PIE IN THE SKY

      So, after a two-year hiatus, the subject of UFOs and extraterrestrial life has entered public discourse from the twin fountainheads of the highest levels of government and the Corporate Media. Now, as then, the story centers upon an alleged whistleblower with Q-Anon-level security clearances. The whistleblower's name is David Grusch, who has been interviewed by the MSM and was the subject of a major Ufology Conference last week. 

    While I don't dismiss the possibility of extraterrestrial life---or even the possibility that such beings have visited our planet---there are many elements of both the 2021 and today's stories which are problematic. The first question is: why now? Grusch claims in the NewsNation interview that the first modern evidence of extraterrestrial recovery happened near Magenta, Italy in 1933, which was a partially-intact vehicle. This would have happened during Mussolini's presidency and two years before the Italo-Abyssinian War; and while there was apparently an investigation, the debris for some reason was shelved until recovered by the US Air Force in 1945. 

        Government UFO investigations weren't unusual; the US even had a secret department for investigating Unidentified Flying Objects since 1942 after the famous Battle of Los Angeles. The even more famous Roswell Incident in 1947 brought the investigations to public notice. Why the Governments of the Western countries should choose to cover them up and hide them with such an intensive veil of secrecy for 80-90 years but reveal it today is hard to explain. Such sightings have been conspicuously absent from sources like China; and the former Eastern Bloc countries actually duplicated some alleged sightings which they found correlated with heightened political tensions. It must be remarked that UFO sightings almost universally happen in US or NATO controlled airspaces.

    Most people see the history of UFO research as a continuum, but that isn't so. From WW2 until 1970, the US Air Force had a project investigating UFO sightings. The burden of proof rested with the Air Force in accounting for these stories (other countries put the burden of proof on the witnesses). Mid-century newspapers ran stories of sightings and scientists worked in experiments seeking extraterrestrial life. Thus it was that the American powers-that-be were very much open to the possibility of alien existence. For the last 50 years since, their collective attitudes have been anything but open. Until 2021, believers in UFOs and extraterrestrials were routinely ridiculed in the Media and sneered at by Academia, Incorporated. 

   The sudden shift here is what is disturbing. The Government is investigating, the jackals in the media have even changed the term 'UFO' to the less-controversial 'UAP' (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon). A poll revealed that 20% of Academia purportedly believe in ET phenomena. Bear in mind that this is happening in 2023; under a Government of very dubious legitimacy which has had a pattern of instituting radically revolutionary policies. It is also being touted by a Media and Academic culture that is probably the most corrupted and most thoroughly controlled than at any point in our history. Whenever they act in concert like this---with little opposition narrative---huge red flags should go up immediately. 

    David Grusch, the whistleblower involved, has been given favorable, or at least uncritical reviews throughout the MSM. Given how the Deep State has reacted in recent years to other whistleblowers (e.g. Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Jack Kiriakou, Seth Rich, etc), the sympathy and credibility given to Grusch is especially suspicious. Usually anything a whistleblower reveals is brutally suppressed; and fortunate indeed is the one who gets away in time to escape the fate of his revelations. 

   According to his interview in NewsNation, during the 2nd Bush Administration Grusch "received an Air Force scholarship in physics. {nota bene} He was originally commissioned on active duty and served 14 years in the Air Force. {nota bene} He became a career intelligence officer. {nota bene} Grusch spent time on the ground in Afghanistan, {nota bene} and other places he can’t mention, {nota bene} before rotating back to Washington, D.C." {nota bene} With this kind of a background and these kinds of connections, and his fawning acceptance within Deep State-controlled institutions---let's just say one should be a bit skeptical of his claimed motives of altruism.

    

      Grusch's alleged revelations also seem quite conveniently timed for a movement aimed at effecting a Great Reset. The Oligarchy has made no secret of its desire to destroy the traditional concept of God---since a belief in God is a belief in an Absolute standard of goodness and right behavior above the opinions or agendas of men. However, manufacturing the authority of an advanced civilization to usher in their Utopia would suit their purposes perfectly. Before the usual naysayers start slapping their knees and rolling on the floor laughing, consider that our Government planned to do something quite similar over thirty years ago. There are some who claim that the 1997 Phoenix Lights Incident was a hologram. This has never been proven; but the technology certainly existed during the 1990s and presumably has advanced considerably since then. It's also a well-known fact that more than a few interested members of the 1% are funding current UFO research. 

