This is basically the same crime they are trying to nail Hunter Biden for. If tRump did buy the gun he lied on the forms saying he was not under indictment where he was. Hunter Biden is accused of lying on the form that he was not in drug treatment programs. So either they let Hunter go or charge tRump with the same crime. Hugs
Donald Trump Said He Wanted To Buy A Handgun, But Surprise! He’s Banned.
Federal law prohibits people under felony indictment from buying guns.
The Christian Taliban moral police strike again. When are people in the US going to get tired of the Christian nationalist trying to take over the country and force everyone to live under the doctrines of their churches. Think about it, this is not religious freedom, this is religious dictatorship. Religious freedom is everyone gets to practice and live their life according to their religion as long as it doesn’t harm others. By the Christians insisting everyone honor their idea of the holy day, they deny the religious freedom of others. What about religious sects and religions that have Saturday as the holy day? What about atheist that don’t have a holy day, and their ability to enjoy each day without the religious entanglements is also part of religious freedom. I know that some fundamental religious leaders like to claim there is no right to not be religious, but that is stupid. To be free to practice one’s personal beliefs, one must be free to have no set religious restrictions. People this is a fringe fundamentalist group of very vocal, very driven people willing to rule over every aspect of other peoples lives. They are the worst busybody nosey neighbors ever in existence. Their goal in life is to make you follow their ways, their ideas of right and wrong no matter what you believe, no matter what you think, in fact you are not important as a person for them. You need to comply so their god is happy, that is it. They don’t care if you’re happy or if things are good for you. They only care if their god is happy and they think they know the secret to making their god happy. Fight back. Hugs
The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association doesn’t want anyone on the beach when church is in session
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New Jersey officials are attempting to stop a Christian group from blocking access to a public beach on Sunday mornings.
It comes after the Methodist group managing the beach in Ocean Grove has openly proclaimed its religious intentions for the property—to the point that they installed a cross-shaped pier on it earlier this year:
The cross-shaped pier in Ocean Grove, NJ (screenshot via YouTube)
The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association (OGCMA) doesn’t hide its religious affiliations. The group says the area was “founded as a Christian seaside resort” and has a mission befitting that description:
The mission of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, rooted in its Methodist Heritage, is to provide opportunities for spiritual birth, growth, and renewal through worship, educational, cultural, and recreational programs for persons of all ages in a Christian seaside setting.
Their goal is to help all generations “know and grow in Jesus.”
How did they get control of this space? NJ.com says it’s the result of a charter offered by the community:
Ocean Grove, referred to as God’s Square Mile by some of its residents, has about 3,000 residents. Though it is only a small section of Neptune Township, it has a unique charter that allows it to set some of its own rules under the Camp Meeting Association.
The Ocean Grove Meeting Association was sued in 2007 when it barred same-sex couples from using its boardwalk pavilion for civil union ceremonies. A judge later ruled that ban violated the state’s anti-discrimination law.
(In response to that judge’s decision, the OGCMA decided no one could have any weddings on the boardwalk. Because if conservative Christians can’t get what they want, everyone must be punished.)
Those special rules, however, are what gave them the ability to construct the $2 million Christian pier that opened in April. The original one was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy over a decade ago, so they jumped at the opportunity to inject some Christian Nationalism into the pier’s replacement.
But the latest controversy involves access to the beach. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day—a total of 15 weeks—no one was allowed to go on the beach before noon on Sundays. In fact, the entrances were barricaded with chains and padlocks.
That, the state says, is a problem.
In an August 10 letter to the group from the Bureau of Coastal and Land Use Compliance and Enforcement, Regional Supervisor Robert H. Clark said the barriers prevented people from accessing the beach during daylight hours, violating state law.
“The outcome of the step closure enhances religious and secular quality of life experiences in Ocean Grove which society recognizes as valuable. During this 0.5% of the year, the view of the ocean from the OGCMA’s boardwalk and pier is of sublime natural beauty without the visual elements of beach umbrellas, tents, and masses of people,” Badger wrote in a response to state Department of Environmental Protection provided Friday to NJ Advance Media.
See? It’s just a coincidence that the natural beauty needs to be preserved during the busiest swimming days of the year… and nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that Sunday mornings are typically when churches hold services.
Shane Martins, founder of the local watchdog group Neptune United, said the barriers also prevented people with disabilities from accessing the water, which is another legal problem:
Township police have been on the scene but have declined to either remove those on the beach, or take away the pad lock barriers, which Martins said is contrary to federal law protecting access for people with disabilities.
“They are in direct violation of state and federal law and it is time they be held accountable,” Martins said.
