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Ex-Canuck Virtanen finds new team in Germany after

removal from Swiss club

Offside Staff

Feb 14 2023, 8:19 am

Jake Virtanen has found a new home in Germany.

The 26-year-old has joined the Fischtown Pinguins, also known as REV Bremerhaven, in Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) after an abrupt ending to his tumultuous time with EHC Visp of the Swiss League — a tier below Switzerland’s National League.

“I’m more than happy that the Penguins are giving me the chance to show that I’m a decent person and a good hockey player here in the north,” Virtanen told the Pinguins website, according to Google Translate. “I will do everything to ensure that the trust placed in me is rewarded.”

Virtanen, who had 25 points (14 goals, 11 assists) in 21 games with Visp, cancelled his contract with the team to join Bremerhaven, who sit eighth in the league standings.

The 26-year-old was no longer wanted by Visp after he reportedly got into a “verbal and muscular altercation” with teammate Daniel Eigenmann during a game on January 31, according to Swiss outlet Le Matin.

Eigenmann reportedly told management “it’s him or us” after the altercation.

Virtanen had signed a two-year contract with Visp in November after failing to earn a contract on a training camp try-out with the Edmonton Oilers in September. It was Virtanen’s latest NHL setback after he was bought out by the Canucks in 2021.

Virtanen, the No. 6 pick in the 2014 draft by Vancouver, played 317 career NHL games over parts of six seasons with the Canucks, collecting 100 points (55 goals, 45 assists).

He now joins his third team in his third league since being bought out by Vancouver. Virtanen spent the 2021-22 season with Spartak Moskva in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), netting 16 points (nine goals, seven assists) in 36 games.

He becomes Fischtown’s second Canadian alongside captain Alex Friesen, who was selected in the sixth round (No. 172) of the 2010 NHL Draft by the Vancouver Canucks and played one game with the club in 2016.

Virtanen also has a player option to remain with the Pinguins next season.

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Reporters have a field day with Sam Brinton

'Why Would You Want Some Lady's Dirty Clothes?'

 Biden’s ‘Non-Binary’ Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief’s Rough Day in Court

BY ROBERT SPENCER 

6:04 PM ON FEBRUARY 15, 2023

   

Just a few months ago, Sam Brinton was a rising star in the universe of the woke. Back on June 29, he announced, with considerable fanfare, his new role as deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy and tweeted happily about being “one of if not the very first openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership.” 

But it all ended ignominiously less than six months later: on Dec. 12, a Department of Energy spokesbeing announced tersely: “Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee. By law, the Department of Energy cannot comment further on personnel matters.”

Brinton turned out to be carrying too much baggage: his firing came after he was caught purloining that baggage from airports in Minneapolis and Las Vegas. On Wednesday, he appeared in a Minnesota court on luggage theft charges, and it wasn’t exactly like facing Old Joe Biden’s sycophantic, far-Left press corps in Washington.

Brinton likes to parade around in women’s clothes, but the seriousness of the charges he faces was apparently sobering; for his court appearance on Wednesday, he left his skirts in the closet and dressed quite conservatively (for him) in a suit and black button-down shirt. The suit’s burgundy color, however, did make it an outfit more suitable for a Batman villain than for a conventional government official. 

Brinton, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, “could face up to five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine if found guilty.” As a cosseted member of the Leftist elite, Brinton is unlikely to be sentenced even to a fraction of that, but there is no doubt that his day in court was not the inspiring demonstration of how “diversity is our strength” that the Left would like all the public appearances of “non-binary” people to be.

Brinton was in court to face charges related to accusations that he stole a woman’s bag from the baggage claim area at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on Sept. 16. Speculation has persisted since then that Brinton’s grab-bag style when wearing women’s clothing resulted from his practice of wearing whatever he found in the bags he carried off. It’s tough to be essentially the only disgraced official of a spectacularly disgraceful administration, and Brinton had tried to dodge having to make this humiliating public appearance. His lawyers repeatedly requested that he be allowed to appear remotely, but Judge Gina Brandt stated that “the current District Policy does not allow for remote appearances to be conducted for Felony 1st Appearances on the Property Drug Calendar.”

Once he was in court, however, Brandt took pains to make him feel comfortable, accommodating his delusions by referring to him not as “Mr. Brinton,” but as “Mx Brinton.” According to the Daily Mail, which also fed Brinton’s delusions by ridiculously (and confusingly) referring to him using plural pronouns, “Mx is a common gender-neutral title given to non-binary people who do not wish to have a gender referred to in their title.”

Reporters on the scene, however, were less deferential. Brinton was peppered with questions, all of which he ignored, as he left the courthouse and walked to a waiting limo: 

“Are you here for an interview with the [Minnesota Gov. Tim] Walz administration?” That was a good question, as Walz would likely love to have a “gender-fluid, non-binary” individual prominently on staff. 

Another impertinent scribbler asked Brinton: “Did you visit the Larry Craig restroom?” Larry Craig was the U.S. senator who, in 2007, was arrested in a restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport for soliciting an undercover police officer for sex.

Brinton was also asked: “Do you have any comments on the train disaster in Ohio? You’re an expert in these things.” Brinton is indeed touted as an expert in nuclear waste disposal, but the material poisoning the atmosphere in Ohio is apparently not nuclear; was the reporter implying that Brinton himself was a train wreck? 

In any case, another asked Brinton: “Why would you want some lady’s dirty clothes?”

There’s the rub. Why indeed would Brinton have wanted to steal women’s luggage in the first place? That question gets to the heart of the problem: the very thing for which the Biden regime celebrated Brinton appears to be exactly the same thing that led him to commit acts that have gotten him charged with felony theft. That was the biggest message of his court appearance Wednesday. Whether anyone among the political and cultural elites will grasp that message, however, is an entirely different matter.

Approaching Sodom > Absolutely Unbelievable Madness in the White House; Sims - too Gay for Russia; Dr. fired for use of accurate pronouns; Culture Wars heating up; Roblox - Porn for kids?

Approaching Sodom attempts to document how the world, particularly the western world, becomes more and more like Sodom and Gomorrah before God destroyed them completely for their deviant sins. The world is 'progressing' ever so rapidly in that direction bringing God's wrath upon us sooner than most of us would believe.

This unbelievable story causes me to question whether we have already exceeded the wickedness of Sodom.

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Biden’s latest hire has an openly deviant lifestyle.

