Did Christianity birth the trans craze? Exposing the left's shocking historical hit job



Every so often, an academic wrapped in the robes of theory decides to rewrite history — not to correct it, but to commandeer it.

The latest example comes from the Conversation, in which a University of Iowa scholar, Sarah Barringer, claims that Christianity has a “transgender” heritage. You heard that right: Saints who renounced the world to live in chastity and devotion are now being posthumously enlisted in a modern identity crusade they never chose.

The modern obsession with identity — splintering the self into ever-narrower categories — is antithetical to the Christian ethos.

Let's acknowledge the truth up front: There is no such thing as a “transgender saint.” There are saints who disguised themselves, fled arranged marriages, and shaved their heads and donned robes to live among men in monasteries because that was the only place they could escape danger, obligation, or temptation.

But calling this “transness” is like calling Joan of Arc gender-fluid because she wore armor. It’s historical trespassing and spiritual identity theft dressed up as scholarship.

Faith, not fluidity

Consider St. Eugenia, St. Euphrosyne, and St. Marinos.

They weren’t confused teenagers raised on TikTok and identity slogans but were devout individuals who, in a brutal and hierarchical world, did what they had to do to escape danger, avoid forced marriage, or pursue a life of monastic devotion. Dressing as a man wasn’t some statement about “true gender” or an inner identity waiting to be expressed. Rather, it was strategy and self-preservation.

More than anything, they chose the path of intense spiritual focus in a world that gave women few choices.

They weren’t rewriting Genesis or making statements about biology. They were rejecting the noise of their time — power, status, family expectations — to live lives of sacrifice and submission to God.

These saints didn’t “identify” as anything — but only with Christ.

Leftists can't comprehend it

To retrofit their stories into modern trans narratives isn’t just ahistorical — it’s grotesque. It’s a desecration of the very virtues they lived for: humility, chastity, obedience, and detachment from self. They weren’t looking inward to define themselves. They were looking upward to lose themselves.

That is the difference. That is what today’s leftist ideologues can’t comprehend, and it's why they have no right to co-opt these lives for their own agendas.

The argument hinges on a dishonest conflation. Barringer admits these stories were “morality tales,” symbolic journeys about rejecting the world and embracing God. Yet somehow rejecting arranged marriage becomes an early form of identity politics and running from Roman militarism becomes evidence of internalized gender non-conformity.

It’s the theological equivalent of reading "The Iliad" and diagnosing Achilles with toxic masculinity.

The saints in question lived in monastic communities that demanded celibacy and asceticism. They weren’t changing genders; they were erasing self — not affirming identity, but crucifying it. Their bodies were temples, not canvases for self-expression.

To call this "transgender" is to confuse spiritual transformation with a social rebrand. One seeks union with God, but the other seeks alignment with self.

Desecrating the dead

Therein lies the real tension. Christianity, at its core, is not about affirming the self. It’s about dying to it.

“I no longer live, but Christ lives in me,” the apostle Paul wrote (Galatians 2:20) — not “I live my truth.”

But the modern obsession with identity — splintering the self into ever-narrower categories — is antithetical to the Christian ethos. You are not your urges. You are not your emotions. You are a soul, and you are called to holiness like Jesus Christ.

The irony is laughable. The same scholars who sneer at scripture’s authority now claim ownership of its saints. They reject Christianity as bigoted and outdated, yet raid its tombs for ideological mascots. It's not a demonstration of reverence for Christianity's ancient saints, but an attempt to rewrite the past to control the present.

Let the saints rest

We can't pretend this is harmless. Redefining religious tradition to fit modern ideologies amounts to spiritual counterfeiting. It muddies doctrine, breeds confusion among believers, and turns the sacred into just another stage for performance politics.

If you want to find affirmation for trans identity, look to modern movements. Don’t twist the lives of ancient saints who had no concept of gender theory and would likely be horrified by what’s being done in their names.

Christianity welcomes the broken, the wounded, the uncertain — but not by sanctifying confusion.

