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A Sexual Predator’s Dream: Target’s Policy of Allowing Anyone to Access Women’s Bathrooms
I called our local Target store today and asked to speak with the manager. When he picked up, I told him that I was very concerned about Target’s stand on allowing anyone to access the ladies restroom.
I could tell that his answer was scripted. He probably had a lot of people calling, and most likely the corporate office sent a memo to their store managers, telling them exactly what to say to people like myself.
He said these words to me:
“Yes, we do allow transgender people to access the restroom in which they most closely identify. We at Target are very “accepting” of everyone, regardless of their sexual identity.”
I said to him “Excuse me, but what if the person is not really a transgender, but is a sexual predator, pretending to be transgender just to gain access to the ladies bathroom? Do you not care about the welfare of women and little girls?”
He said to me that if I wanted to further discuss this, that I would need to call the corporate office. He sounded angry at me. I told him that I would never again step foot into a Target as long as I live. He said that was certainly my choice.
From The Federalist:
A Rape Survivor Speaks Out About Transgender Bathrooms
Victimizers Use Any Opening They Can Find
I read these reports, and my heart starts to race. They can’t be serious. Let me be clear: I am not saying that transgender people are predators. Not by a long shot. What I am saying is that there are countless deviant men in this world who will pretend to be transgender as a means of gaining access to the people they want to exploit, namely women and children. It already happens. Just Google Jason Pomares, Norwood Smith Burnes, or Taylor Buehler, for starters.
There are countless deviant men in this world who will pretend to be transgender as a means of gaining access to the people they want to exploit.
While I feel a deep sense of empathy for what must be a very difficult situation for transgender people, at the beginning and end of the day, it is nothing short of negligent to instate policies that elevate the emotional comfort of a relative few over the physical safety of a large group of vulnerable people.
Don’t they know anything about predators? Don’t they know the numbers? That out of every 100 rapes, only two rapists will spend so much as single day in jail while the other 98 walk free and hang out in our midst? Don’t they know that predators are known to intentionally seek out places where many of their preferred targets gather in groups? That perpetrators are addicts so committed to their fantasies they’ll stop at nothing to achieve them?
Do they know that more than 99 percent of single-victim incidents are committed by males? That they are experts in rationalization who minimize their number of victims? Don’t they know that insurance companies highlight locker rooms as a high-risk area for abuse that should be carefully monitored and protected?
Predators are known to intentionally seek out places where many of their preferred targets gather in groups.
Don’t they know that one out of every four little girls will be sexually abused during childhood, and that’s withoutgiving predators free access to them while they shower? Don’t they know that, for women who have experienced sexual trauma, finding the courage to use a locker room at all is a freaking badge of honor? That many of these women view life through a kaleidoscope of shame and suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, dissociation, poor body image, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, difficulty with intimacy, and worse?
Why would people knowingly invite further exploitation by creating policies with no safeguards in place to protect them from injury? With zero screening options to ensure that biological males who enter locker rooms actually identify as female, how could a woman be sure the person staring at her wasn’t exploiting her? Why is it okay to make her wonder?
What About Women’s and Children’s Rights?
“Wake up!” I want to scream. “Can’t you see what’s going on? Do something about it!”
Despite the many reports of sexual abuse and assault that exist in our world, there’s an even larger number of victims who never tell about it. The reason? They’re afraid no one will believe them. Even worse, they’re terrified of a reality they already innately know to be true: even if people did know, they wouldn’t do anything to help. They’re not worth protecting. Even silence feels better than that.
Survivors are terrified of a reality they already innately know to be true: even if people did know, they wouldn’t do anything to help.
There’s no way to make everyone happy in the situation of transgender locker room use. So the priority ought to be finding a way to keep everyone safe. I’d much rather risk hurting a smaller number of people’s feelings by asking transgender people to use a single-occupancy restroom that still offers safety than risk jeopardizing the safety of thousands of women and kids with a policy that gives would-be predators a free pass.
Is it ironic to no one that being “progressive” actually sets women’s lib back about a century? What of my right to do my darndest to insist that the first time my daughter sees the adult male form it will be because she’s chosen it, not because it’s forced upon her? What of our emotional and physical rights? Unless and until you’ve lined a bathroom door with a towel for protection, you can’t tell me the risk isn’t there.
For me, healing looks like staring at the little girl in a Polaroid photo and validating her need to be seen, heard, and protected instead of hating it. It looks like telling my story, even the parts I can never make pretty, in hopes it will help break the anonymity of survivors and create a sense of responsibility in others to act.
