Just over a year ago, in August 2024, I wrote an article in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. In it, I said that “our nation is at a crossroads. We can either go down the path of darkness and be further divided, or we can look to what unites us.”

Here I am just one year later, and I have never been more concerned about the direction of this great nation.

For the past two weeks, we have seen the face of unimaginable evil. Be under no illusion, my friends, there is evil stalking this country. It is pernicious; it seeps into every part of society, every institution, and it uses the language of violence and of the hard left to achieve its goal, to pit Americans against each other.

First, we have the appalling murder of two young children on their first day of school in Minnesota simply for the crime of being Catholic. I am reminded of John chapter 15 when Jesus says, “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

This murder was committed by a trans activist. Now, as a gay man myself, I think it is my duty to say that no one community........

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