If I asked you to name two dominant characteristics of secular leftists today, what would you say? I would say their morality is “don’t judge” and they don’t like to be held accountable for their poor choices. Usually, the decisions of these secular leftists only costs them in their personal lives. But sometimes, innocent bystanders are the victims.

Let’s start back in 2016, when some Syrian refugees were let into the UK.

Here is an article from the far left BBC from 2016: (archived)

Three Syrian men have been cleared of sexually assaulting two schoolgirls in a park.

Mohammed Alfrouh, 20, Omar Badreddin, 18, and Mohammed Allakkoud, 18, of Newcastle, were cleared of all charges at Newcastle Crown Court.

Mr Badreddin was cleared of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old in Leazes Park, Newcastle, in May.

Mr Alfrouh was cleared of three counts of sexual assault and Mr Allakkoud of a single charge of sexual assault.

Pay close attention to that name “Omar Badreddin”. Remember that name.

Here is how the BBC covered the refugees: (archived here)

The text says:

Over the course of 11 months, Newsnight’s Katie Razzall and producer Maria Polachowska chart one family’s journey from a war-ravaged Syrian town to a new life in Newcastle. When their son, Omar, is accused of sexual assault, their nightmare continues. After a three-week trial, Omar was found not guilty.

So this piece was focused on Omar Bahreddin, the guy I told you to remember. And the secular leftists responsible for it are Katie Razzall and Maria Polachowska. The BBC made this documentary to try to put the immigration policy in a good light, and cast blame on those who objected to it.

Now let’s go back to the present day, and we will see the rest of the story.

This report is from the left-leaning Newcastle Chronicle, from this week:

A grooming gang who repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted a young girl in Newcastle city centre while passing her around “like a toy” have been jailed for a total of 36 years.

Four men sexually exploited a girl when she was aged just 13 and 14 years old. After meeting her one day in Newcastle, brothers Mohamed and Omar Badreddin quickly identified her as someone who could be easily manipulated and she was groomed with alcohol, cigarettes and compliments before being abused.

That’s the same Omar Badreddin who the secular leftists were defending and painting as a victim in their little BBC documentary. These secular leftists were so indoctrinated in “don’t judge” that they wanted to praise the results of the immigration policy. And they wanted to condemn anyone who objected to the immigration policy as “racists”.

The UK is one of the most anti-masculine countries in the world, going all the way back to Minister of Equality Harriet Harman, and her outrageous anti-male policies. In the UK, self-defense has been outlawed. You can be jailed for “hate speech”. Government regularly overrules the authority of fathers. Fathers are routinely ejected from the home, only to be replaced with secular leftist social workers and welfare benefits. The male protector role has been utterly destroyed by feminists. The police and the courts in the UK DO NOT EXIST TO STOP CRIME. They exist to stop moral judgments, spiritual leadership, and acts of self-defense by law-abiding taxpayers against criminals.

You can read the article to find out what the little girl had to say about what happened to her. She describes it as “torture”.

By the way, this is not the only time that UK police and UK judges have gone easy on certain criminals. The police in the UK are constantly ignoring victims of grooming gangs run by men of Middle Eastern origin. I’ve written about it many times; here is one and here is another. Their society is set up to ignore the little girls who are victims of these men.

But that’s not the point of this post. The point of this post is that I want everyone to have an accurate understanding of how secular leftists operate. They loudly proclaim the virtue of their “don’t judge” worldview. They think that they are better than you.

By the way, this is how the secular leftists respond to people who are asking them for comments about their puff piece on the Syrian refugees:

Two gay Dads are better than one Dad in a natural marriage

And this isn’t the only time this has happened. It happens a lot. In 2013, I blogged about a case out of Australia, where another secular leftist virtue-signaled about her great tolerance for gay men adopting children born through surrogacy. You can guess what happened to the child next.

The most amazing thing about my post is what the journalist did when she found it and read it. She left a comment saying that her good intentions should have produced good results. She followed her heart, and wasn’t responsible for any harm caused by her actions. She asked me to take the post down, because it made her look bad. No remorse, no accountability, just an attempt to bully me out of judging the results of her actions. “Don’t judge!” she cried.

The silence of the men

Many men today are silent about abortion, no-fault-divorce, single mother welfare, false accusations, biased custody laws, anti-gun laws, daycare, public schools, green energy, black lives matter, transgender indoctrination of kids, etc. Those men have compared the rights of the weak with the sex offered by secular left women, and decided that sex is more important. But one day, I believe that those men are going to change their position and choose to protect the little ones. And no amount of shaming, blaming, make-up and cosmetic surgery is going to deny their birthright as men.

The title says it all. Walgreens and CVS are selling abortion drugs, and there is a connection to the Biden administration. Let’s see the story and then take a look at what you should know about these drugs. After all, you might get into a conversation about this story, and I want you to have the facts.

