A Florida class president couldn’t discuss being gay in high school graduation speech — so he talked about his curly hair
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/us/florida-curly-hair-graduation-speech/index.html
Month: May 2022
Supreme Court Strips Legal Challenge Rights From Wrongfully Convicted Inmates
“Legal experts responded with alarm Monday to a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing majority that could lead to the indefinite imprisonment and even execution of people who argue their lawyers didn’t provide adequate representation after convictions in state court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor—joined by the other two liberals on the court—also blasted the majority opinion in Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez, writing in her scathing dissent that the decision is both “perverse” and “illogical.” The case involved two men, David Martinez Ramirez and Barry Lee Jones, who are on death row in Arizona. The majority determined that inmates can’t present new evidence in federal court to support a claim that their post-conviction attorney in state court was ineffective, in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which affirms the right to “the assistance of counsel” in all criminal prosecutions.”
Herschel Walker May Be Our Dumbest Politician Yet
Disgusting Pastor EXPOSED As Sexual Abuser In Front Of His Entire Congregation
“Carissa Beard was helping her daughter pack up her dorm room on Sunday night when she got the text from her husband, the lead pastor of First Baptist Church of Thurmont in Maryland. The nearly 300-page report on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention had dropped online. “It is every bit as bad as I expected it to be,” she said. When Philip Meade, pastor at Graefenburg Baptist Church in Kentucky, read the details, he began reworking his plans for the church’s worship service next Sunday. He will now devote a portion of the service to “a lament for the mishandling of sexual abuse claims and for the survivors who have suffered so much,” he said. Michael Howard, the head pastor of Seaford Baptist Church on the coast of Virginia, paused a family vacation to spend hours reading the report on Sunday afternoon. “It makes you ill,” Mr. Howard said. “I know as the word gets out, the people in our church will be asking: What is our response?”“
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Texas School Shooting Victims Were Killed in One Classroom
Texas School Shooting Victims Were Killed in One Classroom
Official says shooter barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas
Read in The Wall Street Journal: https://apple.news/ARMixKYV-T6G7-s0gN3pDZw
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Failure Trump Candidate Panders To His Racist Voters By Attacking Stacey Abrams
“Republican Senate candidate David Perdue (R-GA) tore into Stacey Abrams while campaigning on Monday and accused her of “demeaning her own race.” “When she told Black farmers you don’t need to be on the farm, when she told Black workers in hospitality and all this you don’t need to be … she is demeaning her own race when it comes to that,” Perdue said on The John Fredricks radio show. “I am really over this. She should never be considered material for governor,” he continued. Perdue would face Abrams in the general election in November for governor but is unlikely to win his primary against incumbent Republican Governor Brian Kemp. Perdue, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has been trailing Kemp by as much as 30 points in the polls.”
An Ohio man with links to the Islamic State
“An ISIS-linked operative is reportedly in federal custody for plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush. NBC News’ Tom Winter, citing court documents and law enforcement officials, reported on Tuesday that Shihab Ahmed Shihab “is in custody after the FBI says he wanted to smuggle 4-6 individuals from Iraq into the United States through the Mexico border to kill” Bush. Forbes’ Thomas Brewster first reported on Tuesday that Shihab “had been in the U.S. since 2020 and had an asylum application pending, according to the FBI’s search-warrant application.” The outlet reported that “federal agents used two different confidential sources to investigate the plot, one who claimed to offer assistance obtaining false immigration and identification documents, the second a purported customer of the alleged people smuggler, who was willing to pay thousands of dollars to bring his family into the country.””
Pastor who resigned over adultery accused of taking virginity from teen on office floor
https://www.christianpost.com/news/wisconsin-pastor-resigns-claiming-adultery.html
John Lowe II stepped down as pastor of New Life Christian Church and World Outreach in Warsaw, Indiana, on Sunday, May 22, 2022. | Screenshot/Instagram /ihavenewlife
A Warsaw, Indiana, pastor who drew a standing ovation from his congregation after telling them he was stepping down because he committed adultery with one person at least two decades ago drew their wrath minutes later after a woman tearfully alleged she was only 16 when the pastor took her virginity on his office floor while she sported a purity ring.
