“Our findings suggest that the COVID-19 vaccine mRNA administered to lactating mothers can spread systematically to breast milk in the first two days after maternal vaccination,” states the study, “Biodistribution of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in human breast milk,” published in the October 2023 edition of the British medical journal Lancet.

A 2022 JAMA study was the first to discover traces of mRNA in women’s breast milk.

CDC database: 648 nursing babies harmed by COVID vax, 3 dead

The paper’s authors remain pro-vax, stating “COVID-19 mRNA vaccines play a vital role in the fight against SARS-CoV-2 infection,” and that “we believe breastfeeding post-vaccination is safe, especially 48 hours after vaccination.”

But now they add this cautionary caveat: “Although we believe breastfeeding after mRNA vaccination is safe, a dialogue between a breastfeeding mother and her healthcare provider should address the benefit/risk considerations of breastfeeding in the first two days after maternal mRNA vaccination. The significance of this research extends beyond the scope of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. The findings provide valuable insights into the transport and presence of vaccine mRNA in breast milk, which can be relevant for assessing the safety and efficacy of future mRNA-based therapies administered to lactating women.”

COVID dissident journalists, who have questioned government and media narratives surrounding the COVID jab and denounced ongoing elites’ efforts to bar critical viewpoints as “misinformation,” were quick to respond to the new study.

“The US government said it was safe for pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine because the injected mRNA stayed in the arm and did not travel through the body. But now a new Lancet study, which found mRNA in breast milk, shows the government lied,” posted Michael Shellenberger on X Wednesday.

The US government said it was safe for pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine because the injected mRNA stayed in the arm and did not travel through the body. But now a new Lancet study, which found mRNA in breast milk, shows the government lied. @galexybrane pic.twitter.com/hg8aRreMRU

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 20, 2023

Shellenberger posted the opening segments of an article (currently behind a paywall) by Alex Gutentag on the Lancet study in his PUBLIC Substack, under the headline: “Covid Vaccine mRNA In Breast Milk Shows CDC Lied About Safety.” The subhead reads: “US government lacked scientific evidence before recommending mRNA vaccines to pregnant and breastfeeding women; Facebook censored those sharing accurate information.”

In her piece, Gutentag writes: “It is safe for pregnant and breastfeeding women to get vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In fact, according to the CDC, vaccination during pregnancy benefits the baby, and ‘reports have shown that breastfeeding people who have received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have antibodies in their breastmilk, which could help protect their babies.’”

“The CDC wasn’t alone,” she continues. “The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology repeatedly urged pregnant and breastfeeding women to get vaccinated. There was no reason to worry, experts said, because injected mRNA stays in the arm and does not travel around the body.”

Gutentag quotes the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine “assur[ing] mothers” in a December 2020 statement: “It is unlikely that the vaccine lipid would enter the bloodstream and reach breast tissue … If it does, it is even less likely that either the intact nanoparticle or mRNA transfer into milk.”

“But now a pivotal new study, published in the Lancet yesterday, reveals that this was always a lie,” she writes.

The National Human Genome Research Institute defines mRNA as follows: “Messenger RNA (abbreviated mRNA) is a type of single-stranded RNA involved in protein synthesis. mRNA is made from a DNA template during the process of transcription. The role of mRNA is to carry protein information from the DNA in a cell’s nucleus to the cell’s cytoplasm (watery interior), where the protein-making machinery reads the mRNA sequence and translates each three-base codon into its corresponding amino acid in a growing protein chain.”

CDC page still recommends vaccine for women breastfeeding

In a still-active CDC informational page titled, “COVID-19 Vaccines While Pregnant or Breastfeeding,” the federal agency states the following:

• “COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for all people aged 6 months and older. This includes people who are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant now, or those who might become pregnant in the future.”
• “Available data on safety of COVID-19 vaccination while breastfeeding indicate no severe reactions after the first or second dose, neither in the breastfeeding person not the breastfed child…
• “There has been no evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines are harmful to either people who have received a vaccine and are breastfeeding or to their babies.”