A sign of progress, or moral decay?

Sam Brinton’s appointment to a top US nuclear role poses legitimate questions

given his self-confessed bizarre sexual proclivities

Ian Miles Cheong is a political and cultural commentator. His work has been featured on The Rebel, Penthouse, Human Events, and The Post Millennial. Follow Ian on Twitter @stillgray and on Telegram @CultureWarRoom 

Sam Brinton © Jerod Harris / Getty Images for The Trevor Project

A colorful new hire of the Biden administration, “queer activist” Sam Brinton, is making waves on social media for his strange appearance and openly deviant lifestyle.

Brinton, who is a proud drag queen and “pup handler” – in other words, someone who leads gay men dressed in fetish gear around as they pretend to be dogs, before having sex with them – has been appointed to a high-ranking position in the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy.

On paper, a candidate with dual Masters degrees in nuclear and mechanical engineering from MIT would seem like a perfect fit. Brinton also has experience in the corridors of power, having previously advised the Obama White House on LGBTQ+ issues and worked with Congress on nuclear policy. His bio makes clear he has a solid professional background.

But Brinton’s public lifestyle is unsuited to the demands of a high-ranking public government position. 

Holding an important position in the DOE would ostensibly require him to interact with his foreign counterparts in China, Russia, and Iran – or any other country with a semblance of normalcy. In the case of Iran, a fundamentalist Muslim country with nuclear ambitions, the presence of an openly deviant drag queen would undoubtedly strain conversations, given that he would face persecution for his sexual proclivities there. 

Brinton’s hire is an example of the Biden administration’s woke initiatives towards “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI),” which also included the appointment of Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender health official to the Department of Health and Human Services. Levine was sworn in as the country’s first (female?) four-star admiral.

It shouldn’t be surprising that the Biden administration allows people suffering from woke hysteria and loose morals to rise to high-ranking government positions, as even Vice President Kamala Harris has joined in with her embrace of pronoun rituals.

As detailed by Colin Wright for the Wall Street Journal, “Participating in pronoun rituals makes you complicit in gender ideology’s regressive belief system, legitimizing it. Far from an innocuous act, it serves as an implicit endorsement of gender ideology and all of its radical tenets.”

For those not in the know, the pronoun ritual is a part of the progressive routine of identifying oneself with so-called ‘preferred pronouns’ like ‘they/them’ and ‘xe/xer’ while introducing oneself – alongside other bizarre rituals and phrases like ‘trigger warning’ and ‘check your privilege’ that first emerged from Tumblr and liberal American universities.

The Biden administration’s newest nuclear waste deputy isn’t shy about his deviancy. A Metro Weekly article showcases Brinton’s lifestyle as a handler in the “pup community.” In the piece, Brinton goes into quite astonishingly explicit detail about various techniques involved in his kink, as well as the sexual proclivities of other queer subjects. Click on the link if you’re so inclined, but be warned – it doesn’t make for edifying reading. No, you won't find the link on this blog!

Brinton has also given lectures about ‘kink lifestyles’ on college campuses, including a class for the University of Wisconsin-Stout Gender and Sexuality Alliance on the ‘Physics of Kink’.

In an Instagram post, the session was said to include “live demos on the tension forces of bondage, thermodynamics of wax play, physics of impact, and circuits of electro play!”

Brinton also led a ‘Kink 101’ lecture at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, with an Instagram post showing Brinton in a dress and heels, standing over three kneeling men in leather bondage gear.

The establishment’s left’s ongoing effort to promote ‘tolerance’ has become more than a slide into moral decay – the ‘woke’ left is sprinting at full speed, accelerating the destruction of conservative American values and traditions through an embrace of degeneracy.

Hiring Brinton is emblematic of the country’s social decline.

Not to mention the danger of having someone of questionable mental and emotional stability in such a powerful position. What madness has taken over the White House?

'Gay propaganda' law sees new 'Sims' installment pulled in Russia

The game’s developers claim Russian law would have interfered with

the depiction of lesbian characters

'The Sims 4' Developer: Maxis © Electronic Arts

A new installment from the makers of the massively popular video game series The Sims will not be sold in Russia, developers have announced, claiming that the presence of LGBT characters in marketing would have caused problems with Russian law.

Video games giant EA posted the news on its website, last week, one day after announcing the upcoming release of the ‘My Wedding Stories’ game pack for ‘The Sims 4’. As its name suggests, the expansion adds elements focused on marriage to the core game, which allows players to control characters in a whimsical simulation of real life. The promotional material for ‘My Wedding Stories’ features a lesbian couple named Dominique and Camille, which EA said would have caused problems in Russia due to legislation banning the depiction of “non-traditional sexual relationships” to minors.

“Imagining the stories our players will tell with our packs is at the heart of everything we create,” the company wrote. “For ‘My Wedding Stories’, we were excited to introduce you to Dom and Cam. Their love story reflects the lived experiences of so many members of our community and team.”

“As we moved through our development and brand storytelling process, we became aware that the way we wanted to tell Cam and Dom’s story would not be something we could freely share around the world.”

The statement continues, “We are committed to the freedom to be who you are, to love who you love and tell the stories you want to tell.” For that reason, EA wrote, they decided to forego the release of the expansion “where our storytelling would be subject to changes because of federal laws.”

‘The Sims 4’ previously earned an 18+ label in Russia due to the presence of homosexual relationships, and EA did not explain what, if any, harsher penalties it expected for the new expansion – although the concern appears to be over featuring same-sex couples in promotional material.

In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the nation’s so-called ‘gay propaganda law’, which prohibits the distribution of material deemed to promote “non-traditional sexual relationships” among minors. The legislation was passed with the stated goal of protecting children from being exposed to homosexuality and has been criticized domestically and internationally as an attack on LGBT rights. The Kremlin has insisted that it does not criminalize activity and only regulates what can be marketed to children and young people.

Christian Doctor Fired for Not Using Transgender Pronouns

Files Appeal: 'My Case Affects Everyone'

Michael Foust | 

ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | 

Monday, February 14, 2022

A British Christian doctor who was fired for refusing to use the preferred pronouns of transgender patients has filed an appeal, saying his case “affects everyone” who is “concerned by compelled speech” and “transgender ideology.”

David Mackereth, a doctor with 26 years of experience, was dismissed from his position in 2018 as an accident and emergency department (A&E) doctor when he refused to identify patients by their chosen gender instead of their biological sex.

