In one of the final acts of his 55-year political career, outgoing President Joe Biden distributed prestigious awards to a bevy of left-wing activists. At a ceremony on Thursday, Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — to longtime Democrat Hillary Clinton and billionaire George Soros, as well as pro-abortion rock star Bono, LGBT activist Tim Gill, and climate change activist William Sanford Nye, best known as “Bill Nye the Science Guy.” Biden also awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to pro-abortion radical Eleanor Smeal and LGBT activists Mary Bonauto and Evan Wolfson.

Smeal is known as the founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation and the organizer of the first national pro-abortion rally, which took place in Washington, D.C. in 1986. She is considered to have influenced the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which has been used to target and imprison pro-life Americans under Biden’s presidency, and was a major proponent of the failed Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and 80s. In 1987, Smeal, who was baptized Catholic, was one of a dozen protestors arrested for staging a rally outside of the Vatican’s embassy in the U.S. ahead of Pope John Paul II’s visit. The rally was intended to oppose the Catholic Church’s long-held moral teachings on abortion and homosexuality.

Mary Bonauto is best recognized as the lawyer who argued for same-sex marriage before the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, but she has a long history of LGBT advocacy and activism, including successfully repealing section three of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which legally defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Bonauto was also responsible for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine.

Once named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, Evan Wolfson founded the same-sex marriage advocacy organization Freedom to Marry, which is now defunct thanks to Bonauto’s work. Wolfson also argued before the Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, a case which centered on whether or not the Boy Scouts could expel a Scoutmaster for identifying as homosexual.

In comments to The Washington Stand, Mary Szoch, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, quoted Pope John Paul II, who said that “freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” She continued, “President Biden’s current recipients of these various medals worked the majority of their careers to undermine true freedom and advance the culture of death.” 

Referring to the abortion activism evinced over the course of decades by Clinton, Soros, and Smeal, Szoch stated, “Whether through the push of abortion on women directly, paying protestors to stand against life, funding or being pro-abortion politicians, or working to instill a hatred and fear of motherhood in our nation, Clinton, Soros, and Smeal have hindered the cause for true freedom in our nation.” She added, “Their award is a sham and a disgrace. Americans deserve better.”

On Monday night’s episode of “Washington Watch,” Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said that the billionaire Democrat mega-donor Soros “has done more to undermine democracies around the globe with his funding of leftist policies, pro-abortion, radical policies that he pushes” than just about anyone else. Rep. Erin Houchin (R-Ind.) agreed, observing that giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Soros is “a slap in the face to crime victims across the country, to conservative Americans,” because Soros “has made it his mission to undermine every American city that he can [by funding the campaigns of] soft-on-crime prosecutor who will not prosecute even property crimes, let alone other crimes.” She said that granting the award is a way for Biden “to poke the American people in the eye on his way out of office, and it’s sad.”

Tyler O’Neil, managing editor at The Daily Signal and author of “Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” stated on “Washington Watch,” “The main problem that we have is Biden has this false veneer of himself as a moderate, as the adult in the room, when in reality he is the most radical president we’ve ever had, if you look at his policies. And one of the main reasons is because of the woke bureaucrats that George Soros is helping to fund and staff the federal government with.”

O’Neil added, “It’s very revealing that it wasn’t George Soros receiving that physical medal. It was his son, Alex Soros, who currently is running the Open Society Foundations, which is the vast dark money network that his father created.”