Volume 25, Issue 3
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Take Heed To Who & To What You Are Listening
By Bradlee Dean June 2024
was professing to be a Christian when he is clearly not (Matthew 23:3).
(Proverbs 23:23). This isn’t the truth, nor am I buying it, and neither should you. We are to fear the Lord, not men, and this with strong confi- dence and much boldness (Proverbs 28:1). Yet, how prevalent this is today among professed Christian conservative broadcasters and their lis- teners (Matthew 5:13)!
“They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” (1 John 4:5- 6).
“For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God.” (John 3:34). This broadcaster was driving a “doom and gloom” narrative to teach the men and the women of this country to submit to the wicked rather than to
This is a clear judgment upon the people who have taken heed to these types of broadcasting hirelings (2 Timothy 4:3-4). In contrast to these carnal men who teach such things, the Lord educates His children, which are those who have ears to hear. Our faith over- comes this world in trusting the Liv- ing God (1 John 5:4). Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4). We are made more than conquers through Him that loved us (Romans 8:37), period!
The other day while listening to my intro feed on the radio broadcast, I was hearing an- other show host talking about what the bad guys were doing to the country. He was conveying to the American people the wicked deeds that are being committed against them by less than 1.7 percent of the popula- tion. He called them the “elites,” which he said, “ruled the world.” Remember, the only people that can rule you are those to whom you submit yourself. Furthermore, nobody rules this world but the Living God (Isaiah 40:22; Jeremiah 32:27).
“Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabi- tants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God; so shall ye be established. Believe His prophets; so shall ye prosper.” (2 Chronicles 20:20). Of course, this is the result of their adherence to the Word of God, in every aspect, every jot and tittle, and taking diligent heed to His command- ments. (Deuteronomy 28:1-15; John 14:21). RARE
lawfully stand up and deal with them the way that the patriarchs that are found within the Word of God and our forefathers (The Declaration of Inde- pendence) have taught us to do (Psalm 94:16). His objective, while teaching his listeners to fear other men, would then be to drive the people to his website to buy his product, not to the Lord.
He was promoting their lawless deeds by high- lighting their crimes, which is the fear of man that brings a snare (Proverbs 29:25). He wasn’t teach- ing the Scriptures where they teach us to to “Keep His commandments and live” (Proverbs 7:2). He wasn’t teaching from the Scriptures that we are “well able to overcome” (Numbers 13:30). Yet, he
Friends, we are to buy the truth and sell it not
Vermont Foster Care Rule Reveals the Left’s Terrifying New State Religion
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of the child’s racial, cultural, tribal, religious, or gender identity.” These rules require foster parents to adopt transgender ortho- doxy, and the Vermont Department for Children and Families has used them to apply a religious litmus test. The department presented both families with a questionnaire about whether they would “affirm” a hypothetical transgender identity of a hypothet- ical transgender child. They responded by stating their faith, and the department re- voked their foster care li- censes. “Gender identity” is a euphemistic term for the religious idea that, in ad- dition to a physical body, each person has a quasi- spiritual identity that should be considered more real than that per- son’s biological sex. Un- like biological sex, for which there is a tremen- dous amount of scientific and material evidence, there is no evidence for this “gender iden- tity.” At best, it is a metaphysical concept taken on faith, much like promises of life after death. At worst, it is an excuse for predatory men to victimize women in private spaces, to win an edge over women in sports, or to confuse children about sex and make them more vulnerable to abuse. Adopting this view isn’t just a matter of decency and respect like calling a man “sir.” It’s a statement of faith in a metaphysical realm. When the state says you must refer to a man as a woman, it’s forcing its worldview upon you, and the Wuotis and the Gantts had the gall to say no. Vermont’s Department for Children and Families didn’t insist that these families adopt this worldview in order to serve a par- ticular child the Wuotis and the Gantts wanted to foster or adopt. Rather, it treats gender ideology as the basic statement of faith required for all foster families. Any dissenters must be purged. Rather than helping the vulnerable, it seems the Department for Children and Families is prioritizing its religious commitment to gender ideology. Alliance Defending Freedom, writing the legal complaint on behalf of the Christian families, wrote, “Vermont would prefer children have no home than to place them with fam- ilies of faith with these views.”
Imagine opening your home and your heart to orphans and other children who need shelter, only to find the government de- manding that you stop, not because you’d be a threat to the kids, but because you don’t believe the state religion. That’s not a hypothetical — it actually happened in Vermont, to two Christian families who foster children in their homes, while
daring to disagree with the state’s new estab- lished religion, transgen- der orthodoxy. As my colleague Mary Margaret Olohan exclu- sively reported, Brian and Kaitlyn Wuoti and Michael and Rebecca Gantt sued the Vermont Department for Children and Families, because the state agency gave them an ultimatum: En-
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dorse our religion or give up fostering. The Christian religious freedom law firm Alliance Defending Freedom is representing them. These families have adopted five children between them, but Vermont ruled them unfit to continue giving shelter to the most vulnerable young people, all because they disagree with trans- gender orthodoxy. They’re suing, alleging that Vermont is violat- ing the First Amendment by discriminating on the basis of religion and by abridging the families’ rights to free speech and free as- sociation. The licensing rules for foster homes in Vermont state that ap- plicants and foster parents “shall exhibit … respect for the worth of all individuals, regardless of race, color, national origin, an- cestry, culture, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual identity, and physical or mental ability.” Christians like the Wuotis and the Gantts do respect people regardless of claimed gender identity. They just disagree with the gender identity. The rules also bar foster parents from “engaging in any form of discrimination against a foster child based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or disability,” and they state that “foster parents shall support children in wearing hairstyles, clothing, and accessories affirming
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