Monday, May 10, 2021

Fourth Catholic-Noahide group connected to Arthur Goldberg promotes Milo's ex-gay scam


 See Part 1 On Milo's Descent Into Noahidism (here
See Part 2 On Milo's Descent Into Noahidism (here)
See Part 3 on Milo's descent into Noahidism (here)
See Part 4 On Milo's Descent Into Noahidism (here)
See Part 5 on Milo's Descent Into Noahidism (here)
See Part 6 On Milo's Descent Into Noahidism (here)

This is the fourth group which is Catholic-Noahide, that is associated with  Noahide gay converter Arthur Goldberg that has published on Milo's interview with LifeSiteNews. The Church Militant has articles about Noahide Law written by and about Arthur Goldberg and his gay conversion center. They say Noahide Law is binding on all mankind. That is four interlinked Catholic-Noahide groups behind Milo's ex-gay scam, that is definitely a pattern! Milo IS Noahide!

THE CHURCH MILITANT REPOSTS LIFESITENEWS'S INTERVIEW WITH MILO


https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/milo-ditches-gay-ring

MILO DITCHES GAY RING

NEWS: US NEWS

by David Nussman  •  ChurchMilitant.com  •  April 30, 2021    164 Comments

Throws 'sodomy stone' into sea

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HONOLULU (ChurchMilitant.com) - In a new video, Milo Yiannopoulos tosses away the engagement ring from his previous gay "marriage."

Yiannopoulos explains in the video released Friday, "I've been thinking a lot lately about what's real, and what's not real, in my life — and thinking about the trappings of my former life that it would be a good idea to get rid of."

He estimates the ring is worth nearly $150,000, referring to it as a "sodomy stone" and a "gigantic four-karat money pit."

His initial plan was to chuck the ring into a volcano in Hawaii. But after hiccups with that idea, he decided instead to throw it off the side of a boat into the ocean "a couple miles off the coast of Honolulu."

The conservative commentator caused quite the stir in March when he came out as ex-gay — declaring he had left behind the sin of sodomy.

In an interview with LifeSite published March 9, Yiannopoulos credited the intercession of St. Joseph for his ability to ditch the gay lifestyle.

 

"Secular attempts at recovery from sin are either temporary or completely ineffective," he told LifeSite. "Salvation can only be achieved through devotion to Christ and the works of the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. St. Joseph is the spiritual father figure of the Holy Family."

Yiannopoulos credited the intercession of St. Joseph for his ability to ditch the gay lifestyle.GabTweet

He later went on to say in that interview, "I hope people will support and pray for me, if for no other reason than they share my delight at the prospect of Milo Yiannopoulos furiously and indignantly railing against homosexuals for sins of the flesh."

Speaking to Church Militant later in March, Yiannopoulos cited his 2019 Mic'd Up interview with Michael Voris as a factor in his conversion away from homosexuality:

As a Brit, I find the concept of therapy quite suspicious. But I found prayer and the counsel of good priests to be the thing that got me over the edge. And, of course, the interviews I did rattling around in my head, with your Michael Voris and a few others, encouraging me to do what I already knew was the right thing.

"The gay life," he observed, "is a life full of shame, misery, prostitution, drugs, and all manner of other things that I think only when you have a sense of critical distance and you can look at it in the rearview mirror, do you realize quite how self-destructive it is."

On various occasions, Yiannopoulos has discussed the idea of creating a gay reparative therapy center in Florida for those who wish to become free from unwanted same-sex attractions.

For example, he told LifeSite, "Over the next decade, I would like to help rehabilitate what the media calls 'conversion therapy.' It does work, albeit not for everybody."


ARTHUR GOLDBERG'S BIO ON THE CHURCH MILITANT SAYS HE ADVOCATES FOR NOAHIDE LAW

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/deconstructing-america

Arthur Goldberg founded the Jewish Institute for Global Awareness, an organization advocating the Judeo-Christian worldview (the Noahide Code) and FundingMorality.com, a crowdfunding site that provided an alternative fundraising platform for pro-life, pro-family causes. The two sites were shut down by court order and ordered Goldberg to pay $3 million after the Southern Poverty Law Center targeted Goldberg in a lawsuit. Goldberg is fighting the ruling, and individuals may donate to his legal fund here.



ARTHUR GOLDBERG'S WRITES ON THE CHURCH MILITANT ABOUT THE NOAHIDE LAWS

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/the-war-on-statues-and-the-demoralizing-of-america

THE WAR ON STATUES AND THE DEMORALIZING OF AMERICA

NEWS: COMMENTARY

by Arthur Goldberg  •  ChurchMilitant.com  •  July 10, 2020    31 Comments

A 1980s Soviet defector predicted the latest culture war

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As a young man in the 1960s, I worked with others of my generation to enhance American democracy. As a mature person in 2020, I am offended (along with others of my generation) to see ongoing efforts to destabilize American democracy.

