You can tell a lot about the strength of a particular argument or world view by how long it lasts before reality ends up discrediting it. There are some debates that don’t need to be settled by consulting with dozens of experts or asking ten different AI models and then comparing notes. Instead, certain events take place, and they resolve the disagreement right away. A catastrophic nuclear meltdown ended any discussion about how effective Chernobyl’s emergency shutdown mechanism was. An iceberg convinced everyone that, despite all of the marketing hype, the Titanic could in fact sink. There are limits to the ability of liars and charlatans to deceive the population, in other words. Even the most convincing fraudsters face the risk of exposure if their deception is simply too absurd to be compatible with reality. The more absurd the deception is, the faster it falls apart.

By that standard, there are few lies that are more flagrant — and obviously so — than the fiction that gay men should be allowed to adopt children, or to acquire them by paying for a woman to serve as a “surrogate.” As we saw recently, a journalist named Glenn Greenwald personally attacked me for holding the position that children should be raised by a mother and a father. He maintained, in a very public and vitriolic fashion, that I was a terrible person for suggesting that gay adoption isn’t an ideal outcome. He presented himself as infinitely more virtuous than I am because of his decision to acquire young children. And then, within a matter of weeks, Greenwald himself demonstrated through his own conduct — on camera — why my position was correct.

That was back in June. And now, just a month later, it’s happened again. Reality has caused yet another major problem for the Left’s narrative about homosexuals who adopt children. Only this time, reality reared its head even faster — as in, within 24 hours. And the implications here are somehow even more disturbing and grotesque than they were with Glenn Greenwald’s debauchery. This is a story that makes it very clear that laws need to change, and they need to change immediately. And then people need to go to prison.

It all began on Sunday, when an Irish political activist named Derek Blighe discovered some videos that had been posted on a gay couple’s social media feeds. The videos show the two gay men, both of whom are overweight, marking monthly anniversaries with a child they’ve obtained. In every video, they blow out a candle on the cupcake. And the videos keep going, as the men seem to somehow get fatter each time. Watch:

In response to these videos, on Sunday, Derek Blighe posted simply, “Unless a miracle happens, this child has almost no chance at a normal life.”

And he was right, of course.

At a visceral level, this footage is repulsive. Everyone understands that, whether they’ll admit it or not. When a child is deprived of his mother and father, it isn’t something to celebrate. It’s a tragedy that’s inflicted on someone who cannot possibly deserve it, and who may never recover from it. And that’s especially true when, in lieu of a mother and a father, a child is obtained by two men who belong to a demographic whose behavior, in a very disproportionate number of cases, is completely incompatible with raising children, to put things as mildly as possible. It’s also a demographic that’s disproportionately interested in adopting male children. And again, everyone understands what’s going on there, though nobody will say it.

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And yet, when Blighe made this simple and straightforward observation, hundreds of thousands of Left-wing activists pretended to be shocked and horrified by what he had written. They also claimed that, in fact, it’s *better* for the child to be raised by two gay men, than by his own mother and father.

Here’s one representative post, which has more than 6 million views and 220,000 “likes” on X:

Makes me happy. That baby is going to be raised not to hate people and will be loved.

Here’s another post, from someone named “Bev Jackson” of a group called “Alliance LGB.” This came in response to Derek’s post expressing disgust at the footage: 

That is homophobic. If the child has two loving male parents, there is no evidence whatsoever that he or she will not prosper.

But Bev Jackson’s response didn’t last very long. Just a few hours later, Bev deleted it. And a lot of people like Bev deleted their reactions, too. That’s because, in record-breaking time, the narrative took an extremely dark turn. The journalists at Reduxx decided to take a closer look at the two gay men in the video with that toddler. Here’s what they found:

A widely circulated video showcasing a gay couple’s ‘surrogacy journey’ has revealed that a baby boy is currently in the custody of a registered child sex offender. … Brandon Keith Mitchell is a Tier 1 sex offender in the state of Pennsylvania, and was arrested in 2016 after attempting to solicit a 16-year-old boy for sexual abuse. The victim in the case was a student at Downingtown West High School, where Mitchell had worked as a chemistry teacher. He was 30 years old at the time.

Here’s an image of Brandon Mitchell when he was teaching:

Chester County District Attorney’s office.

According to local news reports, Mitchell was, “charged with texting obscene images and texts to a student, [and] asking for nude images of the underage student.”

Mitchell taught at this school from 2010 to 2015. And during this period, he reportedly sent more than 12,000 text messages to this student. He ended up pleading guilty to “felony child pornography possession and one count of Corruption of Minors” — because police found sexually explicit videos of the child on his personal computer — and was sentenced to nearly two years of incarceration. But he didn’t serve anywhere near that sentence. Just two months after his conviction, Reduxx reports, he was granted parole. For a crime that should’ve resulted in life imprisonment, at a minimum, he barely spent any time in jail.

The Reduxx article continues:

Part of his conditions included that he have no unsupervised contact with minors and that he surrender his teaching license. He quickly moved on to obtain a job as a chemist at Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing in Lancaster, where he has worked for the past 9 years. … In 2021, Mitchell married Logan Riley, a second-grade teacher from Maryland, and moved to Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania. In 2023, the two launched a GoFundMe to raise money for a surrogate.

