russian Revolution, spoke from experience. Alexander Kerensky, who became prime minister after the abdication of Czar Nicholas II, was a colorless bureaucrat. The Whites, supporters of the Romanovs, were fighting for an Imperial Russia that no longer existed.

The Bolsheviks promised “peace, land and bread” to starving, war-weary Russians. What they delivered was 73 years of oppression and abject misery. Russia, led by a former KGB thug, still suffers.

The oily Mr. Mamdani, with his tiger’s smile, offers free everything, higher taxes on the already overtaxed rich, and more coddling of criminals.

If you have money to invest, buy commercial real estate in Miami, destined to be the next financial capital of the United States.

The Republican in the race, perennial candidate Curtis Sliwa (who is polling at around 11%), would make a great mayor but doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance.

That leaves former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a welfare state Democrat with the blood of nursing home patients on his hands and his handprints on various women.

The three-term governor was once considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, a status he secured by raising taxes, increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour and mandating 12 weeks of paid family leave. He also showed his devotion to the liberal social agenda by pushing through same-sex marriage, the toughest gun control in the nation and the decriminalization of marijuana.

Of course, there were a few speed bumps along the way.

As governor during the pandemic crisis, Mr. Cuomo forced nursing homes to accept 9,000 patients infected with the coronavirus. No one knows how many deaths this caused. A report by the New York State Department of Health charged that he undercounted the number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths by 46%.

What finally brought down Mr. Cuomo were allegations of sexual harassment. In this context, harassment didn’t mean casual comments but rather lewd suggestions and groping that would make Jeffrey Epstein blush.

Mr. Cuomo resigned from the governorship after the release of a report by New York’s attorney general that supported the allegations and while several criminal investigations were pending.

If Mr. Cuomo is elected mayor, female aides might consider moving their desks to Newark.

Well, at least he’s not Mr. Mamdani, those desperate to stop the Castro clone say. This is high praise indeed.

Granted, with Mr. Cuomo, New Yorkers won’t get Mr. Mamdani’s wild-eyed, seize-the-means-of-production socialism. Instead, they will get the Democratic Party’s business-as-usual, welfare-state socialism, a standard since the George McGovern campaign.

Mr. Mamdani promises 200,000 more “affordable housing” units, free transportation, municipal supermarkets, the replacement of some cops with social workers, and $100 million to pay for attorneys for illegal aliens facing deportation. He is just getting warmed up.

Boys and girls together, Mr. Mamdani and Karl Marx tripped the light dialectical materialism on the sidewalks of New York.

Mr. Cuomo was an early supporter of sanctuary cities. In 2019, he signed a cashless bail law but later acknowledged having second thoughts about the reform, which turned New York into a charnel house. With him, New Yorkers will get slower-acting poison, but they will be just as dead in the long run.

When given a choice between the real thing and a weak echo, voters usually go with the former.

After Ronald Reagan’s presidency, Republicans offered voters a string of insipid, ersatz candidates – including President George H.W. Bush and Sens. Bob Dole, John McCain and Willard Mitt Romney – and got clobbered at the polls. Then, along came Donald Trump, and Republicans started winning.

It’s five weeks until the New York mayoral election. Will there be an October surprise? Is there any revelation that could stop Mr. Mamdani? Did he marry his sister (no big deal in Uganda)?

On the bright side, at their 1992 convention, Republicans scored points by talking about the “San Francisco Democrats.” Next year, Republicans can talk about the Mamdani Marxists who have taken over the Democratic Party.

Florida will experience a real estate boom unlike any other.

Do I want Mr. Mamdani the Commie to win? Hell, no! I’m saying only that you can’t beat something with nothing.

This column was first published at the Washington Times.

Gingrich, Kudlow: Dems ‘engaged in insurrection’ by resisting immigration enforcement

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Tuesday accused Democrats of committing “insurrection” over their opposition to President Donald Trump’s administration’s immigration enforcement.

Multiple riots have broken out at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, as resistance to the agency’s operations targeting illegal immigrants has intensified. Kudlow accused Democrats like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker of “inciting violence with their rhetoric” on “Kudlow,” arguing that “insurrections” were occurring throughout the nation and demanding they end, with Gingrich appearing to agree, at least in the case of Chicago.

