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Two American veterans working with the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) have been injured in an attack while distributing aid to Palestinians.
As reported by Fox News, the two veterans are reportedly receiving medical treatment and are in stable condition. GHF said the Americans were "highly decorated" veterans.
"GHF has repeatedly warned of credible threats from Hamas, including explicit plans to target American personnel, Palestinian aid workers, and the civilians who rely on our sites for food. Today's attack tragically affirms those warnings," the organization wrote on X.
Despite the attacks, GHF vowed that it was still committed to the mission of delivering aid to Gazans.
The group later posted an image of grenade fragments left over from the attack, showing the weapons were packed with ball bearings, Fox reported. According to GHF Executive Chairman Rev. Johnnie Moore, the grenades were found to be of Iranian origin and have been "commonly used by Hamas."
"I am sorry to say also that today's terror attack on Americans is partly a byproduct of the legitimacy that many in the press and at the [U.N.] provide to Hamas – amplifying Hamas' lies about GHF every day, but also actively collaborating with Hamas," Moore wrote on X.
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A former Space Force officer's objection to the military's Biden-era COVID-19 vaccine mandate still haunts him over three years later.
WorldNetDaily spoke to Joshua Zermeno, a former officer who dedicated part of his career to space superiority, having served in the U.S. military for 13 years. In August 2021, Zermeno objected to then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's military COVID-19 shot mandate, questioning both its "efficacy and legality." For this, he received two Letters of Reprimand (LORs) and a "Do Not Promote" recommendation that blocked his promotion to major. He was also banned from government buildings and required to work from home.
With his career collapsing in front of him, Zermeno attempted to voluntarily separate from the military in October 2021, but was told his separation was "not in the best interest of the Air Force and Space Force." In the week following this statement, he said base leadership initiated Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) action against him. Despite the rescission of the COVID-19 shot mandate in January 2023, he was passed over for promotion a second time. Seven months later, he was forced to separate from the military entirely.
Nevertheless, Zermeno would consider returning to Space Force, but has been offered "zero guidance" from the Department of Defense and the Air Force's Total Force Service Center, which manages Space Force matters.
The former Space Force officer said stories like his are among "the most censored topics globally." He pointed out, "Many service members and veterans have turned to social media to share their experiences, but censorship limits reach, and account deletions risk erasing these stories." Even his own X account has been "targeted and tagged with 'Visibility limited: this Post may violate X's rules against Hateful Conduct,' despite its professional content."
To counter the censorship, Zermeno published "DISOBEYING AN UNLAWFUL ORDER: A SPACE FORCE OFFICER'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM" in June 2025. It was written "to preserve history of military's COVID-19 shot mandate permanently," he said, adding that his desire is for the book to reach current and future military leaders to "study, learn from, and prevent such mistakes from ever happening again."
He told WND, "Current and future military leaders must understand the mandate's impact on service members, families, force readiness, and national security to learn from these mistakes."
In the book, Zermeno reveals:
"This memoir is my raw, unfiltered reckoning: an exposé that dismantles the military's false narratives, revealing a mandate that crushed free thinkers who dared to question right from wrong. Its brutal side effect was a purge of some of the military's sharpest minds, leaving shattered lives across every branch through coercion, public shaming and ruthless career destruction. I was one of tens of thousands of individuals purged from service – skilled professionals whose training, experience and institutional knowledge can't be replaced by new recruits, a loss that weakened our military's readiness at a time when global threats demand strength."
According to Zermeno, "The COVID-19 mandate ranks among the gravest errors in military history and must not be forgotten." He adds, "Service members, force readiness and national security continue to feel its negative impacts," adding that "the mandate negatively affected tens of thousands of service members – hundreds of thousands, including spouses and children."
Because he continues to advocate for righting the wrongs associated with the mandate, it appears the attacks against Zermeno have not ended. Ten days after publishing his book, his current employer was contacted by the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) to initiate a supplemental information request about his eligibility for Top Secret clearance.
He recently wrote about the ordeal on X:
For Zermeno, the inquiry from the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is not a coincidence. He continues to wait to hear more from DCSA, as his second career – one that requires Top Secret clearance – hangs in the balance.
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Iran appears to be following the path of other repressive regimes that find their path into the future clouded and uncertain: Turning to attacks on its own citizens.
A report at Fox News describes the aftermath of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, in which the rogue Islamic regime "appears to be turning inward – escalation repression with chilling speed."
It is Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran, who confirmed the Islamic Republic is accelerating toward a "North Korea-style model of isolation and control."
