Guyanese-born British actress Letitia Wright recently shared in an interview about how people have been telling her to just keep quiet about her faith, among other pressures that she faces as a Christian in the entertainment industry.
The actress, most known for her role as Shuri, sister to the late Chadwick Boseman’s King T’Challa in Marvel’s “Black Panther,” openly shares her faith in Christ, who she credits for helping her get through the demands of her job.
“I’ve had people tell me, ‘Hey, you should stop talking about Jesus,'” Wright told The Independent. “But there will always be pressures to keep things private that the world may not agree with”
Previous reports reveal that Wright has been facing some pressure for her faith in God for some time now. The Christian Headlines indicated that she has criticized magazines in the past because they omit in their publications what she says about God.
“It’s super cute when journalists/interviewers for magazines leave out the massive part where I give God the glory for the success/achievements in my life,” Wright sarcastically tweeted with regards to the matter, Fox News reported in 2019.
“Haha I still love you and God will still be praised,” she continued in her tweet.
Facing cancel culture
Months ago, the actress decided to leave social media after she was bashed for posting about the COVID-19 vaccine. Her post included a link to a 69-minute video that posed questions about the jab.
The video also featured a person who, according to Variety, accused China of spreading the coronavirus and making comments about transgenderism. The video has since been deleted.
Before the video was removed from the internet, however, Wright’s post went viral and she was bashed for it, with both fans and fellow celebrities accusing her of being an “anti-vaxxer.”
Wright explained that it wasn’t her intention to hurt anyone. Rather, she only posted the link to the video “to raise concerns” about what the vaccine manufacturers place in the jabs.
The Christian actress, realizing just how harsh cancel culture can be, addressed it in another post, saying, “If you don’t conform to popular opinions, but ask questions and think for yourself… you get canceled.”
Critics still tried to cancel her after that, prompting her to leave social media. She has been offline for nearly a year now – and she’s happy about it.
“It’s been brilliant. I’ve been able to go away and educate myself, read books and connect with my family,” she said, adding that her action removed the pressure felt from having to say what people expect her to say.
“Everyone should just step away from social media,” she added.
Keep talking
Despite the pressure to keep quiet about Jesus and the harassment she faced for saying what the cancel culture hates, Wright remains outspoken about her faith. In fact, the Independent noted how she is “at her most animated” when she is “talking about her relationship with God.”
Wright explained that she isn’t trying to force her faith on others; rather, she simply talks about Christ because she is grateful for what He does for her.
“…I’m not trying to force anything on anyone. I’m sharing my truth because I probably wouldn’t be alive right now if it wasn’t for Jesus, I probably wouldn’t have been able to cope,” the 27-year-old actress said.
“And if someone saves you and brings light and love to your life, you want to share that. You don’t want to hide it,” she continued.
Wright added that she is currently undergoing a “transformative” stage in her life where she is still getting to know who she really is. She said she is able to face the challenges at this phase in her life “with God.”
“The world is so fickle, and there’s not much that you can really put your hope in to make you feel whole,” she said.
“It’s been beautiful to have my faith in Jesus, which is worth more than anything,” she declared.
Snopes co-founder David Mikkelson plagiarized 54 articles under three different bylines between 2015 and 2019, a Buzzfeed News report that was published Friday revealed.
Mikkelson published the content under his own name, his pseudonym “Jeff Zarronandia,” or a generic “Snopes staff” byline, according to the report.
Doreen Marchionni, the fact-checking site’s vice president of editorial and managing editor, suspended Mikkelson from his editorial duties as Snopes performs “a comprehensive internal investigation,” Buzzfeed reported. Mikkelson is still a 50% shareholder and an officer at Snopes.
Snopes is retracting over 50 stories and suspending the editorial duties of one of its founders after this absolutely blockbuster @shootingthemess investigation. Wow. https://t.co/27e48ggV9F
In a statement published by Buzzfeed, Marchionni and Snopes COO Vinny Green said that the internal investigation began in late July/early August after Buzzfeed reporter Dean Sterling Jones contacted Marchionni about the plagiarized content. Green flagged 140 articles that were published under the generic byline for review and “identified other possible issues beyond Buzzfeed’s findings,” Snopes’ statement said.
The fact-checking site also plans to archive and retract all plagiarized stories. The page will remain accessible and link to the original news source, while an editor’s note will explain why the story was removed. Snopes also plans to contact all news outlets whose content was plagiarized and apologize.
