Month: June 2025

By Eric Utter

Christian churches have been under attack in recent years.

Many have burned or been vandalized. Many more, particularly in Europe, have closed due to lack of attendance, which is itself due to secularization on the one hand and demographic change on the other. Some have been converted into mosques.

And some Christian churches appear to have been taken over by those who disdain Christianity.

Germany’s Paderborn Cathedral of Westphalia may be one of those, if a recent ‘performance’ it hosted is any guide.

The cathedral, long one of Germany’s most prominent and sacred, hosted a show during which three shirtless male dancers swung, threw, and ‘walked’ raw, headless chicken carcasses stuffed into diapers around the chancel as if they were little children.

That is bizarre and disturbing enough in and of itself, but they did this while singing “Meat is Meat” (a play on the Austrian pop song “Live is Life”).

The ’show’ was part of a commemoration of the 1,250th anniversary of the Westphalia region, and was attended by Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, other German officials, and Archbishop Udo Markus Bentz.

Many folks consider the ‘performance’ to be a mockery of the Eucharist, the Body of Christ — and a “desecration” of the sacred cathedral.

One such person is Maria Wirth, a Hindu herself, who subsequently stated that Christianity is “under attack, and maybe undermined from the top.”

Wirth took to ‘X’ to write, “It was not a ‘misjudgment’ as claimed. It was in all likelihood deliberate desecration. The debasement of humanity is in full swing. Who is behind it? What is the purpose? Can it be stopped and turned around?”

The jury is out on that question, Maria.

What is not in doubt is that this ‘performance’ was an attempt at utterly desecrating the sanctity of life, of Christianity, and of God Himself.

“Live is life” morphed to “meat is meat?” I can’t imagine anything more disgusting. Dead, decapitated chickens, bloody steaks, newborn infants in diapers or swaddling clothes … they’re all the same, right? Just meat?

The only further comment necessary is this one: God help us. Please.

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An NHS hospital trust drafted guidance proposing extra breaks for transgender staff who wear chest binders or tuck their genitals, but has since dropped the proposals following criticism and the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex.

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust (UH Sussex) had drawn up draft guidance that said trans colleagues “may require extra scheduled breaks in their shift in order to have breaks from binding and tucking”.

The 15-page document, written by employees in the trust’s LGBTQ+ staff network last year, was sent to other groups for consultation.

However, the trust confirmed the proposals were put on hold in February and would not be pursued following the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Equality Act referred to biological women and biological sex.

Chest binding involves women wearing clothing to compress their breasts to appear more masculine, whilst tucking requires pushing male genitalia between the legs to create a more feminine appearance.

The proposed policy also included provisions for women-only spaces to accommodate trans women.

It advised staff to understand the impact of cross-sex hormones on transgender colleagues and their mood fluctuations.

The document suggested that testosterone could cause lower energy levels and mood changes towards the end of medication cycles, while feminising hormones might similarly affect mood and energy levels during dosage adjustments.

Dr Alice Hodkinson, a co-founder of Biology in Medicine, said people binding or tucking were “risking medical and psychological harm”.

She explained that tucking male genitals “between the buttocks can cause pain, inflammation, fertility problems and testicular torsion”, while “binding can cause chest and spine deformities, cysts, infections and difficulties breathing”.

Dr Hodkinson warned that testicular torsion “is a surgical emergency requiring an immediate operation to preserve fertility and sexual function”.

One former employee at the trust said: “If we’re going to make allowances for people who have to use the toilets to change and do this, that and the other, should we not be making allowances for women with heavy periods, or people who have to pray three times a day?

“Why are we making allowances for one group of staff over everyone else?”

Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, described the proposals as “disgraceful coming from a healthcare body”.

She said the guidance for “employees who are self-harming in pursuit of the impossible goal of sex change should never have made it onto paper, even as a draft”.

A spokesman for UH Sussex said: “This draft paper is not trust policy or guidance, it never has been, and never will be.

“A colleague submitted it to a manager in February for consideration, but it was not accepted.”

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The New Culture Forum Literary Festival presents Dan Wootton in conversation with NCF Senior Fellow Dr. Philip Kiszely. The inaugural New Culture Forum Literary Festival took place on the weekend of 23-24 May 2025. Watch Dan Wootton Outspoken here: https://www.youtube.com/@danwoottonou…

Paedophile prisoners are converting to Islam to receive protection from Islamist gangs, a new report into the state of Britain’s prisons has revealed.

Giving rise to fears of Islamist radicalisation taking place in Britain’s jails, former prison governor Ian Acheson has found evidence inmates serving time for sex crimes against children are avoiding isolation from their peers by converting to Islam.

He said: “We’re now seeing evidence that convicted sex offenders, who in the traditional prison hierarchy were at the bottom of the pile and had to be segregated from the rest of the population for fear that they would be killed by them.

“We’re now seeing them walking openly in normal location because they’ve come under the protection of Muslim gangs.”

Commissioned by Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, the analysis found governors have “lost control” of their inmates as contraband flows into prisons – including mobile phones used to spread Islamist hate.

Acheson told GB News: “We’ve got about 230 terrorist offenders.

“We have a larger subset of prisoners deemed at risk of radicalisation and they’re in very close proximity to more traditional organised crime.

“Where those two groups are together, it is absolutely rational to think they will cooperate in some way. Then you have a serious problem.”

Staff have fallen into a “culture of appeasement” of the Islamist gangs, Acheson found, as attacks on prison officers increase.

The latest of which to hit the headlines being Southport killer Axel Rudakubana, who stands accused of having attacked a prison officer with boiling water from a kettle in his cell.

“Senior managers within different prisons are actually placing the rights of prisoners above the rights of prison staff to go to work in the morning and come home of a shift still whole and not via A&E,” Acheson continued.

The former governor advocated for “separation centres” back in 2016 to isolate those who pose the highest risk to prison staff as well as inmates suspected of trying to radicalise prisoners, but felt they were “set up to fail” in their implementation.

Asked for his verdict, Acheson said: “I think there’s more distance to travel on this, particularly when you get a very small number of people who are ideologically motivated, who want to kill for ideas, who I believe are still intent on killing for ideas, and have that capacity for high levels of violence, as well as the psychological mindset to try to subvert, undermine and radicalise others.

“I think there needs to be a different solution for them, and I think if we don’t have that solution, I’m really sorry to say this, because it’s chilling.

“I think the prospect of a prison officer being murdered on duty is closer than it’s ever been.”

Calling the threat “intolerable”, Acheson told Jenrick some of Britain’s highest security prisons had been found to have inactive CCTV and “missing” drone defences, meaning contraband can easily make its way inside.

The nightmare scenario would be “weapons, pistols and ammunition” getting to Islamist prisoners, Acheson worried.

“I’m thinking about that and worrying about it and considering it, you can be absolutely sure terrorists inside prison are as well.”

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