Standing for Truth and Defending Your Freedom
Standing for Truth and Defending Your Freedom

In the News – Looking Back at October

by John Rabe

Another Home-Grown Islamic Terrorist Strikes New York City

Ahmad Khan Rahami, accused of masterminding a series of pressure cooker bombings in New York City and New Jersey in September that injured 28, had traveled multiple times to his native Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years before the bombing, becoming increasingly radicalized. It is also believed multiple family members offered him help and materials in the attacks. In the days following the bombings, President Obama again refused to identify the attacks as Islamic terrorism and chided the media for making the connection between Rahami’s religion and background and the attacks.


Transgender Navy SEAL Demands Pat Down from Female TSA Agent


A former Navy SEAL who now identifies as a woman says that he was “humiliated” at Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. after refusing to let a male Transportation Safety Administration agent pat him down in a security check. Ultimately a female agent had to pat down the biologically male Christopher Beck, who now identifies as Kristin. The TSA has apologized to Beck, who often wore a full beard during 20 years as a Navy Seal.

Born This Way?

A new Johns Hopkins University study shows that there is no solid evidence showing that homosexual and transgender people are born with their orientation. The study notes that environmental factors appear to play a significant role, pointing out that, “One environmental factor that appears to be correlated with non-heterosexuality is childhood sexual abuse victimization…” The Christian Post adds: “The study found that 80 percent of male respondents who had reported same-sex attraction and both-sex attraction in their childhood, later identified as exclusively heterosexual. Meanwhile, more than half of the female respondents who reported both-sex attractions as children, reported being exclusively attracted to males as adults.”1 This cuts against the hotly-defended premise in the homosexual activist community that sexual orientation is innate and immutable.


Parents Raising Boy as Girl Demand Hormone-Blocking Drugs for Child

A couple in St. Louis is lobbying their insurance company to pay for hormone-blocking drugs to keep their 11 year old son from going through puberty. According to the family, the boy began dressing in his mother’s clothing and playing with girls toys even before he could talk. By second grade, the parents allowed him to dress as a girl and identify as female at school. They have since legally changed the child’s name from Malachi to Mazy, and now want to get hormone-blocking drugs to prevent the onset of male adolescent development.


Comedian “Eternally Grateful” for Wife’s Abortion

Andy Richter, the sidekick of Conan O’Brien on O’Brien’s TBS television talk show, told attendees of a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in Los Angeles that he was “eternally grateful” that his child was aborted at a Planned Parenthood facility in 1992. He said that he and his then-girlfriend (now his wife) were not ready to raise children because of their economic and career circumstances. “Planned Parenthood gave two young struggling people the ability to do the thing that is in their name: We got to plan parenthood,” Richter said of their decision to kill their first child.

Child Euthanized in Belgium

A terminally ill child in Belgium has become the first known child to be euthanized. Belgium legalized euthanasia in 2002 and in 2014 amended the law to allow the euthanization of children. The victim was not identified and no age was made available by the Belgian government. The death comes amidst reports that Holland will open a center for child euthanasia in the next year. Current Dutch law allows children under one year old, and 12 and older to be subject to euthanasia, while some are pressing to also make it available to those between one and 12.