MLB’s Perverted Definition Of Bigotry

Bu Bill Donohue, Catholic League President 

Major League Baseball (MLB) is okay with one of its teams honoring a vile anti-Catholic group of drag queen bigots, but it is not okay with a pitcher who objects to the radical LGBT agenda. That is the principal takeaway in light of MLB’s response to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being honored by the Los Angeles Dodgers, and former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass’ rejection of LGBT extremists.

Everyone knows how Bud Light used a twisted cross-dressing activist to market its beer, triggering a backlash from normal men. Similarly, Target’s decision to market “tuck-friendly” women’s swimsuits that conceal male genitalia (the outfits are made for men who claim to be a woman yet refuse to have their sex organs cut off) inspired normal men and women to object. In late May, Bass posted an Instagram video that criticized the two companies.

The video included a plea by its creator, Ryan Miller, asking Christians to boycott Bud Light and Target. Although Bass did not personally comment on the post, he came under fire by LGBT activists and the front office of the Blue Jays. After the blowback, he apologized but it was too late. His team dumped him, saying he was a “distraction.”

We have not heard a word from Rob Manfred about this perversion of justice. 

We forced his hand on May 16 to nix the Dodgers decision to honor the “Sisters” (he was so bombarded with emails protesting this stunt that the next day the bigots were disinvited). But a few days later, he and the Dodgers succumbed to pressure from the LGBT crowd and reinvited them. So we know which side they’re on. 

Manfred’s silence with regard to the Bass matter suggests he is okay with the player effectively being fired for exercising his First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Nothing in the video was obscene or insulting, but everything the “Sisters” do is both. 

What kind of moral compass Manfred, the Dodgers and the Blue Jays are working with is a mystery. They have managed to sanction a vicious assault on Catholic sensibilities while simultaneously punishing those who reject LGBT mania. They are twice wrong.

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The Threat, The Cure… Cultural Marxism In America

By Deacon Mike Manno

(The Wanderer) – Last fall two of the Heritage Foundation’s fellows, Mike Gonzalez and Katharine C. Gorka, issued a report that everyone should read. It is entitled “How Cultural Marxism threatens the United States — and How Americans Can Fight it.” I’ll provide a link to it at the end.

The report succinctly lays out the case against the Marxist left, its origins in Communist political thought and how it has morphed — with the help of the Academy — into the movement that threatens the viability of our precious nation. It begins:

“In 1989, as the Soviet empire was crumbling, The New York Times noted an interesting new development: While millions who had lived under the brutal rule of Communism for decades were finally throwing off their yoke, Marxist professors were taking over American academia.” Then quoting the Times article, it concluded:

“As Karl Marx’s ideological heirs in Communist nations struggle to transform his political legacy, his intellectual heirs on American campuses have virtually completed their own transformation from brash, beleaguered outsiders to assimilated academic insiders.”

Here, in a nutshell, is what happened: Marxism and Communism lost their clout in the United States over a very simple point: Capitalism worked. It had proved itself capable of doing what Marxism and Communism was unable to do: Provide for the needs of all. Marxism, on the other hand, relied on the proletariat to rise against their oppressors, the bourgeoisie, those owning property and the means of production which labor lacked.

The rise against the property owners would need to be violent.

But that violent rebellion was no longer necessary. Capitalism had proved that men could rise above their lowly conditions to provide for themselves and their families. Thus, being a member of the proletariat class was not a permanent status. Capitalism had shown that while not all might be able to obtain great wealth, they could rise their standard of living within the system, and could even become rich themselves.

Since the lower class could improve their situations, the allure of Marxism lost its shine. They then must re-package this whole ideology to find a substitute for the proletariat, who were not tied to the class struggle as much as the Communist propaganda had relied upon.

In short, the ideal new “class” were people who could not leave their tribe, those who had immutable characteristics which could not be thrown off as poverty could. Thus, the cultural Marxists focused on race, sex, national origin, emphasizing the “cancer of human history” is the white race, thus creating non-whites, women, and racial minorities as the poor and oppressed, the new proletariat.

