If You Support Trump and Ignore Epstein Victims, You Lack Credibility
A toxic side effect of the Trump administration is that he has unleashed evil genies from their musty bottles. Disgusting declarations of antisemitism are competing with ugly bouts of Islamophobia. Racism is rampant and anti-immigration fervor is festering. The so-called Manosphere openly calls for women to be submissive and advocates taking away their right to vote.
This grotesque billowing of bile has filtered its way down to a sizable number of America’s lost youth. We see how their minds have been deformed by online screeds and their opinions warped by opportunistic “influencers” who become wealthy by trafficking in hate.
Today’s youth are bombarded with lies by lavishly funded right wing organizations that disdain democracy and promote the joys of authoritarianism. They are inundated with Jew-hating Hitlerian propaganda by “progressive” media, such as The Young Turks.
From the right, you have vomit-worthy hate-binges in FIU college Republican chat groups. These same teenage trolls flock to events featuring Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback, who revels in weaponizing online bigotry.
America was saved by The Greatest Generation, who defeated Japan, Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Now, the failure of parents to monitor their children’s online viewing habits—and the daily example of Donald Trump—threaten to turn Gen. Z into “The Garbage Generation”. Their failure is our fault, and drastic action must be taken before their battered brains further deteriorate into a national security threat.
Much of today’s backlash is a result of overzealous left wing political correctness that obviously went too far in its censorious hectoring and reliance on cancel culture. The woke regime, however, came into being because there were real problems of discrimination to overcome.
Yes, “defund the police” was stupid, but it was the result of very real police abuse against African Americans. Just because universities went way too far in demanding job candidates present absurdly detailed DEI plans, does not refute the idea that universities needed to be more inclusive.
That the Left failed by tedious overcorrection, does not negate the truth that America is better when we celebrate diversity and learn to respect opinions different from our own. What we are left with now is “right wing woke” which is far more unhinged and restrictive of liberty than the original left-wing strain.
Since he strode down the gold escalator in 2015, Trump has single-handedly disfigured America. We have discarded basic neighborly niceties and transformed into a belligerent “Scapegoat Nation”, where we are viciously at each other’s throats, while blaming sundry minorities for life’s failures.
Additionally, our corrupt President has scrambled the free world, recklessly dividing, and ultimately unraveling, the beleaguered globe into “might makes right” coalitions that inevitably lead to bloodshed and war. In international affairs, our better angels are under withering attack by our lesser demons.
Not surprisingly, the Project 2025 bigots have exploited this noxious societal stew to try to rollback gay marriage, which the Supreme Court legalized in 2015 with the Obergefell v. Hodges case. They have launched the cynical new “Greater Than” campaign, where 47 religious right groups argue—without a shred of evidence—that marriage equality has hurt society.
The Christian Post reports, “the effort is spearheaded by the advocacy group Them Before Us and includes among its supporters Focus on the Family, Live Action, the Colson Center, Word on Fire, the American Family Association and Citizens for Renewing America…The ultimate goal is to get the Supreme Court to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which held that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects same-sex marriage.”
According to the group’s absurd website:
“When marriage was redefined in 2015, parenthood was too. Once husbands and wives became optional, mothers and fathers became replaceable. But for a child, their mother and father are never optional; they are essential. Children need both a mother and a father to provide stability, guidance, and the unique love only a man and woman can give. No adult desire or ideology can change that.”
I’m not sure who these fanatics think they are kidding. They seem to be the last to know that their SS Morality ship sailed long ago and is never returning. No one in America cares less about children than these hypocritical creeps—who have high rates of divorce, abandon their LGBTQ kids to the streets, and worship Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is a serial abuser of women, likely a rapist, cheated on all his wives, an unreconstructed racist, and obviously a horrendous role model by every objective measure. Yet this degenerate reprobate received approximately 85% of the white Evangelical vote in the 2024 election.
Sorry, fake “Christians”, but when you behave in such an undignified, phony manner on “family values”, you no longer get to preach and be taken seriously. Your entire movement is a fraudulent joke led by greedy hucksters who peddle hate in a sordid effort to pickpocket their gullible followers.
As I mentioned earlier, many of these wonderful, allegedly religious parents, have irresponsibly abandoned their own kids and used “smart phones” as babysitters. The result is that these poor, forlorn youth have fallen under the psychotic spell of charlatans like Nazi Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.
There are also legions of children who worship the himbos and bimbos featured in Louis Theroux’s new Netflix documentary, “Inside the Manosphere”. In this rapidly growing, pseudointellectual space, today’s impressionable youth are fed damaging misinformation and a raw diet of hate from “influencers like Harrison Sullivan, aka HS TikkyTokky, Justin Waller, and Myron Gaines.
These rapacious, vacuous nitwits are literally brainwashing kids into supporting Neanderthal-like misogyny, distorted “traditional values”, gay bashing, and a profoundly sick worship of money above morality.
