Joe Biden's Department of Education is launching investigations into religious colleges that refuse to bend to his LGBTQ agenda. It was reported recently that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education is conducting a Title IX investigation of Clarks Summit University, a Christian school near Scranton, Pennsylvania. According to a Department of Education notification letter, the investigation was prompted by a complaint that
"The University maintains a policy in its Student Handbook prohibiting students from engaging in same-sex romantic or sexual relationships, as well as from 'cross-dressing or other actions deliberately discordant with birth gender.'"Title IX, which supposedly protects students against discrimination based on sex, contains a clear religious exemption. But LGBTQ activists have long sought to eliminate the exemption and now find in Biden's Department of Education congenial allies willing to hassle religious colleges despite it.
A group called the Religious Exemption Accountability Project has been gunning for conservative religious colleges for some time. Paul Southwick, the director of the group, is thrilled that the Biden administration has opened up an inquiry into Clarks Summit University — an action, he says, that
"potentially affects hundreds of educational institutions and demonstrates that OCR has the power to investigate taxpayer-funded religious schools whose disciplinary or other policies discriminate against LGBTQ+ students."Biden is rapidly turning "civil rights" into a euphemism for the violation of religious freedom. The phrase is routinely invoked whenever he wants to cast historic Christian teaching as "discriminatory." But what about the civil rights of the religious? They don't count, according to Biden, who campaigned against Trump's "broad exemptions" for them.
The complaint against Clarks Summit University was initiated by a former student expelled for not abiding by the school's moral standards. The expelled student didn't get a hearing from the Trump administration, but the Biden administration is all ears, he burbles: "Now the Office for Civil Rights is saying they are diving in deep, that there is value in this investigation. They're saying there are red flags here, and that helps me rid my mind of a lot of self-gaslighting and doubt, brainwashing that I was at fault. This whole process is therapeutic for me."
Biden is rapidly turning "civil rights" into a euphemism for the violation of religious freedom.
Somehow he is the victim here, even though the school's standards were known to him upon entrance. Who forced him to go there? The Religious Exemption Accountability Project, which represents the former student, is simply using cases like his to hijack religious colleges, and the Biden administration is happy to oblige this opportunism.
Brigham Young University is also under investigation by the Department of Education. The school's grave offense? It bans gay dating on campus.
"BYU removed its written ban on 'homosexual behavior,' in early 2020, prompting students to publicly come out as members of the LGBTQ community. But the school clarified a few weeks later that same-sex dating is still prohibited, even if it's no longer expressly written in the honor code. It also bans things such as alcohol consumption, beards and piercings."A spokesman for the school told AP:
"BYU is exempt from application of Title IX rules that conflict with the religious tenets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."The Biden administration knows this and doesn't care. Across the federal government, particularly at Health and Human Services, Biden's secularists are playing all the regulatory and legal angles to minimize religious freedom as much as possible. "Discrimination" is the lever by which they seek to accomplish this subversion.
In the name of eliminating "discrimination," they want Catholic hospitals to perform abortions and transgender surgeries. In its name, they demand religious colleges and universities turn the crafting of their moral standards over to LGBTQ activists. It is all profoundly un-American. The Founding Fathers didn't see the uniquely religious mission of schools and hospitals as contrary to the common good but essential to it.
Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Ursuline sisters who ran orphanages in Louisiana and worried about the potential loss of their religious freedom that the
"principles of the constitution and government of the United States are a sure guarantee to you that it will be preserved to you sacred and inviolate, and that your institution will be permitted to govern itself according to its own voluntary rules, without interference from the civil authority. Whatever diversity of shade may appear in the religious opinions of our fellow citizens, the charitable objects of your institution cannot be indifferent to any."It is impossible to imagine Biden writing a letter like that to the Little Sisters of the Poor today. As he promised during the 2020 campaign:
"He would fight so that no one is turned away from a business or refused service by a government official just because of who they are or who they love."The concrete application of this promise is unfolding before our eyes. It is a promise predicated on the suppression of religious freedom and threatens the survival of any institution, no matter how tenuously connected to government, that won't go woke.
About the Author:
George Neumayr, a senior editor at The American Spectator, is author most recently of The Biden Deception: Moderate, Opportunist, or the Democrats' Crypto-Socialist?
The father of "Poppy" was called Prescott Sheldon Bush.
As his descendants would have been in turn, he was a member of Skull & Bones, a company that allowed him to come into contact with the Harriman and Walker families, also formed in The union with Dorothy Walker, daughter of the wealthy industrialist George Herbert Walker, was not destined to generate only many children, but also great business between the Bush and the Walker clans (always under the protective wing of the Harrimans and the Rockefeller, of course).
