Maryland Child Protective Services Treated Christian Beliefs as Evidence of Parental Unfitness, Black Baptist Parents Allege

One does have to wonder about those who give their hard-earned money to TV celebrities like Jesse Duplantis or Kenneth Copeland for their luxury jets. But that's for another day.

Black Parents Sue Over Alleged Anti-Christian LGBTQ Policy

. . . "Prince George’s County is filled with African-American traditionalist megachurches, and here is an African-American Baptist family of fervent believers, beat down by county and state governments who ‘look like’ them, who have left them no other choice but to file a federal lawsuit,” he said." . . .

"Black Baptist parents in Maryland are suing local and state agencies after losing custody of their son in a transgender dispute. They say their son eventually attempted suicide while in foster care.

"The parents, listed in the lawsuit as Mr. and Mrs. John Doe, sued the state’s Department of Human Services, Prince George’s County Department of Social Services, a social worker, the foster mother, and other officials earlier this month. They claim that officials treated their Christian faith as evidence of parental unfitness because they did not support LGBTQ+ identities.

“The Does’ faith and religious liberty brought the weight of their own government against them,” Amos Jones, the parents’ attorney, told the Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “We are calling on Governor Wes Moore and County Executive Aisha Braveboy to correct this affront to Christian families in a county full of traditionalist black megachurches.”

"The son, who was diagnosed with autism, had engaged in self-cutting, and the parents took him to Children’s National Hospital, Jones told the Daily Signal. The staff there began referring to the son by a female name and referred him to Prince George’s County Child Protective Services.

"According to the lawsuit, authorities removed the son from his parents’ custody and placed him with a foster mother. After some time with the foster mother, the son attempted suicide and ended up in the hospital. The parents also claim their son had been carried across state lines without their knowledge.

"Jones said Child Protective Services ultimately found the parents fit and did not substantiate abuse allegations against them. “Nevertheless, their child got snatched and wound up living across state lines, gone ever since then, because the system decreed that his ‘best interests’ were not with his own parents.”

"The parents filed a complaint with Child Protective Services in August 2022 after learning about the suicide attempt. According to the lawsuit, the Department of Human Services repeatedly failed to address their concerns. Ultimately, the parents filed a complaint with the State Treasurer, seeking compensation for state harms under the Maryland Tort Claims Act, but the treasurer denied their request.

"In October 2024, the parents learned that Prince George’s County child-welfare programs participated in the AFFIRM project, an LGBTQ+ youth program connected to a $10 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services.

"The lawsuit alleges that government officials treated the parents’ Christian beliefs regarding sex and gender as evidence of danger and “reflected a governmental program or practice that treated non-affirming Christian parents as unsafe or harmful.” . . . More.

Tyler O’Neil is senior investigative reporter at the Daily Signal and the author of two books, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”

The Riots in France Show Up the Dangerous Fiction That Public Spending and ‘Integration’ Create a Peaceful Society

 "The riots in France have shown up the Leftist claim that enough public spending and 'integration' will produce a happy, peaceful society as a dangerous fiction. But is anyone paying attention, asks Matt Roberts."

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The Riots in France Show Up the Dangerous Fiction That Public Spending and 'Integration' Create a Peaceful Society – The Daily Sceptic   

. . . "We are addressing all of these problems and many more with solutions invented around 1945, and the problems themselves look very different than they did 80 years ago. Worse, many of the solutions we are applying are based on conviction and ideology, not on even the evidence of the intervening decades. Why should we continue to expect that the solutions will work, especially when we can look to Paris and see that they have not? In all likelihood, France will settle down again next weekend, or in the near future. Even when it does, it would be a mistake to breathe a sigh of relief and continue with business as usual. There is an opportunity finally to learn from the event and set about correcting the misconceptions that are at the heart of Western governments." . . .

Immigration Judge Deals Massive Blow to Ilhan Omar Amid Federal Investigation

 Analyzing America

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) will likely face significant legal consequences, including criminal prosecution and the loss of her naturalized U.S. citizenship, if federal investigators establish that immigration fraud occurred during her family’s citizenship process. Former federal immigration judge Nathan Hansen discussed the outcomes in an interview with Fox News, emphasizing that any attempt to revoke Omar’s citizenship would require a separate legal process.

"The Minnesota congresswoman is currently facing federal scrutiny involving allegations of immigration fraud and questions about her financial disclosures. Investigators are reportedly examining whether inaccurate information was submitted during her family’s immigration and naturalization proceedings. A separate inquiry concerns substantial changes in assets reported on financial disclosure forms. Omar has denied wrongdoing, and authorities have not publicly announced criminal charges against her." . . . More.

