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We Hear You: Debating Transgender Military Personnel and Culture’s Role in American Dream

Editor’s word: The Daily Signal’s protection and commentary on President Donald Trump’s plan to bar overtly transgender people from navy service obtained our viewers speaking, as did our examination of the function of tradition in maximizing alternative in America. Write us at letters@dailysignal.com—Ken McIntyre

Dear Daily Signal: Thank you to Walt Heyer for sharing his expertise (“I Was Once Transgender. Why I Think Trump Made the Right Decision for the Military“). I’ve usually questioned simply how we obtained thus far. Changing an individual’s intercourse doesn’t change points any greater than altering actual property cures an alcoholic.

I totally agree that our navy wants one of the best, fittest, and most psychologically sound troops we are able to muster. And they deserve the identical watching their backs.

Bless Walt Heyer for extending his ideas and serving to hand to others.—Diane Beatty

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I didn’t discover the writer’s identify, however earlier than I obtained midway by way of I suspected it was Walt Heyer. I scrolled again up. Sure sufficient. Heyer spoke at my church about his expertise final 12 months.

He reconciled together with his household, and has devoted his life to talking out in opposition to those that glorify this dysfunction and the abuse of adults who confuse kids, as he had been confused by a grandmother who handled him like a lady.

I met him after he spoke. What a courageous man to not solely come again from a horrible mistake, however to publicly put himself on the market and stand in opposition to the lunacy of the deranged leftist agenda.—Liz Dueck

Preventing all transgender people from serving within the navy beneath any capability is a step too far, and arguably unconstitutional.

Females who establish as males must be excluded from sure fight roles in the event that they’re not bodily succesful. They shouldn’t bathe with males, for apparent causes.

President Trump is correct in regards to the function of the navy, however it is a downside that requires a extra nuanced strategy.—Joseph Lee

Most of us are clearly male or feminine. Those who aren’t undergo from a clearly definable beginning defect. Imagining one’s self to be of the intercourse that conflicts with one’s bodily conformation is a delusion that must be handled by competent psychological well being professionals.—Dale Herrington

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So since you’re transgender you deserve particular remedy within the navy, with their insurance coverage? There are veterans on the market who can’t get the assistance they deserve and want, and we’re going to shove you in entrance to have procedures performed?

Which goes to take you out of fee for Lord is aware of how lengthy. Then you don’t understand how you’ll react to the hormones, and also you exit into the sector. And somebody breathes the incorrect means, and also you go off and shoot them since you’re unstable.—Kim Walls

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The navy does deem folks with medical issues unfit for service. Diabetics, asthmatics, individuals who have had surgical fracture repairs that contain metallic—and that’s just some exclusions.

Transgenderism will not be the primary medical analysis to be excluded, and it received’t be the final. That stated, there are quite a few, sophisticated causes transgender people shouldn’t serve. If they need to serve their nation, I’m positive they might be welcome in lots of different venues.—Dawn Barteky

Military Realities and Transgender Accommodations

Dear Daily Signal: Regarding Ryan T. Anderson’s commentary (“5 Good Reasons Why Transgender Accommodations Aren’t Compatible With Military Realities“): It appears to me that individuals who don’t actually know who they’re biologically in all probability don’t actually know who or the place they’re socially. This might result in mental issues of notion and responses to an officer’s orders that demand actions.

This topic has extra implications for what it means to be a human than it does for what it means to be an American. And socially, gender confusion is to start with a private situation and secondly an undermining of what’s pure and acceptance of who we’re at beginning.

This situation is destroying the which means of household and personhood, and denigrating different social constructs in pure society. This shouldn’t have turn into a political situation, however now that it’s, could we take care of it objectively and open it up for public debate.—Scott Moore

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Let’s not neglect that advocates fought for “transgender” to turn into a medical situation requiring remedy in order that insurers would offer some protection. In doing so, it’s now a preexisting situation. Anyone now coming ahead and saying it’s not a pre-existing medical situation is contradicting the definition assigned by different transgender folks.