It states: “COVID-19 vaccines cannot cause COVID-19 in anyone, including pregnant people and their babies. None of the COVID-19 vaccines contain live virus. Vaccines are effective at preventing COVID-19 in people who are breastfeeding. Recent reports have shown that breastfeeding people who have received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have antibodies in their breastmilk, which could help protect their babies. More data are needed to determine what level of protection these antibodies might provide to the baby.”

The CDC page states that the agency’s “COVID-19 vaccine recommendations have been updated as of September 12. The content on this page is no longer current and will be updated to align with the new recommendations.”

It turns out the "experts" who told us the "the vaccine stays in the arm" were wrong. A new study published in the Lancet, found C-19 vaccine present in the milk of 10 mothers out of 13 breastfeeding women analyzed.

I was 'fact-checked' for this and expect an apology. pic.twitter.com/rK8W1Tbp35

— Jason Bassler (@JasonBassler1) September 20, 2023

An interview with “trans widow” Tracy Shannon – whose ex-husband went from secretly cross-dressing in their home to openly “transitioning” to become what she calls a “fake woman” – offers a harrowing look into a marriage and family shattered by a man caught up in a transgender fantasy.

The hour-and-a-half long interview with Shannon by Daily Wire radio and podcast host Michael Knowles offers one of the most in-depth media looks to date into two core groups victimized by “male-to-female” trans-activists: the woman and wife whose marriage is turned into a nightmare as her husband pursues his “trans” fetish; and their children, who did nothing to deserve their father’s narcissistic descent into a lifestyle celebrating sexual and gender deviance.

Shannon, based in Houston, is director of the Texas branch of MassResistance, a group that opposes homosexual, transgender and LGBT activism in the United States and worldwide. She has also has a Twitter (“X”) account, “@AskATransWidow,” that is growing fast since the release of the Knowles interview.

In introducing Shannon on the broadcast, Knowles says, “There is one group of people whose perspective we never hear about when we talk about transgenderism and that would be the women who are abandoned by their husbands – husbands who leave their families to pursue the transgender identity.”

Knowles posted the interview Aug. 12 on X, formerly Twitter, noting that “YouTube would not allow us to publish this interview.” (YouTube’s leftist-aligned censorship of educational conservative content is now so common it is almost no longer newsworthy.) The video can be viewed in full below or on Knowles Twitter (“X”) feed. At press time it had more than 709,000 views.

YouTube would not allow us to publish this interview.

Tracy Shannon was married for 15 years. Now she’s a trans widow.

Share widely if you think true stories like this shouldn’t be censored.

pic.twitter.com/yvWhHy0WM8

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) August 12, 2023

Here is a brief summary of the highlights, or rather lowlights, of the horrifying story of betrayal and deception by Tracy Shannon’s treacherous, gender-confused ex-husband and its effect on their family:

• Tracy noticed very odd behavior by husband, such as secretly taking one of her bras.
• Her kids were forced to see their “transitioning” father in his new “identity,” dressed as a woman.
• The general lack of empathy in the culture for the “trans widow.”
• Her and her husband meet with marriage therapist – who unbeknownst to her was a pro-transgender advocate allied to him – who tells Shannon that she must be a lesbian because she fell in love with a man with an “inner female or feminine side.”
• Tracy finds out that the therapist encouraged husband to “transition,” which he does secretly, begins to grow hormone-induced breasts.
• Texas divorce court orders “therapy” for children, who are “told they could no longer call their father dad.”
• How her children had to get used to their dad hugging them, but now “now their dad was soft and his enormous breasts would rub up against them.”
• Her kids attempted suicide several times.

LOL…. my first ever warning/wanted poster from 2019. The LGBTQ in Houston posted this bc I went undercover at a drag queen story hour which I eventually exposed as having sex offenders, pornopraghers, and prostitutes in the program. pic.twitter.com/gaXyoHKKOU

— Ask A Transwidow (@AskATranswidow) August 26, 2023

Transcribed excerpts

The following is a sampling of excerpts from the interview. Web links and bolded emphasis added by WND:

Terrible signs, then husband reveals his problem:

“Right after the birth of our first child, my baby was in the hospital and my husband came to see us and informed me that he had an issue of cross-dressing and that it was more than just what I had noticed in the first four years of our marriage – occasionally finding [an article] of clothing missing, you know, that was mine and in his possession or walking in on him – doing his fingernails or shaving [presumably, his legs] and being in a state of arousal while shaving, which is totally normal for women, right? No. So it was more than that, he said, that he had had the issue of cross-dressing going all the way back to when he was a teenager, when he would borrow [clothing] items of his mother’s, without her knowing, and try them on.”