Iran, where its nuclear weapons facilities were decimated by the recent bombings from Israel and the U.S., long has insisted on obtaining nuclear weapons in order to "wipe" Israel off the map.
That, President Donald Trump and Israeli officials both said could not be allowed.
Now, Aarabi said, "We're witnessing a kind of domestic isolation that will have major consequences for the Iranian people. The regime has always been totalitarian, but the level of suppression now is unprecedented. It's unlike anything we've seen before."
A Fox source inside Iran said the repression now is "terrifying" and Aarabi described a population under siege from its own Islamic leaders.
"He described how citizens are stopped at random, their phones confiscated and searched," the report said.
"If you have content deemed pro-Israel or mocking the regime, you disappear. People are now leaving their phones at home or deleting everything before they step outside."
The circumstances are not unlike what exists in North Korea, long known as one of the most repressive regimes on earth.
"During the recent conflict, Iran's leadership imposed a total internet blackout to isolate the population, blocking Israeli evacuation alerts, and pushed propaganda that framed Israel as targeting civilians indiscriminately," the report said.
Aarabi described how the government there "deliberately cut communications to instill fear and manipulate public perception. For four days, not a single message went through. Even Israeli evacuation alerts didn't reach their targets."
Israeli, in its conflicts, warns civilians around the military installations it targets so they can evacuate.
Aarabi noted the regime is terrified of a development: "The surprising bond that had formed between Iranians and Israelis."
"At the start of the war, many Iranians welcomed the strikes. They knew Israel was targeting the IRGC — the very forces responsible for suppressing and killing their own people. But once the internet was cut and fear set in, some began to question what was happening," Aarabi said.
"That might be the only way they see to preserve the regime: by really tightening the screws on the Iranian people, to ensure that the Iranian population doesn't try to rise up and topple the regime," he told Fox News Digital.
Another factor that could develop, which has been used in North Korea, is a purge of officers and military, the report said.
And terrorism.
"The regime's three pillars — militias, ballistic missiles, and its nuclear program — have all been decapitated or severely degraded," Aarabi said. "That leaves only asymmetric warfare: soft-target terrorism with plausible deniability."
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The Department of Justice, under President Donald Trump, is serious about election integrity in the U.S.
It has confirmed that local elections officials who refuse to meet required security standards could face charges.
Trump determined in an order weeks ago the U.S. lacks election security and called for enforcement of an existing ban on foreign nationals voting in federal elections.
According to a report at the Washington Examiner, he also ordered the attorney general and Homeland Security secretary to "prevent all noncitizens from being involved in the administration of any federal election."
Now, DOJ spokesman Gates McGavick confirmed that, "The president's executive order speaks for itself, and the Department of Justice will leave no option off the table when it comes to promoting free, fair, and secure elections."
Charges against elections officials are rare, but analysts confirmed they could happen.
There was immediate pushback.
"The tactics we're seeing out of DOJ right now are building on what we've seen from anti-democracy groups for years," claimed Dax Goldstein, of the States United Democracy Center "They're rooted in the same lies about elections, and they're all meant to create noise and fear and concerns about issues with our elections that just don't exist. Our elections are safe and secure, and election officials are working to keep them that way."
All states claim their elections systems are secure, including Colorado. But that state was revealed to have posted pages of election system passwords online just ahead of the 2024 vote. Investigators gave Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold, under whose watch the passwords were posted, a pass.
Trump has claimed the 2020 vote was "rigged" and while exactly what "rigging" went on isn't certain, there were several undue influences that are believed to have changed the results.
One was that Mark Zuckerberg handed out, through foundations, hundreds of millions of dollars to local elections officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts.
But probably larger was the impact from the FBI's decision to interfere in the results by telling media corporations to ignore the stories about Biden family scandals detailed in the laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop, despite the fact the bureau knew the scandals were true.
Subsequent polling showed had that information been distributed generally to the voting public, enough voters would have withheld their support from Biden for him to lose.
"The New York Times reported that senior officials have directed DOJ lawyers to examine how a failure by state or local officials to follow security standards for electronic voting could be charged as a crime," the report said.
The DOJ already has been contacting elections officials around the nation for details about their systems.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed that lawmakers are "delivering on our promise to make America great again."
Then the legislators voted 218-214 to adopt Senate changes to President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill."
It's a landmark for tax cuts and spending that includes many of Trump's priorities. The $3.3 trillion measure installs in America budget priorities and spending – or not spending – points adopted by Republicans.
