I think ppl need truth, beauty, love, humor, joy, reason + faith. @_Deprogrammed @CivilityDinners / https://xitter.cf/t.co/zys9XQn9hE ((you/your mom/thou))
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"The Hippocratic Oath for doctors says to FIRST DO NO HARM. It is a LIE that sterilizing and mutilating children does no harm."
My comments to the Austin City Council:
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Watching the way Samuel Sey and Joel Berry were treated this week is all the proof I need that every one of my worst thoughts about these people was still too nice.
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When these people tell you who they are, it would be a really good idea if you believe them.
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Today I walked into the White House. 🇺🇸
My mission to end child transition worldwide has the backing of the most powerful government on earth.
6 years ago this was a solo fight. Hour upon hour spent on the streets of Canada, next to no support, not knowing a soul in this fight, but never discouraged!
I have always known the victories that await.
I have always had faith that others would join the cause and in time we would stop this madness, everywhere.
Well, we are! 👉🏼 billboardchris.com/world-pro…
Much work to be done, but today I'm meeting with leaders at the highest levels of the U.S. government. I've also spoken up for kids at the EU Parliament (twice), the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, and the UN in New York, and been featured (by critics) on the main stage at the World Economic Forum.
I've met with members of Congress, testified before the Florida State legislature, helped ban this in Oklahoma, and sat down with lawmakers in the Canadian Parliament and in legislatures from B.C. to Washington, California, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Scotland, England, Israel, and Australia. In Brussels I met elected representatives from a dozen more European countries.
I've also been to jail 3 times, been arrested 5 times in 4 countries, had more than 300 visits from police, but never been charged with anything. All arrests were either after I was assaulted, or because I simply refused to yield to an angry mob and police who insisted I leave.
The answer to "Will you relinquish your rights to satisfy this violent mob?" will always be NO.
I've been assaulted dozens of times, had my arm broken, been mobbed by hundreds, painted on, spat on, car keyed, tires destroyed, and even had a catalytic converter stolen in Oakland. Note to self: don't stay in a cheap hotel in Oakland.
Hundreds of houses in my neighborhood have received mail from Antifa, trying to destroy my reputation, but all that did was bring in more support. Normal people don't like when kids are being harmed.
I even sued the Australian government when they tried to censor me on X, and won!
Mostly, I've spoken with thousands upon thousands of people on the street, in 14 countries, helping parents protect their kids, and reached millions more online.
We are winning because we tell the truth: that children are beautiful just as they are, no drugs or scalpels needed!
And we are going to stop child transition everywhere, no matter how long it takes.
If you wish to support me in this fight, I greatly appreciate your help. Thank you!
billboardchris.com/donate
Thanks to @KenPaxtonTX, the Texas Children’s Hospital was FORCED to open the nation’s first Detransition Clinic as part of their settlement for illegally abusing, mutilating and sterilizing children.
They also have to pay $10 Million in restitution and to cut ties with doctors who mutilated kids.
This is a huge win! 🙏 And it’s not lost on me that this happened while Paxton is in a dead heat against a worm who openly supports this kind of child abuse.
If you haven’t voted yet, get out and vote. I didn’t vote for Paxton in the primary, but I’d be dammed if I didn’t get out and support him now.
God Bless Texas! ❤️☺️
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This is the Joel Webbon I used to support. See, @JoelWebbon, you tell me I’ve changed, when in reality it’s you that has changed. For the worst.
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This has been a very "are we the baddies?" week for Twitter Christian Nationalists.
It's not too late. Leave the group chat. Close the account. Reconnect with your church. Put Jesus above your online frens.
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I am under conviction after listening to Joel Webbon
I feel it’s time to start truth telling, so that I am not an ingrate.
Joel, have you vacationed (after marriage) with the former congregant we all heard about?
Maybe it’s good to just come clean, your episode encouraged this
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I don’t know what’s more embarrassing being a grown man and acting like you are auditioning for the mean girls or dunking on a devout Christian because he embarrassed you on social media all while claiming to be such a defender of Christian civilization.
Maybe it’s peddling pizza gate nonsense and then taking it back.
Or maybe it’s taking selfies with a Jew hater in a shirt that says into the oven.
Although I think the winner might be being so completely detached from reality that you think people can’t see through you.
God imagine if these little boys actually had some real power.
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I do have a tribe. I am tribal.
It’s a tribe Jesus described. And to avoid putting words in his mouth, here’s Jesus in his own words, as well as those of the Apostle Paul:
“And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, “Behold My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.””
Matthew 12:49-50
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.”
John 10:27-28
“And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.”
Gal 3:29
“So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.”
Galatians 6:10
Yes, I am tribal. I just don’t classify my tribe by melanin count. Samuel Sey is in my tribe, and he is my brother. And he would make an excellent American.
Humans are a pack animal.
This may be hard to understand if you are evangelical and think the book of genesis is literal rather than allegorical, but humans are a pack animal.