While this was bubbling up during the 1980s, the American Marxists had been spending generations infiltrating college and university campuses with scores of tenured professors ready to heed the call for Cultural Marxism, the result of which we are seeing today, as the report notes:

“Today’s cultural Marxists believe that the reason economic, social, cultural, academic, and health outcomes (to name just a few) show persistent racial disparities is because of a pervasive, systemic racism that can only be eliminated by smashing the system itself. The quickest way to do that is to create a never-ending number of racial and country-of-origin categories (such as Hispanics and Asian Americans, both created by government fiat in 1977 at the insistence of leftist activists), the members of which would be instilled with grievances about the disparity of these outcomes, to the point that they will want to become active soldiers in smashing the system.

“The Marxist narrative that all of society for all of history has been divided into categories of the oppressed and their oppressors is played over and over. The government, and all society, the purveyors of CRT say, must thus treat people not as individuals with liberties, but as categories that deserve special treatment and benefits as members of these categories.

“What is happening today, therefore, is nothing more than this age’s identity category version of Marx’s 19th-century claim that, because individuals have different abilities, and because they belong to different classes, their rights must differ. According to Marx, if government or society in general were to grant people equal individual rights (such as to consumption and services), material inequality (the bugaboo of all Marxists then and now) would ensue.”

Or, as the “anti-racist” Ibram X. Kendi stated, “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” Thus, the government must discriminate in favor of those categories of people deemed oppressed.

Marxism, through its base in the Academy, has been able to spread its tentacles throughout society with concepts such as DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion), CRT (Critical Race Theory), the “trans” movement, and the adoption of environmental controls through ESG (Environment, Social, Government) rules which require corporate boards to place greater emphasis on the environment and diversity than on return on investment which is being imposed on markets by asset firms such as BlackRock by using their ability to vote shares of stock over which they have control, but no ownership.

What about cancel culture? The report says, “Because of that absolutism, cultural Marxism cannot tolerate or co-exist with other worldviews. It demands censorship, which began as ‘political correctness’ but has since veered into the far more insidious censorship, which leads inevitably to tyranny (as Marxism always has everywhere it has been tried). It punishes alternative views by attempting to drive those who express them from public life, a phenomenon dubbed ‘“cancel culture’.”

The report did lay out a strategy for defeating cultural Marxism.
Focus locally, it says. While most folks are looking to national trends and politics, most of the damage being done by the cultural Marxists is done on a local platform: school boards, colleges, and local officials who control public funds and operate under the radar. Of course, that is not to diminish the importance of national politics, it’s just at the local level that the rubber hits the road.

Take back education, the writers urge. They point out how Gov. Ron DeSantis used legislative power to retake control of the schools in Florida. That same power can be harnessed by local officials determined to break the influence of the Marxists.

Another suggestion is using existing laws on child abuse to prosecute those who are sexualizing our children. If the laws you need in your jurisdiction do not protect children, work to change them.

There are several other suggestions made, but a twelve hundred word essay can’t cover the richness of the report, so I urge you to read it yourself at: https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/how-cultural-marxism-threatens-the-united-states-and-how-americans-can-fight.

The co-author of the report, Katharine C. Gorka, is scheduled to be on my Faith On Trial program this week. You’ll be able to find it using the link below, look for Episode 366.

(You can reach Mike at: DeaconMike@q.com and listen to him every weekend on Faith On Trial or podcast at https://iowacatholicradio.com/faith-on-trial/)

Americans to Congress: Leave the Court Alone

Poll commissioned by First Liberty Institute finds more than two-thirds of Americans oppose restructuring of Court and attacks on integrity, ethics of Justices.

Washington, DC—First Liberty Institute today announced the results of a nationwide poll from Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy revealing 72 percent of Americans believe that the politicization of the Supreme Court threatens judicial independence and 69 percent do not want Congress taking over and setting rules for judicial ethics.  First Liberty, the nation’s premier law firm dedicated exclusively to religious liberty, commissioned the poll.

Read the results of the poll here.

“Americans clearly reject the manufactured attacks on the integrity of Justices and radical attempts to delegitimize the Court,” Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO, & Chief Counsel to First Liberty said.  “Americans understand that if the politically motivated efforts to restructure our judicial system works, judges will lose their ability to enforce the rule of law with impartiality, and the last safeguard to our civil liberties will be gone.  The message of the American people to Congress couldn’t be clearer: leave the Court alone.”

The poll, conducted by Mason-Dixon of registered voters nationwide May 30-June 2, suggests 91 percent of Americans believe an independent judiciary is a crucial safeguard of our civil liberties.  In addition, 68% of all respondents oppose court packing, a number consistent with previous polls.  Importantly, self-identified Independent voters overwhelmingly reject plans to pack the court (66% opposed).

