California Judge Refuses to Throw out Lawsuit From Church Objecting to Paying for Abortions

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A federal district court judge in California is allowing a church’s lawsuit against the state over an abortion funding requirement to proceed. But that was only one of two decisions bearing on the case issued two days apart, and the other was not favorable to pro-life interests.

Skyline Wesleyan Church had filed a lawsuit against the state, asserting that a state agency’s new interpretation of California law would violate both federal and state law by requiring the church to provide insurance coverage for elective abortions. The California Department of Managed Healthcare responded by requesting the court dismiss the case, but Judge Marilyn Huff disagreed in an opinion issued on June 20.

In Skyline Wesleyan Church v. California Department of Managed Health Care, the CDMH claimed that abortion is a “basic right” and therefore all insurance plans had to include it. To do otherwise would constitute discrimination prohibited by the California Constitution. The church objected that the requirement violated its First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as its rights under the California state constitution. The church also objected that the agency had not followed state law by issuing the order without required public notice and comment.

Planned Parenthood and the ACLU had aggressively sought the new interpretation, in response to Catholic universities in California dropping abortion coverage from their health insurance. According to Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, said the the CDMH acted “t the behest of organizations such as the ACLU and Planned Parenthood,” which used their political power to coerce organizations they disagreed with.

In her decision, Huff granted part of the CDMH’s appeal, by rejecting the church’s claims that its Fourteenth Amendment rights had been violated, but let the rest stand. However, the church can reassert that claim by amending the argument and filing it again. The church has one month to respond and the CDMH thirty days after that to respond to the church.

Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Jeremiah Galus, who is representing the church, praised the decision. “Californians shouldn’t be forced to choose between following their deepest convictions and submitting to unlawful, unjust government mandates,” he said.

The California mandate leaves churches with no legal way at all to opt out of paying for abortions. The Department of Managed Health Care unconstitutionally forced abortion coverage into churches’ health insurance plans without their knowledge or approval, and the agency didn’t even follow the appropriate administrative procedures to institute this mandate. The court was right to deny the state’s attempt to escape accountability for its actions.

Win one, lose one

The news for organizations opposed to abortion and for religious liberty was only half-good, however. In 2014, seven California churches, along with the California Conference of Catholic Bishops and Loyola Marymount University, had challenged the agency’s interpretation by filing a complaint with the federal HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR). The complaint alleged that the agency’s ruling violated the federal Weldon Amendment, an annual appropriations rider that prohibits discrimination against health care entities that refuse to provide coverage for abortion.

OCR dismissed the complaint on June 22, stating, “OCR found no violation of the Weldon Amendment and is closing this matter without further action.” Quoting Congressman Weldon himself at length, the agency’s head Jocelyn Samuels said the amendment applies to insurance companies, not to employers that have a moral objection to abortion.

The ACLU cheered the dismissal. The group’s legislative counsel said that the decision “affirms what has always been true, that safe and legal abortion is basic health care that all women should be able to access without interference. The religious beliefs of others must not be used to restrict women’s access to constitutionally protected care.”

In contrast, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) criticized the decision, noting that the Weldon Amendment has been renewed every year and signed by President Obama, but his administration “has again shown blatant disregard for the rule of law. This decision illustrates the far reaches of Obama’s radical pro-abortion ideology — forcing churches and communities of faith that have pro-life convictions to participate in and pay for a practice that dismembers and chemically poisons unborn children.”

Smith called Congress to “take this issue out of the hands of the Obama Administration by moving enforcement of current conscience protections to the courts. Congress needs to enact legislation so churches and other victims have a ‘private right of action’ so they can have their day in court.”

Casey Mattox, senior counsel for the Life Legal Defense Foundation, condemned the decision as cherrypicking. “The Obama Administration’s refusal to enforce this law continues its pattern of enforcing laws it wants to enforce, refusing to enforce others, and inventing new interpretations of others out of whole cloth.” (For more from the author of “California Judge Refuses to Throw out Lawsuit From Church Objecting to Paying for Abortions” please click HERE)

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The Hero of the Bible Is God — Not Flawed People

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As conservatives, we are trying to conserve that which is right, just, true, and noble about and for the human condition. Both for this and future generations.