Pastor John Lowe II told his congregation at New Life Christian Church and World Outreach on Sunday that he needed to make the confession because it was the “biblical” thing to do, according to a Facebook Live broadcast shared by Maisey Cook.
“I committed adultery. It was nearly 20 years ago. It continued far too long. It involved one person, and there has been no other nor any other situations of unbecoming conduct for the last 20 years. I will not use the Bible to defend, deflect, protect my past sin. I have no defense. I committed adultery,” Lowe said without sharing any specifics.
“I say it plainly. I didn’t have an issue. I didn’t have an affair. I didn’t make a misjudgment. I sinned. I need to say that, and you deserve to hear it,” he continued.
Lowe, who has been in full-time ministry for more than 37 years, confessed that he had no good reason for waiting for as long as he did to tell the congregation. He painted himself as a hypocrite who applied discipline to others for sexual failure while hiding his own.
He asked the church for their forgiveness and announced that he would step aside and face discipline from the church.
“In accordance with our church bylaws, I’m stepping aside, stepping down from ministry responsibilities,” he said to applause as he departed from the pulpit.
Soon after he stepped down from the pulpit, a woman and her husband went to the pulpit to address the congregation. The woman said that what Lowe did was not just adultery but a crime because she was only 16 when he took her virginity in his office 27 years ago.
While the age of consent in Indiana is 16, a person who is at least the age of 18 in a position of supervision or trust that engages in any sexual activity with a child over the age of 16 but under the age of 18 commits child seduction, according to state law. It comes with a maximum penalty of 1.5 years in prison; and up to a $10,000 fine. Prosecution for this crime must begin before the victim reaches 31.
“For 27 years, I lived in a prison. It was not 20 years. I lived in a prison of lies and shame, lied to protect the Lowe family,” the woman said. “For years, I thought I was a horrible person having suicidal thoughts, not realizing what had been truly done to me.”
The woman said she was triggered to confront her abuser after her older brother asked her two weeks ago about the time he saw her in bed with their pastor.
“I was a victim, and I would still be in a prison if my brother … had not approached me just two weeks ago with what he had seen as a teenager that bothered him all these years — his pastor in bed with his younger sister, a t-shirt and underwear on,” she detailed.
“People knew but were too afraid to come forward. And they have now. The lies and the manipulation they have to stop,” she added. “I was just 16 when you took my virginity on your office floor. Do you remember that? I know you do, and I have plenty of other stories that I can bring to your remembrance. You did things to my teenage body that should have never been done.”
“I tried to tell someone. But all that was done was cover-up,” she added. “No one ever came to me. No one ever got me counseling.”
The woman also alleged that other young girls were abused by other leaders in the church, and they were “sent away.”
The woman’s husband told the congregation that Lowe started grooming his wife at 15 or 16 and continued having sex with her for nine years.
“I will not let this man talk about my wife like that. It happened for nine years. When she was 15, 16, the sexual grooming started. And it lasted until she met me, and we started dating. This is the truth, and that’s all we’re going to say,” he said.
The husband presented a necklace his wife was given as a ministry gift by the pastor. He also gave back his wife’s purity ring to the church.
“We’re working through love and forgiveness, but people have to be held accountable,” he said. “They can’t just bamboozle people and say, ‘Well, I just committed adultery.’ It was far beyond adultery. So here’s your covenant purity ring back. I don’t want it in my home. We’re done.”
The husband concluded by dropping the microphone on the pulpit to the stunned congregation.
After the couple finished, the tide of support for the pastor quickly turned to anger.
Voices began erupting from the audience, saying, “If you did it, you need to admit it.”
An older woman is seen embracing the weeping victim.
Lowe took the microphone and confirmed that he began having sex with the victim when she was a teenager.
“You should have went to prison,” a voice shouted back at him.
