71 KU Student Gabe Lepinski on being ambushed by leftist student activists, and free speech being shut down

Gabriel Lepinski is a mild-mannered and polite young gentleman studying in Kansas. He founded a Young Americans for Freedom chapter on campus but was recently ambushed and intimidated by a group of SJWs shouting them down. Robert Oscar Lopez and Brittany Klein speak with Lepinski to hear his side of the story and to look into ways that people off campus might be able to lend support to Lepinski and his members. This page offers some information about whom to contact in order to support Lepinski's club members:

https://studentaffairs.ku.edu/

The Vice Provost of Student Affairs is Tammara L. Durham, whose email is: studentaffairs@ku.edu

Robert Lopez sent the following email: "Dear Dean Durham, Like many across the country I am troubled by the footage of a group of aggressive, disrespectful, and even dangerous students slandering and physically threatening a handful of well-mannered organizers tied to Young Americans for Freedom. During the 33 minutes of footage, I was saddened to note how many times the students misrepresented gender theory, queer theory, and critical race theory. The students conflated the superficial matter of men wearing women's clothing with the long and painful trauma of African slavery. As someone who grew up in a queer household and also descended from African slaves, I found this conflation manipulative, intellectually shoddy, and frankly embarrassing. Moreover, a male student who dresses like a female stated that trans women of color are killed at alarming rates. This is an unpardonable misstatement of fact, since the number of black and Latino men killed every year because their masculinity frightens people dwarfs the roughly twenty 'trans women' killed in 2016, none due to transphobia but all due to other conflicts such as prostitution or arguments with other LGBT people. From the experience I've had in the academy, I worry that administrators at KU may be tempted to ally with activists to hound and harass these innocent students. Please reply to this email to let me know what measures your office is taking to ensure that Gabriel Lepinski and his members are going to be protected from intimidation and harassment, so that I can note your university's good-faith efforts in future articles written on the topic. The whole world is watching. Yours truly, Robert Oscar Lopez, PhD."

Articles and Media:

KU Staffer Mark White calls Lepinski "garbage" and publicly demonizes the YAF chapter: http://campusreform.org/?ID=8177

SJWs overrun YAF meeting and physically threaten Lepinski's members: http://campusreform.org/?ID=8163

Video:



Protestors hijack conservative meeting and call organizers " white supremacists."  http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29158/

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69 Robert Gagnon on WaPo, the NY Times, and Transgenderism in Religion

Robert A. J. Gagnon speaks with Robert O. Lopez on the lunacy of the NY Times and Washington Post when it comes to transgenderism and the Bible. For more reading:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/08/26/where-in-the-bible-does-it-say-you-cant-be-transgender-nowhere/

https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2016/08/no-god-isnt-transgender

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68 Carol Swain, Vanderbilt Law Prof, on Religious Liberty, Racial Politics, and Alinskyism

Professor Carol Swain is a veteran of academia and a law professor at Vanderbilt U. In this interview she speaks with Robert Oscar Lopez about religious liberty, the Christian struggle at Vanderbilt, the black community's relationship to the Democrats, and the legacy of Saul Alinsky.

Direct hyperlink to this interview: https://soundcloud.com/militant-de-lenfant/68-vanderbilt-law-professor-carol-swain-on-religious-liberty-race-and-alinskyism

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67: Will we ever come back from the point in history where LGBT ideology has brought us?

Robert Lopez and Brittany Klein place the LGBT movement and its errors in a historical framework and ask the important question: Is this ever going to turn around? At stake is the question of the Western intelligentsia housed in universities -- Bobby supposes they are lost for good and will never evolve out of their current sexual madness, so if there is a sane future after the LGBT movement, it will be spearheaded by something other than the so-called intellectual class. Brittany suggests other religious views.

Direct link to this podcast: https://soundcloud.com/militant-de-lenfant/67will-intellectual-history-recover-from-the-lgbt-movement

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66: Was there really a recent "win" for religious liberty in California? Brian Camenker of Mass Resistance says NO and explains why

In a triple conversation, Brittany Klein, Robert Lopez, and Brian Camenker drop all pretenses and have a brutally honest discussion about happened with the law passed in California targeting Christian colleges and universities. A few weeks ago, news broke that an alliance of well-heeled "religious liberty experts" had waved their magic wand and forced California to back off its persecution of Christian educators. Here is Andrew Egger's write-up in Daily Signal on Aug. 12, 2016, making it sound as though the big bad Gay Lobby had been trounced in efforts spearheaded by State Sen. Ricardo Lara to force Christian colleges to adopt pro-gay conduct codes or run the risk of being sued and shut down:

http://dailysignal.com/2016/08/12/what-conservatives-did-to-pull-off-religious-liberty-win-in-california/

When this news broke, Brittany and Robert were both skeptical, having had similar "breakthrough" moments in the same-sex marriage battle, only to find that the reputable, established experts in religious liberty actually brokered terrible compromises with the gay lobby to make it seem as though they were fighting a good fight while still seeking to avoid professional repercussions and actually helping the gay lobby get what they want.

[UPDATE: Advocate and Human Rights Campaign smear 106 colleges as "worst" for LGBT students, including many colleges that begged for a compromise with them. See: http://www.advocate.com/youth/2016/8/29/102-worst-us-colleges-lgbt-students ]

Lo and behold, Klein and Lopez's fears were surpassed by what actually happened. After several weeks and after the public attention to the California bill waned, suddenly a new compromise bill emerged. The Christian college leaders said they were pleased with the new bill, but actually this bill, as Brian Camenker of Mass Resistance has pointed out, was terrible in its compromised form. See this coverage:

http://massresistance.org/docs/gen3/16b/CA-bill-SB1146/protests_Aug2016.html

The details are complicated and you have to listen to this whole podcast, as long as it is, to digest all the specifics. But the bottom line is, to fight the LGBT lobby pro-family citizens have to work around the entrenched conservative establishment, stay extra vigilant, and not be derailed by façades of victory that hide the reality that religious liberty is collapsing before our eyes.

People interested in getting involved should visit http://massresistance.org and contact them about how to get involved and start local action plans.

65: No, It's Not Okay to Come Out as Gay and Leave Your Wife, and No, Homosexuality is Not Just Another Sin

Bobby Lopez interviews Janna Darnelle about her recent publication addressing Christian rocker Trey Pearson's public "coming out" and abandonment of his wife Lauren. Janna and Bobby discuss the particular pains caused to family members when men come out as gay, and also the theological question of whether homosexuality is different from other carnal sins.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/10/13867/

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/07/17236/

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/09/13692/

64: Ryan Sorba, conservative wunderkind turned Christian realist, on what's next after the "born this way" debate is over

Robert Oscar Lopez interviews Ryan Sorba, a firebrand with uncommon sophistication on LGBT debates, in light of the recent report from Johns Hopkins vindicating that once-lonely position (against "born this way") Sorba has taken for years, and paid dearly for. Revealing a secret gentle and vulnerable side, Sorba explains why he's so disappointed with the Christian conservative family movement and what his ideal strategy would be to connect individually with gay men and bring them to happiness. Ryan came up through the ISI, CPAC, and Leadership Institute but now sees other ways forward as the only viable options for defending Christian family values. He doesn't think that disproving the "born gay" hypothesis will be a victory since in all likelihood the LGBT activists will pivot to something else.

For more on Ryan Sorba's work: http://ryansorba.com/