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October 21, 2025
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TOPIC: Is the current AI investment boom a bubble that could pop like the 2008 mortgage crisis?

News...

Chip Roy moves to impeach judge over ‘absurd’ sentence for attempted Kavanaugh assassin
Judge "unequivocally based this weak sentence on the attempted assassin's 'gender identity.'"

Demolition begins on part of East Wing of White House for Trump’s new $250 million ballroom
Photos show that construction crews have already ripped off the covered entrance that for decades greeted visitors going on tours or attending special events. The wing historically has housed the first lady’s offices and sits atop a bomb shelter and will be significantly lengthened as part of the expansion.

Trump administration can deploy National Guard in Portland, appeals court says
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Monday will allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in Portland, saying it is likely to succeed on its appeal of an order that blocked the deployment.

Jeanine Pirro announces charges against 2 more DC teens over ‘Big Balls’ attack
The U.S. attorney charged 19-year-old Lawrence Cotton-Powell and 18-year-old Anthony Taylor with robbery, assault, and carjacking in the beating of federal staffer Edward Coristine, criticizing judges for releasing repeat offenders who went on to attack again.

Biden DOJ subpoenaed Ted Cruz’s phone records in Trump probe
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team secretly sought the Texas senator’s call logs from Jan. 4 to 7, 2021, as part of its Trump investigations — a move Cruz blasted as “21st-century digital Watergate” and political spying by the Biden administration.

Accountant arrested for last month’s shooting at Trump supporter’s home over yard flag
Police say 38-year-old Benjamin Campbell opened fire on North Carolina resident Mark Thomas after tearing down a Trump banner outside his home. Caught on video firing from his Jeep, Campbell faces felony charges for attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.

Trump administration agrees to deliver more student loan forgiveness
The outcome is the result of an agreement between the American Federation of Teachers and the U.S. Department of Education.

Anti-ICE agitator acts hurt after being 'ran over' by LAPD — but video shows the real story
Video shows a man pretending to be hit by a police SUV during the chaotic No Kings protest outside the federal building, only to return minutes later unharmed as he continued to demonstrate after claiming he was taken to a hospital.

Police thwart possible mass shooting at Atlanta airport after gunman’s family alert
Officers arrested 49-year-old Billy Joe Cagle minutes after his family warned he was livestreaming plans to “shoot up” Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. Police found an AR-15 and 27 rounds in his truck, crediting the quick family call and coordinated response with saving more than two dozen lives.

Virginia Giuffre beaten, raped by ‘well-known prime minister’ in attack that broke Epstein spell, her memoir says
In her posthumous memoir, Giuffre recalled begging Epstein to step in after the unnamed politician forced her to beg for her life — but the pedophile coldly told her it was simply part of her job.

Government shutdown...

Congressional Democrats 'terrified of getting the guillotine' from left-wing base if they vote to end shutdown: Report
Senate Democrats "are going to get hammered" if they support a Republican-led bill to end the government shutdown, according to an anonymous Democrat senator. Centrist Democrats would have opened the government "yesterday," the senator said, but fear career-ending backlash from their base.

Poll shows Trump gaining support amid shutdown as blame shifts away from him
CNN’s Harry Enten says only 48% now blame the president for the ongoing shutdown, down from 61% in 2018–19, with Trump’s approval rising slightly instead of falling as it did during his first term.

NYC...

Beards, protests & the 'addiction of revolution': Mamdani's time in Muslim Brotherhood-ruled Egypt
Mamdani arrived in Egypt as a college student with the Muslim Brotherhood in charge and left soon after the Egyptian military took over again. His time there, in his words, taught him of the "addiction of revolution."

NYC business leaders drop $3 million over 2 days into mayoral race in bid to stop Mamdani
The last-ditch spending blitz comes as the Democratic nominee continues to dominate the mayoral race, with polls showing him holding a double-digit lead over his competitor.

Luxurious and surrounded by armed guards, Zohran Mamdani’s family rental is steeped in inequality
Just beyond the fences, the Ugandan streets teem with boda-boda drivers, market women, and day laborers — but you’d never know it inside the compound.

