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Shocker: Nation’s First Trans Lawmaker Arrested on Child Porn Charges
JUN 24, 2023 7:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER3
New in PJ Media:
I know: knock me over with a feather, right? The first man who insists he is a woman to become a state lawmaker, Stacie Marie Laughton, has been arrested on charges of distributing child pornography. As PJM’s Paula Bolyard put it, “Who could have predicted that someone who immerses himself in sexual perversion could do something like this?” The answer is that no one on the Left could have predicted it, because Leftists remain determined to pretend, and demand that we pretend, that the transgender madness isn’t madness at all, and that those who are in the grip of these delusions and fantasies are perfectly normal and well-adjusted.
The Daily Wire reported Friday that a gentleman named Stacie Marie Laughton, formerly known as Barry Charles Laughton, Jr., “is now facing four counts of distributing sexually explicit images of children.” According to a Thursday report in the Nashua, N.H., Patch, Sgt. John Cinelli of the Nashua Police Department said that officers “spoke with reporting parties that indicated Laughton distributed sexually explicit images of children.”
Back in 2008, according to the Patch, “she was convicted of conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and falsifying physical evidence charges while living in Laconia as a man.” That sentence neatly encapsulates the madness of our age. Patch dutifully refers to Laughton as “she,” and says he was “living in Laconia as a man,” when the reality is exactly the opposite: he is now living as a woman, when he is actually a man and was living as one in 2008. And despite the fact that Laughton’s derangement and mental illness are on full display in Patch’s report, Patch feeds his destructive delusions by pretending that he really is a woman.
Laughton was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature in November 2012. By this time, he was apparently claiming to be a woman, as Patch notes that he was “the first transgender elected official in New Hampshire and one of only a handful across the United States at the time.” The Daily Wire says he was “the nation’s first transgender-identifying state lawmaker.” It was only after he was elected that Laughton’s “felony status and jail time came to light. After talking with state Democrats and eyeing the media coverage, Laughton resigned.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
Police: University of Waterloo stabbings were motivated by hate
By Darryl Coote
A professor and two students were stabbed on Wednesday at the University of Waterloo.
Photo courtesy of University of Waterloo/Facebook
June 29 (UPI) -- Police in Canada have ruled Wednesday's triple stabbing of a professor and two students during a gender studies class at an Ontario university as a hate-motivated attack.
The suspect, identified Thursday as 24-year-old Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, was taken into custody shortly after three people were stabbed at around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday during a gender studies class in the main campus of the University of Waterloo, located in the city of Waterloo, which is home to some 121,400 people about 70 miles west of Toronto.
Villalba-Aleman was charged Thursday with three counts of aggravated assault, four counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and mischief under $3,774, or $5,000 in Canadian currency.
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As some students fled the class and others went to aid their professor, Villalba-Aleman stabbed two students who were trying to escape and attempted to harm a third, Crowell said.
Police, who were called to the scene at 3:37 p.m., apprehended the suspect without incident within the building as he was attempting to pose as a victim. Crowell said they were able to identify him as a suspect based on witness accounts.
All three victims were hospitalized. The professor and a 20-year-old woman received serious but non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to out-of-region hospitals. A 19-year-old man who was also stabbed in the attack suffered non-life-threatening injuries and received treatment locally, Crowell said.
He said investigators believe he attacked the class because of its topic.
"Investigators have reason to believe that this was a planned targeted attack motivated by hate related to gender expression and gender identity," he said.
The university on Thursday held a gathering in on campus that was accompanied by a moment of silence at 3:37 p.m.
"It is both sad and disturbing that this incident has occurred during Pride Month, a time where we celebrate and recognize members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community," Crowell said, referring to the initialism used in Canada to represent its two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and additional sexual orientations and gender identities community.
"We hope that this incident does not diminish from these celebrations but instead encourages us all to come together, to continue to celebrate and continue to inspire love over hate."
Prime Minister Justine (Sic) Trudeau tweeted his condemnation on Thursday.
"The fact that the stabbings at the University of Waterloo were hate-motivated is absolutely despicable. I strongly conmen (condemn) this vile act," he said.
"I want to make this clear: This heinous violence, and the hate that fueled it, have no place in our country. We must -- and we will -- keep working to build a Canada where everyone is welcome to be who they are, to study what they want and to be safe from violence."
The attack is reminiscent of the mass shooting of Dec. 6, 1989, when a man gunned down 14 women and injured 10 others before turning the weapon on himself in a hate-motivated attack at Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Montreal.
Decades later, it remains among Canada's worst school shootings and is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
During the Thursday press conference, Crowell told reporters that authorities across Canada have seen a "troubling and disturbing trend" of the LGBTQ community be targeted by hate-motivated crimes, but especially during the Pride Month of June.
