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Updated: 5/23/18 Emails show Longtime Obama and Clinton Counselor John Podesta Lobbying on behalf of the Podesta Group (Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch today released new documents from the U.S. Department of State showing the Podesta Group working on behalf of the pro-Russia Ukrainian political group “Party of Regions.” The new documents also show longtime...

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Full Interview | Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his wife Ashley speak out in their first television interview since Dr. Christine Blasey Ford levied accusations t...

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Election officials in Franklin County, Ohio are reportedly stumped over what one maintenance worker found in a dilapidated downtown Columbus warehouse earlier this week. According to sources, Randa…

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Forsyth County, Georgia rejected grant money from HUD, refusing to pursue the feds' sustainability program. By Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

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Liberal students across the nation watched in shock as Donald Trump clinched victory from Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States.

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Your doctor’s political affiliation may affect how he or she treats your issue

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WASHINGTON – With Nancy Pelosi facing a challenge within her own party after House Democrats’ disastrous election results, the NRCC would like to offer its full support to the embattled former Speaker of the House. Under Nancy Pelosi’s leadership, House Democrats squandered their majority by forcing through unpopular legislation like Obamacare, of which Pelosi famously ...

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Proof Democrats Are Trying to Steal the Election - Wayne Allyn Root: For two years now since President Trump’s election, I’ve chronicled .11/01/2018 0:58:17AM EST.

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The Trump administration plans to get NASA out of the climate change business

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In an interview with The New York Times, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said backing President Donald Trump in certain cases has been harder than defending O.J. Simpson and other celebrity clients.

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‘Their campaign didn’t have their hands up my skirt’ By Mary Margaret Olohan Daily Caller News Foundation Tara Reade condemned the media’s silence regarding her sexual assault all…

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The incoming governor of North Carolina said Monday that he will ask state lawmakers to repeal a controversial law that limited LGBT protections.

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South Carolina mother Alexandria Borys was shot and killed in front of her two children on Valentine's Day after an argument with a stranger in a grocery store parking lot.

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A few of our more perceptive government officials seem to realize they’ve been choking off entrepreneurship.

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Donald Trump's defense attorney Bruce Castor claimed the ex-president hasn't complained about his performance, saying 'far from it,' despite Republican senators lining up to mock it.

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Further evidence pointing to the fact that Russia was indeed involved in the presidential election has emerged: they were congratulating themselves when Donald Trump pulled off his upset victory over Hillary Clinton.

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If foreigners kicked out, "you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial art"

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A preview of things to come?

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The purge of pro-life sponsors from the Women’s March on Washington offered pro-life feminists a choice: Protest the organizers’ decision to exclude them or stay silent.
It is one thing that the march provided speaking slots exclusively to pro-choice women, and another that abortion access was visibly a key issue for most of the marchers. But the organizers erased all ambiguity by forcing pro-life groups out. Forget that pro-life feminists claim to support the sanctity of life — here, all they had to do was stand up for the basic principle of inclusion.
Many, however, opted not to, including progressive Christian leaders who buried their objections to abortion and praised the march more or less unreservedly.
In case you haven’t heard, intersectionality is a prominent new framework for feminism. It purports to represent different identities and their intersecting concerns, such as race and gender identity. Since religion is also treated as one of these intersections, some Christians have made the mistake of thinking that their views could be treated as equal, but intersectional leaders place pro-life women in the category of oppressors.
Episcopal priest Broderick Greer espouses the belief that pro-life views are oppressive. In some ways, Greer exists on the fringe of American Christianity, but he is treated as a legitimate voice even outside his pro-choice denomination. Christian magazine Sojourners has quoted him, including in a recent piece on intersectionality, and he has written for the Washington Post and the Guardian. He has clout, and he uses it to demonize pro-lifers, even as he’s lauded by many progressive Christians.
It’s now common for progressive Christians to prioritize intersectional-feminist doctrine over the pro-life cause, even if they claim to support life. The fuzzy logic of intersectional feminism links oppression to the pro-life cause, and that motivates others to relax their opposition to abortion.
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As expected among progressive Christians, Sojourners has recently focused its energy on social-justice causes popular on the left, from LGBT rights to the Dakota Access Pipeline. It has previously published qualified objections to Planned Parenthood’s abortions, and has tried to maintain pro-life bona fides as a faith-based publication.
But as the women’s march has come to a close and Friday’s March for Life approaches, recent Sojourners stories praise the former and say nothing about the latter. Sojourners has an entire series, “Why I Am Marching,” that showcases readers’ essays about attending the march to stand up for women’s rights. It has not published any essays critiquing the ethics of the march, and barely mentioned the hostility and exclusion faced by pro-life feminists who attended, some of whom were spit on.
The feminist movement exercises power by legitimizing pro-choice zealotry, even to Christians who should be reluctant to join abortion absolutists. Bestselling author Rachel Held Evans has expressed pro-life views as a Christian feminist, but lately she has had a lot more to say about gay, transgender, and intersectional issues than she has about unborn life. She praised the women’s march with little reservation, and even called out fellow feminist author Karen Swallow Prior for merely saying that “pussy hats” sounded silly on Twitter.
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Prior tells National Review that intersectionality’s ability to unify is called into question by such interactions. “One of the prominent images from the march — the ‘pussy hat’ — ended up being more divisive than unifying because not all that identify as women have female genitalia,” she said. “This sort of incoherence signals the implosion of a worldview.”
If that implosion is coming, silencing dissenters will only hasten it. But intersectional feminism is all the rage, so traditional doctrinal claims are being pushed out of the discussion among progressive Christians who want to be on the “right side of history.”
Regardless of one’s faith, it’s clear how deeply intersectional ideas have sunk in on the left.
Regardless of one’s faith, it’s clear how deeply intersectional ideas have sunk in on the left. “The majority of Americans favor significant restrictions on abortion,” Prior points out. “And 41 percent of American woman are pro-life. That’s a lot of women to leave out of a march that claims to be for women.”
It should be perfectly clear that the women’s march is hurting its credibility by purging pro-life groups. Perhaps more so, progressive Christians are hurting their own credibility by refusing to stand up to the exclusion of their views.
But they could demonstrate that they are not kowtowing to the abortion industry by the way they approach the March for Life tomorrow. That march is open to people with a wide range of beliefs who simply agree about the right to life. It will probably not receive the fawning media coverage that the women’s march got, but progressive Christians should at least give it a passing glance.
— Paul Crookston is a Collegiate Network Fellow at National Review.

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