Zohran Mamdani’s socialist housing plan could crash New York's rickety rental market
The city has the nation’s most regulated housing sector and the largest stock of government-owned and subsidized housing, and yet progressives blame its real estate troubles on the free market.

NY Post runs hit piece on Curtis Sliwa as it tries to sway voters to pick the lesser of two evils
The Post is running an “opposition research” piece on Sliwa as its top story as it tries to pressure him to quit the race and steer Republican voters toward Cuomo.

Politics...

No Kings protesters can’t explain how Trump is a king
At the Soros-funded D.C. rally, marchers waving anti-Trump signs and chanting rehearsed slogans struggled to answer basic questions about their cause, with some claiming Trump was ending women’s right to vote and others parroting vague talking points about “checks and balances.”

Axios: Trump's AI memes testing limits between satire and misinformation
The president posted an AI-generated video of Trump dumping brown sludge over No Kings protesters on Saturday, drawing condemnation from Democrats as well as rockstar Kenny Loggins, whose song "Danger Zone" was used in the post.

Politico: Mike Johnson says Trump was ‘using satire to make a point’ with AI poop-bombing video
Trump on Saturday evening posted an AI-generated video on Truth Social showing him wearing a crown at the stick of a warplane emblazoned with “King Trump.” It is shown bombarding liberal protesters with a poop-like substance.

‘We’re going to have a vote’ on member stock trading, Chip Roy says
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said there’s still bipartisan interest in forcing a floor vote on congressional trading.

Bernie Sanders suggests Abraham Lincoln was actually a Democratic Socialist
During an appearance on "The View," Sanders claimed Lincoln’s call for “a government of the people, by the people, for the people” echoed his own socialist ideals.

Trump’s first in-person fundraiser of the 2026 cycle will be for Lindsey Graham
A golf event with the South Carolina Republican next month will mark the president's first campaign appearance of the midterms.

Karine Jean-Pierre writes she couldn’t be a Democrat anymore after party’s ‘horrible’ treatment of Biden
Former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre unleashed on the Democratic Party in an excerpt from her new memoir, explaining why she decided to become an independent after years as a party flack.

Maine Democratic Senate candidate: Accusing me of watching CNN 'even more insulting than calling me retard'
Graham Platner, who trashed cops and rural voters, says the ultimate insult is being accused of watching CNN.

Economy...

National average gas prices fall below $3 per gallon, lowest since 2020
“Gas prices have finally fallen below $3 per gallon nationally — the earliest date we’ve seen a $2.99 national average since 2020, when COVID was the primary driver of low prices,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.

Immigration...

How Trump's border crackdown has choked cartels' fentanyl flow into the US
Seizures of the synthetic opioid at the southern border are down almost 53% compared with last year. The plunge isn't because authorities are catching less fentanyl — it's because cartels simply aren't trafficking as much.

Criminal illegal alien who ran Des Moines schools registered as Maryland voter
By law, only U.S. citizens are allowed to register to vote in U.S. elections, but an election watchdog group looked into voter registration in states where Roberts previously lived and found he registered to vote as a Democrat twice, once in 2011 and again in 2016.

Trump to target San Francisco with immigration raids
“San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world, and then 15 years ago, it went wrong, it went woke,” Trump said Sunday.

Israel...

Trump: ‘We are going to eradicate Hamas’ if ceasefire doesn’t hold
“They’re violent people. Hamas has been very violent, but they don’t have the backing of Iran anymore,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “They don’t have the backing of really anybody anymore. They have to be good, and if they’re not good, they’ll be eradicated.”

Hamas resumes terror operations inside Gaza hospitals and schools
Palestinian reports say Hamas has re-established bases in hospitals and schools to interrogate and execute opponents, extort aid agencies, and rebuild its network under the cover of the ceasefire.

NY Times: US increasingly worried Netanyahu could collapse Gaza ceasefire
There is growing worry in the administration that Netanyahu could actively act against the deal, the report says, citing several unnamed U.S. officials.

Jerusalem Post editorial: Israel needs to take tough Gaza decisions, which may test bonds of US relationship
The difference in thinking between the U.S. and Israel on the ceasefire is that the U.S. sees its partners in Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar as having the ability to rein in Hamas and its nature of terrorism. Israel, however, is rightfully skeptical.

