In a caravanserai older than the regime that now wants her flogged, a woman stood on a Persian carpet before an empty audience — without a hijab — and sang her homeland back to itself.

That, according to Iran’s courts, is “obscene” and deserves 74 lashes.

‘This is a right I could not ignore; singing for the land I love passionately.’

Parastoo Ahmadi is an Iranian singer who first came to the world’s attention during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests — the uprising that shook Iran after Jina Mahsa Amini died under suspicious circumstances in morality police custody for wearing her hijab “improperly.”

At protests, Ahmadi sang the patriotic anthem “Az Khoon-e Javanan-e Vatan” (“From the Blood of the Youth of the Homeland”) as a rallying cry. Authorities subsequently summoned her and searched her home.

Ahmadi didn’t stop. In December 2024, she filmed the “Caravanserai Concert” at the historic Deir-e Gachin caravanserai, livestreamed to her YouTube channel but with no audience in attendance. She wore a long black dress, her shoulders bare, with deep red lipstick — no hijab.

The 27-minute performance has since drawn over 3 million views.

Ahmadi captioned her video, “I am Parastoo, a girl who wants to sing for the people I love. This is a right I could not ignore; singing for the land I love passionately.”

Authorities arrested Ahmadi on December 14, 2024 — a detention the regime dressed up as a “summons” for producing content “contrary to social norms and values,” according to Human Rights Activists News Agency. Two musicians were taken with her.

Within weeks, the group was formally charged at Tehran’s Prosecutor’s Office for Moral Security Affairs and released on bail.

This June, a criminal court in Qom — the same province where a 19-year-old champion wrestler was sentenced to death for attending a protest, then hanged eight days after his birthday — issued its verdict: 74 lashes each for Ahmadi and eight musicians and crew members, a two-year travel ban, and a two-year prohibition on all artistic activity.

Two of the nine defendants weren’t even in Iran when the verdict came down, the New York Times reported, citing “a person close to her family.”

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According to court documents obtained by IranWire, Ahmadi’s uncovered head and bare shoulders were described as “obscene images,” the charges filed under Article 638 of the Islamic Penal Code and Article 743 of the Computer Crimes Law. The ruling is preliminary and subject to appeal.

The indictment also described Ahmadi as “lacking the Sharia-compliant hijab” and “semi-naked,” IranWire reported.

The sentence came the day after Iran and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding to end a four-month conflict that killed thousands across the Middle East.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam of Norway-based Iran Human Rights said the regime, “emboldened by the peace deal with the U.S., may intensify its crackdown on women.”

The U.S.-Israel strikes that began in late February killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who oversaw Iran for nearly four decades. His son, Mojtaba Khamenei — dubbed the “Gayatollah” — has taken his place as supreme leader, with hard-line IRGC commanders assuming an expansive role running the country.

“They call America the Great Satan. And then they flew to the table and signed a deal with the Devil. But a woman’s voice scared them,” said Iranian-American journalist and activist Masih Alinejad.

“Will this country ever be fixed one day?” said Mariam, a teacher in Mashhad, according to the Times. “Where in the world is a woman’s singing punishable by lashes?”

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled four years ago in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen that the Second and 14th Amendments protect Americans’ right to carry handguns outside of their homes for self-defense.

Hawaii Democrats came up with an apparent workaround to curb gun rights in their state, passing a law in 2023 that banned the carrying of guns onto private property without verbal or written consent of the property owner. Those who ran afoul of this law faced up to a year in prison.

‘Hawaii’s law does not restrict the right to carry a gun at all,’ Jackson wrote.

This didn’t sit well with a trio of Maui County residents with concealed-carry permits who, with the Hawaii Firearms Coalition, sued on the basis of the understanding articulated again by Solicitor General D. John Sauer last year: “Because most property owners do not post signs either allowing or forbidding guns, Hawaii’s default rule functions as a near-complete ban on public carry.”

To the great chagrin of liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court determined in a 6-3 ruling on Thursday that Hawaii’s so-called “vampire law” is unconstitutional.