“It was wrong. … I can’t make it right,” Lowe said. “All I can do is ask your forgiveness. … I’m doing what the biblical process is. I am stepping down, stepping aside. … I deeply hurt them, I deeply hurt you. I ask you to forgive me.”
As of Monday afternoon, the church’s website still lists Lowe as pastor. Other members of the Lowe family are also listed in leadership positions.
One Million Moms Vs “Drag Normalizing” Discovery+
Why does this woman hate so? Really what is missing from her life that she directs so much anger and hate at LGBTQ+, really her anger is directed at the gay kids. Did a gay boy steal her boyfriend in her teen years? She is way over the top. Or is this her only way to claim a bit of notice and fame? Is she riding on the coattails of those she claims to hate. People like her have been making the life of young gay kids miserable and she has no concern about that. Yet she claims to be doing in because she is Christian. Hell of a way to show you love someone, to attack everything they are and all the safe places they can find. Also doesn’t she understand in this case the parents of these children approve and support their choices. Drag is simply dress up, it is not trans gender or gay. It is Halloween or being in a play on stage. It is simply fun for most kids and for most adults. Please remember in the quotes below she lies because she doesn’t accept the real medical science or reality other than her god and the book written 2-4 thousand years ago. Hey did not males back then have long hair and wear dresses? Look at the pictures. I guess the people in the bible were in drag. She says tolerance is one thing, acceptance but acceptance or affirmation is another. So she is wanting kids to hate themselves, hate their classmates and ostracize them, and to make those kids miserable enough over something they were born as to kill themselves. Again great mothering and great being loving. Hugs
Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole:
Discovery+ is releasing Generation Drag. Produced by Tyra Banks, the show documents five young drag queens as they participate in a drag show, “Dragutante,” designed for LGBTQ kids ages 8-18.
In celebration of Pride Month, Discovery+ plans to release the six-episode docuseries on June 1.
The Warner Bros.-owned streaming platform, Discovery+, is wrong to produce this type of program. Many would consider it child abuse to encourage these children to dress in drag, question their gender, and sexually exploit themselves.
The parents shown on camera who celebrate their child’s decision to become transgender should be ashamed. 1MM knows that God makes no mistakes. These children were designed in His image before they left their mother’s womb.
While normalizing the drag queen lifestyle, Generation Drag attempts to make the lifestyle appear glamorous by using young cast members to lure a young audience.
The reality show depicts transgenderism as the way a person is born but then glorifies this lifestyle as a decision. Tolerance is one thing, but acceptance or affirmation is another.
Obviously, Discovery+ is attempting to desensitize America’s youth by airing programs starring young people.
This docuseries covers the real life of young people and will attract both young and old viewers. Children and teens are being desensitized, but parents can do something about this hidden agenda.
Take Action: Please sign our petition urging Discovery+ to drop plans to air the docuseries Generation Drag immediately.
Let Discovery+ know that you and your family will not be watching Generation Drag or anything else on the streaming platform in protest of this new show.
I would have never known about this show if it weren’t for the 1MM PR firm to tell me about it.
Thanks Monica.
Alex Polkovsky 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 Dave B • 13 hours ago
It’s her shtick. Complain about X, company sells more X.
Gregory In Seattle Alex Polkovsky 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 • 10 hours ago
I am convinced that she takes commissions. “Hey we need to sell more X, how much money should we give you to get a really great rant against it?”
Play acting is drag. The entire entertainment industry is drag you dumb bitch!
Uncle Mark’s ugly face returns Bambino🇺🇦🌻 • 13 hours ago
I wonder what the ever-offended slag would have thought of the entertainment industry’s androgynous 80s
Uncle Mark’s ugly face returns Bambino🇺🇦🌻 • 13 hours ago
Well, that’s the grift..isn’t it?
1. Find things to be offended about
2. Inform everyone on your Christian Taliban mailing list at how corporations are “poisoning the kids” with liberal values
3. Ask for money to continue 1 & 2 to maintain the angertainment.
God makes no mistakes. These children were designed in His image before they left their mother’s womb.