What this means is that the human desire for the acceptance and support of a tribe is as fundamental as the desire for food, for air, for water, for sex, for sunlight, for love.
If you tell young men that they cannot have a tribe, they're not going to accept that.
Ever.
Especially if you tell that only to the young men of one tribe in particular. They're going to wonder why everybody gets to have a tribe and they don't.
And they're eventually going to decide that you are the enemy.
Because you are. Anyone who stands between young men and what they need for a healthy, fulfilled life is their enemy.
That includes you.
And if you manage to convince them that god doesn't want them to have a tribe, it will also include god.
The more you push back against their healthy and natural desire for a tribe, a homeland, and a birthright, the more they will hate you, and the more exclusive their definition of that tribe will become.
There is no way you can stop this. The only thing you can control is how far they have to go, how radical they have to become, in order to get it.
Because this can go all the way from enforcing immigration law, and shutting down corrupt visa programs right now, to gangs of young White men in balaclavas with Ar15s going door to door ten years from now.
We have to do something about the 14th amendment. I don't care if that makes you uncomfortable or unhappy. It's not a choice. The constitution exists to serve Americans, not the other way around. If that sentence confuses you, read the first paragraph of the constitution.
If we do not, young men of the future, the same little boys who are being radicalized right now by your malicious indifference, will treat a piece of paper that says they cannot have a homeland the way they would treat a piece of paper that says that can't eat food, or a piece of paper that says they can't own a home, or have a wife and children.
You may think that you offer them a tribe in the form of the universal kingdom of god, the community of all believers, but that's just a word game and you know it, which is why you are so defensive about the whole thing.
Where was the universal community of believers when these young men needed help? When they needed not just the surface appearance of a tribe, but someone to do the things that tribes actually do for younger generations they care about?
The pack serves a concrete set of functions in the life cycle of the human species, and you cannot perform those functions with a cardboard cutout.
Young men are sick of religion that offers them responsibilities with no rights, lectures with no help, demands with no love or empathy.
It's odd, in a way ironic, that, I, the man of zero faith, should have to be the one standing here telling self-styled religious leaders how they failed both their people and their god.
But having no faith does give me one advantage. It frees me from the delusion that Jesus is a puppet that I can pull out of my pocket, slip over my right hand, move his mouth and make him say what I want.
I used to wonder, as a child, what the phrase "taking the name of the lord in vain" actually meant.
But I no longer wonder, because when I became a man, I looked around me and saw all these people who talk to god and somehow get told exactly what they want to hear.
Then I understood that the key phrase here wasn't "in vain". It was "taking". Taking the name of god and using it as a tool for one's own goals.
Joel, here, is sad that his friend is getting sent home. This personally inconveniences both him and his friend, which effects Joel in a way that young men being denied their birthright does not.
So he finds an interpretation of scripture that says that god wants him, Joel Berry, to get his way, and that god wants all the young men who want a homeland and a birthright to go get fucked.
I'm not terribly impressed.
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And you know what? While we’re at it, stop excusing the arsonists who wink and nod at white nationalists because, deep down, they probably identify with them.
No one has argued that it isn’t normal to deport illegal aliens. In fact, I’m sure that’s something we can all agree on.
But becausehe’s an arsonist, he wants to fuel the fire instead of doing what a good Christian should do: calm the situation down and explain that you can believe in deporting illegal immigrants without losing your humanity.
And if somebody came here legally on a visa, has an American wife and three children, is a nonviolent, noncriminal, devoted Christian—or simply a devoted family man, regardless of his religion—and still has a viable legal path toward permanent residency and eventually citizenship, then maybe we should exhaust every lawful option to help him before throwing him to the wolves.
Maybe we shouldn’t celebrate his deportation simply because he was a thorn in the side of a bunch of white Christian nationalists.
And maybe we shouldn’t champion—or remain silent about—the people trying to take down a fundraiser intended to help him and his family.
Because last I checked, Christian charity didn’t stop at immigration laws.
At least for those of us who are actually Bible believing Christians.
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If you think the Heritage American woke right won’t destroy your family and your livelihood if you disagree with them, you have no idea what the hell you’re up against.
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Yes, happy to explain. I don’t think it’s wise to let your opinion of an entire immigration policy be dictated by outlier cases, tragic cases, or sad stories. I also support the second amendment even when there are tragic cases of gun violence.
I support ICE and I believe mass deportations are necessary. I believe in law and order and I believe in justice. So does Samuel Sey. I don’t fault ICE for doing its job. I also believe in helping friends when you can, and also believe that mercy is sometimes appropriate. I know Samuel—he’s a good man of integrity. He has made good faith effort to file the right paperwork and comply with the law. He didn’t deceive or purposefully break the law. He would make an excellent American citizen. I hope he can become one someday.
There are many other similar cases, I’m sure. It doesn’t change my opinion. All we can do is support justice as well as we can, and extend mercy where appropriate to the best of our ability. You might find this inconsistent, but I don’t. It’s just part of living in a messy world.
