The Washington Examiner recently wrote a story titled “Daughter of the American Revolution members rage against transgender inclusion.” The story discusses NTC’s petition to urge DAR members to take action on their organization’s descent into politicization. Read the full story here.
NTC President Gregory T. Angelo joins Amanda Head to discuss the recent NTC campaign about Harrison Butker. Click here to listen.
NTC President Gregory T. Angelo shared his thoughts with Just the News and defended NFL’s Harrison Butker saying he shouldn’t apologize for his faith. Click here to read the article.
NFL star Harrison Butker is in hot water — all because he delivered a commencement speech to a Catholic school in line with Catholic teachings. On May 11, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker addressed the graduating class at Benedictine College. His remarks criticized pro-abortion activists, called out what he felt was the shallow theology of some in Church leadership, and ribbed LGBTQ activists who celebrate the “deadly sin sort of Pride that has an entire month dedicated to it.” In other words, he underscored his commitment to Catholic doctrine and encouraged the religious school’s graduates to do the same. Now, the Super Bowl champion is being pilloried from all sides. The NFL was quick to distance itself from his words. Nonprofit organization Faith in America racked up over 10,000 signatures on a petition demanding he apologize. And more than 200,000 people added their names to a Change.org petition demanding Butker lose his job. Harrison Butker had every right to express his religious convictions in his private capacity to an audience in agreement with his values. The NFL cannot bend to pressure from activists to boot him from the league. Add your name to our petition: Tell the NFL and Kansas City Chiefs not to cave to the cancel-culture mob — Harrison Butker has nothing to apologize for!
Contrasting responses to pro-Hamas protests on campus Amid a wave of pro-Hamas protests that erupted on college campuses this spring, universities across the nation grappled with how to address the demonstrations while upholding principles of free speech and safety for all students. Some institutions were exemplary in their reaction — others, not so much… UNIVERSITIES THAT HANDLED THE PROTESTS POORLY: Columbia University was ground-zero for aggressive pro-Hamas protests. A three-week fiasco, the Columbia administration was paralyzed in the face of increasingly disorderly conduct, allowing for weeks of ongoing protests even after the students took over the campus’s famed Hamilton Hall, barricaded the entrances, and hung a banner from the window saying, “Free Palestine.” Students held the school hostage, issuing a list of wild demands that included a “complete divestment” from all Israel-related investments and amnesty from disciplinary actions for protesting students. Columbia’s pushback? An email saying that bringing back police “at this time” would be counterproductive. Things got so hot that Columbia ended up canceling its university-wide commencement ceremony. Harvard University pursued a more “inclusive” approach to the chaos. Student agitators made a mess of the Harvard campus, pushing their agenda for more than three weeks until the Ivy League school’s president Alan Garber and university officials agreed to meet with them to discuss the students’ demands that the university cut ties with Israel and businesses that support Israel. Harvard was already facing backlash after not condemning its student groups with statements claiming that Israel was “entirely responsible” for the brutal Hamas attacks on the country. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, also a Harvard Law School graduate, wrote on X, “What the Hell is wrong with Harvard? Given the choice between standing with Israel or supporting terrorists who are raping, kidnapping & killing thousands of women & children…31 student groups choose the terrorists. Their blazing hatred & antisemitism utterly blinding.” Cornell University found itself on the receiving end of a letter from Congress criticizing their handling of the protests, asserting that “antisemitism remains a serious problem” at the school. They weren’t exaggerating: numerous students expressed concerns over the protests, citing feelings of insecurity and the fostering of antisemitic sentiment on campus. In the midst of heated campus discussions regarding antisemitism and demonstrations concerning the Israel-Hamas conflict Cornell president Martha E. Pollack announced she would be stepping down. UNIVERSITIES THAT HANDLED THE PROTESTS WELL: University of Chicago president Paul Alivisatos pushed back with a robust statement declaring an end to spiraling protests on campus and reasserting the school’s stated values. “Free expression is the core animating value of the University of Chicago, so it is critical that we be clear about how I and my administration think about the issue of encampments, how the actions we take in response will follow directly from our principles, and specific considerations that will influence our judgments and actions. The general principle we will abide by is to provide the greatest leeway possible for free expression, even expression of viewpoints that some find deeply offensive. We only will intervene when what might have been an exercise of free expression blocks the learning or expression of others or that substantially disrupts the functioning or safety of the University. These are our principles. They are clear.” Alivisatos came out with a follow-up saying, “I believe the protesters should also consider that an encampment, with all the etymological connections of the word to military origins, is a way of using force of a kind rather than reason to persuade others…those violating university policy should expect to face disciplinary consequences.” And they did. University of Florida took a tough approach and condemned campus agitators, telling them they would face legal consequences for actions that cross the line from speech into violence. The demonstrations baffled university president Ben Sasse, who said, “We support folks’ free-speech rights, but that includes the right to make an a– and an idiot of yourself, and a lot of the protesters say ridiculously, historically and geographically ignorant things.” Sasse continued: “This is not complicated: The University of Florida is not a daycare, and we do not treat protesters like children. They knew the rules, they broke the rules, and they’ll face the consequences.” University of Texas at Austin adopted a firm approach toward protesting students and faculty alike. Pro-Palestine activists were adamant in their demands, which included the resignation UT Austin president Jay Hartzell. As UT Austin is a public university, Texas Governor Greg Abbott stepped in and responded, saying, “This will NEVER happen. The only thing that will happen is that the University and the State will use all law-enforcement tools to quickly terminate illegal protests taking place on campus that clearly violate the laws of the state of Texas and policies of the university.” In just one week, law enforcement cracked down on the law-breakers, apprehending over 100 protesters for offenses that included criminal trespassing and violations of university regulations. The differing approaches universities took to this heated moment highlight the principle of upholding free speech but also the importance of having a clear policy showing where to draw the line. The institutions of higher education that handled the protests best are the ones that upheld their stated rules and values. That’s not a coincidence. [Photo credit: Jane Dominguez, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED, via Flickr (cropped)]
NTC joined as a party in an amicus brief in support of the Turpin v. Latin case in favor of parental rights in education. Click here to read the article.
