Where is Smokey the Bear when you need him? I guess since they legalized some things in California the contact high has him a little off his surveillance game.
I posted about the beginning of our California trip previously. Last September we were “Just Walkin Around” at the Golden Gate Bridge.
And here is our first day at Yosemite. We did a smokey tour of the iconic valley. You can barely make out Half Dome at the end of this video. Drought conditions led to fires throughout the area.
But it was still great. More to come from day two of our trip. And a lot less smoke.
Also, I’ve mixed in a few photos of a 2015 trip I took there with Susan. It was her first time at Yosemite. And she loved it.
Yosemite, May 2015 & Sept 2021
At one point in the video you will see some hang gliders. They said it takes about 10 ‘weather assisted’ minutes to make it down to the valley floor. Nice.
Upcoming posts will discuss the current move in Europe and beyond to criminalize a form of Christian Therapy that Evangelical Christians have employed.
But first this unseemly development on the Religious Freedom front.
A Finnish prosecutor has charged two Christians with hate crimes for publicly expressing their Christian beliefs about sex and marriage. One member of parliament and a bishop of the Lutheran church found themselves in a Finnish hate crime crosshair. A government minister (MP) recently raised hate crime suspicions by tweeting a negative opinion of her Church’s leadership because of their intent to sponsor a Pride Parade.
For that expression of her deeply held beliefs (that many Christians may oppose) and some previous statements by her from years ago, she has been charged with a hate crime.
Hard to believe. But here are the details. By the way, the interviewer in the video below says he is baffled by this even though he is a gay Catholic. You should be too.
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Again, many Christians may disagree with the MP and the Lutheran Bishop but surely we can agree that this shouldn’t be a prosecutable offense.
Is this the world we want to live in?
You can find more information about this story here. (The usual link disclaimer applies. 1Links from this blog to online resources don’t necessarily mean I support everything found on these sites. But as adults we should embrace viewpoint diversity. And make alliances where we can.)
The Girlguiding Association in the U.K. is what we in the U.S. call the Girl Scouts. It is the largest girls only organization in the U.K. Girls ages 5-14 participate.
Last month police in the U.K. brought in a women for questioning. Why? Because the police were forwarded an email (presumably from Girlguiding) written by her where she “expressed concern” over a “Transwoman” Guide-Leader. The local police questioned the writer “under caution” to find out if a “hate speech” charge against her was appropriate under the “malicious communication’s act.”
Here are two pictures posted by a Guide-Leader named Monica Sulley on Sulley’s social media page. Pictures that prompted some parents to raise concerns. For those concerns one of them was questioned by the police.
Guide-Leader Monica Sulley dressed in Fetish gearGuide-Leader Sulley with fake assault rifle
A more detailed news story on this can be found at the U.K. Dailymail.
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Watch the video below for very important context. I’ve provided minute:second markers to help.
Notable sections in the video
(6:20). “One of the basic rules of safeguarding (our children) and something we saw with the Catholic Church….” Please pay close attention to the “sacred class, a class that cannot be questioned” statement.
(11:46). “People need to start getting angry, because these are fundamental human rights we are letting slip away. Our police appear to be out of control.”
(12:29). “I was piqued, I became an activist after what the NSPCC (U.K. children’s charity) did back in 2019, when an employee of theirs dressed in some sort of rubber fetish gear masturbated at work, filmed it and provided a link to the video on his LinkedIn profile. And various people raised concern that this was happening in the offices of a children’s charity. In defense of their employee the NSPCC tweeted ‘anyone who comes at us with this homophobic nonsense we will report you.'”
(14:35). Comments about misgendering. Which can get you arrested these days in the U.K. and other Western countries.
TERMS
Stonewall = LGBTQ+ rights organization in U.K.
Self-ID = Simply say you are a preferred gender and you will be treated as such. “A slight of hand that swaps sex for gender.” (see 1:23 of video for details)
Misgendering = referring to someone with the wrong preferred pronoun
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Is this the world we want to live in? We better come up with some answers quick. Things are moving swiftly.
