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Watch what they do, as opposed to what they say. This is how you can assess what they mean — and what they intend to do. Using this measure, we can deduce what the Biden administration intended when it hired Tyler Cherry, a gender studies graduate who — according to his LinkedIn profile — excels at “thought leadership and brand building,” whatever that means.But it’s what Cherry said about law enforcement that tells us what he really means — even though he's now saying something else, so that gullible people will believe he didn’t really mean that.Biden says he is pro law-enforcement, yet his actions contradict his words.In 2015, Cherry said he was “praying even harder for an end to a capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial biases.” He subsequently equated law enforcement with “slave patrols” and “lynch mobs” and has used his skills as a “thought leader” and “brand-builder” to denounce what he styles “white grievance politics.”He also favors eliminating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which says a great deal about what the Biden administration intends to do about the border, having promoted Cherry to the position of associate communications director at the White House.This means Cherry was picked by the White House and probably approved by Joe Biden himself. Consider what this says about Biden’s priorities. Cherry was picked because his views align with those of the Biden administration and with Biden himself. What Biden says does not tell us what he means. It is what Biden and those working for him do as well as who they are that tells us what we need to know.Of course, Cherry now says that his "past social media posts from when I was younger do not reflect my current views. Period."Younger? His worst statements are just a few years old. He posted them when he worked for the far-left outfit Media Matters for America, founded by disgraced “journalist” David Brock as a way to blast conservative outlets. Brock is now "one of the most influential operatives in the Democratic Party," according to the Washington Post.Cherry is an operative, too. He wasn’t hired to work at Media Matters because of his “experience in political and communications strategy” or his ability to “untangle the complexities of today’s hyperpartisan, fragmented, and fast-paced media ecosystem.” He was hired because his views aligned with David Brock’s. Just as he's been promoted by the Biden White House because his views align with the administration’s.What they do matters. What they say doesn't.Then again, you can take Cherry at his word when he “vows that he will support” the Biden administration’s agenda because it aligns with his own.Biden says he is pro law-enforcement, yet his actions contradict his words. In 2022, Biden said he “support(s) conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness.”What that means, of course, is different from what Biden said — and did by executive order.“Police officers will face a grim reality if this EO is enacted and their lifesaving equipment is restricted from them,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and a group of Republican lawmakers said in a 2022 statement. “Violent crime will continue to skyrocket when police officers are unable to stop these crimes and save innocent lives. We cannot understand why any elected official would want to stop law enforcement from safely doing their jobs other than to be able to tell their base of voters they are defunding the police.”But, according to Biden, he wasn’t “defunding the police.” Even though the effect of his order was to divert federal law-enforcement funding away from policing to “nonlethal and lifesaving resources.”Leftists excel at etymological manipulation, saying the opposite of what they intend, using words they know people will hear in a way that causes them to believe something very different is being discussed. Perhaps the best example of this is the way the left uses the word "hate" to tar people who ask questions the left would rather not answer.No doubt this is how the administration will try to stifle questions about hiring Cherry if anyone dares to ask about his actually hateful comments toward law enforcement and the “capitalistic police state.” On the other hand, the Biden administration may find it difficult to stifle questions about Cherry’s venomously anti-Israel comments, which are not likely to go over well with Jewish voters. Or most American voters, for that matter. These have since been deleted — in a hurry — and that says a lot about what Cherry really means. And what the Biden administration intends.

The ACLU and several other civil rights groups are supporting a federal lawsuit to strike down a new Louisiana law that mandates the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms. These civil rights groups claim they are protecting “separation of church and state” and that public schools are no place for religious indoctrination.The lawsuit arrives during Pride Month, when hundreds of government organizations, including educational institutions, declare their everlasting devotion to the cult of LGBTQ. Due to a concerted effort by militant activists, the United States has transformed into a country where displaying Pride and Black Lives Matter banners in the classroom is normal, but posting the Ten Commandments in a classroom is unconstitutional.Corporations, academia, law enforcement agencies, and media entities turn June into the new American Ramadan, honoring the unofficial state religion.With the culturally ubiquitous celebration of all things queer during the month of June, it can be easy to forget that the current phase of the civil rights revolution is relatively recent. During the Democratic presidential primary of 2008, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton declared their steadfast support for the traditional definition of marriage being between one man and one woman. That same year, California passed Proposition 8 with 52% of the vote. That measure enshrined the traditional definition of marriage in that bluest of blue state’s constitution.Clinton and Obama were most certainly lying about their real positions, but the fact that they were compelled to do so tells you much about the controversy surrounding the issue at the time. The fact that almost half of Republicans now support gay marriage, putting them to the left of both Clinton and Obama in 2008, also tells you a great deal about how quickly conservatives conform to power.Most LGBTQ activists in 2008 were still debating whether nationwide gay marriage was even a possibility and, in many cases, offered civil unions as a compromise. In present-day America, voicing mild disagreement with the child mutilation ritual known as “transitioning” will get you fired from any major corporation or government position. The FBI, which has targeted traditional Catholic services for surveillance and intimidated parents who oppose gender indoctrination in schools, now proudly posts pictures of its agents marching in Pride parades.How did LGBTQ ideology go from a controversial issue that even left-wing candidates had to distance themselves from to the official state religion in less than two decades?The modern interpretation of the establishment clause in the First Amendment has been an unmitigated disaster. In the mind of most Americans, it has created a separation of church and state that bans even the mere acknowledgement of religion. And yet the Bible was the foundational text of Western civilization for over 1,000 years. Even those who did not personally believe in Christianity were steeped in its language, understanding that the archetypes and narratives contained within the Bible formed the basis for their shared culture. The idea that students could understand Shakespeare or Milton without being deeply familiar with the holy text was considered absurd.By expelling biblical education from public schools in the name of secular neutrality, we effectively banned Western culture. Now, our children speak the shared language of gay race communism instead.The idea that institutions can be governed by secular neutrality is a lie. All human institutions require a worldview that guides their decisions and coordinates their actions. No matter how objective or neutral the goals of an institution pretend to be, they are always guided by a set of values and beliefs. When Christianity was purged from American public life through a radical interpretation of the First Amendment and civil rights law, an ideological void was left at the center of our institutions, and nature abhors a vacuum. LGBTQ ideology stood ready to fill that void.The modern notion of separation of church and state has a very specific set of legal triggers. Religions make claims about metaphysical deities, hold certain holy scriptures as sacred, and generally congregate in collective places of worship. If an ideology fulfills the same function as a religion but does so without the formal trappings of a church, then it can evade most of the restrictions that theoretically exist to keep our institutions neutral. Every institution must be animated by a set of principles, a philosophy or ideology that guides its actions. With all its religious competitors legally barred from filling that role, LGBTQ ideology became the victor by default.Progressive secular humanism — call it wokeness, if you like — combines the most hostile portions of queer theory, racial grievance, and Marxist oppression ideology into the gay race communism that now rules every major American institution. Corporations, academia, law enforcement agencies, and media entities turn June into the new American Ramadan, honoring the unofficial state religion. Any of these organizations would face endless lawsuits for the most basic display of solidarity with the Christian faith, so instead they worship the gods they are allowed to honor. The victory of wokeness did not come from compelling arguments made in the marketplace of ideas or the swaying of hearts and minds, but from the legal incentives created by a delusional belief in institutional neutrality.If conservatives want to live in a country where the Ten Commandments are less controversial than puberty blockers for 10-year-olds, they must abandon the modern fantasy of neutrality. The question is not whether your nation will worship but what your nation will worship. Anyone pretending otherwise is simply looking to smuggle their beliefs in the backdoor.

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