Many of those things have their basis and/or inspiration in the Bible, which is evident in so many of our founding documents, traditions, and way of life. This is why I have no problem as a believer swearing an oath to uphold and defend the actual wording of the U.S. Constitution, because it was devised with my worldview in mind.

Unfortunately, in an election featuring two systemically flawed, damaged, and unrepentant people running for the highest office in all the land, there is a tendency — even among those who have proven before their virtue and worth — to try and rationalize choosing one of them to vote for. And this is done usually at the expense of what we’re supposed to be conserving.

For example, some Christian leaders — and these are real leaders, not fake ones for hire on the political hack payroll — are attempting to justify Donald Trump’s lifetime of debauchery and malfeasance. Like in the following tweet from James Hohmann, who is a national political reporter for the Washington Post:

I have an immense amount of respect for Franklin Graham, and his family’s legacy. Barely a day goes by that I don’t find something he says profound enough to re-tweet to my own followers. My home church is an affiliate of his Christmas Box charity program for children around the world. I acknowledge that in the Christian/media hierarchy he’s in the gated community and I live in the suburbs.

That being said, “God is not a respecter of persons.” So neither should we be. The truth here is I believe, with all due respect, that Franklin Graham is not rightly dividing the Word of God here. And in the interests of conservatism, we cannot allow a generation of Americans who already have no idea what their historical legacy is to be further led into moral pea soup. Where there is no clarity, only subjective opinions. Which is exactly how the progressives want it.

But if there’s anything the Bible provides it is clarity.

See, the Bible clarifies we live for God’s glory. Not Him for ours. That yes, as Franklin Graham points out all of the Bible’s significant figures other than Christ were flawed vessels. That’s because all of us other than Christ are flawed vessels.

This is why Christ came to Earth. He came to bridge the gap between our flaws and God’s holy perfection. He came to be our perfect vessel of atonement, resurrection, and redemption. That when we couldn’t get up to heaven, heaven came down to us.

However, we are not to look at the flawed vessels God still used to accomplish His plan and seek to emulate them. As if to say, “I’ll just go on being an unrepentant degenerate and God will bless me for it because He needs me.”

That is willful rebellion, not humble contrition.

Instead, we are to see these people and then realize that we, too, can be redeemed and used by God for mighty things if we seek Him and His ways. Not ours. That we are to look at them and see ourselves, yes, but not pridefully. Rather we are to see ourselves and not boast but be convicted that “all of have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” That’s why we all need a Savior.

Jacob, one of the great patriarchs of the faith, has a name that literally means “schemer” and that’s what he was. But nobody goes to the Church of Jacob today. We go to the Church of God, who still chose to use Jacob the Schemer for His glory. Not to mention, when the significant figures of the Bible committed these sins both they and those around them paid a terrible cost for it.

For instance:

Yes, Abraham defied God by sleeping with his servant out of wedlock to conceive a child. That child would go on to become Ishmael, which tradition teaches is the rival patriarch of Islam. As in the source of rivalry, warfare, and bloodshed with the Jews — who are descended from Abraham’s other son, Isaac — for centuries to the present day.

Yes, even Moses defied God as the leader of the Jewish people. He was banned from ever stepping foot in the Promised Land as a result.

Yes, David was an adulterer several times over. And it nearly cost him his crown, plunging his entire kingdom into civil war.

Yes, Paul was once a persecutor named Saul. But he suffered temporary blindness, and then lived a ministry where he himself was constantly persecuted or under the threat of it after his conversion. As were those who accompanied him on his travels. As Saul, Paul encouraged the mob to kill the first martyr, Stephen, and then was martyred for his faith, too.