The court, which reversed a 2024 decision from the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Appeals Court, noted that law-abiding permit-holders “not only must … take care to avoid all the territory where the possession of a gun is prohibited outright, but they may also be barred from entering many places that people routinely visit in the course of their daily routines, such as gas stations, restaurants, and stores.”

While recognizing the right of establishments that are open to the public “to admit or exclude persons who are carrying guns for self-defense under either the common-law rule or Hawaii’s law,” the court noted that the so-called vampire law “flips the default rule at common law, under which anyone has an implied license to enter property held open to the public unless the property owner withdraws consent.”

Justice Samuel Alito noted in the opinion that the “regime” established in Hawaii “hobbles what the Second Amendment protects: the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives.”

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Jackson was once again of a different mind than her conservative colleagues on the meaning of the “right to bear arms.”

At the outset of her dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Jackson framed — in Orwellian fashion — Hawaii’s infringement on Americans’ constitutional rights as an effort to “protect the rights of its residents — both those who wish to carry guns and those who prefer that guns are not carried on their private property without their express permission.”

Jackson —who repeatedly stressed that she still disagrees with the decision in Bruen, calling it a “grave mistake” — claimed that “the court’s objective is protecting guns, not consistently preserving any principle of law.”

According to Jackson, the vampire law that effectively requires law-abiding citizens to everywhere obtain consent before exercising their Second Amendment right not only “does not implicate the Second Amendment” — “Hawaii’s law does not restrict the right to carry a gun at all.”

The liberal justice apparently assigns state law and custom greater weight than federal law on the matter of guns, stressing that “recognizing state autonomy in this respect is especially appropriate here, since Hawaii has never had a custom of armed carry.”

Jackson concluded her 32-page dissent with yet another attack on her colleagues, writing, “While purporting to constrain judges, the majority has unmasked the discretionary choices that lie beneath the court’s decisions regarding which analogues are ‘vastly different’ … and whose historical experiences are worthy of inclusion.”

Justice Elena Kagan wrote a separate dissenting opinion.

This ruling will reportedly impact a handful of blue states, including New York, Maryland, and California, which took a similar approach to Hawaii.

John Commerford, executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, said of the outcome, “Law-abiding gun owners will no longer be forced to beg for special permission simply to exercise their constitutional right to bear arms in public places.”

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A company in Greensboro, North Carolina, is looking to make sure nothing in your car goes unnoticed.

Automated license plate recognition cameras are already a widespread issue across the country, and they are about to get a lot smarter.

‘SignalTrace correlates each digital fingerprint with a plate number.’

ALPR company Flock already has over 100,000 cameras installed throughout the United States, and with a simple upgrade, they could be capable of capturing every signal being put out from your car.

Enter North Carolina company Leonardo. Its product SignalTrace is designed to capture “the unique signals emitted from each device,” which then “creates a digital fingerprint for devices that routinely travel together.”

Examples are cell phones, smart watches, Bluetooth devices, earbuds, and Wi-Fi signals.

“SignalTrace correlates each digital fingerprint with a plate number, through common time stamps,” meaning all the additional signals are attached to the same profile of the license plate at that time.

The data “indicates where and when a suspect is traveling and if multiple suspects are traveling together,” the company says.

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Leonardo boasts that it already works with more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies across the globe and specifically holds contracts in New York, Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico, and Ohio.

The scope of the company’s work relies on its data amalgamation. The company creates profiles based not just on license plate numbers, but through a complex network of all its products, including video cameras, license plate readers, parking enforcement, and SignalTrace.

The information is all stored in a database, where it can be “queried and analyzed to aid investigations.”

SignalTrace is even effective in “off-road areas such as in subways and malls,” the company writes.

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The correlated signals from devices are meant to match a license plate to a person in the event of a stolen vehicle, but can work even more directly in tracking a wanted individual or potentially just a person of interest.

If certain signals are matched to the legal owner of license plate, then those signals could be used to identify a person even if he is not in his car, working as an unofficial and nonconsensual form of digital ID.

