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“Conservative” David French Explains Why He’s Supporting a Harris/Walz Presidency

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.”

Despite this, he still insists he’s a “conservative” and explains that while he doesn’t prefer Walz, who is quite possibly the most radical Governor in the country, it’s worth voting for them in order to stop Trump.

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Right Now Media Brings Left-Wing Partisan Political Indoctrination to Church Small Groups

With less than nine months until the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, political operatives of all stripes are hard at work using all means of persuasion to push the electorate to vote for their candidate. In early 2023, Protestia reported on the launch of The After Party, a left-wing political indoctrination campaign produced under the guise of a church small group curriculum. The After Party is the initiative of Redeeming Babel and its leftist founder Curtis Chang, who produced the material in partnership with Christianity Today’s editor-in-chief Russell Moore and New York Times Columnist David French. 

The curriculum is designed to make conservative Christians doubt their political convictions and cast aspersions on anyone who would say that the truth on issues like abortion can be readily ascertained through scripture. 

Chang, French, and Moore would rather have Christians believe that all political issues are so complex and convoluted, that a faithful Christian must seek to find common ground with political opponents and leave the complex and controversial issues of politics to “experts”, like French, Moore, Chang, and their secular-leftist counterparts. 

Attempts to gain political power and enact laws that reflect Biblical values by Christian conservatives like U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson are rhetorically slapped down with the labels of “Political Idolatry” and “Christian Nationalism.” Chang, French, and Moore preach a brand of religious pluralism that seems to trust secularists and leftists over Christian leadership in what would best be described as an ill-conceived left-wing pluralist pietistic caricature of Biblical Christianity. 

The After Party was recently placed under renewed scrutiny, as investigative reporting by Megan Basham uncovered that production of the curriculum was funded by secular leftist organizations, including Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ New Pluralists Project, One America Movement, and the Hewlett Foundation. These organizations that funded The After Party simultaneously funded numerous leftist causes, including LGBTQ awareness, efforts to expand access to abortion, and “gender-affirming care” for youth. 

The After Party released a statement attacking Basham’s report as containing “inaccuracies and misleading insinuations”. The organization was especially concerned that Basham described the curriculum as “a Bible study” when they viewed their material as a “six-part digital course designed for individuals and small groups to experience, within or outside of a local church.” 

While Basham’s reporting focused on the secular progressive organizations that bankrolled the propaganda in The After Party, many conservative Christians, pastors, and elders are unaware that their churches are currently paying for subscription services that pipe leftist political propaganda like The After Party into the homes of their entire congregation. Right Now Media advertises itself as “the world’s largest video-streaming library of Biblical Resources.” The Christian media giant has partnered with more than 25,000 churches to provide what they describe as a “library of over 20,000 Biblically-based videos.” 

Right Now Media Subscribing Churches pay monthly subscription fees ranging from $154.99 for a church of 101 average attendees, to $1,509.99 for a church of 5,000 attendees. A large portion of Right Now Media content is targeted at church small groups, which also happens to be the explicitly self-stated target audience of The After Party:

“The After Party does the heavy lifting to support local leaders. By presenting national trusted evangelical voices, local leaders do not have to take all the fire by themselves. They only need to sponsor this curriculum into their small group communities, and let us make the case….. The curriculum does the complex – but absolutely necessary – theological work of reframing Christian political identity from today’s divisive partisan options….In today’s political environment, faithfulness to this Biblical ‘how’ of political engagement will shine as a radical alternative to both the Right and the Left.”

While The After Party criticized Megan Basham for characterizing its curriculum as a “Bible study”, Right Now media markets the curriculum as part of its package of “Biblically-based videos” for church small groups, and describes the course as “advancing a Christ-centered political identity”. How can one accurately describe what it means to be Christ-centered without delving into the scriptures?

Right Now Media’s 2023 For the Health of the Nation curriculum partnered He Gets Us Campaign apologist Ed Stetzer with National Association of Evangelical’s President Walter Kim to produce another piece of leftist political propaganda. ‘For the Health of the Nation’ functions as an ideological companion piece to The After Party. Stetzer and Kim label anything deemed politically divisive as “political idolatry”, lean heavily on the same ideology of political surrender found in The After Party, and equivocate on social issues by labeling them “complex”.

For Black History Month 2024, Right Now Media partnered with The And Campaign, a leftist political organization led by democratic political strategist and slavery reparations advocate Justin Giboney to present How I Got Over, a documentary on the origins of the Black Church. How I Got Over purports to “debunk the misconception that orthodoxy is a white western construct.” Promotional material for the series features Marxist theologian and leftist politician Cornel West and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who denied various foundational truths of the Christian faith, including the virgin birth, resurrection, the trinity, and substitutionary atonement.