So no, Christianity does not have a transgender heritage. It has a long and rich tradition of souls rejecting worldly labels to pursue something higher than themselves. That’s not a forerunner to modern identity politics. It’s the antidote to it.

Let the saints rest. Let the church speak. And let the past remain sacred.

Behind the rainbow curtain: Who is funding the trans agenda targeting kids?



It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle and choking on the colored logos of every conceivable brand, there’s some freedom from the suffocating fumes of Pride Month.

In these last two years, the march to pull companies back to neutral has outperformed everyone’s expectations. But in this process of rolling back decades of corporate wokeism, one thing is clear: This isn’t over. No matter how much success conservatives have, not everyone will go quietly.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is believing we’ve won. Because a single dollar in the wrong hands is a weapon.

When it comes to LGBT activism, some businesses are playing for keeps.

While most of this week’s coverage seems to be about who isn’t joining the parade, there’s a proud contingent of CEOs who have no intentions of backing off their radicalism.

To those who would shrug and say, “It’s just a few splashy logos. What’s the big deal?” the reality is much more sinister. This isn’t about slapping a few Progress flags outside headquarters or queering the "Sesame Street" puppets. It’s about financing a dangerous enterprise to keep children in bondage and parents in the dark.

The corporate darling of this year’s celebration, the Trevor Project, isn’t just another rah-rah LGBT crusader. Billed as a youth suicide prevention organization, one look under the hood shows that this group is anything but uncontroversial. And yet sponsors are lining up to finance the group — to the tune of millions of dollars.

The heavy hitters, who are giving more six-figure donations, are mostly familiar names: Macy’s, Petco, Abercrombie & Fitch, Pure Vida, Guess Watches, Kohl’s, Lululemon, MAC Cosmetics, and a collection of lesser-known brands.

A lot of these businesses will ring a bell, simply because they’ve been stubbornly clinging to their LGBT alliances through months of nationwide backlash (along with headstrong lefties at Levi’s, Converse, and Nike).

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Interestingly, the brands that are listed as year-round Trevor Project partners also happen to rank the highest on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. With a few exceptions, almost every company that submitted its information to HRC earned a perfect score — meaning these companies are completely on board with transgender insurance coverage and benefits, gender-neutral restrooms and dress codes, and preferred pronoun usage, as well as LGBTQ hiring quotas, non-discrimination standards, sensitivity trainings, recruitment efforts, community outreach, philanthropic support, and lobbying on local, state, and federal issues.

In other words, the hardest of the hard-core:

  • $1 million: Abercrombie (100%), Lululemon, Macy’s (100%)
  • $500,000: AT&T (100%), Deloitte (100%)
  • $250,000: Coca-Cola (100%), Gen Digital (100%), Gilead (100%), Harry’s, Hot Topic Foundation, Jingle Jam, Sephora (100%), MAC Cosmetics, Procter & Gamble, Rare Beauty, the Game Company
  • $100,000: David Yurman, Delta Air Lines, Delta Dental, Dolce Vita, FedEx (85%), Forever 21, H&M, Humble Bundle, Kate Spade, Kohl’s (100%), Lemonade, Makeship, Maybelline, National Education Association, Native, NFL, OPI, Pair of Thieves, Petco (95%), Saks Fifth Avenue, United Airlines (100%), Wells Fargo (100%), Williams-Sonoma (90%), XBox

And while the Trevor Project claims to be harmlessly dedicated to “advocacy, education, and crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people,” it’s the nature of that advocacy and education that should disturb Americans.

For starters, this is a group that, just three years ago, was exposed for stealthily grooming children online. A suspicious mom, whose daughter struggled with gender dysphoria, logged on to the organization’s TrevorSpace chat room to see what kind of advice she was getting — and was horrified at the graphic and disturbing nature of the site.

She sent the screenshots to National Review. They are a “Pandora’s box” of "sexually perverse content, aggressive gender reassignment referrals, adults encouraging minors to hide their transitions from their parents, and many troubled kids in need of psychological counseling." Like most moms, she said she’d turned to the Trevor Project in “desperation.”