New poll finds soaring approval for Trump's handling of Israel-Hamas war
An Emerson College poll shows 47% of voters now approve of the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, up from 30% in April, with independents driving the turnaround. Meanwhile, Democrats are overwhelmingly negative on the peace deal.

Canada...

After years of woke land acknowledgments, some Canadian homeowners may soon be evicted
A British Columbia court granted aboriginal title to nearly 1,900 acres near Vancouver, ruling that government land titles are invalid and leaving private homeowners uncertain about whether they still legally own their properties.

Entertainment...

De Niro’s latest rant: Trump is an ‘alien’ who ‘wants to hurt people’
The 82-year-old on-screen tough guy made an appearance on MSNBC this past weekend to voice support for the No Kings demonstrations, which were very popular with his age demographic.

John Lennon’s killer says he murdered ‘to be a somebody’ as parole denied again
Mark David Chapman told a New York parole board his assassination of the Beatle was driven by selfish hunger for fame, not ideology or insanity. Now 70, Chapman apologized for the “devastation” he caused but was denied parole for the 14th time, with the board citing his lack of genuine remorse.

Media...

A Wake to Remember: MSNBC bids farewell to its dying audience
What we saw at the MSNBC Live '25 festival, the most enlightening and overpriced event since the Kamala Harris book tour.

Gayle King sparks Democrat outrage with selfie alongside Fox News host Jesse Watters
The CBS anchor posted a smiling photo with Watters after sitting next to him on a flight, prompting furious backlash from leftist fans who accused her of “normalizing hate” and betraying her audience.

LGBTQIA2S+...

White ex-state trooper says he was fired for being white after arresting black Philadelphia LGBTQ official
Former trooper Andrew Zaborowski claims he was fired for being white after a 2024 traffic stop in which Philadelphia LGBTQ director Celena McLean yelled, “It’s cause I’m black” and “I work for the mayor,” as she and her husband resisted arrest — charges that were later dropped by DA’s office.

Education...

Teacher's assistant arrested in connection with Turning Point USA attack ahead of Alex Stein event at Illinois State Univ.
Stein celebrated the students who stood their ground to yet another allegedly violent leftist.

Chicago elementary teacher mocks Charlie Kirk’s assassination with vile gun gesture at No Kings protest
“This is who we trust with our children & then wonder why they become radicalized as adults.”

Here’s why teachers are fed up with kids chanting ‘6 7’ in their classrooms: ‘Gonna start kicking people out’
The slang term comes from the viral song “Doot Doot (6 7)” by rapper Skrilla, which features the endlessly repeated lyric “six seven.”

Health...

Spike in childhood peanut allergies was caused by 'experts'
For years, doctors told parents to keep peanuts away from infants — advice now proven to have backfired. A new study shows that avoiding peanuts actually increased allergy risk, while early introduction helps babies build immunity and has already driven allergy rates down sharply.

AI...

Anthropic co-founder warns AI is ‘coming to life’ as experts dismiss talk of machine consciousness
Jack Clark said he’s “deeply afraid” that modern AI is showing signs of self-awareness, likening new systems to “a hammer that realizes it’s a hammer.” Meanwhile, philosophers and neuroscientists rejected the idea that machines are conscious — calling them “AI zombies” that only mimic awareness.

Elon Musk: Grok 5 now has a 10% chance of becoming world’s first AGI
In a recent post on X, Musk noted that his “estimate of the probability of Grok 5 achieving AGI is now at 10% and rising.”

British TV special 'shocks' viewers with AI 'anchor' reveal
Channel 4’s "Will AI Take My Job?" ended with the surprise admission that its host was entirely AI-generated, making it the U.K.’s first news program fronted by an artificial presenter as the network warns of AI’s power to deceive and disrupt real journalism.

Technology...

Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, 'experts' say
"Experts" have warned of the perils of relying on a small number of companies for operating the global internet after a glitch at Amazon’s cloud computing service brought down apps and websites around the world.

Science...

Transportation Secretary Duffy says SpaceX is behind on moon trip, and he will reopen contracts
“We’re not going to wait for one company,” Duffy, who is currently the acting NASA administrator, told CNBC on Monday. “We’re going to push this forward and win the second space race against the Chinese. Get back to the moon, set up a camp, a base.”