“Let us be clear: Plagiarism undermines our mission and values, full stop,” the statement read. “It has no place in any context within this organization. We invite readers to let us know here if they find any other examples of plagiarized content so that we can apply the same treatment as above.”
Mikkelson also put out a statement apologizing for his “serious lapses in judgment” and said he was “doing everything I can to make it right.”
A federal judge ordered the Biden administration to revive a controversial policy begun under former President Donald Trump that forces immigrants seeking U.S. asylum at the southern border to wait in Mexico while their applications are pending.
U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, ruled late Friday that the Biden administration “failed to consider several critical factors,” including the benefits of the Remain in Mexico policy, before ending the program.
It’s another setback for President Joe Biden following a January ruling by a different judge in Texas that temporarily blocked the new administration’s plan to pause deportations of undocumented immigrants for 100 days.
Friday’s decision came in a lawsuit filed by the Republican-led states of Texas and Missouri, which claimed the suspension of the program was worsening conditions at the border and allowing criminals to slip into the country.
Biden suspended the Remain in Mexico program the day after he office on Jan. 20., amid criticism that it pushed migrants into squalid and dangerous housing south of the border.
After a review, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the end of the program on June 1. He said he determined that it “does not adequately or sustainably enhance border management in such a way as to justify the program’s extensive operational burdens and other shortfalls.”
In his 53-page ruling, Matthew J. Kacsmaryk said that Mayorkas had failed “to show a reasoned decision” for ending the program. The judge, who was appointed by Trump, also faulted the Biden appointee for not addressing “the problems created by false claims of asylum” or considering that many asylum seekers are “found non-meritorious by federal immigration judges.”
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt called the decision “a big step toward securing the border” in a statement.
“The Biden administration’s lax border policies increase the risk for human trafficking at the border and, in turn, in Missouri,” Schmitt said.
The Department of Homeland Security didn’t immediately respond to an email message seeking comment.
The judge put his ruling on hold for seven days to allow the administration to appeal.
Friday evening the attorneys general of Texas and Missouri announced they had just won a huge victory regarding the border in federal court.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the victory on Twitter.
ANOTHER VICTORY! We just won our second immigration lawsuit against the Biden Admin! They unlawfully tried to shut down the legal and effective Remain-in-Mexico program, but #Texas and Missouri wouldn’t have it.
The two states sued to force the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump administration’s remain-in-Mexico policy. Fox reports:
The ruling by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, orders the Biden administration “to enforce and implement MPP in good faith” until it has been “lawfully rescinded” in compliance with the APA, and until the federal government has enough detention capacity to detail all migrants subject to mandatory detention.
MPP was never lawfully rescinded. Biden abrogated it with an executive order on day one of his administration. The federal government will never have enough detention capacity to deal with the surge, at least not without spending billions to build camps that would look like an awful relic from World War II-era history. July alone saw more than 200,000 apprehensions at the border, and in total, well over 1 million have been apprehended since the surge began in January 2021. If they were all held in one place, that number exceeds the entire population of Austin, Texas — and of Biden’s own home state of Delaware. It would be the 10th largest city in the United States and it would grow every single day. The migrants are not being held in one place. They are being shipped all over the country, and released, most without any COVID testing.
As PJM has reported throughout the week, the border crisis has become so severe that at least one Texas city, Laredo, is shipping migrants to Austin, Houston, and other cities without even testing them for COVID. A local Austin TV station reports that the Texas capital is seeing busloads of those illegal migrants turn up, but does not have a plan for dealing with them beyond seeing that they’re shipped elsewhere. This is going on every day, and some are being shipped to other states; Missouri likely had standing in this case because some are being shipped there.
Judge Kacsmaryk stayed the ruling for a week pending any Biden administration appeals.
One question that stands now is whether the Biden administration will appeal the border ruling or just ignore it. When the United States Supreme Court ruled against Biden’s eviction moratorium, he went ahead with it anyway.
“Congratulations on your victory in federal court,” Biden and his inner circle may be saying with a smile from vacation, “now let’s see you enforce it.” How many armies and law enforcement agencies does one federal judge have at his disposal to implement this ruling on the border?