"I thought my child was going to kill herself," she admitted.

“In TrevorSpace,” NRO explains, “she got a bird’s-eye view of the progressive non-profit giant that is claiming to save young lives but is really driving them further into existential rabbit holes, depravity, and potential danger.”

At one point, “Rachel then dove into an abyss of concerning sexual conversation. Some transgender-identifying adults confessed in detail their [fantasies and deviances].” In some cases, “users under 18 spoke with adult users about their sexual preferences, including BDSM, polyamory, and others.”

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Equally as disturbing, the Trevor Project has its hooks in countless K-12 classrooms across the country with its so-called “resources for educators and school officials, including the Is Your School LGBTQ-Affirming? checklist and Creating Safer Spaces in Schools for LGBTQ Young People, which can help determine whether a school is adequately supporting LGBTQ+ students.”

The website “also offers several educational guides for adults working with LGBTQ+ young people, including the Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Youth, How to Support Bisexual Youth, and Preventing Suicide.”

“We’ve increased our efforts in public education,” the project’s website brags — and that’s exactly what parents should be afraid of. The group’s resources include a Model School Policy Booklet that it distributes to “ally” teachers, counselors, and volunteers across the country.

Among other things, it urges educators to hide information about students’ sexual orientation or gender identity from parents:

  • “Information about a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity should be treated as confidential and not disclosed to parents, guardians, or third parties without the student’s permission. In the case of parents who have exhibited rejecting behaviors, great sensitivity needs to be taken in what information is communicated with parents.”
  • “While parents and guardians need to be informed and actively involved in decisions regarding the student’s welfare, the school mental health professional should ensure that the parents’ actions are in the best interest of the student (e.g., when a student is LGBTQ and living in an unaffirming household).”
  • “In the case of parents who have exhibited rejecting behaviors, great sensitivity needs to be taken in what information is communicated with parents. Additionally, when referring students to out-of-school resources, it is important to connect LGBTQ students with LGBTQ-affirming local health and mental health service providers. Affirming service providers are those that adhere to best practices guidelines regarding working with LGBTQ clients as specified by their professional association (e.g., apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/guidelines.aspx).”

These are the kind of anti-parent zealots Macy’s, Abercrombie, Petco, and others are donating your June dollars to. Sometimes it’s 10% of the purchase price. Other times it’s the change you round up.

But whatever the amount, it’s fueling a team of ideologues intent on destroying America’s children — and keeping it a secret while they do.

Don’t get me wrong. This country should be jubilant about all it has accomplished. Robby Starbuck and other activists who have been fighting this war before most people knew we were in one deserve medals. But the biggest mistake any of us can make is believing we’ve won. Because a single dollar in the wrong hands is a weapon.

And the pain, thousands of parents and their young patients will tell you, lasts a lifetime.

This article is adapted from an essay that was first published at the Washington Stand.

Colorado pushes gender ideology on kids — but this Christian camp is fighting back



Who can forget their first summer camp?

The buzz of anticipation among friends as the bus arrives at the campgrounds, the spooky stories around a campfire with s’mores, the corny songs and accompanying hand motions. It’s the quintessential childhood experience etched into our personal stories forever.

When the law ignores truth, kids pay the price.

For some children, summer camp can be a nerve-racking experience — leaving mom and dad for the first time, sharing a communal space with strangers, roughing it without the usual comforts of home. Part of growing up involves being pushed outside your comfort zone, but young boys and girls should never be subjected to situations that compromise their safety and dignity.

Yet, a new Colorado policy does just that, putting a controversial political agenda ahead of kids.

Camp under fire

The Colorado Department of Early Childhood recently updated its regulations for licensed resident summer camps to force camps to allow children to access bathing, dressing, and sleeping facilities of the opposite sex, meaning if a young boy says he’s a girl, camps are forced to place him with girls (and vice versa).

Camp IdRaHaJe in Bailey has served children since 1948.