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Why the White House restoration sent the left Into panic mode

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Presidents have altered the White House for decades, yet only Donald Trump is treated as a vandal for privately funding the East Wing’s restoration.

Every time a president so much as changes the color of the White House drapes, the press clutches its pearls. Unless the name on the stationery is Barack Obama’s, even routine restoration becomes a national outrage.

President Donald Trump’s decision to privately fund upgrades to the White House — including a new state ballroom — has been met with the usual chorus of gasps and sneers. You’d think he bulldozed Monticello.

If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s ‘visionary.’

The irony is that presidents have altered and expanded the White House for more than a century. President Franklin D. Roosevelt added the East and West Wings in the middle of the Great Depression. Newspapers accused him of building a palace while Americans stood in breadlines. History now calls it “vision.”

First lady Nancy Reagan faced the same hysteria. Headlines accused her of spending taxpayer money on new china “while Americans starved.” In truth, she raised private funds after learning that the White House didn’t have enough matching plates for state dinners. She took the ridicule and refused to pass blame.

“I’m a big girl,” she told her staff. “This comes with the job.” That was dignity — something the press no longer recognizes.

A restoration, not a renovation

Trump’s project is different in every way that should matter. It costs taxpayers nothing. Not a cent. The president and a few friends privately fund the work. There’s no private pool or tennis court, no personal perks. The additions won’t even be completed until after he leaves office.

What’s being built is not indulgence — it’s stewardship. A restoration of aging rooms, worn fixtures, and century-old bathrooms that no longer function properly in the people’s house. Trump has paid for cast brass doorknobs engraved with the presidential seal, restored the carpets and moldings, and ensured that the architecture remains faithful to history.

The media’s response was mockery and accusations of vanity. They call it “grotesque excess,” while celebrating billion-dollar “climate art” projects and funneling hundreds of millions into activist causes like the No Kings movement. They lecture America on restraint while living off the largesse of billionaires.

The selective guardians of history

Where was this sudden reverence for history when rioters torched St. John’s Church — the same church where every president since James Madison has worshipped? The press called it an “expression of grief.”

Where was that reverence when mobs toppled statues of Washington, Jefferson, and Grant? Or when first lady Melania Trump replaced the Rose Garden’s lawn with a patio but otherwise followed Jackie Kennedy’s original 1962 plans in the garden’s restoration? They called that “desecration.”

If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s “visionary.”

The real desecration

The people shrieking about “historic preservation” care nothing for history. They hate the idea that something lasting and beautiful might be built by hands they despise. They mock craftsmanship because it exposes their own cultural decay.

The White House ballroom is not a scandal — it’s a mirror. And what it reflects is the media’s own pettiness. The ruling class that ridicules restoration is the same class that cheered as America’s monuments fell. Its members sneer at permanence because permanence condemns them.

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Trump’s improvements are an act of faith — in the nation’s symbols, its endurance, and its worth. The outrage over a privately funded renovation says less about him than it does about the journalists who mistake destruction for progress.

The real desecration isn’t happening in the East Wing. It’s happening in the newsrooms that long ago tore up their own foundation — truth — and never bothered to rebuild it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Trump’s secret war in the Caribbean EXPOSED — It’s not about drugs

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The president’s moves in Venezuela, Guyana, and Colombia aren’t about drugs. They’re about re-establishing America’s sovereignty across the Western Hemisphere.

For decades, we’ve been told America’s wars are about drugs, democracy, or “defending freedom.” But look closer at what’s unfolding off the coast of Venezuela, and you’ll see something far more strategic taking shape. Donald Trump’s so-called drug war isn’t about fentanyl or cocaine. It’s about control — and a rebirth of American sovereignty.

The aim of Trump’s ‘drug war’ is to keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

The president understands something the foreign policy class forgot long ago: The world doesn’t respect apologies. It respects strength.

While the global elites in Davos tout the Great Reset, Trump is building something entirely different — a new architecture of power based on regional independence, not global dependence. His quiet campaign in the Western Hemisphere may one day be remembered as the second Monroe Doctrine.