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About First Liberty Institute: First Liberty Institute is a non-profit public interest law firm and the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to defending religious freedom for all Americans.

Religion Clause: Court Enjoins Enforcement of Florida's Ban on Trea...

In Doe v. Ladapo, (ND FL, June 6, 2023), a Florida federal district court issued a preliminary injunction barring Florida from enforcing against plaintiffs its ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for treating minors who have gender dysphoria. The court said in part:

The elephant in the room should be noted at the outset. Gender identity is real. The record makes this clear. The medical defendants, speaking through their attorneys, have admitted it. At least one defense expert also has admitted it....

Despite the defense admissions, there are those who believe that cisgender individuals properly adhere to their natal sex and that transgender individuals have inappropriately chosen a contrary gender identity, male or female, just as one might choose whether to read Shakespeare or Grisham....

Addressing plaintiffs' equal protection challenge, the court said in part that "Drawing a line based on gender nonconformity—this includes transgender status—... triggers intermediate scrutiny." The court went on to say in part:

The record establishes that for some patients, including the three now at issue, a treatment regimen of mental-health therapy followed by GnRH agonists and eventually by cross-sex hormones is the best available treatment. These patients and their parents, in consultation with their doctors and multidisciplinary teams, have rationally chosen this treatment. The State of Florida’s decision to ban the treatment is not rationally related to a legitimate state interest. 

Dissuading a person from conforming to the person’s gender identity rather than to the person’s natal sex is not a legitimate state interest....

The defendants say the many professional organizations that have endorsed treatment of gender dysphoria with GnRH agonists and hormones all have it wrong. The defendants say, in effect, that the organizations were dominated by individuals who pursued good politics, not good medicine. 

If ever a pot called a kettle black, it is here. The statute and the rules were an exercise in politics, not good medicine.

This week on FOT: Cultural Marxism and the Dodgers' fake nuns

 Listen now: https://iowacatholicradio.com/faith-on-trial/. This is Episode 366.

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Studies Affirm Medical Mutilation Is Mentally Harmful

ORLANDO, FL – In recently published medical studies, numerous scientists confirm that mutilating gender surgeries fail to improve the overall lives of people struggling with gender dysphoria while worsening mental health in most people by increasing feelings of loneliness and increased suicide rates. Peer-reviewed studies suggest mutilating surgeries leave as high as 83 percent of people feeling lonelier and almost 50 percent dissatisfied with their lives after surgery.

Additionally, research finds a 14 percent increase in suicide rate for people who have access to such procedures, such as people in states without a law banning mutilating surgeries.

In a study published May 22, 2023 titled “Loneliness and Social Isolation among Transgender and Gender Diverse People,” researchers at the University of Hamburg Medical Center concluded “…people, who have undergone gender reassignment surgery [generally] feel lonelier” than others who have not had surgery. In a subsequent study published May 30 by the same researchers titled “Are transgender people satisfied with their lives?,” 44 percent of people reported varying levels of dissatisfaction with their lives after irreversible surgeries where 30.1 percent reported “slight” satisfaction and only 1.1 percent reported extreme satisfaction. The authors attributed the higher quality of life satisfaction to higher age groups and noted that younger age groups, such as ages 18 to 29, experienced disproportionally high rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, and non-suicidal self-injury.”

In a June 2022 Heritage Foundation report called “Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones, and Youth Suicide,” Senior Research Fellow Dr. Jay Greene noted a correlation between fewer legal barriers to mutilating surgeries and hormone treatments to higher suicide rates among youth experiencing gender dysphoria. Greene explained that suicide rates among ages 12 to 23 began to accelerate in 2015 as access to medical interventions without parental consent became more prevalent.  

Greene stated, “By 2020, there are about 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 people ages 12 to 23 in states that have a policy allowing minors to access health care without parental consent than in states without such a policy…an increase of 14 percent in the suicide rate. This increase in suicide rates in states where it is easier for minors to access puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones increased at almost the same time, and to the same degree, as those interventions became available.” Today, at least 19 states now prohibit puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries for children.

These studies are consistent with a 2011 study conducted in Sweden, a nation friendly to gender ideology, titled “Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden.” The study found “substantially higher rates of overall mortality, death from cardiovascular disease and suicide, suicide attempts, and psychiatric hospitalizations in sex-reassigned transsexual individuals compared to a healthy control population.” The study recommended improving “psychosocial care” for post-surgical individuals.