While their own children slither down these destructive right wing rabbit holes—the religious right has the nerve to campaign against gay marriage?
Most disturbing—yet revealing—is how the 47 groups trying to cancel marriage equality have responded to the Epstein Pedo-Files. Here we have an actual conspiracy of child rape and international sex trafficking. There are real victims who are desperately clamoring for justice and begging the federal government to stop the sickening cover-up.
I did a sweep of these organizations, many of whom are part of Project 2025. Not a single one of them forcefully spoke out against Donald Trump—Jeffrey Epstein’s former best friend—who is concealing the truth. They chose to ignore the elite pedophile ring, ran interference in support of Trump’s denials, or tepidly mentioned it in passing.
So, these counterfeit religious swindlers who demand America focus on bogus charges that gay families harm children—are terrified to assert their Christian values to address a real-life molestation abomination because it might upset Trump?
If you are only concerned about child sexual abuse when it’s the other political party, you can’t claim to care about children. If you have to ask how a pedophile voted before you demand they go to prison, you are not on the side of healthy families or protecting youth. The silence of these “good Christians” speaks far louder than all the hate speech they spew against LGBTQ marriage equality.
Participants in the “Greater Than” crusade seem to be the last to know that no one cares anymore about their bigoted views. Whatever shard of decency and religious authority they once held was permanently squandered when they heedlessly enabled Trump to create the immoral cesspool that has engulfed and sullied our nation.
The Religious Right has proven our long-held assertion that they are neither religious, nor right. To this perverted, power-hungry movement, children are mere political pawns to be exploited to further their political agenda.
The degradation of our society and the recent embrace of fascism by too many in Gen. Z can be partially attributed to those who present themselves as our beacons of morality. If they really care about the children, they ought to reorder their priorities—with gay marriage the least of their concerns.
I am a big fan of your work and legacy. I knew you would be on this movement. I think you missed some key elements that are important to what they are doing and who the big or at least front-line players are for this initiative. You are correct that they site is hard to take seriously, after all there is not a single argument that is made against gay marriage is over some actual or clear harm that can be pinned on gay marriage. Nor are their arguments targeting things that gay marriage would present an obstacle against their seeking to address through campaigning to address the actual source of their complaint.
What they have challenged is the presumptive assignment of parental rights to the mother’s spouse at the time of a child’s birth, with no record of the actual Bio father if that person is not her married partner at that time, the practice of changing birth certificates at the time a child is adopted and legally seal the record of the child’s actual biological parents with laws sometimes calling for this original document to be forever kept out of sight, and they object to the way in which IVF and other aspects of reproductive technology lack legally stringent screening processes, make children a commodity and always involve creating a child with the plan that the child will have one parent who is being left out or has given them up having never planned to parent. Each targets an issue which may or may not be a source of distress to people but each is something that has come into practice to first address the needs and interests of heterosexual couples and would have weather or not there was gay marriage.
The one point that seems more relevant is their point that there are differences in how moms and dad’s parent and that children do better if raised by their own biological parents and those parents are not abusive to the child or each other and stay married. Obviously, this has all sorts of reasons that it is a poor argument on logical grounds and interestingly on this one you will find the drivers of the campaign acknowledging that this is not an argument that is saying gay people make bad parents or even are worse for kids than straight parents since the argument is basically noting that there are better results with fewer disruptions in a child’s life and whenever you have a step parent or a non-biological adult involved in the home as a parent figure it will present that child with some increased difficulties and gay households necessarily at least one genetically unrelated or less related in some surrogacy cases.
But it is a mistake to assume the initiative is following a legal strategy that is as logically incomplete. When they say they did not want to start this effort unless they were confident, they could win I believe that is the case and I believe their assessment is true that they have a better chance than the website would lead you to suppose. Some of their strategy has been explained and I want to make note of the key aspects of their effort, give a number of examples of where and how we can see it already taking hold and doing just what they are wanting and also note some important unknowns that they have illuded to that we should be working to uncover the particular’s on because it has to do with the legal challenge that they are intending to bring to the courts and they have someone working with them closely whose husband will I fear not feel compelled to recuse himself as he probably should (that justice being Clarence Thomas whose wife has been working with the Greater than leadership) if and when such a case comes before the courts.
Now I do not think they are going to necessarily win but I do think they have a better chance than one might suppose and not surprisingly we on the left and right who want to defend gay marriage are as we often do failing to give this the focus and dedicated attention that we probably should to defending and promoting gay marriage and investing resources into keeping it front and center in how we secure and insure gay rights and the expectation of future improvements on the role and ability of gay people to thrive in societies that recognize our marriages legally.. TO that end I think there are ways we could start to prepare for the battle over popular opinion and support as well as how we could start going on the offensive against this movement in a way that will actually help our side and I say it that way because there are some ways that your article falls into the intended trap of having us do their work for them in how they expect us to take their campaign on when skirmishes happen. But I can’t do all of this now and will have to return to it later.