It’s become fashionable in our time to claim that facism is an emergence of the right, as if somehow, you get authoritarianism from private property, the rule of law, unbiased courts and free trades. Actually, when you look at history, it’s always the secular left that wants to force individuals to agree with their ideology. And they don’t treat religious people who dissent very well.

Let’s take a look at a couple of stories from this week from a country that is further down the road of secularism and leftism.

Here’s the first story from Christian Post:

A Christian pastor was arrested after he made comments about Islam and the binary nature of sex while street preaching outside Bristol University.

In response to a question from a Muslim member of the public, Dia Moodley said he believed there were differences between the moral standards of the God of Islam and the Christian God.

During his preaching he also expressed the belief that God made humans male and female and that this truth should not be denied.

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF UK), which is supporting Moodley, said he was arrested and detained for 13 hours by Avon and Somerset Police in March.

The organization said that Moodley was pushed off his short stepladder and had a sign snatched from his hands before being arrested by attending officers.

Four of his signs were handed to staff at Bristol University, who disposed of them under the instruction of the officers.

Reacting to the incident, Moodley said, “Two-tier policing is sadly not a fiction or some conspiracy theory, it’s a reality that Christians in the U.K. have been experiencing for years.

[…]”The world is looking at the dismal state of free speech in the U.K. with shock. What happened to me reflects a wider trend of increasing state censorship in the U.K. and across the West.”

Yes, so one of the known effects of importing millions and millions of unskilled immigrants is that the laws will change so that they get special treatment, whereas anyone who points out the effects of thesse immigration policies will be branded a racist. Recently, I talked about how the UK police advised armed Muslims to hide their weapons in mosques to avoid being arrested, but they brutally beat unarmed non-Muslim protesters who objected to violent crimes being committed in their neighborhoods. And whenever Christians speak publicly against the truth of Islam, they are arrested and imprisoned. Just ask Hatun Tash, who we interviewed on the Knight and Rose Show. Christians are always the losers in cases where the secular left wants to improve “diversity” by importing a bunch of unskilled immigrants – who tend to vote for more spending on welfare and for defunding the police.

Anyway, here is the second article, also from Christian Post:

A British army veteran who served in Afghanistan was found guilty today of praying silently near an abortion clinic in England.

Adam Smith-Connor breached a Public Spaces Protection Order by this action, according to the ruling at Poole Magistrates Court in the town of Poole near Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

[…]The court found Smith-Connor guilty for an act of a “disapproval of abortion,” though he was only thinking about his son, who had been aborted many years before, according to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International.

Smith-Connor had slightly bowed his head and clasped his hands in prayer on a public green in a buffer zone near the abortion facility in Orphir Road, Bournemouth in November 2022. During a confrontation with police officers that he recorded, they asked him, “What is the nature of your prayer?”

The buffer zone had been previously legalized under a Public Spaces Protection Order enforced on streets near the abortion clinic. The intent of the buffer zone had been to stop pro-life beliefs being expressed near the facility, including offering help or prayers to women in crisis pregnancies, according to a press statement by ADF International.

Defense attorneys argued that Smith-Connor’s prayerful thoughts, beliefs and opinions were not a crime, especially as he stood peacefully and silently on a public street. He stood behind a tree, spoke to no one and had his back to the facility.

The court also ordered the father of two children to pay prosecution costs amounting to £9,000 ($11,700 USD).

How close is the UK government that does these things to Kamala Harris? They are sending over members of the ruling secular left party to help her in her election campaign in swing states!

Now, many Christians who have not too closely into the policy differences of the candidates will say “Oh, but Kamala would never do such things, after all, she laughs a lot and seems to have a lot of joy!” But those Christians are just uninformed. It was Kamala Harris, when she was the attorney general of California, who colluded with abortion providers to raid the homes of pro-life activists.

Here is the Tennessee Star to refresh your memory:

In March 2016, top Planned Parenthood officials in California eagerly emailed one another about an upcoming meeting with the state’s then-attorney general, Kamala Harris. The meeting carried so much import that the Planned Parenthood officials met with Harris’ staff ahead of time “to discuss prep,” emails reviewed by The Daily Signal show.

About two weeks later, on April 5, 2016, California Department of Justice authorities raided the home of a pro-life journalist in his late 20s—David Daleiden, the head of the Center for Medical Progress, who had recently published videos allegedly showing Planned Parenthood officials gruesomely describing how they extract aborted-baby body parts. Daleiden says the videos prove that Planned Parenthood was selling the aborted baby body parts for profit.

