Cross-Party Support in Bulgaria for Banning LGBTQIAAP2S+ Propaganda
The Bulgarian parliament has modified the country’s education law, banning the promotion of LGBT propaganda in schools.
The amendment to the law passed by a large majority, with 159 votes in favour, 22 against and 12 abstentions—meaning the changes had a strong cross-party backing.
The law now bans the “propaganda, promotion or incitement in any way, directly or indirectly, in the education system of ideas and views related to non-traditional sexual orientation and/or gender identity other than the biological one.”
Many of the lawmakers cited foreign-authored textbooks on sexual education for children as the instigators for the amendment of the education law.
Right-wing nationalist party Revival said that promoting socio-cultural models of non-traditional sexual orientation near schools does not align with Bulgarian tradition. Petar Nikolov of the centre-right GERB party said he rejects propaganda that imposes alternative sexual orientation on children, and he also highlighted Bulgaria’s “Christian essence.”
Yordan Tsonev from the liberal-centrist DPS party—which represents the interests of ethnic minority Turks—emphasised the importance of children’s upbringing according to binary gender principles. Former Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova said gender ideology was “creeping into and taking over Bulgarian schools.”
The main Europhile party, PP–DB, which has been accused by its opponents of serving the interests of the U.S. Democrat administration, rejected the amendment. MP Elisaveta Belobradova argued that the law represents “cheap populism” rather than addressing any real issues within the educational system.
Pro-LGBT protesters took to the streets on Wednesday, complaining that the law “breaches basic human rights,” and calling the move by the parliament a “witch hunt” against LGBT people.
The modification of the law received strong backing from across the political spectrum despite the political turmoil that has engulfed Bulgaria for the past few years. The Balkan EU member state is facing its seventh parliamentary election in three-and-a-half years in October, as left-wing and conservative forces consecutively fail to gain majorities in parliament. When they have succeeded in forming coalition governments, they have quickly fallen apart.
Bulgaria’s education law amendment resembles another EU country’s, Hungary’s “Child Protection Act” which was adopted three years ago, and prohibits or heavily restricts the promotion of homosexuality and gender transition in schools and media.
Bulgaria does not recognise same-sex marriage, and also refuses to ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women, because it promotes gender ideology—the reason why other Central European states, such as Hungary and Slovakia have also not ratified it.
Spanish Police Federation Calls for Urgent Action as Madrid Airport Saturated with Migrants After Spike in Mauritanian Nationals
Madrid airport is running out of space in the designated holding areas for illegal migrants due to a surge in newcomers in recent weeks, the Spanish Police Federation (CEP) has warned.
The organization cited a large number of Mauritanian nationals leaving Morocco as a challenge currently facing border staff. Apparently, many undocumented migrants are landing in Spain, throwing away their passports, and claiming asylum.
Spanish police said the situation had started to become worrying at the end of June when arrivals of Mauritanians increased by 350 percent compared to the previous month.
They added that most of the arrivals are men under the age of 30. There are also some who claim to be minors, hoping that this will speed up the processing of their asylum applications.
The police union is asking the Spanish interior ministry to resolve the situation immediately, as between 140 and 170 illegal immigrants are currently arriving in at Barajas Airport every day and waiting in the reception rooms.
The authority is also demanding that the Spanish government take action to ensure that the flights on which these people arrive comply with the rules regarding security checks; this is demonstrably not happening, as most Africans do not even have transit visas without which they should not have been able to depart.
Police officers at the airport believe that the Mauritanian flights are as much the work of a migrant mafia as the open water entries, with the Canary Islands as the primary destination.
“Both the Home Office and the Foreign Office, as well as the European Union, need to take urgent action to stop the influx of illegal migrants before it becomes a more serious problem,” the police federation wrote in a statement.
“The system for asylum seekers at airports must be prevented from collapsing,” it added.
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Germany Considers Reform to Publishing Nationalities of Criminals Amid Spike in Migrant Crime
Germany’s liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), the smallest party in the governing coalition, is proposing that law enforcement authorities should be obliged to disclose the nationality of suspected criminals throughout the country.
The initiative has been endorsed by the opposition CDU/CSU, while the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), although supportive of it in theory, believes it does not go far enough.
According to the FDP, the initiative aims to ensure “transparency and credibility,” adding that in the wake of the 2015/2016 refugee crisis and the subsequent rise in foreign crime in Germany, there have been various questions regarding how to achieve this. For example, at which stage of the investigation should the nationality of suspects be formally declared, which cases may demand greater transparency, and what should be done when there is a greater risk that disclosure of the suspect’s citizenship will lead to general prejudice?