      Science-for-sale, a servile Media, opportunistic politicians, vested financial interests, spooks posing as informants: what possibly could go wrong with a combination like that? Add into this mix an exceptionally gullible public which has been hoodwinked repeatedly by hoaxes just as revolting to reason as this story is shaping up to be, and I think that we have serious reason to be concerned. Recall only a few months ago the panic that ensued over an broken weather-balloon and the hysteria before that over an influenza outbreak. Questioning the settled science, no matter how absurd those 'scientific' claims are, can bring serious consequences from the superstitious and credulous mobs. In this day and age, we can't accept everything that the 'authorities' tell us, without a careful examination of what motives may be lurking either behind the scenes or in the clouds. 

     

MEANWHILE IN THE PROZAC NATION

      As part of the mighty Conservative pushback as the Silent Majority takes back the country in the Culture Wars, the news came out today that Modelo Especial has overtaken Bud Light in sales of cheap, foul-tasting American beers. Let it never be said that we Americans don't have our priorities in order when it comes to defending our Rights. Sure, it's no problem when Big Ag bankrupts small farmers to steal their land; or WEF Oligarchs move to take over and socially engineer the food supply---so what if we pay $6 for bread and $10 for butter? Mess with our grog, though, and you're playing with fire! 

    Unfortunately for these virtue-signalling consumers, it happens that Modelo Especial is controlled by the same Ag Cartel which owns Bud Light. Way to own those Libtards, guys. 

     A concept that the American Right can't seem to come to grips with is that a cabal of unelected, unaccountable Corporate bureaucrats is just as a great a threat to our Liberties and our Culture as an unelected, unaccountable Government bureaucracy is. Our economic system in the United States is essentially privatized Socialism, as opposed to traditional State Socialism. That is all that this Fourth Industrial Revolution and so-called Stakeholder Capitalism really amounts to. This is why boycotts never work out any better than voting does. In voting, we have the choice of two parties controlled by the same people; in Privatized Socialism we have the choice of goods and services controlled by the same people. Increasingly, the line between Government and Business has become almost indistinguishable---with Regulatory Capture and Corporate Lobbying controlling political decisions and politicians simply outsourcing governmental functions to private contractors.

   In the phony Left-Right Paradigm pushed as the Official Narrative, the GOP is portrayed as defenders of the Free Market while the Democrats are portrayed as defenders of the social safety-net (as if the two ideals were mutually exclusive). Neither approach addresses the fundamental systemic problem: that the people have no real power against either Corporate or Government overreach. If corporate cartels like Anheuser-Busch-InBev were broken into about 20 pieces and we had labor laws with some teeth again---as well as restrictions on foreign lobbying and actual regulation of the Stock Market, we'd see just how much 'wokeness' these crooks could get away with. 

  But suggest any of that, and one gets an indignant "No way! That's interfering with the Free Market!" Fine. Go on drinking Modelo Especial instead of Bud Light and pretending that you really have a choice. Meanwhile, the Oligarchs will go on rolling in the cash while they keep pushing their woke agendas.

   

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT?

    That great luminary in the constellation of Conservative political influencers, Arnie 'screw-your-freedom' Schwarzenegger is at it again. Schwarzenegger was the last Republican Governor of California, actually the last candidate Republicans actually campaigned for until 2021 when two other celebrity screwballs, Larry Elder and Bruce Jenner, showed up. As we've all learned by now, supporting low-IQ, morally bankrupt celebrities is only bad when the Democrats do it. 

   Arnie was heavily touted by the Controlled Opposition media, and ended his term with a lower approval rating than the man whom he defeated in a recall election. There was even talk at the time about amending the Constitution to make Arnie eligible to run for President, even though none other than Gavin Newsom said of him, "He's becoming a Democrat. He's running back, not even to the center. I would say center-left".  During his term, he blocked restrictions on abortion and performed a homo 'marriage' in the Governor's mansion, as well as signing phony 'Green Energy' bills into law, while doing nothing to address California's incipient water and power shortages; but at least he had an 'R' after his name. Since that time, he's gone on to found a number of 'Conservative' think-tanks, like the  Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy headquartered at the shady University of Southern California. One of the Institute's top donors is Mark Zuckerberg. Arnie also once referred to Warren Buffet as an 'inspirational figure.'