Republican Elder spoke at a church that was fined more than $1 million for defying restrictions on indoor gatherings
California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder told a mostly maskless crowd inside a San Jose church this week that he would repeal coronavirus mask and vaccine mandates imposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom – if Newsom loses next month’s recall election and Elder collects enough votes to replace him.
“This man that I’m going to defeat on September 14, he shut down the state in the most severe way than any of the other 49 governors have,” Elder told the audience, according to San Francisco’s KGO-TV. “When I get elected, assuming there are still facemask mandates and vaccine mandates, they will be repealed right away and then I’ll break for breakfast.”
Elder, a conservative radio talk show host, spoke at Calvary Chapel, whose leaders repeatedly defied indoor gathering restrictions last year and were fined more than $1 million, according to FOX 2 of the Bay Area.
“I know how difficult it is to run a business,” Elder told the crowd. “Many of them never succeed. Those who do succeed, often run on very thin profit margins, often from payroll to payroll. A third of all small businesses in California are now gone forever because [Newsom] ignored science.”
“He’s a business guy, he’s well-known, he’s well-spoken and a lot of his ideas will fit well with the state,” she said.
Lisa Disbrow said, “We have an opportunity to get rid of a tyrant who just yesterday threw everyone connected to education under the vax bus,” referring to Newsom’s announcement that teachers will be required to get the vaccine or get tested regularly.
Elder is leading the challengers hoping to oust Newsom from office, polls show. Other prominent Republicans running in the recall include businessman John Cox, who lost to Newsom in 2018; former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer; state Assembly member Kevin Kiley and former U.S. Rep. Doug Ose.
The Biden administration is escalating its feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, by offering federal financial support to school districts in the Sunshine State that openly defy the governor’s ban on mask mandates.
Fox News reported Saturday that U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona wrote a letter to DeSantis and Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran informing them that the federal government would provide funds to school districts that defy the governor’s order and risk losing state funding.
“Florida’s recent actions to block school districts from voluntarily adopting science-based strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19 that are aligned with the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) puts students and staff at risk,” Cardona wrote.
Cardona added that the school districts were following CDC guidance in requiring children, teachers, and staff in K-12 schools to wear masks regardless of vaccination status, even though numerous studies have shown children are at an extremely low risk for contracting the virus.
“We are eager to partner with [the Florida Department of Education] on any efforts to further our shared goals of protecting the health and safety of students and educators,” Cardona added. “If FLDOE does not wish to pursue such an approach, the Department will continue to work directly with the school districts and educators that serve Florida’s students.”
The Biden administration’s efforts to undermine DeSantis’ executive order are the latest in a longstanding feud between the administration and the Florida governor. Earlier this month, Biden said that governors – in particular DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) – should “get out of the way” if they weren’t going to reimpose onerous restrictions as the Delta variant spreads in southern states.
“The escalation of cases is particularly concentrated in states with low vaccination rates. Just two states, Florida and Texas, account for one-third of all new COVID cases in the entire country. Just two states. Look, we need leadership from everyone. If some governors aren’t willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, then they should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it. I say to these governors: Please help, but if you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way of the people who are trying to do the right thing. Use your power to save lives,” Biden said at the time.
DeSantis responded by saying he would continue to stand in the way of anyone trying to deny kids a proper education.
“And Joe Biden suggests that if you don’t do lockdown policies, then you should quote, ‘get out of the way,’” DeSantis said. “But let me tell you this, if you’re coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I’m standing in your way, I’m not going to let you get away with it.”
“If you’re trying to deny kids a proper in person education, I’m gonna stand in your way and I’m gonna stand up for the kids in Florida,” DeSantis continued. “If you’re trying to restrict people, impose mandates, if you’re trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods and their small business, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way and I’m standing for the people of Florida.”
Last week, media outlets and the White House seized on a request from the Florida Department of Health for more ventilators, claiming it showed Florida was running low on supplies because it wasn’t properly handling the surge of the Delta variant. In fact, Florida is not running low on ventilators and made the request to maintain its supply cushion.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit court ruled the Federal Communications Commission failed to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination that its current guidelines adequately protect against harmful effects of exposure to radiofrequency radiation.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit published its decision Aug.13. The court ruled that the FCC failed to consider the non-cancer evidence regarding adverse health effects of wireless technology when it decided that its1996 radiofrequency emission guidelines protect the public’s health.