Mackereth is a Christian who says his religious beliefs are protected by federal law.

A British judge in October 2019 ruled against Mackereth, saying the doctor’s beliefs about gender are not “worthy of respect in a democratic society” and are “incompatible with human dignity.”

Gender fluidity is not worthy of respect in a scientific society nor compatible with common sense.

Mackereth appealed the decision to the Employment Appeal Tribunal, which will hear the case March 28-29. The Christian Legal Centre is representing him.

“My case affects everyone, not just me and Bible-believing Christians, but anyone who is concerned by compelled speech and transgender ideology being enforced on the NHS and other public services,” the doctor said. “The judgment from two years ago said to Christians ‘you have to believe in transgender ideology.’ That is totalitarianism. It made out Christianity to be nothing, the Bible to be nothing. That cannot be allowed to stand.”

It's worse than that! It makes out transgender ideology to be normal which results in spectacular numbers of kids suffering with gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoric kids have extremely high numbers of attempted suicide. 80-85% of gender dysphoric kids normalize to their biological sex after puberty. Also, a large portion of gender dysphoric kids come from the autism spectrum. It's like encouraging people with anorexia to lose weight.

The doctor’s attorneys say a 2021 decision in a separate case could be beneficial. In that ruling, the Employment Appeal Tribunal sided with a woman, Maya Forstater, who had lost her job due to her biblical beliefs about transgenderism.

Mackereth says he was asked by his previous manager, “If you have a man six foot tall with a beard who says he wants to be addressed as ‘she’ and ‘Mrs,’ would you do that?” Mackereth said he would not.

“This was an astonishing judgment, and one that if upheld will have seismic consequences not just for the NHS and for Christians, but anyone in the workplace who is prepared to believe and say that we are created male and female,” said Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre. “The teaching of Genesis 1:27 is repeated throughout the Bible, including by Jesus Christ himself. It is fundamental to establishing the dignity of every human person but is, in a bizarre ironic twist, being branded as incompatible with that dignity.”

How long, O Lord, how long?

Parents suing govt over transgender ‘culture war’ in schools

The couple claim they were told children who expressed surprise or confusion

over a trans student would be deemed transphobic

Two parents who are suing the UK government over guidelines on transgender issues at their sons’ school have told RT that their children are trapped in a “culture war.”

British Christians Nigel and Sally Row previously told The Times that their two sons were left confused over ‘gender-fluid’ classmates.

After raising the issue with the Isle of Wight school, the Rows received a response saying a child would be dubbed ‘transphobic’ if he showed surprise or frustration over a friend’s unusual appearance. As a result, the couple chose to transfer both their sons to homeschooling and to launch legal action against the government.

In an interview with RT, the Rows said that a 500-page report, submitted by them to the court, contains “great warnings” from various specialists, including endocrinologists and psychologists. These explain in detail “what would happen if we continue to do this sort of thing in schools.”

The scandal, which has made headlines in the UK, shocked the tight-knitted school community. Speaking to The Times, Nigel described the “hostile” atmosphere his family has had to deal with.

However, in his conversation with RT, he mentioned that publicity has brought them unexpected allies from within the LGBTQ community. He referred to an email he was “really touched” with, from a lady who told him that she was a lesbian but supported their stance.

“I don’t want to see this kind of [trans] ideology being pushed on children,” her message said, as quoted by Row.

He said such messages prove that “people are beginning to understand what this really is all about – it’s basically a culture war.”

The parents expressed hope that the legal action would be a success and would contribute to the development of clear guidelines for schools on how to support all pupils, without enforcing any ideology.

The interview with the Rows came as the UK government categorically declined the idea of replacing ‘Sir’ and ‘Miss’ in the country’s schools with the gender-neutral term ‘Teacher’. Calling the measure – which was proposed by the Educate and Celebrate charity – “inappropriate and completely unnecessary,” a Department of Education spokesperson, quoted by the media, said that “it should not be happening in our classrooms.”

A recent refusal by more than two dozen private girls’ schools in England to admit transgender students dealt another blow to trans activists – but the problem of how to handle trans issues in schools remains unresolved.

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), which represents headteachers, has issued a call to the government to urgently clarify the measures the schools should take amid a growing number of transgender ‘coming-outs’.

Kids’ game contains virtual sex ‘condos’

Private sex spaces keep popping up in Roblox, according to a new BBC report

© Getty Images / Pavlo Gonchar

‘Roblox’, a game targeted towards children with its simple graphics, blocky characters, and an E for Everyone rating, has been found to contain sexually explicit spaces called ‘condos’, which feature players discussing adult topics and engaging in virtual sex acts.

A recent report from the BBC exposed the adult side of the ‘Roblox’ community, describing these condos as featuring a man wearing a Nazi uniform, a couple openly having sex in front of a group of spectators, and people engaging in BDSM play – all on a platform that is among the most popular children’s games in the world.

The issue stems from the fact that ‘Roblox’ is not actually a game in the traditional sense; it is a platform where users can create custom games using its assets, as well as importing their own. Players can then share their creations with others and even earn money by having their game succeed. 

While the platform’s Terms of Service explicitly prohibit any adult content, moderators are having a hard time keeping the creators of adult-themed games at bay. Most of the condos are taken down quickly, sometimes in less than an hour, but the company still accepts that it has a problem: “We know there is an extremely small subset of users who deliberately try to break the rules,” developers Roblox told the BBC in a statement. “We have zero tolerance for sexual content or behavior of any kind, and we take swift action against anyone found to be acting in breach of our Community Standards.”

The process for taking down these condo games is usually a mixture of both manual review and automated filters that scan every image, video, and audio file that gets uploaded to the platform. But some content still manages to slip through in what Roblox describes as a “cat and mouse” issue.

While it’s unknown how many children have been exposed to these sex games, as the condos are not something players can accidentally stumble upon without explicitly searching for them, the prospect that kids under the age of 13 could potentially be socialising with adults in these spaces and the in-game messenger has been of particular concern to worried parents.

Roblox has announced that it will develop ‘Parental Control’ tools that could be used to restrict who children can interact with on the platform and what experiences they can access.

This isn't the first time the company has been under fire for malicious practices on its platform. Earlier reports suggested that there was also rampant child abuse and exploitation, with kids being tricked into developing games for third-party companies, often without pay and under stressful conditions.