A Christian summer camp, it derives its name from the classic hymn “I’d Rather Have Jesus” and exists to present the truth of the gospel to the thousands of kids who attend every summer. Camp IdRaHaJe serves children of all beliefs and all backgrounds, but each family knows that the camp houses children only according to their biological sex.

When the camp learned about Colorado’s new policy, it applied for an exemption multiple times — but it was denied each time.

With summer upon us, the camp is in an impossible situation between adhering to its religious beliefs and compromising the safety and privacy of the approximately 2,600 kids who will attend over the summer.

Truth on trial

Colorado’s position on this matter is untenable.

Each passing day reveals more and more truths about gender identity ideology, and the evidence continues to point out what we knew all along: Biological sex matters.

Medical experts around the world are taking a strong stance against rushing kids through processes that negatively alter their bodies and turn them into lifelong medical patients. Individuals who have gone through this process voice their regret and theiranger that adults who should have known better are recklessly pumping them with cross-sex hormones and removing otherwise healthy body parts.

But Colorado insists on pushing this disproven, dangerous trend.

The state has laws that prevent licensed counselors from speaking with children about underlying issues that could cause gender dysphoria, a condition that is often resolved as children are allowed to develop naturally through puberty (rather, the state forces counselors to promote its extreme ideology). The state also forces kids to share intimate spaces with members of the opposite sex on overnight school trips, often without parents’ knowledge.

On top of all of this, the state refuses to respect dissenting beliefs. Camp IdRaHaJe holds the commonsense and religious belief that we are created male and female, and nothing can change who we are. Colorado’s policy allows individualized exceptions, but it turned down the camp’s requests for a religious exemption to the policy.

Lawsuit for liberty

Before this policy was enacted, Camp IdRaHaJe met all the department’s requirements to hold a resident camp license — a license the camp has held since 1995.

The department issuing the licenses annually inspects camps, and any reported violation of a regulation could shut the camp down. Since the camp cannot allow children to access spaces of the opposite sex in good conscience, it retained the services of Alliance Defending Freedom (where I serve as legal counsel) to sue the state so that it can retain its license and safe policies that respect human dignity.

Colorado cannot force a Christian summer camp to adopt its extreme policies on gender and sexuality. When the law ignores truth, kids pay the price.

Camp IdRaHaJe has every right to believe that boys are boys and girls are girls. The sooner we get back to that reality, the better our kids are for it.

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Sterilizing children STOPS here: Trump’s executive order against transition surgeries for minors



After President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election and his long-awaited inauguration this month, America seems to be set firmly on a path of pure unadulterated winning.

And one of those major wins comes after Trump signed an executive order to end transition surgeries for minors in America — and Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” couldn’t be more hopeful.

“It was my great honor to sign an executive order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of America. Our nation will no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support so-called gender affirming care, which has already ruined far too many precious lives,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.


“My order directs agencies to use every available means to cut off federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures that should have never been allowed to take place,” he added.

“There is light again in this country,” Gonzales comments, thrilled. “There’s no middle ground. We can’t sterilize an entire generation. We can’t chop healthy body parts off of children. We can’t do that. And so the idea, obviously, is that the federal government was participating in this in such a way and instructing insurance companies and all of this to cover it.”

And she thinks it’s time for Congress to step up and help Trump permanently put this order into law.

“I would like to see Congress go ahead and act on this, because we need them to actually do the jobs that they signed up to do, rather than allow Donald Trump to just rule by executive order. Back him up a little bit here,” she says.

“Let’s go ahead and make it resoundingly clear that this country will no longer tolerate ruining and sterilizing an entire generation,” she continues, adding, “I would love to see RFK Jr. get confirmed and then start putting these demons in their place. Cut them off from the medical system, disbar them, whatever the hell you have to do.”

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Joe Rogan sings praises of Josh Seiter’s transgender troll



After convincing the world he was a transwoman, former "Bachelorette" hopeful Josh Seiter has proven himself to be a master troll. In fact, he was so good at it that Joe Rogan even praised him on an episode of his podcast with famous comedian Theo Von.