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“This is a key test of whether or not, as [former President Abraham] Lincoln put it, government of the people, by the people and for the people is going to survive. I mean, you have a president, a House and a Senate which have been elected by the American people,” Gingrich said. “They’ve taken a clear position. And in the case of getting rid of illegal immigrants, particularly those who are crooks, there’s no question that that entire ICE program is legal, legitimate and acting under the control of the commander in chief.”

“So when you start having governors like Pritzker, you start having local officials literally interpose themselves between the federal government and their citizens, you’re seeing something which is, by any reasonable standard, an insurrection,” he added.

Gingrich then ran through examples of past presidents quelling insurrections.

“I mean, we’ve had these experiences. We’ve seen these problems. In the end, the Constitution works and the elected officials under the Constitution have the ability to get done what the American people ask for,” he said. “And those state and local officials who try to block it are engaged in insurrection. And in that sense, I think they’re liable to very serious penalties.”

Moreover, amid an illegal immigration crackdown, Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE Free Zones” across his city, aiming to keep ICE and other federal immigration officials from accessing city-owned property, according to his office.

Trump asserted on Monday that he would weigh using the Insurrection Act “if it was necessary,” NBC News reported.

“So far it hasn’t been necessary,” Trump told reporters. “But we have an Insurrection Act for a reason.”

“If I had to enact it, I’d do that. If people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I’d do that,” he added. “I mean, I want to make sure that people aren’t killed. We have to make sure that our cities are safe.”

Pritzker and Johnson have opposed Trump deploying the National Guard to Chicago and claimed the move would be unconstitutional.

The National Guard arrived in Illinois on Tuesday, ABC News reported, citing sources familiar with their location, along with footage of them in a Chicago suburb.

“Illinois will not let the Trump Administration continue on their authoritarian march without resisting,” Pritzker wrote on X Monday.

“We will use every lever at our disposal to stop this power grab because military troops should not be used against American communities,” he added.

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WATCH as Kristi Noem opens meeting with ICE officers … with PRAYER!

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

Congress opens its sessions with prayer. Many school boards, town and county councils and state legislatures did for many years.

So it shouldn’t surprise that an executive in a White House administration that has recognized America’s Judeo-Christian foundation and heritage should open a meeting with prayer.

Just as Kristi Noem, chief of President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, did.

I just witnessed the most remarkable thing…

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at the ICE detention facility in Portland and the FIRST thing she did was PRAY for the safety of the officers there and thank Jesus Christ for their bravery.

We are witnessing incredible things. pic.twitter.com/6BU2vTQJgW

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 7, 2025

It was at a meeting with ICE officials in Portland, Oregon.

JUST IN: Secretary Kristi Noem has arrived at ICE Portland, and is meeting with top ICE, DHS, and Border Patrol officials

Noem prayed over them before the meeting started: “Lord, I just ask that you would continue to put a hedge of Protection around these officers, keep them… pic.twitter.com/xshcfTzQ8K

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 7, 2025

She said, “Lord, I just ask that you would continue to put a hedge of Protection around these officers, keep them safe, Lord, but that also that you would continue to bless each and every one of them and their families…”

Raw Story reported, “Noem asked God to give her agency ‘wisdom and discernment to make the best decisions not just for the people that are here enforcing the law but also for the citizens of this country.'”

 

Fall cleaning

‘We don’t think you’re a Christian any more’: Church turns on member over his criticism of H-1B visas scheme

There are a lot of people in America who are opposed to, critical of, and even resentful toward, the nation’s H-1B visa program, which is a scheme that corporations can use to fire American tech workers and replace them with much cheaper employees, either located overseas or brought to America from their home countries for the work.

Those already critical of the visa manipulations include those hundreds of thousands put out of work by the operations, their families, likely their friends, those business leaders interested in making America’s business climate stable and prosperous and many more.

But now the fight has escalated to the point a church in Texas is attacking one of its members, actually an ex-member now that the elders of the reportedly Baptist-affiliated church have tossed him out over those very sentiments.