Roblox has also been accused of making false promises and exploiting its audience by making money off of its users’ creations while severely undercutting the developers. In a recent blog post, the company seemingly addressed the issue, promising to reduce its minimum Robux (in-game currency) payout amount to make its real-world economy fairer to creators. They also announced actions against third-party sites to prevent scams, but no further details or specifics were provided.

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Dad Loses Custody of Child for Opposing Transgender Treatments:

'This Case Should Frighten' America

Michael Foust | 

ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | 

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

A California father lost custody of his transgender-identifying 16-year-old child after declaring his opposition to hormone therapy and after the judge asked the dad if he believes transgenderism “is a sin,” according to a new report.

The father, Ted Hudacko, expressed unconditional love for his biological son in court proceedings before California Superior Court Judge Joni Hiramoto, who continually asked the dad if he could affirm the child’s self-identity. The child, a biological male, identifies as female and prefers they/them pronouns.

Because of the father’s position, he eventually lost all parental rights, with no ability to see his child and no right to stop any medical treatments that could leave the child permanently infertile, according to the report.

The shocking case was detailed in a news story in the City Journal by author and writer Abigail Shrier, who calls the child “Drew” in the report.

The case began in 2019 but became public this month. Hudacko’s wife, who supported the child’s transition, had filed for divorce, according to the story.

The father expressed unease about hormone treatments, asking the judge “to consider research that suggested puberty blockers could impair cognition and diminish bone density,” Shrier reported. Hormone treatment, the father said, could make the child permanently infertile – a major concern if his child later decides to de-transition.

“He wasn’t even sure that his son had gender dysphoria,” Shrier wrote. “He wanted to see his son – and he wanted this bullet train to slow down.”

The father remembered his child having a crush on a girl in the fifth grade.

“[D]o you think that being transgender is a sin?” the judge asked, according to the court transcript.

“No, of course, I don’t think it’s a sin,” the father replied.

But it is! Deuteronomy 22:5

“A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God.

“So you don’t think that it’s a sin,” the judge said. “But you probably think that [Drew], if they are truly transgender, you would prefer that [Drew] not be transgender because, in our society, transgender people are the subject of a lot of discrimination. Would you agree with that?”

“I agree that transgender people suffer some discrimination and prejudice. I agree with that,” the father answered.

The father acknowledged that the child “might be” transgender, yet that alone was not enough for the judge to continue his parental rights.

“It sounds to me that you would prefer that [Drew], when all is said and done, is just going through a phase,” the judge said. “Is that a fair assessment?”

80-85% of gender dysphoric children revert to their biological sex after puberty - Johns Hopkins

Also, trans children and adults have an attempted suicide rate that is exponentially higher than the rest of society. 

We need a major lawsuit on those two factors alone.

The father avoided answering the question, believing the judge was trying to trap him, Shrier reported.

“In the three years I’ve spent writing about families with transgender-identifying minors, the story of Ted Hudacko stood out as a case study of how gender ideology has infiltrated family law,” Shrier wrote. 

“It also frames the unintended consequences of medical professionals’ fudging science, rewriting medical definitions, and tolerating shoddy research to placate activists. At each stage, doctors may have thought: Where was the harm? And so, as a consequence, judges now decide the fate of children and their families based on phony, medically unsubstantiated metaphysics, as if it were factual that all adolescents have an immutable, ineffable ‘gender identity,’ knowable only to the adolescents themselves.”

Last year, the father was “stunned” to see a $209,820.34 charge on his insurance statement. It was the cost of a puberty-blocking implant and cross-sex hormone treatments.

Meanwhile, the judge failed to disclose that her own child is transgender – and that she, on social media, is publicly supportive. Shrier called it a conflict of interest.

The California Policy Council says the case is a tragic example of “groupthink.”

“The system within our country and state that is meant to protect and establish justice has done the exact opposite,” the council said. “This case should frighten and awaken our entire country. Our own judicial system is under attack by dangerous gender ideology, and if we don’t boldly stand up now, the trend will continue, and parents’ rights will be dependent on their wokeness.”

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Approaching Sodom > Biden's Gender fluid official charged with felony theft; What's really driving the spectacular rise in Gender Dysphoria numbers

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Man Charged with Felony Theft Identified as 'Gender Fluid' Biden Official

By Abby Liebing, Wall Street Journal

November 28, 2022 at 11:52am

Sam Brinton, who originally made headlines for being “gender fluid” and receiving a position in the Biden administration at the U.S. Department of Energy, made the news again for being charged with a felony after allegedly stealing luggage at the Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport.

Earlier in the year, Brinton became the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition at the Energy Department, as he announced on Twitter in June.

“It’s official. As of June 19th, I now serve my nation as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy in the Department of Energy,” Brinton tweeted.

“As one of if not the very first openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership, I was welcomed with open arms into the Department of Energy all the way up to the Secretary whom I shared the stage with in a Pride month celebration panel just today,” Brinton added in the Twitter thread.

Brinton also has a background as a “non-binary drag queen” and is a transgender activist, notably associated with the Order of Perpetual Indulgence, “a non-profit group who dress up as nuns to raise awareness of sexual intolerance and transphobia,” the Daily Mail reported.

And he was selected by Joe Biden, theoretically a Catholic.

But, on Sept. 16 there was a complaint at the MSP airport from a female that her bag was missing when she went to pick it up at baggage claim, Alpha News reported.

Law enforcement checked surveillance video which reportedly showed Brinton taking the bag and removing the luggage tag and then returning to the airport two days later with the bag.

Later, surveillance video also reportedly showed Brinton with the bag yet again on Oct. 9 at the Dulles International Airport in Virginia, Alpha News reported.

The woman to whom the bag originally belonged to, claimed that the bag and her belonging in it were worth over $2,000, Alpha News noted.

According to Alpha News’ reporting, the police asked Brinton about the bag and he admitted that he had taken it but that his clothes were in it.

“If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it, but I don’t have any clothes for another individual. That was my clothes when I opened the bag,” Brinton reportedly told the police.

Alpha News reported that Brinton is scheduled for a hearing on Dec. 19 in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

I'm sure he's telling the truth! After all, would a transgender, non-binary Drag Queen who dresses up as a nun, ever tell a lie? God forbid! 

Transgenderism is a mental illness, and, like anorexia, should not be encouraged. 