Leonardo says it respects “individuals’ privacy rights” and does not decrypt or read content from devices, but simply reveals signatures that are frequently traveling together within a vehicle.

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Once again, a left-wing radical has gone to unhinged lengths to prove his hatred for conservatives.

On May 6, Ohio leftist blogger Donald “D.J.” Byrnes allegedly texted state Sen. Jerry Cirino (R-Kirtland) a picture of a nude Shrek “pleasuring himself” following Cirino’s public announcement that he was withdrawing from the race for Ohio Senate president.

In addition to the digitally altered image, Byrnes allegedly sent a message that read: “Good to see you finally made your final humiliation public, young Mussolini!”

According to reports, Byrnes later posted on Bluesky, “Jerry Cirino has seen Shrek’s dong,” with a screenshot of the text.

On June 1, Byrnes was arrested on a misdemeanor telecommunications harassment warrant after Cirino complained about the lewd text. He spent roughly 23 hours in jail before release and now faces up to 180 days in jail plus a fine if convicted.

BlazeTV hosts Stu Burguiere and Dave Landau broke down the absurd incident on their show “Stu and Dave Do America.”

Dave notes Byrnes’ failed political career. Before writing confrontational progressive blog posts became his full-time endeavor, he ran as a Democrat for the Ohio House of Representatives in District 80 in the 2018 general election and lost badly to a Republican.

“He wanted to be a lawmaker, but he didn’t consider this might be illegal,” Dave chuckles.

Stu then reads Cirino’s response to Byrnes’ explicit text message: “I don’t know who this is, but I am certain you’re a moron.”

“I like that response,” he laughs.

Dave agrees with Cirino’s “moron” insult, emphasizing the stupidity of sending a pornographic image from your personal phone number.

“Just by watching ‘Breaking Bad’ that came out in ’08, I can tell you there’s burner phones,” he laughs. “And you used your phone.”

“I mean, it’s almost like he wanted him to know who it was,” adds Stu. “He wanted to say, like, ‘I’m dancing on your grave,’ or whatever the equivalent of Shrek’s penis would be in that analogy.”

Byrnes, he notes, only had to pay “$350” to get out of jail — just 10% of his $3,500 bail.

“I feel like $350 is more than they’ve ever made as a writer,” Dave quips.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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Establishment liberals are fighting a rearguard action against radical socialists inside the Democratic Party.

They lost more ground on Tuesday when a troop of democratic socialist candidates endorsed by fellow traveler New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani knocked off a pair of incumbents in New York’s Democratic primary elections — Rep. Daniel Goldman and five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat.

‘Seize the means of production.’

As more comes out about the character of the victorious socialists for whom Mamdani held the door open, it seems that the ascendant radicals may be more radical than even the mayor.

In a softball interview Wednesday on MS NOW, talking head Ali Velshi pressed Darializa Avila Chevalier — the Muslim convert who beat Espaillat 49.4% to 45.9% and previously helped lead the destructive 2023-2024 Columbia University encampment — about President Donald Trump’s characterization of her and other candidates in Tuesday’s primary races as “communists.”

“Donald Trump talked about communists being elected last night. There were three of you in the congressional races, and there were five people who Zohran Mamdani supported in state races. All eight of you won,” said Velshi. “How do avoid becoming the ad for Republicans?”

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“You will be a member of the Democrat delegation, and you’re going appear in all sorts of people’s ads,” continued Velshi. “All sorts of Republicans’ ads [will] say, ‘This is what you’re going to get if you vote for the Democrats — a communist.'”

Avila Chevalier — the co-founder of a group that posted “death to America” on social media earlier this year and called for the “total eradication of Western civilization” — did not bother challenging her characterization as a communist but instead expressed pride in dodging the question and tossed Velshi a word salad.

