The Patriot Post® · ESPN Schilling for Liberal Bullies
Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is used to throwing people out — not being thrown out. But after the former World Series Champ expressed his colorful opinion about the bathroom debate in North Carolina, ESPN fired him. Although Schilling made the comments on his personal page (which included a disclaimer that the opinion was 100% his), it didn’t matter. The idea that any father wouldn’t want his daughter to share a restroom with a grown man was too much for the sports network, who sent the MLB record-holder to “the showers” in another obvious attempt at “tolerance.”
“ESPN is an inclusive company,” officials said, ignoring the irony, not to mention blatant hypocrisy. “Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.” While some say the picture and post could have been more artfully communicated, Schilling is obviously as bewildered as the rest of us at this fast-speed train of gender lunacy. “A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don’t care what they are, who they sleep with…” he argued, pointing out some very blunt anatomical differences.
Of course, ESPN didn’t seem to mind when Tony Kornheiser compared the tea party to ISIS in September. And unlike Curt, he did it on air! Where is Kornheiser today, you ask? Still behind an ESPN microphone, collecting checks! How’s that for selective outrage? Obviously, Schilling was targeted because he expressed politically incorrect views. Is it really so radical to suggest that people select the restroom or locker room that matches their anatomy, so as not to violate the privacy and even safety of the other 99.5% of society?
Ohio Governor John Kasich (R), the dad of twin daughters, thinks businesses should be forced to open their restrooms and locker rooms regardless of the potential liability. Apparently, the man who is so fond of telling Americans to “move on” thinks the same advice applies to anatomy too. Meanwhile, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is taking on Donald Trump for “defying common sense” on the bathroom question. After Trump told NBC’s “Today” that North Carolina’s law was bad for business (since when are free market laws bad for business?), Cruz fired back at the New York mogul. “Let me ask you, are we going stark raving mad? This is political correctness. This is nonsense. "Here is basic common sense: Grown adult men, strangers should not be alone in bathrooms with little girls.” Let’s not forget: this is the same Donald Trump who told an Iowa crowd: “When I’m president, I’m a different person. I can do anything. I can be the most politically correct person you have ever seen.” In that case, Cruz jabbed, maybe it’s time for Trump to put “Making America P.C. Again” on hats.
Honestly, the fact that our nation is wasting so much time on this debate is mind-boggling in itself. Actors like James Woods can only shake their heads. “The world is fighting Islamic terrorism, starvation, and disease, but Democrats are fighting for men to pee in the ladies’ room,” he tweeted. “#insanity.” He’s right. We finally got the administration to admit there’s genocide in the Middle East, but their focus is still not on that problem, or strengthening the economy, or security America’s borders. Why? Because it’s too preoccupied with the signs on the bathroom door! And liberals say we’re obsessed with social issues? They’re the ones declaring war on human biology along with their continued battle against common sense!
Now, their corporate lemmings are following suit. Without a shred of concern for the other 99.5 percent of shoppers, Target corporation announced that it was throwing open its stalls to anyone regardless of their sex. The retail giant was already in the boycott bullseye for its same-sex marriage march, but now, they’ve put themselves on the opposite side of parents too. Complaints started lighting up social media, with angry moms posting things like, “Dear Target, my girls will be using your parking lot as an alternative.” After seven years of Obama’s sexual politics, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that no one knows which bathroom to use! This is what happens in a world without transcendent truth. Nothing is absolute — not even biological reality.
Originally published here.
House Sums up Organ Sales
Anyone hoping the Planned Parenthood controversy would disappear got some bad news [Wednesday]: it isn’t. Not any time soon. With stacks of new evidence, the House Select Panel on Infant Lives more than justified its existence and the investigation’s. Not surprisingly, liberals responded to the spotlight on truth like a caged animal in a dark room. One after another they lashed out at Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), conservatives, and expert witnesses for presenting a compelling case that liberals tried — and failed — to discredit.