However, the lack of “pre-surgical” care in these studies may suggest the “sex-reassignment surgery” industry is giving little attention to “psychosocial care” to individuals before life-altering surgery. The industry, consisting of major medical centers and pharmaceutical companies, with backing from medical associations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA), was valued at $1.9 billion in 2021 and is expected to increase to nearly $3 billion by 2030. In fact, the number of gender clinics treating children in the United States has grown to as high as 300 over the last few decades. According to Komodo Health Inc., in 2021, about 42,000 children and teens across the United States received a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, nearly triple the number in 2017. The analysis found that at least 121,882 children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria from 2017 through 2021.

Yet, the profitable “gender business,” in its rush to irreversibly mutilate children and adults, largely ignores data that shows a correlation between gender dysphoria and earlier trauma or underlying mental illnesses. 

In the 2021 study “Disparities in Childhood Abuse Between Transgender and Cisgender Adolescents,” gender-confused adolescents had a significantly higher likelihood to report childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, and psychological abuse than their non-gender dysphoric peers. In the study titled “Attachment Patterns in Children and Adolescents With Gender Dysphoria,” scientists found that “gender dysphoria in children arises in association with…high rates of unresolved loss and trauma,” such as sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and exposure to domestic violence. The study also indicated 87 percent of children in the study who had gender dysphoria also had anxiety, behavioral disorders, or autism. 

As science continues to establish correlations and links regarding gender dysphoria, therapeutic counseling has helped many people get beyond mental health struggles. Liberty Counsel has represented several licensed counselors in preserving free speech in private counseling. Those counselors have treated several clients with gender dysphoria (brought on by trauma and abuse), where those clients have testified under oath that without counseling, they would have continued down a dark, irreversible path, and it was the counseling that helped them resolve their health issues to embrace their biological sex. 

Counseling for gender dysphoria, which the “gender business” and media falsely refer to as “conversion therapy,” is actually talk therapy and is a lot like a GPS map system for mental health. The clients tell the counselor the direction in which they want to go, and the counselor helps them reach that destination. Counseling operates from the viewpoint that people do not have to be chained to gender dysphoria or unwanted desires, behaviors, or confusion.

Mary Beth Waddell, director of Federal Affairs for Family and Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, said, “The only way individuals dealing with gender dysphoria will come to live happy, healthy, and authentic lives is by addressing the source of their dysphoria and pursuing healing…Until these root issues are properly dealt with, these individuals will not be completely satisfied.” 

Waddell also underscored that a high percentage of children will eventually have gender dysphoric feelings dissipate if allowed to go through puberty naturally. Supporting this assertion, a 215-page report from Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration states, “In total, there have been 11 outcomes studies…from a variety of countries, conducted by a variety of labs, using a variety of methods, all spanning four decades, every study without exception has come to the identical conclusion: Among prepubescent children who feel gender dysphoric, the majority cease to want to be the other gender over the course of puberty.” 

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “Gender ideology is permeating the medical community monetizing the act of mutilating children and adults alike into a billion-dollar industry. Scientific research is connecting the dots between gender dysphoria and underlying mental health issues. Liberty Counsel has successfully defended licensed counselors who have helped people with gender dysphoria by treating those underlying issues.”

CatholicVote to Dodgers: Actions Have Consequences

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Woke Brands Back Off Pride Month as American Fury Grows

For most CEOs, Pride Month couldn’t have come at a more inopportune time. As companies like Target, Bud Light, and others desperately try to control the flames burning down their brands, this annual test of LGBT loyalty is putting most businesses in a position they’d rather not be in: outraging an already agitated consumer base or ticking off the lobby they’ve worked two decades to appease. Faced with the choice of becoming unprofitable or politically unacceptable, what will the big companies do?

Read the rest of the story from Suzanne Bowdey in The Washington Stand at:

https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/woke-brands-back-off-pride-month-as-american-fury-grows

Attacks On Catholic Hospitals, And Other Folly

By Deacon Mike Manno

(The Wanderer) – In an action that electrifies the Radical Left who must be salivating over the possibilities, the government in the Australian Capital Territory in Canberra has voted to forcibly take over a Catholic hospital from the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary who have been running the hospital according to Catholic principles.

