This single juror said, “No. I’m not letting this woman get off with a fake insanity plea. She is not insane. No.” They argued with him. They thought he was arrogant. They showed him their credentials and expected him to say yes, but he wouldn’t. He just kept saying no.
This is our culture: crazy people who will not listen to no and who demand that the rest of us affirm their craziness. It is a crisis of accountability.
For years and years, parents have accepted excuses from their children instead of telling them no and holding them accountable for their actions. For years, pastors have failed to practice discipline, especially as it relates to women. If they ever got up the guts to say no and the women screamed, they would immediately back down.
Part of reclaiming a sane culture is telling people no. No, you don’t get to do whatever you want. No, you don’t get to escape the consequences. No, you don’t get your way just because you scream louder. No. We need much more no in our culture.
That will set such a bad precedent.
Rep. Nancy Mace cut straight to the core of a dangerous cultural crossroad. Following the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the public is left grappling with the horrifying reality that three young, defenseless children were killed, yet legal accountability hung on a single holdout juror. That juror stood their ground, presumably because basic conscience demands that taking the lives of your own children cannot simply be excused away in a court of law.
Justice requires accountability, plain and simple. When biology and mental health struggles are elevated to an absolute shield against criminal responsibility, the legal precedent established is catastrophic. If the legal system formally accepts that hormonal shifts can completely strip a woman of moral agency, self control, and legal culpability, the broader consequences will dismantle generations of progress.
For over a century, women fought tooth and nail to prove they possess the equal capacity to lead, govern, hold executive positions, vote, and command the highest office in the land. The historic argument against women’s equality was always rooted in the archaic claim that biological volatility made women unfit for serious responsibility. Embracing that very premise today validates the oldest, most patronizing anti-equality arguments in modern history.
It is bitterly ironic that this defense emerges in the national spotlight at the very moment a pioneer like Gloria Steinem passes away. Decades spent demanding equal civic standing, intellectual respect, and leadership capability are suddenly threatened by an effort to pathologize the worst imaginable crime into legal innocence. Equal rights cannot exist without equal accountability. When personal responsibility is stripped away under the guise of compassion, women are reduced back to being viewed as legally and emotionally incapable of full citizenship.
That is a win for the muslim ideology claim that women are inferior…Christianity disagrees with that islamist thought
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Long ago, in a clearing deep within a vast forest, there lived a magician who owned a huge flock of sheep.
Every day, he slaughtered one of them for food.
But managing the flock was exhausting. The sheep constantly scattered into the woods, forcing the magician to spend hours chasing one down while trying to gather the others back together. And whenever a sheep sensed it was about to be killed, it would panic and struggle desperately, its terrified cries frightening the rest of the flock.
Eventually, the magician came up with a clever solution.
One by one, he spoke privately to each sheep and planted a different idea into its mind.
To the first sheep, he whispered:
“You are not a sheep at all. You’re just like me — a human being. I only kill sheep, and since you are human, you have nothing to fear. In fact, you are my closest friend.”
To another, he said:
“Why do you run from me like the others? You are a lioness — strong and fearless. I only slaughter sheep. You are above them.”
To a third, he murmured:
“You are no sheep. You are a wolf, and I respect wolves. I may continue killing sheep every day, but a wolf — especially my trusted friend — has nothing to worry about.”
And so he continued, speaking separately to every sheep in the flock. To each one, he gave a special identity. Each was convinced it was different from the others — superior, unique, safe.
After those conversations, everything changed.
The sheep stopped running into the forest.
They grazed peacefully and no longer feared the magician.
Whenever he killed another sheep, the others simply thought:
“Well, another sheep is gone. But I’m not a sheep. I’m a lion. A wolf. A human. The magician’s trusted friend. I have nothing to fear.”
Even the sheep chosen for slaughter stopped resisting.
The magician would simply walk up to one and say warmly:
“My dear friend, we haven’t talked in a while. Come with me — I need your advice about the flock.”
Proud of being considered special, the sheep would gladly follow him into the yard. There, the magician would casually ask questions about the others, and the sheep would happily tell him everything it knew.
Then the magician would kill it.
The death came so suddenly that the sheep never even had time to understand what had happened.
The magician was delighted with his strategy.
By convincing each sheep that it was exceptional, he had raised their self-esteem so effectively that they stopped thinking about death altogether. They became calmer, less anxious, and more obedient. They peacefully ate grass and enjoyed their lives — which, according to the magician, even made their meat taste better.
For many years, he ruled over the enormous flock with ease.
And the most remarkable part was this:
The other sheep eventually began helping him.
Whenever one particularly intelligent sheep started questioning what was really happening, the others — the “lions,” the “wolves,” the “humans,” the magician’s “special friends” — would quickly report the suspicious behavior.
And the very next day, the magician would happily eat that sheep too.
— Inspired by the parable attributed to George Gurdjieff
For those that understand, no explanation is necessary.
For those that don’t understand, no explanation is possible.
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