“The case be remanded to the commission to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination that its guidelines adequately protect against harmful effects of exposure to radiofrequency radiation…”
CHD Chairman and attorney on the case Robert F Kennedy, Jr. said:
“The court’s decision exposes the FCC and FDA as captive agencies that have abandoned their duty to protect public health in favor of a single-minded crusade to increase telecom industry profits.”
CHD’s case was consolidated with another similar case that was filed by the Environmental Health Trust. The organizations filed joint briefs in the case.
CHD’s lead attorney for the case, Scott McCollough, a telecommunication and administrative law attorney who represented the petitioners in the hearing, said:
“This is an historic win. The FCC will have to re-open the proceeding and for the first time meaningfully and responsibly confront the vast amount of scientific and medical evidence showing that current guidelines do not adequately protect health and the environment.
The court’s decision continued to say:
“…the FCC completely failed to acknowledge, let alone respond to, comments concerning the impact of RF radiation on the environment…The record contains substantive evidence of potential environmental harms.”
The petitioners in the case filed 11,000 pages of evidence of harm from 5G and wireless technology which the FCC ignored, including evidence of already existing widespread sickness.
Attorney Dafna Tachover, CHD’s director of 5G and Wireless Harms Project, who initiated and led the case for CHD, said:
“The FCC will finally have to recognize the immense suffering by the millions of people who have already been harmed by the FCC’s and FDA’s unprecedented failure to protect public health. Finally the truth is out. I am hopeful that following this decision, the FCC will do the right thing and halt any further deployment of 5G.”
The court ruling was a two-to-one panel decision. Judge Robert Wilkins wrote the majority opinion. Judge Patricia Millett joined him and Judge Karen Henderson, who presided over the panel, issued a dissent.
CHD President Mary Holland said:
“The U.S. Court of Appeals decision in CHD’s case against the FCC reaffirms my faith in the judiciary. In these chaotic days, courts can still hold out the hope for sober-minded decisions according to the rule of law. I eagerly await FCC action in compliance with the court’s ruling.”
This historic case was filed by CHD on Feb. 2, 2020. The case challenged the agency’s decision not to review its 25-year-old radio-frequency emissions (RF) guidelines which regulate the radiation emitted by wireless technology devices (such as cell phones and iPads) and infrastructure (cell towers, Wi-Fi and smart-meters), and to promulgate biologically and evidence-based guidelines that adequately protect public health.
In 1996, the FCC adopted guidelines which only protect consumers from adverse effects occurring at levels of radiation that cause thermal effects (temperature change in tissue), while ignoring substantial evidence of profound harms from pulsed and modulated RF radiation at non-thermal levels. The FCC hasn’t reviewed its guidelines or the evidence since, despite clear scientific evidence of harm and growing rates of RF-related sickness.
In 2012, the Government Accountability Office of Congress published a report recommending the FCC reassess its guidelines. As a result, in 2013 the FCC published an inquiry to decide whether the guidelines should be reviewed. It opened docket 13-84 for the public to file comments.
Thousands of comments and scientific evidence by scientists, medical organizations and doctors, as well as hundreds of comments by people who have become sick from this radiation were filed in support of new rules. Nevertheless, on Dec. 4, 2019, the FCC closed the docket and published its decision, affirming the adequacy of its guidelines without proper assessment of the comments or the evidence.
The lawsuit, called a Petition for Review, contends that the agency’s decision is arbitrary, capricious, not evidence-based, an abuse of discretion and in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA).
CHD’s lawsuit was joined by nine individual petitioners. Petitioners include Professor David Carpenter MD, a world-renowned scientist and public health expert who is co-editor of the BioInitiative Report, the most comprehensive review of the science on RF effects; physicians who see the sickness caused by wireless radiation in their clinics; and a mother whose son died of a cell phone-related brain tumor.
CHD’s lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. However it was transferred to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit where it was joined with a similar lawsuit filed by the Environmental Health Trust and Consumers for Safe Cell Phones. The main brief and the reply brief were filed jointly by all petitioners.
Pfizer/BioNTech gene-based vaccine showing “pronounced reduction in effectiveness.”
QUICK FACTS:
New medical research conducted by scientists with the Mayo Clinic and Nference analyzed Covid-19 “breakthrough infections and persistent emergence of new variants.”
Researchers compared the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech in the Mayo Clinic Health System from January to July 2021.
Moderna’s gene-based vaccine dropped 10 percentage points in July (from 86% effectiveness down to 76%).