Back when we supported peaceful actions to end racial segregation in America, these activities included sit-ins to integrate public facilities, freedom rides to desegregate public transportation and voter-registration drives to end disenfranchisement. In the process, we willingly and peacefully accepted punishment for breaking existing laws with which we disagreed — typically laws that authorized segregation. Many of us were trained in methods of non-violent resistance, both physically and psychologically. Subsequently, we worked to change the very laws we opposed, through litigation and by developing legislation to assure equal opportunities for all.

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Early anti-segregation protest

By contrast, the agitators of 2020, who are wantonly destroying property, effectively seek to dismantle government itself. They also seek to create equal results for all rather than simply providing equal opportunity to succeed based on merit. To do so, the agitators converted peaceful protests about George Floyd's death (protected by the First Amendment) into acts of violence through vandalism, riots and looting. Instead of peacefully submitting to law enforcement for their law-breaking actions, these trespassers resist police, demand the defunding or elimination of police and appear determined to tear down the essential fabric of America's institutions, while destroying our history. Rather than non-violence being their guide-star, they foment anarchy.

Regrettably, governmental supporters (mayors, governors and legislative bodies) in so-called progressive cities and states (as well as the majority of the mainstream media) tacitly endorse these destructive, non-peaceful actions. Local governments order law enforcement agencies to stand idle and to avoid engaging these forces of destruction. The net effect permits these cancel-culture warriors to create a situation of domestic terror as they loot stores, obliterate historical statues, burn our flag, destroy buildings and attack churches and synagogues.

Thankfully, the federal government takes a different view of those engaging in widespread looting, burglary, arson, destruction of property and other acts of violence. Both President Trump and Attorney General Barr are committed to prosecuting these violators. Several of the Department of Justice's U.S. Attorneys (including, for example, those in Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Minneapolis and Oakland) have arrested and indicted violent rioters. However, little publicity has been given to these initiatives.

Many of our politicians and mainstream-media sources excuse or coddle these law-breakers, emboldening them. Officials are submitting to a rule by mob rather than upholding the rule of law. They are either unaware of the radical elements embedded within these protests or simply don't care.

We should not be deceived by 'good-hearted' progressive idealists who defend the lawbreakers.GabTweet

Since Black Lives Matter has been responsible for many of the protests, it is useful to note that one of its foundresses, Patrisse Cullors, proudly exclaimed in a 2015 interview that she and a co-founder "are trained organizers" and, more specifically, are "trained Marxists" with appropriate ideology. A second example of the BLM leadership's philosophy is that of Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York. He warned during a recent Fox News interview, "If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it."

These attitudes reflect a previously discredited Marxist-Leninist ideology. We were warned, however — by someone in a position to know — how such thinking may ultimately infiltrate America. In a 1984 television interview, former KGB agent Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (who had earlier defected to the West) explained the plan of committed Marxists-Leninists to gradually subvert America's political system.

Prior thereto, Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953–1964) and, later, its premier (1958–1964), prophesied that communism would eventually take over America without firing a shot. How? By pitting us against one another — that is, blacks against whites, the rich against the poor, the North against the South and the religious against the non-religious.

Bezmenov's TV interview further explained Khrushchev's prophesy by setting forth four basic stages of ideological subversion and brainwashing that would take place.

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Yuri Bezmenov

The first stage, "demoralization," is a process of re-educating generations of students to change their ways of thinking. He believed this development would successfully occur in the United States when the student radicals of the 1960s and '70s came to power and assumed roles as educators and business leaders. According to Bezmenov, these individuals would throw out classical education and weaken belief in traditional Judeo-Christian moral values.

They would indoctrinate future students and our business culture with Marxist-Leninist values (such as destroying free speech and replacing it with politically correct speech codes). The truth of this prophecy is evidenced by simply witnessing (1) what passes for education today in our high schools and colleges, where virulent anti-Americanism is embedded in the educational system and thus becomes part of the student's values, and (2) the infusions of cash by major business entities to social movements such as BLM or Antifa.

Referring to such people and, in turn, to the new generations of students they would lead astray, Bezmenov said, "Exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him."

He continued: "They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior."

Stage two, "destabilization," is a process of weakening the essential structural elements of a nation by targeting changes in its economy, defense systems and international relations, such as the effort to overhaul 20% of the economy through Obamacare or providing billions of dollars to Iran.

