Doug Constance

Frustrated linguist & piano player; once an engineering manager; love Nutter Butters, chocolate-covered almonds, & the Oxford comma. Amazon's best customer.

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

He’s defending women and girls from the cult of trans in the most effective way he possibly can.

I have never cared about a double double in the WNBA and I never will, like 99% of men. But I care about this.

Those women should all thank him for improving their ratings and their future paychecks.

[Doug Constance @DougConstance]

@ZitoSalena @BradOnMessage God, give Brad the blessings that he needs.

[Doug Constance @DougConstance]

@JaniceDean OK, where can I get that blouse for my wife?

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

This never should have been normalized. Ever. It’s demonic.

[MEL GIBSON @Melgibsonact]

This is what a 34 week old baby looks like outside the womb. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey just legalized killing an unborn child at this age. For no reason, just because someone wants to They call it “reproductive rights” because they refuse to call it what it is: murder

[Renatta Oxendine @Renatta]

An unborn baby has a soul from the moment of conception.

Abortion is destroying an image bearer of God.

Abolish abortion.

[Ashley Ayala @ARBAyala]

At eighteen, my mother joined the military.

While serving, she became pregnant.

The decision she made was to abort her child.

What she lived with afterward was not freedom.

It was regret.

Deep, lasting, and inescapable.

That is what followed her for the rest of her life.

I believe God is merciful and loving.
He does not delight in our pain; He desires to teach us.

Yet some lessons come at a terrible cost because certain choices cannot be undone.

Years later, when my mother finally tried to have a child of her own, she suffered multiple miscarriages.

I am her rainbow baby, the child who came after the storms.

And here I am, speaking the truth she could never fully put down.

She was consumed by that earlier decision.

I believe she carried the weight of it all the way to her grave.

Women, hear this with both compassion and clarity, abortion does not erase a child.

It ends a life, and the woman is left to live with the silence that follows.

God’s mercy is real.

His forgiveness is real.

But the wisdom is still ours to receive before a permanent choice is made.

Life is sacred.

Choose it.

[Doulos of Jesus ✞ 🩸 @DoulosOfJesus]

My biological grandmother told my mom to abort me. I was born into poverty. My mom was kicked out and all our things were in my bio grandma’s front yard and we were homeless… I was 3 months old.

But God…

God gave me a dad. God gave me shelter. God gave me purpose. God pulled me out of poverty.

God provided for me. He has never failed me.

[Joseph Spurgeon @Joseph_Spurgeon]

Whenever I say that homosexual acts are contrary to nature, somebody inevitably responds:

“But homosexuality occurs in the animal kingdom!”

Well, hold on.

First, animals do sometimes engage in stranger behavior. But people often read modern human categories back into animal behavior. An animal mounting another animal of the same sex doesn't necessarily mean that we have discovered a gay dog. Researchers distinguish temporary behavior from enduring sexual orientation or identity. Animal sexual behavior can involve dominance, social bonding, competition, excitement, mistaken identification, and all sorts of other things.

But there is a much bigger problem with the argument.

When Christians say something is “contrary to nature,” we do not mean, “This behavior has never occurred anywhere in the natural world.”

Lots of bizarre things occur in nature. Dogs eat poop. Some animals eat their young. Animals sometimes kill each other over mates. A male lion may force a female lion to mate. The fact that an animal does something doesn't tell you that a human being ought to do it.

“Natural” means according to the nature of the thing. What is it? What is it made for? What is the proper end, or telos, of its faculties?

And with human sexuality, the answer isn't exactly hidden. Men and women have complementary bodies. Male and female reproductive organs are ordered toward one another. Sexual intercourse is the kind of union that can produce children. Our very bodies testify to what sex is and what it is for.

That is what we mean when we say homosexual acts are contrary to nature. The argument isn't: “That it never occurs in the world.” The argument is:

“Look at what man and woman are.”

Nature isn't merely a catalogue of everything that happens. Nature tells us what a thing is, and from what a thing is we can discern what it is for.

