It takes a special kind of insanity to find a Klan hood beneath an African movement to protect the natural family from abortion and LGBTQ+ ideology, but that’s exactly what the Southern Poverty Law Center is claiming. The SPLC—which trades on its history of suing KKK groups into bankruptcy to smear conservative and Christian nonprofits by putting them on a “hate map” with Klan chapters—trained its sights on the Pan-African Conference on Family Values, which will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, in May. The SPLC claimed that “international efforts of hate and extremist groups developed an international playbook built on ‘natural family’ rhetoric.” “Cobbled together from white supremacist, anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ tropes that link fears of declining Christian cultural supremacy with a falling birth rate, ‘natural family’ rhetoric advances Western white social norms and imposes a so-called ‘natural order’ on African countries,” the SPLC’s Emerson Hodges wrote. Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of social conservatism and the global South will immediately grasp the problem. While Western social conservative groups do work with African politicians and African organizations, the Africans tend to be more socially conservative than their Western allies. If anything, the U.S.-based groups hold the Africans back. I myself am a member of The Falls Church Anglican, which split off from the Episcopal Church to join the Anglican Church in North America, an Anglican body that affiliates more closely with churches in Africa—because those churches tend to follow the Bible, especially on social issues, more closely than the Episcopal Church. The SPLC’s Claim About Pro-Family Colonialism Yet the SPLC insinuates that social conservatism and a defense of the natural family is a Western imposition on African countries. The reverse is true—LGBTQ and abortion activist groups have attempted to spread their false gospel of sexual liberation across the Safari continent, and it continues to fall on deaf ears. The Biden administration and the United Nations have shoveled money into turning Africa rainbow, and the Africans don’t take kindly to this new ideological colonialism. So, how did the SPLC justify claiming the exact opposite? Well, Hodges decided to take a pot-shot at my old professor. I did a double-take when I saw the SPLC citing Allan C. Carlson, a retired professor who used to teach at Hillsdale College, my alma mater. Carlson is harder to reach these days, and it seems that Hodges suspected Carlson would be too retired to respond to Hodges’ attempt to trace the “white supremacy” of natural family rhetoric to him. As it happens, I took a class on the history of the family in America from Carlson, so I happen to know a bit about his views. Hodges quoted a 2013 speech Carlson gave in Moscow titled “The Natural Family in an Unnatural World.” He noted Carlson’s claim that low birth rates, “the rapid spread of cohabitation,” the redefinition of marriage, the “early sexualization of children,” and divorce are “signs of a fundamental challenge to the life of the home.” Yet Hodges insisted that Carlson was simply aiming to “repackage rhetoric that originated in far-right political movements’ racist reactions to immigrants to both the United States and European countries from their former colonies during the mid-20th century.” The SPLC writer posited that concerns about the demographic crisis originate in the fear of “white genocide,” which he described as “myths that white Christian society is under attack or being replaced by uncivilized, non-Christian black and brown people.” He also claimed these myths “are represented across almost all hard-right factions.” “To Carlson and the purveyors of natural family rhetoric, indigenous family structures across Africa, Asia and South America that do not follow the ‘nuclear’ model as well as the use of sexual education and family planning services that include legal and safe abortions are inconsistent with Christian culture,” Hodges intoned. “This ethnocentric and colonial model, however, is predicated on the belief that white Christian norms about family and society can and should be imposed in other cultural contexts and that adherence to conservative Christian policy preferences provides an accurate measure of a society’s progress toward civilization.” Misrepresenting Carlson All this is hogwash. Hodges clearly never took a class with Carlson. I did, so I can tell you that Carlson loudly condemned the ignominious history of forced sterilization and racially targeted abortion in the United States. Carlson, a defender of life and dignity for all races, champions the committed relationship of a man and a woman in marriage as the natural foundation for a healthy society. He doesn’t oppose LGBTQ ideology because of some hidden hatred for people—he supports the natural family because he thinks it’s the best solution for various social ills, and he has the research to back it up. Furthermore, he never attacked “indigenous family structures.” He even suggested that a more involved extended family may be beneficial, and lamented the modern trend toward isolation of the nuclear family. Carlson himself pushed back. “If I understand the argument here, my [World Congress of Families] colleagues and I have been using ‘white supremacist‘ language to support young black Africans who wish to marry and bear and raise many children,” the retired professor told The Daily Signal. “This is perhaps the most tangled, bizarre, and even hilarious example of political analysis that I have ever encountered.” “The real source of our attention to Sub-Saharan Africa, broadly, and Kenya, in particular, was the work and example of the Kenyan novelist, medical doctor, and family advocate Margaret Ogola,” Carlson added. Ogola (1958-2011), a novelist and medical doctor, “identified and countered the true ‘Westernizers’ seeking to crush natural family life and sharply reduce the number of African babies.”  