The qualifier/disqualifier I confronted as a diabetic within the navy was that I may not be capable of obtain the medical care wanted if I had been in a fight zone. This often is the similar situation for transgender folks wishing to enlist.—Todd Zmina

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My daughter tried to affix the navy and couldn’t on account of being born and not using a thyroid gland. They couldn’t assure their skill to get her thyroid hormone to her.—P.J. Hall

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The navy doesn’t settle for anyone who has an ongoing medical situation. My daughter was denied entrance to the Army as a result of she had eczema on her fingers. A nephew was involuntarily launched from the navy after 15 years of service as a result of he had a foul again. (And no, he didn’t obtain a pension; I feel you need to be a congressman to get that.)—Kathy Kearny

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The entire perspective of “You will change your longstanding guidelines to accommodate my dysfunction” flies within the face of what it means to be a service member.

Men and girls all through historical past have given up household, pals, better-paying jobs, and their life itself for the privilege of serving their nation. If service implies that a lot to you, hold your private life private.—Russell Dyess

Radical Feminism and the Transgender Movement

Dear Daily Signal: In response to Scott Yenor’s commentary (“How Radical Feminism Sowed the Seeds of Our Transgender Moment“), what I discover fascinating—and don’t see mentioned—is that the transgender motion relies on reinforcing conventional gender roles.

Huh? Well, if there weren’t gender-based assumptions and norms for behaviors, then anybody no matter biology (intercourse) might behave any means they appreciated, free to specific themselves as a person.

Biological males would put on a costume in the event that they felt extra snug; ladies already put on trousers. Anyone might put on make-up or not. No worries. Those are particular person decisions.

But the transgender motion says that somebody born male truly can resolve to be a lady (or the reverse). So my query is: Without societal norms and roles as a touchdown zone, what does it imply to “be a person” or “be a lady?”

The transgender motion reinforces these societal norms as gender-based, and defining that line offers them one thing to cross—and combat about.

Personally? Wear no matter you need, act “masculine” or “female,” and simply settle for the tact that your biology doesn’t align with conventional roles. And that’s OK. But I surmise that the transgender motion is extra about people not accepting themselves, moderately than exterior elements.—Steffan Callosa

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I don’t see transgenderism as a psychological dysfunction. I see it as an ethical dysfunction. I don’t choose transgenders, gays, or lesbians. If they need to reside their lives as such, that’s completely tremendous with me. I don’t care what they do of their bedrooms.

What I do have an issue with is their philosophy being pushed on our youngsters, and the indoctrination of our youngsters in kindergarten. Adults like myself haven’t any various however to homeschool.

Although the thought appears to be taught as one in all social, particular person alternative, it comes throughout as a faith that’s being pushed onto the general public. And our youngsters don’t have the potential to suppose critically that they’re being brainwashed or to query what they’re being taught. This is a type of psychological and emotional abuse.

Advocates of transgenderism, same-sex marriage, adoptions by gays, and so forth say that individuals like me are the abusers as a result of we elevate our youngsters of their born chromosomal beings. But they in reality are the abusers for educating to kids a type of their very own deviance, or distinction, and telling them it’s fully regular.

I’m not so naive to suppose I’ll win the battle of my beliefs (Romans 1:26-28). This world finally might be turned over to who it belongs to, and folks like myself might be persecuted for our beliefs—censored, labeled, marked—just because we imagine in biblical rules.—Polly Vance

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If ladies need to show they’re equal to males, then they must again the transgender life-style. And if they’re going to again that, then we have now to go additional and say there are not any separations in something, together with sports activities.

Once we conform to no separation of genders, we have now to have competitors based mostly strictly on efficiency. And as soon as we agree on the , we are going to conclude that naturally born males within the majority of instances are bodily superior to naturally born ladies. And we must conclude that for many sports activities males are superior to girl.