“He said it was all a social experiment on an episode of a conservative podcast, ‘Prime Time with Alex Stein.’ Seiter said the purpose was to expose how gullible and delusional the left is. ‘What I did is I faked being a faker,’” Rogan explained to Von, quoting Seiter.

“The whole reason I did my trans troll was the principle of it, that there’s a very real and present danger of trans people trying to brainwash children with this cult, and so whatever we have to do to get the word out is amazing, and Joe has one of the biggest platforms in the world, and so for him to mention the work that I did and the points that were made in it, I’m grateful for it,” Seiter tells Stein.

“I got a phone call today from a pretty famous TikTok star, and he said, ‘Hey, Josh, you know what’s crazy about Joe Rogan talking about this is it’s one thing to be praised by the far right, it’s one thing to be praised by the alt-right,’ he said, ‘but when you have a moderate and a libertarian like Joe Rogan singing your praises and saying that what you did was good, that speaks volumes,’” Seiter continues.


“So I don’t know, I think it hits a little harder when someone like Joe agrees with it,” he adds.

Stein couldn’t agree more.

“I mean, the biggest publications wrote about you, but, like, an article that gets shared on Twitter, this is kind of a bigger deal because it’s in the cultural consciousness of society. The fact that you got mentioned on Joe Rogan is bigger than an article from the Daily Mail, in my opinion,” he tells Seiter.

While Rogan did also mention articles that bring up Seiter’s checkered past, Seiter isn’t concerned with them.

“That article is trying to say that somehow Josh Seiter is a grifter, but the hundreds of thousands of other men throwing on makeup and wearing dresses aren’t grifters. And so I guess by their logic, you just have to be mentally ill enough and then it stops being a grift,” Seiter says.

“I guess I’m too logical to be a true trans person in their eyes,” he adds.

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Josh Seiter FAKED being trans to troll the left



Alex Stein was right.

A few months ago, he called out former "Bachelorette" star Josh Seiter for faking his gender transition in order to troll the world — and Seiter is now confirming Stein’s original suspicions.

“Well, I’ve got to be honest. For the last five months I’ve been conducting a social experiment online to expose how gullible and how delusional the left is,” Seiter tells Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

“You were accepted by some, you were demonized by most, and now you’re saying this was all a ruse, this was a social experiment,” Stein says. “So, what you did is arguably one of the greatest social experiments of our modern internet age in my opinion.”


“Any biological man putting on woman-face and putting on makeup is pulling a stunt,” Seiter explains. “They are faking being a woman. And, so what I did was I faked being a faker. I pretended to be a pretender. We are all the same. We’re all men that were putting on makeup and dressing and claiming we were women.”

“And I hope that this could help some people understand that just because you put on dresses and makeup as a man, doesn’t magically make you a woman,” he adds.

Stein, who has put on tuck-friendly bathing suits in Target and pretended to be transgender for a short period of time himself in order to drive that same point home, is impressed by Seiter’s dedication to his experiment.

“You actually stayed in character for months on end, did multiple interviews, went on multiple shows,” Stein says. “Behind closed doors, I’m sure you didn’t pretend to be a woman, but you stayed in character every moment even when you’re just talking to somebody casually. So really, you’re an incredible actor Josh.”

“I think any trans person is an incredible actor. They’re all pretending to be something they’re not,” Seiter responds. “I hope I showed how ridiculous and absurd it is.”

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Will Ferrell’s transgender flick unintentionally disproves it's own narrative



Will Ferrell released a new Netflix documentary that explores the relationship between Ferrell and his “transgender” friend Andrew Steele, who now identifies as “Harper” — and it’s every bit as delusional as you might assume.

“We always say ‘quote unquote’ or ‘so-called’ or ‘what’s referred to’ because there’s no such thing as transitioning. Your gender and sex are one and the same. They’re not two different categories,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” comments.

“Now we’ve got a Netflix series saying that a man who has lived as a man his entire life is now a woman and should be accepted as a woman and should be able to go into women’s spaces to be regarded as a woman,” she says, adding, “and Will Ferrell is just like ‘It’s no big deal, who cares, like he’s just happy.’”