Children lose their dad

“My son, my oldest, had bought my ex-husband a book when we were still married when he was 10 years old. It was called ‘The Dangerous Book for Boys.’ It’s a big red book, a hard cover, and it has all kinds of activities for a father and son to do together. And they did one activity. I think it was making paper airplanes one time. And after that it just went on a shelf and collected dust and never to be picked up again by my then husband, by his father. And it had a nice note in the front that my son had written about how he wanted to do all these things with him, and he was really looking forward to it. But instead, his father would become a fake woman and would lose interest in doing all those boy things with him. And who would he do those boy things with after that? Who would do the father-son things with him? People don’t ever hear about the heartbreaking reality or the many nights that my children cried themselves to sleep. And I had to get up out of bed and go comfort them because they missed their father.”

No finality, no sympathy for the ‘trans widow’

In the interview, Knowles observes that unlike a divorce or the death of woman’s husband, in the case of the trans widow there is no finality.

Shannon responds: “And although they did see him [their dad], dressed as a woman, it’s not the same. There is no funeral to say goodbye to the father. There’s no sympathy for me as a trans widow. There’s, instead, when I told someone that my husband was transitioning and that was what caused the end of our marriage, they would say to me, and they still say today, even this morning, a woman said to me something similar: ‘Well, at least he can be happy now. Or, no, sorry, she … at least she can be happy now. And how did it affect her and her family? And I mean, people feel like they have to obey this [trans] ideology even when the person we’re talking about is not around, that they’re going to respect these [trans] pronouns. It’s just so weird – brainwashing that’s overcome America to the degree that we have no empathy for the people that we should be having empathy for.”

Therapist tells Shannon to “transition,” he secretly starts growing hormone-induced breasts

“She [the couple’s marriage therapist] actually wrote him the letter to transition while we were married. And this was early on in our marriage. We were married for a total of 15 years. This was in the fourth year of our marriage. So at this time, she wrote the letter for him to transition. And he then got on hormone therapy and started to develop little breasts while we were married. I was told the reason for the breast development was that he was taking OCD medication to help him not run across stress. So I actually felt sorry for him that he was developing these breast buds that were embarrassing, that he would wear a T-shirt when we went to the public swimming pool with our kids. I mean, I felt sorry for him and I was trying to just be a living life. And it affected things. You know, I feel very deceived that he was having this lesbian fantasy and growing these breasts while we were married and having intimate relations. I think that totally undermines the idea of consent that is so popularized by, you know, used by the left to onboard all these other things that we don’t agree to as Christians and conservatives, especially when they’re talking about our kids.”

Kids attempted suicide; push for trans “reeducation”

Knowles asks Shannon how old her kids are. She responds:

TS: “So they’re all over 18 now. My youngest with him is 19 and I have a 20-year-old and a 24-year-old. And so between the three of them, there have been six suicide attempts of different degrees of seriousness and one hospitalization in a mental health facility (for a pretty good period of time for one [child]). And now our haters would say, that’s because I didn’t accept this [trans] ideology and take my kids to some type of indoctrination like [the LGBT propaganda group] GLAAD. And in fact, that was one of the things that was brought up, that they wanted me to have to take my kids for reeducation. Who wanted that? His lawyers when we first were divorcing. … I got sued for full custody of my kids a second time after we had already settled the divorce because I dared to tell him that you couldn’t have your your lover spending the night with my kids, you just can’t move your lover in. We have a morality clause … in Texas. It basically says that … Hold on, I gotta’ stop you there.”