That would lead us again to the pure conclusion of the weaker intercourse. No matter the way you phrase it, men and women aren’t equal in all points of life. You can’t simply resolve your individual intercourse.—Thomas Smith

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You can debate about your realities, however on the finish of the day you’re not altering minds, you’re molding kids. It’s at all times in regards to the kids. The progressives have a stranglehold on training, pushing their regular. And these that may’t have kids naturally goal kids for his or her egocentric wants.—Bill Chilton

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Why is it they need to use pseudoscience to ahead their local weather change agenda, then flip round and deny science for this agenda? Common Core math + liberal logic = ?—Rick Moore

J.D. Vance on Culture’s Role within the American Dream

Dear Daily Signal: Regarding “Hillbilly Elegy” writer J.D. Vance’s commentary (“The American Dream Is in Crisis“): Yes, the tradition shouldn’t be ignored in a plan to efficiently transfer towards restoring hope and finally improved financial situations for extra folks.

The tradition can’t be modified by conservatism alone; all potential sources must be enlisted to re-instill the thought of “dare to dream.” That is an early stage of hope.—Edward Scott Jr.

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Culture, which would come with household and neighborhood expectations for people, is necessary. It appears middle-class youngsters in useful households are anticipated to go to varsity and succeed. Others could have a lot decrease expectations and be restricted by them.

We are likely to reside up to what’s anticipated of us. If not a lot is anticipated, not a lot might be tried. This is a generalization, however I feel partially that is what’s being talked about.—Kathleen Robinson

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Convincing impoverished Americans to embrace a profitable cultural instance, like making a two-person household of a male and a feminine, diligently modeling arduous work and arduous finding out when given the chance will not be the cool, “sick” factor to do.

Anytime a tradition denigrates historical past and utilizing legitimate cultural fashions, the tradition will decline; if massive sufficient, the decline will take down the entire civilization.

Take the previous 40 years of American tradition for instance. Not positive President Trump and the present help tradition he has will be capable of pull this nation again from the abyss.—Georgia Fallaw

Talking About Culture and Opportunity

Dear Daily Signal: Genevieve Wood’s on-camera interview of J.D. Vance is without doubt one of the greatest thought-provoking items popping out of The Daily Signal and The Heritage Foundation (“‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Author Outlines Ways to Increase Opportunity“). I can relate. I used to be so lucky as to return from a big, prolonged, conventional, and conservative ethnic household.

Our East European grandparents all labored arduous to assimilate into American tradition and values on the finish of the 19th century. It was not straightforward. I’m additionally from a protracted line of hardworking and proud coal miners.

America at present is various. Our nice Republic owns many cultures, largely good. I wish to learn extra about Vance’s follow-on e-book that presents conservative options.

The “up by your bootstraps” resolution has not made a distinction eliminating poverty and hopelessness. Today, slicing authorities welfare is believed to pressure the bootstrap resolution–burn down the “hammock.” The name to get married solely falls on the ears of the choir.

Economics matter most. No one—conservative, libertarian, impartial, or progressive—is looking for reforms of Milton Friedman’s “freedom capitalism” that places earnings over folks.

There is one thing on the market known as “enlightened capitalism,” the place folks matter. It addresses the wants of all stakeholders, together with staff, entrepreneurs, distributors, collectors, prospects, communities, and homeowners/shareholders. Think Main Street first. “America First” will observe.—John Kominitsky

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In the e-book “Dangerous” by Milo Yiannopoulos, probably the greatest chapters is about how conservatives misplaced, moderately by no means actually fought, the battle for tradition.

There is a degree right here that many conservatives don’t get that’s tied into the concepts being expressed on this article. And it lies someplace between the “it takes a village” notion that Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed and pretending that solely particular person effort counts.—Karen Lee Mack

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Man is now all-powerful? The unhappy reality is people have turn into educated derelicts who know lower than 1 p.c of nothing within the grand scheme of issues. Thinking that authorities is the answer to our salvation from ourselves is misdirected at greatest.