What Is ‘Indigenous Family Structure?’ As for the SPLC’s claim that social conservatives—not the LGBTQ movement—are the true opponents of “indigenous family structure,” Carlson pointed to a 1999 Ogola speech at the World Congress of Families II in Geneva, Switzerland. Ogola explained that “primitive peoples living close to nature mostly believed in a triple human presence in the world,” consisting of the living dead (dead ancestors who retained an interest in the world of the living), the living (who must keep alive the memory of the dead and transmit life to the unborn), and the unborn (who depend on the behavior of the living). “It appears that the general instinct of humanity (standing in awe before the power of the procreative act) was to shield the sexual act from misuse; and also to shield society from the impact that the misuse of sex could unleash on a populace,” Ogola said. “For example, a child born out of wedlock was in a way removed from the three presences—that of the living dead, the living, and the yet to be born. Who could one say were his ancestors? Who would be the ancestors of his children? From whom would he inherit land?” Ogola lamented the “massive collapse of an almost universal ideal”—the ideal of men and women committed to one another for the good of both ancestors and children—and attributed it to the Sexual Revolution and modern individualism: contraception; the demystification of sex; an entirely individualistic philosophy; the worldwide assumption of a small family norm; extraordinary expectations of glorious romance; and the “loss of the sense of a Deity to whom all are ultimately answerable for their actions.” Contrary to the SPLC’s insinuations, this is no Western imposition on “indigenous values,” a phrase the SPLC appears to use as a stand-in for the insane suggestion that LGBTQ activism, abortion, and the Sexual Revolution are deeply rooted in African culture. Why Does All This Matter? Conservatives often laugh at the SPLC, and claims like this are indeed laughable. Unfortunately, the joke goes above the heads of the Left’s elites in the donor class, the Democrat Party, the legacy media, and even Big Tech and corporate America. These people, brainwashed as they are by the woke ideology the SPLC espouses, often use the SPLC as a cudgel to silence their political and ideological opponents. My latest book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” traces the impact the SPLC had in the Biden administration, and reveals why this organization is very much a threat the Right should take seriously. The post Support for the Natural Family in Africa Is Rooted in ‘White Supremacy,’ SPLC Claims appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Author of The Widow in the Woods Here’s where the story left off last time. Kate decided their best route was to backtrack and then head to the neighbor’s place in a more roundabout way. She hoped it would be unpredictable enough to allow them to avoid a confrontation. She felt the bile rise up in her throat and fought it back. She had to keep it together for her daughter. Ariel bravely followed her without a word, though frightened tears were slipping down her cheeks. The sight of those tears turned Kate’s fear into a quiet, icy rage. How dare Logan terrorize them like this? She silently pledged that she would die before letting him harm one hair on Ariel’s head. The mud from last night’s rain made the forest floor slippery and more challenging to navigate than usual. They both slipped repeatedly in the steep terrain, and soon they were covered in cold, wet sludge. They trekked onward, though, stubbornly disregarding the slow pace that was forced upon them by the conditions. It felt like a long time before they came upon a tree that was down, at the perfect height for a seat. Kate gestured and Ariel gratefully sat down and took off her backpack for a moment. They both took a long pull of their water and then spoke in whispers. “Mom, how is Logan here?” Ariel frowned in confusion. “Isn’t he supposed to be in jail?” “I guess not,” Kate replied. “Why doesn’t matter right now. How we’re going to avoid him is what’s important.” Ariel nodded and waited as Kate wracked her brain to find a way around the dilemma of Logan’s sudden appearance in their haven. She patted the small of her back to confirm that her pistol was right where it should be and pulled a fresh magazine out of her backpack to slide into her front pocket, though she couldn’t imagine they’d exchange enough gunfire to require her to reload. She was as ready as she’d ever be. They both tucked their water bottles back into their bags and headed up the mountain to go around the trail that Logan had already found. “We have trained for this ever since it happened,” she reminded Ariel in a voice that sounded far more confident than Kate felt. Kate had always had an excellent sense of direction, so even without a path to lead them, she led them surely through the woods to the upper path. Since they didn’t want to give themselves away by talking, Kate used the time to reassure herself that she was not the same woman who had testified against Logan in court years ago. She began to mentally reel off the skills she had learned and the courses she had taken over the past three years. It was a ritual she’d performed many times to calm herself, this accounting of the competence she had gained. She