Have you heard of NewsGuard? Chances are you haven’t, but they’re the largest and most influential so-called “fact checking” organization in the United States. They’re also incredibly biased. Left-leaning media outlets like CNN and the New York Times are regularly given “high credibility” scores — the same CNN that presented the Jussie Smollet and Nick Sandeman hoaxes as full-blown hate crimes, and the same New York Times that wrote prolifically for years about the Russia-collusion fraud. At the same time, right-of-center sources such as Fox News, PragerU, and The Federalist are branded by NewsGuard as “uncredible,” “risky” purveyors of “misinformation” and “disinformation.” NewsGuard’s ratings are taken as gospel by Big Tech and public schools nationwide, used to filter what can be taught in class and shared on social media sites. They’ve partnered with the federal government in initiatives “discrediting and demonetizing the disfavored press and redirecting money and audiences to news organizations that publish favored viewpoints,” according to a blockbuster lawsuit essentially labeling NewsGuard a censor-for-hire. The New Tolerance campaign is proud to join forces with the team at PragerU to demand accountability from this purported “objective” gatekeeper of speech. Tell NewsGuard that any credibility they might salvage demands full transparency.
Has Amnesty International forgotten its mission? Since its founding in the 1960s, Amnesty International (AI) has been a recognized force for human rights revered for shining a light on the unjustly imprisoned and aggressively oppressed — at least, they used to be. On April 8, the global nonprofit published a tweet lamenting the passing of Walid Daqqa, whom they described as a “62-year-old Palestinian writer” whose “heart-wrenching” death in prison demonstrated “Israel’s disregard for Palestinians’ right to life.” AI presented Daqqa as a martyr, but their obituary was so lacking in context that its omission can only be seen as intentional. First, Daqqa’s death had nothing to do with Israeli cruelty as Amnesty’s initial tweet suggests; he perished due to bone marrow cancer at an old age. More pointedly, Daqqa was incarcerated because of his role in the brutal abduction, torture, and murder of 19-year-old Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984. According to reports, Moshe’s killers “gouged out his eyes, mutilated his body and castrated him before taking him to an olive grove and shooting him dead.” Such biased framing has lamentably become the norm for Amnesty International. In recent decades, mission creep has seen the organization take official stances supporting the decriminalization of sex work, declaring abortion “a human right,” and advocating for “climate justice.” It’s a far cry from Amnesty’s origins and the work of its founder Pete Benenson, who launched AI in 1961 in a campaign battling for the release of two Portuguese students who had been imprisoned for raising their glasses in a toast to liberty. In 1963, Amnesty’s efforts led to the release of Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi in Siberia who was imprisoned by the Soviet communist regime. The group’s continuous efforts rallying grassroots action in support of “prisoners of conscience” earned Amnesty International a Nobel Peace Prize in 1977. Today, 47 years later, the once-revered Amnesty International is making headlines for sanitizing the legacy of a terrorist murderer. It’s yet another instance of a broken — yet powerful — institution: an organization that was founded to uphold human rights is now exalting human rights abusers.
NTC President Gregory T. Angelo joins John Reid to discuss the Biden administration’s controversial declaration of “Trans Day of Visibility.” Click the link here to listen to the interview.
NTC President Gregory T. Angelo joined former Anheuser-Busch executive Anson Frericks to reflect on the controversies surrounding Bud Light and its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. Watch the full interview here.
