Bishop Schneider on attempted gender ‘transition’ for 7-yr-old: ‘barbarity,’ ‘insanity’

VIRGINIA, October 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, called the effort to force seven-year-old James Younger to undergo a gender “transition” a “horrible abuse of a child” that demonstrates the level of “barbarity” and “insanity” our “Western unbelieving society” has reached.  Speaking with LifeSiteNews about a variety of topics during his much anticipated trip to the eastern United States, Bishop Schneider, one of the most outspoken defenders of orthodoxy and reason in the Catholic Church, called the claiming of a right to force children to undergo so-called sex changes “one of the last steps of the gender dictatorship.” The James Younger case is being used as a tool of the “gender ideology dictatorship,” said the bishop.

“We can only hope that this father will win the process,” he said, but either way, we should pray for James, that he be allowed to reach adulthood unharmed.
“They are abusing a child who cannot ... decide for himself,” said Bishop Schneider. “To abuse him for their own — the ideologies of adults, of the depraved and even of this perverse gender ideology — it is, for me, a shame and a horrible abuse of a child.”--> READ MORE

Mayor won’t apologize for condemning LGBT indoctrination as ‘affront to Almighty God’

BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, New Jersey, October 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The mayor of a New Jersey township is holding firm against negative reactions to his forceful denunciation of a state law mandating that “LGBT history” be taught in public schools.
Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy signed Senate Bill 1569 in January, requiring school boards to develop lessons about the “political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people” throughout history.
During an August committee meeting for Barnegat Township, Republican Mayor Alfonso Cirulli assailed the LGBT agenda as “an affront to almighty God” and declared that “now is the time for the righteous to stand up for their rights” before the school district implements a new curriculum in line with the new mandate.
"The government has no right to teach our kids morality," he said, arguing that "we've crossed over the line into absurdity” in overriding parents’ right to decide when and how to introduce children to such sensitive subjects.
“Everyone has a right to live his or her life the way they want to, but no group has a right to force others to comply with their beliefs,” added Cirulli, who is a former assistant principal.--> READ MORE