According to the district’s same-sex married chief minister, Andrew Barr, it was done because the hospital would not allow certain procedures. You can guess what they were: abortions and transgender surgeries. A recent study by the government, “Inquiry into Abortion and Reproductive Choice in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory)” found the hospital “problematic due to an overriding religious ethos.” The study described the hospital’s “ethically fraught dependence” over the sisters’ management.

The report’s section on abortion was captioned “stigma and harassment.”
The study led to a bill passed by the government ordering officials to move into and take charge of the hospital operations on July 3. The bill listed no compensation for the nuns’ whose property is being taken.

Canberra Archbishop Christopher Prowse called the action “shocking.”
Church Militant reported that the archbishop wrote to his faithful: “I am deeply troubled about the situation and its implications, slamming the “shocking news” of the state’s decision to “compulsorily acquire” the hospital. . . . I am also concerned that this action, based on obsessive government control, would deprive future Catholic generations in Canberra of the choice of hospital care based on the ethos of our cherished Catholic faith.”

We have seen and reported on moves by Democrats and left-wing groups that have tried by lawsuit to do the same thing here in the United States. Discrimination and civil rights suits have been lodged against Catholic hospitals for their failure to provide what the far-left considers necessary medical treatment, such as ripping a baby apart in its mother’s womb. They have even sued to stop hospital mergers if one of the parties is a Catholic entity which subscribes to Catholic medical ethics. Some of these efforts have been joined by public officials, including state employed attorneys as well as state attorney generals.

Fortunately, up until now none have achieved the desired results. But, as you know, the left will keep trying until it wins. We see that in other similar areas. For example, proponents of physician-assisted suicide worked nearly 20 years to pass their legislation in Hawaii.

And just last week I reported on legislation which passed the overwhelmingly Democratic Colorado legislature and signed by the Democrat governor which prohibits the use of the drug progesterone for women who have taken the abortion pill and now have changed their minds. If you remember, progesterone opens the way for nutrients and oxygen to get to the baby, reversing the effect of the abortion pill which blocks them.

If states like Colorado can do that to pregnant women who have decided that they want their baby, what else might they do? Remember, there is an election coming up and the parties are starting to position themselves to take advantage of favorable issues. In the last election, the Democrats avoided a voter tsunami against them by defending abortion rights without limit. Can you imagine what some legislative candidates might do? Attorney general? Governor?

If you can imagine it, they will try to do it. Keep your eyes open and your ears to the ground. The rumbling from Australia may be coming to your neighborhood soon — and probably with a lot of money from the usual suspects including George Soros.

In another matter. . . .

It so happens that I love baseball. If you followed any of my writings during the last post-season, when my Phillies went to the World Series, you understand this.

I love baseball, but not the Dodgers. It has nothing to do with the Dodger-Philly rivalry, or some of those season ending losses. Nope, nothing on the field of play. It has to do with a group of nuns. Yes, a group of very special nuns. They call themselves “The Sisters of the Perpetual Indulgence.”
They are, simply put, a blasphemous and anti-Catholic drag group that mock real nuns. And their usual dog-and-pony show includes a drag show with the “sisters” attired in mock habits, dancing around a “crucified” man and doing a strippers’ pole dance on the cross. That apparently goes over well in Dodger land.

Now the Dodgers, as many teams do, are hosting a “pride night” at the ball park, and have invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to not only attend the game, but to receive the team’s Community Hero Award.

When that was first announced the controversy drove the Dodgers to rescind the invitation, but the backlash to the backlash was enough to force the Dodger organization to backtrack and re-invite the group that does nothing but mock and blaspheme the Catholic religion. But there is still the lingering question: What have these drag-queen nuns done to deserve a hero award?

I bet right now Brooklyn is finally over the loss of their precious Trolley Dodgers.

There might be more dodging in LA as this plays out.

And on another front….

Back in 1984 the Supreme Court decided a case called Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. The case involved the interpretation of the Environmental Protection Agency rules dealing with an amendment to the Clean Air Act. The NRDC had challenged an EPA regulation and the court had ruled in NRDC’s favor.

The crux of the case involved the agency’s interpretation of the law. The Supreme Court ruled that unless clearly erroneous, deference must be given to the agency decision. Thus was born what became known as the Chevron Doctrine.

Then last year the High Court threw a wrench in the mix. It held in West Virginia v. EPA that the EPA had overstepped its authority in a case involving the Clean Power Plan. The ruling gave many to understand that the dreaded Chevron Doctrine might be on the way out — good news for those seeking to curtail “Big Government” and the power of the bureaucracies.