Trump, on social media, said, "The USA is on track to break every record on growth. Go Republicans, beat the Crooked Democrats tonight! Pro-growth tax cuts never fail."
The nearly 900-page bill, read aloud on demands from Democrats who were trying to delay, and possibly even derail, the plan, extends the president's 2017 tax cuts and further eliminates taxes on tips and overtime – a marquee promise that the president pledged repeatedly on the campaign trail.
The child tax credit is doubled and Trump's new plan for $1000 "MAGA account" for new babies is included.
The tax cuts alone will cost $4.5 trillion over the next ten years, according to projections from the Congressional Budget Office. To offset the massive price tag Republicans included $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, mainly trimming Medicaid.
Lawmakers used a tactic called reconciliation, so the tax and spending bill did not need 60 votes in the Senate, which had approved the plan 51-50 with the tiebreaker from Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday.
The House originally adopted the plan late in May.
The primary component is the permanent extension of Trump's 2017 tax cuts that would have expired this year.
The plan also exempts pay from overtime and tips from federal income taxes – a fulfillment of one of the Trump's campaign promises.
According to the Daily Mail, "In addition, the bill allows individuals in high-tax states to deduct up to $40,000 per year for half a decade in state and local taxes (SALT) from their federal taxes – a top priority for conservatives in blue states."
And, it added, "Border security efforts will also be getting a major cash infusion estimated to be around $150 billion for increased immigration enforcement. It includes $46 billion for Customs and Border Patrol to build border wall and enhanced security measures and around $30 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
Also in the plan is $150 billion for Trump's "Golden Dome" national defense plan.
Gone are billions of dollars for "green energy" schemes, and cash in federal programs that aided noncitizens.
There also now are work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP plans.
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The evidence has been plain since they were mandated by so many government agencies and private corporations during the reign of the COVID-19 pandemic: those mRNA shots could cause major heart troubles, especially in young men, by triggering myocarditis and pericarditis.
Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated the safety labeling on all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to warn those who take them to beware.
COVID erupted, according to most measured assessments, from a Wuhan, Chinese, lab experimenting on horrific bat viruses late in 2019. It circled the globe and millions died.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services secretary, has charged that ex-White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci probably played a large role in the creation of the infection, and has called for a commission to investigate its origins.
Kennedy, in an interview with talk show host Tucker Carlson, said Fauci, as chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, funded potentially dangerous research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Asked why Joe Biden issued a pre-emptive pardon to Fauci in his last day in office, Kennedy said, "I would be speculating, but I think that he had a lot of liability on creating coronavirus. He was funding precisely that research, and he was giving them the technology."
The FDA, in fact, now announced it has required and approved "updates" to the prescribing information for mRNA shots from Pfizer and Moderna.
The warnings are "to include new safety information about the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis following administration of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines."
Specifically, FDA has required each manufacturer to update the warning about the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis to include information about … "the estimated unadjusted incidence of myocarditis and/or pericarditis following administration of the 2023-2024 Formula of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and … the results of a study that collected information on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cardiac MRI) in people who developed myocarditis after receiving an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine."
A report at the Gateway Pundit said the development follows "months of mounting pressure over transparency and accountability regarding the true risks of these experimental injections."
It said, "The update stems from new studies and data showing persistent cardiac abnormalities months after vaccination—especially among males aged 12 to 24."
Dr. Vinay Prasad of the Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research detailed "how FDA data reveals a myocarditis rate of 27 per million in young men—a figure that experts say is significantly underreported due to passive surveillance methods and political suppression of adverse event reports," the report said.
"More troubling, Dr. Prasad cited late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) on cardiac MRIs as proof of sustained, potentially irreversible myocardial injury. According to Prasad, in one FDA-funded study, 60% of patients who suffered post-vaccine myocarditis still showed signs of LGE five months later."
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Over 100,000 living armed services members and veterans have been negatively impacted by illegally mandated anthrax vaccines and COVID-19 shots. Yet according to military sources, the efforts of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to right those wrongs, though greatly appreciated, are falling drastically short due to bureaucratic obstruction.
WorldNetDaily spoke to Retired Air Force Col. Tom "Buzz" Rempfer, author of "Unyielding: Marathons Against Illegal Mandates" and advocate for service members and veterans subjected to illegal medical experimentation in the military.
Rempfer, whose book has been highly praised by everyone from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to COVID vaccine whistleblower doctors Peter McCollough and Harvey Risch, greatly appreciates the steps Trump and Hegseth have taken to help restore the careers of those affected by the Biden-era military's 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate. "We've come so far," he told WND, "watching the tide turn when Congress rescinded the mandate, when Trump signed the executive order [to reinstate troops], and when the Sec Def declared it was 'unlawful as implemented.'"