“That framing is one that I’ve been very proud to be able to say I don’t respond to, one in which I have been very intentional to say I won’t be reactive,” said the radical who identifies as an “Afro-Latina” Dominican daughter of immigrants. “We are presenting a vision of what we’re fighting for, and I think for far too long we have had politics that is reactive to what Republicans are doing. What we need is Democrats who are actually going to present a positive vision.”

Despite talking around whether she is a communist, Avila Chevalier told Velshi, “I will always be honest about my position on things.”

Before she apparently deleted her X account, thousands of Avila Chevalier’s posts were archived. If as honest in recent years about her views as she purportedly is now, then it appears Trump’s “communist” characterization is more than fair.

In addition to sharing a post that called for the state takeover of parts of the economy; the nationalization of utilities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies; the suspension of rent payments; and the seizure of “all properties from landlords,” CNN reported that Avila Chevalier tweeted or retweeted the following messages:

“A world without borders — just like a world without prisons or police — is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward”;“Seize the means of production”;”Yes, literally, abolish the border”;”Israel doesn’t exist!”“No more police at all ever”;”In New York they don’t say ‘I love you,’ they say ‘NYPD suck my d**k’ and I think that’s beautiful”;”All deportation is wrong”;”ALL PIGS EVERYWHERE ARE HARAM”; and“Most of the theory I’ve read is communism but the pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me.”

Earlier this month, Avila Chevalier said in a statement to CNN, “I have grown considerably since in the years since these tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community’s future.”

Some of the tweets were as recent as 2022.

In her victory speech on Tuesday night, Chevalier — who, according to the Guardian, was recruited to run for Congress by Justice Democrats, the same outfit that backed democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — said that her primary success signaled “a new dawn” for the district.

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Democrat Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) has made the rising cost of living a centerpiece of his political identity.

“The average Super Bowl ticket now costs $6,773. That’s not just a game — it’s a luxury bill,” he wrote on X in February. “For too many working Americans, seeing the biggest sporting event in person would take … months of rent just to afford one ticket.”

‘He’s using campaign cash to live a luxury lifestyle.’

Federal campaign finance records reviewed by Politico show donor money has been footing the bill for his travel.

Gallego, who has campaigned as a working-class fighter from Phoenix, has spent liberally across two donor-funded accounts — on luxury resorts, private jet flights, family trips to Disney parks, and repeated personal reimbursements.

Twenty days after launching his Senate campaign, Gallego and then-Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) used their joint fundraising committee, Swallego Victory Fund, to attend and host a Super Bowl LVII fundraiser in Glendale, Arizona, Politico reported. Filings show the committee spent $34,700 on “event tickets” and $2,700 at the Henry, a Phoenix restaurant.

The fund raised $56,505 total and dissolved Jan. 1, 2025.

Swalwell later resigned amid sexual assault and harassment allegations from multiple women, which he called “false.” Gallego said he did not know about Swalwell’s alleged behavior, but the joint committee leaves their finances and names linked in the public record.

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Records show Gallego has tapped his leadership PAC and main campaign committee for more than $18,000 in child care reimbursements since 2019 — including $400 to an individual Politico identified as his wife’s mother for babysitting — with his wife, three kids, and au pair joining him on the road at donors’ expense.

“He just spends his campaign account like it’s his personal slush fund,” a person granted anonymity told Politico. “He’s using campaign cash to live a luxury lifestyle.”

Gallego pushed back. “This is not breaking news,” he told Politico.

“Democrats and Republicans in Congress and the White House alike regularly travel with their wives and children, as is permitted by the FEC.” Leadership PACs have broad latitude under FEC rules as long as spending has some fundraising function.

Gallego’s JUNTOS PAC records reviewed by Blaze News reveal additional spending: nine payments totaling $115,000 to Wheels Up, a private jet membership company, listed as “fundraising consulting services”; more than $60,000 at the Phoenician, a luxury Scottsdale resort; three payments totaling roughly $10,200 to the Dorado Beach Ritz-Carlton in Puerto Rico; and a single staffer who received more than $54,000 in reimbursements, including a $43,847 payment for “travel and catering.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) asked Senate leadership in April to investigate Gallego over allegations “sexual in nature” and potential campaign finance violations. His office called them “right-wing conspiracy theories.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed that the matter was referred to the Senate Ethics Committee.