How had Daleiden done this? By studying up on fetal tissue and stem cells, posing as a fetal tissue procurer, infiltrating secretive abortion conferences so protected that they required background checks, schmoozing and sweet talking abortionists, nurses, and researchers over lunch, drinks, and dinner, and wearing hidden cameras to capture what no other journalists had.

This is what we can look forward to, in a Harris-Walz regime. Why think that our secular left fascists would be any different from the secular left fascists of the UK? And this isn’t an insult, I’m literally describing the sort of person who uses government to trample of the basic human rights of people who disagree with their policies.

Kamala Harris did a 25-minute interview with Bret Baier on Fox News, and I have the clips. She dodged every single question, and accepted zero accountability for the policies of the Biden-Harris regime, during the past 3.5 years . She denied the existence of every problem facing American voters. America is in for disaster if this unqualified person is elected president.

Here is a 10-minute clip on the Biden-Harris open-borders immigration policy:

Here is the full video: (25 minutes)

And here’s an article for those are just reading about it, from Daily Caller:

Fox News host Bret Baier stopped Harris during an interview Wednesday evening as she struggled to explain how her presidency would move the country “forward” despite her already being in a position of power.

The interview marks Harris’ first appearance on the network during her campaign, following a busy week of media appearances on networks like CBS and ABC. On “Special Report with Bret Baier,” the host pressed Harris on her campaign slogan “A New Way Forward” and her claim that “it’s time to turn the page,” to which she initially responded by explaining she was moving on from the “last decade” of former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric.”

“More than 70% of people tell the country is on the wrong track. They say the country is on the wrong track. If it’s on the wrong track, that track follows three and a half years of you being vice president and President Biden being president. That is what they’re saying, 79% of them. Why are they saying that? If you are turning the page, you’ve been in office for three and a half years,” Baier said.

“And Donald Trump has been running for office since — ” Harris began.

Baier pushed back and pointed out to the vice president how she’s been “the person holding the office,” with Harris then claiming that the host understood what she was talking about.

“C’mon, you and I both know what I’m talking about. You and I both know what I’m talking about,” Harris said.

“I actually don’t. What are you talking about?” Baier asked.

Breitbart News notes:

Since 2021, the Biden-Harris administration reversed or undid many of the Trump-era border policies; they suspended the Remain in Mexico policy on the administration’s first day in office, for example.

She caused this mess, and now she won’t apologize for it, or accept responsibility for it. This is not someone that should be elected to the White House. She won’t solve problems. We have no evidence that she knows how to define and resolve problems.

On this blog, and on podcasts, I’ve tried to point out the problems with the policies that Kamala Harris supports. But this interview really showed me the problem with the person. Kamala is not going to be able to solve any problems, because she won’t admit that there are any problems. When she is told that she’s been in charge for the last 3.5 years, she shifts the blame to other people who are not in charge. When she is asked for specific solutions to the problems caused by the Biden-Harris regime, she says that she has no policy differences with Joe Biden.

I almost wonder if she said this because she doesn’t know what a policy is. When I watch this interview, I could really believe that Kamala Harris has no education or work experience of any kind. If this were a candidate for a job that I was interviewing for, I would say “this person cannot do any useful work, she just tries to paint a picture of herself with words”. This might be OK for an actor or entertainer, but not for someone who will be setting policies for the next 4 years.

A very, very interesting article about the Biden-Harris regime came out on Monday in the Daily Caller. I think it’s really important for Christians to take a look at this article, and understand that voting in elections is not just voting for someone you like – someone who agrees with you. It’s really often about voting against policies that could really hurt you. And hurt your children.

Here’s the article from Daily Caller:

While crafting its foster care rule finalized in April, HHS officials took inspiration from social workers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, who spent years pioneering a program that strong-arms parents into affirming whatever confused beliefs children express about their gender. Parents who decline risk losing a voice in their child’s life.

The program developed in Cuyahoga County using federal grant funds provided the HHS’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF) with an ideal model for infusing gender ideology into foster care and social services, the Daily Caller News Foundation discovered in reviewing hundreds of documents and emails obtained via public record requests.

