Baptist college rescinds LGBTQIA+ grant after backlash; calls it inconsistent with views on human sexuality



Baylor University, a prominent Baptist institution in Waco, Texas, has been a large part of religious culture in Texas, and up until a couple of days ago — before backlash from religious conservatives like BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey — that was all about to change.

The university was undergoing a progressive shift, and its recent acceptance of an almost $700,000 grant from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation was only speeding that shift up, as the goal of the grant was to “foster LGBTQ inclusion and belonging in the church.”

The school publicly highlighted this funding through a press release from its Diana R. Garland School of Social Work. The grant was planned to go toward research that would focus on “understanding and addressing the disenfranchisement and exclusion of LGBTQIA+ individuals and women within congregations to nurture institutional courage and foster change.”


“Baylor put out a press release about this. That in and of itself is a story. They are proud of this. They are excited about this. They are thankful for this grant money. This is not something that they are trying to slip under the rug,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey said when criticizing Baylor’s initial reaction to the grant.

The specific project the grant was funding is called “Courage from the Margins: Inclusion and Belonging Practices for LGBTQIA plus.”

“OK, that ‘plus,’ what does that even mean?” Stuckey asked, noting that the project would include interviewing women across the country in two groups of 25 young adults ages 18 to 24 to gather information about their experiences in church settings.

The findings from the research would be used to “develop trauma-informed training resources for churches with the aim of encouraging more inclusive practices and environments for LGBTQIA plus individuals and women.”

“This is what it looks like to actually manifest toxic empathy,” Stuckey said. “So what this grant is going to fund is research that will be used to then guilt churches into not only including but affirming those who identify as homosexual or as the opposite sex.”

“This research will be weaponized, will be used as a tool of emotional manipulation, a mallet of manipulation to hit you, believing person, over the head, biblical Christian person, into accepting that which God calls sin. That is what this research will be used for. That is its express purpose,” she added.

Now, Baylor has rescinded its initial acceptance of the funds.

In a letter posted to the university’s website, Baylor University President Linda Livingstone explained that returning the funds “is the appropriate course of action and in the best interests” of the school.

While Livingstone wrote that Baylor remains “committed to providing a loving and caring community for all — including our LGBTQIA+ students,” she explained that after reviewing the “details and process surrounding this grant,” the concern was in “the activities that followed as part of the grant.”

“Specifically, the work extended into advocacy for perspectives on human sexuality that are inconsistent with Baylor’s institutional policies, including our Statement on Human Sexuality,” she wrote.

That Statement on Human Sexuality says that Baylor “affirms the biblical understanding of sexuality as a gift from God. Christian churches across the ages and around the world have affirmed purity in singleness and fidelity in marriage between a man and a woman as the biblical norm. Temptations to deviate from this norm include both heterosexual sex outside of marriage and homosexual behavior.”

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Wikipedia co-founder: Epstein, elite rings, and occult portals — what they don’t want you to know



Co-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger found God in an unconventional way.

When he was introduced by a friend to the world of Jeffrey Epstein and the elites, he was forced to reckon with the idea that our culture is ruled by those who will do anything to defend their own immoral horrors.

“A friend of mine was opening my eyes to the existence of various — call them elite pedophile rings. Epstein was not the only one. You can look up the NXIVM case,” Sanger tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

“And then there’s, like, ‘Pedowood,’ which is what we call the prevalence of pedophilia in Hollywood. It’s very weird that a lot of the people who are involved, or at least accused of being involved, in such activities have occult beliefs,” he continues.


According to Sanger, his friend knew some of these people personally and confirmed that’s why “they use all of these symbols,” like “the old one-eye.”

“People still notice that, but they used to do that all the time. I think they avoid it now, but generally speaking, a lot of movie posters would show up with this. That’s an occult symbol,” he explains.

Those who partake in these morally bankrupt rituals are willing to put a lot on the line to defend them, which Sanger explains must “at least mean that the spirit world is true” and that “demons exist.”

And because it opened his eyes to evil, he realized that its opposite, good, exists as well.

“Doesn’t that mean that it’s possible that God exists?” he says.

And that’s why, as he found himself digging deeper into the occult, he did not want to “open any portals.”

“I didn’t want to get into it,” he tells Stuckey. “But one thing I learned is that if you look at Masonic symbology, it’s based on a lot of Old Testament, like, temple symbology. What occultists like to do is to invert biblical symbols.”

“So, in other words, pervert them, twist them,” he adds.

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Leftist calls Christian Camp Mystic ‘whites only,’ compares tragedy to deportations



The death toll continues to climb after tragic flash floods struck Central Texas, particularly in Kerrville, where the Guadalupe River surged and claimed over 100 lives.

Of those lives missing or taken, some of the most devastating have been the young campers and counselors from Camp Mystic, a Christian girls' camp.