   So, today, Arnold has Conservatives everywhere clutching their bowties after he made some disparaging remarks about Christians---as though this should have come as a great surprise to anybody. Schwarzenegger said: “It reminds me of Howard Stern’s question to me. ‘Tell me, governor, what happens to us when we die?’ I said, ‘Nothing. You’re 6 feet under. Anyone that tells you something else is a f***ing liar.’’’

   Let's see...Howard Stern...when Arnie was Governor...how long ago was this? And just today "The comments, when reported by The New York Post, broke the hearts of fans?" Where have these people been for 20 or so years? This seems to be further evidence that Americans have a difficult time distinguishing Hollywood from real life. 

   "We don’t know what happens with the soul and all this spiritual stuff that I’m not an expert in, but I know that the body as we see each other now, we will never see each other again like that,” Arnie continued, “Except in some fantasy. When people talk about, ‘I will see them again in heaven,’ it sounds so good, but the reality is that we won’t see each other again after we’re gone. That’s the sad part. I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t.”

    I suspect that a lot of Churchians might have difficulty believing this: but I don't think that God bases one's salvation on Party affiliation too much. What a man believes is between himself and God---what he believes politically however is between himself and the people. In other words, these Churchians would do a lot more good if they prayed for:

   1. The farmers and businessmen broken by Arnold's 'Green Politics'

   2. The people he influenced to accept homo 'equality; abortion, steroid and marijuana use; and finally, Atheism

   3. The people who took the Loyalty Vaxx on his endorsement

   4. The young minds he's helped warp with his pro-NWO think-tanks.

    Why doesn't anybody care about them? Maybe that's a question worth asking too. 

   

A CONSERVATIVE MUGGED BY REALITY

       Neocon pundit Dennis Prager---who never deviates from the Exceptional America Party Line recently had an eye-opening epiphany. Prager actually went over to Europe, and visited some of the cities in countries under American Occupation  part of the EU/NATO Axis and found to his amazement that Civilization there is actually still quite alive and well. 

      Dennis could have saved himself a trip and simply watched some Youtube videos highlighting foreign city streets. It's not only Europe; but most of Eastern Asia (including China) as well. One sees men and women out-and-about, enjoying the fruits of their labors; open businesses, clean streets. What one never sees (except in videos of our world-leading democracy) are bum jungles, violent drug addicts, garbage piled up with syringes and rats everywhere, boarded-up buildings, flash-mobs robbing stores, police activity, rainbow-flags stuck in people's faces, etc. Prager rather sadly concluded, "For the first time in my life, I feel freer in Europe than in America."

     Well, welcome to Reality, Dennis. The Europe that you described is what American cities used to look like. The civility, the respect for families, the schools which actually function, and the freedom was here once too. The other thing that I hope that you learned is that the kind of cultural rot trying to seep into those societies is being exported from the United States and not vice-versa. Do you understand now why there is growing anti-Americanism across the globe?

    Exceptionalist hubris aside, no sane people actually want Postmodern Americanism in their countries. It only comes to countries at either the point of a gun or under threats of economic consequences. In fact, if it weren't for the presence of the US Military, most of those countries that Dennis visited would overthrow their shadow governments; just as every place he observed the general population rejects so-called American values to whatever extent they possibly can.

    Prager's article focuses mostly on the tyranny of the Homo Agenda in the US, but there are other factors evident as well. We're still world leaders alright: we lead the developed world in drug overdoses, suicides, poverty, divorces, litigation, infant mortality, incarceration rates, and---if the numbers were actually honest---unemployment and illiteracy. Our infrastructure across the board is failing. Our political system is collectively known as The Swamp. We have a $34 trillion GDP--about $33.5 trillion of that is in the hands of a few Financial and Commercial combines which dictate policy and operate above the law. Marijuana is our leading cash-crop and Media is our major export. 