Gallego has since established a legal defense fund in May.

“He is one of the most vetted candidates after his tough 2024 campaign,” said Jacques Petit, a spokesperson for Gallego.

The drip of revelations arrives at a delicate moment. Gallego is among Democrats eyeing a potential 2028 presidential bid, alongside Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Sen. Gallego did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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If God has blessed you with children — and the ability to stay home with them — I urge you to consider keeping them home with you as they launch into more formal education.

If you can’t stay home with your kids — well, let’s start there.

All children are best served by spending the bulk of their time with the people who love them the most. Period.

The most common reason given for not being able to stay home is financial. I would challenge you and your spouse, however, to prayerfully and creatively consider ways to make it happen.

I’ve seen many sacrifices made so that a family can live on one income and encourage that to be seriously considered before children come along. That being said, it’s also never too late and always beneficial to change your lifestyle so that you can spend more time at home with your kids, at any age, period. They grow up awfully fast.

And by the way, I think an excellent goal for fathers is to pursue income opportunities that allow him to be home-based too (at least some of the time, at minimum). Your children thrive best with abundant time with both of you.

Financial obstacle … or excuse?

But when it comes to home education, we are usually talking more about moms than dads, so let’s address whether finances are really what’s keeping mom from staying home. A friend of mine, who sacrificed a promising career to stay home with her three-soon-to-be-four children, thinks Christian women should ask themselves where their hearts are when career and home are at odds:

Am I valuing my own career — and my own time — too highly? Am I willing to submit these things to the Lord?Have I not seriously considered staying home, since so many women don’t? Am I willing to be different?Am I willing to sacrifice? Am I willing to prayerfully ask God if I should stay home?

If these questions are asked when a baby is on the way, they may need to be asked again when a child reaches what we deem “school-age.”

Which brings us back to home education, which is the term I prefer over “homeschooling.” That implies we are doing institutional school at home, which further implies that institutional school is the ideal, or at least the norm. I think that’s an idea every responsible parent should challenge, particularly Christian parents.

Like Dorothy said …

There really is no place like home. No institution can match the power of a godly home as a place for children to grow, learn, and thrive. That applies for all of childhood, starting from birth.

All children are best served by spending the bulk of their time with the people who love them the most. Period.

Daycare cannot possibly provide the nurture, attention, and love that new parents can at home. No preschool can do a better job continuing to nurture a child’s individual needs and gifts as well as loving, committed parents.

And although far too many children do get institutionalized practically from birth, at least parents of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers generally have to pay the institution in question, which has the effect of encouraging parents to at least consider staying home with them, at least part of the time.

But once the children hit school-age, the societal expectation is that the stay-at-home parent (usually mom) will finally be able to go back to work, jump back into a career, get some time to herself, etcetera.

No magic switch

However, there is no magic switch that flips when a child turns 5 or 6, negating their need for, and benefit from, being primarily home with engaged, loving parents.

In fact, I would argue that this is the case throughout what we categorize as the elementary school years. Kids up to about age 12 need their home, family, and parents more than they need an institutional school.

So here’s how you can lay the groundwork in your child’s first years so that home education becomes an organic part of your daily life from their earliest days, making the transition to more formal learning at home more natural when the time comes.

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Home education 101

Education is what you’re doing from your baby’s first day of life, by the way.

Dictionary definition of “education” — the process of imparting knowledge, skills, and judgment.

Your baby begins to learn about the world primarily through his/her interaction with mom and dad. This is God’s design and why He brings children into the world through families.

He equips you, the parents, with the desire to protect and nurture your baby, which generally involves you learning new skills, rearranging your schedule, and buying some stuff! (And boy, will those three tasks continue to dominate your life!)

As the preschool years unfold and children increasingly become active in your household, the most important thing you can do for them is simple and organic:

Establish your home as a safe, orderly, loving, peaceful, and interesting place.

