New J. Edgar Hoover Biography Tacitly Urges Purging The FBI Of Christians And Conservatives

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'An abortion is an act of love': Bisexual woman says she would prefer abortion over having a kid who gets 'adopted by white evangelicals'



A woman faced backlash on Wednesday after tweeting that she would prefer having an abortion over giving birth to a brown baby who then gets "adopted by white evangelicals."

"I would rather get an abortion than have a Brown child who ends up being adopted by white evangelicals. It is not a kindness to children of the global majority to give them to people who’ll traumatize them with self and ancestral hatred. An abortion is an act of love," Jo Luehmann tweeted.

I would rather get an abortion than have a Brown child who ends up being adopted by white evangelicals.\n\nIt is not a kindness to children of the global majority to give them to people who\u2019ll traumatize them with self and ancestral hatred.\n\nAn abortion is an act of love.
— Jo Luehmann (@Jo Luehmann) 1652903610

Luehmann has described herself as bisexual, and said that she does not hate white people — she is married to a white man.

Someone who responded to Luehmann's tweet wrote, "I’d die for my kids. Even before they were born. I love them that much. Jo on the other hand, would kill her own child and sacrifice her own child out of hatred for another race, and out of pure convenience. What a sick world we live in."

"I have 4 children. The last one was an unwanted pregnancy. Do not speak about how I feel about my children just because I would chose abortion over letting my offspring be raised by bigots who subconsciously (and sometimes consciously) hate them," Luehmann replied.

I have 4 children. The last one was an unwanted pregnancy. Do not speak about how I feel about my children just because I would chose abortion over letting my offspring be raised by bigots who subconsciously (and sometimes consciously) hate them.https://twitter.com/jdean587/status/1527088429191806980\u00a0\u2026
— Jo Luehmann (@Jo Luehmann) 1652921576

Someone else declared, "She thinks my kid is better off dead than in there with her Mama, playing with stuffed animals while I finish grilling supper. Cool. Cool cool cool."

"No. I think my offspring are better not existing than with white evangelicals. MY OFFSPRING," Luehmann fired back.

Over on Instagram Luehmann wrote, "White and Christian supremacy kill people of the global majority. They kill LGBTQ+ people. They kill religious minorities. Why would I give a Brown child who could (and likely will) be queer and may have no interest in Christianity to people who’ll teach them they are inadequate in most all of their identities?"

"People who think not coming to this world is the worst that can happen to a zygote have never had to experience the excruciating realities of systemic oppression. Not existing isn’t the worst that can happen for MANY Black, Brown, queer, non-Christian folks. In this oppressive dumpster fire it absolutely is love to choose an abortion for marginalized folks (and since women, non-binary folks, trans men and poor folks are all oppressed in this society, abortion is love, love that can hurt for some, but love nonetheless," Luehmann wrote.

Sunny Hostin of 'The View' declares 'we need to shun those that refuse to get vaccinated' — specifically 'white evangelicals' and 'Republicans'



Sunny Hostin of "The View" tore into Americans who've indicated they won't get the COVID-19 vaccine by saying we should "shun" them — and the co-host specifically called out "white evangelicals" and "Republicans."

What are the details?

Hostin on Monday's program decried the "politicization" of the vaccine controversy, calling out former President Donald Trump without naming him — and then proceeded to politicize things herself by using divisive and shaming language and phrases.

"This is just a vestige of the prior administration's politicization of the mask and of the vaccine," Hostin said of reason for vaccine hesitancy. "I mean, the prior administration was an anti-science administration, and I think we're seeing the fallout of the bungling of the pandemic where it led to ... the death[s] of over 500,000 people. We now know that studies show that had the pandemic ... been dealt with in a different way, in a public-health manner, had these masks and efforts not been politicized in the way that they were, we could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, including the lives of my in-laws."

Perhaps Hostin missed the news that Trump — who, by the way, said he's been vaccinated — recently called anti-vaccine sentiments "deranged pseudo-science" and ripped President Joe Biden for aiding such a point of view by pausing the Johnson & Johnson vaccine's distribution.