However, lamented Rempfer, "The corrections process isn't working, and it hasn't worked for over 20 years. The only way to fix the problem is through pardons or amnesty, wherein you take the adjudication step away from the DoD deep state bureaucrats."
To that end, Rempfer pointed to the work of Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc., or STARRS, the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates and the Calvert Task Group. Members of each of these organizations sent a letter to President Trump on June 5 expressing their grave concerns about both the COVID-19 and earlier anthrax vaccination mandates.
"As STARRS suggests," Rempfer told WND, "pardons or amnesty are the swiftest means to right the wrongs committed against services members who were affected by either of the mandates."
He added, "The courts and the DoD have already admitted anthrax and COVID mandates were 'illegal' and 'unlawful' respectively, so government should be correcting records just as expeditiously as they kicked and coerced troops out of uniform."
According to a recent Breitbart report, the Pentagon said, "Approximately 100 cases are currently under review [for reinstatement], with 13 servicemembers having already been welcomed back, while over 700 individuals who were ousted over their unvaccinated status have expressed interest in returning since President Donald Trump reclaimed the title of commander-in-chief in January."
For this, DOD Rapid Response celebrated on X, posting the message "We are RIGHTING THE WRONGS of the previous Administration!"
Rempfer took to X shortly thereafter, referring to the numbers shared by the Defense Department as "paltry stats" while looping in the wrongs committed against service members with both the anthrax and COVID-era mandates. He told WND, "Anthrax-era veterans had the same hope, but only three records were corrected, over 20 years, out of 37 courts-martials and thousands of less than fully honorable discharges and NJP's" (non-judicial punishment).
For Rempfer, "It's embarrassing, because at this rate, only a handful of anthrax-era and 100 or so COVID-era corrections will occur by the end of President Trump's term – less than 0.1 percent."
While over 8,000 service members were separated from the U.S. military over their objection to receiving the experimental COVID-19 shot, he estimates there are tens of thousands who left voluntarily, explaining, "the only reason service members voluntarily discharged is because they were coerced, taking the voluntary discharge over the punishment they would have faced if they remained in service."
"There have been two periods of documented, illegal experimentation on our troops in the last 20 years, and for me, this means we haven't learned any lessons," Rempfer told WorldNetDaily. "The Trump administration made an attempt to correct records in 2018 for those adversely affected by the anthrax vaccine, but there was zero outreach because they never even published the memo." In his opinion, "Trump was undermined, and he should be outraged at the sabotage of his attempts for civilian control of the military."
For this reason, Rempfer implores President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth to "take the time to address, once and for all, the adverse actions taken against service members who were punished for objecting to the anthrax vaccine and COVID-19 shot."
Because the anthrax vaccine and COVID-19 shot mandates were illegal, he said, "Troops shouldn't have to apply for discharge upgrades or reinstatement." Rather, if a service member was discharged because of his or her refusal, he argued "their discharges should be unilaterally, unconditionally and retroactively upgraded."
For those affected by the anthrax vaccine, Rempfer pointed out that 10 USC 1178 requires the Defense Department to track all service members who refused and were punished, "but they didn't comply with this 2001 law or the 2018 White House directive to correct anthrax records."
"Now is the time for the president and secretary of Defense to exercise their authorities under 10 USC 1552 to upgrade records."
Regarding President Trump's executive order, Rempfer said it could be amended to "include voluntary discharges that included coercion." He estimated that "the Boards for Correction of Military Records (BCMR) have probably received thousands of applications from other anthrax and COVID-era veterans whose discharge upgrade requests were denied." He emphasized, "Anthrax-era corrections are zero-cost administrative upgrades to fully honorable discharges." In fact, he suggests Trump consider an executive order for anthrax-era discharge upgrades, as he did for those affected by the COVID-19 shot mandate.
"Laws are being ignored," says the retired Air Force colonel. "No one complied with the law preventing a mandate of investigational drug products under 10 USC 1107 for the anthrax vaccine and 10 USC 1107a for the COVID shot." And on top of that, the lethargic BCMR process is undermining the president and Defense secretary, inhibiting their efforts to fully restore the nation's military.
Rempfer emphasized that he believes President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth absolutely have the best interests of the U.S. military in mind, and he simply hopes they'll hear his message and reinvigorate the appropriate actions for all service members and veterans adversely affected by anthrax and COVID-19 mandates.