It is a report at the Blaze that details of the fight involving Daniel Keene, a small-business owner in a suburb of Dallas, Texas.

He noted that community members from India, which plays a massive role in the agenda to replace American workers with overseas hires, took over an entire street in his suburb for a block party.

He posted video online, and he commented, “We have to cancel the H-1Bs. I want my kids to grow up in America. Not India.”

He later deleted that when he came under attack at his business, at his home, at his health club, and at his church, identified as Trails Church.

He more or less expected some backlash online, but it got “worse” when church officials “decided to interrogate him on his immigration stance,” the report said.

“The elders at the Trails Church called him about his initial post, telling him to repent and that the post was ‘uncharitable,'” the report said.

Church officials demanded he and his wife come in for a meeting, with “all the elders and staff who could be there.”

“They hammered me for … hours,” he explained.

The Blaze said, “The elders had apparently gone through the last three years of Keene’s X account, looking for problematic posts. Keene said they brought up two posts that they found ‘concerning.'”

But Keene said they kept shifting the goalposts, so he was left confused by their demands.

“On one hand, they are saying that the issue is not the position itself; it’s how I expressed it. … but then we’ve had three hours of phone calls, and they’re just hammering me on the position itself.”

He asked for the elders’ position in writing; they refused.

He explained, in the report, the elders “wanted him to apologize for his original post showing the Indian block party on his street and abandon his position on Indian immigration. While he respected their right to disagree with him, Keene told Blaze News he did not think apologizing for the post was appropriate.”

Then, he said, elders threatened him with a “path to discipline.”

Keene noted his detractors claimed, “We don’t think you’re a Christian any more because you haven’t repented of a sin.”

Later, he followed up his deleted post with a podcast talking about immigration, and questioned, “What would get you in more trouble at your church? Significant doctrinal error on the Trinity? Or opposing immigration to the harm of your neighbor?”

The elders, whose online store sells mugs, hats and $50 shirts, then “formally asked Keene to leave the church,” he confirmed.

Church officials did not respond to a Blaze request for comment.

But other hits he has taken: Doxxing and threats, his business was review-bombed, someone claiming to have access to millions of Indian-American contacts apparently tried to extort him for $20,000. And his gym membership was canceled.

 

‘You lied to be elected’: Pam Bondi delivers heat to Democrats trying to score political points during hearing

President Donald Trump holds a press conference with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on Friday, June 27, 2025. (Official White House photo by Molly Riley)

Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before a Senate hearing on Tuesday, a hearing that multiple media outlets considered “combative.”

And leftists online were critical of her presence, her behavior, and her answers, in a situation that appeared to leave Democrats triggered when Bondi refused to allow them to pursue trick questions.

For example, Sen. Dick Blumenthal, D-Conn., suggestively questioned her about her conversations about a certain legal dispute involving a merger.

She responded with heat.

BREAKING: Pam Bondi just DEMOLISHED Senator Blumenthal after he ACCUSED her of impropriety:

“I CANNOT BELIEVE that you would ACCUSE ME of impropriety when YOU LIED about your MILITARY SERVICE.”

“You LIED to be elected a US Senator.”

“Don’t YOU EVER challenge MY integrity. I… pic.twitter.com/Fx0reJH5J7

— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) October 7, 2025

“Sen. Blumenthal, I cannot believe you would accuse me of impropriety, when you lied about your military service…. You admitted you lied … to be elected…. You lied. How dare you. I’m a career prosecutor. Don’t you ever challenge my integrity,” She tossed back.

Then there was Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, who seemed to suggest that there was something inappropriate about the use of National Guard members to crack down on rampant crime in American cities.

Sen. Dick Durbin is going to regret asking this question for the rest of his life. It totally backfired on him.

AG Pam Bondi eviscerated him:

DURBIN: “They are going to transfer Texas National Guard units to the state of Illinois. What’s the rationale for that?”

BONDI: “Yeah,… pic.twitter.com/yS2zZFSFt4

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 7, 2025

Bondi said, “Yeah, Chairman, as you shut down the government, and you’re sitting here. Our law enforcement officers aren’t being paid. … They’re out there working to protect you. I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump. And currently, the National Guard are on the way to Chicago. If you’re not going to protect your citizens, President Trump will.”