The third stage utilizes "crisis" (whether it be a pandemic or the killing of an unarmed black man) to achieve the ends of the revolution. During this time, "a violent change of power, structure and economy" can take hold. It can also accelerate the process of redistributing wealth.

And finally, Bezmenov referred to stage four as "normalization" — what we may now call a "new normal." By this time, America has basically been taken over and lives under a new ideology and reality.

He warned us this is what will happen to America unless it guards against people who desire to bring on times of crisis: "If people will fail to grasp the impending danger of that development, nothing can help the United States. You may kiss goodbye to your freedom."

Exposure to true information does not matter anymore.GabTweet

We should not be deceived by "good-hearted" progressive idealists who defend the lawbreakers by explaining that these emboldened anarchists only wish to destroy symbols of racism such as Confederate statues. Several representative objects targeted for destruction reveal both a contrary intent and actions inconsistent with this rationale. They are not limited to symbols of police brutality or antagonism toward African-Americans.

Statues of abolitionists such as Matthias Baldwin (an outspoken supporter of abolishing slavery in the United States and the inventor of the steam locomotive) and President Ulysses S. Grant (who led the Union army against the Confederate army) were vandalized. Also eyed for destruction are statues of Abraham Lincoln (whose "Emancipation Proclamation" freed the slaves) and George Washington (who led our country to independence). What do any of these statues have to do with erasing historical memories of those supporting the Confederate States of America? And how does such erasure help us understand our history?

Shaun King, a prominent black activist, publicly urged destroying religious icons and statues where Jesus appears "white." He suggested that such religious artworks were created as "tools of oppression" and as "racist propaganda," and that they "should all come down." However, the mobs protesting police brutality following the killing of George Floyd did not discriminate and, indeed, broadened King's advice into a general anti-religiosity.

Revolutionaries in San Francisco's Golden Gate State Park toppled a statue of St. Junípero Serra holding a life-sized cross. Saint Junípero was a Roman Catholic, Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order during the 18th century. He led the Catholic Church's missionary efforts among Native Americans on the West Coast and founded several missions. Another Serra statue was toppled at Placita Olvera in downtown Los Angeles. Other statues of the saint are likewise being ravaged.

In the uptown Los Angeles neighborhood of Fairfax, synagogues, Jewish memorials and Jewish schools were vandalized with anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slogans. Jewish-owned businesses, including kosher stores, were also sacked and looted. Memorials pertaining to the genocide of Jews in World War II did not escape the mobs.

The statue of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in Los Angeles was smeared with anti-Semitic slogans. Wallenberg saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis and had no relationship to America or to its history of slavery. A mob in Santa Rosa, California knocked to pieces a memorial fountain that was attached to a Holocaust memorial.

A historic landmark in front of the White House, St. John's Episcopal Church (known as the "church of presidents"), was vandalized on more than one occasion during weeks of unrest related to racism and police brutality. The first time, a boisterous mob deliberately set a fire in the church's basement. The second time, an unruly mass of folks attempted to set up an "autonomous zone" in front of it. The church was then defaced with graffiti.

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Devonere Johnson (Photo: Kayla Huynh/State Journal)

Illustrative of the destruction of non-religious symbols and ensuing violence was the major riot that broke out in response to the arrest of a 28-year-old black man in Madison, Wisconsin. Devonere Johnson was filmed causing a disturbance in a restaurant there. He confessed to disturbing the peace as he was using a bullhorn inside the restaurant while carrying a bat with the words "black lives matter" painted on it. Video shows him resisting arrest and attempting to escape.

Nevertheless, the response of the crowd was to knock down statues of an abolitionist immigrant who died fighting for the Union as well another commemorating women's suffrage. Neither of these two memorials reflected racism. They also beat up a 60-year-old state senator (who happened to be a liberal and who, prior to the beating, was likely on their side). They also tried to break into the Capitol and tossed at least one Molotov cocktail onto the Capitol grounds.

The above examples only scratch the surface of the wanton devastation caused by these domestic terrorists. Their approach, premised in part on Marxist-Leninist values, radically differs from my generation's non-violent approach to highlighting racial injustices through peaceful, non-violent means. Our actions, predicated in large part on a commitment to religious moral values, succeeded in dramatically impacting societal values.

Today we are in a fight for the hearts and souls of our nation. Less than 30 years ago, the 102nd Congress passed a joint resolution recognizing "the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great nation was founded," that these ethical values and principles "have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws," and that "without these ethical values and principles, the edifice of civilization stands in serious peril of returning to chaos."