Growing Body Of Evidence Shows What's Really Causing

Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria in Teens

By Laurel Duggan, Wall Street Journal

November 25, 2022 at 8:47am

The recent surge in transgender identification is caused in part by peer influence, a growing body of evidence suggests, and some transgender advocates are acknowledging this issue.

Many activists argue that transgenderism has become more prevalent because growing social acceptance allows more transgender people, who would otherwise keep their gender identity a secret, to live openly. Critics of youth gender transitions, however, argue that the growing rate of transgender identification in adolescents, along with rapidly changing demographics of transgender people, are evidence that peer influence is driving young people to identify as transgender who otherwise wouldn’t.

I have been reporting this phenomenon for years, and it's disappointing that it took MSM this long to start to catch on.

Gender dysphoria used to be observed primarily in males, according to Reuters. That trend has been fully reversed over the past 15 years; among adolescents seeking transgender medical interventions, biological females outnumber biological males by a factor of 2.5 to 7.1.

This drastic change in the transgender population was driven by peer influence, some medical professionals argue. Dr. Erica Anderson, a psychologist who works with transgender children, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that peer influence, particularly through social media as a result of teens’ social isolation, is at least partially to blame for soaring rates of gender identity issues among adolescent girls.

“I think the people who are on the far right who say it’s all social influence are wrong. But people on the far left who say there can be no social influence are also wrong,” Anderson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Adolescents are very susceptible to peer influence, so to suggest there can be no influence on young people is preposterous and flies in the face of everything we know about teenagers.”

I may be considered by those on the left to be on the far-right - however, I don't believe 'it’s all social influence'. I suspect in recent years that the majority of girls are influenced by social media, but certainly not all. Transgenderism is basically a mental illness. The most dreadful thing about girls who are not mentally ill and who transition to boys is that they come to regret it. When they realize that it's not completely reversible, many become suicidal. In a large English study, more than 50% of girls who transitioned to boys attempted suicide while still quite young.

A study published in the scientific journal Plos One surveyed 256 parents whose children experienced rapid onset of gender dysphoria. The vast majority, 86.7 percent, of adolescents either started spending more time online or were in a friend group with at least one other transgender person prior to identifying as transgender, according to the study.

The study was meant to explore growing reports from parents of their children suddenly adopting transgender identities after puberty after apparent peer influence. In 36.8 percent of the friendship groups reported in the study, parent participants said the majority of its members identified as transgender. Parents also reported a decline in their children’s mental health and in parent-child relationships following adoption of transgender identities.

Childhood gender dysphoria diagnoses rose 70 percent from 2020 to 2021, according to medical records of 330 million Americans analyzed by Komodo Health Inc. From 2017 to 2021, childhood diagnoses more than doubled, according to the same data set.

Anderson, who is transgender, has voiced criticism of doctors who put minors through medical interventions without thorough psychological screening. Anderson rejects the notion that surging rates of transgender affiliation are driven wholly by social acceptance.

“I do not believe that there was this huge hidden number of transgender people in previous generations,” Anderson said.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which supports medical interventions for children who believe they’re transgender, acknowledged the social contagion phenomenon in its newest standards of care. The guidelines acknowledged a sudden surge in “nonbinary” identities, as well as a growing number of patients who didn’t experience gender dysphoria in childhood — both signs of possible peer influence.

“For a select subgroup of young people, susceptibility to social influence impacting gender may be an important differential to consider,” the standards of care read. “However, caution must be taken to avoid assuming these phenomena occur prematurely in an individual adolescent.”

WPATH is careful to avoid suggesting doctors should be skeptical of young people’s transgender identities or assume social influence is driving them.

A growing group of so-called detransitioners — individuals who underwent cross-sex medical procedures but eventually came to regret it — have come out against childhood transitions, and many of them say they were influenced by social media and online communities.

I wonder why Lauren, the writer of this article, chose to describe detransitioners as "so-called"?

“I would definitely say social media played a role in keeping the process of everything going, as well as some issues with being groomed and preyed upon by people online,” Luka, a 20-year-old detransitioner, recently told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The youth-dominated platform TikTok is flooded with content promoting medical interventions, including surgeries, as the solution to common adolescent woes such as discomfort with one’s body.

Was there ever an adolescent who was comfortable with their body?

“Rising rates of transgender identification are driven by a combination of factors: the pandemic, social isolation and a huge upswing in consumption of social media. Deplorably, there are medical providers on TikTok telling kids that if they’re unhappy with their body, maybe they’re in the wrong body and should consider transition,” Anderson told the DCNF. “It’s horrible that kids are getting this kind of advice from unvetted strangers on the internet, most of whom have no medical qualifications.”

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Approaching Sodom > Public Libraries like Drag Queens, but Reject Christians; Biden's token weirdo steals again

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Kirk Cameron’s religious ‘story hour’ shot down by public libraries:

‘Not interested’

By Emily Lefroy, NY Post

December 7, 2022 5:01pm  Updated

Actor Kirk Cameron's applications to host story hours at various public libraries were reportedly rejected by more than 50 of them. Getty Images; FOX News

Actor and Christian activist Kirk Cameron is claiming that more than 50 public libraries have rejected his applications to hold a “story hour” to promote his new faith-based children’s book, accusing them of indulging the “woke left.”

The “Growing Pains” star says he hasn’t been given a story hour slot in public libraries, claiming that his publisher, Brave Books, has been told the messaging of his faith-based book, “As You Grow,” “does not align” with the LGBTQ-welcoming institutions.

Dozens of public libraries in the US have reportedly rejected or not responded to his publisher’s request for the former child star to hold an event, according to Fox News.

“We are a very queer-friendly library. Our messaging does not align,” one library worker from Rochambeau Public Library in Providence, Rhode Island — which promotes an event called the “Queer Umbrella” — reportedly told Brave Books.

Cameron, 52, has previously condemned gay people, saying that homosexuality is “unnatural,” “detrimental” and “ultimately destructive.”

Fox reported that the publisher was told by the library official, “You can fill out the form to reserve space, to run the program in our space — but we won’t run your program.”

Another branch, City Heights/Weingart Branch Library, in San Diego, California, told them they didn’t think that’s something they would do, citing the diverse community as their reason.

“I don’t know how many people you would get,” the individual reportedly said.

There is only one way to find out! Did you know how many people you would get when you started running programs by drag queens?

Brave Books took umbrage with the library’s responses, noting that some have hosted LGBTQ+ story times with drag queens in the past and wondering why they were being rejected.