The Right Now Media landing page for the series includes direct links to the And Campaign website, where Christians are urged to “become advocates against political violence”, by politically advocating for The And Campaign platform of social welfare programs, the end of voter ID laws, the implementation of civil rights laws that protect LGBTQ identifying people as a protected class, and a commitment to religious and ideological pluralism. The organization’s platform is aligned with much of the Democratic party platform. 

Right Now Media’s content on politics in a presidential election year has a demonstrable left-wing bias, and political operatives like Curtis Chang, David French, Russell Moore, Ed Stetzer, Walter Kim, and Justin Giboney are actively exploiting the content pipeline, in an effort to convince conservative Christians that they must compromise their political convictions and give power over to secular progressives for the sake of “principled pluralism.” Many conservative churches unknowingly support this effort by paying subscription fees that support this content. The most concerning aspect of Right Now Media’s political influence is the fact that many congregants will receive the messages from these propaganda campaigns as a form of “Biblical truth”, since they are tagged as “Biblically-based videos” with a tacit stamp of approval from the church that provides access to the subscription.

Sources:

Follow the Money to the After Party | Megan Basham | First Things

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The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics – Redeeming Babel

Frequently Asked Questions – Redeeming Babel

An Open Letter to the Editor of First Things: Correcting the Record – Redeeming Babel

How I Got Over: The Resilience of the Black Church | RightNow Media

The Means and Methods of Christian Political Engagement | RightNow Media

The After Party: Towards Better Christian Politics :: RightNow Media

Russell Moore’s New Curriculum Exists to Give Pastors ‘Plausible Deniability’ For Avoiding Politics in Pulpit+ Sneak in Beliefs Without Taking the Blame – Protestia

David French and Russell Moore Launch Curriculum to Teach Christians How to Engage in Politics – Protestia

AND Campaign Leader Says White Churches Who Don’t Want to Pay Racial Reparations are Arguing With God – Protestia

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Russell Moore’s New Curriculum Exists to Give Pastors ‘Plausible Deniability’ For Avoiding Politics in Pulpit+ Sneak in Beliefs Without Taking the Blame

Months after former ERLC President and current Editor of Christianity Today Russell Moore joined forces with David French, who recently came out in support of gay marriage and child genital mutilation, and Curtis Chang, who launched the website ‘Christians and the Vaccine’ where he routinely shamed Christians for refusing to get vaccinated to launch ‘The After Party” a teaching curriculum to educate Christians on how to have a proper view of politics, we have begun to see the rotten fruit of their ministry endeavor.

At The Evangelical Covenant Church’s Midwinter 2024 Conference, Curtis Chang reveals that the purpose of “The After Party” 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. 

“It’s tempting to think, oh god, I’ve got to preach the sermon, the sermon that will like, you know, reframe everything, solve all my problems. And that turns out to be, for most pastors, a really flawed process because the Sunday morning sermon is actually a really bad way to deal with something like politics.

It’s one-to-many communication. It’s limited. People are bound to misunderstand even a small thing you say. People will filter what you’re saying through their existing political biases. In 30 minutes, I guarantee you, if you go up on Sunday morning in most congregations and you try to preach the one sermon on politics that you haven’t been preaching on for a long time, your Monday morning inbox is going to be an ugly scene.

And that’s honestly why most pastors or many pastors don’t preach on politics on Sunday morning because they instinctively know ‘my Monday morning inbox is going to look awful if I do that.’ So the challenge we need is to give churches and pastors a way to head in towards healthy Christian politics that doesn’t force them to preach this magical Sunday morning sermon that will solve everything.

And The After Party is our attempt to do that so that you don’t have to do all the heavy lifting and also, frankly, you don’t have to take the bullseye, right?

You don’t have to take the bullseye, right? Because this way, if you run The After Party in your small group community, in your Bible studies and so forth like that, then if people get mad, they get mad at Curtis, Russell and David. They get less mad at you. You can have plausible deniability, right?

You could just say, ‘Hey, you know I don’t agree with everything these guys say, but I think they’re worth listening [to].’ That’s the classic move, you know, you do make as a pastor, right? To, uh, you want to inject something but, you know, not have to take all of the shots for it, which you shouldn’t have to take all the shots for. That should be part of our job, is to do that. This is, that’s the partnership here.”

Commenting on the clip, Josh Daws notes that “This clip is representative of how many of these gospel-centered parachurch organizations work. They encourage pastors to focus narrowly on the gospel while these organizations disciple people with bad application that smuggles in leftism and egalitarianism.