So far, OGCMA hasn’t been issued any fines or punishment. In the meantime, they’re shoving Jesus in visitors’ faces in any way they can:
Christian symbols can be found all around Ocean Grove. On the beach, a Christian flag flies beside the U.S. flag. Beach badges sold by the Camp Meeting Association include a cross, beach umbrellas available for rent are decorated with cross icons and there’s a cross mounted on the dunes at the beach.
The message is clear: Jews and atheists and Muslims are not welcome in this part of the state. They can visit, sure, but the people running the show want them to know this is a Christian area, church/state separation be damned.
The cross-shaped pier in Ocean Grove, NJ (screenshot via YouTube)
As of this writing, no lawsuits have been filed against the OGCMA, though the ACLU of New Jersey notes that the crosses on the beach badges “raises serious legal concerns.”
More broadly speaking, though, the message of the group is clearly one of exclusion. No matter how often they say they welcome everyone, their actions place Christians above all others, even when it comes to public accommodations.Even when Neptune Township officials have asked the OGCMA to make adjustments in a secular direction for the sake of being more welcoming,those requests have been ignored or rejected.
How does this group have this much power? Arguably because they fund everything themselves, which creates a much more complicated argument for those trying to put a stop to it. When reporter Daysi Calavia-Robertson wrote about the arrangement this past May, she explained how the OGCMA pays for its dominance to the point where its inclusive rhetoric doesn’t have to match its actions:
That’s no doubt because of all the Camp Meeting does for the town that would normally be paid for through taxes. It fundraised and paid for the new $2 million pier. It provides year-round recreational programs and events. It’s also in charge of collecting the beach badge revenue — money it’s required to spend on maintaining the beach — and a nominal annual fee homeowners must pay to lease the land.
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… no one – not a single person I spoke with – is suggesting [the OGCMA] shouldn’t be who they are and embrace their history and religion. All that’s being asked of them, all that people are pleading for, desperately, is that they also give other people the breadth to be who they are. But it seems to me that what the Camp Meeting says is all just lip service. I’d much prefer to see them show tolerance instead of just talking about it.
As a number of articles point out, litigation has been the most successful way to create change in this community. Even if the lines are blurred, nothing is going to change until church/state separation groups figure out how to take the OGCMA to court and force them to do the right thing. Their Christian faith hasn’t steered them in that direction yet and there’s no reason to think their moral compass will ever point in the right direction without a judge’s help.
Remember these were 8th grade students. Children in 8thgrade in the United States are 13 or 14 years old. They enter 8thgrade at 13 years of age and leave at 14 years of age under normal circumstances. These students should by then known parts of the human body, both male and female. Yet one mother claimed the teacher was making a little girl talk about feeling each other’s breasts. Also by then most people clearly know their sexual attractions and feelings. Yes there are gay kids in those schools and in those classrooms. Remember kids have computer, TV, Movies, they have books with LGBTQIA people in them … well in some states still, they know of same sex couples and families. Some people think young people simply are blank slates with no desires or sexual feelings until either they’re married at 12 or they suddenly get them when they turn 18. These are the same people that think little girls should be forced to carry to term a pregnancy, giving birth, but are too fragile to know that some girls like other girls? How stupid has this country gotten? The last paragraph of the article says: “The book has long been used to teach students about the Holocaust. Its sexual passages reflect similar experiences that teenagers undergo throughout puberty.” Hugs
In the passage, Frank describes her genitals and wanting to see a female friend’s breasts.
A Texas school district has fired an 8th-grade English teacher for having students read a passage from The Diary of Anne Frank in which the titular writer describes her genitals and lesbian attraction.
The Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District (HFISD) of Jefferson County, Texas — a near coastal region about 80 miles east of Houston — fired the unnamed teacher after she assigned students a reading from Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. The adaptation is an illustrated, comic book version of the diary that Frank, a German-born Jewish teen, wrote in the late 1940s while hiding from Nazis. Frank was 13 to 16 years old when writing the diary.
Grace Linn compared today’s book bans with Naziism and said her late husband didn’t fight in WWII for this.
In one section of the graphic adaptation, Frank asks a female friend if she’d feel comfortable exposing their breasts to each other. In the three-panel scene, Frank’s friend refuses and they both remain clothed. In another section, Frank walks amongst nude female statues and admits, “I must admit, every time I see a female nude, I go into ecstasy. If only I had a girlfriend!”
In yet another section, Frank writes about her own genitals, describing their changing physical appearance as she experiences puberty. This section was omitted from the book’s 1952 English edition but eventually restored in its 1980s republication.
HFISD notified parents on Tuesday via email, “It was brought to the administration’s attention tonight that 8th-grade students were reading content that was not appropriate. The reading of that content will cease immediately. Your student’s teacher will communicate her apologies to you and your students soon, as she has expressed those apologies to us.”
