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The Patriot Post Digest 8-20-2018
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Aug. 20, 2018 · https://patriotpost.us/digests/57754-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“How many observe Christ’s birth-day! How few, his precepts!” —Benjamin Franklin (1743)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/57753-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
The real story in the Catholic Church is “a homosexual culture.”
Prager University is targeted by social media. Again.
Diversity is a great thing, but the Left misuses it as a political weapon.
Reality Winner should never have gotten a job with the NSA. How many more?
An ISIS fighter exploited Obama’s lax refugee policies.
Daily Features: Top Headlines, Memes, Cartoons, Columnists, and Short Cuts.
IN BRIEF
The Cost of Homosexual Catholic Abuse1
Nate Jackson
The sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church2 in recent days marked the culmination of seven decades of horrendous wrongdoing by hundreds of priests. But the media would rather ignore one particularly inconvenient truth: The vast majority of the crime was perpetrated by homosexuals.
Monsignor Charles Pope, a Catholic priest writing of previous abuse scandals in the National Catholic Register, makes the case3:
It is evident that the vast majority of the cases involving both the sexual abuse of minors and of adults involve male victims. The 2004 John Jay Report (The Nature and Scope of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States4), which was commissioned by the U.S. bishops themselves, found that 81 percent of the victims were male and 78 percent of all victims were post-pubescent. … So, the large majority of cases involved attraction by homosexuals to young men who, though legally minors, were physically and sexually mature males, not little children. This is not pedophilia. It is homosexual attraction.
In the Catholic Herald, Madison, Wisconsin, Bishop Robert C. Morlino likewise writes5 of the current situation, “It is time to admit that there is a homosexual subculture within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreaking great devastation in the vineyard of the Lord.” He continues, “In the specific situations at hand, we are talking about deviant sexual — almost exclusively homosexual — acts by clerics.”
And Cardinal Raymond Burke, a member of the highest court at the Vatican, the Apostolic Signatura, said, “It was clear after the studies following the 2002 sexual abuse crisis that most of the acts of abuse were in fact homosexual acts committed with adolescent young men. There was a studied attempt to either overlook or to deny this.” He added, “Now it seems clear in light of these recent terrible scandals that indeed there is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even within the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root.”
Pope Francis reiterated that the Church’s policy is not to admit to seminary or holy orders homosexuals, those with such deep-seated tendencies, or those who support a so-called “gay culture.” He also wrote6, “No effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening, but also to prevent the possibility of their being covered up and perpetuated.”
These horrific crimes have cost the thousands of victims more than we can imagine. But how much has this homosexual culture cost the Catholic Church? Obviously, its reputation has suffered greatly. But lay people who give their tithes and offerings must be appalled that, rather than feeding the hungry or providing other ministerial needs, the Church is attempting to compensate victims for the damage done by priests — to the tune of $3 billion.
Finally, the words of the Apostle Paul are especially damning (Roman 2:24): “For, as it is written, ‘The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.’”
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57746-the-cost-of-homosexual-catholic-abuse
Facebook Censors PragerU7
Thomas Gallatin
Last Thursday, Prager University issued a public statement alerting its millions of Facebook followers to the fact that “our last 9 posts have been completely censored reaching 0 of our 3 million followers.” PragerU’s Will Witt added, “At least two of our video posts were deleted last night for ‘hate speech’ including a post of our recent video with The Conservative Millennial, Make Men Masculine Again8.”
The deleted video in question had no graphic content, bad language, or calls for violence warranting Facebook’s own parameters for its “hate speech” designation. So why were these videos censored? This is now the second instance9 of PragerU being “erroneously” censored on social media over the false designation that its conservative political content was “hate speech.”
On Friday morning, Facebook issued a lame apology: “We mistakenly removed these videos and have restored them because they don’t break our standards. This will reverse any reduction in content distribution you’ve experienced. We’re very sorry and are continuing to look into what happened with your Page.” However, the question remains, how could this mistake happen, especially given the fact that PragerU is a well-known and vetted media organization to which millions of people intentionally subscribed for news and opinion?
Much of the answer lies in the obvious leftist bias of those running these social-media giants. In a recent interview10 on CNN, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted as much, stating that those at Twitter do indeed have a “left-leaning” bias. Left-leaning? At the same time, he claimed that their bias did not affect how they handled “political ideology or viewpoints.” Dorsey added, “We do not look at content with regards to political viewpoint or ideology. We look at behavior.”
His answer is sly for its presumption of separating ideological content from behavior. Social media exists solely for the public sharing of various thoughts, viewpoints, and ideologies, no matter how trivial or mundane. Yet the social-media gatekeepers have a certain ideological bent that impacts how judgments are made as to what user content constitutes appropriate or inappropriate behavior. Thus, Dorsey’s assertion that his and his employees’ leftist bias doesn’t have an impact on decision-making is dubious at best.
Back to Facebook. Giving no other explanation other than it was a mistake only serves to increase speculation that the pervasive leftist bias within the company was the primary culprit. It’s increasingly clear that Facebook’s post-2016 algorithms are tilted against conservative perspectives, which are too easily flagged by trolls as content containing “fake news” or “hate speech.” As long as millions of Americans seek to get their news from social media, this filtering by the thought police is going to be hugely problematic.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57751-facebook-censors-prageru
Top Headlines11
U.S. troops to remain in Iraq and Syria to ensure “enduring defeat” of ISIS (CNS News12)
More than 700,000 overstayed visas in 2017 (The Washington Free Beacon13)
Media omit key detail about ICE arresting man who took wife to hospital for C-section — he was wanted for murder (The Daily Wire14)
Democrats are fielding more anti-Semitic candidates for Congress (The Federalist15)
Michael Cohen under investigation for over $20M in bank fraud (The Hill16)
Demand for concealed-carry permits is skyrocketing (The Daily Caller17)
John Brennan’s bellicose anti-Trump rhetoric prompts friendly fire among his own defenders (Washington Examiner18)
Good news: Youth unemployment hits 52-year low (The Wall Street Journal19)
Good news: 100 manufacturers have boosted hiring, expanded, or given raises, bonuses thanks to tax reform (The Daily Signal20)
Humor: Google admits your phone will track you even if you leave it at home (The Babylon Bee21)
Policy: Space force, done right, will move U.S. ahead (The Heritage Foundation22)
Policy: Securing the border is the most humane policy (The Daily Signal23)
For more of today’s news, visit Patriot Headline Report24.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57752-monday-top-headlines
FEATURED ANALYSIS
Diversity: Uniformity of Destruction for America28
Robin Smith
Diversity is a defining topic of our day. In its simplest form, observing diversity is welcoming the differences and uniqueness of every individual. In principle, this is very good. But that definition isn’t quite what social justice warriors use.
Some of the most effective teams benefit from members’ manifold talents that function in a complementary fashion — to add to an organization or group and to make it better. These effective teams can be found in sports, the military, business conglomerates, schools where a block of teachers function as a unit, health care facilities where sub-specialists work synergistically, and so on.
But in politics, diversity is employed as a tool for division. First, to be of value to the political Left, you’re given an identifier: woman, black, Hispanic, disabled, gender fluid, victim of white privilege, atheist, whatever. Then, according to that identifier, your status is the priority, not your individual rights or Liberty as an American.
One’s status is the preeminent driver of the issues discussed and, therefore, your value to the political Left is to be a victim in need of an intervening agency, such as the government, to be your protector, your provider, your equalizer, your defender, your insert-function-here. Thus, Democrats love “diversity” for the purpose of having a variety of needy subjects. And, yes, “subjects” is the right term. |