Here’s the story from Daily Wire:

Pro-life advocates slammed a decision on Friday from pharmacy giants Walgreens and CVS to begin selling abortion pills.

Both retailers announced that they would start selling mifepristone, the pill that is used in over half of all abortions, at certain locations. The announcement, which was applauded by the Biden administration, comes ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on whether the FDA improperly approved mifepristone and other restrictions on the pill.

“As two of the world’s largest, most trusted ‘health’ brands, the decision by CVS and Walgreens to sell dangerous abortion drugs is shameful, and the harm to unborn babies and their mothers incalculable,” Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s State Policy Director Katie Daniel said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire. “This reckless policy was made possible by the Biden administration, which is pushing to turn every pharmacy and post office in America into an abortion center for the sake of abortion industry greed.”

[…]President Joe Biden called the decision a “major milestone” in a statement praising the move.

Why is this important? Well, after the repeal of abortion on demand through all 9 months of pregnancy at the Supreme Court, abortion activists like Joe Biden have been looking for a way around the ruling. And shipping abortion drugs across state lines is one way for them to do it:

Medication abortion has increasingly become a more common form of abortion, especially in states that have sought to ban abortion. Activist networks have been shipping foreign-made abortion drugs in red states to bypass state laws protecting the unborn.

So, when it comes to this issue, I like to look for the peer-reviewed research. What is this drug? Should they be selling it? Are they liable if something bad happens to the mother?

Well, I have good news, and bad news. The good news is that there is published journal articles that discuss the risks of this drug. The bad news is that the journals decided – right before they went on sale – that these papers were very, very bad.

Daily Wire has that story as well:

Major scientific studies on the potential harm of abortion pills were retracted on Monday by their publisher, just weeks before the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the availability of such drugs.

Three studies, including two on the potential harms of the abortion pill just, were retracted on Monday by Sage Publishing, an independent academic publishing company.

[…]The authors of the studies say the retractions are a politically-motivated effort to discredit research that was cited in U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s April 2023 decision to suspend approval of mifepristone, the drug used in roughly half of all abortions in the United States. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in March on the legality of restricting the abortion pill based on Kacsmaryk’s ruling, proceedings that will certainly be impacted by the retractions.

Dr. James Studnicki, a listed author on all three studies in question, told The Daily Wire that the retractions were “completely unjustified” and that the retractions were meant to discredit scientific research that challenged the pro-abortion bias engrained in academia.

Studnicki, who trained at Johns Hopkins University and has spent decades conducting scientific research, said that he and his fellow researchers were targeted “because of the visibility of our work, because of the fact that our work was having such an influence on the discussion about abortion that was occurring in the states and in the courts at the highest levels.”

OK, great. Show me the numbers.

One of the now-retracted studies, published November 9, 2021, found that the rate of emergency room visits following chemical abortions had spiked 500% from 2002-2015, according to Medicaid claims data. Another one of the studies, published May 20, 2022, analyzed the likelihood of recurring emergency room visits for women who did not disclose to doctors that they had a chemical abortion.

These two studies were cited in Kacsmaryk’s decision to suspend FDA approval of mifepristone.

So what should happen?

Well, red states should just pass laws that allow people who take these drugs to sue the companies if there are complications. Or, they can just go after the businesses, if they choose to ship drugs into states that have banned late-term abortions. I would expect that states like Florida and Oklahoma will take the lead on this. Ron DeSantis has shown that he’s been willing to go after companies that try to mess with Florida’s conservative laws. He’ll probably go first. I’ll keep an eye out, and update you if anything happens.

In the meantime, stop shopping at CVS and Walgreens. I already have. They don’t deserve your business. Just keep driving and go somewhere else.

I’ve been busy making a new friend on Twitter recently, Kelley Keller. Kelley is interesting because she has a neat story of going pretty far down a feminist road, and then coming back out of it to return to Christianity. What’s interesting about her story is that she is using her experience to advise young women on what does and doesn’t work for them in the long term. Let’s take a look.

So, here is her article in Christian Post:

After high school, I bumped around a bit, ultimately landing in Erie, Pennsylvania, with my parents who’d relocated from my hometown in Florida. Penn State Erie was local, so I began classes in the Spring of 1993, a decision that changed my life forever.

Just two semesters in, I had been radicalized in the critical theories and loved every minute of it … until I didn’t.

Marxism had been mainstreamed on university campuses just a few years before I enrolled. Critical theory had replaced traditional theory, the gender sameness/difference debate was in full swing, and the newly organized LGBT movement had secured political power.

The gospel of Freud, Marx, Hegel, and Darwin replaced Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The salvation message of Jesus Christ was mere mythology invented by men to subordinate women. Christianity was a patriarchal discourse keeping women from escaping the evil prisons of the Gnostic demiurge who was blocking their access to the divine within.

