I don’t watch TV at all, so I don’t know what people are hearing from television about the important issues of this election. For me, there are 3 main issues. One, inflation, which is caused by Biden’s energy and spending policies. Two, Biden using the FBI as a weapon to punish his political enemies. Three, Democrats attacking parents who disagree with forced transing of their kids.

Here is the article in Daily Wire:

A Virginia Democrat lawmaker says she will introduce legislation to have parents criminally prosecuted if they do not “affirm” their child as transgender. Teachers and social workers would report parents to Child Protective Services under the bill envisioned by state Delegate Elizabeth Guzman (D-Fauquier).

[…]A similar bill was quietly introduced in 2020 by Guzman and four other Democrats immediately after they took control of the legislature in the 2019 elections. It redefined the term “abused or neglected child” to include one whose parent “inflicts, threatens to create or inflict, or allows to be created or inflicted upon such child a physical or mental injury on the basis of the child’s gender identity or sexual orientation.”

The sole Senate sponsor of the 2020 bill was Joe Morrissey, who served prison time for contributing to the delinquency of a minor after sleeping with his teenage secretary. He accepted a plea deal after initially being indicted on possession of child pornography and other charges.

I notice that Democrats at all levels of government are condemning parents who dissent from forced transing or mutilation of their children. They call such parents “domestic terrorists”, because Democrats know better than parents what is best for children. In fact, if you disagree with Democrats on these issues, they say that you will probably drive your children to suicide. So, it might be worth looking at a study about that.

Here is the study.

Summary:

Lowering legal barriers to make it easier for minors to undergo cross-sex medical interventions without parental consent does not reduce suicide rates—in fact, it likely leads to higher rates of suicide among young people in states that adopt these changes. States should instead adopt parental bills of rights that affirm the fact that parents have primary responsibility for their children’s education and health, and that require school officials and health professionals to receive permission from parents before administering health services, including medication and “gender-affirming” counseling, to children under 18. States should also tighten the criteria for receiving cross-sex treatments, including raising the minimum eligibility age.

Key points:

• U.S. policymakers are seeking to make it easier for minors to access puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones based on the claim that doing so reduces suicide risk.

• Studies finding that “gender-affirming” interventions prevent suicide fail to show a causal relationship and have been poorly executed.

• A superior research design shows that easing access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones by minors without parental consent increases suicide rates.

And this is the interesting part:

In the past several years, the suicide rate among those ages 12 to 23 has become significantly higher in states that have a provision that allows minors to receive routine health care without parental consent than in states without such a provision. Before 2010, these two groups of states did not differ in their youth suicide rates. Starting in 2010, when puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones became widely available, elevated suicide rates in states where minors can more easily access those medical interventions became observable.

Rather than being protective against suicide, this pattern indicates that easier access by minors to cross-sex medical interventions without parental consent is associated with higher risk of suicide. The Heritage model plotted the difference in a three-year rolling average of suicide rates between states with minor access provisions and states with no such provision. Chart 2 plots the trend in this difference for those ages 12 to 23 who could have been affected by the policy when cross-sex medical interventions became available. For comparison, Chart 2 also shows the trend in this difference for a group ages 28 to 39, who could not have been affected by these policies, since the people in this group would have been at least 18 when puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones became available.

Without making any adjustments, suicide rates among those ages 12 to 23 (blue line) begin to spike in states that have provisions that allow minors to access health care without parental consent relative to states that have no such provision around 2016, after cross-sex medical interventions became more common. By 2020, there are about 3.5 more suicides per 100,000 people ages 12 to 23 in states with easier access than in states without an access provision. There is no similar spike in suicide rates among those ages 28 to 39 (grey line) at that time.

If you hadn’t read about this study, it would probably be a good idea to read about it, and share it around with other parents. Because right now, teachers, Democrat legislators, and everyone in the Democrat party are going after your kids on the grounds that you are a threat to your own children. It helps to have the data when you’re arguing this issue.

Here is the latest news on the political candidate supported by #evangelicalsForBiden, reported in Life News:

Joe Biden will make legalizing abortion on demand his top priority if Democrats win control of Congress in November, a Democrat leader said Tuesday.

The first bill that Biden will advance will be one that “codifies Roe,” the official told CNN. The president plans to make the promise in a speech Tuesday to the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., as the midterm election approaches, according to the report.

“The first bill he will send to the next Congress will be to codify Roe — and he will sign it around the 50th anniversary of the Roe decision,” the Democratic official said.

[…]Nicknamed the Abortion Without Limits Up to Birth Act, the legislation would force states to legalize the killing of unborn babies in abortions for basically any reason through all nine months of pregnancy.