"Pardons or amnesty are the only way out of this mess," concluded Rempfer, "and there's an army of veterans who are ready and able to help the president and Defense secretary remove the obstructions, fix the malfunctions and secure corrections for increased readiness and restoration of trust."
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The continued collapse of Tehran's stock market indices this week, compounded by massive capital flight following the recent war, reflect deepening economic turmoil throughout Iran.
On Wednesday, July 2 alone, over 13,200 billion tomans were withdrawn from the Tehran Stock Exchange – a historic record. Reports had already surfaced of the regime's desperate efforts to curb this exodus, including deliberate technical disruptions in multiple currency exchange offices as early as Monday.
A future clouded by uncertainty
Abbas Abdi – a former student leader involved in the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover and ex-deputy head of the Iran-based Presidential Strategic Research Center – recently wrote:
"On the surface, administrative, production and service sectors seem to have returned to normal after the war. But one thing has fundamentally changed: our perception of the future."
That perception is now defined by uncertainty and fear. Growing anxiety within the regime's inner circles reflects a deep concern that collapse is not only possible, but imminent. Many regime officials, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders and business elites have already secured escape plans abroad – particularly in Canada and Latin America – and arranged foreign citizenship for their children, the so-called Aghazadeh ("children of the elite"), as a safeguard should the regime fall.
A televised appearance, not a display of strength
After a full week of silence following the 12-day war between Israel and the Islamic Republic, the regime's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei finally appeared on state television on Thursday, June 26, via a pre-recorded video from an undisclosed location.
With a trembling and hoarse voice, he claimed that Iran had triumphed over Israel and the U.S., forcing its enemies "to their knees."
But this message wasn't aimed at foreign adversaries. Its real audience was the anxious and demoralized loyalists within the regime – those who cling to power through nepotism, privilege and amassed wealth in a nation stricken by poverty. His aim was to reassure them at a time when even seminary students and religious circles are no longer inspired by his long-standing slogan of "No war, no negotiation."
Once portrayed as a formidable military front, the "Axis of Resistance" today resembles little more than a scattered choir of retired ideologues – in Beirut, Baghdad and Sanaa.
The ghost of 1981 returns
What the regime fears most now – especially Khamenei – is the outbreak of a widespread popular uprising, reminiscent of the protests violently crushed in 2022. The underlying causes of public outrage remain unresolved, and conditions have only worsened. Resistance Units have begun targeting government offices and security centers across the country on an almost daily basis.
A filmmaker close to the regime's intelligence services stated on state TV on June 25:
"We are in a situation similar to 1981 – arguably the darkest year of the revolution. On June 20, the People's Mojahedin launched an armed uprising. Even the director of Evin Prison wasn't safe inside his own facility. A hundred thousand armed members took to the streets of Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz … Even the IRGC intelligence chief's office was attacked."
On that day, June 20, 1981, Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the massacre of peaceful protesters who had rallied at the call for freedom sounded by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, or MEK. That massacre marked the beginning of a resistance that still endures.
Hundreds were killed, thousands arrested, and mass executions began.
Today, once again checkpoints have been installed across Tehran and other cities. The police have announced they will remain "until further notice." A wide-scale wave of arrests has begun. According to Fars News Agency, affiliated with the IRGC, 700 individuals have been detained for alleged involvement in a "spy network." The number of arrested in Tehran remains undisclosed. In Kermanshah Province, 115 were arrested – most accused not of espionage, but of "anti-regime propaganda." In Fars, 53 were arrested for "disturbing public order," and cyber police in Isfahan reported 60 others identified for similar offenses.
Meanwhile, executions have surged at an alarming rate. In June alone, 140 were reported, nine prisoners executed on charges of "espionage for Israel" – charges widely seen as fabricated.
The nuclear project: Not development, but survival
Today, neither mass repression, nor the regime's foreign militias and proxies, nor even its crippled nuclear program can save it.
While the nuclear program has brought only ruin to Iran and its people, for Ali Khamenei it has long been a pillar of regime survival. He has viewed it as a means to exert regional influence, gain leverage in international crises and strengthen the IRGC – the main force behind domestic repression and foreign interventions – to suppress internal unrest and deter uprisings.
As the Iranian Resistance has long stated: "The collapse of the regime's nuclear strategy will inevitably weaken this medieval dictatorship and throw its internal balance into chaos."
For many analysts, that destabilization has now passed the point of no return, the hated theocratic regime in freefall – with no way back.
