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Catholic All-Girls College Reverses Trans Policy After Backlash
Mary Margaret Olohan
December 21, 2023

... Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, is backtracking on its decision to allow men who identify as transgender women to enroll in the formerly all-female, Catholic institution.

The Daily Signal reported in November that Saint Mary’s College would allow men who identify as women to enroll at the college in the fall of 2024. ...

She wrote: “Some worried that this was much more than a policy decision: they felt it was a dilution of our mission or even a threat to our Catholic identity. Moreover, we clearly underestimated our community’s genuine desire to be engaged in the process of shaping a policy of such significance. As this last month unfolded, we lost people’s trust and unintentionally created division where we had hoped for unity. For this, we are deeply sorry.”

“Taking all these factors into consideration, the Board has decided that we will return to our previous admission policy,” she said. “Although this has been a challenging time for our community, we believe that the College should continually grapple with the complexity of living our Catholic values in a changing world.”

Members of the Saint Mary’s community rejoiced over the news to The Daily Signal, expressing strong excitement that the college had backed down.

“I’m so proud of the women at Saint Mary’s who were willing to stand up against this anti-women, anti-Catholic policy,” said Claire Bettag, a junior at Saint Mary’s. “God’s truth will always win.”

“When this admissions decision became public hundreds of alumni banded together to stand for the Church and her teachings,” said Clare Ath, who graduated from the college in 2018. “While I would hope the reversal is because administrators realized we must teach the truth with love, my guess is the reversal is because alumni banded together, pulled their donations, notified their diocese and media, and said we will not let Our Lady’s college be corrupted by secular gender ideology.”

Woot! I bet it was really the threat of losing donations that got the school to do the right thing and continue to bar mentally ill men from a woman's college.

The conservative town of Huntington Beach, California has decided to axe various month-long celebrations for different identity groups, including “Pride Month” and “Black History Month.”

In a recent vote, the town’s council decided to move towards celebrations that highlight the city’s history. This would include the discovery of oil in the area, as well as the town’s founding.

The new program is set to take off in 2024, at which point the community history celebrations will replace months dedicated to specific identity groups. This includes Pride Month, Women’s History Month, Black History Month and numerous additional celebrations that focus on specific groups.

Very briefly, nullification is a method for the states to assert their sovereignty rights, as envisioned by the Constitution, and to automatically reject (nullify) unconstitutional federal laws. As an example, many states legalized marijuana while it remains criminalized at the federal level. They nullified those federal laws (see, they CAN do it).

Here is a message from Karen on what you can do to push your state legislators to act (and copy TN bill):

The first thing people need to do is organize if they are not already leading a group or belong to a group

They need to get a House and Senate sponsor for the legislation

Then they need to build their organization so when the bills start moving through the House and Senate sub-committees, committees and the full House and Senate they have enough people to put pressure on the legislators. We work the people on the sub-committees and committees first. No sense in blasting the entire House and Senate before we get the bill passed in the sub-committees and committees. But many of us do speak with our individual elected state leaders.

People need to understand how their legislature works and how bills pass through the system

They need to get educated on the Constitution (the TRUTH) and Nullification. Our website provides a ton of good resources that will help people get on board quickly. I would be glad to work with anyone from any state that needs help.

Write articles for the local newspaper and alternative media sites.

Get on local radio stations.

Organize block parties. Create a flyer (we have a flyer and pamphlet on our website they could use as a sample) and walk the block placing the flyer on the front door of their neighbors.

Make your car a rolling billboard

Yes, just like home printed money, one cannot but anything with home grown food.

I'm sure that for those interested it would be possible to sell produce grown in the garden.

Make your car a rolling billboard

yawaraf says

I'm sure that for those interested it would be possible to sell produce grown in the garden.

For more than it cost? Most home growers cannot even give away the excess cucumbers.

The Fort Worth Star Telegram ran an encouraging story yesterday with this headline:




The restaurant has planned a gala, premium-priced New Year’s Eve party including a fire thrower, a magician, a palm reader, dinner, music, a DJ, and several drag performers offering “comedy and cabaret.” But, according to the story, after an “onslaught of complaints,” the restaurant changed up its New Year’s Eve programming, deleting the drag performers:




To be clear: neither I nor most people who complained about the show hate transsexual people. I’m not advocating to make drag illegal or banning it. But if most customers feel adding drag to the pricey New Year’s experience is offensive, either because it is immoral, disrespectful to women, or for whatever reason, then restaurants are right to adjust to customer preferences.

This demonstrates a hidden benefit to the shrinking economy. Without all the free government covid money, businesses are being forced to pay more attention to their customers which means less wokeness.

Those northern areas were Celtic and Basque, people that are still rather hard to pacify.

Tennessee school district settles in court with young woman sent home for "Homosexuality is a Sin" shirt

Three years after being forced to return home for wearing a shirt professing part of her faith, a young Tennessee woman just won a nice little victory against school officials:

In a settlement agreement reached in November and shared with The Christian Post, the Overton County Board of Education in Tennessee agreed to pay $101 to Brielle Penkoski three years after she was sent home from the Livingston Academy public high school for wearing the shirt.

Okay, I just need to adjust my eyeglasses here a second and make sure I'm reading it right ...

Okay, so not exactly a bonanza. But it's a moral victory more than anything.
To be fair, the board is also shelling out for procedural fees:

The school board will also pay the plaintiff's attorney's fees and costs.

Penkoski, a minor when the lawsuit was first filed in 2020, "is the daughter of street preacher Rich Penkoski, who leads the online ministry Warriors for Christ."

Ask yourself if a shirt criticizing Christianity or promoting something directly opposed to its teachings would be allowed in schools. Of course it would. So if we truly live in a fair system, you'd also be allowed to wear shirts paraphrasing the Apostle Paul - you know, one of the bedrocks of Western civilization.

Here's First Corinthians 6:9-10:

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Rich Penkoski said the $100 payday was "way more than we thought she was going to get anyway out of this."

"The other part of this is all the teachers, at least from 2020, were told to start taking First Amendment courses," the preacher continued, adding that that requirement was "one of the things that I insisted on."

A good victory here, all told. Well done, everyone.

What is wrong with the catholic church? Religion doesn't change with society. It's supposed to be the guide of society. I would never be a catholic.

Patrick says

Yes, just like home printed money, one cannot but anything with home grown food. What is the point with this cartoon? Fruits and veggies are cheap, so growing at home is more for freshness and taste than making money. In fact, the costs including time of one's radish patch may be more expensive than just picking up a bag of radishes at the Safeway.