I could continue, but by now you get the picture. God is a God of justice, so if we choose to sin we choose to suffer the consequences. That even applies to those called directly into leadership by God, who are held to the same standard as everyone else and not given preferential treatment. Fortunately, God offers to spare us eternal condemnation for those sins if we earnestly seek and ask His forgiveness. That is the Gospel message in a nutshell:

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son. That whomsoever shall believe in him will not perish, but have eternal life. That God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that through him the world may be saved.

Therefore, the primary role of Christian leaders, according to the Bible, is to lead unrepentant sinners like Donald Trump (who openly admits he’s never asked God for forgiveness) to the Cross. Not the White House. For what good does it do a man to gain the whole world, but lose his eternal soul in the process? Did Jesus die for Trump to be president, or for Trump to be forgiven? Shouldn’t we, then, as his followers emphasize that which he gave his life for?

If we have come to a point as a culture that we’re no longer going to urge unrepentant sinners to be forgiven, as Franklin’s father Billy preached to the world over for decades, but instead cast our pearls unto swine by wish-casting them into powerful political offices, then the church is in no position to conserve American Exceptionalism for future generations.

For the church herself is responsible for losing it.

“Consider how far you have fallen. Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.”

Jesus Christ, Revelation 2:5

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Air Force Base Silences Veteran for Using the Word ‘God’ in a Retirement Speech

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Uniformed airmen forcibly removed an Air Force veteran from a military base because he invoked God in a speech for a retirement ceremony, according to the legal group that represents him.

They escorted Oscar Rodriguez Jr. from the “flag-folding” ceremony as the 33-year veteran began his remarks at Travis Air Force Base in California.

“It was one of the most humiliating experiences of my life,” Rodriguez, who retired from the Air Force as a senior master sergeant, said in a June 20 press release prepared by his lawyers. He added:

I have given more than three decades of service to the military and made many sacrifices for my country. To have the Air Force assault me and drag me out of a retirement ceremony simply because my speech included the word ‘God’ is something I never expected from our military.

Rodriguez was set to deliver the flag-folding speech at Master Sgt. Charles “Chuck” Roberson’s retirement ceremony April 3 at Travis Air Force Base.

Roberson had heard Rodriguez give the speech at a friend’s retirement ceremony and invited Rodriguez to give the same speech for him according to First Liberty Institute, a legal organization that defends the religious freedom of Americans.

Rodriguez enlisted in the Air Force Army Reserve in 1980. He started out training as an avionic technician and later was promoted to section chief. He retired in 2013 as senior master sergeant.

His speech mentions God about six times, Mike Berry, senior counsel and director of military affairs at First Liberty Institute, told The Daily Signal.

“It is this one nation under God that we call, with honor, the United States of America,” a transcript of the speech says. “God bless our flag. God bless our troops. God bless America.”

Roberson’s unit commander at Travis Air Force Base tried to prevent Rodriguez from attending the ceremony, his lawyers say. They say the commander lacked the authority to prevent Rodriguez from attending, but then told Roberson that Rodriguez could not give the speech.

Roberson and Rodriguez tried to clear the speech through higher authorities at Travis, but did not receive a response, according to First Liberty Institute.

“Contrary to what the commanding officer here has told Chuck and Oscar, you can have religious speech in a retirement ceremony,” Berry told The Daily Signal, referring to Roberson and Rodriguez.

The ceremony initially went on as planned. When Rodriguez began his speech, though, uniformed personnel forcibly grabbed and removed him, Berry said.

First Liberty Institute issued a demand letter to military leaders, asking them to apologize to Rodriguez and hold responsible parties accountable for their actions.

“The United States military has no right to do this to a private citizen,” Berry said.

Saying the actions against Rodriguez are unlawful and violate the Constitution, Berry told The Daily Signal:

We’ve seen enough instances of religious hostility in our military now over the last several years, and it continues to get worse and worse every year … I really think Congress needs to step in now and begin mandating constitutional training for our military leaders so that they understand that just because they wear a uniform and just because they have a large amount of authority as a commanding officer in the military, it doesn’t give them carte blanche to break the law or to trample over the Constitution.