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Methodist preachers, historically, were the circuit riders who evangelized much of the western United States before the states all were states. They adhered to a tradition of John Wesley's teachings and followed the population as it moved into new lands.
Now not only are circuit riders gone, but apparently so are Wesley's teachings, as the United Methodist Church in America has established a solid reputation for leftist ideologies and agendas. Homosexual clergy? Old hat. Rainbow parades. Sure. Sins? Don't worry.
But an opinion piece released at EndTimeHeadlines reveals that one congregation has taken the agenda to an extreme.
With an F-bomb-laden, LGBT "worship anthem" in which a performer loudly proclaims "I'm f****** gay."
The commentary said, "It was once said that when the Church stops offending the world, it has stopped representing Christ. That grim warning came true again in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Zao MKE Church – an official United Methodist congregation – recently led its Sunday worship with a profane, self-glorifying anthem titled, 'I'm F****** Gay.'"
The editorial explained the "pastors" are two biological females, Jonah and Cameron Overton, "who have transitioned and now present themselves as a gay male couple." The congregation rejoiced queerness, profanity and "Christian rejection."
"The chorus included the line, 'I'm f****** gay and thank God for that,' with the F-bomb blaring through the sanctuary. They even admitted replacing it with 'freakin" in other verses – for the kids in attendance – but kept one original for good measure. In a church. On Sunday. In the name of Jesus," the commentary said.
Explains the publication, "The United Methodist Church was once a movement of revival, holiness, and deep commitment to Scripture. It stood for Wesleyan theology, sanctification, the pursuit of righteousness. But today? It's quickly becoming a cautionary tale. A denomination drunk on cultural approval, hollowing itself out from the inside. You can call yourself 'Jesus-rooted' all you want – but if your message is indistinguishable from a drag club with a fog machine, something has gone terribly wrong."
That, it said, "is not a song lyric. It's a theological tragedy. It's what happens when man becomes the measure, when self becomes sacred, and when the Church forgets it is not here to mimic the world – but to confront it."
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Religious chieftains in Iran, those purportedly directing the faith lives of millions of Iranians oppressed by the nation's Islamic regime, have issued a "fatwa" against President Donald Trump, calling him an "enemy of god," and insisting that the punishment for such an offense is "usually death."
They are insisting that Muslims worldwide rise up to enforce their ideological wishes.
They cite Trump's "threat" to assassinate Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, which actually never happened. In fact, Trump has stated he deterred a plan to assassinate Khamenei.
It is the Middle East Media Research Institute that described the threats to Trump from Nasser Makarem Shirazi, a "grand ayatollah," and Hossein Nouri Hamedani, another "grand ayatollah" operating in the Islamic regime.
Shirazi "issued a fatwa stating that the punishment for U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who threatened Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with assassination, is the same as the punishment for muhareb – that is, a person defined as an enemy of God and Islam who is gravely threatening or conducting an armed rebellion against the Islamic public order."
The institute reported, "In Shi'ite Islam, and particularly under Iranian religious law, the punishment for this is particularly severe and is usually death; less often, it could be exile, amputation of the transgressor's right arm and left leg, or crucifixion. … It should be noted that President Trump never threatened to assassinate Khamenei and it was even reported that he had prevented such an assassination."
The demands by Shirazi, 98, an authority whose demands "obligates his followers to obey him," were echoed shortly later by Hamedani is a similar statement.
He stated, "that any harm or insult to Khamenei was fundamentally harm or insult to Islam, and that the punishment for anyone harming or threatening him was like that for a muhareb. He added that protecting Khamenei was a religious obligation for all Muslims, and that any assistance to those harming him is also considered punishable by death according to the religion."
And he actually pursued a threat against Trump, demanding his followers "are obligated to make these enemies regret their words and actions…"
Shirazi's statement was, "In the name of Allah the Merciful and Beneficent, any person or regime that threatens the leader of the Islamic ummah [Khamenei] or its religious authorities, with the aim of harming the ummah and its rule, or who actually attacks it, is considered a muhareb. Any cooperation with him [the attacker] or reinforcement of him by Muslims or Islamic governments is strictly forbidden. All Muslims around the world are obligated to make these enemies regret their words and actions, and if they must endure hardship or damage for doing so, their reward will be the same as that of a jihad fighter for Allah. May it be God's will to protect Islamic society from its enemies and to hasten the appearance of Imam Mahdi."
Reaction online confirmed "there is a lesson here" when Trump prevents an assassination attempt, then is condemned by the regime anyway.