WATCH: New Jehovah’s Witness Cartoon Targets Young Children With Vile Anti-Gay Message
“People can change,” a mother tells her daughter after comparing same-sex marriage to a criminal trying to smuggle weapons on a plane in a new cartoon released on the official Jehovah’s Witnesses website.
The official website for Jehovah’s Witnesses just released a short cartoon video with the purposes of teaching kids that same-sex marriage is wrong. The video propaganda is disturbing on so many levels. Not only does it push a view that marriage between two loving people of the same gender is wrong, but it also teaches kids that they should actively speak out against it and try to convert others to turn away from the “homosexual lifestyle.â€
In the video, a little girl tells her mom about one of her classmates drawing a family picture with two mommies. She then says that her teacher told her all that matters is that people love each other and that they’re happy. The mom is the video gives a disapproving “hmmmmm†and tells the girls that, “people have their own ideas about what is right and wrong, but what matters is how Jehovah feels.â€
Later in the video, a man is shown setting off a metal detector in an airport while the mom absurdly compares same-sex marriage to a person trying to bring something on an airplane that is not “allowed.†The language is chosen carefully here to make the scenario seem innocent and not hateful, but do you know what items set off metal detectors and are also “not allowed†on airplanes? Here are a few items listed on the TSA website: knives, explosives, guns, swords, razors, hatchets, saws, screwdrivers, etc. Is this children’s video seriously comparing same-sex marriage to a criminal trying to smuggle weapons on a plane?
Micah Sumner, an ex-Jehovah’s Witness from Escondido, California was disgusted after he saw the video.
“Those videos are aimed at very small children so its obvious they wish to brainwash them from the youngest age possible,†Sumner told the New Civil Rights Movement. “It’s disgusting to fill a child’s mind with messages of hate and death because ultimately that’s what they teach; you must live the way we interpret the Bible or Jehovah will destroy you. I got so sick and tired of believing that everyone outside of the cult was bad and deserving of death. They’re being brainwashed to believe that God will KILL people because they are gay and that is just wrong. What choice does that leave the child to determine who is a good/bad person for themselves?â€
The brainwashing is definitely prevalent in the anti-gay cartoon. After comparing marriage equality to a person setting off a metal detector with sirens blaring, the tone then switches to a scene with nice calming music, a beautiful nature environment, and the mom talking in a calming voice about how Jehovah “wants us to be his friend and live in paradise forever!â€
The little girl’s mom continues to explain that to get to paradise, “Jehovah says we have to leave some things behind. That means anything Jehovah doesn’t approve of.†This statement implies that the girl’s classmate has to leave her two moms if she wants to get into paradise. So, not only does this video compare LGBT people to criminals, it also implies that children should try to leave their parents if their parents are in a same-sex relationship. This message is damaging to children and implies that even if they are flourishing in their home environment, their families are not good enough if they have two moms or two dads.
To the Jehovah’s Witnesses out there, hiding their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, Sumner encourages them to research their religion. “Once you know the truth about the religion and its history that they’ve hidden from the members you will finally break the shackles of fear and guilt and be who you really are,†he said. “There is a warm and welcoming non-judgmental community of ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses ready to support any and all who escape.â€
Sumner encourages people to go to Jwfacts.com and jwsurvey.org to learn more about what he says is a cult and not a religion.
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Maine Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner is under fire after releasing a video declaring that new allegations against him are false, yet he is “taking time to reflect” on a path forward.
Politico on Monday afternoon reported that a woman who dated Platner, Jenny Racicot, “says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.”
“Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner,” Politico reported, “for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.”
In a video posted to social media eleven minutes after the Politico story dropped, Platner says, “I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me. Any accusation of nonconsensual behavior is categorically false.”
He said he and his supporters “were united in a love of Maine, a belief that our politics must change, in a focus on defeating Susan Collins.”
“So, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful the political reality will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins.”
“Those were the goals when we launched this campaign. And they remain my goals today.”
“Throughout it all, you never turned your back on me. And I will not turn my back on you now. Every one of you deserves to see that vision come to fruition and see Susan Collins defeated. And we will use every tool at our disposal to do so.”
The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, a political commentator who served as the communications director for the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign, blasted Platner.