The aftermath is undeniably horrific for all involved. And while help is offered, heroism is plenty, and prayers are being sent around the globe, the left sees not just the lives lost and homes destroyed but an opportunity to spread blame.

Rosie O’Donnell wasted no time doing just that, pointing the finger at President Trump for the disaster.


“These are going to be the results we’re going to start to see on a daily basis because he’s put this country in so much danger by his horrible, horrible decisions and this ridiculously immoral bill that he’s just signed into law as Republicans cheered. People will die as a result, and they’ve started to already,” O’Donnell said in a TikTok video.

“The people most likely to complain in situations like this are the people least likely to help. The people most likely to pray in situations like this are also the people most likely to help,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” says.

However, even worse than O’Donnell’s sentiment — which is heavily reflected by those on the left — are those who are blaming the Texans whose lives were lost to the flood.

Texas pediatrician Dr. Christina Propst said in a post on Facebook, “May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry. Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

“So as children are dying, as people are losing their lives, the first thing in this Democrat’s mind is, well, they get what they voted for, because they voted for Donald Trump. Again, cuts to FEMA had nothing to do with this,” Stuckey comments, disgusted.

Propst has now been fired, but she’s far from the only one who has let party politics destroy her sense of kindness and morality.

A former Houston appointee who served on the Houston Food Insecurity Board, Sadie Perkins, claimed on TikTok that Camp Mystic is “whites only.”

“You have carved out an all-white, whites-only enclave in East Texas for your white children. Yeah, I have a problem with that. I have a big problem with that. Once again, this is no shade to the girls. I hope they all get found. But once again, y’all have to understand the climate that we’re living in,” Perkins said.

“They want you to have sympathy for these people. They want you to get out of your bed and to come out of your home and go to find these people and to donate your money to go find these people. Meanwhile, they are deporting your family members. Meanwhile, they’re setting up concentration camps and prisons for your family members,” she continued.

“And I need y’all to keep that in mind before y’all get out there and put on your rain boots and go find these little girls,” she added.

Stuckey is disturbed, noting that while these women have said horrible things, there are men and women out there helping find the missing.

“This is showing the best of humanity in the rescue efforts that we have and the courage that we’ve seen — and the very worst of humanity who just cannot understand what it means for an image bearer of God to lose their life,” Stuckey says.

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A man says he’s a woman — and his brain scan ‘proves’ it?



Transgender economist Brian Riedl, who now goes by “Jessica,” claims that his brain scans prove he’s neurologically female.

“Typical male and female brains contain subtle but real differences. And because our genes contain a full blueprint for both male and female development, it is possible even for some people with XX or XY genes to experience chemical changes in the womb that alter some of the gender development signals, particularly to the brain,” Riedl wrote in a post on X defending his transgenderism.

“I knew from age 4 that something was off with my gender, and later participated in several gender medical studies that confirmed a more female brain chemistry/architecture/functioning, hormone levels, and other biological characteristics,” he continued. “Most people who transition are merely aligning the rest of their body with other observable biological gender aspects (mostly in the brain) that emerged before birth.”


BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is disturbed that even some conservatives are falling for Riedl’s claims.

“This idea that brain scans can prove that you have a female brain — that’s just not true, and it’s not possible,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.” “Now, it could be possible that someone has true, true gender dysphoria.”

“But the remedy for that is to help someone accept their biological reality, not to get them to reject their biological reality, to try to change their outward appearance and try to force everyone else to accept something that will never be true, that a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man,” she continues.

“All of us have different kinds of things wrong with our brain or wrong with our thinking or ways in which our thinking is incongruent with reality. But we don’t try to bend reality to try to fit what our brain wrongly thinks,” she adds.

Riedl also claims that his family life with his wife and children hasn’t changed at all since he transitioned, but Stuckey isn’t buying it.

“I don’t believe you,” she says. “You have two young children, and you think that they accept this. They miss their dad, and this is sowing confusion in their lives. And you are sacrificing their stability on the altar of your desire, and that is the height of selfishness.”

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Woman celebrates her ‘abor-bor,’ claims her pit bull always ‘wins’ over a baby



The left’s side of the abortion debate is evil enough as it is, but a woman on TikTok decided to take it a step further and add her pit bull — a breed well known to attack children — into the mix.

“As many of you saw, I had an abor-bor earlier this year, not only because I don’t want children right now, but you want to know the real reason? I already have a baby, it’s this one right here,” the woman said proudly as she panned her camera to the pit bull behind her.

“He cost me a lot of time and energy and money, and if I had to choose between a human baby’s needs and this one, I’m choosing this one every time,” she continued.


“That’s why this fall, there’s only one candidate protecting our reproductive freedoms, and if she doesn’t win — don’t make me choose between a human baby and this one — because this one wins every freaking time,” she added.