By Wednesday, the district fired the teacher. While district officials said the book had never been approved, “it was on a reading list sent to parents at the start of the school year,” KFDM reported, and the middle school’s principal reportedly approved the syllabus that mentioned the book.
Nevertheless, one parent told the aforementioned news station, “It’s bad enough, [the teacher is] having them read this for an assignment, but then she also is making them read it aloud and making a little girl talk about feeling each other’s breasts and when she sees a female she goes into ecstasy — that’s not ok.”
The fired teacher has reportedly hired an attorney, but this isn’t the first time that the book’s lesbian content has angered parents.
A Florida principal removed the book from the Vero Beach High School library for being “not age appropriate” after a local chapter of the anti-LGBTQ+ group Moms for Liberty complained the book was “not a true adaptation of the Holocaust” and contained “graphic” and “sexually explicit” illustrations.
The book has long been used to teach students about the Holocaust. Its sexual passages reflect similar experiences that teenagers undergo throughout puberty.
Notice that the girl who made the claim that a trans girl used the bathroom admits she’s not sure of the identity of the person she saw. So just how did she know the person was trans? She went on looks, the girl did not look girly enough for her. I wonder where she got that criteria that who is female should go on how feminine they look? Who drummed that mistaken misogynistic idea into her head. All girls must look beautiful for men? But stop and ask why it is important that a trans girl not be in a bathroom with sinks and stalls? She is going to do what every other girl does, go into a stall, do what they are there to do, and after she makes sure she is dressed goes to the sink where she washes her hands, maybe checks her looks / does a makeup check. Unless girls in the bathroom are walking around / hanging out nude, then no genitals are seen or should be seen. To have this much hate over an issue that makes no sense is anger and hate for no reason other to attack a minority group. It is the same as whites trying to prevent blacks for using the same bathrooms as whites. It is the very same issue. The father of the girl demanded that trans girls use the single person bathrooms, but he was reminded after he claimed his daughter was traumatized and too upset to use the bathrooms at school despite the fact the father admitted they did not know if the person was trans or another cis girl. He was then reminded his daughter could also be using those bathrooms. Also it is important to know that the school district has been allowing all students to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with for years, for a very long time with no complaint. So why was one faked and drummed up now on social media. For the simple reason of targeting a small minority of students. For the fleeting joy of hating and ganging up on LGBTQIA kids. That a congress troll is trying to cause rage and hostility towards a few students in the community is horrifying. They simply don’t want trans people, gay people, anyone not straight and cis in public. Hugs
Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrates school freaking out over possible trans girl in bathroom
A girl possibly saw a trans girl in the bathroom, leading to a walkout. Greene was elated that students were protesting against equal rights.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) commended students for organizing a walkout following weeks of panic in the district after a cisgender girl saw another person who was possibly transgender in the bathroom. The cis girl has since said that she’s not sure of the identity of the person she saw.
“This is the way!!!” Greene tweeted with a video of several hundred students walking out of Perkiomen Valley High School in eastern Pennsylvania.
The issue started several weeks ago when Tim Jagger, the father of a student at the school, posted on Facebook that his daughter saw a boy in the girls’ restroom, leading to outrage on social media.
The Perkiomen Valley school board discussed its bathroom policy at its meeting last week on Monday, September 11, following the attention the incident got. The board considered a policy to ban transgender students from using the restroom that corresponds to their gender.
At the meeting, Jagger admitted that “we aren’t sure” if the person his daughter saw was a trans girl, a cis girl, or a boy, but that didn’t matter because his daughter, he claimed, is “too upset and emotionally disturbed” to use the restroom at all. He told the board that “there is zero reason for someone with male genitalia to be in the girls’ facilities” and that transgender students should be forced to use single-person bathrooms.
This echoed the response he got from principal Cynthia Moss that his daughter can use “a number of single-stall restrooms throughout the building” if she doesn’t want to share a restroom with girls who are different from her.
The anti-trans policy was not passed by the school board in a vote at the September 11 meeting, despite getting support from the president of the board.
Superintendent Barbara Russell told The Philadelphia Inquirer that there have been no incidents in the school related to transgender students using the restroom. Students don’t change for gym class and no trans student is playing on a sports team in the school, so there haven’t been any issues with locker rooms either. She told WPVI that the policy aligns with state and federal protections for transgender students and said there’s no need to change it.
“It did not have to come to this social media, ‘Let’s further divide the community and hurt more kids,’ as opposed to support,” Russell said of Jagger posting to Facebook.
That division over allowing transgender students access to an equal education was amplified when student John Ott organized a walkout last Friday.
“Kids were upset. Girls… we wanted to protect them,” he told Fox News. “They were upset. They didn’t want men in their bathroom.”
Fox found some confusion among students, including one, Brandon Emery, who said that he didn’t know how the school district was going to enact the policy of allowing trans students to use the bathroom, even though that is already the current policy and has been for some time.