Court-ordered therapy: Kids coached on pronouns, told not to call their father “dad”

“[In 2019, or 2010…] the kids were ordered to court-ordered therapy where they were coached on the right pronouns to use for their father and told they could no longer call their father ‘dad.’… And they had to come up with a new name to call him, which I think is probably one of the most heartbreaking things of the whole thing. I mean, they already feeling ghosted. And now you have professionals with the power of the state behind them, telling them that they can’t call their father dad. Eventually, they no longer went along with that.”

Kids love their dad, but initially scared and confused

TS: “[T]hey loved their dad, but they were very confused. And one was really scared when this initially happened to even go with their dad because of the changes in appearance and the strange people that he was taking the kids around.”

Knowles: “He’s obviously insane. He’s just a crazy person, right? A sane person doesn’t do this.”

TS: “Well, the root of it is selfishness, and the kids were not a fan. They have different relationships with them between the three. One has none at all, is not interested, the oldest. The middle child maintains a relationship. He’s a traditional Catholic. He wants to remain present, to remind his father who he really is, and he continues to pray for him that he will have a complete conversion. and then the youngest is involved with him more than anybody, but part of that is because financially, she can get what she wants from him.”

He almost shared his cross-dressing secret on their wedding day

“I do recall in our wedding day, I actually had asked him, just joking, hey, is there, he had called me before my bridal brunch. And I said, is there anything you need to tell me of last chance before we, you know, take our vows today? And he was quiet. And I thought, Is there something? You know, I was just kidding. And then he said, oh, no, there’s nothing. And then years later, he told me that that day he was going to tell me that he had cross-dressed in his past, but he was afraid I wouldn’t marry him. So it was in his mind and he just deceived me and thought that I was one day going to accept all this, but in those years he would cross dress occasionally … not right openly out in front of me like some of these men do – which is just awful the level of abuse some of the trans widows take with their husbands doing this outlandish stuff and and telling the women they just have to deal with it. But I would find out by finding some stash clothes or receipt for some clothes that he dressed up in and threw away. Usually I would smell the smell of acetone [from nail polish] in the house or in the trash can and that meant he was playing in nails.”

Husband pretends to be pregnant woman when Tracy was pregnant, freaks son out

“So one time when our middle son was still a baby and I was pregnant with my third child, he fashioned himself a pregnancy belly. You’ve seen like on Jerry Springer or Dr. Phil or something where the men are trying to find out the experience of their wives when they’re pregnant. So he tried to pass it off as he’s just trying to empathize with me. Now, this is our third baby. If you’re the time to empathize with me for being pregnant like past like many years ago, we’ve done this a few times. But I think he saw this as his last chance maybe to do this. In fact, this was my third pregnancy. So fourth pregnancy, third baby. And he added enormous breast to this thing that he wore and they were made with water balloons. It was really bothering my oldest son that he was walking around with this thing on and with women’s clothes over top and he told me this is how he would be, like, coercive. He would say things like, I’m trying to help you. I’m going to do all your chores for you. Like I had these assigned chores and I’m going to do all the housekeeping. You just rest and and he was buzzing around very happy and that thing that he made. And I finally just told him, I just feel like you’re cross-dressing and it’s making me really uncomfortable. So I wish you wouldn’t do that anymore. And he wasn’t willing to give it up. He still kept pressuring me, [as if saying:] ‘I need to do this so I can understand you. Just relax. I’m going to take all, take care of everything, take care of all your responsibilities around here. You can just lift your feet up.’ So my son, who was very disturbed by this, actually went and destroyed that thing [mock ‘pregnancy’ getup] with a pair of scissors, drug it [from] the drawer and destroyed it because it bothers him seeing his dad like that.”

Dad hugs son, but now with new fake breasts

“So you can only imagine how it felt when he was six years older, his dad decides he’s going to become a woman and he goes and gets giant breast implants and a nose job and grows his hair out long. And he’s hanging his bras all around his trashy apartment for my son to see. And whenever he would hug my son, he’d rub his breast up against him. People don’t think about what this is like for the boys. They don’t think about what that’s like at all. I mean, dads have a certain feeling when you give them a hug. And now their dad was soft and his enormous breasts would rub up against them. And that made them really uncomfortable.”

