Mike Huckabee has lashed out at President Obama for inviting LGBT activists and pro-choice campaigners to meet with Pope Francis.
The Republican presidential candidate, who seems to be competing with Ted Cruz for the conservative Christian vote, wrote an op-ed for Daily Caller in which he stated that Obama was showing “total disrespect to millions of Americans by transforming Pope Francis’ White House visit into a politicized cattle call for gay and pro-abortion activists.”
“Welcoming a pro-life, pro-marriage leader at the White House with a crowd of abortion and gay rights activists is as classy as hosting an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with an open bar,” he said. “President Obama should be ashamed of himself.”
Huckabee also reiterated his claim that “this administration supports the criminalization of Christianity in America,” using the example of Kim Davis — who was jailed for failing to follow a judge’s order, not for being a Christian bigot.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Vatican has taken offense to the White House’s inclusion of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and Mateo Williamson, a former co-head of the transgender branch of Dignity USA, among others on the official invite list for the Pope’s visit. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended the list — and refuted claims that Obama was making a political statement — pointing out that 15,000 people had been invited to D.C. to meet Pope Francis.
“I would warn you against drawing a lot of conclusions about one or two or maybe even three people who may be on the guest list, because there will be 15,000 other people there too,” he said.
Huckabee is no stranger to opposing Obama’s actions in office, last week objecting to the President’s nomination of Eric Fanning — who is gay — to be Army Secretary. Fanning spent 25 years serving in various military-related positions, including as as Under Secretary and Acting Secretary of the Air Force, but Huckabee blasted his nomination as “pandering to liberal interest groups.”
It's a little late, but still seasonal. Happy First Contact Day! This Star Trek holiday, April 5, commemorates the fictional arrival of extraterrestrial aliens in 2063. I may have enjoyed a really lovely Easter brunch this year, amid Holi and Ramadan/Eid al-Fitr, and Passover barely more than a week away, but I'm no Christian, nor any of the other recognized options.
My fantastical faith, however, has many of the traditional trappings. You want a savior to be tested in the desert? As third officer on a Pan Am flight from Karachi to Istanbul in 1947, Gene Roddenberry, who later created Star Trek, was the ranking officer to survive that ill-fated flight's crash landing in the Syrian desert.
A former Christian school teacher has been arrested and charged with committing several violent crimes against men he met through the gay dating app Grindr.
Antoine Perteet, 33, a former physical education teacher and security guard at Lions Mathematics and Science Christian Academy in Waukegan, is accused of using Grindr to target potential victims and rob them.
The school has since removed him from its faculty directory, according to a report from the Lake McHenry County Scanner.
Perteet, a Waukegan resident who is married and has four children, has been charged with three counts of armed robbery and kidnapping with a firearm, plus one count of carjacking, for his alleged involvement in three separate attacks against men on Chicago's West Side last summer.
Several high-profile Texas Republicans are calling for a ban on transgender or gender-nonconforming individuals from teaching in schools, following comments by Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Abbott made the comments during the keynote address at the annual convention of the Young Conservatives of Texas on April 20.
He seized on the story of Rachmad Tjachyadi, a former teacher from Lewisville, Texas. Tjachyadi resigned in March after Libs of TikTok posted pictures of him in dresses, tutus, and a costume of Ursula, the sea witch from The Little Mermaid.
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