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Russell Moore’s Politics Curriculum Praises Pastor Who Invited Lesbian Mayor to Preach as an Example of Good Christian Politics

(The Dissenter) Russell Moore, David French, and Curtis Chang are the authors of “The After Party” curriculum which is supposed to equip churches and Christians on how to engage in politics without being “divisive.” Yet, these clowns epitomize everything that is wrong with today’s Church by wholly embracing practically every anti-Christian progressive ideology known to man.

In a recent clip of several of the contributors to this “church” curriculum, they praise one of the most divisive, politically charged social justice pastors in all of Evangelicalism—Charlie Dates. And they hold him ups as one of the examples of a Christian leader who represents exactly what they’re fighting for.

So who is Charlie Dates? In 2018..to continue reading click here.

This article was written and published at the Dissenter

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Russell Moore and David French To Speak on ‘How Evangelism Lost Its Way’ at Gay-Affirming Church

In a move that should surprise no one, NYT columnist David ‘Drag-queen-story-hours-are-a- blessing- of liberty’ French and Russell ‘I-love-the-enneagram’ Moore are attending the Texas Tribune Platform Festival, a noxiously progressive paper that is hosting a series of events well-suited to the likes of these two.

The former ERLC head and current Editor-in-chief of Christianity Today Astray will be interviewed by French on his upcoming book Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America”. The two will condescendingly commiserate on how “evangelicalism lost its way” without ever mentioning that they were both instrumental in throwing away the compass and burning the map.

The event is taking place at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas, a gay-affirming church that gives visitors name tags with LGBTQ rainbow stickers. Here, Moore will do his one-sided riffing where he only throws punches to the right while tossing red meat to the left, seeking to stand above the fray while scampering around in search of pagan approval. 

Wouldn’t go for the world.

For more on French:

David French CONDEMNS Texas University for Banning Drag Show
David French Flip-Flops Again, Declares Himself to Be Pro-Gay ‘Marriage’
David French Argues Millions of ‘Bible-Believing’ Black Protestants are the ‘Foundation’ of Democrat Party
David French and Russell Moore Launch Curriculum to Teach Christians How to Engage in Politics
David French Doubles Down on ‘Castrating Childen is Not Abuse’+ Inadvertedly Gives a Defense of Abortion
David French Says To Stop Calling the Chemical Castration of Children ‘Abusive’

For more on Moore:
Russell Moore’s Condemnation of Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law is a Trainwreck of Deceit and Stupidity
Christianity Today (Ft Russell Moore) Advances False Claim That The Enneagram Has ‘Christian Roots’
Russell Moore Speaker at ‘The Gospel For Enneagram Summit’ + Joined By Some Legit Heretics
Russell Moore “Shaking With Rage” Over Underwear Meme As He Spreads Leftist Conspiracy Theories.
Russell Moore Joins Hands With Marxist Liberation Theologians in Deconstructionist Conference
Russell Moore Says in Light of Overturning Roe v. Wade, Conservatives Who Voted Trump Have NOT Been
Nearly All Speakers at Christian ‘Pro-Justice’ Conference, Ft. Russell Moore, are Pro-Choice or Silent on
Arrogant Russell Moore Condemns Small Churches Who Grew During Pandemic by Eschewing Mask Mandates/ Vaccine PassportsFall of RoeVindicated

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David French CONDEMNS Texas University for Banning Drag Show

Students are suing West Texas A&M University after President Walter Wendler canceled a student-planned drag show, calling the grotesque pageant “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny.” Saying that it goes against his personal beliefs, Wendler promised that he would do all in his power to prevent drag shows from appearing on his campus “even when the law of the land appears to require it.”

FIRE attorney Adam Steinbaugh said in a statement: “College presidents can’t silence students simply because they disagree with their expression. The First Amendment protects student speech, whether it’s gathering on campus to study the Bible, hosting an acid-tongued political speaker, or putting on a charity drag show.”

In response, the self-proclaimed “conservative” Christian commentator David French commended FIRE’s (Fights For Your Rights) lawsuit, saying that they’re right to bring it because the President’s actions are “textbook viewpoint discrimination.”

French, who recently complained about people who called the chemical castration of children ‘abusive’ and who months ago declared himself to be pro-gay ‘marriage’ was once prophetically labeled by Delano Squires as a purveyor of “drag queen conservatism. This is exactly right. Gabe Hughes and Squires, each responding to the story, point out the inconsistency of French, who picks and chooses what he wants to defend, echoing progressive values but shying away from nittier and gritter questions. 