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The self-styled “fair and balanced” network, based in heavily gay-populated New York City, has long supported homosexual advocacy behind the scenes through its annual contributions to an LGBT “journalists association.”

But the last two years,  it began celebrating “pride” in June by running pro-LGBT “puff-pieces” that are every bit as one-sided as those produced by left-leaning networks like CNN and ABC.

This includes, shockingly, a June 2022 piece promoting opposite-sex “gender transitions” for children that regurgitates transgender-activist talking points without providing the “balance” of an opposing viewpoint. As with several other segments airing under Fox’s celebration of “LGBTQ+ Pride Month,” that story about trans teen Ryland Whittington was reported by the network’s openly homosexual reporter, Bryan Llenas.

With Fox’s blessing, Llenas appears to be coming into his own as the network’s chief on-air, LGBT ambassador, using his role in the corporation to produce segments overflowing with gay- and trans-activist jargon, thus coming off more as a “gay” cheerleader than an impartial journalist.

Below is Llenas’ story on Whittington, a biological female who announced she was a “boy” at age five and whose parents support her “transition.” The piece, now included in Fox News’ growing collection of “Pride Month” videos, features Ryland’s mother, who says, citing the potential of her gender-confused daughter’s potential suicide, that she had to choose between having a living “transgender” “son” and a dead (non-trans) daughter – a false choice, say

“What extraordinary courage displayed by Ryland, his sister Brynnley, father Jeff and mom Hillary,” Llenas gushed in the segment that first ran on Fox’s “America’s Newsroom” show. “I want to thank the Whittington family for speaking to us. It’s not easy, particularly at a time when transgender issues have been politicized.

“People are afraid of what they do not understand, Dana,” Llenas said, condescendingly, to then-“Newsroom” co-host Dana Perino: “This family hopes their story will lead to more understanding, more acceptance and, ultimately, more love.”

Fox News earned rare praise from its nemesis, left-wing media watchdog Media Matters For America, for the segment, while conservatives who have been outspoken against the “trans” agenda targeting children, were outraged.

Media Matters quoted Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire editor emeritus, who called the Fox segment “the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in quite a while.”

Conservative media critic Cliff Kincaid, founder and president of America’s Survival, said, “Fox News funds the homosexual lobby and has abandoned ‘fair & balanced’ coverage of the LGBTQ agenda and the GOP’s lack of serious opposition to it.”

Kincaid, who has tracked Fox’s leftward drift on LGBT issues for decades, cited the Ryland Whittington story: “The channel’s current LGBT Pride ‘Celebrating Diversity’ promotion on its website even highlights a Fox story about a ‘transgender teen’ who began ‘transitioning’ at the age of five and whose mother says it was God’s will.”

Working directly against its brand

It appears that Fox News was just getting started with that one-sided 2022 “Pride Month” pro-trans piece. Since then, and perhaps especially with its p0st-Tucker realignment under CEO Suzanne Scott, the network is doubling down with its pro-LGBT advocacy in the name of “pride.”

It was Scott who hired trans advocate “Caitlyn” (formerly Bruce) Jenner as a contributor in March 2022, while raising eyebrows on the right with her comment: “Caitlyn’s story is an inspiration to us all. She is a trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community and her illustrious career spans a variety of fields that will be a tremendous asset for our audience.”

The network’s timing is curious, as the ramped-up Fox “pride” celebrations come just when everyday Americans are protesting LGBT-activist excesses committed in the name of “pride” and “equality” like never before.

Recent weeks have seen two highly successful conservative boycotts of the pro-transgender retail chain Target (for selling trans “tucking” swimsuits and “pride” clothing for little children), and the makers of Bud Light beer, which aligned with TikTok “trans” influencer Dylan Mulvaney as a brand ambassador in one of the most catastrophic marketing decisions every made by a major corporation.

Target tries to hide ‘trans’ and LGBT ‘pride’ clothing for kids, but conservative videos expose the con

One of the stunning aspects of Fox News’ executives’ now very public embrace of homosexual/transgender “pride” is that it directly undermines some of the talking points of their own conservative talk-show hosts, who are already suffering ratings losses due to the sudden ouster of the network’s one-time top talker, Carlson. The aftermath of that action and Fox’s attempts to silence Carlson have led many conservatives to boycott the network.