  What Prager actually witnessed was what the world really looks like outside of the political and media propaganda. The corrupt regimes of both North America and Europe conceal a social structure beneath the shell. Europe's society is still very much alive: ours is for all intents and purposes, completely rotted from the inside out. The difference is that most Americans are content to remain in blissful ignorance of that fact. 

  Prager actually deserves some credit for having the intellectual honesty to bring this issue out in the open. The Neocons used to say that they were "Liberals mugged by Reality," maybe it's time that a few Conservatives woke up to it as well. 

QUESTIONS ARISE AFTER SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR JAILED

     The Northshore School District in SE Snohomish County, Washington announced this weekend that two of its elementary school principals, Michael and Meghan Griffin (husband and wife) were put paid administrative leave after a rather embarrassing incident at a local QFC Supermarket. The incident happened on April 30th; but apparently just now leaked to the press, causing the School District to admit that Michael Griffin had been suspended since May 9th and his wife since May 30th. 

    So, according to the police report, Michael Griffin began flipping out at the Redmond QFC, screaming at patrons and making threatening gestures. Police subdued him after a brief scuffle where Griffin allegedly accused the other patrons of being spies who were planning to kill him and kidnap his wife while disguised as Amazon employees. He even indicated an Amazon delivery truck outside; but unfortunately for him, the police didn't believe his story---especially after a search revealed that Griffin was in possession of Cocaine and a loaded Glock-19 semi-automatic handgun. The school administrator unceremoniously was dragged out of the store, making obscene gestures and screaming accusations at the shocked crowd before being hauled to the Psych Ward. 

   Police also located Mrs. Griffin in the store. She told them that Michael "was paranoid she was having an affair with an old college friend and had become increasingly aggressive over the last month." She admitted to the police that they both were regular Cocaine users.

    Oh well. At least they represent diversity. The Griffins draw down a combined $360,000 from the bloated Northshore academic bureaucracy; a District which recently complained about having to make drastic budget cuts after a $21 million shortfall. About 22,000 children and teenagers are sent by their parents to that rathole---frankly, though if I were one, I might ask why so much money is wasted on parasites like these who contribute nothing to the school actually functioning. Another might be who hired these two dorks, and why did the school take so long to admit to taking action against the Griffins? Recall that the incident happened on April 30th, and Meghan Griffin admitted that Michael had been acting 'paranoid' for months; and his brother later told police that he had been worried about Michael's "deteriorating mental state." 

   The inference here is that the School knew about this for some time, but didn't act until they feared exposure; or more likely feared legal liability in case Michael had another such episode with Coke and a Glock around small children. American parents typically will tolerate a lot; but their attitudes can change quickly when a fat lawsuit looks promising.

   I suspect that the Administration's attitude is simply 'The Birds of a Feather' Syndrome. Given the known characters of most public school administrators, such behavior probably didn't seem to them as all that unusual; but they had to take necessary precautions to protect their own interests. The question of why parents would turn their kids over to the care of such degenerates: well, that's another matter. It's an even more interesting question considering that Bothell, Washington---where the Northshore District is located---is about a 50% 'Red' voting area. 

   The Griffins were suspended for the 'rest of the school year' which ends on June 23rd anyway. The Summer Break will give apathetic parents time to forget the whole thing and go back into denial, while the School Administration goes on just being themselves. 

   

      

HAS SELF-GOVERNMENT FAILED?

   Just as we predicted here about two months ago, these widespread consumer boycotts of corporations like Bud Light and Target have had little to no effect in slowing down the Oligarchy's push to mainstream the gender fluid/transhumanist agenda. If the daily news-feed that we're seeing is any indication; companies pushing the agenda with troon spokes-xhes (including Dylan Mulvaney) are sprouting up across the commercial landscape like toxic mushrooms do in a dying ecosystem.

   This reason that this is happening can be illustrated best by talking to some of the well-meaning folks engaged in these boycotts. They'll tell you that Bud Light has lost billions of dollars: I point out to them that the brand they've switched to is made by the same company. Or, others who've gone completely out of the Budweiser conglomerate's reach, I point out to them that the same financial cartels dominating Bud stock dominates these other breweries as well. When literally trillions of dollars are in the hands of criminals and fanatics, a billion here or there is not a great loss. 