“Rodriguez ignored numerous requests to respect the Air Force prescribed ceremony and unfortunately was forcibly removed,” a Travis Air Force Base official said in a statement to FoxNews.com in April.

Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told The Daily Signal that the Air Force took the correct action by removing Rodriguez. Weinstein said it’s important to follow Defense Department directives, instructions, and regulations.

“The Air Force Instruction 1-1 Section 2.12 makes it very, very clear” that the commander is responsible for everything that happens on the base, Weinstein said.

Rodriguez’s rights are different on a military installation at an official ceremony than at a private, unofficial ceremony, he said.

“We feel the Air Force probably should have court-martialed [Roberson] here,” Weinstein said.

A Travis Air Force Base spokesman told The Daily Signal that there is a local investigation into the situation.

“The Secretary of the Air Force has directed the Air Force inspector general to conduct an independent investigation into events that took place April 3, 2016, at a retirement ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, California,” Capt. Brooke Brzozowske told The Daily Signal in an email.

Brzozowske added:

Regarding the Air Force policy on retirement ceremonies, Air Force personnel may use a flag-folding ceremony script that is religious for retirement ceremonies. Since retirement ceremonies are personal in nature, the script preference for a flag-folding ceremony is at the discretion of the individual being honored and represents the member’s views, not those of the Air Force. The Air Force places the highest value of the rights on its personnel in matters of religion and facilitates the free exercise of religion by its members.

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Kim Davis Faces Last Fight in Same-Sex Marriage Battle

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Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis is attempting to end her long legal battle for refusing to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples.

Davis’ legal team filed a motion Tuesday requesting a federal appeals court dismiss the lawsuit against her after Kentucky passed a law to accommodate Davis and clerks like her. After the Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015, Davis made headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses. She was sued and jailed for five days for her refusal and became a national point of debate on the ongoing legal struggle to find the line between freedom of conscience and discrimination.

Davis was released from jail when other employees in the clerk’s office began issuing licenses. Her office continued issuing the licenses without her name.

In April, Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed a bill that brings “statutory finality” to the long battle over marriage licenses in the state. The law, which takes effect July 14, changes marriage licenses so they do not include the county clerk’s name and allow people to check whether they are a bride, groom or spouse.

Because of this new law, Davis says the suit against her should be dismissed.

“Because Davis’ appeals are rendered moot by this recent legislative enactment before the merits of her appeals have been decided, this Court, in dismissing the appeals, should also follow its normal course of vacating the district court’s orders on appeal,” Davis’ motion reads.

It remains to be seen how the court will respond. A hearing is set for July.

“From the beginning, Kim Davis requested the very accommodation for her religious convictions that the Kentucky legislature passed and which Gov. Matt Bevin signed into law,” Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, the group representing Davis, said in a statement. “The previous governor could have made the same accommodation but refused to do so. Instead, he was willing to violate deeply-held religious convictions about marriage in order to press his ideological agenda. Now that Kim Davis obtained the accommodation she has always requested, we notified the Court of Appeals that the case has become moot and no further legal proceedings are needed. We are very pleased with this outcome.” (For more from the author of “Kim Davis Faces Last Fight in Same-Sex Marriage Battle” please click HERE)

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Michael Jackson’s ‘Shocking’ Child Pornography Collection Detailed in 2003 Neverland Ranch Police Report

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A Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department police report taken from a 2003 search at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch residence turned up a cache of photos of naked men and women, animal sex videos and child pornography, all allegedly used to seduce young boys.

Jackson’s alleged, never-before-seen, porn stockpile was the result of a search that was part of an ongoing child sex abuse investigation against the pop singer, according to Radar Online.

“The detectives’ report cites Michael even used sexy photos of his own nephews, who were in the band 3T, in their underwear to excite young boys.” a private investigator said, according to Radar.