wasn’t fond of camping, but she could create a shelter from next to nothing. She was a crack shot with both a pistol and a rifle. She knew how to effectively use a recumbent longbow. She’d taken more than one course on using knives for self-defense, had visited far away countries to rough it through survival courses in unfamiliar terrains, and worked out at the gym four times a week, keeping her lithe, fit, and quick. She could forage and find food where others saw nothing, she could move through the woods with stealth, and she had learned at a camp presented by a Native American instructor how to fade into the forest so silently and completely that she all but vanished. She had taken a weeklong course on conflict de-escalation, and she was confident in her ability to outrun and outsmart a bigger opponent. What’s more, she’d taken Ariel with her to as many of these trainings as possible, and she knew that her daughter was one tough cookie, as long as she could keep control of her panic. After what Logan had put the girl through, though, that was the real question – could Ariel put all of it behind her and fight back now? Learning skills and becoming fit had been her antidote. She hoped that now, all the time and money she had spent honing herself into a different woman than the one who had been terrorized would pay off in more ways than just improved mental health and confidence. The other thing that Kate had spent time studying was the aftermath of trauma. She tried to think of that terrible time as infrequently as possible, but it naturally arose from time to time. She and Ariel had attended therapy, both separately and as a family. They were resilient, but some things were so terrifying, so awful, so downright unbelievable, that the events left scars which would be with them forever. Kate called upon that hard work she’d done on the counselor’s couch now, as she refused to give into the fear that was dancing around the edges of her consciousness. Firmly, she pushed that emotion away, leaving room for nothing but determination. So focused was she on keeping her head clear that she was startled when Ariel silently grabbed Kate’s wrist. There, ahead of them, tucked away into the thick trees, was a campsite that they’d almost stumbled into. Instinctively, they both crouched behind a large boulder and fallen tree while they silently surveyed the situation, barely daring to breathe lest a loud inhale or sigh give them away. It had been difficult to see. The site was small and hardly noticeable, just a tent of a color that blended into the forest surrounding it. As much as she wished it to be the case, it couldn’t be written off as something left behind by a former camper because it wasn’t covered in leaves and muck, nor was it tattered from the elements. It had been erected recently. A bag hoisted up into the trees, presumably filled with food, was more evidence that this was not an abandoned site. Kate’s thoughts rapidly somersaulted over one another. Should they backtrack? Go around? Go back to the cabin and hunker down? The camp was empty, so where the heck was Logan? Was he right behind them? How, despite her best efforts, had she walked right into the lion’s den? Clamping down on the racing thoughts and self-recrimination, Kate forced herself to go through the options dispassionately, searching for logic, simplicity, and the best odds possible. What they couldn’t do was sit there paralyzed, waiting to be found. Before Kate could arrive at a decision, they both heard it – the footfalls in the crunchy leaves of someone or something near them. She pulled her Glock out of its holster and fervently prayed it was a bear and not the man from her nightmares. About Daisy Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging author and blogger who’s traded her air miles for a screen porch, having embraced a more homebody lifestyle after a serious injury. She’s the heart and mind behind The Organic Prepper, a top-tier website where she shares what she’s learned about preparedness, self-reliance, and the pursuit of liberty. With 17 books under her belt, Daisy’s insights on living frugally, surviving tough times, finding some happiness in the most difficult situations, and embracing independence have touched many lives. Her work doesn’t just stay on her site; it’s shared far and wide across alternative media, making her a familiar voice in the community. Known for her adventurous spirit, she’s lived in five different countries and raised two wonderful daughters as a single mom. Daisy has managed to juggle life’s unpredictabilities with grace and creativity. Living in the beautiful state of North Carolina, Daisy has been spreading her knowledge through blogging for 15 years now. S Daisy is the best-selling author of 5 traditionally published books, 12 self-published books, and runs a small digital publishing company with PDF guides, printables, and courses at SelfRelianceand Survival.com You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and X. The post Haven Hill: Chapter 7 appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

Lake Victoria is under threat from microscopic life.

If you traveled back in time, you may not be able to tell.

Sightings of the fabled creature declined throughout the 20th century, but now they're on the rise again.

m/(n-1) times, it works every time.

Public hysterias occur when a critical mass of citizens allow a tertiary emotion to overcome logic and common sense, and that’s evidently what happened.

Eisgruber must go.

Two museums put on a blockbuster on the artist’s 80th birthday.

The administration should abandon its Alien Enemy Act theory and shift to the solid ground of federal immigration laws.