So God deliberately designs children to have leukemia, cleft palates, and Down Syndrome. Nice.
Uncle Mark’s ugly face returns EdmondWherever • 13 hours ago
YES…to punish the parents for some yet undetermined sin. Nevermind the unwarranted cruelty to the innocent child; it’s all to punish the parents. 🙄
Many would consider it child abuse to encourage these children to dress in drag, question their gender, and sexually exploit themselves.
You don’t say…?
What, me worry? Buford • 11 hours ago
Indeed. Talk about your exploitation! Amazing how they don’t see it in themselves. If the One Million Mom bitched about this too and not just harp on LGBT issues, she might have some credibility. And not just girls’ pageants, but women’s as well. There is only one audience for them and that is dirty old straight christian men.
What, me worry? CB • 11 hours ago
Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if we could maybe teach about issues like that in public schools? (snark. I really wish we could. I grew up gay in the 50s and 60s and I had no idea what was making me so different from my peers, and I had no one to talk to about it and no books or other information on the subject. As far as I knew, I was the only one like me on the planet.)
She better not watch any of the old Buggs Bunny cartoons. Poor woman will blow the last gasket she has.
Perdue Makes Racist Remarks About Stacey Abrams
This rich white entitled racist asshole. I watched her full statement. She listed off the many ways Georgia was behind in the country like the states ranking in education and healthcare and she said it was not the best place. She was telling the truth based on facts and she was saying there is room for improvement. But Republicans hate the truth. Also Perdue made a comment in the full version of this attack about how Abrams wanted the black workers to leave the fields and black workers to leave their jobs implying she was telling them not to work which is the Republican fantasy that all blacks live on welfare. She was asking them to take time off to vote. But this asshole Perdue made the comment that black people needed to stay out in the fields as it that was their place assigned by god. On she is not from Georgia she was born in Wisconsin and lived there for 18 months. She moved to Georgia as a child and she has made enough money to move if she did not love the state. Really makes her a carpet bagger. Hugs
The New York Times reports:
Former Senator David Perdue ended his Trump-inspired campaign for governor of Georgia with a racist appeal to Republican primary voters on Monday, accusing Stacey Abrams, the Black woman who is the presumptive Democratic nominee, of “demeaning her own race” in how she has described the state’s problems.
Speaking to an overwhelmingly white crowd, Mr. Perdue trained his ire on Ms. Abrams, who narrowly lost the 2018 governor’s race to Gov. Brian Kemp, the Republican whom Mr. Perdue is vying to unseat in Tuesday’s primary.
“Did you all see what Stacey said this weekend?” Mr. Perdue said from the stage. “She said that Georgia is the worst place in the country to live. Hey, she ain’t from here. Let her go back to where she came from. She doesn’t like it here.”
Read the full article.
She moved to Georgia as a child.
Perdue is clearly desperate, and showing just how low he’s willing to go.
Pizza Rat King zhera • 11 hours ago
But the dog whistle there is “go back to Africa”
rednekokie zhera • 10 hours ago
He’s also quite stupid in not realizing that she is correct in everything she says, and can back it all up by the actual data.
Misutaa Roboto rednekokie • 8 hours ago
I think it’s more that he’s talking to stupid people, which is not necessarily a stupid strategy. The people he’s talking to will never fact-check anything.
Racists exist, they’ve always existed, we just need to vote and keep them out of office. If they get in, or remain in office – that’s on us.
He has a point. Ms. Abrams has only lived in GA for about 32 of her 48 years, making her a minor prior to living there. We all know that children always decide where their parents will reside.
Gee, I’m shocked that this man who had no qualms launching anitsemitic attacks against Ossoff would launch racist attacks against Abrams. /s 😡
This is nothing but a desperate attempt by someone WAY behind in the polls to get some media attention. He’s not going to win the primary. He’s irrelevant. That said, the fact that no Republicans are standing up against crap like this is more than enough evidence (like we needed more) that the GQP is a racist part. Or a party that panders to racists, as if those two things are actually different.
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