Today we are in a fight for the hearts and souls of our nation.GabTweet

The Seven Noahide Laws are predicated upon a belief that humanity was fashioned in the divine image. Leviticus 19:1 explains that because the human being is "created in the image of God," we should strive to "imitate God" through our daily actions.

Unfortunately, many of today's progressives, indoctrinated by Marxist-Leninist values, choose to ignore these religious commandments and instead focus on grievances and resentments that can return civilization to chaos. By so doing they are eroding our national confidence and self-respect while proving the validity of Bezmenov's thesis concerning the gradual subversion of America's political system.

Originally published at Mercatornet.com

Arthur Goldberg is founder of the Jewish Institute for Global Awareness and FundingMorality.com, a crowdfunding site that provided an alternative fundraising platform for pro-life, pro-family causes. The two sites were shut down by court order and Goldberg ordered to pay $3 million after the Southern Poverty Law Center targeted Goldberg in a lawsuit. Goldberg is fighting the ruling, and individuals may donate to his legal fund here.






THE CHURCH MILITANT PUBLISHES ABOUT ARTHUR GOLDBERG'S GAY CONVERSION CENTER AND NOAHIDE LAW


https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/crowdsourcing-site-punches-back

CONSERVATIVE SITE FOUNDER PUNCHES BACK

by Kristine Christlieb  •  ChurchMilitant.com  •  June 16, 2020    10 Comments

Arthur Goldberg fights leftist group's bullying


HOLMDEL, N.J. (ChurchMilitant.com) – A Jewish conservative is fighting back after pro-LGBT activists succeeded in shutting down his crowdfunding site.

Using the judicial appeal process, Arthur Goldberg, founder of Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH) and the Jewish Institute for Global Awareness (JIFGA), is fighting back against the state of New Jersey, leftist activist group the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and a $3 million fine.

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Christopher Doyle

JONAH

JONAH, a now-defunct organization co-founded by Goldberg, served the Jewish community by pairing counselors with clients who wanted help with their unwanted same-sex attractions. Goldberg was not paid for his work and sought only to help find support in line with their religious beliefs.

In 2012, Goldberg became a target of the SPLC when the group recruited four gay activists to be clients seeking help for unwanted same-sex attractions.

Christopher Doyle, executive director of Institute for Healthy Families, in his book The War on Psychotherapy, wrote: "It's clear from the court affidavits that the lawsuit against JONAH was well-thought-out and coordinated in conspiracy fashion by certain gay activists. In fact, court documents indicated that the SPLC actually recruited these plaintiffs in order to take down JONAH."

Doyle told Church Militant the strategy of SPLC to destroy organizations is to "bring a legal cause and cut off their financial purse-strings." He further clarified, "By diminishing their financial influence they basically make them indigent."

The activists testified that Goldberg "guaranteed" their same-sex attraction would be eliminated — a claim Goldberg rejects as absolutely false. The state of New Jersey took that testimony and charged Goldberg and JONAH with fraud.

It's clear from the court affidavits that the lawsuit against JONAH was well-thought-out and coordinated in conspiracy fashion by certain gay activists.GabTweet

During trial, the court prohibited Goldberg from offering expert witness testimony. The court ultimately ruled against him, and Goldberg did not appeal the ruling, which included an injunction that permanently prohibited Goldberg from making any new referrals for reparative therapy. He liquidated the organization's assets in a manner approved by the court. SPLC succeeded in putting the organization out of business.

Goldberg Fights Back

Within a year, Goldberg founded a new organization, the Jewish Institute for Global Awareness (JIFGA), whose mission was to promote the seven Noahide laws, also called Noachian Laws. The term refers to the Jewish Talmudic designation for seven biblical laws given to Adam and to Noah before the revelation to Moses on Mt. Sinai and consequently binding on all mankind.

JIFGA also took on a project it called Funding Morality, an alternative crowdsourcing site to help fund projects and causes of interest to people of faith.

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Justice Brett Kavanaugh

There was demand for an alternative because GoFundMe was beginning to more regularly jettison conservatives seeking donations. Robert Spencer's JihadWatch, whom SPLC had falsely accused of being an anti-Muslim hate group, was one of the organizations purged from GoFundMe.

Other projects included fundraisers for Mark Judge, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's high school friend, and Fr. Paul Kalchik, a priest in exile from the archdiocese of Chicago for burning a blasphemous banner that intertwined the Cross with a gay pride rainbow emblem.

SPLC Lawsuit

In 2019, SPLC and the state of New Jersey claimed Goldberg and his new organization, JIFGA and its crowdsourcing project Funding Morality, had violated the permanent injunction against referrals for reparative therapy by receiving post-injunction fees for alleged referrals. The trial court ruled against Goldberg, ordering him to pay the plaintiffs more than $3 million plus attorneys' fees.