“It is devastating to discover that many of our publicly funded libraries have now become indoctrination centers that refuse to allow biblical wisdom to be taught to our children,” Trent Talbot, founder and CEO of Texas-based Brave Books, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Cameron described his book as teaching “biblical wisdom and the value of producing the fruit of the spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control,” with his publisher accusing libraries of pandering to the “woke left.”

“The woke left understands that morality is instilled by the age of 10, and they want their morality to win, not the morality that the Bible teaches,” Talbot said.

“This is proof that more than ever, we are getting destroyed in the battle for the hearts and minds of our children,” Cameron ranted to Fox. “Publicly funded libraries are green-lighting ‘gender marker and name change clinics’ while denying a story time that would involve the reading of a book that teaches biblical wisdom. How much more clear can it get?”

Drag queen storytime events — which involve performers in drag outfits reading books to kids — are a contentious issue around the country, causing an outcry by some who deem it detrimental to children.

This past weekend, a Columbus, Ohio, drag queen story hour was canceled when far-right extremist organizations including the Proud Boys, White Lives Matter Ohio and Patriot Front planned to protest the event.

According to reports, about 50 people — some carrying weapons — rallied against the event.

What a shame that it has come to that. In the battle between good and evil, America's public libraries have chosen sides. The public needs to get involved and insist that if they are going to run drag queen story times, they must also run Biblical story times. 

This front in the battle for the morality of our children will lead to another generation of confused and lost children who deny the reality of biological genders, and who ignore or reject Biblical teaching.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV /

“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

How long, Oh Lord, how long?

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Is there a certain level of madness in Sam Brinton? Is he devoid of a moral compass? Is this how he does his shopping for women's clothes? Is he seriously qualified to work in nuclear administration? This is a failed experiment by Joe Biden and it only took a few months to manifest.

Non-binary Biden nuclear official Sam Brinton accused in second luggage heist

By Allie Griffin, NY Post

December 9, 2022 2:34am  Updated

A Biden administration Energy Department official who allegedly stole a woman’s suitcase from a Minneapolis airport in September has been accused of another luggage heist at a Las Vegas airport.

A felony warrant on grand larceny charges was issued for Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, 8 News Now reported Thursday.

Brinton, who made history as one of the federal government’s first gender-fluid officials, allegedly stole luggage from another traveler at Harry Reid International Airport in Vegas on an unknown date, according to the outlet.

Details about the alleged theft are scarce, but 8 News Now stated that Brinton, 35, was charged with grand larceny with a value between $1,200 and $5,000.

The energy official, who uses they/them pronouns, reportedly has sticky fingers for suitcases.

Brinton was placed on leave from the Department of Energy after they were charged with felony theft for reportedly snatching a woman’s Vera Bradley suitcase from baggage claim at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on Sept. 16, according to court documents.

The suitcase and the woman’s belongings inside it were valued at $2,325.

Brinton initially denied taking the luggage but later claimed they mistook it for their own bag at baggage claim — despite never having checked a bag before their flight, according to court filings.

This marks the second time nuclear official Sam Brinton has been accused of stealing luggage.

Getty Images for The Trevor Proj

They allegedly removed the suitcase’s ID tag after plucking it from the luggage carousel, video surveillance showed.

They were later seen using the Vera Bradley suitcase on at least two occasions, while traveling to Washington, DC, on Sept. 18 and Oct. 9, investigators said.

​Brinton was subsequently charged with felony theft of a moveable property without consent and placed on leave following the accusation.

Earlier this week, a group of House Republicans called for Brinton to step down over the initial allegations.

R​ep. ​Andrew Clyde of Georgia and 15 other Republicans sent a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday calling for Brinton’s removal from the department.

“We demand the resignation of Sam Brinton, and we implore you to set aside petty politics and appoint only the most qualified and dedicated individuals to influence America’s energy sector​,” the GOP lawmakers wrote.

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Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Weirdo Brinton appears in stolen designer dresses; NY1 Weatherman live-streamed porn of himself

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Dresses worn by Sam Brinton were destined for fashion show,

designer claims

By Andy Tillett and Katherine Donlevy, NYPost

February 23, 2023 8:30pm  Updated

A Houston designer claims she had to cancel a fashion show after her bag full of the custom-made pieces was lost at a Washington DC airport – only for them to seemingly resurface years later being worn by former Department of Energy official Sam Brinton.

Asya Khamsin filed a lost luggage report after her bag containing 30 original designs disappeared from Ronald Reagan Washington Airport in DC on March 9, 2018, meaning she had to pull out of the planned show.

Several years later, the native Tanzanian designer stumbled on photographs of Brinton – who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns – wearing what appeared to be the same original custom dresses.

Speaking from Zanzibar, Khamsin told The Post: “I was thinking, ‘Who took my bag, where is it?’ for a long time. Then I see images of the outfits [being worn by Brinton] and I was so confused and upset.

“I was thinking, where did he get those clothes – because I didn’t think he was a thief.”

Khamsin also posted a series of pictures online showing the disgraced former Department of Energy official wearing elaborate dresses side-by-side with her missing dress designs, which look identical.

Head of Advocacy The Trevor Project Sam Brinton speaks onstage during The Trevor Project TrevorLIVE NYC at Cipriani Wall Street on June 11, 2018 in New York City. 

Khamsin does not accuse Brinton of stealing the clothes or her luggage from the Washington DC airport, but said she is confused how they ended up in their possession.

Why not? It would be true to his character. But this case suggests that Brinton may be very diligent in choosing which luggage to steal.

The designer explained the dresses and jewelry had originally been displayed at the Lady In Red fashion show she runs in Dar es Salaam and said she was passing through Washington DC to show them on her way home to Houston when her case disappeared. She shared her conversations with officials about the lost luggage with Fox news.

Brinton, 35, served as the Biden administration’s deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy, but was fired after they were charged with stealing a woman’s suitcase from a Minneapolis airport and another woman’s bag from a Las Vegas airport over the summer.

Brinton wearing an outfit that Khamsin claims is from her luggage at an event on December 3, 2018.

Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for The Trevor Project

In both cases, Brinton had traveled on flights from Washington DC before allegedly swiping the bags from the airports’ baggage carousels.