And recent comments made by Ferrell make his deluded take on the matter abundantly clear.

“There is hatred out there. It’s very real and it’s very unsafe for trans people in certain situations. But I don’t know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me as a cis-male,” Ferrell said.

The famous actor also reportedly said that “it’s strange” to him because “Harper is finally her.”

“If the trans community is a threat to you, I think it stems from not being confident or safe with yourself,” he added.

“Remember, Will Ferrell is a multi-millionaire who has already made his career in Hollywood. He’s a man himself, and he has sons, and so these people who always claim they’re on the side of empathy I guess have a hard time understanding why we as women, as moms and parents who have daughters, why we would not want these men entering our spaces,” Stuckey says.

While the film itself sets out to claim that transgenders are hated across the country, especially in red states, the film ends up disproving their own narrative.

“Steele is treated warmly by people all over the country. Which I think is good, like I do think just in a personal interaction you can treat anyone, no matter who they are, warmly,” Stuckey says, noting that if the tables were turned, the reception might not be so friendly.

“If you made a documentary of someone with a MAGA hat,” she says, “and he went to a bar in New York, I guarantee you he would probably be physically assaulted because remember, politics is the religion of the left. It is their theology.”

Not only does the film disprove its own narrative but the questions being asked by Ferrell appear intentionally surface-level in order to keep “Harper” from facing any legitimate critiques.

“The questions that are being asked by Will Ferrell aren’t like, ‘Okay, so you’re going to share a bathroom with these women?’ The questions are just like, ‘How do you feel? Does this make you happy? Are you your authentic self?” Stuckey explains.

“We live in a world that says all of your feelings are valid. All of your feelings are not valid. They may all be real, but valid means they’re rooted in truth. Some of our feelings are just downright lies,” she adds.


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Virginia women’s college will no longer admit trans students, citing founder’s will



Sweet Briar College, a women’s school in Virginia, recently announced that it will no longer admit trans-identifying students, citing its founder’s Will.

The private women’s liberal arts school, which was established in 1901 through the estate of Indiana Fletcher Williams, did not previously have any policies regarding gender identity. However, recent changes to the Common Application, a nonprofit organization that allows students to apply to schools on one standardized form, prompted the college to make some changes of its own.

'Understands the term [women] in its historic and traditional way.'

In addition to “female” and “male,” the Common Application, used by more than 1,000 colleges, now allows students to select “X” or “another legal sex.”

According to Jenny Rickard, the nonprofit’s president and chief executive officer, the updates “represent the next step in an ongoing effort to create an equitable, just, and inclusive college admission process for all students -- no matter how they identify.”

In a message to the campus, Sweet Briar College leaders wrote that the changes to the application have “present[ed] a challenge both for students applying for admission and administrators and staff making admissions decisions.”

“Previously, the College did not have a stated admissions policy addressing applicants identifying as other genders, but instead addressed applicants on a case-by-case basis,” the college’s correspondence explained. “This year, however, the Common Application included additional options for the selection of the legal sex … of applicants apart from male or female, creating confusion for applicants seeking to apply to a women’s college like Sweet Briar.”

“In fact, various parts of the Common Application now include as many as four gender … designations,” the college added.

Sweet Briar College noted that the institution is in a “unique position as the only women’s college in the country that was founded by and governed in accordance with a will that has been codified into law by the state’s legislature.” That Will, belonging to the school’s founder, Fletcher Williams, was “codified by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia on February 9, 1901, as the College’s Charter.”

According to the school, the board “must honor the dictates of the Will, which imposes the requirement that the College be a place of ‘girls and young women’ – a phrase that must be interpreted as it was understood at the time the Will was written.”

The college told Inside Higher Ed that while “political and other influences” have called “the meaning of the term ‘woman’ into question,” the board “understands the term [women] in its historic and traditional way consistent with the intentions of our founder.”

Some students and alumnae have vowed to push back on the college’s declaration.