He has mortgaged the home he has lived in for 45 years in order to finance the appeal.GabTweet

Late last month, Goldberg filed an appeal, arguing that:

  • the trial court misinterpreted the injunction's definition of "conversion" therapy
  • made findings of fact not supported by any evidence, including the false claim that he made referrals
  • relied on hearsay and other inadmissible evidence
  • failed to conduct the evidentiary hearing required before resolving disputed questions of fact
  • decided issues not raised by the parties and, most significantly,
  • ignored the sworn certifications of key witnesses

Goldberg is also arguing that the trial court failed to recognize that the permanent injunction is limited to conduct in the state of New Jersey and that Goldberg 's timely response cured any violation of the injunction. Even if Goldberg had violated the injunction, the trial court erred in ordering him to pay millions of dollars — a sum that vastly exceeds the amount necessary to force Goldberg's compliance.

Goldberg, who is nearly 80, has never been paid for his involvement in any of the organizations he has founded. He has mortgaged the home he has lived in for 45 years in order to finance the appeal. Donations in support of his appeal can be made here.

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Third Catholic-Noahide group endorses Milo's ex-gay crusade


 See Part 1 On Milo's Descent Into Noahidism (here
See Part 2 On Milo's Descent Into Noahidism (here)
See Part 3 on Milo's descent into Noahidism (here)
See Part 4 On Milo's Descent Into Noahidism (here)
See Part 5 on Milo's Descent Into Noahidism (here)
See Part 7 On Milo's Descent Into Noahidism (here)

Now a third Catholic-Noahide organization has backed Milo. I forgot to mention that the 2nd Catholic-Noahide group to push Milo, The Catholic American, cited Noahide LifeSiteNew's article (here), now Catholic Citizens of Illinois have also republished Milo's interview with LifeSiteNews (below), and guess what? They are Noahide. Not only did they publish an article stating the Noahide Laws are the basis of Christianity and Islam (below), the article was written by Arthur Goldberg, the same Jew who wrote the article on LifeSiteNews and who ran a gay conversion center (here), isn't it obvious from what sector Milo is getting his help to promote his ex-gay cruade. 


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Substantively, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each acknowledge the centrality of the Noahide principles to their religious dogma. All share the ideal of monotheism and a personal relationship with a Heavenly Father. At the Divine revelation at Mount Sinai, of which the Ten Commandments are the centerpiece, the pre-existing universal Noahide laws were reiterated by Moses, the prophet that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each acknowledge as genuinely transmitting these values to their individual belief systems.

FULL ARTICLE

https://catholiccitizens.org/news/86460/a-religious-upbringing-greatly-helps-adolescents/

A Religious Upbringing Greatly Helps Adolescents


A Harvard study finds that actively religious parents have a lasting, positive effect.

By Arthur Goldberg, Mercator.com, March 26, 2019

Harvard’s School of Public Health recently published important research by Tyler J. VanderWeele and Ying Chen which evidences the positive role played by traditional religion on the development of youth and their health and welfare.

In particular, those brought up religiously are 47% more likely to have a strong sense of purpose in life, 18% more likely to report high levels of happiness, 12% less likely to suffer from depression, 33% less likely to use illegal drugs, 30% less likely to start having sex at a young age, 40% less likely to contract a sexually transmitted disease, 38% more likely to volunteer for community service, and 87% more likely to have high levels of forgiveness.

The VanderWeele and Chen study analyzed data from more than 5,000 children and concluded that teens with religious or spiritual practices lead happier and healthier lives in their 20s and beyond. It is somewhat unique in that it tracked children from an early age and followed them into adulthood. The study specifically found that a religious upbringing greatly helps adolescents navigate life’s challenges by providing them with an inner strength that brings about many positive outcomes in young adulthood (including processing and giving expression to emotions).

In particular, those brought up religiously are 47% more likely to have a strong sense of purpose in life, 18% more likely to report high levels of happiness, 12% less likely to suffer from depression, 33% less likely to use illegal drugs, 30% less likely to start having sex at a young age, 40% less likely to contract a sexually transmitted disease, 38% more likely to volunteer for community service, and 87% more likely to have high levels of forgiveness.

Concluding that “the effects of a religious community are profoundly positive,” the study states, “there is evidence that religion is an important social determinant of health over life-course.” By setting boundaries and standards for children, “religion provides directives for personal virtue to help maintain self-control and develop negative attitudes toward certain behaviors.”

