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A Catholic Priest has apologized for describing a lesbian couple as “holy spouses” during his recent same-sex blessing of them, saying he regrets the language used and is “deeply sorry” for the confusion he caused. 

Its more poisonous fruit from Pope Francis’s decision to allow Roman Catholic priests to bless the unions of gay couples, which has done nothing but sow discord and confusion, such was the case with Fr. Joseph S. Williams, CM, the leader of St. Vincent de Paul Church in Chicago, Illinois.

In a video released two weeks ago, Williams officiated a blessing between Kellie Beard, a United Methodist pastrix, and Myah Knight, a therapist and self-described “QTBIPOC”. (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous People of Color).

[Rev. Williams:] Kelli and Myah, do you freely recommit yourselves to love each other as holy spouses and to live in peace and harmony together forever?

[Beard:] We do. I do.

[Knight:] We do. I do.

[Rev. Williams:] Loving God, increase and consecrate the love which Kelli and Myah have for one another. The rings that they have exchanged are the sign of their fidelity and commitment. May they continue to prosper in your grace and blessing. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

[Beard:] Amen.

[Knight:] Amen.

[Rev. Williams:] May God’s blessing be yours: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

A letter sent out by the communication manager for the Mission Western Province says that Williams “regrets the language of the blessing and the use of vestments and the church itself, which he now recognizes were a violation of the norms approved by the Church.”

“The shape that the blessing took as portrayed in the video came about due to my attempt to provide for them a meaningful moment of God’s grace. I wanted to do it well. A week or so after the fact, I viewed the video. I immediately realized that I had made a very poor decision in the words and visuals captured on the video…. I am deeply sorry for any confusion and/or anger that this has caused, particularly for the People of God.”

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Raw video: Rev. Joseph S. Williams of St. Vincent de Paul #Catholic Church in Chicago presides over Lesbian Exchange of Vows and gives Blessing! – https://t.co/LBmEnZJyuI Williams is in full communion with Cardinal Blase Cupich and #PopeFrancis, we might add. #catholictwitter pic.twitter.com/KX9tarO3HJ

— Novus Ordo Watch (@NovusOrdoWatch) May 2, 2024

The controlled opposition at ‘The After Party’ is crying foul after founder David French had his panel discussion at the PCA’s upcoming General Conference canceled, following a public outcry from conservative Christians dismayed at his original invite. 

Last week, in a bewildering and blisteringly backward move, the Presbyterian Church of America announced that David French would be a featured panelist at the 2024 General Assembly, speaking on “How to Be Supportive of Your Pastor and Church Leaders in a Polarized Political Year.”

They could have selected few worse people, given French’s partisan pedigree and progressive politics, made evident by the fact that he’s pro-‘same-sex marriage, supports ‘gender-affirming’ care for children, condemned Texas University for banning drag shows, and got upset when Christians called chemical castration of children “abusive.”

Two days ago, the PCA heard the will of the people, with the permanent committee announcing that the assembly panel would be canceled, sharing:

The concerns that have been raised about the seminar and its topic have been so significant that it seems wisest for the peace and unity of the church not to proceed in this way. Instead, the seminar time will be allocated to a prayer convocation that humbly petitions our God for the good of his church in a polarized political year, utilizing the means of grace provided by our Lord for his people.  

The Administrative Committee shared that after making the initial announcement about his invitation, “the AC’s office has heard from a number of people voicing opposition to the panel as well as those wanting it to take place as planned” which a needlessly diplomatic way of saying the voices against French’s invite to those in favor were 100-1.

PCA Stated Clerk Bryan Chapell, who was the driving force behind the initial invite, apologized for his role in the matter, explaining “Had I known some of the ways that the panelist has expressed himself or been understood in past writings, I would have made a different choice for the purposes of this seminar.”

I apologize to the members and staff of the Administrative Committee for the controversy over the upcoming General Assembly seminar. Concerns about a panel participant have caused some brothers to be concerned for the witness of our church and other brothers to be concerned for how our church processes differing views while protecting reputations. I am thankful for both sets of brothers, and regret that my composition of panelists has put them at odds with each other. 

The purpose of the seminar was to help our churches deal with political tensions and, instead, controversy has ensued. This is contrary to the intended purposes of the seminar and the purposes that AC members and staff have so conscientiously pursued with me over the last four years. We have worked together to advance the peace and unity of the church, trying to build trust and godly expression among those of differing viewpoints. 