On October 20, 1942, ten months after the United States declared war on Japan and Germany, President Roosevelt ordered the confiscation of Union Banking Corporation (UBC) shares as it was accused of financing Hitler and selling shares. to important Nazi hierarchs. Prescott Bush was then a shareholder and director of UBC. A question of the utmost interest, considering that, after coming to power in 1933, Hitler had decreed the abolition of the German foreign debt, contracted largely following the Treaty of Versailles.
All international credit to Nazi Germany was therefore cut off. The Harriman family and their partner Prescott Bush took it upon themselves to carry out the necessary operations on the Wall Street Stock Exchange so that through Franz Thyssen and Friedrich Flich - a great friend of Himmler and patron of the "brown shirts", the SS and the storm troops ( SA) - Hitler could have partial access to international credits, without which he would never have been able to finance the imports required by his war industry.
On October 28, 1942, Roosevelt ordered the confiscation of the shares of two US companies that helped arm Hitler, the Holland American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Equipment Corporation, both of which were administered by the bank owned by the Harriman family, of which the Bush was then director. On November 8, 1942, while in Africa, near Algiers, there were bloody clashes in which thousands of American soldiers lost their lives, President Roosevelt ordered the confiscation of the shares of the Silesian-American Corporation, managed for several years by Prescott Bush. and his father-in-law George Walker. The four confiscations took place under the "Trading with the Enemy Act", a law aimed at punishing anyone who did business with the enemy.
The close collaboration that bound Hitler to the grandfather and great-grandfather of the current President George W Bush - and therefore to two different branches of his family - can be traced back well before the rise of Nazism to power. In addition to Hitler, the Harriman family, Prescott Bush and George Walker had also established ties with Mussolini. Through the agreement with German Steel, they supplied Hitler with, among other things, 50.8 percent of the steel from which the armaments of the Third Reich were made, 45.5 percent of Germany's pipes and pipes. Nazi and 35 percent of the explosive material with which Hitler allegedly exterminated many of his enemies.
Every member of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP) who held a prominent position was entitled to a free travel granted by another of the Bushes and Walkers companies, the Hamburg-Amerika Line: this one, which held the monopoly on business between the states. United and Hitler's Germany, he had rendered him a precious service in 1932, the year in which the Weimar Republic, now at sunset, had made a last, desperate and vain attempt to prevent its rise. The Weimar government was on the verge of ordering the dismantling of Hitler's private militias, but the Hamburg-Amerika Line took it upon itself to make this news public, thereby advocating genuine political propaganda in favor of Hitler and against the Republic. of Weimar.
The surprises do not end there, however: in addition to the support offered to the Nazis, other interesting issues are looming. For example, for Hitler and Stalin it would have been much more difficult to sustain open warfare if the Harriman-Bush-Walker gang had not at the same time armed Hitler to the teeth and refueled Russian troops. The Walker family had been extracting oil from Baku (Azerbaijan) since the 1920s and then reselling it to the Red Army.
The reader shouldn't be too surprised at this news. Before the outbreak of World War II, and again during the conflict, a joint venture linked the Standard 0il, owned by the Rockefeller family, to I.G. Farben, a massive German chemical industry. Many of the plants common to Standard Oil and I.G. Farben located in the immediate vicinity of Nazi concentration camps - including Auschwitz, for example - exploited the labor of prisoners to produce a wide range of chemicals, including Cyclon-B, a lethal gas widespread in concentration camps to exterminate them. people who were forced to produce it. And despite the systematic bombing that razed many German cities to the ground during the war, US troops always acted with extreme caution when it came to striking areas near these chemical plants. In 1945, Germany was under a pile of rubble, but the factories were all intact.
It will now perhaps be a little clearer to the reader why people find it so difficult to recall the past and above all why the "official story" is so far from the truth. And it will also become a little clearer what led the Bushes to be who they are today. None of this is mentioned in the least in the biography reported on the official site of the American Congress, the place where in the late 1960s Prescott ("Gampy") Bush occupied his seat as a senator representing the state of Connecticut. Nor does his "official" biography signed by Mickey Herskowitz, “Duty, Honor Country. The Life and Legacy of Prescott Bush ”, which came out around the same time as the American invasion of Iraq took place: here too the facts are revisited and" recycled "in another form. What you can see instead are the moving images of children selling orange soda for three cents a glass holding a sign bearing the words "HELP SEND 'GAMPY' TO WASHINGTON" in support of his electoral campaign.