At my superior age, I’ve been witness to 95 p.c of all know-how since data have been stored, and we have now touched solely the tip of the iceberg. Technology, nonetheless, can’t substitute for morality and ethics.—Carl Smith

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Why is the American dream in jeopardy? The huge 4: 1) the large, unconstitutional federal authorities; 2) a ladies’s motion that destroys households, kills tens of hundreds of thousands of infants, lowers our lifestyle, and erodes a peaceable, pleased, sturdy society; 3) enabling moderately than remedying dysfunctional black tradition; and 4) the rise of the homosexual agenda.—Jim Newell

The Welfare State’s Opportunity for Conservatives 

Dear Daily Signal: What values are being taught in colleges? I ask after studying Ken McIntyre’s report on J.D. Vance’s look at The Heritage Foundation (“Failed Welfare State an Opportunity for Conservatives, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Writer Argues“).

Liberals have ruined so lots of our colleges that many see the one possibility is constitution colleges. I detest this concept. We have paid dearly for our colleges and must return them to their function—educating our youngsters.

Children can’t be educated in Wild West school rooms. Discipline is a should. Kids must respect their lecturers, their classmates, their colleges, and themselves.

Where does it begin? At residence. Time to finish the thought of U.S. taxpayers as child daddy. Give a one-year discover after which no extra pay to have infants. Put the accountability the place it lies, with the female and male who made the newborn.

All it might take is one technology of younger males being held accountable for his or her pals to see what it takes and alter their habits. The liberal Dems will cry “racist,” however they are going to it doesn’t matter what. This change will have an effect on whites and blacks, so race won’t be an actual situation. Tough love.—Bennie Sprouse

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Turns out, as Heritage’s “2017 Index of Culture and Opportunity” reveals, that no matter it’s that makes a robust nuclear household additionally makes sturdy, productive residents. Who knew?

It additionally seems that the American free enterprise system creates extra wealth and stability for all residents than another financial system that has ever been tried for the reason that starting of recorded historical past.

With correct oversight, to keep away from the excesses of pure, unrestrained capitalism, our nation has created a greater life-style for all of its residents than the rest that has ever been tried. Our downside is that we have now allowed authorities progress with runaway regulatory extra.—Bill Tanksley

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We don’t have a difficulty of poverty on this nation. We have a difficulty of priorities, or moderately a scarcity of them. How did we go from offering for our youngsters to permitting the state to do it so we are able to spend tons of of on a tattoo?

Too lots of the “poor” haven’t any cash to feed their kids, and even the need to take action, usually leaving that as much as free meal applications at public colleges. But they’ve loads of money and time to get tattoos and piercings, smoke cigarettes, drink, and use medication. They even have loads of time to get into hassle, additional costing the taxpayers with their incarcerations.

Owning a home in a transient space with a number of rental properties, lots of them HUD leases, has proven me firsthand how a lot the “poor” lack actual priorities to create a steady setting with an opportunity at upward mobility for themselves and their kids.

Unfortunately, the answer, to enact workfare necessities or reduce off advantages, received’t damage the dad and mom. It will solely additional destabilize the lives of youngsters who’re already in an unstable state of affairs.—Carmen Sepulveda

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Welfare, as with nearly all federal socialized applications, is a large failure. This consists of not solely meals stamps, however Social Security and Medicare as nicely. There is a finite restrict to how lengthy they are often sustained.

Once that restrict has been reached, there might be subsequent to nothing left for anybody. Just how that’s imagined to “assist” anybody is past me. These are all closed, dead-end methods, with no considered serving to folks get on their toes and caring for themselves, simply extra authorities handouts and a unending cycle of dependency.