Despite creating a clear connection between the procurement business and Planned Parenthood, Democrats like Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) refused to debate the issue on the merits and instead criticized the GOP’s supposed “political motivations. At one point, Shaheen argued that the entire panel should be disbanded for constituting an inappropriate misuse of federal resources.” But if anything’s a misuse of federal resources, it’s the tens of millions of dollars taxpayers are forced to send to an organization under congressional investigation!
Based on the billing information, consent forms, advertising, and a slew of other exhibits highlighted by Blackburn, not one, not two — but three former federal prosecutors agreed that a criminal probe is warranted. “Based on my review of the exhibits, a competent, ethical federal prosecutor could establish probable cause that both the abortion clinics and the procurement business violated the statute, aided and abetted one another in violating the statute, and likely conspired together to violate the statute,” Brian Lennon testified. Kenneth Sukhia and Michael Norton agreed. Still, the president’s party tried to push back, arguing that the majority’s charts were either manufactured by staff or pulled from David Daleiden videos — rather than the real source: procurers StemExpress.
At one point, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) even had the audacity to suggest that conservatives were risking people’s lives with its hearing. “The Republican majority [is] going to extreme lengths to advance their dual agendas of smearing organizations… knowing that the smears would endanger the lives of people who work for these organizations… McCarthy endangered people’s jobs. This committee is knowingly endangering people’s lives.” Not only is that insulting, but it’s an outright lie. How that congressman isn’t called out for defaming the women on the panel and its two doctors is astounding.
One of the more shocking revelations of the hearing came from Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah), who explained how procurement offices were illegally sharing patient information before their abortions and before they signed informed consent forms — a serious violation of HIPPA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Despite the Left’s best efforts, nothing could distract from the facts, which are that the organ harvesting ring is a lucrative one for procurers — and Planned Parenthood. Rep. Blackburn talked more about why in a conversation with me on [Wednesday’s] “Washington Watch” (listen here). In the end, Senator Ben Sasse (R-Nebr.) urged his colleagues,
“Questions of profit and legality matter because we are talking about people. It matters whether or not procurement businesses broke the law. It matters whether or not abortion clinics line their pockets through the dismemberment and distribution of children — all while receiving tax dollars. It matters because we are talking about the tiny limbs of babies with dignity — the broken yet still precious children of mothers and fathers… Our disagreement over abortion will sometimes be heated, but wherever possible, we should look for consensus. Here, on this basic reality, we can and must find agreement: Babies are not the sum of their body parts. Babies are not meant to be bought. Babies are not meant to be sold.”
Originally published here.
Fighting Fired with Fire
Is Christianity the newest occupational hazard? Dr. Eric Walsh thinks so. The Californian was hired by Georgia officials to run the state’s Department of Public Health. But shortly after accepting the job and preparing to move his family to the Peach State, his new office called and asked for copies of sermons he’d delivered on the weekends at his church as a lay pastor. The next day, Dr. Walsh was fired. Why? Because he dared to preach what the Bible teaches on subjects from sexuality to evolution.
Like far too many people, the government not only scrutinized him for his religious beliefs — but used them against him. An African American with a compelling life story, Dr. Walsh is still in shock over what happened. “I don’t believe I did anything wrong,” he told Fox News’s Todd Starnes. “This has been very painful for me. I really am a strong believer in the Constitution, but now I feel like maybe all these ideals and values that I was raised to believe — the ideals the country was founded upon — no longer exist.” Keep in mind, Dr. Walsh didn’t make these statements at work. They were said from a pulpit, totally unrelated to his job. Yet still, the Georgia government declared than an otherwise qualified doctor was unfit to serve.
Not too long ago, liberals argued that Christians couldn’t bring their beliefs to work. Now, it seems you can’t even have them at church! This is exactly the kind of outrage that religious liberty bills like Mississippi’s were designed to prevent. Without them the anti-Christian agitators will use the power of the government to strip Christians of their freedoms and force from the public square. Despite what the media would have you believe, the reason RFRAs are popping up around the nation is because religious freedom is at risk. And cases like Dr. Walsh’s prove it.
Originally published here.