While all the information we have provided on Bush's grandfather and great-grandfather certainly deserves careful consideration, it should not be forgotten that the entire cultural and social landscape of the United States before World War II was very different from what the press would like. make us believe today. It will be enough to cite some examples:
a) When he was elected vice president in 1980, George Bush senior appointed a mysterious person, named William Farish III, to administer and manage all of his assets. The association between the Bushes and the Farish goes back in time, even before the outbreak of the Second World War: William Farish headed the cartel formed by the Standard Oil of New Jersey (now Exxon) and the I.G. Farben by Hítler. It was precisely this consortium that led to the opening of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in order to produce synthetic rubber and naphtha from coal. At the time, when this news began to spread to the press, the US Congress opened an investigation. If she really pushed herself to the last consequences, she would have irreparably compromised the Rockefeller clan. But none of this happened: they just torpedoed the executive director of Standard Oil, William Farish I.
b) Even Shell Oil - whose majority stake is in the hands of the British Crown - contributed to Hitler's rise to power thanks to the agreements signed by its powerful CEO, Deterding, with the governor of the Bank of England, Montagu Norman .
c) Between 21 and 23 August 1932, the Third World Congress of Eugenics was held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York ("eugenics" is a term used to describe in a more bland way the concept of "racial hygiene" ). Despite strong protests from the African American community, it managed to unfold without particular hitches. To finance the event were some members of the Harriman family, who since 1910 made large donations intended to create a scientific committee for the study of races and to open an American branch of the Department of Eugenics Information, which was based in London. George Herbert Walker Bush, known as "Bert", George W. Bush's great-grandfather, often accompanied the Harrimans to horse races, during which, together with other members of the Bush and Farish families, they discussed the genetic crosses to be subjected to both horses than humans.
d) On the occasion of that congress, W. Averell Harriman personally took care of getting the major ideologues of Nazism to New York, making agreements with the Hamburg-Amerika Line, owned by the Walkers and Bushes. Among those "scientists" was also the main proponent of racist theories during Hitler's regime, the psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin, who conducted Rockefeller family-funded race studies in Berlin. To be able to get an idea of the past of this man, it is enough to recall the title of his speech during a conference held in Munich in 1928: Mental aberrations and racial hygiene. Rüdin also led the German delegation to the mental health congress held in Washington DC in 1930.
e) This movement with a clear racist tendency, widespread both in Germany and among the Anglo-American elite, was based on three fundamental points: the sterilization of people suffering from mental illness (through the formation of mental health centers), the suppression of mentally disabled, criminally and terminally ill (centers for euthanasia) and the purification of the race through the control and prevention of new births among the inferior races (centers for birth control). As can be seen, Hitler was not alone in his struggle to defend the pure race. Besides him there were also some of the most powerful clans in the world.
f) Heinrich Himmler, Supreme Head of the SS, was paid large funds into a secret Standard Oil account managed by the Anglo-American banker Kurt von Schroeder. The loans in question would not have ceased until late 1944, thus coinciding with the period in which the SS were in charge of overseeing the mass killings in Auschwitz (where the industrial plant of the Standard Oil - IG Farben joint venture was located) and in other concentration camps. When the war was over, the allies responsible for the investigations learned that the funding came from Standard 0il corporate funds. The ensuing scandal brought about the downfall of Farish I, but John D. Rockefeller came out spotless. The friendship and partnership between the two clans would then continue over the following generations, as evidenced by the trust placed by Bush senior in William Farish III.
g) After the end of the Second World War, the eugenics movement revived in the United States, more precisely in North Carolina: taking advantage of important contacts with the British Crown, the Gray family, the main shareholder of RJ. Reynolds Tobacco, founded a medical school in Winston-Salem. It would have been there that Dr. Clarence Gamble, heir to the Procter & Gamble, would have conducted an experiment between 1946 and 1947. One experiment consisted of subjecting the children who attended the schools of Winston-Salem to a test to measure their IQ. : those who did not reach the minimum level decreed by the test parameters underwent a sterilization surgery.
h) In 1950 and 1951, John Foster Dulles (brother of the aforementioned Allen Dulles), then director of the Rockefeller Foundation, accompanied John D. Rockefeller on some trips around the world with the express purpose of halting the expansion of populations not white. In November 1952 Dulles and Rockefeller founded the Population Council, subsidized by the Rockefeller family for tens of millions of dollars. It was then that the American Eugenic Society, following the fuss raised by the "Hitler case", decided to quietly abandon its headquarters at Yale University to move to that of the Population Council. In the same period it saw the light in London, at the offices of the British Eugenic Society, the International Federation for Birth Planning.
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