It has been said earlier than, again and again, that socialism doesn’t work; it by no means has and it by no means will. History proves this, however liberals will ceaselessly attempt to disprove these info.—Bob Terrell

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We are starting to see that conservatives and Republicans in Congress could not need to impact any change. Not many politicians will voluntarily relinquish management again to folks. In this respect, they aren’t a lot totally different from the liberals.

It is a tradition battle, and folks should take cost of themselves and encourage others to do the identical. Washington won’t save us.—Tejon Law

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Is Trump Taking a Page From His Own Book ‘The Art of the Deal?’

The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live present “Top 10” options the highest information tales of the week, lots of which regularly go underreported by the mainstream media. This week, we deal with the query on many minds: Is President Donald Trump taking a web page out of his personal ebook “The Art of the Deal” in siding with Democrats? And these Minnesota college students are standing as much as their highschool administration after the college banned the American flag.

We additionally deal with one sheriff’s distinctive method to security relating to Hurricane Irma. We coated all of this and far more on this week’s prime 10 must-see moments. Check out the video.

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Religious Tests for Public Office Are Unacceptable. Period.

I’ve been doing numerous pondering currently in regards to the fascinating women and men of America’s founding technology. I wish to share with you certainly one of their tales.

Jonas Phillips was a penniless Jewish immigrant, an indentured servant, a hardworking businessman, and an American patriot who served within the Philadelphia Militia through the Revolutionary War. During the British occupation of New York, he snuck messages previous the censors by writing in Yiddish.

Years later, Phillips addressed a letter to George Washington and the delegates on the Constitutional Convention.

He urged them to not embody a spiritual check within the Constitution as a requirement for public service, as a result of no man, he wrote, needs to be “disadvantaged or abridged of any civil proper as a citizen on account of his spiritual sentiments.”

Phillips wrote this letter as a result of Pennsylvania, the state the place he lived, required officers to swear that the New Testament was impressed by God. As a trustworthy Jew, Jonas Phillips couldn’t try this.

“By the above regulation,” he wrote, “a Jew is disadvantaged of holding any public workplace or place of presidency.”

Thankfully, Phillips’ letter—his prayer—was answered. Days earlier, the conference had voted unanimously to ban spiritual exams for federal workplace.

The language the Framers inserted into the Constitution was unequivocal: “No spiritual check shall ever be required as a qualification to any workplace or public belief beneath the United States.”

When the Founders wrote “ever,” they meant it.

I really feel the necessity to stress this level due to the alarming conduct of a few of my colleagues.

[On Wednesday], Notre Dame regulation professor Amy Coney Barrett got here earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee. She had been nominated to be a circuit courtroom decide. Her nomination has been endorsed by outstanding authorized students from throughout the political spectrum, together with Neal Katyal, President Barack Obama’s performing solicitor basic.

Nonetheless, at Ms. Barrett’s affirmation listening to quite a lot of my Democratic colleagues insinuated that her Catholic religion would stop her from making use of the regulation freely and pretty.

“Dogma and regulation are two various things,” remarked certainly one of my colleagues. “When you learn your speeches, the conclusion one attracts is that the dogma lives loudly inside you. And that’s a priority.”

Another of my colleagues even requested Ms. Barrett to admit her religion beneath oath.

“What’s an ‘orthodox Catholic’?” this committee member requested. “Do you contemplate your self an ‘orthodox Catholic’?”

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If these remarks had been some kind of weird aberration, I may need handed over them in well mannered silence.

But I really feel compelled to talk out as a result of I see a sample rising. A sample of hostility towards individuals of religion who come earlier than this body.

Just a number of months in the past, one other eminently certified nominee, Russell Vought, appeared earlier than the Budget Committee to be thought-about for a put up on the Office of Management and Budget.

One of my Senate colleagues used his time to query the nominee, not about administration or budgets, however about his evangelical Christian beliefs.

“In your judgment,” requested this senator, “do you suppose that people who find themselves not Christians are going to be condemned?”

Mr. Vought defined that he was an evangelical Christian and adhered to these beliefs.