[Doug Constance @DougConstance]

@RochelleLi33444 God, give Wren and her family the blessings that they need.

[Angie Wright @onlyHEisWorthy]

Can't she just shut up about all this abortion stuff?
Nope. I have tried.
Because to be honest sharing my story of sitting in an abortion clinic as a teen all alone is HARD! But God..
God keeps pressing on in my heart through the Holy Spirit "keep speaking my child! Don't quit speaking! I know it's hard! But I am with you ALWAYS!"

One of the great obstacles to our speaking out in public about the truth as we see it with Jesus is that we think we have to win.
Or we think we have to operate with the assumptions of a secular world. Our calling is not to win or to borrow the assumptions of the world. Our calling is to stand up and tell it like it is in the eyes of God! Shame the devil and tell the truth!

Yesterday Massachusetts legalized abortion up to birth.
Everyone clapped.
I keep hearing it.

There was a time not long ago when many who defended abortion still used the word rare.
Rare implied the nation's conscience still had a pulse.
Nobody said rare this week.
They clapped.

A culture does not lose its
conscience all at once. It loses it one euphemism, one justification, one round of applause at a time.

But know this. The womb is not neutral territory.
God is at work there-knitting, forming, writing days in a book before there is a single one of them.

[Sydna Massé @sydnamasse]

As a woman who chose it as a teenager, I HATE ABORTION. There is never a reason to have one. I will miss my child forever. The regret, guilt, pain, suffering, heartache, judgment and shame make it the worst decision anyone could make. Don't have an abortion!

[Emma Johnson @JohnsonEmma]

We’re thrilled to welcome @NewEmergingKing as a lead speaker at our Sept. 18 Virginia Summit Advancing Boys and Men!

King and his organization, The X for Boys, teaches young boys practical life skills that translate into "the true meaning of manhood, true masculinity, how to be a team player and collaborate with others, and how to be protectors and providers for their communities."

You've likely seen King on his viral Instagram and Tik Tok channels or a recent TODAY show appearance.

[Renatta Oxendine @Renatta]

The whole abortion debate has me thinking about my own condition, and what it means for unborn babies with the same condition I have.

I have neurofibromatosis type 1(NF1) a genetic condition that causes tumors to form on the nerves. It can also cause epilepsy, vision loss, learning disability, and sometimes cancer.

I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 13 but now unborn children are being diagnosed in the womb. There is no doubt in my mind that parents of unborn children with NF1 are being offered termination of the pregnancy by doctors.

This makes me both sad and angry. Yes, I have had my struggles through life and yes I’ve faced challenges - but I love my life and I am thankful and joyful for every day God has given me.

Parents, if your unborn child has been diagnosed with NF1 or any genetic condition, please choose life. Your child deserves a chance to live.

[John @market_sleuth]

This is a sensitive topic & so I’d prefer to tell a story.

When I was married my former wife Mary Beth was a NICU nurse. Several times I had the opportunity to watch her care for these premature babies. It was her passion. I always knew when a baby died in her care because when she’d arrive home she didn’t speak much. Often I just had to say “Did one not make it?” She’d simply nod & remain quiet. I never pressed for more info. I knew how much it grieved her.

One day she called me & said she was caring for a 24-week-old preemie, which at the time was extremely rare. She asked if I wanted to see the infant so I went to the hospital, put on scrubs & entered the NICU to watch her care for this baby in its isolette.

The baby weighed 600 grams. I watched her carefully feed it & administer care with the utmost of precision to not harm its delicate skin. To strong a touch & it felt horrible pain, to bright a light & the baby would go into distress, to loud a sound & it would cry uncontrollably. This why when you enter a NICU they keep things quiet, lights dim etc. That baby is now a thriving 21-year-old man in college. The parents kept in touch with Mary Beth to update her on his progress.

Hence, to watch these women clap, smile & celebrate as the governor of Massachusetts signs a bill extending abortion to birth, well beyond 24 weeks, is blatant, sickening & vile evil. Period.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I know I’ve been posting a lot recently, but as Fr. Richard John Neuhaus used to say, “it’s a target-rich environment” right now.