Regular guest refuses to go on Fox News until network ‘stops trying to silence Tucker’

Although Fox has largely sidestepped coverage of the homosexual issue – but not transgender issues – as a cultural controversy in recent years, up until recently it had avoided the over-the-top LGBT cheerleading of many “mainstream” news networks.

Below Fox’s rising star Jesse Watters assails the left’s aggressive push of LGBT activism in schools:

Back when he was Fox’s leading host, Carlson worked to expose the trans agenda, especially as it affected kids, as in this interview with ex-trans “detransitioner” Helena Kerschner:

Promoting LGBT ‘pride’ at baseball games

Llenas was at it again with another Fox News “pride” advocacy piece featuring Billy Bean, the first openly homosexual Major League Baseball player. In the piece, the reporter expresses disappointment that more professional ballplayers have not “come out” as gay, but he gives Bean ample opportunity to shill for out-and-proud homosexuality in the national pastime – while completely avoiding the controversy of whether once-wholesome sporting events attended by many impressionable children should be promoting aberrant sexual and gender-bending themes.

Llenas glowingly describes Bean as follows: “Today, he is the senior vice-president in charge of diversity, equity and inclusion for MLB, working to ensure the the league is ready to support the next ‘Billy Bean.’”

Then Bean says: “When I started [in 2014] there were only two teams that had an official ‘Pride Night,’ and now we have almost the entire league and every club – all 30 – are participating in our educational programming for their players.”

Promoting gay Democrats

In another one-sided Fox News “Pride Month” story, Llenas ventured to Colorado to interview Jared Polis, a Democrat and the nation’s first openly homosexual governor. Not a word critical of Polis is uttered, as Llenas and Polis happily discuss the state’s (and the nation’s) first same-sex “First Gentleman,” Polis’ homosexual “husband,” Marlon Reis. Llenas states how Colorado used to be called the “Hate State” after passing a statewide measure banning “sexual orientation” laws.

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The survey, released April 20 and conducted by the Cultural Research Center (CRC), based at Arizona Christian University, in Glendale, Arizona, finds a mere 4% of overall Americans polled who possess a “biblical worldview,” down from 6%, while among born-again Christians, “the incidence of biblical worldview among them fell from 19% in 2020 to 13% in 2023.”

In another finding the report, which compares religious beliefs and practices in 2020, before the pandemic, to 2023, found a huge drop among born-again Christians — from 85% to just 50% — who say they are “deeply committed to practicing [their] faith.”

It’s not all bad news, though: the poll found a 14% uptick (from 32%-46%) in the percentage of people polled who agree that, “There are moral absolutes that apply to everyone, all the time.”

More Americans in 2023 (46%, up from 41% in 2020) believe the Bible is the “true and completely accurate word of God,” according to the poll. And born-again Christians registered a leap from 47% to 59% who accept the biblical teaching that sex “between two people who are not married to each other is morally unacceptable.”

The CRC study, “How the Faith of Americans Has Shifted Since the Start of the Pandemic,” released April 20, compares 2,000 U.S. adults in 2000 to the same number in 2023. Of those totals, 671 were considered born-again Christians in the 2020 survey and 650 were considered born-again in the 2023 survey. It is part of CRC’s ongoing to attempt to quantify Americans’ adherence to a biblical worldview since the COVID pandemic began.

The poll’s cross-tabs measure and compare two sets of Americans: a general group of randomly selected respondents, and “born again” Christians who voiced belief in the biblical gospel (“good news”) that they cannot count on their own goodness to get to heaven but rather the saving grace of God through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, who died to pay the price for their sins.

Here are some other notable findings in the report:

• A 12 percentage drop, from 60% to 14%, in Americans generally who agree with the statement: “You are deeply committed to practicing your religious faith”;
• A 14% drop, from 58-44%, in born-again Christians who believe the “Bible is unambiguous in its teaching about abortion”;
• A whopping 42% drop, from 88%-46% among born-again Christians who agree with the statement: “You have a unique, God-given calling or purpose for your life”;
• A 12-point drop in overall Americans’ religious beliefs, from 39%-29% who believe that “Human life is sacred.”