Ilhan Omar’s Odyssey  "It is a story with all the elements of a good narrative: devious characters, an exotic setting, a twisted plot, international conflict, etc. I am not talking about the Odyssey. I am referring to the story of Ilhan Omar and her family. Let’s start at the beginning. Ilhan Omar, the darling of the Left who has accused Netanyahu of perpetrating Gazan genocide, is the daughter of a mass-murderer. Not a fake one either, but the kind that lines up his enemies to be shot.

"Her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, first received acclaim as a colonel in the Somali army leading a regiment during the Somalian invasion of Ethiopia in 1977. He went on with a prestigious career in the military, which ended in 1991 after the dictatorial Marxist regime of Mohammed Siad Barre was ousted from power. I say prestigious if you ignore the genocidal campaign that he waged against northern secessionists in Somaliland.

"According to the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale and their Genocide Studies Program:" . . .

When was Ilhan Omar born? - American Thinker   . . . "So the question is, what year is Omar, or Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, referring to?  Does she mean 1988, 1989, 1990, or 1991 as the start of the war?  She can’t mean 1981 or earlier.  But she did title the chapter “1989–91.”  This would mean she was 8 years old in 1989, so 1981 would be her birth year.

"But then that makes me a right-wing conspirator, according to Omar.  You decide."   Omar’s second husband was a dirty what?

Ilhan Omar's family history make her genocide allegations against Israel even more outrageous  "Rep. Ilhan Omar’s apparent lies about her family and finances are bad enough, but nothing is as outrageous as the way she slanders Israel with the “genocide” libel when her own father in all likelihood took part in Somali dictator Siad Barre’s real genocide.

"Omar in her memoir calls her father Nur Omar Mohamed an “educator,” yet it looks like the only educating he did was teaching Barre’s enemies lessons in brutality as a colonel in the Somali Army in the 1980s.

"The Barre regime committed horrific atrocities against the Isaaq clan, killing at least 200,000 and displacing another 900,000 in a massive ethnic cleansing.

"The United Nations, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group and virtually every other authority agrees that the campaign against the Isaaq was genocidal in intent and in practice: Government forces strafed fleeing civilians, planted land mines at wells and systematically raped girls and women.

"There can be little doubt that Omar’s dad was involved in the genocide. As historian and Oxford University doctoral researcher Mohamed Haji Ingiriis told The Post, “Nur Said was a military officer who was loyal to the regime until the end. He was part and parcel of those who caused and created the mayhem they ‘fled’ to live comfortably in the United States.'” . . .

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 ‘I’m just a carpenter from Bend’: Father who killed Silver Rail school shooter grapples with the aftermath - OPB

"In an exclusive interview with OPB, Kaylub Giamanco, the man who fatally shot the teenage school shooter at Silver Rail Elementary, shares what he wants people to know about his experience."

"Kaylub Giamanco woke up and got his kids ready for school that Thursday like it was any other day. The family made breakfast and packed lunches. He and his wife spent a little extra time dressing up their two girls because Oct. 15 was picture day at Silver Rail Elementary.

"Giamanco dropped the girls off as usual, then the 36-year-old carpenter headed to a job site northeast of Bend. He had brought a packed lunch in his truck, but when afternoon came around, he decided to go home instead to eat leftover tacos with his wife. He thought about running some errands on the way, but decided against it. He was four blocks from their house when he turned on Brentwood Avenue, the road running along the south side of Silver Rail.

"In an exclusive interview with OPB, Giamanco described the series of seemingly insignificant decisions that brought him to that intersection at 12:58 p.m. that day — the same time a 16-year-old carrying a shotgun approached his children’s school. It was the packed lunch he didn’t eat, the masonry shop where he didn’t stop, the bolts he needed but didn’t buy, and the gun he says had just been “collecting dust” in his truck console.

"Passing by the school that day, Giamanco spotted someone carrying a gun, followed him into the school, and then shot and killed the teen who fired shotgun rounds into a special education classroom. The shooter killed three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a 25-year-old teacher. Two other people were seriously injured. Police credit Giamanco with saving many lives at the school of more than 400 children.

"But before all that, there were years helping a single mother as the oldest of seven children, there was the motorbike accident when he saved his brother’s life with a makeshift tourniquet, and the informal military training he’d gotten from Iraq War veterans. A lifetime that shaped Giamanco, he believes, and prepared him for what he would do next." . . .  More.