In addition, they conclude that “Peer religious youth groups may be an important source of social support and adult role modeling, and they may be an avenue to direct peer influence on behavioral choices. Religious congregations could also connect adolescents to networks and resources in the broader community.”

While this Harvard study joins a multitude of studies with similar findings, it is one of the few dealing with the effect of religious parents on the lives of their children.

The adult studies overwhelmingly found that people of faith tend to be less depressed, less anxious, and far more able to handle the vicissitudes of life than do nonbelievers. A 2015 survey by researchers at the London School of Economics and the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that participating in a religious organization was the only social activity associated with sustained happiness.

Benefits of religious upbringing

One of the very first to look at the effects of religion on the development of young children was John Bartkowski, a Mississippi State University sociologist. His 2008 study concluded:

“The kids whose parents regularly attended religious services—especially when both parents did so frequently—and talked with their kids about religion were rated by both parents and teachers as having better self-control, social skills and approaches to learning than kids with non-religious parents.”

Bartkowski postulates three reasons for these benefits. First is the social support provided to parents by their religious network. Such networks usually reinforce the parental messages received in the home. Second, because the dominant values and norms within religious communities tend to be self-sacrificing and pro-family, both adults and children tend to incorporate such principles in their relationships to each other. And, finally, “religious organizations imbue parenting with sacred meaning and significance.”

The latter causality is sometimes referred to as the “sanctification theory”. A study published in Bonn, Germany reinforces the sanctification theory and found that religious affiliation and religiosity have a beneficial effect on the overall physical and psychological health of children ages 6 to 19. An important additional finding is that, “while religious affiliation matters, compared to having no religion, there does not appear to be a consistent significant effect of any particular denomination among the affiliated.”

Policy-Makers Should Pay Heed

The Bonn study referenced likewise confirms important implications for public policy.

“A religion-friendly public policy, even without favoring any one religion, can have positive effects on the population’s health status, even among children, and thereby reduce public expenditures on health care. … In addition, healthier adults generate greater productivity and higher life satisfaction.”

A United Kingdom study reinforces this conclusion by determining that policy makers “cannot afford to be complacent” about the positive influence of religion on family life or “presume that religion only has negative influences.”

Alexis de Tocqueville, the noted commentator on America’s political and social system in the early 19th century, correctly observed (a) religious faith was an indispensable element of a well-functioning society, (b) the absence of religion was both a dangerous and pernicious threat to the well-being of society, and (c) non-believers or secularists should be considered natural enemies of social harmony.

Nevertheless, progressives tend to denigrate the importance of religion in our daily lives. Consider for example the infamous 2008 statement of President Obama in which he portrayed low income Americans as clinging to their religious beliefs in order to avoid the frustrations of a changing economy (“They cling to guns and religion”) and the 2019 swearing in of Senator Krysten Sinema who refused to be sworn in on the customary Holy Bible, opting instead to be sworn in on a secular law book.

This negative attitude toward traditional faith is particularly evident today in the face of modern legislation and cultural trends hostile to the three Abrahamic religions upon which the founders of America premised its constitution and society.

Substantively, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each acknowledge the centrality of the Noahide principles to their religious dogma. All share the ideal of monotheism and a personal relationship with a Heavenly Father. At the Divine revelation at Mount Sinai, of which the Ten Commandments are the centerpiece, the pre-existing universal Noahide laws were reiterated by Moses, the prophet that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each acknowledge as genuinely transmitting these values to their individual belief systems. In fact these principles likely encompasses 75% of the world population: not only the three monotheistic religions but by a circuitous route also Hinduism and Buddhism via the sons which Abraham sent to the East.

Religion versus Secularism

Over 25 years ago, syndicated public affairs columnist William Raspberry perceptively wrote:

“Almost every commentator on the current scene bemoans the increase of violence, lowered ethical standards and loss of civility that mark American society. Is the decline of religious influence part of what is happening to us? Is it not just possible that anti-religious bias masquerading as religious neutrality is costing more than we have been willing to acknowledge?”

William Rasberry

The anti-religious bias Raspberry spoke of is part of an ongoing attempt to establish nonbelief in a Deity as the basis of our national government. Historian Wilfred McClay (Univ. of Oklahoma) indicates that “The U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment to the Constitution were not intended to create a purely secular government, neutral or indifferent to religion…The First Amendment…[was intended] to protect against sectarian conflict and exclusiveness and the power grab by some national church.”

McClay distinguishes between two types of secularism: one which recognizes “the legitimacy and even moral necessity of religious faith while preventing any one faith from being established”; and the other, which really becomes an alternative faith that seeks to become the established dominant belief, “hostile or even necessarily suspicious of the public expression of religion.”

