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Ignorant or Intentional? Either Way, the Opening Ceremonies Were Unacceptable

By: Emily Washburn


Fans and organizers of Friday’s opening ceremonies at the Paris Olympics waxed poetic about a show many viewers found blatantly blasphemous.

“Revolution ran like a high-voltage wire through the wacky, wonderful and rule-breaking Olympic opening ceremony,” veteran reporter John Leicester wrote in an effusive piece for The Associated Press.

Leicester described the event as the “most flamboyant, diversity-celebrating, LGBTQ+ visible of opening ceremonies” — a sentiment echoed by everyone from the official Olympics X account to French President Emmanuel Macron.

When it comes to explaining how the spectacle related to the internationally-televised, family-friendly sporting event it was supposed to represent, however — supporters struggled to get their stories straight.

The Last Supper — But Worse

One scene featured a parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” a painting depicting Jesus and the disciples eating the Passover meal before His crucifixion.


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Advanced Stanford University Research Further Documents Fact of Male-Female Brain
By: Daily Citizen Staff

It is a baseless, but oft-repeated little ditty from gender theorists that sex is what is between your legs and gender is what’s between your ears.
It is meant to convince all of us that sex and gender are two very different things and the anatomy between our legs is not necessarily what we are.

Gender theory wants us to believe that the rest of our bodies are un-sexed and we can become whatever we feel suits us best.

Of course, this is wrong.

There has been a great deal of solid research over the last few decades showing us that sex actually is what is between our ears.

Humans have sex-dimorphic brains that are either male or female. There are no other options.

A recent Stanford University-based study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) takes an even more sophisticated look at male and female brains.

Working from a diverse array of academic departments in the neurosciences, this team of five scholars explain, “Our findings provide strong reproducible evidence for differences in how female and male brains are intrinsically organized.” They add,

“Our results provide the most compelling and generalizable evidence to date, refuting the continuum [or gender spectrum] hypothesis…”


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Christian Skateboarder Rayssa Leal Quotes John 14:6 After Winning Bronze at Olympics
By: Zachary Mettler


Christians, conservatives and people of good will have directed much outrage towards the Paris Olympics’ blasphemous and offensive opening ceremony — and rightfully so.


The ceremonies’ organizers planned and sanctioned a depiction of The Last Supper, substituting drag queens for Jesus’ disciples and Barbara Butch, a DJ and LGBT activists, for Jesus.


As the Christian Post reports, “The song ‘King’ played loudly as a lesbian wearing a crown was depicted as Jesus surrounded by men in drag, one of whom was a bearded man with long, blonde hair who later danced suggestively down a catwalk.”


The blatantly sacrilegious and profane scene (and there were others) has sadly taken much of the attention off the hundreds of world-class athletes who simply want to perform to the best of their ability.


And some — like 16-year-old Catholic Brazilian skateboarder Rayssa Leal — are using their fame to point to Jesus Christ.


Lael became Brazil’s youngest Olympian just three years ago, at age 13, when she won the silver medal in the skateboarding street competition.


At the 2024 Paris Olympics, she was allegedly told not to openly acknowledge her faith.


So, after winning the bronze medal in the women’s street skateboarding finale, Lael responded by quoting John 14:6 in sign language. You can watch the video on X.




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Will a Barbie Doll Save Babies From Abortion?
By: Paul Batura


Earlier this week, Mattel, the multinational toy manufacturing company established in 1945, announced the release of two new dolls: a Blind Barbie and a Barbie doll with Down syndrome.


Part of its “Fashionistas” line, the creations are intended to help dispel myths and connect with children living with disabilities. Other dolls in the series use a wheelchair, a cane, have a prosthetic leg or braces, or have other features that most children do not.


Krista Berger, senior vice president of Barbie and global head of Dolls, noted how the latest iterations of the classic toy transcend the normal fare.


“We recognize that Barbie is much more than just a doll; she represents self-expression and can create a sense of belonging,” she said. “We proudly introduce a new blind Barbie doll and black doll with Down syndrome to our Barbie Fashionistas line, reinforcing our commitment to creating products that represent global belonging and inclusivity in the doll aisle.”


On one hand, the statement from the Barbie official has all the markings of modern-day corporate speak — but could the company’s decision to release these particular dolls wind up saving innocent preborn lives?


In the United States, upwards of 90% of preborn babies diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted. It’s even higher in other countries, with several nations statistically eliminating the condition altogether via abortion. Down syndrome, otherwise known as Trisomy 21, occurs when a baby receives an extra chromosome.


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The Pioneer Behind Age-Verification: Laurie Schlegel Speaks at 2024 Social Conservative Conference
By: Emily Washburn


Representative Laurie Schlegel helped Louisiana pass the first law forcing porn companies to verify users’ ages in 2022. Today, 18 other states have replicated Schlegel’s age verification policy, making it one of the biggest bipartisan policy movements in America.


The Louisiana representative celebrated the growth of pornography protections at last week’s Social Conservative Policy Conference, heading up a panel on age verification laws and why she believes they’re working.


Though she worked as a sex addiction therapist prior to her election in 2021, Schlegel claims she had no plans to tackle pornography when she entered office.


Instead, she told the audience, her crusade began with an unlikely inspiration — music sensation Billie Eilish.


Eilish made headlines a month after Schlegel’s election for confessing that pornography damaged her brain.


“I started watching porn when I was like 11,” she told shock jock Howard Stern in a 2021 interview. “I didn’t understand why it was a bad thing. I thought that’s how you learned to have sex … I think it really destroyed my brain and I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much porn.”


Eilish believes her early exposure to violent and unrealistic sex prevented her from forming healthy relationships later in life.




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