Had I known some of the ways that the panelist has expressed himself or been understood in past writings, I would have made a different choice for the purposes of this seminar. Without seeking to debate or invalidate the merits of any brothers’ concerns, I acknowledge that I did not become aware of significant background issues before making this decision. This was my mistake, and I apologize to the PCA that I love.

This left Curtis Chang one of the co-founders of the duplicitous After Party (the other two being Russell Moore and David French) to begin his ‘REEEEEEEEE’-ing ritual, keening into the Twitter ethers:

It’s not cowardice but conviction- at least at those sounding the clarion call. It also represents a threat to the viability and influence of Chang, French, and Moore’s ten-horned and seven-headed organization, suffering a well-deserved beast-beating. 

Logos Bible Software continues to sell hundreds of erotic and pornographic books on its platform despite promising that such titles would be “rare” and that their “filters as well as our manual processes” would “prevent illicit titles from being added to our platform.”

Earlier this year, we broke the story that the preeminent Bible software company was selling thousands of erotic and pornographic books, failing to act on complaints when it was first brought to them. 

After a volley of public outcry and pressure (where the company lied, distorted, and engaged in revisionist history), Vice President of Content Products Matt Bennett shared an update on page six of a private message board where a couple dozen people would read it, assuring users that they would take care of it because “we know our existing workflow failed at keeping illicit titles off the Logos platform, so we’re rebuilding our process to better vet and filter content.”

He provided an update a month later, sharing the great strides they have taken:

We have checked, tested, and verified our filters as well as our manual processes are working properly from now on to prevent illicit titles from being added to our platform. We have also completed automated and manual reviews of questionable content that’s currently available on the platform, removing all the inappropriate books we’ve found. From here on, we are confident that our processes will correctly identify and remove content that doesn’t adhere to our Distribution Philosophy. 

Thank you for your patience as we have worked to fix our content filtering and review processes. While we can’t guarantee another illicit title won’t end up on the Logos platform, we feel certain it will be rare.

Our team remains committed to regularly checking our filters and to reviewing and responding to each email that comes through titlereview@logos.com. Please keep sending us anything you come across.

Their confidence in their abilities is entirely misplaced, as we were able to identify hundreds of erotic and pornographic books on their platform in just a few short minutes, demonstrating their systems are still broken, that they are not taking this seriously enough, and that they have not learned their lesson from last time. A few of the titles we found within 5 minutes of searching:

While Logos has been reasonably quick to remove books once they are alerted and given a direct link to the offending sexual content, they have failed to go on the offense and proactively cull christ-hating content from their platform, despite insisting this type of content now being rare and having systems in place to stop it.

We reached out to Logos several times for comment but they have declined to respond.

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Wayback machine links, showing timestamps of content at time of publication.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240513044804/https://general.ebooks.faithlife.com/product/321688/maisie-parrishs-naughty-cakes-over-25-ideas-for-saucy-character-cakes-cake-toppers-and-mini-cakes

https://web.archive.org/web/20240513052910/https://general.ebooks.faithlife.com/product/264873/the-book-of-the-penis

https://web.archive.org/web/20240512061718/https://general.ebooks.faithlife.com/product/325304/the-strippers-guide-to-looking-great-naked

https://web.archive.org/web/20240512031544/https://general.ebooks.faithlife.com/product/306816/the-scorpions-sweet-venom-the-diary-of-a-brazilian-call-girl

https://web.archive.org/web/20240513045141/https://general.ebooks.faithlife.com/product/318927/the-book-of-vice-very-naughty-things

https://web.archive.org/web/20240512031821/https://general.ebooks.faithlife.com/product/337032/naughty-spells-and-nice-spells-sexy-and-scandalous-simple-and-sweet

Earlier in the year, we brought you the exclusive multipart investigation of how Logos Bible Software was selling thousands of sexual and pornographic books through their platform, searchable through their multiple channels, and was dragging its feet to have them removed. 

While Logos and their various representatives have steadfastly refused to speak to us on or off the record since we first broke the story, Vice President of Content Product Matt Bennett ultimately apologized deep on the 6th page of a private forum post for allowing so much perverse content on their platforms, acknowledging that their “existing workflow failed at keeping illicit titles off the Logos platform,” while promising they are “rebuilding their process to better vet and filter content.”

We were initially optimistic, buoyed by a mass culling of content that removed nearly all offending titles. We noted that while it’s undeniable that Logos did not make purging pornography a priority, despite their dishonest continued insistence to the contrary, “Logos looks properly purged of the vast majority of sexually graphic books.”

It didn’t last long.