Don’t Let Innocents Get Hurt Before You Rethink This
I still battle my powerlessness to do anything that feels substantial to affect change, but the good Lord didn’t bring me out of Egypt and set my feet upon a rock so I could stand idly by in the face of danger. So even if a little article or Facebook post doesn’t ultimately change the world, it’s better than silent resignation to negligence and harm. I feel a sense of urgency to invite people to consider the not-so-hidden dangers of these policies before more and more of them get cemented into place. Once that happens, the only way they’ll change is when innocent people get hurt.
Consider the not-so-hidden dangers of these policies before more and more of them get cemented into place.
Even if there aren’t hundreds of abusers rushing into locker rooms by the dozens, the question I keep asking myself is, “What if just one little girl gets hurt by this? Would that be enough to make people reconsider it?”
“And what if that little girl was me?” It’s a question I really don’t want to ask. But God’s grace has enabled me to value the face in the photo enough to realize that I have to. And even if I don’t like the answer, at least I wasn’t silent. – source
Oh Lord Jesus – Please come for us!!
MARANATHA
We Remember Our Soldiers
God bless our hero’s.
Today 25-4-2016 is Anzac Day in Australia and we remember the Sacrifice our Soldiers made for our freedom but I would also like to remember the Sacrifice all our Soldiers have made or are making regardless of their Nationality and to also give Thanks as we remember what they go without that we freely enjoy.
A Soldiers life
We may have to stay up for 16 hours if needed but can still rest, “give thanks”…
He stays up for days on end without complaining.
We can take a warm shower to help us wake up and feel clean “give thanks”…
He goes days or weeks without running water.
We can complain of a ‘headache’, call in sick and take time off “give thanks”…
He gets shot at as others are hit, and keeps moving forward.
We can contact others on our phone or cell phone if needed and pray…
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Sign the Boycott Target Pledge!
Target’s store policy endangers women and children by allowing men to frequent women’s facilities.
Source: Sign the Boycott Target Pledge!
God in a Brothel
ATLANTA, GA. IS # 1 IN THE USA FOR SEX TRAFFICING.
Flashing lights, music blaring,crowded streets, women dressed hardly in anything standing outside each bar, men of all different shapes, sizes, and nationalities. I can remember every detail, every smell, every thought, and every feeling I had my first night on walking street. My first night in hell. The night that changed the trajectory of my life and confirmed so many passions and dreams the Lord had placed on my heart.
Walking Street is strip of bars in the Philippines. Inside each bar are girls and women who are forced to sell their bodies. Inside each bar are men who are searching for love, searching for affirmation, searching for pleasure.
I remember walking into the first bar and thinking, “Wow, is this real life? This can’t really be happening? Why is the darkness of this place overwhelming? Why does it seem so hard to take a breath? God…
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Woe to those…
What does a satanic approach to religious liberty get you? (Hint: America)
What does a satanic approach to religious liberty get you? (Hint: America)
Right now, before our unbelieving eyes, whether we want to see it or not or whether we understand what we’re seeing or not, the one true God is crushing the world’s greatest advocate for a satanic approach to liberty under His heel. God is grinding America into dust.
Put another way: America is breaking itself to pieces against the unbreakable Nature of God.
Where God has spoken with crystal clarity as to what is lawful everywhere in His creation, America has taken a proud dissenting view, embracing as virtuous everything from the “right” to make, sell and consume porn and the “right” to divorce on demand to the “freedom” to murder our own children for convenience and the “right” to openly worship any false god we choose.
Even so, God will use and is using America perfectly to demonstrate the unbreakable beauty of His Word, Law and Nature. While American pride and arrogance may shine bright in the eyes of many right up until the final bitter end, ultimately even those who cling to the America idol and refuse to have Christ rule over them in practice will ultimately see the incalculable error of their ways.
In the meantime, we are being graciously shown much – we are being lovingly provided with ample warning and reason for repentance – by the God against Whom America has so proudly raged for so very long.
One of the more flagrant signs being offered up in full view and on daily parade in “the land of the free” is the open worship of Satan and the proud, excruciatingly public advance of explicitly satanic forces throughout American cultural and political realms.
This pathetic phase of America’s ongoing suicide was recently chronicled in a helpful article entitled Can a burgeoning satanic movement actually effect political change?
The piece as published by The Conversation offers a plethora of simple facts about recent and present day America that would have been dismissed as impossible just a generation ago by the “good conservatives” who even today defend the very America Idol that not only makes these satanic advances possible, but assured.
The article opens by giving us a good solid look at how our approach to “freedom” in art, business, and politics is coming together to craft a very dark, very unhinged, and very destructive America:
Robert Eggers’ period horror film “The Witch” has been one of the surprise hits of 2016. It’s even gained a second wind since its February 23 release: the first weekend of April it played on 666 screens around the country, raking in an additional USD$465,000.
The tale of a Puritan family turning on each other as they attempt to root out the supernatural evil plaguing their farm, the film won Eggers the award for best director at Sundance – and even frightened horror master Stephen King.