After seeing Brinton wearing what she believes is her stolen garb, Khamsin filed a report with the Houston Police Department on Dec. 16. The next month, she claims she was contacted by the agency’s field office in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

She added: “I don’t know if I would like the clothes back. The investigation is in good hands with the FBI. I’m waiting on them, they will do the right thing.”

Your faith in the FBI, Aysa, exceeds my own by some considerable margin. Good luck.

Police probing possible revenge porn case of former

NY1 weatherman Erick Adame

By Natalie O'Neill, NYPost

March 1, 2023 4:21pm  Updated

Cops are investigating who leaked live-streamed porn images of former NY1 weatherman Erick Adame, according to a report Wednesday.

The Emmy-nominated but now out-of-work meteorologist told WNYC he believes a mystery voyeur became obsessed with distributing nude images of him in an apparent effort to embarrass him.

“I concluded, it’s the same person that is just obsessed with posting these pictures of me,” he said in his first interview since the scandal led to his firing.

“Some of them are so humiliating.”

Adame, 39, has since hired a lawyer to get the IP address of the person who posted the images online.

Police are also probing the leak, the station said, though it was not revealed which department is conducting the investigation.

Adame lives in New Jersey, NY1 is based in Manhattan and his mother, who was sent some of the dirty images, lives upstate.

Erick Adame, the former NY1 weatherman, circulated around the internet resulting into him losing his job.

Instagram/Erick Adame

It was also unclear what law enforcement could do, as the images may not qualify as “revenge porn,” the radio station reported.

Under New York law, a person must have a “reasonable expectation of privacy,” and live-streaming may not be protected.

The ex-weatherman was fired in September after images of him live-streaming sex acts were taken from an adult website without his permission.

It soon emerged that he mentioned his job and other personal details during a camming session made in December 2021.

Adame apologized and admitted that he had a “compulsion,” saying it was “absurd of me to think I could keep this private.”

Proud, or embarrassed for being gay?

Since his embarrassing public firing, Adame told WNYC he has been harassed by sadistic trolls online.

“There is a mixture of support and then you’d have this random message calling me whatever name to degrade me and then saying you want some more? I can be your daddy,” he said.

“You know —no. I just lost this job that I really loved. I’m being publicly humiliated and you think I enjoy this?”

He also opened up about the root of his compulsion to make live sex videos for strangers on the internet, confessing it stemmed from  “low self-esteem” from being rejected for being gay.

Is that really his reason, or his excuse? It's hard to imagine someone being on TV every day has low self-esteem. The sex videos suggest he was more likely proud of his gayness. 

“Showing off and getting that type of praise and being called sexy, I wanted to see more. Hearing that from someone on the other end made you feel so good,” he said.

Now, he says, he’s in a committed relationship and that his sex life no longer involves the internet.

Ultimately he said he regrets camming while hedging on whether he thinks his firing was fair. 

“I don’t apologize for being sex positive — but I apologize because I am a role model, ” he said. “What it comes to is, as a news person, I live under different rules. I don’t think that’s fair, but I think that we do.”

It's the first time I have encountered that term - sex-positive! I don't know what it means, but I suspect it is not something good. 

Approaching Sodom > Taiwan leads Asia down Garden Path; Sam Brinton arrested again; Ontario Library disallows free speech

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Another country abandons all fear of God and puts children at risk. Then holds itself up as an example for other Asian countries to emulate.

Taiwan grants full adoption rights to same-sex couples

Issued on: 17/05/2023 - 13:45

Text by: NEWS WIRES, 2 min

Taiwanese gay couple Chen Jun-ru (R), holding his daughter, and Wang Chen-wei (L) arrive

at the Xinyi District Office in Taipei on January 13, 2022. © Sam Yeh, AFP

Taiwan's parliament passed an amendment on Tuesday allowing gay couples to jointly adopt children, a move hailed by activists as "another big step forward" for marriage equality.

And, another big step further from God and common sense.

Taiwan is at the vanguard of Asia's burgeoning LGBTQ rights movement, becoming the first place in the region to legalise marriage equality in 2019.

But same-sex couples still faced restrictions, such as being unable to jointly adopt children. While individuals in Taiwan were allowed to adopt regardless of sexual orientation, those in same-sex marriages could not both be legal parents unless the child was one partner's biological offspring.

On Tuesday -- the eve of the fourth anniversary of Taiwan's marriage equality law -- parliament passed the amendment removing those restrictions, with lawmaker Fan Yun hailing the cross-party support for the bill.

The amendment "not only ensures the protection of children's rights but also meets their best interest", said Fan, who was draped in a rainbow flag.

"In the future, spouses and parents, regardless of gender and sexual orientation, can have full legal protection."

The amendment comes after a family court in southern Kaohsiung City last year ruled in favour of a married gay man seeking to share parenthood of his husband's adoptive child -- the first verdict of its kind.

"After four years of hard work, today the parliament finally passed the (bill for) adoption without blood relationship by same-sex couples," the advocacy group Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights said in a statement.

The group also hailed Taiwan's recent recognition of transnational same-sex marriage -- a move made in January by then-premier Su Tseng-chang to lift restrictions for international couples.

Previously foreigners were not allowed to wed their Taiwanese partners if they came from territories banning same-sex marriage -- which is much of Asia.

But one of Su's last acts in office was to recognise such unions -- including for couples from Hong Kong and Macau, though not mainland China, which is governed under a different set of regulations in Taiwan.

"Following the full recognition of transnational same-sex marriage in January, Taiwan has taken another big step towards marriage equality," the alliance said of the adoption amendment.

Taiwan is home to a thriving LGBTQ community -- a record 200,000 people attended a pride march in Taipei in 2019 to celebrate the legalisation of same-sex marriage.

That law came about after Taiwan's top court ruled that denying same-sex couples the right to marry was discriminatory and unconstitutional.

Over the next two years, at least 7,000 same-sex couples tied the knot according to 2021 data from the Interior Ministry.

The alliance said Tuesday it would continue to push for more rights for same-sex couples, including recognition of Taiwanese-Chinese marriages.

(AFP)

Of course, there is no mention of God, by anyone involved here, especially the reporters. But any fear of God has to be abandoned before any such moves can be made. Now, so few people actually believe in God anymore, so it's easy to ignore Him. This will change sometime in this decade when He has decided that the world's sins have filled to the brim. We are approaching Sodom, God sees it clearly, but we are blind - we choose to be!