According to Die Welt newspaper, the FDP and the parliamentary group of the conservative CDU/CSU coalition are calling for a uniform approach by law enforcement authorities nationwide, including mandatory disclosure.
In an interview with the newspaper, FDP Secretary-General Bijan Djir-Sarai argued that this would increase public confidence in law enforcement agencies. According to him, people should have confidence that politicians “take the problem of foreign crime seriously.”
While the left-wing SPD, the largest party in the three-party governing coalition, has not yet taken a position on the initiative, the Green Party has rejected it, saying it would deprive authorities of the discretion they need to do their job successfully.
The AfD, which has been the most vocal in the fight against illegal immigration, has, on the other hand, “slammed” the FDP’s proposal, to the extent that the party believes that it is not enough to disclose nationality, but that the migration background of suspects, convicts and detainees should also be made public.
Kamala Harris’ Running Mate Tim Walz is ‘Bernie Sanders in Hunting Gear’ Warns Former Minnesota Governor
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the last Republican to serve as governor of the North Star State, has criticized Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, asserting that it reflects a deep commitment to the Democratic Party’s “democrat-socialist agenda.”
Harris named Minnesota’s incumbent governor as her running mate on Tuesday, Aug. 6, following weeks of whirlwind speculation regarding who she would tap to be her vice president.
“As a governor, a coach, a teacher and a veteran, he’s delivered for working families like his,” said Harris in a statement announcing her selection.
Harris praised Walz for his supposed bipartisanship and willingness to collaborate with Republicans to secure infrastructure investments, mandating universal background checks for gun purchases, cutting taxes for working-class families, passing paid family and medical leave bills and making Minnesota the first state to enshrine into the state constitution protections to the right to abortion following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Walz, 60, has used his term as governor to massively overhaul Minnesota and turn it into a progressive state – an overhaul that went on overdrive following his winning a second term in 2022 and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party – the Minnesota branch of the Democrats – took full control of both houses of the state legislature. With Walz on the ticket, the Democrats may now use Minnesota as a template for their national plans.
Pawlenty describes Walz as a Midwest Bernie Sanders
Pawlenty, who served as governor from 2003 to 2011 and previously campaigned to be the Republican Party’s candidate for the 2012 election, shared his views regarding Walz with Fox 9.
Pawlenty described Walz as “philosophically and politically” aligned with Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, though he noted that Walz brings a distinct “style and geography” to the 2024 Democratic ticket.
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“She has sort of the San Francisco, California, vibe. He’s going to have sort of the ‘Bernie Sanders in hunting gear’ vibe,” Pawlenty commented. “So, it’s the same product, just in different wrappers.”
While Walz’s record is celebrated by progressives, it has also provided ammunition for Republicans who view Harris and her running mate as too liberal.
Pawlenty suggested that the campaign of former President Donald Trump will easily be able to criticize Walz for his handling of the 2020 George Floyd riots, which massively rocked Minneapolis and led to a police station being burned to the ground.
He also pointed to Walz’s record of significant state spending increases and a scandal involving Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic relief fraud as potential Republican talking points.
“Rising crime and high-profile fraud within state government under his watch, with a nonpartisan legislative auditor saying, ‘You’re not taking it seriously,’” Pawlenty said. “The target audience for a lot of this is going to be persuadable voters in swing states.”
Meanwhile, Pawlenty also acknowledged Walz’s possible strengths as a campaigner.
“On a personal level, he’s energetic, he’s friendly, he’s folksy. He’s interested in issues. He likes to campaign,” Pawlenty said. “Their problem isn’t going to be campaign style or skills or energy. It’s going to be whether America is ready for a doubling down on this democrat-socialist agenda.”
He expressed doubts about the Harris-Walz ticket’s appeal, noting that Trump has his own challenges.
“I think this ticket, the Harris-Walz ticket, would be pretty beatable if the Republicans had a better candidate,” Pawlenty said. “There’s a bunch of Republicans and independents who don’t like Trump that the Republicans could leverage.”
Pawlenty clarified his personal stance, stating he does not support the Harris-Walz ticket and has voted for Trump in the past, with the possibility of doing so again.
“I think the Trump campaign is going to make it very clear that this isn’t some moderate or centrist choice,” he said of Walz. “They’re going to characterize it as a radical ticket. And I don’t know how well that will play in places like Pennsylvania.”
Watch this clip from Newsmax with Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) describing the Harris-Walz ticket as “far-left.”
The Case for why Christian Parents Should Not Send Their Children to Public Schools
(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon addresses the potential dangers of sending your children to public schools.