In a phone interview with WND, Barna ascribed the contradictory results of his survey to Americans’ predominant worldview of “syncretism,” which his report describes as “combining beliefs from a variety of worldviews into an unpredictable, customized blend that satisfies the emotional needs of the individual.”

“The results are confusing and contradictory because people are confused, and that includes many Christians,” Barna told WND. “The leading worldview is syncretism, and syncretism is essentially a confused belief system.”

He said the shocking, 35-point drop in born-again Christians who say they are “deeply committed” to practicing their faith is a reality-check brought on by the COVID pandemic and the government’s extreme, devastating lockdowns.

“Many self-professed Christians are not deeply committed, although they always seem to think they are,” Barna said. “Then the pandemic and the government’s extreme reaction to it came along and many who were hit hard by it said to themselves, ‘My faith really didn’t hold up for me.’”

Barna said American evangelical churches, especially “megachurches,” are “really good at marketing, but they’re not very good at discipling believers, and building up in their members a depth of commitment to Jesus.”

He said this unique, post-COVID era presents an amazing opportunity for faithful Christians to befriend, witness to, and disciple people in crisis, be they spiritually wandering family members, friends, or co-workers. He said many people are asking big questions about life and God in the wake of the pandemic, and the “remnant” of deeply committed followers of Jesus need to share the love and hope of Christ with them.

But beyond that, he said, Christians need to disciple new believers, or old believers, to help ground them in their faith.

“People will not become more committed as believers unless someone gets close to them and disciples them,” he said, adding that there is a “dearth of discipleship” in the larger church.

Biblical worldview?

Regarding the stunning drop of born-again Christians (58% in 2020 to 44% in 2023) who say they do not agree with the fundamental Christian and biblical belief that “Jesus did not commit sins during His time on Earth,” Barna told WND: “Most born-again Christians do not have a biblical worldview,” something he has been saying a very long time.

The CRC report states, “All told, there were 13 statistically significant changes identified among the born-again population — and the magnitude of the shift for two of them is quite astonishing.” The first is the 35-point drop described above among those who say they are “deeply committed” to their faith. The second is a 42-point drop, from 88%-46%, in respondents saying they have a “unique God-given calling or purpose for their life.”

In a previous report released in March, Barna laid out seven “cornerstones” of a biblical worldview:

1. An orthodox, biblical understanding of God;
2. All human beings are sinful by nature; every choice we make has moral considerations and consequences;
3. The consequences of our sin can only be forgiven and eliminated through Jesus Christ. That forgiveness is available only by our personal, sincere acknowledgment and confession of our sins and complete reliance on His grace for the forgiveness of those sins’
4. The entire Bible is true, reliable and relevant, making it the best moral guide for every person in all situations;
5. Absolute moral truth exists — and those truths are defined by God, describes in the Bible, and are unchanging across time and cultures;
6. The ultimate purpose of human life is to know, love, and serve God with all your heart, mind, strength and soul;
7. Success on Earth is best understood as consistent obedience to God — in thoughts, words and actions.

“When you put the data in perspective, the biblical worldview is shuffling toward the edge of the cliff,” Barna said in the CRC’s first release of its “Worldview Inventory 2023,” released in February. “As things stand today, biblical theism is much closer to extinction in America than it is to influencing the soul of the nation. The current incidence of adults with the biblical worldview is the lowest since I began measuring it in the early 1990s.”

The veteran evangelical researcher cautioned, “Young people, in particular, are largely isolated from biblical thought in our society and are the most aggressive at rejecting biblical principles in our culture.”

The newest report describes “indefensible shifts in born-again beliefs,” and said “six beliefs of born-again Christians endured significant decline in the past three years.”

Barna told WND the vast majority of Americans, including so many self-identified Christians, lack a biblical worldview because they do not prioritize the study of Scripture, and because they take their cues from “the most powerful influence” in the culture: “arts and entertainment.”

Under the heading, “Declines in Biblical Behavior,” the CRC report states “there was a dramatic drop among born-again adults in being deeply committed to practicing their religious faith. Another decline is in studying or reading the Bible during a typical week, which declined 5 points, from 60% in 2020 to 55% in 2023.”