English professor and faculty senate chairman John Gregory Brown stated that the faculty voted 48-4 to urge the board to rescind the policy.

“It really excludes any student who would be offended by those positions ... who doesn’t want to be in a place where discrimination is codified in this way,” Brown told the Independent. “I think it’s a financially disastrous decision for the college.”

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3 important facts Christians need to know about Tim Walz



Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday that she selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) to be her running mate.

Walz, a far-left governor, self-identifies as a "Minnesota Lutheran," though he rarely discusses his faith publicly, according to the Religion News Service. Walz, moreover, refers to Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul as "my parish." That church is a congregation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, one of the most progressive and liberal Christian denominations in the United States.

'The Harris-Walz ticket is the most radical on abortion and gender ideology in American history.'

But what should Christians know about his policy positions and record as governor of Minnesota?

1. Abortion

Walz is unabashedly pro-abortion, in both rhetoric and policy.

For example, two bills that Walz signed into law last year make Minnesota one of the most pro-abortion states in America.

The first bill, the Protect Reproductive Options Act, codified into Minnesota law a "fundamental right ... to obtain an abortion." The bill imposes no limits on abortion. Minnesota, in fact, is one of just seven states (and Washington, D.C.) that imposes no legal gestational limit on abortions. The second bill, Minnesota Senate Bill 2995, essentially eliminated "nearly all the protective and modestly pro-life features of existing Minnesota law," according to National Review.

"Abortion is health care," Walz said earlier this year.

If you combine Walz's radical pro-abortion views and record with Harris', then you generate "the most pro-abortion presidential ticket America has ever seen," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America.

2. LGBTQ agenda

Not only does Walz support the LGBTQ agenda, but he has turned Minnesota into a "trans refuge."

Last year, Walz signed a bill — the so-called "Trans Refuge" Act — and an executive order protecting so-called "gender-affirming" procedures for children while prohibiting legal action against people who travel to Minnesota for so-called "gender-affirming" care.

Walz has also banned "conversion therapy."

There is, of course, also the law that requires period products to "be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12." This means that boys' bathrooms in Minnesota schools do make available pads and tampons.

Walz, moreover, is described by his critics as "anti-parent."

Walz's record on issues related to the LGBTQ agenda has earned him high praise from GLAAD, which released a statement on Tuesday celebrating his "proven record" on these issues.

3. COVID pandemic and religious freedom

Walz, like many other Democratic governors, instituted harsh restrictions on residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

But Walz took heat from Christians during the pandemic for enacting policies they argued were religiously discriminatory. Case in point: In May 2020, Walz signed an executive order allowing retail shops to re-open at 50% capacity — while still prohibiting in-person religious gatherings to 10 people.

After pushback from Catholic and Lutherans — who promised to buck Walz's restrictions — Walz allowed churches to re-open at 25% capacity.

"Governor Walz, a former teacher, gets an F in religious liberties," said Erick Kaardal, special counsel at the Thomas More Society.

Levi Secord, pastor of Christ Bible Church in Minnesota, added of Walz's record on religious freedom:

Walz and Democrats in Minnesota sought to coerce religious institutions to hire against their sincerely held beliefs. Democrats enacted a change to employment law that would have forced religious institutions, including churches, to hire against their beliefs about sexuality and gender. Thanks to a groundswell of opposition from local churches, this was eventually reversed. Sadly, under a new proposed amendment, Walz’s party is trying again to undermine religious liberty.

Earlier this year, however, Walz did sign a law that clarified religious protections under the state's Human Rights Act.

"Governor Tim Walz is a radical progressive," said Dr. Andrew Walker, a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

"There's no way to downplay the fact of this. He's aggressively pushed some of the most pro-trans and anti-religious liberty policies in the United States," Walker explained. "Don't take the bait on the grandfatherly Midwest persona. Christians, please be clear-eyed about the anti-human agenda on the Democratic ticket."

The Minnesota Family Counsel explained, "The Harris-Walz ticket is the most radical on abortion and gender ideology in American history."

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