But neither of these accolades has generated as much buzz as an endorsement from The Satanic Temple (TST), a satanic political movement that first appeared in 2013.
A “satanic political movement” here in ‘Merica, huh? Well, yeah, that makes perfect sense if you stop to think about it for more than a nanosecond or two. Any culture claiming the freedom and “God-given ‘right’” to openly worship any god one likes is clearly a culture embracing and advancing a satanic approach to religious liberty and life in practice.
How could such a thing not lead to open Satanism eventually rising to political power?
Seriously…think about it…
The article continued:
Since its founding, TST has waged a highly active campaign to demand greater separation between church and state, and to challenge the privileged relationship Christianity has with government.
A cornerstone of their campaign has been tongue-in-cheek “stunts” intended to show how government institutions favor Christianity in ways that would never be tolerated for other religions.
TST first made headlines in 2013, when it held a rally in Florida, ostensibly to congratulate Governor Rick Scott for passing a bill that would allow students to read “inspirational messages of their choosing” at assemblies and sporting events.
While Scott probably envisioned the law permitting Christian students to offer public prayers and Bible readings, it could not, constitutionally, specify what sort of “inspirational messsages” were allowed – including satanic messages. And so the rally featured a sign declaring, “Hail Satan! Hail Rick Scott!”
When one refuses – as America refuses – to define and pursue religious liberty as revealed in God’s unbreakable Word, this is what you end up with.
In this, we should thank God for the clarity He is providing through these Satanists.
He is showing us far more than we should ever need to know to repent of the America Idol’s satanic approach to religious freedom…but “We the People” don’t seem very close to doing that, do we?
We seem to be willing to do anything but repent and submit to Christ as King in practice in the political, legal, and civil governmental realms, so…He is continuing to grind us under His heel.
The Conversation article went on to chronicle some of the great and very public strides taken by this satanic political movement in just the last few years:
TST chapters across the country have launched campaigns demanding the same religious rights and privileges afforded to Christianity.
These have included the creation of satanic coloring books for distribution in schools in Florida and Colorado; bids to erect satanic “nativity scenes” on government property in Florida, Michigan and Indiana; offering prayers to Satan at a high school football game in Seattle; and demanding that a monument to the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma State Capitol be accompanied by a monument to Baphomet (a goat-headed idol associated with witches’ sabbaths).
The article then transitioned back into the tie-in between the movement and “The Witch”:
Following [a promotional screening of “The Witch”], everyone migrated to a bar and music venue called The Sidewinder, where TST held their ritual. Members from the Detroit and San Antonio chapters began setting up and handing out satanic American flags painted in only black and white. I mingled with a small crowd of Satanic sympathizers and the curious. Leather jackets, tattoos and pentagrams were in abundance.
During the ritual, a speaker played an excerpt from a speech by Baptist pastor Dr. Jeff Owens, in which Owens warned his congregation, “Satan does not want you to do what he wants you to do. Satan wants you to do what you want to do.”
And what could be more American than that?
Now back to the article…:
Owens had been warning that Satan uses people’s pride and selfish desires against them, but the ritual imposed its own interpretation onto his message: To TST, Satan represents moral autonomy and personal responsibility.
Blackmore eventually appeared from beneath a hood and took to a podium to deliver what can only be described as a “satanic jeremiad.” She warned that Christian theocrats were taking over America and that those present – atheists, satanists, fans of heavy metal and punk music – were allowing it to happen: “There’s too much apathy and not enough resistance!”
She told the audience, “We do not seek followers, but collaborators.”
Afterward I spoke with some young people from the crowd. One explained that he was attracted to Satanism because “It’s about knowledge,” not dogma.
Another, Jonathan – who identified as a witch – seemed the most likely to be sympathetic to TST’s politics. He said that when he attended high school in Virginia Beach, his classmates targeted him for openly identifying as a Pagan. Someone even pretended to be him and called in bomb threats to his school. The events attracted the attention of Detective Don Rimer, a notorious “occult crime expert,” who confiscated all of Jonathan’s books on witchcraft as evidence. There was an attempt to forcibly commit Jonathan to a mental institution.
I asked Jonathan if he thought TST was really a religion.
“Definitely,” he said, “Some people treat Christianity as a hobby. But no one thinks it’s not a real religion.”
The self-identified witch is right. America is all about “hobby Christianity”.
Americans – including most professing conservative Christian Americans – are all about claiming Christ in word wile openly rejecting Him as Lord over them in political, legal, economic, artistic and educational practice.
These Satanists are merely the latest entirely predictable manifestation of God’s judgment upon America.
These Satanists are merely the latest fruit of American Christianity.
May God grace His people with the desire to repent of America idolatry so that we might seek and apply His Word as the living standard by which all things – including law, economics, civil government and education – are to be defined and pursued…while there is yet time.
