How Secularization Happens

Way back in the day, when Elon Musk stalked the halls of the federal bureaucracy swinging his giant, if metaphorical, chainsaw, we learned a lot about the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), created in 1961 to promote development projects, technological innovations, and investment in poor countries that might be vulnerable to Soviet demagoguery. USAID thus served America’s mission to shepherd the Third World into the Free World. Musk exposed a pipeline from USAID to progressive NGOs—a million for DEI in Serbia, a couple million to fund sex-change operations in Guatemala, 25 million a year for LGBTQ programs, millions more for “family planning” (aka, abortion), a few million to put Sesame Street on Iraqi television. You could hardly throw an egg anywhere in the world without hitting a gay rights or abortion advocacy group funded by American taxpayers.