“My political ideology is whatever makes that illegal,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey comments. “Every part of that, actually. There’s so many things in that clip that I think should be illegal; having an abortion and owning a pit bull.”

“This really just goes to show disordered priorities and disordered desires just put your whole life out of whack,” she says. “That’s really what’s happening here. When you worship the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever, amen, as Romans 1 tells us, then everything gets distorted and disordered.”

“Like, if you cannot see how absolutely depraved and backwards and dark that is, this is, like, a spiritual issue, a demonic problem here, then you need to be reading your Bible and praying a lot more,” she adds.

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Allie Beth Stuckey: Why I’m proud to be an American



The long sun and firework-filled weekend of Independence Day has officially kicked off, and before you crack a beer or fire up a burger — you might want to take a moment to remember why this country is so great.

BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” hasn’t forgotten, and despite knowing that our country is imperfect — she’s well aware that perfection isn’t required to be great.

“We have learned probably more than ever over the past few years how corrupt so many of our leaders are. Our bureaucratic state has turned itself in many ways against its own people,” Stuckey says.

“And so I celebrate America, not because she’s perfect, not because she does no wrong, not because there aren’t some really, really big things to change and to fight for, but because I believe that the values upon which we were established are the greatest values that a country could be founded on,” she continues.


“The idea that all men were created equal, the idea of inherent rights that come from a creator whose authority is transcendent and supreme and above the government. The idea of self-governance, of freedom of speech, of freedom of religion. There is no other country in the world that has championed these things as well as the United States,” she adds.

And while these are the ideas the United States was founded on, they’re only here to stay as long as we continue to fight for them.

“It takes vigilance, it takes dedication, it takes commitment on our part to make sure that we are keeping those things. I mean, it takes, really, a constant struggle, to ensure that liberty is passed down from one generation to the next,” she explains.

“God has placed us here and now, specifically, and with purpose. And that purpose is, of course, to glorify Him, to serve him with joy, and with excellence. But part of that obedience to God is to ensure that we are making better every sphere that we occupy, that we are infusing every sphere of life with as much light and as much truth and as much goodness as we possibly can,” she continues.

“This is what Christians have done for thousands of years, not just engagement in politics and culture, but also through the creation of charities and organizations and all different kinds of entities that have served the human race,” she adds.

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Outrage over ICE pregnancy case — are we being lied to?



As an illegal immigrant, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus hadn’t called Guatemala home in over a decade — but that’s where she found herself after being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Lenoir City.

Monterroso-Lemus, who was pregnant, was detained at the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana before being deported. While there, she lost her mid-term pregnancy.

“I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead,” she said.

“Now, I will say, if that is true, it is disgusting, and we should be outraged,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey comments, noting that just because she supports “deportations, the sovereignty of our country, the enforcement of immigration law,” it doesn’t mean she supports that kind of treatment.


“That doesn’t mean I am going to agree with every individual treatment of every single person. And because human beings are flawed, systems can be flawed as well. And they can be sinful, and they can do wrong things. And so, I would have no problem saying this is horrifying,” she explains.

However, there has been a counternarrative.

Tricia McLaughlin of the Department of Homeland Security has claimed that the story is “absolutely false.”

“She had FULL medical, prenatal care. We have documentation to show it. Iris Daynus Monterroso-Lemus, 37, is a citizen of Guatemala who has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide,” McLaughlin wrote in a post on X.

The DHS also claimed on their government website that she received prenatal care, including an ultrasound, an OBGYN visit, dental care, and medication. According to them, she was admitted to a hospital and saw multiple nurses.

When Monterroso-Lemus identified the distress on April 29, the DHS reported giving her immediate medical assistance and sent her to a hospital immediately.

“Now, you can say, ‘Well, I don’t believe the DHS. It’s just propaganda,’” Stuckey comments. “But I would just say, I would warn you before you latch onto a story that is meant to grab onto your heart and pull your empathy in the direction of progressive policy, to ask yourself, ‘But is this true?’”

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Trans ideology's newest victim



While writing for the National Review in 2018, David French refused to use the name Chelsea for former army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, arguing that to do so did not align with his Christian beliefs.

However, times have changed, and French unfortunately appears to have fallen, as the mighty often do. This was hinted at when French publicly referred to Brian Riedl, a Manhattan Institute fellow who claims to have a “female brain,” as Jessica.

In a social media post on X, French congratulated “Jessica” for his new position at the Dispatch, writing, “This is great news for the Dispatch. Nobody is better on fiscal policy than Jessica.”


While French did not use Riedl’s preferred pronouns in the tweet — which BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” believes he did to avoid conflict — he did use Riedl’s preferred pronouns in an article for the New York Times.

“Jessica might be one of the nation’s foremost experts about the federal budget and about America’s fiscal realities, and she has taught me an enormous amount about those issues,” he wrote.