An online commenter explained, “Admittedly she did well, but it really was a battle of wits against an unarmed opponent.”

Even leftists trying to portray her as failing, who posted a video of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, came up short.

He kept insisting that she explained the details of an FBI case and claims against Tom Homan, the border security chief, that involved a supposed cash payment.

He wanted to know where the cash ended up.

She explained, over and over, the FBI investigated the case fully and found “no credible evidence” of wrongdoing.

She invited him to talk to the FBI about the status of any cash involved.

Pam Bondi is incapable of answering simple questions. pic.twitter.com/VtD3KIYxx9

— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) October 7, 2025

After she answered his questions, he complained she was incapable of answering simple questions.

‘Talk therapy’: Supreme Court hears case of Colorado counselor sanctioned over LGBT ideology

Kaley Chiles, (Photo courtesy ADF)

Colorado’s leftist government, run by homosexual Gov. Jared Polis and other Democrats who make up the majority of the legislature, has decided that it’s free speech when a licensed counselor tries to convince a client of the benefits of the LGBT lifestyle. That “affirming” advice.

But it’s “behavior” when a Christian licensed counselor explains to a client the benefits of attitude adjustments that provide the patient a level of comfort inside his or her own sexual identity. That, Colorado claims, can be censored.

That fight was before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a case brought by Christian counselor Kaley Chiles, who explains that the state’s one-sided and censorial agenda of leftism actually violates her constitutionally protected right to free speech.

It’s been a common tactic for LGBT activists and other leftists across the country to falsely label such counseling “conversion therapy” and then make it illegal to counter their political ideology.

The Supreme Court, at least a “majority” of the justices, seemed “to lean in favor of a Christian counselor challenging bans on LGBTQ+ ‘conversion therapy’ for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights,” according to a published report.

Colorado already has lost multiple cases at the high court in its campaigns to censor Christians and force them to parrot the state’s adopted pro-LGBT ideology. In one case, the justices scolded state officials for their “hostility” to Christians.

Even AP, which leans far left in its politics, admitted the justices, whose decision won’t come for some weeks or even months, appeared to choose Chiles’ side.

The high court already has ruled that states can ban transition-related health care for “transgender” youth.

Colorado’s lawyers insisted that any “treatment” seeking to change “a minor’s sexual orientation” is “unsafe and ineffective.”

However, studies show that the incident of suicidal ideology is higher for those in the LGBT lifestyle than the general population.

A report at the Daily Signal explained, “Colorado says its law regulates a ‘treatment’ that is harmful and that violates the state’s standard of care. But Kaley Chiles, a Colorado-based counselor, says the law violates her right to free speech by favoring ‘the expression of some views over others.”

The report noted the wild tangent into which Sonia Sotomayor tried to push the court. She demanded to know whether Chiles encourages her clients to vomit or exposes them to electric shock therapy.

Chiles’ lawyers explained she engages in speech with her clients, “voluntary talk therapy.”

Leftist judges in Colorado, where the all-Democrat state Supreme Court even tried to throw Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot, claimed the state was right in saying that speech is behavior.

Colorado Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson claimed studies confirm higher rates of suicidality among teens who underwent conversion therapy – but Chiles’ lawyer explained those results depend on biased sampling, self-reporting, which is unreliable, and the inappropriate conflation of “aversion therapy,” a separate concept entirely, with the misnamed “conversion therapy.”

Thomas Jipping, a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told The Daily Signal, “Under Colorado law, young people may seek a licensed counselor’s help to affirm or support their sexual orientation or gender identity, but not to change it or even to better align it with their sex or religious faith. As a direct restriction on speech, this blatant, intentional viewpoint discrimination violates the First Amendment. The kind of ‘talk therapy’ that plaintiff [Kaley] Chiles uses helps many clients, and Colorado has never offered evidence of any harm.”

WND previously reported, “Officials in the leftist state who multiple times have demanded the authority to censor Christians in the state have claimed that the counselors’ speech is “behavior,” which they say they can regulate. But their agenda is clear in the details of their fight: They insist that no counselor can encourage a patient to consider NOT being LGBT. But promotions of the LGBT lifestyle choices are fully encouraged.”