Fox & Friends, the far-right network’s morning news show, did a segment on the school district and Emery’s mother, Melanie Marren, told the show that the school didn’t take “into consideration how they affect the students and how uncomfortable it is to just be a teenager in general,” as if transgender students at the school aren’t students or aren’t going through awkward teen years themselves.
One trans former student at the school spoke at the September 11 school board meeting. Tarren McDonnell, who is now 21, said that she got harassed when she used the boys’ restroom, so she would use the single-person nurse’s bathroom. She said that it was far from her classes, adding about five to ten minutes to each restroom trip. It also set her up for harassment; she said that she was followed by a boy once who taunted her as she went to the nurse’s bathroom.
She said that she eventually just started using the girls’ room and “nobody ever gave me issues.”
“I’m praying that something does get done that protects us,” she said at the meeting, adding that she was “saddened to see the hatred and the ignorance” of trans people on display at the meeting.
Beau of the Fifth Column often says the younger generations won’t tolerate the hate and bigotry of the ones pushing anti-LGBTQIA / racist ideas. Yes the right wants to remove all mention and safety for kids that are different and return to an assumed superiority of white people. But they are missing the point. It was like that in the past. In the 1950s our society was just like they are trying hard to return to. Yet we progressed. Social acceptance of people being different from each other and the right to live openly as themselves happened. The right thinks it is because they did not push back hard enough to stop it. The right thinks they should have used violence from the start.
But that is not true, there was always hard push back and violence by those in authority and by churches. Ask any gay kid growing up during those times. I grew up understanding I was gay in the time of Anita Bryant, who was the early version of the hate group started by Chaya Raichik’s Libs of TikTok. Think of the abuse the police dished out even into the late 1990s. I remember when Ron had the bar, we had to have an unbreakable material used for the windows because they were being broken as soon as they were repaired. We had to have a bunch of the bigger better fighters assisting people leaving to make sure no one was assaulted and beaten up by groups of haters. I well tell you, the most awesome thing I have ever seen was a lesbian kicking the ass of 3 redneck assholes who attacked a small gay guy leaving the bar. She taught them a lesson they did not soon forget. We fought back then and I honestly thought we were beyond that hate and society was a safe space for the LGBTQIA. Where LGBTQIA kids could be happy in schools knowing they were safe and accepted. But the haters are bringing it all back. We must not let them indoctrinate future generations into hate and bigotry. We must not let them drive kids back into the closet in fear and shame of who they are. We must not let them remove the LGBTQIA from society and public view. We are here and should be equal, we have our rights and they should be enforced for us. Hugs
Angry parents were left sputtering as students rallied in support of the trans teen.
At Oak Park High School in Kansas City over the weekend, students elected a trans homecoming queen. Tristan Young bested four other nominees to take the crown.
And Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik managed to find the only two parents who are mad about it.
“I’m appalled by NKC Schools’ continued support of the LGBT agenda,” whines one parent for Raichik in an email, referring to the North Kansas City School District.
“They not only indoctrinate children, but they are placing certain student populations over others.”
In another stilted statement from a second aggrieved parent, she writes: “As a woman, it breaks my heart to see these girls get passed over and a man stealing what is rightfully theirs.”
Then she adds, also as a woman, “I’m broken-hearted because I know the students voted for him.”
Raichik was clearly desperate to gin up the usual outrage over the student-led vote and failed miserably.
The queer-addled activist, who’s lately tried to refashion herself as an “independent journalist,” posted the “story” with a headline declaring, “Male crowned homecoming queen, beating out four other girls,” which clarified for trans supporters everywhere that Young is just one of the girls.
“Not the point but Chaya is writing at a sub-middle school level, lol” posted one amused commenter.
NKC Schools shared their congratulations for Young in a tweet with photos from the event.
In one, last year’s winner passes the sash to the new homecoming queen. In another, Young’s parents stand by beaming; her dad sports a Kansas City Chiefs Pride hat.
Young’s election in the revered high school ritual was met with a sense of betrayal by online hacks dismayed that a reliably red state like Missouri could harbor open-minded kids.
“Who’s to blame here?” whined transphobic 5th place finisher Riley Gaines, who tied with trans swimmer Lia Thomas in a collegiate meet last year.
Gaines tried sarcasm to make her poorly conceived point in on X: “So stunning & brave🤴🏻✨ Another reminder to all girls that men make the best women. I wonder if a female will win homecoming king or if it’s understood that both of these spots are reserved for males.”
So stunning & brave🤴🏻✨
Another reminder to all girls that men make the best women. I wonder if a female will win homecoming king or if it's understood that both of these spots are reserved for males. Who's to blame here? pic.twitter.com/ZXHU6Wyiiy
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