Oh, and speaking of politicizing the vaccine, who remembers when Kamala Harris in September famously said she wouldn't receive a vaccine developed under the Trump administration — and then happily received it in December when she was the vice president-elect?

But anyway, Hostin in her soft-spoken rant went on to target and blame specific groups.

"When you look at the folks that are not getting vaccinated — because it's a quarter of Americans that aren't getting vaccinated — white evangelicals: 45% say they won't get vaccinated according to ... Pew Research ... almost 50% of Republicans are refusing to get the vaccine," Hostin said. "So we won't reach herd immunity because of those particular groups."

Then the co-host lowered the boom: "So I say we need to shun those that refuse to get vaccinated."

She added that unvaccinated Americans should be refused entry into certain places.

"I think if you have not been vaccinated, no entry. You want to get on a plane? You gotta be vaccinated, show proof of vaccination," Hostin said. "And those people who don't want to get vaccinated ... that's fine for you, but you can't spread it to other people ... you don't get those other liberties that come with immunity. Something has to break. If that's your personal choice not to get vaccinated, you don't then get to infringe on the rights of those who have chosen to protect their fellow citizens."

Hostin's comments begin just after the 3:30 mark in the below clip:

SHUNNING ANTI-VAXXERS? Experts say America is unlikely to reach herd immunity soon because of vaccine hesitancy cau… https://t.co/P81E5uhtCq

— The View (@TheView) 1620055590.0

Pushback

But co-host Meghan McCain, as you can imagine, wasn't down with Hostin's all-out assault on the unvaccinated — and pointed out that when concern abounded last year over vaccine hesitancy among the black community, the response was "compassion" and "empathy." However, amid vaccine hesitancy with other groups, McCain said the response from the left has been "you dumb hillbillies; stay the hell away from me!"

She added that such messaging is "absolute garbage" and is "getting worse."

"I have no problem with vaccines, but the messaging is psychotic," McCain concluded, adding that "I'm horrified by the way people are talking to Republicans ... I think we should try and meet people along instead of saying they're dumb morons in the middle of the country that are going to kill everybody. It's just not effective."

Hostin is far from alone in her view

As it happens, Hostin is far from alone in her view. On Friday, USA Today published an op-ed by a far-left former Justice Department prosecutor titled, "It's time to start shunning the 'vaccine hesitant.' They're blocking COVID herd immunity."

Like Hostin on her high horse, Michael J. Stern's piece was full of venom and extremist sentiments, noting that "a quarter of the country is ruining [herd immunity] for all of us" — and he also took aim at white evangelicals and Republicans, saying "in the end the G.O.P., and the children of G.O.D., are perpetuating a virus that is sickening and killing people in droves."

More from Stern's piece:

A big part of the problem stems from the cultish relationship many evangelicals and Republicans have with the former president. They absorbed his endless efforts to downplay the danger of the virus and turn public health precautions into a political freedom movement. But the time for analyzing why these human petri dishes have chosen to ignore the medical science that could save them, and us, is over. We need a different strategy. I propose shunning.

Biden's wildly successful vaccine rollout means that soon everyone who wants a vaccine will have one. When that happens, restaurants, movie theaters, gyms, barbers, airlines and Ubers should require proof of vaccination before providing their services.

And it shouldn't stop there. Businesses should make vaccination a requirement for employment. A COVID-19 outbreak can shut down a business and be financially devastating. And failure to enforce basic health and safety measures is not fair to employees who have to work in offices, factories and stores where close contact is required. Things should get personal, too: People should require friends to be vaccinated to attend the barbecues and birthday parties they host. Friends don't let friends spread the coronavirus.

(H/T: Washington Times)

New York Times gets torched after singling out 'white evangelical resistance' as 'obstacle' in COVID-19 vaccination effort



The New York Times' Monday headline spelled it out plainly: "White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort."

Indeed the "paper of record" singled a giant swath of humanity as a enemy of COVID-19 vaccines — using race and faith as its sole parameters — and quoted Jamie Aten, founder and executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College, a well-known evangelical school.

"If we can't get a significant number of white evangelicals to come around on this, the pandemic is going to last much longer than it needs to," Aten said, according to the Times.