Non-binary ex-Biden nuclear official Sam Brinton arrested

for being ‘fugitive from justice’

By Olivia Land, NYPost

May 18, 2023 1:08pm  Updated

The former Biden administration nuclear official who was axed late last year after they were caught red-handed in a string of luggage thefts was arrested at home this week, police confirmed.

Samuel Brinton, 35, was taken into custody at their home in Rockville, Maryland, at 10 p.m. Wednesday, the Montgomery Country Police Department told The Post Thursday.

Brinton is currently in custody pending charges of Grand Larceny stemming from allegations of stolen property at Ronald Reagan National Airport that the department learned of in Feb. 2023, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police said.

Arrest records show that Brinton — who is non-binary and uses they pronouns — was arrested on the 700 block of College Parkway as a fugitive from justice.

“They are being held at the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit on a no-bond status as they await an extradition hearing,” an MCPD spokesperson explained.

The investigation is being spearheaded by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police.

Someone claiming to be a neighbor of Brinton and Reike told the Daily Wire on Thursday that “four unmarked police showed up” at their residence last night and escorted Brinton away in handcuffs an hour later.

News of Brinton’s alleged arrest comes one month after they pleaded no contest to charges stemming from the theft of a woman’s luggage at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport in July 2022.

Sam Brinton was arrested at their Maryland home earlier this week.

Getty Images for The Trevor Project

Brinton was caught on camera stealing luggage at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas last year.

8NewsNow.com

In exchange for the plea deal, Brinton was ordered to pay the woman back and given a 180-day suspended jail sentence.

Days later, Brinton agreed to undergo a mental health evaluation as part of an adult diversion program at a hearing stemming from similar charges related to a theft at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in September 2022.

Although the MWAA declined to elaborate on the case, the latest pending charges against Brinton may be tied to Asya Khamsin, a Tanzanian fashion designer who shared images of the MIT grad wearing her stolen custom clothing. 

“I saw the images. Those were my custom designs, which were lost in that bag in 2018,” Khamsin told The Post, shortly after she tweeted images of Brinton in the brightly-colored frock.

Khamsin said she was not trying to accuse the disgraced Dept. of Energy bigwig of theft, but was “confused” about how the clothing came into their possession.

Khamsin’s attorney, Peter Hansen, did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment.

Is this a case of a man who just refuses to follow any rules from anyone? He refuses to listen to God, he refuses to listen to the laws of the country, he refuses to listen to anyone, apparently. This is where it gets him.

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London Public Library refuses to rent space to event

featuring author of 'How Woke Won'

The Society for Academic Freedom will host Joanna Williams

at hotel and university instead

Rebecca Zandbergen · CBC News · 

Posted: May 18, 2023 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: May 18

The London Public Library has called down a free speaking event by British author, Joanna Williams and hosted by the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.

The London Public Library in southwestern Ontario has denied a request for one of its branches to be the site of a speaking event featuring controversial British author Joanna Williams, hosted by the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship. (Rebecca Zandbergen/CBC News)

The London Public Library in southwestern Ontario is standing by its decision to block The Society for Academic Freedom from holding an event featuring controversial British author and commentator Joanna Williams.

Williams's books include Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity and How Woke Won. Her views on being woke — which has come to refer to being aware of prejudice, discrimination and social inequalities — are divisive. She questions, for instance, the impact of inclusivity and diversity on politics, academia, the media and big business, and the role they play in cancel culture.

We can add 'being against anything Godly' to that definition of 'woke'.

The Society for Academic Freedom (SAFS) — which says on its website that it is opposed to "speech codes ... and so-called anti-hate legislation" — had hoped to host Williams at the library's annual general meeting this week, but its request to rent space was denied in April.

The event is now set for Friday at a London hotel and Saturday at Western University.

"There were multiple policy concerns, all of which were considered together by our senior leadership team and board in making this decision," said Michael Ciccone, the library's chief executive officer.

The library is committed to supporting Londoners and the community of London, and we are guided by the values in our strategic plan, which include exceptional service and anti-racism and anti-oppression.

- Michael Ciccone, CEO, London Public Library 

However, it seems the strategic plan does not include protecting free speech or encouraging dialogue. Isn't that what libraries are about, or are they just places for hyper-sensitive people to hide in a corner and pretend the rest of the world is nice?

Ciccone wouldn't list the specific policies the team considered. He also acknowledged not everyone would agree with the library's decision.

Williams is the author of several books, including How Woke Won. (Submitted by Joanna Williams)

"We exist in the public space and our decisions are sometimes subject to a wide range of public opinion which we welcome and we value," he said.

Ah, what? Isn't that the exact opposite of what you just did?

All rental applications are evaluated and can be denied according to library policy, although very few are, he said.

"I think it's a decision that we never come to lightly," said Ciccone. "But in this particular case, the library is committed to supporting Londoners and the community of London, and we are guided by the values in our strategic plan, which include exceptional service and anti-racism and anti-oppression."

Not to mention - anti-Christian.

A progress Pride flag with the words Library Space Is Community Place greets patrons at

the London Public Library. (Rebecca Zandbergen/CBC News)

'They won't wish my ideas away'

"I think these debates should be heard in the public square," said Williams, who regularly touts the importance of single-sex spaces and the "biological reality" of the female sex.

Libraries are about advancing knowledge and they should be the ideal place

for airing contentious views.

- Joanna Williams, British author

"Libraries should be the site of public debate," she told CBC London. "Libraries are about advancing knowledge and they should be the ideal place for airing contentious views.

"Unfortunately for the people who disagree with me, they won't wish my ideas away," said Williams.

"I actually think for people who disagree with me, it's even more important that the debate be had out in public because then they can challenge me, they can ask me questions." 

"I find it disturbing and frightening that the public library would refuse to rent us space," said SAFS president Mark Mercer. "It's frightening, because the library is saying to all individuals and groups that they must satisfy the tastes and aspirations of the library's managers before they can rent space.

This means that all individuals and groups are vulnerable," said Mercer..

Organizations such as SAFS often use the free speech mantra to push harmful and violent language against diverse communities, said Ware.

In the fall of 2019, hundreds of people protested outside a Toronto library over an appearance by a controversial speaker whose remarks about transgender women have sparked anger in the LGBTQ community. 

"I never thought I'd see a moment where we would be protesting libraries, but this was essential to keep them safe for trans and non-binary communities," said Ware.

And, after all, isn't that what libraries are for?