This year the court took another step in curbing the agencies. It ruled in Seckett v. EPA that the agency had overstepped its authority in a wetlands case. Now a lot of conservatives, especially those uncomfortable with the EPA, are seeing another case that further weakens the Chevron Doctrine.

And what gives them further hope is that the court has agreed to hear in its next term Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo which challenges a decision of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals which upheld a lower court’s decision by the National Marine Fisheries Service’s interpretation of federal fishery law by relying on Chevron. Legal commentators see this as perhaps the death knell for Chevron.

Now why do I mention this here? Simple. After watching the “deep state” take adverse action against religious and civil liberties, it is nice to see that the Supreme Court is moving along to correct an imbalance that deep state characters have used to frustrate private parties because they did not snap to attention when a federal bureaucrat snaps his fingers.

Of course, elections and human morbidity sometimes play a large part in what comes out of the court. Watch, cross your fingers, pray, and express yourself. Remember, it’s a Republic, if we can keep it.

(You can reach Mike at: DeaconMike@q.com and listen to him every weekend on Faith On Trial or podcast at https://iowacatholicradio.com/faith-on-trial/)

Medical Schools are now offering ‘gender-affirming’ care for toddlers

This week on Faith On Trial: Left maneuvering around SCOTUS; Australia takes Catholic Hospital from pro-life nuns

 Listen now: https://iowacatholicradio.com/faith-on-trial/

Responses To CUNY Law Speech Speak Volumes

By Bill Donohue, Catholic League President 

When I was growing up, if anyone had made an anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-police, anti-military speech at a public forum, it would have generated tremendous controversy. 

Regrettably, the response to a vile assault on America, Israel, the police, and the military—made by a crazed female Muslim bigot at the City University of New York (CUNY) on May 12—has been overwhelmingly restrained. Some have even applauded her vicious speech at the commencement ceremony. 

Fatima Mousa Mohammad condemned her own school, CUNY, for training and cooperating with “the fascist NYPD, the military” and for training Israeli soldiers “to carry out that violence globally.” She also told the law school graduates that their new profession represents “a manifestation of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation and around the world.” Finally, she called for a “revolution” to fight against “capitalism, racism, imperialism and Zionism around the world.” 

Had Mohammad spoken this way in some Muslim-run nations about their society, she would have been killed. 

I come from a family of Irish cops and other law enforcement agents. I am a veteran of the United States Air Force. I have a long history of fighting anti-Semitism. As such, I have no tolerance for such an ignorant and wholly unjustified assault. This would be outrageous if said on social media. That it was said at a publicly funded university makes it obscene. 

Fortunately, a statement by the top officials at CUNY was excellent. The Board of Trustees slammed the address as “hate speech.” Jeffrey Lax, a long-time member of the faculty, was also spot on. 

Gov. Kathy Hochul, who appoints members of the CUNY governing board, said nothing herself, allowing a spokesman to offer a lame response. New York City Mayor Eric Adams was only slightly better. 

The ADL was appropriately critical of Mohammad’s “anti-Israel propaganda.” More pointed was Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, who said, “Jewish students are not welcome at CUNY Law School. That has to change.” Lee Zeldin was spunky enough to call for an end to CUNY’s taxpayer funding. 

We heard from City Councilman Ari Kagan, Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, State Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein, and Congressman Ritchie Torres. They did not take kindly to the speech. 

But where was Sen. Chuck Schumer? Where was Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand? Where was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Where was Rep. Jerry Nadler? Nadler was likely sleepwalking, AOC no doubt agreed with the speech, and Gillibrand may as well be the “Invisible Woman.” But for Schumer not to say anything is the real disgrace. 

Defending Mohammad’s rant was Sudha Setty, the dean of CUNY Law School. She is not an educator—she is a bigoted activist and should be fired. Councilwoman Shahana Hanif accused CUNY of “bullying” the speaker, commending her for being so “brave”; thus did she align herself with hate mongers. The New York affiliate of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) praised their fellow Muslim for her defense of human rights, effectively disabling its credibility; it has no moral leg to stand on. 

People like Mohammad come to the United States, the only country in the world that is being invaded by migrants from around the globe—all of whom are seeking human rights and economic wellbeing—yet they denounce America, saving their real venom for those who defend it at home and abroad. In a sane society, she and her ilk would be run out of town.