Despite their vaunted vetting efforts, Logos utterly failed to keep their platform free of pornographic content, with the new spate of sexually explicit content gracing their websites arguably even more disturbing than the last.

Here is a small sampling of some of their titles that are presently available, again demonstrating that Logos is not treating this breach of trust with the severity it is due. 

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This “Naughty Spell book” is particularly odious, offering a host of satanic sex spells to attempt.

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That is a small sampling, which you can see were timestamped and sellable at the time of publication .

https://web.archive.org/web/20240512031544/https://general.ebooks.faithlife.com/product/306816/the-scorpions-sweet-venom-the-diary-of-a-brazilian-call-girl

https://web.archive.org/web/20240512030836/https://www.logos.com/product/307643/milk-fed

There are hundreds, and we’re going to be sharing them over the course of the next few days. We could encourage our readers to kindly contact Logos at 1-888-563-0382 or cs@logos.com to request they stop selling smut once and for all.

In a truly bewildering and blisteringly backward move, the powers that be in the Presbyterian Church of America, a conservative denomination that is typically the antithesis of the satanic PCUSA, have announced that David French will be a featured panelist at the 2024 General Assembly, speaking on “How to Be Supportive of Your Pastor and Church Leaders in a Polarized Political Year.”

They could have selected few worse people, given French’s partisan pedigree and progressive politics. French, who we like to unaffectionately call ‘The State’s Fool”, is a self-proclaimed “conservative” Christian commentator who can always be counted on to give the worst take possible on any situation, including the whim of whatever demon is whispering into his ear at any given moment. 

These include announcing he’s pro-‘same-sex marriage, supporting ‘gender-affirming’ care for children, condemning Texas University for banning drag shows, and getting upset when Christians call chemical castration of children “abusive.”

There is also the fact that French is not even part of the PCA, with him and his wife leaving the denomination for a woke church after his wife Nancy claimed that her church (and denomination) was “brimming with Neo-confederates.” 

Personality aside, he’s one of the worst people to speak on the topic at hand. French wants to speak on “How to Be Supportive of Your Pastor and Church Leaders in a Polarized Political Year,” yet he has engaged in unbridled Trump Derangement Syndrome, repeatedly calling the former President a threat to “our democracy,” urging voters to give Joe Biden a second term in office, castigating Republican loyalists intent on voting for him again, and launching “The After Party.” This is an organization whose goal is to take the “bullseye” off pastors by moving political teaching from the pulpit to small groups so that pastors can share their political beliefs without congregants getting mad at them for it, sneaking in anti-Trump sentiments without taking any of the blame.  Hard to believe that ideology wouldn’t bleed into any advice he gives.

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While French unquestionably would not have been out of place at the PCUSA’s events, his invite is inexcusable, and the PCA needs to shake their head. 

A highly disturbing new conference has emerged, featuring Jason Whitlock, John Rich, Voddie Baucham, Skillet’s John Cooper and Mormon Glenn Beck????!

According to the promo material, Fearless Army: Roll Call 2.0 is a “gathering, celebration, and encouragement of men to put on the full armor of God to take a stand against the evil forces destroying American culture.(Ephesians)” insisting that “it’s important that men not give up meeting together and encouraging one another toward love and good deeds. (Hebrews 10:24-25)”

The conference is being put on because “Jason Whitlock and John Rich “believe the best way to close the divides tearing America apart is to bring men together under the umbrella of worship, reverence, and song honoring our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” and the conference is “designed to inspire men to put aside superficial differences and serve our shared Creator.”

Hell no.

That might be possible if noted Mormon Glenn Beck wasn’t speaking and teaching. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? What does light have with polytheist cultists?

So long as Glenn Beck is speaking, we would implore John and Voddie to back out immediately, as no one should be going to this conference. In fact, even if Beck backs out, the fact that conference organizers invited him in the first place demonstrates they don’t understand the gospel, and we would not trust them to convey any spiritual truth worth knowing. 

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For more on Beck, see here:

Glenn Beck Pronounces Himself Saved at Ed Young’s Church, Crowd Riotously Applauds
Billy Graham Said Glenn Beck – a Mormon – Was a Fellow Christian
The Beck Lies: Mormon Leads Prayer to False God at Ted Cruz Campaign Office
Charismania Embraces Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck’s Mormonized Rant Against Christianity

Editor’s Note. We made an error in regards to our assertion about specific aspects of Mormon theology and have issued a public retraction. Which is not to say that they aren’t scripture-denying cultists, which they are, but they have enough bad theological beliefs that they don’t need us passing on new ones.