  As an further example, take the recent 'Budget Deal' between the nominal Head-of-State and his Rump Congress. $1.3 trillion US dollars is what they want to spend. Now Bud Light and Target have lost a combined total of around $25 billion. Does anyone suppose that, if $25 billion of that budget was 'misappropriated', either Biden or McCarthy would raise any fuss over that? $25 billion is chump change to these people. And in the case of the supranational globalist Oligarchy, we're talking a lot more than a mere $1.3 trillion as well. 

  

      We've also been treated to the ridiculous spectacle of seeing the Gay Mafia engaging in counter-boycotts: going after 'woke' businesses who succumb to pressure from pro-family protests. It's made that whole Theater of the Absurd that Beatniks used to promote back in the 50s sound quite sensible and rational. The Mid-Century too, among more mainstream society, held June as the Wedding Month. A lot of young women then finished High School or College in May and were on their way to starting new careers as homemakers. Today, the 2020s have seen record bankruptcies in the wedding industry; and of course multiple lawsuits against any caterer who dares hold the quaint belief that marriage is something that only happens between opposite sexes. June is now designated Pride Month with all of the disgraceful spectacles accompanying that designation. Colonies of the WEF Nations further along in implementing the New World Order than the US have even criminalized defense of marriage to a greater extent than we have. 

   Pundits have tried to blame the lack of normal sexual interest on the Scamdemic. Of course, aggressive propaganda, unequal discrimination laws, and a depopulation agenda couldn't possibly be responsible for any of it. 

       We should consider that long ago, that when men who were away from women for a long time (e.g. soldiers on leave from the fort, sailors coming back from extended sea duties, cowboys finishing a long cattle-drive, etc.) were on their way to town, local officials used to pass along an informal "hide your daughters" warning to the residents. (A few daughters also figured out ways to sneak out of the house, too, but we digress 😇). The point here being that even if the Scamdemic had any actual impact on marriage numbers, it should have driven them up instead of down once Martial Law the restrictions had been lifted. 

    The whole 'homo equality' nonsense gets a lot of publicity; but the Oligarchs are driving agendas besides that one and imposing them with little or no resistance. And, as the boycotts and the earlier anti-Scamdemic protests show, they are proceeding with them with no regard to public opinion. This leads us to have to contemplate an even bigger problem.

   The United States Government, at all levels, is premised upon popular sovereignty. Inalienable Rights are specifically mentioned in our Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights amended to our Constitution spells out the what these inalienable Rights are. Our laws are premised upon the ideal of self-government to varying degrees within a system of Checks-and-Balances. 

   As we look at our history, it has been one largely marked by defending Liberty against Tyranny (despite what postmodern revisionists say). We had the pro-British Tories to deal with from the War of Independence to the War of 1812; an anti-Free Market slaveholding aristocracy to deal with until 1865; a powerful Corporatocracy to contend with until 1933; and Globalist totalitarian movements throughout WW2 and the Cold War. 

   For some reason, though, it seems that at the end of the Cold War Americans had simply given up. One by one, our freedoms evaporated and along with them our Quality of Life and character. Popular culture has reflected this. Since the 1990s, the media has been one constant stream of pessimism: apocalypses, dystopias, Nihilism, transhumanism, Narcissism, senseless violence, cynicism, moral relativism, atheism and Scientism run rife through the cultural venues---liberally punctuated with appeals to escapism through drugs or cults; while the so-called news media feeds us a steady diet of paranoia, propaganda, and disaster. Our political class rides the same bandwagon; telling us outright lies like having only a decade to fix Climate Change; doubling-down for the next Scamdemic; or how our nation won't survive another term of whichever Party is the incumbent one; etc., etc. 

  With these facts in mind, we have to start facing the uncomfortable question as to whether or not Self-Government is actually viable any longer. That, of course, immediately adduces the follow-up question: What would replace it? There are a lot of answers to that question: none of which sound especially appealing. 

   Evading the issue though isn't going to make it go away. It's a serious issue now that needs to be faced throughout the English-speaking world. 

    

MONTANA, THE CHURCH, AND THE DRAG QUEEN

        Today in the newsfeed, there was an article in the National Review stating that the GOP State Legislature in Montana actually did something right for a change and passed a comprehensive ban on so-called Drag Queen Story Hours. I realize that it should have been done about ten years ago, but the Legislature's sudden surprising spasm of Manhood deserves some recognition.

