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WisconsinChristianNews.com
Volume 26, Issue 6
New Wisconsin Law Increases Punishments For Deepfake Pornography
By Jon Styf, The Center Square October 2025
could come together to proactively update our laws and keep Wisconsinites safe!”
Jacque cited a study from Deeptrace which showed that 96% of “deep fake” material is non- consensual pornography, and “exclusively targets and harms women.” Jacque cited another case in Milwaukee where an artificial image was created by a former police officer who then used the image to harass an ex- girlfriend.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill October 3 that will make using artificial intelligence to cre- ate pornography of a person a misdemeanor and using an AI-generated nude or sexual image of a person to intimidate, coerce or ha- rass them a felony.
The law is an expansion of prior crimes related to the depiction of nudity.
Wisconsin Act 34 was authored by Rep. Brent Jacobson, R-Mosi- nee, and Sen. Andre Jacque, New Franken. The law, which goes into effect on Saturday, came after D.C. Everest Junior High student Bradyn Bohn died by suicide after he was the victim of sextortion. “Recent events like the tragic death of DC Everest student Bra- dyn Bohn demonstrate how vul- nerable we can be to online coercion and intimidation,” Jacob- son said in a statement. “I am proud that my colleagues in the Legislature and Governor Evers
“As the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) become more and more advanced, bad actors are in- creasingly using artificially gener- ated sexually explicit images to harass and intimidate innocent people online,” Jacque said in a statement. “Act 34 will protect cit- izens against a new and disturbing form of cyber-abuse and ensure that all Wisconsinites can feel comfortable sharing regular im- ages of themselves online without fearing that those images will be manipulated or corrupted into pornography.”
Violence Should Be the Line In the Sand
By Jerry Newcombe, D.Min. October 2025
to burn heretics at the stake: “If fire is the right cure for heresy, then the [stick]-burners are the most learned doctors on earth; no need we study anymore;
Of course, we’ve seen in the last two hundred years, numerous instances of godless states, like the French Revolutionaries or the Communists, use violence to
If you have to resort to violence, you’ve lost the de- bate. The assassination of Charlie Kirk was a case in point. They couldn’t defeat him at debate, so they killed him. Charlie’s slogan, as seen on the white tent he was in when he was shot, says it all, “Prove me wrong.” Anybody who may claim he was “proved wrong” by being shot subscribes to the view that might makes right. I once read about an English tourist visiting China about a 100 years ago recounts how two laborers were having a heated argument in the street. After watching and listening for several minutes, the tourist remarked that he expected the two men would begin fighting any moment but his guide replied, “I doubt it, you see, the man who strikes first admits he’s lost the argument.” Reformer Martin Luther said: “I will preach, speak, write the truth, but will force it on no one, for faith must be accepted willingly, and without compulsion.” Also, he said about those who light the wooden sticks
he that has brute force on his side may burn his adversary at the stake.” Resorting to vio- lence to ensure con- formity is an act of tyranny. The Chris- tian worldview con- demns violence. Not that Christians have always lived up to that. For example, in 1777, Thomas Jeffer- son wrote a very im-
suppress religious or dissident opinions--- killing millions in the process. The late Paul John- son notes in Modern Times (1983), the 20th century totali- tarian state has proved to be the greatest killer of all time. In his book, The Quest for God (1996), he calls these govern- ments, like Nazi Ger- many or the Soviet
portant act on behalf of religious freedom. It was adopted in 1786 when he was in France. It is the Vir- ginia Statute for Religious Freedom. He basically argues that Jesus, “the holy author of
Union, “godless constructs.” Why allow open debate, when a bullet will do? In the above-mentioned act, Jefferson asseverates: “truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.” “Prove me wrong,” argued Charlie Kirk. His leftist critics could not, so one of their own resorted to vio- lence. The alleged killer wrote in a text to his trans- lover: “Why did I do it? I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out.” So Charlie Kirk was an inveterate hater, and, there- fore, he deserved to die. Tragically, this kind of think- ing prevails among many young people today. They have rejected a Judeo-Christian viewpoint and have embraced meaninglessness (nihilism) as the meaning of life. And if there is no meaning, power prevails. We see the results. What a different reaction we see in the act of the widow of Charlie, Erika Kirk, telling the world that she forgives the shooter. Trying to emulate the Savior, who said from the cross, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,” she forgave Charlie’s assas- sin. Dr. Richard Land, president emeritus of Southern Evangelical Seminary, once commented: “Americans must always reject the resort to violence in pursuit of political goals. It is literally ‘un-American’ to engage in, or resort to, violent disregard of the law. This is not a question of conservative versus liberal or Demo- crat versus Republican. This is right versus wrong.”
our religion,” has given us the freedom to accept or re- ject Him. Who then is the government to try and force religious conformity? It sim- ply produces hypocrites. Jefferson pens, “Almighty God hath created the mind free, and…all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone.” His argument is predi- cated on the notion that Jesus is divine. It is also predicated on the notion that God has given people free will. If the state tries to impose religious conformity, that involves the threat of violence.
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