Repent My Children
My children have many questions and they go to their pastors and they read articles written by those who deem themselves as wise. My children, come to Me for your answers for I am the I Am and have what you need to not only feed your soul but to fill your hearts and minds with truth.
Stop looking to others for those things that only I can give.
The enemy is toying with the minds of many, causing confusion and fear. Have I not stated over and over in My Word, “Fear not for I am with you?” Let not the enemy of God and mankind turn your minds to useless mush. For it is the mind that is his playground and that playground is filled with deadly bombs. Step wrong and he will blow you into hell.
My daughter has asked how many can quickly become so deceived when only a few years ago they seemed to be intelligent and have common sense? My answer to her was, “Satan is expanding his territories.” Think about that My children. Think about how in a very short time those who vehemently opposed abortion now keep quiet. Think about how those who opposed homosexuality are making excuses for the abomination of others. Think about, My children, those who have had long marriages are suddenly finding a Jezebel taunting, tantalizing, and drawing them away from family, children, and friends. How easy it is to say, “It’s so sad” but the enemy is rejoicing. He is at work in the hearts and minds of many and unless mankind fends him off it shall only get worse.
Repent My children, and as has been pointed out, My children are those who believe in God’s Son, Jesus Christ. Non-believers are their own gods so they must look to themselves for the answers, for salvation is not theirs.
My children, you are living in difficult times and yes, it is not going to get better unless My children repent. Bring your sorrows, your joys, your troubles to the foot of the throne. There they shall be forgiven and you are set free from the fears that plague your hearts and minds.
Lead others to the foot of the throne. If they refuse, dust the sand off your feet and move on for there are still many that need to hear My truth. Go in peace, My loved ones. Let not what is happening around you bring you down. Bow down before Me and I will set you free. My peace I give to you for you are the apple of My eye.
Given by the Holy Spirit – 4-20-16
Arm Yourselves
Dangerous Precident!
Man Pretending to be “Transgendered” Attacks Multiple Victims in Women’s Facilities!
Written by Bethany Blankley Posted on Eagle Rising
A biological man, Christopher Hambrook, claimed to be ‘transgender’ in order to prey on women at two Toronto shelters. He was recently jailed “indefinitely” after a judge declared him to be a “dangerous offender.”
The Toronto Sun reports that Hambrook, a man, who called himself “Jessica,” entered women’s shelters and sexually assaulted several women in 2012. He served four years in jail in Montreal for a 2002 sexual assault of a five-year-old girl, and for raping a mentally challenged 27-year-old woman while on bail for the first crime.
This is exactly what gender rational people have been arguing: allowing men into women’s bathrooms poses dangers to women and girls. It’s irrational, irresponsible, and gives predators free access to prey on the innocent.
This is the consequence of allowing transgender, perverted, predatory heterosexual pedophiles access to be around women and girls:
- Court documents reveal that one woman awoke to find Hambrook assaulting her on her bed.
“Her tights had been pulled down past her bottom and her bathing suit had been pulled to the side. She yelled at the accused, demanding to know what he was doing. He simply covered his face with his hands, said ‘Oops!’ and started giggling.”
- Evidence was also presented of Hambrook terrorizing a deaf woman living in the shelter. “The accused grabbed the complainant’s hand and forcibly placed it on his crotch area while his penis was erect.” She also reported that Hambrook peered through a gap between the door and its frame to watch her while she showered.
The Toronto Sun reports that Hambrook was a former stripper and escort. The Ontario, Canadian government, recently amended its Human Rights Code to include “gender identity” and “gender expression” as grounds for discrimination in 2012.
The bill’s sponsors said the law enable “social change” in Canada. Yet, is allowing sexual assault the social change Canada was seeking?
Canada Family Action president, Brian Rushfeldt, told LifeSiteNews that Hambrook’s method to enter women’s shelters proves that the “gender identity legislation is inherently flawed.” He added,
“The Ontario law is dangerous. It is unacceptable that any country would allow a law which puts citizens at risk. It proves the law was ill planned and executed, and the government should be held legally responsible for these crimes.”
Jack Fonseca, of Campaign Life Coalition, told LifeSiteNews: it “didn’t take a brain surgeon to predict that letting men into women’s bathrooms and other private spaces would eventually lead to sexual assaults.
“I wish we didn’t have to say ‘I told you so,’ but Ontario’s party leaders and MPPs were warned that the transsexual ‘Bathroom Bill’ endangered women and needed to be defeated.”
Liberals were warned that this would happen, and it did.
What is the legislature trying to achieve?
Why is the first instance of a transgender pervert using a woman’s shelter and bathroom one that leads to sexual assault of women?
Does no one care about women’s safety anymore?
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