The bill, which Democrats named the Women’s Health Protection Act, also would end bans on sex-selection abortions and taxpayer-funded abortions as well as laws that protect women and girls, including parental consent for minors. It also would jeopardize legal protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to abort unborn babies.

Here is an argument for the pro-life position:

1. Deliberately targeting innocent human beings for destruction should be illegal.
2. Unborn humans are innocent human beings.
3. Therefore, deliberately targeting unborn humans for destruction should be illegal.

Premise 1 is uncontroversial.

The evidence for premise 2 comes from science. One scientist has collected the conclusions from embryology textbooks. Dr. Maureen Condic, an associate professor at the University of Utah specializes in neurobiology. She obtained her Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. She has served on the National Science Board, and is a widely published scientist whose works have appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed journals.

Here is just one of the quotations she pulls out of the textbooks in her list:

“Human development begins at fertilization, when a sperm fuses with an oocyte to form a single cell, the zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell (capable of giving rise to any cell type) marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.”

– “The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology”, 10th edition.

That’s why we are pro-life. We have an argument. We have the science. We don’t override reason and evidence because some people feel sad about taking responsibility for their own actions.

Evangelicals for Biden do not accept that argument. Evangelicals for Biden accept this argument:

1. If I want to be liked by non-Christian Democrats, then I must accept abortion through all 9 months of pregnancy, and destroy the conscience rights of Christian medical workers.
2. I want to be liked by non-Christian Democrats.
3. I must accept abortion through all 9 months of pregnancy, and destroy the conscience rights of Christian medical workers.

It’s very important for rank-and-file Christians who accept the Bible’s prohibition on murder to understand that many of these charismatic Christian leaders cannot be trusted when it comes to politics and policy.

People like David French, Russell Moore, Richard Mouw, Tim Keller, John Piper, etc. did everything they could to prevent a Republican from winning the presidency in 2020. They had no part in the reversal of Roe v. Wade. That happened because of Trump’s 3 pro-life Supreme Court nominees.

When it comes to abortion, you can’t listen to the words of Big Eva elites. You have to look at their actions. And their actions support candidates like Joe Biden, who want abortion on demand through all 9 months of pregnancy, reversing all state-level restrictions and eliminating all conscience rights of pro-life health care workers.

There were two choices for president in 2020. One who had nominated 3 pro-life Supreme Court justices, and one who vowed to support abortion through all 9 months of pregnancy. Evangelicals for Biden supported Biden. Their position on abortion is Biden’s position on abortion. That’s what they really believe about abortion.

Christian voters should not listen to these weak, stupid compromised men at election time.

Lately on the podcast we did an episode on “making wise decisions“, where we talked about the choices that Christians make in education and career. We talked about was the need to study something that cannot be cancelled by the secular left. And we talked about the need to work a job where even if you get fired, you have skills that are valuable to other employers.

Here’s a story from the UK Daily Mail that talks about a very talented Christian who ran into the threats that we were warning our listeners about.

Excerpt:

A Christian lobby group says former Essendon CEO Andrew Thorburn is the victim of a ‘frightening’ and ‘toxic’ wokeness in sport that targets Christians but has double standards when it comes to Muslims.

Mr Thorburn was forced to quit on Monday after only one day in the top job at the Essendon AFL club when he refused to stand down as chairman of a controversial church.

[…]Mr Thorburn was announced as the Bombers’ successor to Xavier Campbell in the CEO job on Monday.

But within hours of his appointment, his links to a City on a Hill were thrust into the spotlight, and by Tuesday evening, the embattled Bombers were left searching for their third CEO in less than two months.

In a statement on Tuesday, Essendon president Dave Barham said the board had accepted Thorburn’s resignation after they had made it clear he couldn’t hold positions at both his church and his football club.

‘As soon as the comments relating to a 2013 sermon from a pastor at the City of the Hill church came to light this morning, we acted immediately to clarify the publicly espoused views on the organisation’s official website, which are in direct contradiction to our values as a club,’ Barham said in a club statement.

This is the part where I always laugh out loud, and thank God that there is a place called Hell for secular leftists like these:

‘Essendon is committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and a safe club, where everyone is welcome and respected.

I really want to recommend to Christians that they think carefully about making public statements on social media under their real names. I recommend studying in no-nonsense STEM fields like accounting, computer science, petroleum engineering, etc. And be careful about working with progressive women and LGBT activists, who are addicted to virtue signaling.  There are no limits to what the secular left will do to silence and destroy Christians.

In my opinion, the worst sin possible isn’t murder, although secular leftists certainly support that (in abortion). The worst sin is making it more difficult for Christians to follow Jesus. Secular leftists might thing that they deserve mercy because they force Christians into silence, poverty or death. But in this universe, the real crime is making it harder for Christians to be being faithful to God. Even when the secular leftist wins, they ultimately lose. Big time.