“Now, you could say the New York Times would never allow him to use male pronouns for someone who identifies as a woman, but if you are so principled and you are so on the side of truth and reality, David French, would you really allow an editorial team at the New York Times or anywhere to compel you to lie? Because that’s what you have done,” Stuckey comments.

When French argued against using preferred pronouns in 2018, he wrote in an article titled “The transgender debate: Conservatives cannot compromise truth” that “the transgender debate is not about tolerance, it’s about truth.”

“Conservatives cannot, must not, compromise on the biological reality of sex, and they cannot pretend that surgically or chemically altering the body somehow changes that reality,” he continued, adding, “To use female pronouns is to endorse fiction.”

French also wrote that the push to mandate preferred pronoun usage is “a direct assault on free speech and religious liberty.”

“It’s not just a social norm, it’s tyranny,” he added.

“The irony is, in all of this, David French has been arguing for years that evangelicals have accepted a tyrant in Trump because he has promised to give us some of the things that we want,” Stuckey says.

“And yet, here he is, submitting to what he has called tyranny by calling a man ‘she,’” she adds.

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Ethnic narcissism: The hidden danger in modern church culture



Ethnic narcissism has infiltrated modern church culture, and it’s much more insidious than those who embody or celebrate it seem to understand.

“I think we can celebrate our differences, but when you’re talking amongst the brethren, we don’t need to ignore our ethnic differences, but we also don’t need to elevate them to a level of what I would call ethnic idolatry or narcissism — ethnic narcissism,” Christian content creator April Chapman tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

Chapman explains that “ethnic narcissism” is where you view the world through an ethnic lens.

“Why are you looking at the world in that way? That is something that the pagans do, the unbeliever, because they don’t have an identity that’s hidden in Christ. They don’t have their sins atoned for,” she says.


While we can acknowledge that we’re different, Chapman explains, elevating something like race to “an unhealthy level” where “we’re now levying charges of sin against others who look different than us” is not right — and Stuckey wholeheartedly agrees.

“I just remember seeing this a lot in 2020 from the pulpit. There was one message of guilt that was given to white congregants and one message that was given to black congregants, and that message was one of alleviating any responsibility for anything at all that they themselves have done,” Stuckey recalls.

“And then for the white congregants, it wasn’t only responsibility for what you have done, but also, you should feel some level of shame and guilt for what some people — not even related to you, but that kind of maybe looked like you — 200 years ago did,” she continues.

“I just thought, okay, I don’t see a biblical basis for that, especially when we’re talking about justice, which is inherently supposed to be blind,” she adds.

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Therapist-in-training exposes nauseating secrets from the world of counselor education



Naomi Epps Best is a married Christian mother and graduate student in marriage and family therapy at Santa Clara University. Like anyone who enters the counseling profession, she wants to help people thrive.

Sadly, in today’s world, helping people thrive is often synonymous with affirming their delusions. On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Naomi sat down with Allie Beth Stuckey to share what future therapists are being taught about gender identity and care for minors.

  

“We were taught that if a child comes to us and they are experiencing extreme gender-related distress,” it is our “ethical obligation ... to affirm them in their belief and to not act as a gatekeeper for their medical treatment,” says Naomi. “That is what I am taught at [Santa Clara University], and that is what is being propagated down from the psychological governing bodies in this country.”

“I've talked to so many de-transitioners,” says Allie, “and every single one says that there was a therapist who didn't ask questions that checked off the boxes” and “uncritically affirm[ed]” their gender of choice. And even if the child also suffers from anorexia, bipolar disorder, or autism, the therapist is obligated to “ignore all of that, and say, ‘Yes, here is your letter of recommendation to go on puberty blockers, cross- sex hormones, [or] get your breasts cut off.”’

“Yes, exactly,” says Naomi. “[That methodology] is by design in this profession, and there are great therapists out there, who will ask deeper questions and will walk with a child who has gender dysphoria and provide them good care, but those individuals are going against the ethical standards and guidelines in our profession, and they're taking a risk by doing that.”

Earlier this month, Naomi published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing Santa Clara University’s Marriage and Family Therapy program, particularly its required human sexuality course. The article, titled “Santa Clara University’s Crazy Idea of Human Sexuality,” exposed explicit and coercive practices like assigning sadomasochistic erotica and mandatory sexual autobiographies, alongside ideological bias, unprofessional conduct, and racial stereotyping. Best argued these elements, coupled with denied accommodations, ethical violations, and retaliations against her, prioritize political agendas over neutral clinical training.

Just days after the article’s publication, Naomi was fired from her therapy internship. But before that, she was “summoned to a 15-on-one struggle meeting,” where her fellow “therapists-in-training” launched “character attacks” at her.

“These people called me unsafe. They called me a danger to the profession,” she tells Allie.

To hear more of Naomi’s wild story about what’s going on in the world of therapy education in our country, watch the episode above.

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