Venezuela sits at the center of it all. It holds the world’s largest crude oil reserves — oil perfectly suited for America’s Gulf refineries. For years, China and Russia have treated Venezuela like a pawn on their chessboard, offering predatory loans in exchange for control of those resources. The result has been a corrupt, communist state sitting in our own back yard. For too long, Washington shrugged. Not any more.The naval exercises in the Caribbean, the sanctions, the patrols — they’re not about drug smugglers. They’re about evicting China from our hemisphere.

Trump is using the old “drug war” playbook to wage a new kind of war — an economic and strategic one — without firing a shot at our actual enemies. The goal is simple: Keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

Beyond Venezuela

Just east of Venezuela lies Guyana, a country most Americans couldn’t find on a map a year ago. Then ExxonMobil struck oil, and suddenly Guyana became the newest front in a quiet geopolitical contest. Washington is helping defend those offshore platforms, build radar systems, and secure undersea cables — not for charity, but for strategy. Control energy, data, and shipping lanes, and you control the future.

Moreover, Colombia — a country once defined by cartels — is now positioned as the hinge between two oceans and two continents. It guards the Panama Canal and sits atop rare-earth minerals every modern economy needs. Decades of American presence there weren’t just about cocaine interdiction; they were about maintaining leverage over the arteries of global trade. Trump sees that clearly.

PEDRO MATTEY / Contributor | Getty Images

All of these recent news items — from the military drills in the Caribbean to the trade negotiations — reflect a new vision of American power. Not global policing. Not endless nation-building. It’s about strategic sovereignty.

It’s the same philosophy driving Trump’s approach to NATO, the Middle East, and Asia. We’ll stand with you — but you’ll stand on your own two feet. The days of American taxpayers funding global security while our own borders collapse are over.

Trump’s Monroe Doctrine

Critics will call it “isolationism.” It isn’t. It’s realism. It’s recognizing that America’s strength comes not from fighting other people’s wars but from securing our own energy, our own supply lines, our own hemisphere. The first Monroe Doctrine warned foreign powers to stay out of the Americas. The second one — Trump’s — says we’ll defend them, but we’ll no longer be their bank or their babysitter.

Historians may one day mark this moment as the start of a new era — when America stopped apologizing for its own interests and started rebuilding its sovereignty, one barrel, one chip, and one border at a time.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Antifa isn’t “leaderless” — It’s an organized machine of violence

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The mob rises where men of courage fall silent. The lesson from Portland, Chicago, and other blue cities is simple: Appeasing radicals doesn’t buy peace — it only rents humiliation.

Parts of America, like Portland and Chicago, now resemble occupied territory. Progressive city governments have surrendered control to street militias, leaving citizens, journalists, and even federal officers to face violent anarchists without protection.

Take Portland, where Antifa has terrorized the city for more than 100 consecutive nights. Federal officers trying to keep order face nightly assaults while local officials do nothing. Independent journalists, such as Nick Sortor, have even been arrested for documenting the chaos. Sortor and Blaze News reporter Julio Rosas later testified at the White House about Antifa’s violence — testimony that corporate media outlets buried.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened.

Chicago offers the same grim picture. Federal agents have been stalked, ambushed, and denied backup from local police while under siege from mobs. Calls for help went unanswered, putting lives in danger. This is more than disorder; it is open defiance of federal authority and a violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

A history of violence

For years, the legacy media and left-wing think tanks have portrayed Antifa as “decentralized” and “leaderless.” The opposite is true. Antifa is organized, disciplined, and well-funded. Groups like Rose City Antifa in Oregon, the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club in Texas, and Jane’s Revenge operate as coordinated street militias. Legal fronts such as the National Lawyers Guild provide protection, while crowdfunding networks and international supporters funnel money directly to the movement.

The claim that Antifa lacks structure is a convenient myth — one that’s cost Americans dearly.

History reminds us what happens when mobs go unchecked. The French Revolution, Weimar Germany, Mao’s Red Guards — every one began with chaos on the streets. But it wasn’t random. Today’s radicals follow the same playbook: Exploit disorder, intimidate opponents, and seize moral power while the state looks away.

Dismember the dragon

The Trump administration’s decision to designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization was long overdue. The label finally acknowledged what citizens already knew: Antifa functions as a militant enterprise, recruiting and radicalizing youth for coordinated violence nationwide.