The governor of Massachusetts just signed into law a statute that permits abortion up until the moment of birth, as long as mother and doctor give the go-ahead.
Please understand what this means. A fully-formed child, moments before exiting the birth canal, can be eviscerated, chopped into pieces, have its head crushed or skin burned off—all under the full protection of Massachusetts law.

What I found particularly gross was the reaction of the entirely female crowd around the female governor of Massachusetts as she signed this barbaric provision into law. They were clapping and cackling with delight because what can only be called infanticide can now be practiced with impunity in their state.

I’m old enough to remember when Mario Cuomo, the devoutly Catholic governor of New York, admitted that, though he found abortion personally repugnant, he was, after tortured wrestling with his conscience, willing to give it limited protection of law.

How far we have fallen from agonized and conflicted Cuomo to the present governor of Massachusetts and her entourage gleefully applauding the murder of children.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

I had two really hard pregnancies. I will spare everyone the awful details but because of it I had to have a stress test and an ultrasound every other day and we were all just praying I could make it to 34 weeks because after 34 weeks the baby is considered late preterm and has a 99% chance of surviving.

By God’s grace I made it until 35 weeks before I had to have an emergency c-section.

I met a lot of moms in the NICU those first couple of days and some of their babies were struggling but fighting so hard. Luckily the ones I met all took their babies home and they are now perfect and all caught up with their milestones.

Whenever I see people celebrate something as cruel and vicious as late term abortions it brings me back to those days in the NICU where I watched other moms pray and cry and worry all day and I can’t help but to be profoundly sad for our society.

God entrusts mothers to protect their babies, the most innocent of innocents among us and to know that there are women out there who would actually murder babies that are full grown is the same thing as a mom murdering her newborn. It’s that evil. And yet there are women who celebrate this.

What are we doing as a society?

[Mark Grote @MarkGrote]

I know these words may be unwelcomed by some, yet truth rarely arrives quietly.

This is my grandson, Jackson.

In 2018 he entered the world more than three months too soon—one hundred days premature—weighing a mere twenty-six ounces. A living miracle. He arrived with ten perfect fingers, ten perfect toes, and every intricate part a human being is meant to possess… only smaller. In every essential way he was fully, undeniably human. Eight years later he stands healthy, strong, and wholly present among us.

If this fragile infant, born a full one hundred days before his time, is already a baby… how much more sacred is the child who reaches full term?

That is why the new law in Massachusetts—removing every limit on abortion—cuts me so deeply.

Some still speak of a “clump of cells.” Yet if one inflicted upon a dog what is routinely done to that so-called clump, arrests for cruelty would follow without hesitation. Even within the womb this is a human being—one who can feel pain and who endures a death of unspeakable horror.

We have, it seems, surrendered both reason and conscience to permit such a thing in our society today. And with all the cries about following the science, it's unconscionable that we have progressed to this state

I write this not to condemn those who have faced an agonizing choice in the past. This is about the path forward—about “now what?”

It troubles me profoundly that our laws grant nine full months in which this decision may still be made.

And to you who name yourselves Christians while supporting Democratic candidates: I'm also, but the party’s clear and official stance is to enshrine unrestricted abortion access as national law, to define it as “healthcare” left solely to a woman and her physician, and to champion statutes—like the one just signed in Massachusetts—that impose no gestational boundary whatsoever. To support those candidates is to support infanticide. It is support of a cruelty we would never tolerate toward animals yet here we are with our own children.

For that, I am left bewildered by that kind of moral confusion.

Please… rise with me. Look once more with open eyes and an open heart. These smallest lives are still speaking. I pray we would finally listen.

[Doug Constance @DougConstance]

@DataRepublican God, give @DataRepublican the blessings that she needs.

[Doug Constance @DougConstance]

@TJandCasper I will miss your trip reports. May your retirement be long and happy.