     The bizarre phenomenon known as 'Drag Queen Story Hours' began in the mid-2010s along with the Deep State's Obama Administration's push for homo 'equality.' Some medical doctors warned that normalizing such behavior could lead to a rise in Sexually-Transmitted diseases. They were run out of the system and the AIDS Epidemic suddenly disappeared from the front pages, and has become something of a Third Rail Topic in that it's considered "unsuitable for any kind of public or academic debate and where offenders are at risk of (usually unspecified) serious adverse consequences." 

    Psychological theories which opposed the New Normal (on the grounds of decades of actual scientific and clinical research) were cancelled and blacklisted too. What's now known as the 'LGBTQ Orientation' was found to be a curable mental illness up until Scientism and NGO dollars changed the definition. The illness itself is characterized by antisocial behavior, the inability to form healthy relationships with the opposite sex, and proclivities towards violence, depression, addiction, and suicide. 

   What's happened during the decade or so since we've embraced the New Normal? Well, among people under 25 (who were brought up under the new attitudes) we have skyrocketing rates of novel STDs, gender dysphoria, violence, depression, addiction, suicides, and a high percentage who have no interest in starting or raising families. The reaction of the Whacko Left Wing has been to double-down and call for more of the same, hoping for a different result. 

   Whenever the Left is confronted with the uncomfortable truth that their settled science isn't working out so well, their knee-jerk reaction is to blame Religious people---Christians in particular. I have to keep from bursting out laughing whenever that gets mentioned. In the Cultural Wars, American churches are about as intimidating as beachfront sand-castles would be to a modern army. It's been said that all churches have three flags: an American flag, a denominational flag, and a White flag that they keep in case of surrender. 

   A case in point came from Pastor Stephen Underwood, leader of the flock at Central Christian Church in Great Falls, Montana. Reverend Underwood wrote a furious editorial in the Daily Montanan defending Drag Queen Story Hours (yes you read that correctly). He actually claims that the prophets of the Old Testament would approve of such spectacles if they were alive today.

       Let's examine some of Underwood's reasoning on this topic. He says: "When I asked my senator if he had ever attended a drag show, he told me that he had not, which I imagine is true of most of the people backing the bill." Typically, that's about as deep an argument as most on the Left need to hear. It's about like a few knee-jerk types on the Right who claim that one can't criticize the Military unless they've 'served.' Fortunately, he does go into some deeper discussion:

     "These bills mischaracterize drag as inherently sexual in nature, 'appealing to prurient interest.'" and then goes on to note that if the Legislators would enlighten themselves by attending Drag events, "they might realize that nine times out of 10, particularly in the case of all-ages shows, drag performers have more in common with clowns and ballerinas than with actual adult entertainment performers."

    Leaving aside for the moment that the promoters of these events openly admit that grooming and sexualizing children are among their stated goals; this pastor is clearly very ignorant of how children develop sexually. Despite what Postmodern Scientism teaches, boys and girls are born with instinctual sexual drives that in normal development first attaches itself the parent of the opposite sex. With their underdeveloped sense of Reason, they go through a period as toddlers where they act out aggressions against the same-sex parent (e.g. 'The Terrible Twos'). They soon realize around the time they begin interacting with other children that, unlike wild beasts, they can't simply kill their mother or father and have the object of their desire to themselves. In normal development, they soon notice other males and females among their peers and develop 'crushes.' 

    These 'crushes' seldom end in a glorious romance; and this second disappointment the child faces typically results in bonding with peers of the same sex. This is time before the onset of puberty, and is the time when children are most vulnerable to predatory homosexual grooming. We're talking roughly 3rd-6th grade age here. Most homosexuals, it has been found, never progressed psychologically beyond this stage. Clinical studies show (and most of us can actually observe) that most homosexual patients have the emotional maturity of a typical 9 or 10 year-old. 

   Transgenderism typically follows a different trajectory, using manifesting itself in puberty. Without going into too much detail here, the major cause of transgenderism comes from a dysfunctional familial or social dynamic where masculinity is depreciated and femininity unduly celebrated. It really has a closer relationship to OCD than to sexual dysfunction and actually had about a 90+% cure rate when psychiatrists were still allowed to treat it. 