Radical feminist Mary Daly wrote: “‘God’s plan’ is often a front for men’s plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.” Her claim seemed far-fetched, but maybe it had a kernel of truth? I started to believe her. I had no clue how to defend my anemic Christianity against these critics or their claims, so I was a sitting duck, a ripe recruit for the consciousness-raising cadres on campus.

Waking up to my own oppression as a woman whose body had been ill-considered and whose sexuality had been condemned to monogamy felt like the most honest thing I’d done in all of my life. I was laying bare the contradictions of my soul and asking anyone and everyone to help me make sense of them. The church was ineffective, the feminists took me in. Their position was well-articulated by Susie Bright: “When a young woman discovers her power, both sexual and intellectual, she unleashes her own voice, her righteousness.” I woke up to my voice and my victimhood and things were beginning to make sense. I became “woke.”

The next several years saw the exploration of intellectually seductive, albeit highly manipulative, thought forms that challenged me to examine the belief systems on which I was raised and that I’d trusted without question. I needed to test my newly acquired knowledge before self-amputating from everything, and possibly everyone, I knew.

Slowly, I began to resist Christianity, or at least what I understood Christianity to be, primarily on the grounds the moral straight jacket it required cramped my ability to break free from years of abusive oppression. I was finally on a path to self-righteousness. My liberation would come from leveraging my sexual and intellectual power in spite of the dominant ideologies (aka Christianity) that say women should stay home and make babies (even though they don’t say that at all). Freedom for women comes not from Christ’s atoning work on the cross, but through the grandiose release of collective libidinal energy from all of the whores next door.

Wow. I messaged Kelley a bit, and she mentioned that she was following Kate Millett. If you know who that is, then you know that you can’t go any further to the left than Kate Millett. She’s the far left feminist edge!

So here’s how she got out of it. She studied, and she found her views changing:

While studying, I learned the concept of worldview and its epic usefulness in understanding why we think the way we do. It was exactly what I needed to comprehend the hivemind infiltrating my inbox. It was also what I needed to finally understand the full story of Christianity, that is, historic biblical Christianity, not the littered mess of modern-day Christendom promoting counterfeit Christ throughout the culture.

By reverse engineering the range of worldviews underlying our modern ideas, I was able to work meticulously through the logical consequences that flow from their systematic implementation, from the beginning of time to the end of time. It wasn’t long before I realized that the biblical worldview, not a Marxist, Postmodernist, New Age, or another worldview, was the only internally consistent, sufficient, coherent, and complete one on the menu. Nothing else even came close, at least not without borrowing from the biblical worldview to fill in the missing parts, such as an inalienable pre-political right to life.

I was utterly dumbfounded. Not only was biblical Christianity true, it provided a comprehensive explanation for the world and everything in it. It provided rational answers to every question I could find about the nature and purpose of life. All I had to do was believe it.

This is the interesting part:

I’d never heard Christianity described this way, and I’m a little bummed it took so many years for me to hear it.

If you read the article, she had grown up in a church-going home. But, I don’t think she had ever been told that Christianity is a worldview, and you can have a lot of fun thinking about it and testing it and comparing it to other worldviews, using reason and evidence. And I think that’s why the feminism was so compelling to her. Christianity wasn’t presented to her in a way that engaged her mind. Then she got to college, and her mind was engaged by Marxism and feminism. It would have been wonderful if her parents had presented some thoughts about economics from say, Thomas Sowell, and then some thoughts on feminism from say, Jennifer Roback Morse. But they didn’t do that, and so she had to go the long way around.

And at the very bottom of the article, there’s this: “Kelley holds a J.D. from The Catholic University of America and is a D.Min. candidate in Christian Apologetics at Southern Evangelical Seminary. ” That’s a really good school. So, her change of mind resulted in a deep study of Christian apologetics. They take an evidential approach, so she will have fun doing that degree.

What I like about this experience of getting to know Kelley is that I was sort of tip-toeing around her, worrying what she would think of my tweets disagreeing with feminism. And I am delighted to report that she was fine with them. I get scared about people getting upset with me when I try to stick with the Bible on controversial issues. I don’t want to get fired or have my house burned down or whatever. I don’t want people to attribute all sorts of motives to me when I say things that make them feel bad.

So, it’s really great when you meet Christians who let you (gently) disagree with things that they’ve done, and are even warning other people based on their experiences. Kelley is going to be a lot more persuasive on these issues than people who have never thought about them, or experienced the limits of these secular left views. Instead of trying to defend her past, and attack people for judging what she did, she’s going to use her experiences to do Kingdom work for the Boss. She’s going to be great for us.

This is great! This is what makes Christianity so amazing. One minute, you are going in your own direction, and then the next minute, you can leverage those pre-Christian experiences to do amazing things in a completely different direction. It helps other people when you teach them how to avoid mistakes. We need people like Kelley to teach what they’ve learned to others.