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David French and Russell Moore Launch Curriculum to Teach Christians How to Engage in Politics

Former ERLC President and current Editor of Christianity Today, Russell Moore, is joining forces with David French and Curtis Chang to launch ‘The After Party” a teaching curriculum to educate Christians on how to have a proper view of politics. 

Sounds awful. We’d rather listen to a 14-year-old atheist sarcastically read the bible out loud to us than sit in on that course. Heck, it would be more pleasant to be disemboweled and have demons use our entrails as squirmy whips to lash us with than have to listen to anything they’d have to say about the intersection of faith and politics. 

Nonetheless. 

Curtis Chang’s organization ‘Redeeming Babel’ is launching the project; the problem is that “evangelical politics have become deformed into hatred of political opponents, susceptibility to lies, and other practices that threaten the common good.” 

Determining that “Many local leaders feel like they lack the resources to deal with the political complexities of the day.” Moore, French, and Chang are here to save the day.

The After Party does the heavy lifting to support local leaders. By presenting national trusted evangelical voices, local leaders do not have to take all the fire by themselves. They only need to sponsor this curriculum into their small group communities, and let us make the case….. The curriculum does the complex – but absolutely necessary – theological work of reframing Christian political identity from today’s divisive partisan options….In today’s political environment, faithfulness to this Biblical “how” of political engagement will shine as a radical alternative to both the Right and the Left.

Moore and French’s progressive proclivities are well known and established- just recently French came out in support of gay marriage and child genital mutilation, claiming cutting off healthy breast tissue or turning a teenager’s penis into a wannabe vagina it’s not abusive. 

So who is Chang? He’s an author, a professor at Duke Divinity School, and Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary. A former pastor, he founded Redeeming Babel in 2019 to address “underlying theological problems driving the chaos and confusion of our current world” which includes “a mishappen approach to politics.” 

He is perhaps best known for his website ‘Christians and the Vaccine’ where he routinely shamed Christians for refusing to get vaccinated, as well as argued there should be no religious exemptions to vaccine mandates. He also denounced the recall of California Governor Gavin Newsom, blames the Church for January 6th, and participated in the 95 Theses of Police Reform.

Some of these theses include: decriminalize and no longer require policing of the following: Consumption of alcohol on streets, marijuana possession, disorderly conduct, trespassing, loitering, disturbing the peace, End the culture of civilian intimidation with guns: police must be unarmed in spaces of civilian engagement, and General call to defund the police. 


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David French Doubles Down on ‘Castrating Childen is Not Abuse’+ Inadvertedly Gives a Defense of Abortion

‘David 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. This is especially true in a recent NYT Op-ed, where he chastised people who were decrying the chemical castration of children and labeling it as abuse, while also arguing that politicians need to stop passing laws making trans surgeries illegal.

After getting significant blowback, French doubledowned on Twitter. He protests that giving puberty blockers to children, encouraging them in their supposed gender dysphoria, and ultimately helping them cut off healthy breasts and penises is not “abuse” if it’s legal and doctors are willing to do it. This while havin gall to insist “I oppose medical interventions to transition kids.” His logic follows:

  • We permit states to seize custody of children when their parents abuse or neglect them, such as beating them, cutting them, starving them, or sexually abusing them. This is actual abuse.
  • Trans surgeries for children are not ‘abusive’, and it’s wrong to define them as such, particularly when they stem from parents, doctors, and caregivers doing their best to love their children. 
  • It is wrong to define trans surgeries and procedures as ‘abuse’ if doctors and legislators say it’s not abusive, and if labeling it as abusive will needlessly result in children being removed from their gender-affirming parents.


French argues that the definition of “abuse” should not be expanded to include genital mutilation in children, but this shows how broken and compromised this thinking is.

Labeling genital mutilation as abuse is not an EXPANSION of the definition, but rather refusing to include it and seeking to carve out an exception for it through some progressive medical rebranding is a SHRINKING of the definition of abuse.

French’s deranged stuttering is almost perfectly analogous to abortion. “I oppose abortion, but because legislators and the medical community say it’s not killing a baby and personhood is not settled, I don’t want the definition of “murder” to be expanded to include slicing off a child’s limbs and then suctioning the entrails. I also don’t want the civil government to make it illegal or restrict it or do anything about it, as that would be an infringement of the mother’s rights, who is just trying to do what’s best for her in consultation with her doctor.”

In making a defense for one he makes a defense for the other, all the while demonstrating he’s a caricature of himself.