But naming the threat isn’t enough. The movement’s financiers, organizers, and enablers must also face justice. Every dollar that funds Antifa’s destruction should be traced, seized, and exposed.

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This fight transcends party lines. It’s not about left versus right; it’s about civilization versus anarchy. When politicians and judges excuse or ignore mob violence, they imperil the republic itself. Americans must reject silence and cowardice while street militias operate with impunity.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened. The violence in Portland and Chicago is deliberate, not spontaneous. If America fails to confront it decisively, the price won’t just be broken cities — it will be the erosion of the republic itself.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

URGENT: Supreme Court case could redefine religious liberty

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The state is effectively silencing professionals who dare speak truths about gender and sexuality, redefining faith-guided speech as illegal.

This week, free speech is once again on the line before the U.S. Supreme Court. At stake is whether Americans still have the right to talk about faith, morality, and truth in their private practice without the government’s permission.

The case comes out of Colorado, where lawmakers in 2019 passed a ban on what they call “conversion therapy.” The law prohibits licensed counselors from trying to change a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation, including their behaviors or gender expression. The law specifically targets Christian counselors who serve clients attempting to overcome gender dysphoria and not fall prey to the transgender ideology.

The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The law does include one convenient exception. Counselors are free to “assist” a person who wants to transition genders but not someone who wants to affirm their biological sex. In other words, you can help a child move in one direction — one that is in line with the state’s progressive ideology — but not the other.

Think about that for a moment. The state is saying that a counselor can’t even discuss changing behavior with a client. Isn’t that the whole point of counseling?

One‑sided freedom

Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor in Colorado Springs, has been one of the victims of this blatant attack on the First Amendment. Chiles has dedicated her practice to helping clients dealing with addiction, trauma, sexuality struggles, and gender dysphoria. She’s also a Christian who serves patients seeking guidance rooted in biblical teaching.

Before 2019, she could counsel minors according to her faith. She could talk about biblical morality, identity, and the path to wholeness. When the state outlawed that speech, she stopped. She followed the law — and then she sued.

Her case, Chiles v. Salazar, is now before the Supreme Court. Justices heard oral arguments on Tuesday. The question: Is counseling a form of speech or merely a government‑regulated service?

If the court rules the wrong way, it won’t just silence therapists. It could muzzle pastors, teachers, parents — anyone who believes in truth grounded in something higher than the state.

Censored belief

I believe marriage between a man and a woman is ordained by God. I believe that family — mother, father, child — is central to His design for humanity.

I believe that men and women are created in God’s image, with divine purpose and eternal worth. Gender isn’t an accessory; it’s part of who we are.

I believe the command to “be fruitful and multiply” still stands, that the power to create life is sacred, and that it belongs within marriage between a man and a woman.

And I believe that when we abandon these principles — when we treat sex as recreation, when we dissolve families, when we forget our vows — society fractures.

Are those statements controversial now? Maybe. But if this case goes against Chiles, those statements and others could soon be illegal to say aloud in public.

Faith on trial

In Colorado today, a counselor cannot sit down with a 15‑year‑old who’s struggling with gender identity and say, “You were made in God’s image, and He does not make mistakes.” That is now considered hate speech.

That’s the “freedom” the modern left is offering — freedom to affirm, but never to question. Freedom to comply, but never to dissent. The same movement that claims to champion tolerance now demands silence from anyone who disagrees. The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The real test

No matter what happens at the Supreme Court, we cannot stop speaking the truth. These beliefs aren’t political slogans. For me, they are the product of years of wrestling, searching, and learning through pain and grace what actually leads to peace. For us, they are the fundamental principles that lead to a flourishing life. We cannot balk at standing for truth.

Maybe that’s why God allows these moments — moments when believers are pushed to the wall. They force us to ask hard questions: What is true? What is worth standing for? What is worth dying for — and living for?

If we answer those questions honestly, we’ll find not just truth, but freedom.

The state doesn’t grant real freedom — and it certainly isn’t defined by Colorado legislators. Real freedom comes from God. And the day we forget that, the First Amendment will mean nothing at all.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.