Perhaps we should go back to a pride week, or a pride day, or a pride minute?
"I think we all know that there's a polarization in society right now, both online and in the real world there's (Sic) conversations that are spilling over into every day life, and I can say that we have seen in our community a small uptick in events recently targeting ... the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and hate-motivated incidents and we're absolutely focused on addressing those with the best efforts that we have," he said.
According to Statistics Canada, reported hates (Sic) crimes surged 27% in 2021 from a year prior, seeing 3,360 reports compared to 2,646 in 2020.
That jump was a slight decrease from the 36% increase 2020 saw from 2019, it said.
In 2021, there ere (were) 423 hate-crime reports related to sexual orientation in 2021, an increase of 67% from a year prior, it said.
I use UPI a lot on this blog but strongly suggest that they proofread their articles before posting them. Good grief!
As American courts slowly re-orientate back toward common sense and decency
- Christian businesses can no longer be shut down by specious gay actions.
Supreme Court: Web designer can refuse same-sex wedding sites
under First Amendment
By Priscilla DeGregory, NYPost
June 30, 2023 11:33am Updated
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that an evangelical Christian web designer could not be forced to work on wedding sites celebrating same-sex couples because it would violate her First Amendment right against compelled speech.
The 6-3 decision settled the 2016 case brought by Lorie Smith, 39, who sued the Colorado Civil Rights Commission over the state’s anti-discrimination laws that barred her from advertising that she won’t create websites for couples of the same sex.
But the high court found that to compel Smith to make sites “celebrating other marriages she does not” would be “an impermissible abridgment of the First Amendment’s right to speak freely,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority.
Under Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act, businesses are barred from denying the public goods and services based on race, gender, sexual orientation and religion — and they can’t post notices doing so either.
But Smith — a married mother of one who owns graphic design firm 303 Creative LLC — has claimed the Centennial State law clashes with her right to refuse business that conflicts with her religious beliefs.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that web designer Lorie Smith can’t be forced to work with same-sex couples.
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Smith has maintained that she doesn’t have a problem working with LBGTQ clients on projects unrelated to marriage and has done so in the past.
While anti-discrimination laws “play a vital role in realizing civil rights of all Americans,” in this case forcing Smith would set a precedent allowing “government to force all manner of artists, speechwriters, and others whose services involve speech to speak what they do not believe on pain of penalty,” Gorsuch wrote.
“The nation’s answer is tolerance, not coercion,” the justice added in overturning lower court rulings against Smith.
In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision marked “a sad day in American constitutional law.”
A Supreme Court judge who thinks free speech is a sad thing! Go figure!
“By issuing this new license to discriminate … the immediate, symbolic effect of the decision is to mark gays and lesbians for second-class status,” she wrote, claiming that under the Colorado law, Smith’s “freedom of speech is not abridged in any meaningful sense, factual or legal.
“Petitioners remain free to advocate the idea that same-sex marriage betrays God’s laws,” Sotomayor went on. “Even if Smith believes God is calling her to do so through her for-profit company, the company need not hold out its goods or services to the public at large. Many filmmakers, visual artists, and writers never do.”
Smith’s lawyer Kristen Waggoner lauded the ruling, saying the high court had “rightly reaffirmed that the government can’t force Americans to say things they don’t believe.”
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser claimed in a statement that the ruling “will permit businesses to turn away LGBTQ customers just by claiming that they sell expressive or artistic services. This deeply concerning opinion is far out of step with the will of the American people and American values. The opinion represents a radical departure from decades of Court precedent and fails to uphold the principle of ‘Equal Justice for All’ inscribed on the U.S. Supreme Court building.”
President Biden echoed that language in his own reaction, saying: “While the Court’s decision only addresses expressive original designs, I’m deeply concerned that the decision could invite more discrimination against LGBTQI+ Americans. More broadly, today’s decision weakens long-standing laws that protect all Americans against discrimination in public accommodations – including people of color, people with disabilities, people of faith, and women.”
He's wrong here, of course. The ruling overturns what was discriminatory laws where gays could sue Christians right out of business for not celebrating what the Bible clearly teaches is an abomination. These complaints are an attack on Christian values and Christian America.
The 303 Creative case expanded on another landmark Supreme Court decision out of Colorado, the 2018 ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in which the court ruled that baker Jack Phillips could refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple on religious grounds.
On Thursday, in an unrelated case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of another evangelical Christian, reinstating Gerald Groff’s lawsuit against the US Postal Service for forcing him to work Sundays when his beliefs required him to observe the Sabbath.
The court said businesses had to accommodate requests for religious accommodation unless it forced them to incur significant costs.
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