  Comparing drag-queens to clowns and ballerinas is absurd on the face of it. Children are not shocked and confused by seeing such costumes. While they're trying to make sense of their own gender identity, contact with a gender acting completely out of character makes them doubt their own reason because it's obvious---even to children---that males and females are different. 

 Underwood continues: "The real reason they want to ban drag performances from the public sphere is because drag, emblematic of queerness itself, is a threat to entrenched systems of power...Drag is dangerous for that very reason. It points out the farce of rigid black-and-white—or rather, pink-and-blue—thinking and imagines a rainbow of possibility for God’s beloveds. We really are all born naked, and the rest—as Mama Ru says—is drag."

  Thus, after comparing drag queens to clowns, Underwood asserts that gender really isn't defined by much more than what clothes we wear, and then deduces from that premise that God doesn't worry about such things. While I don't think that God considers dressing in a clown suit---or, for that matter a man wearing an expensive suit or a girl in a sleeveless summer dress---as sin; I do believe that God strongly disapproves of wearing disguises to lure impressionable young people and children away from their responsibilities to the opposite sex. In a more enlightened age, such people were known as 'traps'---and with good reason.

  Though I'm not quite sure what Underwood means about "threatening entrenched systems of power" the only logical inference that I can draw from this is that he means the traditional, nuclear family. If so, he shows not only an ignorance of how societies actually function but shows an extremely dangerous train of thought. Threats to the family structure are an uncontroverted threat to society itself. This is why legislators have not only the Right, but the Duty, to suppress threats to the family and to encourage their growth and stability. "Public Safety is the First Law" is the ancient maxim upon which all of our laws---including our Constitution---are premised upon. True, in this century that principle has been abused a lot in the name of 'National Security'---even Montana recently banned TikTok on that pretext---but the idea of 'Free Speech' doesn't apply to the case of Drag Queen Story Hours or Pride Parades. This was decided in 1973, in fact, by the United States Supreme Court:

   “Whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value...It is neither realistic nor constitutionally sound to read the First Amendment as requiring that the people of Maine or Mississippi accept public depiction of conduct found tolerable in Las Vegas, or New York City.” 

   Underwood is apparently aware of this difficulty and tries to squirm through it with the sophistry of claiming that drag shows are not only 'works of art' but Biblically-sanctioned as well. "The intersection of artistic expression and social critique terrifies those with vested interests in maintaining authoritarian control." he spouts, "As Bible scholar Walter Brueggemann says in The Prophetic Imagination: 'Every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.'”

   All of which proves that he is as ignorant of Art as he is of Theology. Aside from his ridiculous interpretation of Hebrew Prophets as "performance artists" he fails to grasp that Art is a product of the Imagination. As R.G. Collingwood (a real philosopher) wrote: "A work of art, like any work of the spirit, must be a complete and coherent whole, systematic through and through, and built upon one consistent principle of unity; but the unity is not the same as that of a philosophical theory or an historical narrative, but is the principle of imagination. A philosophical theory must be capable of being conceived as a whole; an historical narrative of being narrated as a whole---that is, being narrated as true---a work of art, of being imagined as a whole." It's not surprising that someone who thinks that gender is only a matter of clothing would fail to grasp the meaning of Art, or of prophecy for that matter. 

   The troubling thing here vis-a-vis American churches is realizing that Underwood is not some theologian who got his credentials from a shady diploma mill---he holds an M.A. in Divinity from Vanderbilt University, one of America's supposedly 'elite' universities. A specimen of the Theology he apparently learned there reads: "The same people concerned about the psychological damage a child might experience witnessing a man in a colorful dress read a storybook about being kind to people have no problem telling the same child that unless they pledge their eternal servitude to an invisible being who watches their every moment and knows their every thought, they will be tortured for all eternity—out of love." This kind of stupidity hardly needs comment except to say that the Protestants really need to start evaluating the quality of their Divinity schools. Suffice it to say, if this is coming out of Vanderbilt, your churches have a real leadership problem. 

    The State of Montana---at least on this issue---has taken the correct approach. Hopefully, other States will follow suit and enact sensible legislation