Of course, the GoFundMe didn’t mention the whole “convicted sex offender” thing.

In any event, the fundraiser has since been taken down. But it reportedly had a goal of $50,000, and raised just over $2,000, so it wasn’t exactly a success. Nevertheless, Riley — the husband of the convicted sex offender — reported that, in November of 2023, they had found a surrogate.

Our surrogate went through extensive medical and social worker evaluations in order to be approved for surrogacy. Once approved, the lengthy legal and financial process began. We are so excited that our amazing surrogate will carry one of our embryos for us, helping to expand our family.

It’s hard to miss the irony here. According to these two gay men, there was an “extensive” screening process for their “surrogate” — meaning, the woman whose body they were going to rent, so that she would bear a child for them, so that they could pretend to be parents. Social workers, doctors and lawyers were all involved. And yet, evidently, there was no screening process whatsoever for these two gay men. No one in the federal government, or the state of Pennsylvania, saw any problem with creating a new human life, for the sole purposes of handing the child off to a convicted sexual predator. And not just any convicted sexual predator. We’re talking about a convicted sexual predator who specifically preyed on a child.

At first, you might think — well, there must have been some massive, very unfortunate mistake here. Surely, you’d assume, there must be a thorough vetting process for the parents of children who are born through surrogacy. And somehow, in this particular case, someone must have fallen asleep on the job. Maybe they ran a criminal records check under the wrong name or something like that.

But that’s not remotely what happened. As it turns out, there is no legal bar in the state of Pennsylvania — or many other states — for convicted sexual predators to obtain children through surrogacy. It’s completely legal. There are no roadblocks whatsoever.

Again, this is from Reduxx:

Reduxx reached out to the division Pennsylvania State Police responsible for maintaining Mitchell’s registration, and was informed that the state does not automatically forbid individuals convicted of sex crimes from having children, gaining custody, or exercising parental rights. While Pennsylvania’s adoption law does prohibit sex offenders from adopting or fostering children, gestational surrogacy circumvents any such laws through pre-birth parentage orders.

You heard that correctly. Individuals who are convicted of sex crimes, including sex crimes involving children — crimes so severe that the guilty party had to agree to have “no unsupervised contact with minors” for a certain period of time — are allowed to obtain children in Pennsylvania. The only restriction is that, instead of adopting a child, they have to pay for a woman to give birth to a child. This is a policy that’s so incomprehensible, and so evil, that it’s hard to even talk about. And it’s also a policy that, evidently, a lot of officials in Pennsylvania aren’t even aware of.

One of Reduxx’s writers posted this on social media, as she was working on this story:

While I was talking to the state police sex offender division, the agent actually stopped for a moment when I mentioned it was a surrogate baby and said, ‘But surely … there’s a vetting process for this kind of thing?’

Well, actually, no. There’s no vetting process for “this kind of thing,” as it turns out.

If someone is a pedophile in the state of Pennsylvania, and they’ve been convicted for “corrupting minors” and possessing child pornography, they are still completely free to obtain a child through surrogacy. And not just any child — a newborn with no known relatives, no next of kin to check in on him. And then, once they have this defenseless child in their home, he is entirely at their mercy and helpless, and no one can see what they’re doing, and there is no one who actually knows the child or cares for him. Even his mother isn’t allowed to speak to him. It’s almost as if the state went out of its way to create a loophole for pedophiles. There are no words for how dark this is.

And by the way, this is one of the many fundamental, fatal problems with relying on “statistics” and “experts” who tell you that gay adoption is completely fine and appropriate. Every single mainstream expert will tell you that gay men are just as capable as straight couples to raise children, if not more so. They’ll tell you to suspend all of your intuitions and common sense, and they’ll call you a bigot if you disagree. But the truth is, none of these experts actually knows what goes on inside these households where men are raising children that aren’t theirs.

None of the statistics can capture the reality of what’s happening, because only the parents who are caught abusing their children will actually be reflected in those statistics.

That’s why we have intuition and basic morality. And it’s why we should always pay close attention whenever activists on the other side, in a demonic kind of rage, attempt to claim the moral high ground — only for it to crumble immediately in a matter of days (or hours, in this case). There are some lies that are simply too evil and unsustainable to survive contact with reality. The fiction that gay men are appropriate foster parents for other people’s children is one of them. In recent months, we’ve repeatedly seen glimpses into the horrors that many of these children are enduring behind closed doors. The recent case of William and Zachary Zulock in Georgia is an example of two men who were sexually abusing their two adopted children. They probably would never have been caught, if they hadn’t bragged about their behavior to others.

Especially in light of stories like this, it shouldn’t be remotely controversial to say that the safety of children is infinitely more important than any gay man’s desire to become a parent. Nature has already decided that gay couples will be childless by definition. The law should follow suit. Starting with the state of Pennsylvania — which should immediately change its law and remove this particular child from this household — this very straightforward principle needs to become law. Any society that doesn’t protect its own children does not deserve to exist. Under the guise of helping children, a system has been created that allows for children to be abused in the most horrific ways imaginable. That system must be dismantled. The abusers should go to prison for the rest of their lives. And no child, no matter the circumstances, should ever be forcibly prevented from having a mother and a father ever again in this country.