At the behest of Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Detective Craig Bonner, an additional warrant was granted and investigators also searched a rented storage space. In it, police found audio and video tapes, photos, dairies, and several computer hard drives.

“The documents collected by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department paint a dark and frightening picture of Jackson,” one anonymous investigator working on Jackson’s case told Radar. “The documents exposed Jackson as a manipulative, drug-and-sex-crazed predator who used blood, gore, sexually explicit images of animal sacrifice and perverse adult sex acts to bend children to his will.” (Read more from “Michael Jackson’s ‘Shocking’ Child Pornography Collection Detailed in 2003 Neverland Ranch Police Report” HERE)

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Secret Service Agent Book: Raging Hillary Clinton Threw Bible at Agent’s Colleague

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Hillary Clinton once threw a Bible at the back of a Secret Service agent’s head, part of a pattern of unhinged rage that the now-presumptive Democratic nominee exhibited, as exposed for the first time in former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne’s grueling insider account of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Byrne’s forthcoming book Crisis of Character—in which he details how the Clintons operated during his time in the U.S. Secret Service, where he protected the first couple for eight years in the White House in the 1990s. During three of those years, he was posted right outside the Oval Office. The book comes out next week.

“The First Lady had a different sort of liveliness,” Byrne writes in an excerpt obtained exclusively by Breitbart News. “She once threw a Bible at an agent on her detail, hitting him in the back of the head. He bluntly let her know it wasn’t acceptable. He told me that story himself.”

Byrne goes on to report that for Secret Service agents, being assigned to Hillary Clinton’s detail “was a form of punishment handed down by passive-aggressive middle management.” (Read more from “Secret Service Agent Book: Raging Hillary Clinton Threw Bible at Agent’s Colleague” please click HERE)

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Feminist: Toddler’s Gator Death ‘Social Justice’

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On Tuesday night outside a Walt Disney World hotel, a 2-year-old boy was snatched by an alligator and dragged into a lagoon in front of his vacationing parents. The father, attempting to rescue his baby boy, wrestled the alligator in vain. Tragically, the toddler was found dead on Wednesday.

Upon the report of the gut-wrenching incident, a disgusting racist feminist known as “Brienne of Snarth” on Twitter felt the need to voice her reprehensible views on the matter. She didn’t care that the 2-year-old was killed in front of his family. After all, the father—suffering through undoubtedly the worst tragedy he will ever face—was a white male.Therefore, the toddler’s death was an act of “social justice,” according to the feminist.

Brienne of Snarth commented: “I’m so finished with white men’s entitlement lately that I’m really not sad about a 2yo being eaten by a gator bc his daddy ignored signs.”

The account has since been deleted, but journalist Paul Joseph Watson captured the tweet by screenshot:

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This New Law Ensures South Carolina Students Will Study the Founding Documents

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Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican, signed a South Carolina House bill into law that implements the study of U.S. founding documents into the state’s public high schools.

The South Carolina Founding Principles Act requires the study of the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and “the structure of the government and the role of separation of powers and the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights” to be added into statewide social studies programs.

This bill, signed June 1, reinforces South Carolina’s Section 59-29-120 that required all public education students, both in high school and in college, to pass a test after a year-long class on the founding documents and principles.

The Founding Principles Act bolsters the existing law by adding an accountability clause requiring the State Department of Education to report to the House and Senate Education Committees as well as the Public Works Committee every two years. This report will outline how South Carolina educators are teaching the documents in their classrooms.

State Rep. Chip Huggins, R-Lexington, told The Daily Signal, “I was just so worried about the erosion away from our foundation, and when I say that, I think it’s time we get back to the basics. The basics in which this country was founded. That’s exactly what we wanted to accomplish with this bill.”

Furthermore, teachers will be provided with “professional development opportunities” to ensure the subject is being properly taught.

