Plus, our national amnesia.   Fighting For Faith, Family & Freedom Thursday, June 22, 2023 To: Friends & Supporters From: Gary Bauer Truth Prevails Last night, the House of Representatives voted to formally censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). Why? Because the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee abused his position to repeatedly smear President Trump as a traitor and to repeatedly lie to the American people. Every time Schiff stood before a microphone or went on a Sunday news talk show and claimed that there was “evidence in plain sight” that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election he lied. Two major investigations by Special Counsels Robert Mueller and John Durham proved it was all a disgusting lie, a hoax concocted by the Hillary Clinton campaign. And as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff knew it was all a disgusting lie – a lie meant to undermine the duly elected president and to divide the American people. Finally, last night, there was some small measure of accountability for one of the main Russia collusion fraudsters. The vote should have been unanimous. Sadly, however, the vote was 213-to-209. The Civility Trap As I watched yesterday’s proceedings, it was striking to see how the neo-Marxist left is on a total war footing. We saw it yesterday as progressive politicians attempted to defend the FBI’s outrageous behavior and tarnish the character of John Durham. We saw it again as they tried to disrupt the censure vote and shouted down Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Meanwhile, multiple Republican candidates running for the GOP nomination are making the restoration of civility to our public discourse a centerpiece of their campaign. Well, that sounds fine and dandy, but how? Based on what we saw yesterday, it’s clear that the left has no interest in civility. So, it will be one-sided civility, and there’s a word for that: Surrender. Every progressive in Congress knows that Adam Schiff intentionally lied for years. His lies deeply damaged our Republic. They crippled elements of the Trump Administration and ruined the lives of several appointees who were bankrupted trying to defend themselves against Schiff’s lies and the Deep State. With all of that, you would think that some his liberal colleagues would realize that Schiff even lied to them! But no. They closed ranks, and tried to shout down Speaker McCarthy. Schiff knows as well as anyone that he lied, but he’s proud of it. He stood before the House yesterday and declared, “You honor me with your enmity. . . I stand proudly before you. Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy, and I am grateful.” Like most leftists, Schiff is completely delusional. (See next item.) So, to Paul Ryan, Gov. Chris Sununu, Larry Hogan and others who are pining for civility, for a “kinder, gentler compassionate conservatism,” tell me how. How are you going to be civil with the radical teacher grooming your daughter to become a boy? How are you going to be civil with a leftist who smears you as a “white supremacist” or a traitor? How are you going to be civil with neo-Marxists who want to cancel free speech, religious liberty and our Second Amendment rights? How are you going to be civil with Antifa extremists who are attacking innocent people, burning churches and pro-life crisis pregnancy centers? How are you going to be civil with Deep State bureaucrats who are undermining our constitutional Republic and weaponizing law enforcement? And if you’re not angry about any of this, why not? Until we win the battle for America, civility is just a trap to unilaterally disarm us. Gender Denialism On Display The ideological contrast between the right and the left was on full display yesterday on Capitol Hill. While House Republicans were exposing government corruption with the Durham hearing, Senate Democrats held their own hearing entitled, “Protecting Pride: Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans.” That’s their priority. The purpose of the hearing, and I really do encourage you to watch it if you missed it, was to gut Title IX, the historic federal law that ensured women had equal funding and opportunity in college sports. The Biden Administration is waging a war on women, and wants to take away those opportunities by allowing men who claim to be women to dominate women’s sports. Incredibly, one of the left’s “expert” witnesses actually tried to claim that men have no real advantage over women in sports. To which, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) asked, “How many female members of the NBA do you see?” That’s bad enough. But because the ruse of gender denialism must be maintained at all costs, your daughters will not only be humiliated on the playing field by men, they must also be humiliated in the locker room by changing in front of those very men. Riley Gaines testified about that very humiliation yesterday and what it felt like as a woman to be completely exposed while a man was also completely naked staring at her. Ironically, these perverted men are now literally forcing women into the closet. N.C. State championship swimmer Kylee Alons was forced to change in a storage closet rather than expose herself to Will Thomas. Delusional leftist gender deniers not only defend this, they demand that you lie and call the 6-foot-4 man in your daughter’s bathroom or locker room a “woman” and be perfectly okay with it. Or least shut up about it. Any politician talking about “restoring civility” should have a conversation with Riley Gaines and her parents. They should talk to Scott and Jessica Smith. They should talk to Abigail Martinez. They should talk to “Maggie and Ray.” Biden Retreats The Biden Administration missed an important deadline this week. Tuesday was the last day the administration could appeal a decision from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals that struck down a mandate forcing doctors and faith-based hospital systems to perform mutilating transgender surgeries against their religious convictions. That’s the second time the Biden Administration has opted not to appeal a circuit court decision against its pro-abortion and pro-transgender mandates. They don’t want to suffer what would presumably be a major defeat at the conservative Supreme Court. But don’t be too quick to celebrate. While it may look like a surrender, it’s not. The timing just isn’t right, so they’re not pushing it. Meanwhile, the left is waging an ongoing smear campaign against the conservative justices and the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. First, it was Clarence Thomas. Then it was John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch. Now’s Samuel Alito. If the left prevails in 2024, they may well tip the balance of the Supreme Court over the next four years -- one way or another. Then the time will be right to force religious doctors and hospitals to perform abortions and surgically mutilate children. So, Tuesday’s decision not to appeal isn’t a surrender. It’s just a tactical retreat until the left can launch a full-scale assault on religious liberty. Our National Amnesia Don’t miss this week’s edition of the “Defending Faith, Family and Freedom” podcast for the James Dobson Family Institute. In this week’s podcast, Dr. Jerry Newcombe, executive director of the Providence Forum, and I discuss our nation’s deep religious heritage and the threats to our liberty from the neo-Marxist left. 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