Matt Gilbert

[Noah Paul ⚓️ @Noahs_Arc_98]

My fellow conservatives may not like to hear it, but the sexual degeneracy that is now the norm in American conservatism was bound to happen with Donald Trump being made the face of the GOP. Matt Gaetz, MTG, Lauren Boebert, Elon Musk…I could go on.

[RazörFist @RazorFist]

Relax.
They're just a clump of dollars.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

It's amazing that anytime the Republicans are under oath the conspiracies that proliferate on MAGA media outlets go away.

RFK is pro vax now!
Kash thinks Qanon is a baseless conspiracy!

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

If we could harness the flip-flop energy from this man - our energy problems would be solved.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

He believes climate change deniers should be punished.

He believes American farmers are a greater threat than Al Qaeda.

He believes abortion should be available until birth.

He is Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary.

[Robert Mays @robertmays]

This is like letting a ghost haunt your house until it's condemned, and then calling an exorcist. https://t.co/D9LRiZ6t7T

[Baltimore Ravens @Ravens]

Shout out to Bills Mafia for showing support to our guy Mark Andrews and donating to the @BreakthroughT1D organization, which works towards curing and improving the lives of those dealing with Type 1 diabetes. 💜

https://t.co/tQfjchcmOx

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

New federal definitions:
Crime = when your enemy breaks the law.
Weaponization = when your friend gets prosecuted for breaking the law.

[Matt Gilbert @mattgilbert1]

The tragedy in the 2024 election was there were 2 "bullets". The one pictured below was one. The other one is replacing her in the White House as we speak.

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

America dodged a bullet.

Thank God we elected President Trump.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

People who said goodbye to their dying grandmas with a poster from the street, and couldn't have a funeral or attend church, would like a word about distress.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Biden is leaving office dropping one lawless, norm-defying, justly impeachable un-democratic transgression after another. That’d be bad enough. But these are all precedents for the successor he thinks is a threat to democracy. It’s reckless, spiteful, and incandescently stupid.

[Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohan]

NEW: Former Vice President Mike Pence’s organization, Advancing American Freedom, is urging senators to vote against confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his stances on abortion.

https://t.co/lspXRugJPU

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

I'm watching a lot of self-described Christians who've lamented others falling away from faith after getting their ears tickled do the same thing with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Shame on them.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

You’re allowed to platform who you want. It’s a free country. And I’m allowed to think a conservative Christian husband and father has no business promoting an Islamic pornographer and serial abuser of underage girls.

[Matt Gilbert @mattgilbert1]

The #Titans fired an elite coach, getting no picks back, because they were mad he wasn't collaborative enough. They have now collaborated their way to a 3-14 season culminating in this debacle. Congrats to ownership, you're the biggest joke in a league that has the Browns in it.

[Paul Kuharsky @PaulKuharskyNFL]

Reverse handoff, fumbled by Will Levis on exchange to Bryce Oliver, Derek Barnett carries Mason Kinsey into the end zone for a 36-yard fumble return TD.

#Titans trail 23-6.

[Matt Gilbert @mattgilbert1]

Come on #Titans! You know what time it is!

[Paul Kuharsky @PaulKuharskyNFL]

#Titans actually shut down Tony Pollard for lingering ankle issue he’d been pushing through. Flu popped up today on top of it.

[Razor @hale_razor]

Journalists:
"We had no idea Biden sold influence to China."
"We had no idea of Biden's mental health decline."
"We had no idea Hunter would get pardoned."
"We had no idea the laptop was real."

If only there was a group of people who did!

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

It’s not just that this story was relevant before the election and they waited, it’s that they’re back to using “homeless” instead of “unhoused.”

[Matty Duggan @mattyduggan]

36 yrs ago today, Sergeant Al Powell and John McClane helped save dozens of lives after being sent to investigate a prank call at Nakatomi Plaza and foil Hans Gruber’s devious plot. As we do every year, we honour their bravery and thank them for saving the world.
Never Forget.

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

We often hear that Christian men are Exhibit A of toxic masculinity.

The co-founder of the Churchtoo movement, which followed theMetoo movement, said, theology of male headship “feeds the rape culture that we see permeating American Christianity today.”

But social scientists were listening to these accusations and asking, where’s your evidence? You’re making these charges, but where’s your data? So they went out and did the studies.

And they found that evangelical family men who attend church regularly are actually the most loving husbands and the most engaged fathers.

Compared to the average American family man, evangelical men are

• More loving to their wives 4 (and yes, they do interview the wives separately)

• Evangelical fathers are more engaged with their children -- 3.5 more hours /wk than secular men

• Evangelical couples have the lowest rate of divorce -- 35 % lower than secular couples

• And surprisingly they have the lowest rates of domestic violence of any group in the US.

Sometimes a quote can help crystalize a point, so here’s a quote from the sociologist who did the largest study—his name is Brad Wilcox of the University of Virginia, and this is from article he wrote for the New York Times:

“It turns out that the happiest of all wives in America are religious conservatives. Fully 73 percent of wives who hold conservative gender values and attend religious services regularly with their husbands have high-quality marriages.”

Wilcox then turns to his secular colleagues and says:

“Academics need to cast aside their prejudices about religious conservatives and evangelicals in particular. Conservative Protestant married men with children are consistently the most active and expressive fathers and the most emotionally engaged husbands.”

This is not a pep talk from a religious leader. These are the results of rigorous empirical testing. These are evidence- based findings showing that Christianity does have the power to reconcile the sexes, as I put it in the subtitle to my book. We should be confident about bringing into the secular arena to debunk the negative media narratives.

Adapted from The Toxic War on Masculinity