But that wasn’t adequate for his questioner, who later acknowledged he would vote towards Mr. Vought’s nomination as a result of he was not “what this nation is meant to be about.”

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These unusual inquisitions don’t have anything to do with the nominees’ competency, patriotism, or potential to serve Americans of various faiths equally.

In truth, they’ve little to do with this life in any respect. Instead, they must do with the afterlife. To my information, the [Office of Management and Budget] and the seventh Circuit haven’t any jurisdiction over that.

This nation is split sufficient. Millions of Americans really feel that Washington, D.C., and the dominant tradition despise them.

And how might they not, once they see their leaders sitting right here, grilling patriotic residents about their religion like inquisitors? How might they not really feel like their values will not be welcome on this chamber?

Religious freedom is of deep concern to me as a Mormon. My church has weathered extraordinary spiritual persecution, a lot of it sponsored by the federal government.

The first Latter Day Saints had been exiled from house after house. In 1838, the governor of Missouri ordered that Mormons be pushed from the land or “exterminated.”

Our first chief, Joseph Smith, as soon as stated, “the civil Justice of the Peace … ought to punish guilt however by no means suppress the liberty of the soul.”

That, in fact, was earlier than he was martyred by a bigoted mob.

Our nation’s ban on spiritual exams is a robust bulwark for spiritual freedom. As an unique provision of the Constitution, it predates even the Bill of Rights—and it applies not simply to some spiritual adherents, however to all of them, equally.

The spiritual exams raised towards Mr. Vought and Ms. Barrett don’t favor one sect of Christianity over one other, as was sadly widespread for a lot of our nation’s historical past.

Rather, they favor the secular, progressive creed clung to so confidently by the nation’s ruling elites. This creed has its personal clerics, its personal dogmas, and, as these nominees have found, it has its personal heresies, too.

More and extra, the adherents of this creed search to make use of the facility of presidency to steamroll disfavored teams—particularly dissenters from their political dogmas.

So they drive evangelical caterers to bake muffins celebrating same-sex marriages, as within the case that’s earlier than the Supreme Court now. And they drive nuns to buy contraceptive protection. And sue spiritual hospitals that gained’t carry out abortions or sex-reassignment surgical procedures.

Yes, the secular, progressive creed has confirmed that it’s able to triumphalism and intolerance, identical to the creeds which have gone earlier than it. Not as a result of its adherents are uniquely depraved. To the opposite—as a result of they’re human.

There is a means out of this vicious cycle of non secular intolerance, Mr. President.

And that’s for all of us to deal with each other with civility and respect, whereas jealously defending the rights of conscience—for ourselves, our neighbors, and all our fellow residents. For Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, and all others

This body can do its half by supporting laws just like the First Amendment Defense Act and the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act, which might shield individuals who have conscience objections to latest cultural adjustments.

But at a minimal, this body can do its half by respecting the constitutional rights of residents who come earlier than it. Lest we neglect, we work for them, not the opposite means round. I belief my colleagues—Republicans, Democrats, and independents—will take this to coronary heart.

Because spiritual freedom places all Americans on the identical footing. It helps women and men stand upright, sincere earlier than the regulation—and earlier than God.

This commentary was tailored from Sen. Mike Lee’s latest speech earlier than the Senate.

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Why It’s Now Problematic to Be a Woman of Faith

Every week, The Daily Signal’s “Problematic Women” shines a highlight on sturdy conservative girls, present occasions, and the hypocrisy of the “feminist” left. Co-hosted with Bre Payton of The Federalist, this week’s episode takes on Planned Parenthood’s failed try to insert itself into the immigration debate, Hillary Clinton’s new ebook, and Democratic senators’ spiritual check for President Donald Trump’s appeals courtroom nominee.

We additionally share a clip of a brand new AMC TV present, which depicts Jesus Christ in what Christians take into account an extremely inappropriate mild. Watch and share your ideas.

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