Jonathon begins the show by briefly discussing how the public school system has become anti-Christian as our society has become more modern.
“State schools exist to promulgate state ideology and, of course, we now live in a society no longer rooted in the values of scriptural revelation, we no longer live in societies rooted in Christian values. We instead live in societies that are formed by the sexual revolution that has unfolded since the 1960s,” Jonathan said. He added that while this has been true for some time, what we’re seeing in schools now, such as sexually explicit drag shows, is so bad that we’re practically nostalgic for the public schools of 20 years ago.
He notes that author Katy Faust, in her recent book Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City: Teaching Historical, Economic, and Biological Truth in a World of Lies, suggests parents can send their kids to public schools as long as parents are rooting them in Christian and conservative values at home. But Jonathon disagrees with this thesis: “I increasingly don’t think that the public school in any way, shape, or form can be retaken, despite the fact that I am cheering on those parental rights movements, the parental rights protesters.”
Jonathon pointed to the counter-example of grassroots groups like Moms for Liberty taking over school boards, firing principals and diversity coordinators, and ensuring that a woke, pro-LGBT curriculum was not introduced to their kids. “I still do, however, think that it’s incredibly dangerous because I do believe that these are state schools, and I do believe that the ideology of the state is now fundamentally antithetical to Christianity.”
To support his thesis, Jonathon dove into the impact that a public school education has had on our culture, citing state ideology as having filled the vacuum left by the decline of religion. However, he emphasizes that it’s also important to note how effective the indoctrination of children in the public education system has been:
A 2022 report highlighted new data from the Seattle public schools that shows an 853 percent spike in students identifying as ‘non-binary’ over only three years. So, in 2019, 53 out of 55,417 students identified as ‘non-binary.’ ‘Non-binary’ means you’re not identifying as male or female; you’re just sort of some random other. By the 2022-2023 school year, that number was up to 505, including, get this, three children in preschool, 16 in kindergarten, 89 in grades 1-5, 125 in middle school, and 272 in high school. I think it’s obvious to any reasonable person that a child of four or five years old identifying as ‘non-binary’ has almost nothing to do with that child’s identity, which he or she can not even conceptualize at that age.
The reality is that children have been recruited into an industrial-scale social experiment, especially with regards to the new gender ideology that has permeated almost all our society in a short amount of time.
Jonathon added that gender ideology has ramped up the potential costs of sending children to a public school. “Your kid isn’t just going to maybe learn a very liberal view of sex and sexuality, but now they’re actually going to have identity questions that form the basis of how they see themselves introduced to them at a very young age, which could lead them on the road to transition. And, as we know, in many jurisdictions across the Western world, it is actually illegal and against policy for teachers to inform parents that their children [began] identifying as a different gender at school.”
Jonathon underscored the impact of peer pressure and kids’ desire to be popular. “The fastest route to achieving that [popularity] is to identify somewhere on the LBGT spectrum.” He quoted from a 2019 column by Suzanne Glover in the Daily Mail about her then-13-year-old daughter’s experience at a U.K. public school.
Over the past year, Bella has totted it up, and she and her friends estimate that around 12 percent, one in eight, of her year group have already come out as gay, bisexual, or transgender. Other parents I talk to at similar girls’ selective schools near us in the Home Counties cite similar percentages.
And it’s not just single-sex schools. In council figures released last November, Dorothy Stringer, a High School in Brighton, was revealed to have 40 children who didn’t identify with the sex they were at birth, with another 36 out of 1,600 children saying they were gender fluid.
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According to the Government’s latest Sexual Identity Census figures, which are gathered anonymously,1.6 percent of adult women in the UK identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Although it is not tracked, it is estimated that the number of transgender people lies somewhere between 0.2 percent and 1 percent.
Jonathon pondered why this was so different in schools before continuing to read from the column: “One word whose meaning Bella did not yet know the meaning of was ‘cisgender.’ The word, which is being heard more and more, is defined as ‘people whose gender identity matches the sex that they were assigned at birth.’ In other words, Bella has been told she now has a label for being born a girl and wanting to stay one. Baffled, she told me after school: ‘I am a girl. I like being a girl. Until now, it didn’t occur to me that I needed to justify it.’”
Rhetorically asking who introduced these ideas into this young girl’s head, Jonathon said “it’s the school. The school is introducing and encouraging and facilitating the identification with other genders and other sexualities and even encouraging sexual experimentation. And students are just trying to figure out, ‘Well, who am I, actually?’ but they’re being told that there’s an essentially infinite list of options that they can choose from, and there’s only one option that’s really, really boring.”
For more analysis on the rot in our public school system, tune in to this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show.