But the Pfizer vaccine only showed 42% effectiveness in July, down from 76%.
“Those numbers are fairly significant drop-offs from the rest of the year,” commentsRT.
The authors recommend “further evaluation of mechanisms underlying differences in [both mRNA vaccines’] effectiveness such as dosing regimens and vaccine composition are warranted.”
“Although it has yet to be peer-reviewed, the study raises serious questions about both vaccines’ long-term effectiveness, particularly Pfizer’s,” Axios notes.
WHAT A BIDEN OFFICIAL SAID:
“If that’s not a wakeup call, I don’t know what is,” a senior Biden official told Axios.
A new Mayo Clinic study that raises concerns about the mRNA vaccines' decreased effectiveness against Delta — particularly Pfizer's — has grabbed the attention of top Biden administration officials pic.twitter.com/dkOowZ5XZR
“Although clinical trials and real-world studies have affirmed the effectiveness and safety of the FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines, reports of breakthrough infections and persistent emergence of new variants highlight the need to vigilantly monitor the effectiveness of these vaccines,” the authors write.
HOW THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED:
“Here we compare the effectiveness of two full-length Spike protein-encoding mRNA vaccines from Moderna (mRNA-1273) and Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) in the Mayo Clinic Health System over time from January to July 2021, during which either the Alpha or Delta variant was highly prevalent,” they go on to say.
“We defined cohorts of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals from Minnesota (n = 25,589 each) matched on age, sex, race, history of prior SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing, and date of full vaccination.”
THE RESULTS:
The authors agree that, “Both vaccines were highly effective during this study period against SARS-CoV-2 infection (mRNA-1273: 86%, 95%CI: 81-90.6%; BNT162b2: 76%, 95%CI: 69-81%) and COVID-19 associated hospitalization (mRNA-1273: 91.6%, 95% CI: 81-97%; BNT162b2: 85%, 95% CI: 73-93%).”
However, while “[i]n July, vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization has remained high (mRNA-1273: 81%, 95% CI: 33-96.3%; BNT162b2: 75%, 95% CI: 24-93.9%),” nevertheless, “effectiveness against infection was lower for both vaccines (mRNA-1273: 76%, 95% CI: 58-87%; BNT162b2: 42%, 95% CI: 13-62%), with a more pronounced reduction for BNT162b2.”
BACKGROUND:
There has been no data so far that has found either vaccine’s protection against severe disease and death is significantly less against Delta, notes Axios.
“Concerns about the long-term effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines have mounted in recent weeks as health officials have repeatedly warned about a potential surge of cases in the fall,” writes RT.
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.
Antifa member Clifford Phillip Eiffler-Rodriguez, 35, of Salem, Ore., was arrested for allegedly assaulting a female police officer, at the violent protest on August 10, when Antifa gathered to attack participants of a street church protest outside Planned Parenthood.
— Salem Police Department (@SalemPoliceDept) August 11, 2021
According to Salem Police, Shortly after 6:00 PM, participants from the church group and Antifa gathered “in and around the sidewalk and parking lot of the Planned Parenthood facility located in the 3800 block of Wolverine ST NE.”
Breaking: #Antifa member Clifford Phillip Eiffler-Rodriguez, 35, of Salem, Ore., was arrested at the violent protest on 10 Aug. where antifa gathered to attack participants of a street church protest outside Planned Parenthood. Clifford allegedly assaulted a female officer. pic.twitter.com/84k1BNzoG8
Antifa activists came in black bloc and “…wore gas masks and helmets and carried shields, paintball guns, bear mace cannisters and other devices.” Salem Police added that “Some individuals from both groups openly carried firearms. The gathering, however, remained largely peaceful throughout the evening.”
However, at approximately 8:15 PM, participants began to leave the area. Shortly after, two individuals were seen having a verbal altercation, which turned violent. According to police, “…participants from each opposing side then deployed chemical irritants at each other and launched smoke fireworks and one mortar-style pyrotechnic device.”
In response to the altercation, the Salem Police Department Mobile Response Team entered the area to disperse the crowd and prevent further acts of violence. The crowd management team repeatedly broadcast orders for the crowd to disperse, yet some continued to fight and throw objects.