The paper also claimed that white evangelical "opposition is rooted in a mix of religious faith and a longstanding wariness of mainstream science, and it is fueled by broader cultural distrust of institutions and gravitation to online conspiracy theories."

More from the Times:

There are about 41 million white evangelical adults in the U.S. About 45 percent said in late February that they would not get vaccinated against Covid-19, making them among the least likely demographic groups to do so, according to the Pew Research Center. [...]

As vaccines become more widely available, and as worrisome virus variants develop, the problem takes on new urgency. Significant numbers of Americans generally are resistant to getting vaccinated, but white evangelicals present unique challenges because of their complex web of moral, medical, and political objections. The challenge is further complicated by longstanding distrust between evangelicals and the scientific community.

What else appeared in the Times' story?

While it shined a bright spotlight on white evangelicals, interestingly the paper said "no clear data is available about vaccine hesitancy among evangelicals of other racial groups. But religious reasoning often spreads beyond white churches."

The Times called attention to evangelicals in the public eye who approve of vaccines and others who are against them. But it paid particular attention to a woman who "travels throughout California in a motor home" and is dead set against getting a needle in her arm.

"Fear is the motivating power behind all of this, and fear is the opposite of who God is," Teresa Beukers told the paper. "I violently oppose fear."

More from the Times:

Ms. Beukers foresees severe political and social consequences for resisting the vaccine, but she is determined to do so. She quit a job at Trader Joe's when the company insisted that she wear a mask at work. Her son, she said, was kicked off his community college football team for refusing Covid testing protocols.

"Go ahead and throw us in the lions' den, go ahead and throw us in the furnace," she said, referring to two biblical stories in which God's people miraculously survive persecution after refusing to submit to temporal powers.

Jesus, she added, broke ritual purity laws by interacting with lepers. "We can compare that to people who are unvaccinated," she said. "If they get pushed out, they'll need to live in their own colonies."

The paper added that "white pastors have largely remained quiet. That's in part because the wariness among white conservative Christians is not just medical, but also political. If white pastors encourage vaccination directly, said Dr. Aten, 'there are people in the pews where you've just attacked their political party, and maybe their whole worldview.'"

The Times said Elaine Ecklund, professor of sociology and director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University, observed that distrust of scientists has become part of what it means to be white and evangelical in America.

What was the reaction to the Times' story?

After the Times' tweeted out a link to its story Monday, naturally a number of commenters backed the paper singling out white evangelicals — in fact, one person said they should be placed in "one big arena. Let them pray or sing or whatever they do. Let the virus run rampant throughout the venue. Let science decide their fate."

But others took issue with the Times' report:

  • "Bravo @nytimes, I think you have really outdone yourself with this one. You have found another way to be decisive and to further divide the country. Take the vaccine or else it's your fault and be seen as an outsider who does not belong in our society," one commenter said.
  • "This is top notch race baiting here," another user wrote.
  • "Wow. Still blaming white ppl," another commenter observed. "Don't be such sheep people. If u want a vaccine, get 1. If u don't, don't. We are going to be just fine, unless we let the Biden mafia divide us even further than they already have. Times should be ashamed for this type of 'reporting.'"
  • "Pretty sure that this is not the only 'group' that does not want to take the experimental vaccine," another user said. "The NYT simply justifies it since the WOKE world allows you can be racist against whites and Christians."
  • "Shame on you, NYT for continually trying to divide society," another commenter said. "Hit pieces grounded in nothing but race baiting."
  • "[W]ay to find a scapegoat NYT," another user shot back. "Let's lump everyone into the same category. So 'white evangelicals' all think alike, do the same things, etc. This is so racist, divisive, and all the adjectives you can think of if you take out 'white' and put another group's name in. So stupid."
  • "Get out of your tiny little biased agenda filled bubble," another commenter declared. "There are plenty of non religious people who question the scientific validity of the vaccine. If you can't question it, it's not science, it's religion."

Let’s Not Assume ‘Christian Vaccine Refusal’ Is A ‘Spiritual Problem’

Human beings have lots of spiritual problems, but let's stop assuming a Christian's hesitancy to vaccinate is necessarily one of them.