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David French Says To Stop Calling the Chemical Castration of Children ‘Abusive’

‘David French, who we like to unaffectionately call “The State’s Fool“, is a self-proclaimed “conservative” Christian commentator who could be called a conservative in the same sense that Arius of Alexandria is called a “Church Father.’ He would be unknown in evangelical circles if Russell Moore hadn’t platformed and promoted him over the last decade, and therefore functions as controlled opposition, laying out progressive talking points in the guise of conservative concern that should sicken anyone with an ounce of discernment.   

David French Flip-Flops Again, Declares Himself to Be Pro-Gay ‘Marriage’
David French Argues Millions of ‘Bible-Believing’ Black Protestants are the ‘Foundation’ of Democrat Party
Faux Conservative David French Pushes Wild Christian Nationalist Conspiracy Theories

In a recent article, he argues that political defeat ought not to result in the loss of “the most fundamental human rights of dissenting citizens and that “culture war waged against the civil liberties of your political opponents inflicts a double injury on dissenters: They don’t merely lose a vote; they also lose a share of their freedom.” 

He gives some examples of those losses of freedom, which he believes are two sides of the same coin. First, he criticizes schools for hiding information about gender-transition kids from parents. Once the guard is down with that minor acknowledgment, he splits his knuckles backhanding folk seeking to make it illegal to mutilate children through the chopping off of healthy breasts in young girls, pumping them full of hormones, and then enacting upon them nightmare surgeries that turn their reproductive systems into cruel and grotesque approximations of a penis. 

French suggests that helping a child ‘transition’ into a different gender are not necessarily abusive, and we ought not to presume they are.

He also argues we should not pass laws preventing parents from giving their children the same drugs used to chemically castrate sex offenders or inverting their children’s penis into a perpetually mangled and gnarled canal, because this would be an example of “state interference with parental authority” and a loss of the parent’s fundamental freedom. 

State attacks on civil liberties are even affecting our most valued relationships: the bonds between parent and child. In January, The Times reported on how public schools sometimes withhold from parents information about a child’s gender transition, even in the absence of any evidence of parental abuse.

….And because every culture war action against civil liberties has its mirror image on the other side, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas issued a directive to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate as “abuse” both surgical and pharmaceutical interventions for transgender children, regardless of the good faith and desires of the parents, children and caregivers involved.

To understand the gravity of the state interference with parental authority, it’s worth remembering the words of Chief Justice Warren Burger in the 1972 case Wisconsin v. Yoder, in which he wrote that the “primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now established beyond debate as an enduring American tradition.” To simply presume that parents are abusive because they may dissent from state consensus on transgender care is to violate this principle of American law.

Lest you think French couldn’t be any more compromised after his insistence that we do not call these practices against children “abusive” or seek to pass laws against them, it’s clear he’s already absorbed the language and framework of gender ideology and argumentation, buying into the big lie.

The first indication is his inclusion of “caregivers” as people who might have a legitimate interest in a child’s transitioning, as if a teacher should have any involvement or say in seeing her pupil’s outsides turned into insides.

The second is his capitulation to the very existence of “transgender care,” which is an oxymoronic term used exclusively by morons high on oxy and given over the arguments of this wicked culture. Any efforts to “help” a child’s “transition” is not care but rather a farcical attempt to put a kind veneer over a garish maiming and disfigurement.

Like we said, the State’s Fool.



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Op-Ed: New York Times Throws Their Boy A Bone: David French To Join Times As Opinion Columnist

David French, the Evangeleftist public theologian and political commentator who recently declared his approval of the Respect For Marriage Act and the nationalization of gay marriage, has announced that he will join the New York Times as an Opinion Columnist. This move will surprise absolutely no one who has been following French’s trajectory as he races to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Russell Moore, who was the token Christian lap dog for such leftist publications as the Washington Post before ascending to his throne in the Ivory Tower of Christianity Today. French is frequently quoted as a notable Evangelical in the New York Times in the same way that the Washington Post utilizes Russell Moore.

French previously served as a founder of the Dispatch and a contributor for The Atlantic. Undoubtedly, the secular humanists at the New York Times are gleeful at the news that the “French Press” Bloggerista will join their ranks. Undoubtedly, French will use this opportunity to frame his faux conservative, pro-secular nationalism, Globo-homo agenda as a standard for Evangelicals and conservatives. French and the New York Times both share a mutual disdain for former President Donald Trump, a fact that was clearly expressed in the first sentence of the NYT’s introduction of French.

The only thing that would be better than having a wolf in sheep’s clothing like David French take off his costume and join the wolf pack over at the New York Times would be having French’s pal and fellow Evangeleftist and sodomite sympathizer Phil Vischer join the rag as a contributor in the funny papers.