Note that this is a federal rule – it will apply in all 50 states. So living in a red state will not protect you from having your children taken from you:

The Biden-Harris administration’s new federal rule directs states to ensure foster children who identify as LGBTQ are placed in affirming homes. These “designated placements” must commit to creating an environment that supports a child’s “status or identity,” including through access to age-appropriate “resources, services, and activities.” To gender activists consulted by the Biden administration, being “affirming” means assuming the child knows best about his or her identity — even if what he or she claims to want is life-altering medical procedures like hormone blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries to appear more like the opposite sex.

To Cuyahoga County child protective services, being affirming often means providing kids access to items like chest binders or prosthetic packers that mimic a penis, according to an information sheet for caregivers on the Cuyahoga County Division of Children & Family Services (DCFS) website.

So, parents are “good enough” to pay for transing their kids, but not good enough to parent their kids. The parenting of the kids should be done by secular leftists in government, who are also paid by the parents, through their taxes. So that’s all that parents are good for – to pay people to parent their kids, because they don’t know what’s best for their kids.

And parents are already facing the effects of these policies:

When the rule was announced in September 2023, it quickly faced resistance. A coalition of 19 Republican states slammed the proposed rule, arguing it would infringe on religious liberty and free speech protections. Religious groups warned it would restrict faith-based providers.

Those concerns were well-founded: In states like Washington and Vermont, Christian couples have lost their foster care licenses due to similar state regulations. But as the activists consulted in the development of the federal rule show, these objections only scratch the surface of problems with the rule.

Parents in a handful of states have already sounded the alarm, claiming local authorities deemed them unfit guardians for refusing to allow their children to undergo a gender transition. In light of federally funded programs, like the one operating in Cuyahoga County, stories like these sound more like harbingers of an organized effort to undermine the family than one-off incidents.

The article talks about how non-parent adults will determine whether the child is transgender – by asking them questions about their feelings. The child will determine whether they are transgender or not.

This part was interesting – your Christian faith will have to go:

The program is designed to help parents and caregivers of children already in the welfare system, or “at risk” of entering, become affirming, according to the AFFIRM.ME guide. The program also pushes families to “reconcile” their values, including their faith, to accept their child’s identity.

Not that this program is already in effect in certain states, and if Harris-Walz wins, there is no reason to think this will not become the law in all 50 states:

YAP is currently being implemented in California, New York, Pennsylvania and Missouri, along with Ohio, according to the SOGIE Center. Of the 34 Cuyahoga County families who started the program between 2018 and 2021, seven cases were successfully “closed” when parents stopped opposing their child’s gender-bending desires, according to SOGIE Center data.

Christianity and conservatism are obstacles for the government to neutralize:

“I mean, they don’t say anything to my face anymore about it and they stopped being super religious around me because they used to,” said one young person who was part of the program in Spring 2021, according to the data sheet. “I don’t know what was their problem, but they used to try to push a lot of weird religion stuff on me.”

Another adolescent reported having a “very conservative” family approve of transitioning after going through YAP. “So I could start testosterone and things of that sort soon,” the youth said. “And [mom is] helping me with the name change.”

What was interesting about this article is how all the people who are trying to push transgenderism onto children were progressive women! And they were working in the Biden-Harris administration, with the goal of turning children against their parents.

Christians sitting out the 2024 elections

I’ve been reading a lot of comments on Twitter from pietistic Christians who are talking about not voting in this election, because they don’t like either of the candidates. And it’s really causing me some concern. They think they are saying something pious and intelligent when they talk about not voting because neither candidate reflects their values. They don’t seem to grasp that one of the candidates will trample on their basic human rights, such as the right to free speech, religious liberty and parental authority.

I’ve talked to many of these pietistic people whose children left the faith. I ask them “did you study apologetics so you could answer their questions?” And I get these rationalizations about why learning apologetics would be a waste of time, like “Children are more liberal these days than we were” and “they’ll come back to the church when they have children” and so on. Maybe you are tempted to take these rationalizations at face value. But I see it more clearly now – the pious language is just being used to excuse them from having to do anything that doesn’t make them happy. And in the same way, this Pollyannish whistling-past-the-graveyard isn’t really anything they know. It’s just their desire to virtue signal, while still leaving their pursuit of comfort and ease unchallenged.

I have no doubt that when their rights are trampled by the secular left, they will find some pious way to shift blame and excuse themselves. They will be satisfied with their virtue signaling. The question though is what will God think about it? I don’t think he will like it at all.