“I’m sorry but ‘we are taking time to reflect on the best path forward’ is not an option on the table,” Miller wrote. “Either it’s false and you campaign with vigor or it’s true and you get out / apologize to everyone you let down.”
Journalist Ryan Grim, commenting on Platner’s video, noted that Platner “strongly suggests he is considering dropping out. Already Troy Jackson and Chellie Pingree, both gubernatorial candidates, are being kicked around in Maine circles as potential replacements.”
Several others, including Puck News’ Peter Hamby, predicted Platner will be dropping out.
Platner had postponed several campaign events before the Politico story was published.
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) July 6, 2026
President Donald Trump is facing backlash after posting a video of children — including showing their unblurred faces — graduating from kindergarten, with some of the girls purportedly wearing hijabs.
“President Trump posted a captionless video of graduating kindergarteners on Truth Social on Monday, goading his supporters into verbally attacking little children simply for being Muslim,” The New Republic reported. “The clip is from Gateway STEM Academy, a majority-Black K-8 public charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota. It shows about 21 children in caps and gowns on stage singing a song together. Most of the girls are wearing hijabs.”
The original post of the video which Trump reposted reads: “Public school in St. Paul, Minnesota. Every girl is in a hijab … in kindergarten.”
Trump did not add any comments. TNR called the post “Islamophobic, weird, and creepy,” while noting that the comments section of Trump’s post was filled with calls “by racist, xenophobic MAGA supporters” to “deport the children and ban hijabs.”
TNR also noted that it “should come as no surprise that Trump isn’t above attacking children who just learned how to read, but this post is still particularly discomforting—and will certainly contribute to the already potent level of anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. and in Minnesota.”
Critics blasted Trump.
“There is something deeply unsettling about the president of the United States—the most powerful person in the world—going after kindergarten schoolchildren in Minnesota because they wore hijabs, as Trump has done this morning on his website,” The Bulwark’s Sam Stein wrote.
One social media commentator wrote, “Trump posted an unblurred video of more than a dozen Muslim kindergartners to Truth Social, exposing the children’s faces while targeting them for their religion.”
Another added, “Trump is a bigot. The president took to Truth Social to attack kindergarteners in hijabs. These are little kids. The president isn’t just a bigot, he’s also a coward.”
The original video was posted to the X social media platform in June.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) at the time commented, “If you are in a public school in America, you should be speaking english.”
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President Donald Trump’s apparent efforts to delay releasing the $5.8 million civil judgment to E. Jean Carroll are being met with a warning by the journalist’s legal team, who suggest there could be a legal maneuver for Trump to employ to forgo paying the judgment in either of the two cases he lost.
According to The Guardian, on July 4, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered Trump to release the $5.8 million judgment, which is in escrow, to Carroll by this coming Tuesday — or explain why he would not do so.
Carroll’s attorneys think Trump may be trying to buy time to mount another legal strategy, telling the judge that Trump’s request for an extension “appears to be little more than yet another play for time.”
“The case is separate from Trump’s appeal of a Manhattan civil jury’s 2024 award of $83.3m to Carroll for defamation,” The Guardian explains. “But her lawyers have suggested a legal scenario in which the president might seek to conjoin the cases and further delay payment of both.”
Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan (no relation to the judge) wrote, “We can only assume that defendant is seeking … to buy time so he can try to concoct some new basis to put off paying plaintiff presumably in connection with his forthcoming petition and motion for a rehearing.”
Trump’s former attorney, Justin Smith, in one of his final acts, wrote to the Supreme Court suggesting that his client would be appealing the $83.3 million civil judgment.
Smith argued that the Supreme Court “may wish to consider the petitions together,” given they involve the same parties.
The larger judgment case involves possible questions of presidential immunity, and that has Carroll’s attorneys concerned.
“A conjoined case, Carroll’s lawyers fear, could result in both judgments being wiped out,” The Guardian reports.
The president has also made clear he is no fan of Judge Kaplan, after the jurist made several rulings that “angered” Trump.
“What else can you expect from a Trump Hating, Clinton appointed judge, who went out of his way to make sure that the result was as negative as it could possible be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in 2023, “speaking to, and in control of, a jury from an anti-Trump area which is probably the worst place in the US for me to get a fair ‘trial’.”
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