Under 23 state laws, counselors aren’t free to talk with kids to help them resolve gender dysphoria & accept their bodies. They may only encourage kids to “transition.”

CO counselor Kaley Chiles is challenging this at the Supreme Court.

Let’s break down the argument. 1/ pic.twitter.com/cMnYUq649h

— Kristen Waggoner (@KristenWaggoner) September 29, 2025

Detractors have called such counseling “conversion therapy” but the misnomer isn’t accurate since the counseling actually involves helping patients come to grips with their own reality.

The 3rd and 11th circuit courts already have found such bans suppress protected speech.

Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said, “Laws that restrict counselors and clients to only one viewpoint violate the First Amendment. Talk therapy is speech, and the government has no authority to restrict that speech to just one viewpoint. Counseling bans must be struck down nationwide so that people can get the counseling they need. Counselors and clients should have the freedom to choose the counsel of their choice and be free of government censorship.”

Kaley Chiles speaks after SCOTUS hears her case.

“Colorado’s law hurts kids struggling with gender dysphoria most of all. If counselors wish to engage clients on these issues, the law limits them to one option of encouraging kids to reject their body. That is a tragedy.” pic.twitter.com/GGRT0nXziP

— Katelynn Richardson (@katesrichardson) October 7, 2025

‘Law forbids her’: U.S. Supreme Court to hear demand from leftists to censor Christian counselors

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‘We are cleaning up a diseased temple’: FBI fires agents over Jack Smith’s scheme to spy on Republican senators

The FBI has fired several employees over a scheme by Jack Smith, Joe Biden’s special counsel assigned to run Democrat lawfare cases against President Donald Trump, to spy on the communications of multiple Republican senators.

It was confirmed just this week that Smith’s entourage, set up to prosecute, convict and even jail Trump if a way could be found, went to telephone companies with warrants and demanded access to the communications records of Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.

All Republicans.

The invasion of their records came at a time when Smith was putting together claims that the Jan. 6, 2021, protest-turned-riot in Washington actually was a real effort to overthrow the U.S. government, install all new officials, take control of its international policy, economy, and much more.

Smith’s J6 case against Trump, as well as his other claims, ultimately fell apart.

Now, a report at Fox explains the FBI “has already terminated employees and abolished the CR-15 squad just one day after it was revealed that several Republicans’ private communications and phone calls had been tracked.”

FBI chief Kash Patel confirmed the moves.

“We are cleaning up a diseased temple three decades in the making — identifying the rot, removing those who weaponized law enforcement for political purposes and those who do not meet the standards of this mission while restoring integrity to the FBI. I promised reform, and I intend to deliver it,” he told Fox.

This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into “election conspiracy” Arctic Frost later became Jack Smith’s elector case against Trump

BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE pic.twitter.com/V2JyiVlX48

— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 6, 2025

The Biden FBI spied on Republicans who support @realDonaldTrump.

This was the weaponization of one of our nation’s top intelligence agencies, and those responsible must be held to account. pic.twitter.com/KF4euJQXbg

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) October 6, 2025

We recently uncovered proof that phone records of U.S. lawmakers were seized for political purposes.

That abuse of power ends now.

Under my leadership, the FBI will deliver truth and accountability, and never again be weaponized against the American people. pic.twitter.com/VuU8O68zCG

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 6, 2025

They tracked the communications of GOP Senators. They weaponized law enforcement against the American people. That era is over.

We fired those who acted unethically, dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad, and launched an investigation.

Transparency and accountability aren’t… pic.twitter.com/2vRlZrA20R

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 7, 2025

Patel said, “Transparency is important, and accountability is critical. We promised both, and this is what promises kept looks like… We terminated employees, we abolished the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we initiated an ongoing investigation with more accountability measures ahead.”

It was the CR-15 squad that helped Smith “investigate” Trump.

‘Profound violation’: Josh Hawley tears into ‘Biden’s Stasi’ for ‘spying on political opponents’

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Confirmed! Jack Smith was using weaponized government to spy on Republican senators

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