Many commentators refer to this latter view as a new religion of secularism. This latter form of secularism is the most dangerous challenge to the West’s traditional way of life as it seeks to expel religion from society and to “liberate” humanity from the religious and metaphysical values of the Noahide laws that undergird the three Abrahamic faiths. Numerous Polls, including a 2013 Harris Poll, a 2015 Pew Report, and a 2018 Gallup poll, confirm that this message is succeeding both in America and around the world.

George Washington, in his farewell address to the American nation, eloquently warned against diminishing religion in the public square.

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. … [L]et us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

While secularists continue to advocate for decreased religiosity, it is important that policymakers become aware of the plethora of studies demonstrating the benefits of religion in society and, in particular, the benefits accruing to youth and the values by which they may live their lives. Clearly the studies cited herein join the many that unearthed numerous benefits to people and society in general by researchers who have looked at the influence of religion on one’s health and well-being.

We need to oppose any efforts to drive G-d out of our public life. “We must rediscover the importance of religion and put G-d back in the foreground of our social and political consciousness.” Creating a purely secular country will inevitably create unimaginable social problems.

Arthur Goldberg is Co-Director of the American based Jewish Institute for Global Awareness (JIFGA), former Co-Director of JONAH, Inc. JIFGA sponsors www.fundingmorality.com, a crowd-funding site for those committed to Biblical values. He has authored Light in the Closet: Torah, Homosexuality, and the Power to Change. You can contact him at: Arthur@jifga.org.

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Repost LifeSiteNews Article On Milo

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Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSite News, March 9, 2021

Secular attempts at recovery from sin are either temporary or completely ineffective. Salvation can only be achieved through devotion to Christ and the works of the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Milo Yiannopoulos, the gay man whose conservative messaging and willingness to speak the truth sparked riots on university campuses may well trigger more outrage now that he describes himself as “Ex-Gay” and “sodomy free,” and is leading a daily consecration to St. Joseph online.

Two years ago, when Church Militant’s Michael Voris famously CHALLENGED Yiannopoulos to live a chaste life, Yiannopoulos was not defensive. Instead, he acquiesced, and humbly admitted his human weakness.

Over the next decade, I would like to help rehabilitate what the media calls “conversion therapy.” It does work, albeit not for everybody. As for my other aspirations and plans, well, no change: I’ve always considered abortion to be the pre-eminent moral horror of human history. I’ll keep saying so — even more loudly than before.

“I know everything you’re saying, and I’m just not there yet. And I don’t know if I’ll get there,” Yiannopoulos told Voris at the time.

It seems that he has now arrived “there.”

LifeSite: I imagine that to many who follow you, your recent decision to publicly identify as “Milo, Ex-Gay” may seem like a 180-degree turn. Are you also surprised that your life has taken this turn? Or is it unsurprising, a natural and perhaps inevitable progression in your life? I ask this because over the last few years things that you’ve said have hinted at being drawn in this direction.

Milo: When I used to kid that I only became gay to torment my mother, I wasn’t entirely joking. Of course, I was never wholly at home in the gay lifestyle — Who is? Who could be? — and only leaned heavily into it in public because it drove liberals crazy to see a handsome, charismatic, intelligent gay man riotously celebrating conservative principles.

That’s not to say I didn’t throw myself enthusiastically into degeneracy of all kinds in my private life. I suppose I felt that’s all I deserved. I’d love to say it was all an act, and I’ve been straight this whole time, but even I don’t have that kind of commitment to performance art. Talk about method acting …

LifeSite: Was there any event, or series of events, that triggered your decision to become “sodomy free,” and to do so publicly? Did God knock you off your horse as he did Saul; or did it come about some other way? Please explain.

Milo: Four years ago, I gave an INTERVIEW TO AMERICA MAGAZINE which they declined to print. It’s taken me a long time to live up to the claims I made in that interview, but I am finally doing it.

Anyone who’s read me closely over the past decade must surely have seen this coming. I wasn’t shy about dropping hints. In my New York Times-bestselling book Dangerous, I heavily hinted I might be “coming out” as straight in the future. And in my recent stream-of-consciousness Telegram feed, I’ve been even more explicit — stomach-churningly so, if the comments under my “x days without sodomy” posts are anything to go by.

I’ve always thought of myself as a Jack Bauer sort of figure — the guy who does the hideous, inexcusable things no one else can stomach, without which the Republic will fall. I know that means my name will always be cursed, and I’ll always be a scorned outsider, so the temptation is to throw out any consideration of living well or truthfully. But even Jack Bauer has to confront his maker sooner or later.