“A major part of forming future citizens capable of self-government is ensuring that they are properly educated in the founding documents of our nation,” Arthur Milikh, associate director for principles and politics at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal in an email. “This was once common sense throughout America, but now we are forced to fight to ensure that even the most basic texts—the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence—are taught.”

“These works tell us about the nature of our country, the principles for which we stand, and the way to preserve our constitutional order. Should these texts be lost to students, the next generation will be ruled entirely by popular culture and public opinion,” Milikh wrote.

Huggins, the main sponsor of the bill, said the legislation “ensures that when the standards are rewritten, the founding principles will still be included.”

The Founding Principles Act, however, does not force South Carolina public colleges to do the same.

Section 59-29-120 states that “no student in any such school, college, or university may receive a certificate of graduation without previously passing a satisfactory examination upon the provisions and principles,” but does not hold either public high schools or colleges to that standard. The accountability aspect of The Founding Principles Act only applies to South Carolina public high schools.

Even though Huggins didn’t win the battle with mandating the founding principles into state college curriculums, he believes he won the war with high schools. He stated that the important thing is “we now have the assurance that the founding principles will be taught.” (For more from the author of “This New Law Ensures South Carolina Students Will Study the Founding Documents” please click HERE)

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Woman: I Aborted 18 Baby Girls to Give My Husband the Son He Wanted

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Most of us don’t pay much attention to the issue of sex-selective abortion – either because we think it doesn’t affects us, or because we don’t realize how widespread it is and how much it is affecting our world. But its impact reaches far and wide, even here in the United States.

We are all aware of the population control that occurs in China with its one child policy. Most parents there want a boy, so over the years, the ratio of males to females born has been greatly altered. In 2004, the ratio was 121.2 boys for every 100 girls. The natural ratio is 103 to 106 boys for every 100 girls. But it isn’t just China . . .

One such woman had already given birth to four daughters, and was depressed for not conceiving a son. She recently admitted on Vietnam television that she aborted 18 baby girls in order to give her husband the son he wants.

Eighteen preborn baby girls aborted to get one son— and groups like Planned Parenthood support this. When the abortion lobby shows that support, they also enforce the idea that baby girls are inferior to baby boys. And that belief is one that leads to gendercide, abandonment, infanticide, and gender imbalance. (Read more from “Feminist: Toddler’s Gator Death ‘Social Justice'” HERE)

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Omar Mateen Once Threatened to Kill Classmates Because Pork Touched His Hamburger

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Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen once threatened to massacre his classmates at a barbecue in the spring of 2007 after a piece of pork touched his hamburger. The barbecue was put on by an academy designed to instruct future hopeful corrections officers, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Immediately after the pork touched the burger, he reportedly threatened to kill everybody at the event. Although his classmates tried to laugh off his unhinged remarks, Mateen followed up by insisting that he was not joking and that he was definitely “going to come back and shoot” them.

Soon after, Mateen again threatened to carry out a shooting at a policy academy. The reason? He felt he was being mistreated as a Muslim.

Throughout his life, Mateen repeatedly flew into rages and threatened to kill people for reasons connected to his Islamic beliefs — biographical information that challenges claims that his Muslim background played no part in his massacre at the Pulse nightclub Sunday, which left 50 dead, himself included, and injured 53.

Seddique Mateen, Omar’s father, insisted that his son’s actions had nothing to do with religion whatsoever, but added that Omar had been enraged two months before after seeing two men kiss.

Additionally, Omar bragged about having terrorist connections and pledged allegiance to numerous terror organizations like Hezbollah and, at the scene of the shooting, the Islamic State. He also posted comments on Facebook such as “The real Muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the West.” In another instance, he said he wanted to get raided by the feds and mistreated just so he could claim the title of “martyr.”

Despite all the warning signs, the FBI was not conducting surveillance on Mateen when he shot up the Pulse nightclub, even though agents had previously interviewed him numerous times. (For more from the author of “Omar Mateen Once Threatened to Kill Classmates Because Pork Touched His Hamburger” please click HERE)

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