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CNN Hosts Plagiarist Baptist Leader Who Says Gays In Boy Scouts Will Lead To Sex Abuse

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Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, told CNN today that allowing gays into the Boy Scouts will lead to sexual abuse. Land, despite being president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, lost his radio show after admitting to ethics violations — plagiarism and making racially-charged comments while speaking about the Trayvon Martin case — but not his position, which he has held since 1988. Land is also the executive editor of The Christian Post.

“During an interview Tuesday on CNN’s Starting Point, Land pushed the widely debunked myth that allowing gay men to participate in the Boy Scouts would raise the risk of child sexual abuse,” Media Matters reports:

Land said that he was “not accusing homosexuals of being pedophiles,” but added: “I’m accusing homosexuals of being what they say they are — attracted to males. How many people that are listening to me would allow their teenage girls to go on campouts and engage in camping activities with heterosexual males?”

Land went on to say:

LAND: Heterosexual males would not be allowed to be girl scout masters. Why? Because they’re attracted to girls, to young women — in the same way homosexual males — I’m not talking about pedophiles. Now, I’m talking about — homosexual means attracted to the same sex.

Do parents really want to allow their teenage boys to go on campouts with men who are attracted to the same sex. They wouldn’t let their girls go on campouts with men who are attracted to women. This is — this is — this verges on being beyond the realm of the rational.

Land continued: “It’s gonna lead to human tragedy, and the human tragedy’s gonna be, sadly, boys and men who are going to end up in relationships that are going to be tragic.”

During the segment, CNN’s Brooke Baldwin noted that “studies show that homosexuals are no more pedophiles than heterosexuals.”

Media Matters adds:

CNN must have been aware of Land’s history of anti-gay rhetoric. Land has claimed that gay people are working to usher in the “full-blown paganization” of America and are “recruiting” children, saying this is “really child abuse.” Land has also claimed that being gay is “one sin that I know about that I find totally incomprehensible.”

In fact, CNN has decided to repeatedly push the boundaries of ethical journalism by hosting guests who are not experts in science or psychology or child psychology on this issue, but by hosting hate-mongers and fear-mongers, and member of certified anti-gay hate groups.

Rather than invite a child psychologist or medical expert in the field of child sexual abuse, or pedophilia, to discuss the issue (note: to be clear, there is no issue of increased risk here) CNN has decided to host people like avowed homosexual hater Richard Land, and avowed homosexual hater Peter Sprigg — two people who have no expertise at all on this so-called “issue.”

Yesterday The New Civil Rights Movement gave CNN a pass when the hosted Sprigg, as his organization paid for an ad in USA Today and the segment was produced under the false guise of being about the ad.

This is journalistic malpractice and CNN has crossed this line far too often.

As The New Civil Rights Movement has reported before, Dr. Land, a virulent homophobe, has said that “the devil takes pleasure in anything that causes destruction in human society and the homosexual lifestyle does cause destruction.”

Land also participated in a short film that attacked Hillary Clinton for supporting the rights of gay people as “human rights,” and he has advocated for the criminalization of homosexuals in this country and abroad.

Land has also participated in another short film that portrayed heterosexual, righteous, “moral” Christians as the Titanic, and homosexuality, aka the “radical homosexual agenda” as the iceberg.

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is “the world’s largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant body in the United States, with nearly 16 million members as of 2012,” according to WIkipedia.

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America is increasingly divided, politicians and social media say, but a new report digs beneath the surface of society to reveal what may be a “big lie.”

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Those Americans are the silent majority, Axios says.

“Most Americans are patriotic, hardworking, neighbor-helping, America-loving, money-giving people who don’t pop off on social media or plot for power,” they write. “The hidden truth: Most people agree on most things, most of the time. And the data validates this, time and time again.”

VandeHei and Allen point the finger at “the terminally online news junkies,” and say that they are the ones “who are detached from the actual reality.”

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To prove their point, they note that “four out of five Americans don’t use X, and therefore don’t see what you see.”

“Pew Research Center found last year that only 21% of U.S. adults use X, and just 10% visit it daily. The loudest platform in politics reaches barely one in five Americans.”

Perhaps even more surprising, they say: “Did you know that during most hours of most prime-time nights, less than 1% of the country watches Fox News, CNN or MS NOW, combined?”

“Maybe,” they suggest, “it’s the very people on these platforms who are the crazy ones,” and “maybe, most people are simply normal, sane, real.”

Further making their case, they point out that Americans gave $592.5 billion to charity in 2024, more than 75 million Americans volunteer each year, three out of four Americans “gave money to a religious or other nonprofit organization in the past year, and 63% volunteered their time.”

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On Monday, President Trump said Iran had U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles when asked if the United States would accept responsibility for the killing of at least 165 people at an Iranian girls’ school.

“Whether it’s Iran or somebody else … a Tomahawk is very generic,” Trump said, Newsweek reported. He also claimed that the missile is “sold and used by other countries” and that Iran “also has some Tomahawks.”

Newsweek noted that when pressed on why he appeared to be the only one making that claim, Trump said, “Because I just don’t know enough about it.”

He added that he was “willing to live with” the findings of any official investigation.

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“There has never been an indication that Iran has any Tomahawks,” CNN reported, “which are made by US defense manufacturer Raytheon for the US military, subject to strict export controls and not the ‘generic’ product Trump claimed Monday.”

On Tuesday, Leavitt chastised a reporter who asked about the president’s apparently erroneous claim.

“The president has a right to share his opinions with the American public,” she said, “but he has said he’ll accept the conclusion of that investigation, and, frankly, we’re not going to be harassed by the New York Times, who’s been putting out a lot of articles on this, making claims that have just not been verified by the Department of War to quickly wrap up this investigation, because the New York Times is calling on us to do so.”

The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols, a retired U.S. Naval War College professor, mockingly responded, “Stop pointing out that the president has no idea what he’s talking about.”

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President Donald Trump‘s claim that his war against Iran may soon be coming to an end is being rejected by Senate Democrats, who warn that the administration may be on a path to putting boots on the ground in a “forever war.”

After attending a bipartisan briefing, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who sits on the Armed Services Committee, told reporters, “I emerged from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years in the Senate.”

“We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground, in Iran,” he said, warning about “potentially huge consequences to American lives.”

U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) also expressed grave doubts.

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She said that if President Trump “does want to put us in a forever war — which it seems like he does — he needs to come out and let us be able to have that discussion.”

CNBC reported that the “concerns from Democrats who attended a bipartisan classified briefing with military brass on Tuesday stand in stark contrast with the president, who on Monday suggested the U.S. may be nearing the completion of its operation. Trump’s statements sent slumping markets soaring and cratered oil prices that had skyrocketed in recent days.”

Democrats are warning that there is no end in sight, CNBC noted, and reported that the “war dragging on could also see markets whip back and oil costs continue to soar, especially as the Strait of Hormuz, which carries roughly 20% of the world’s oil remains largely impassible.”

After the Senate briefing, CBS News reported that “U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane.”

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