Barna told WND he hopes America’s spiritual crisis has “bottomed out,” but whether it has or not, the most pressing question for faithful Christians is this: “Will the five percent of ‘remnant’ believers … who are sold out to Him recognize this moment of opportunity” to share their faith and disciple new followers of the Savior?

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“I have obtained exclusive whistleblower documents showing that, despite its public statements, the Houston-based children’s hospital – the largest in the United States – has secretly continued to perform transgender medical interventions, including the use of implantable puberty blockers, on minor children,” Christopher Rufo reported in an article on his Substack page published Tuesday.

The redacted medical records supplied by the whistleblower cite Richard Roberts, “a University of Virginia-trained endocrinologist and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine who co-presented the grand rounds … as performing transgender medical procedures on minors at TCH,” Rufo writes. “According to these records, Roberts has managed patients ranging in age from 12 to 17 years old for ‘gender identity’ and ‘gender dysphoria,’ with indications for ‘medication,’ ‘testosterone levels,’ ‘medicine refill,’ and ‘specialty services.’”

Texas lawmakers are on the verge of passing legislation that would ban puberty-blockers and cross-sex, trans “hormone treatments” for minors, a development that has energized conservatives but scandalized LGBT activists and allied “progressives” in the state.

“Despite the hospital’s statement that it had ceased these practices, Roberts has continued to manage a heavy caseload for ‘gender-affirming care,’ including multiple patient visits in a single day last week for ‘gender dysphoria’ and ‘gender identity,’ and another for ‘HRT [hormone replacement therapy],’” according to Rufo.

The senior fellow for the New York-based Manhattan Institute has been a leader among conservatives in exposing trans “gender ideology” and the agendas connected to it, none of which is more radical than encouraging gender-confused children to embrace the idea that they were born into the wrong sex, and then take “medical” steps to “transition” to the opposite sex.

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Rufo reports:

“Another doctor at Texas Children’s, a Harvard-trained surgeon and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine named Kristy Rialon, has also been involved in conducting transgender surgical procedures on minors. The records indicate that Rialon inserted and removed “non-biodegradable drug delivery implant[s]” for “gender dysphoria in pediatric patient[s]” throughout 2022 and 2023 – including one procedure on an 11-year-old “female-to-male transgender person,” listed in records for three days after the hospital had announced that it had stopped performing “gender-affirming care.”

Rufo tried to get a comment from the hospital, but spokeswoman Kelley Carville responded, “We have no comment.”

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Rufo reports that “TCH and Baylor College of Medicine, which works in partnership with the children’s hospital, hosted a ‘pediatric grand rounds’ presentation titled ‘Medical and Psychological Care of Gender-Diverse Youth,’ describing the process of sex-change interventions, from puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones to genital surgeries.”

The presentation describes “puberty blockers” and “hormone therapy” as first steps in lifelong gender-identity “transition”: “TCH and Baylor College of Medicine encouraged doctors to begin treatment with puberty blockers and hormones during adolescence, and then consider surgeries, including breast removal and genital reconstruction, in adulthood – though the presenters explained that some surgical procedures could be appropriate for “adolescents on [a] case-by-case basis.”

Earlier this month, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he is opening an investigation into a” another medical center, Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, “over its alleged performance of gender transition procedures on minors,” as Daily Caller News Foundation reported.

Paxton’s action stemmed from a Project Veritas undercover video from April in which a social worker from the center told an undercover PV reporter that it has patients “as young as 8″ that have started “transitioning.”

Rufo similarly called for an investigation of the TCH “gender affirmative care” procedures performed on youth and exposed by the whistleblower.

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Responding to Rufo’s article in the City Journal, where it was originally published Tuesday, “StoneRamon” wrote: “That this is happening in America is perfectly Orwellian and Naziesque at the same time. I’m reminded of Dr. Josef Mengele and his horrific experiments. … Mutilating healthy adolescent bodies instead of treating adolescent confusion as a common and normal aspect of the transition to adulthood is a crime against humanity.”

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