As the officers worked to clear the scene, inert impact rounds were deployed to effect the arrest of an individual who failed to comply with the lawful orders who was identified as Antifa militant Clifford Phillip Eiffler Rodriguez.
The 35-year-old Salem resident shoved an officer as she moved in line with the other officers. Rodriguez was transported to the hospital for medical evaluation and cleared, after which he was taken to the Marion County Correctional Facility and charged with second degree disorderly conduct, interfering with a police officer and harassment.
Several dozen people on Martha’s Vineyard have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 days after Barack and Michelle Obama hosted a massive birthday bash for the former president there, a celebration which occurred amid a spike in COVID cases throughout Massachusetts and nationwide.
Over six dozen individuals on the Massachusetts island have tested positive for the virus since the huge party, the Daily Mail reports.
Local health officials are presently “not aware of any cases connected to the Obama party,” the paper reported, though an official told the paper that “the only way we’re going to know is through comprehensive contact tracing.”
The Obamas have been criticized for hosting the mega-party as the U.S. struggles under another COVID surge; the event featured an A-list lineup of as many as 400 celebrities, public officials and other members of the upper ranks of U.S. society.
Several celebrities posted videos on social media of the maskless, packed event before hastily removing them within hours.
Christian Celebrity Shares How Hollywood Forces Her To ‘Stop Talking About Jesus’
Guyanese-born British actress Letitia Wright recently shared in an interview about how people have been telling her to just keep quiet about her faith, among other pressures that she faces as a Christian in the entertainment industry.
The actress, most known for her role as Shuri, sister to the late Chadwick Boseman’s King T’Challa in Marvel’s “Black Panther,” openly shares her faith in Christ, who she credits for helping her get through the demands of her job.
“I’ve had people tell me, ‘Hey, you should stop talking about Jesus,'” Wright told The Independent. “But there will always be pressures to keep things private that the world may not agree with”
Previous reports reveal that Wright has been facing some pressure for her faith in God for some time now. The Christian Headlines indicated that she has criticized magazines in the past because they omit in their publications what she says about God.
“It’s super cute when journalists/interviewers for magazines leave out the massive part where I give God the glory for the success/achievements in my life,” Wright sarcastically tweeted with regards to the matter, Fox News reported in 2019.
“Haha I still love you and God will still be praised,” she continued in her tweet.
Facing cancel culture
Months ago, the actress decided to leave social media after she was bashed for posting about the COVID-19 vaccine. Her post included a link to a 69-minute video that posed questions about the jab.
The video also featured a person who, according to Variety, accused China of spreading the coronavirus and making comments about transgenderism. The video has since been deleted.
Before the video was removed from the internet, however, Wright’s post went viral and she was bashed for it, with both fans and fellow celebrities accusing her of being an “anti-vaxxer.”
Wright explained that it wasn’t her intention to hurt anyone. Rather, she only posted the link to the video “to raise concerns” about what the vaccine manufacturers place in the jabs.
The Christian actress, realizing just how harsh cancel culture can be, addressed it in another post, saying, “If you don’t conform to popular opinions, but ask questions and think for yourself… you get canceled.”
Critics still tried to cancel her after that, prompting her to leave social media. She has been offline for nearly a year now – and she’s happy about it.
“It’s been brilliant. I’ve been able to go away and educate myself, read books and connect with my family,” she said, adding that her action removed the pressure felt from having to say what people expect her to say.
“Everyone should just step away from social media,” she added.
Keep talking
Despite the pressure to keep quiet about Jesus and the harassment she faced for saying what the cancel culture hates, Wright remains outspoken about her faith. In fact, the Independent noted how she is “at her most animated” when she is “talking about her relationship with God.”
Wright explained that she isn’t trying to force her faith on others; rather, she simply talks about Christ because she is grateful for what He does for her.
“…I’m not trying to force anything on anyone. I’m sharing my truth because I probably wouldn’t be alive right now if it wasn’t for Jesus, I probably wouldn’t have been able to cope,” the 27-year-old actress said.
“And if someone saves you and brings light and love to your life, you want to share that. You don’t want to hide it,” she continued.
Wright added that she is currently undergoing a “transformative” stage in her life where she is still getting to know who she really is. She said she is able to face the challenges at this phase in her life “with God.”
“The world is so fickle, and there’s not much that you can really put your hope in to make you feel whole,” she said.
“It’s been beautiful to have my faith in Jesus, which is worth more than anything,” she declared.