McKinley Senior High School head football coach Marcus Wattley and seven asst. coaches in Canton, Ohio are on paid leave after forcing a 17-year old player, a Hebrew Israelite, to violate his faith and eat pork as punishment for missing practice after he sustained an injury, The Washington Post reports.

The student, who is not being named, was forced to sit in the middle of a gymnasium and eat a pepperoni pizza with his fellow players egging him on. Not only would his position on the team be jeopardized if he refused, but his fellow players would also be subjected to punishment because of his actions.

"Ed Gilbert, the family's attorney, said at a news conference Tuesday that the Canton City School District violated the child's First Amendment rights," The Post notes, when the coaches "compelled the boy to eat pork on May 24 despite his numerous objections because of his faith. Gilbert said the family plans to sue the school district."

The 17-year old "was verbally assaulted by the coaches and faced pressure from his peers to eat the pizza despite his religious beliefs."

When a board member of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York died of the virus in March 2020, Wiles proclaimed that it was God’s judgment.

“There is a plague underway,” Wiles said. “There is a death angel across the world, and your only safety is in Christ.”

When an outbreak occurred at a synagogue in Israel in the same month, Wiles was quick to assert that it was a punishment from God.

“God is spreading it in your synagogues!” Wiles bellowed. “You are under judgment because you oppose his son, Jesus Christ. That is why you have a plague in your synagogues.”

As the virus spread throughout 2020, Wiles used his nightly “TruNews” broadcast to likewise spread countless conspiracy theories about it. And when vaccines became available in 2021, Wiles declared them to be part of an Antichrist plot to carry out a global genocide.

“I am not going to be vaccinated,” Wiles said in May 2021. “I’m going to be one of the survivors. I’m going to survive the genocide. … The only good thing that will come out of this is a lot of stupid people will be killed off,” Wiles added. “If the vaccine wipes out a lot of stupid people, well, we’ll have a better world. I’m going to survive. I’m going to survive by God’s grace; by his will, I’m going to survive the genocide.”

Political journalist Edward-Isaac Dovere of The Atlantic, author of the new book Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump reposted a clip of Carlson’s show.

“Following Michael Flynn’s supporting a coup, Tucker Carlson’s Memorial Day message: ‘Our military, at times, does not seem interested in protecting the country.’ Which counts as… patriotism?” he asked.

“Kamala Harris was pummeled for a tweet wishing everyone to enjoy the long weekend without saying anything about the troops; Tucker Carlson sits relaxed at the end of a long weekend and casually accuses the troops of betraying their country,” he noted.
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