It is simple — but it takes effort.

We’ll finish with some thoughts to guide you toward each of these goals.

Safe

You are your child’s safety. Your daily presence with them fosters a deep sense of security, which is necessary so they can begin to see that they can separate from you, at times.

This does not mean you can never leave, or use a babysitter, but it is helpful if trusted family members or like-minded close friends live nearby and can be part of this security-building experience. After all, when God placed your child in a family, that included the grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etcetera.

A sense of security is also fostered by encouraging children to develop resilience. When they take a tumble, if you see it isn’t serious, a cheerful and calm, “You’re OK!” will send the right message and encourage them to get right back to whatever they were doing. This is not to discourage you from comforting them — on the contrary, comforting and reassuring them that you’re there for them will help them comfort themselves and bounce back more quickly.

There is no such thing, in the baby/toddler/preschool years, as too much time with mom, dad, or other loving family members or friends. When safe and feasible, bring them along for chores and tasks and allow them to “help” as just another form of play — but they are learning all along.

Orderly

Children thrive within boundaries; they want them, they need them, you need them.

Generally keeping to schedules (which change often as babies grow into preschoolers) and generally keeping an orderly environment (they can start helping put toys away at very young ages!) help to foster this sense of order.

Loving

You can’t really express too much affection for each other in a family. Children also need to see that mom and dad love each other. Is this a good place to mention grandparents again? Why yes, it is. Have them come over tonight.

Peaceful

Disagreements arise, but with a little person in the house, strive for a peaceful demeanor. Home should always be a refuge. Yelling is not acceptable, nor are temper tantrums (child or adult).

Interesting

And here is where we finally get to what people think of as “education.” But remember our definition — by providing and modeling safety, order, love, and peace, you already are imparting knowledge, skills, and judgment. That’s the most important “curriculum.”

In part 2, we’ll get into curriculum specifics!

A version of this essay previously appeared at She Speaks Truth.

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Americans are increasingly being taught to see themselves not as individuals, but as members of demographic groups whose race, sex, or ancestry defines their experiences, beliefs, and even moral standing — and Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has the stories to prove it.

In one example, Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico explained that he has a limited ability to understand the world because of his background and identity as being “white and a male.”

“Now, he offered this as some sort of humility … but notice the mechanism of the claim. The limit isn’t experience or his reading or his choices. The limit is his category. The category of his race and his sex set that is putting the limit and the ceiling on what his mind can reach,” Glenn comments.

“Think about how racist that is. If I said, you know, Talarico, let’s say he was African-American and I said, you know, ‘Well, his imagination is limited because he’s black.’ I mean, that’s clearly racist, right?” he asks.

Another story Glenn cites is Joy Reid discussing the fourth of July.

“She’s not excited about it. What a surprise. She said, ‘Black Americans are not excited about the 4th of July.’ That to black America, Independence Day is Juneteenth,” Glenn explains.

“Most Americans had no idea, most black Americans had no idea what Juneteenth was until recently. But I don’t want to argue this. I want you to look at the shape of the sentence here. She didn’t say, ‘I feel this way.’ She said, ‘Black people are not excited,’” he says.

“So there’s one holiday for one category and another holiday for another category. The nation’s birthday has to be sorted by skin. Hold on to that,” he adds.

And now a church in Virginia, which was a historically mostly white congregation generations ago, hosted a black walking tour — which was a slave trail through Richmond.

The point of the tour was to confront and atone for that history.

“Watch what’s being atoned for and by whom. Not the men who did it, because they’re two centuries dead. The living are doing the penance for an inheritance of guilt — guilt assigned by not anything they did, but by the group they were born into,” Glenn says.

“You cannot create categories over individuals. When the man becomes his race or his disability or whatever over who he is as an individual, there’s trouble on the horizon. The citizen who becomes his demographic before he becomes an American. The believer then inherits guilt by bloodline rather than by his own deeds,” he continues.

“In every single case, the individual has disappeared and the group steps forward to stand in its place,” he adds.

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