LifeSite: Last summer you posted on Parler pictures of members of the CHANGED movement, with the caption, “Look at these beautiful souls, rid of their demons and cured of their sinful urges. Can’t you tell they’ve been saved? I can.” Are you now able to add your picture to theirs, with that same caption?

Milo: No, and I don’t suppose I’ll ever be brave enough to declare it a thing of the past. I treat it like an addiction. You never stop being an alcoholic. As for the CHANGED movement, I guess because they’re Californian they don’t see how funny their website is, or maybe they’re dirty non-doms who think God loves you more the gayer you act, but I was slightly making fun of them with that caption. (Walker Percy was right: Modern man has two choices — Rome or California.)

Someone really ought to tell them to use more heterosexual-looking photos on their website. I can share some tips! My followers have been giving me a crash course in all-American straight guy aesthetics, which apparently include growing a mullet and learning to drive stick.

LifeSite: In what ways has this impacted your personal and social life?

Milo: Well, the guy I live with has been demoted to housemate, which hasn’t been easy for either of us. It helps that I can still just about afford to keep him in Givenchy and a new Porsche every year. Could be worse for him, I guess.

My own life has changed dramatically, though it crept up on me while I wasn’t paying attention. I’m someone who responds to micromanagement and accountability, so I’ve found counting days an effective bulwark against sin. In the last 250 days I’ve only slipped once, which is a lot better than I predicted I would do.

It feels as though a veil has been lifted in my house — like there’s something more real and honest going on than before. It’s been a gradual uncovering, rather than a dramatic reveal. Maybe that lack of theater or spectacle is a sign the gay impulses truly are receding?

The best metaphor I know is that of a flower blooming — of nature’s Epiphany — an image I know Caryll Houselander was fond of. I think it was Houselander who said, “Whatever is loving in man and whatever is lovable in man is Christ in man.” I take this to mean that the more love and the less lust in us, the more we cease to obscure Christ and instead reveal Him, in whose image we are made.

I don’t mean to suggest it’s been easy, just simple: Our Lord endured worse than any of us and promised us that we have to take up a heavy cross each day. Ronald Knox says the Via Crucis shows us the 3 ways we can carry our cross: With bitterness, like the unrepentant thief; with grim resignation, like the repentant thief who said it was what he deserved; or with love, like the Lord, who never minimized suffering but said it would, in God’s time, redeem us.

Secretly, I feel I’ve done enough good in this life to excuse me from earthly penance for past sins. Your readers will no doubt respond, rightly, that this statement demonstrates how far I have to go. The best advice I can give others in my situation is: Check your pride, not your privilege. So often it’s vanity or conceit or self-satisfaction that gets in the way of accepting Christ. Learn to catch it before it takes root, and difficult things suddenly don’t seem so difficult.

LifeSite: What drew you to consecrate your life to St. Joseph?

Milo: Secular attempts at recovery from sin are either temporary or completely ineffective. Salvation can only be achieved through devotion to Christ and the works of the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. St. Joseph is the spiritual father figure of the Holy Family. In this time of gender madness, devoting myself to the male protector of the infant Jesus is an act of faith in God’s Holy Patriarch, and a rejection of the Terror of transsexuals. Trannies are demonic: They are the Galli, the castrated priests of Cybele, the Magna mater, whom Augustine saw dancing in the streets of Carthage dressed like women.

Don’t even get me started on Drag Queen Story Hour. I only have to see those four words to be overwhelmed by the urge to buy rope.

LifeSite: Anything else you would like to add?

Milo: I have enjoyed a lifelong affection for the absurd and the outrageous, so part of me gleefully anticipates the day I can seize the moral high ground, however briefly, to denounce others for failures of piety and sobriety. I hope people will support and pray for me, if for no other reason than they share my delight at the prospect of Milo Yiannopoulos furiously and indignantly railing against homosexuals for sins of the flesh.

As you might expect, my professional priorities are shifting somewhat, given my new spiritual preoccupations. Over the next decade, I would like to help rehabilitate what the media calls “conversion therapy.” It does work, albeit not for everybody. As for my other aspirations and plans, well, no change: I’ve always considered abortion to be the pre-eminent moral horror of human history. I’ll keep saying so — even more loudly than before.

They say if you let one sin in, others will follow, and now I truly know what that means: As I’ve begun to resist sinful sexual urges, I’ve found myself drinking less, smoking less … you name it. I confess my weakness for designer shoes and handbags is yet to dissipate. But I am coming to realize, however slowly, that lust — per Augustine — is disordered desire for all sorts of things, not just NFL players.

This article first appeared HERE.