A five year old was told often enough that his family was wrong and that the HAD to have a mommy, by adults, that he started to lie saying his mom died. Is this the correct message to send to little kids, your loving two dads are so wrong you need to start lying to fit in? These two men who have a five year old son are now faced with having to move out of Florida. They are lucky if they can afford to do so, even though it shouldn’t be this way. The state of Florida has been taking over by Republican thugs on a religious culture war to incite their base to attack anyone different than them. Including a five year old. Sick. But the Republican party and their gang of thugs will do this everywhere they can get away with it, and they will do it in places they were not in before to show they can. As I posted earlier. We need to understand what is happening in the US right now, we are losing the country to a gang of thugs. Hugs
THERE IS NO CC AND WITH CNN The CC is useless anyway. Please try to listen anyway. It is about a five year old boy being told his family is not real enough for the haters. Hugs
Jordan Letschert and Robby Price are teaching their son Kellan how to talk about their family. But recent anti-LGBTQ legislation has led them to reconsider if this is a good place to raise him.
The violence by these right wing groups is getting worse. It started with hate preachers, and now is a normal tool of intimation and fear caused by gang thugs who are the brownshirts of the Republican party. We know how deep these groups were in the insurrection. I have a fear that this is what is going to be the normal for the right to any they disagree with. I also want to point out as I have before how traumatized these little kids must have been. These were little kids. As has happened before at other libraries and bookstores these little kids are being terrified by these angry men coming and screaming, yelling, angry, making threats and saying bad things. Yet these gang thugs claim there are there to protect the children, the very kids they are scaring to death. We had better take this seriously because this is a prelude to what will be happening at any event that displease the right, as we seen with school board meetings during Covid. Right now red states are passing bills to have their armed, yes in some cases armed, supporters as poll workers to challenge voters of color or those they know are democrats. This is not democracy. History has shown us what happens if this is not stopped. Hugs
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a group of men who disrupted a drag queen storytelling event at the San Lorenzo Library Saturday with homophobic slurs.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said the incident occurred Saturday afternoon at around 1:30 p.m. at the San Lorenzo Library located on Paseo Grande.
Authorities said a group of men entered the library its “Drag Queen Story Time” event and made “homophobic and transphobic remarks against a member of the LGTBQ+ community who was hosting the event.”
From the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office:
When deputies arrived they learned a LGBTQ community member was hosting a reading event at the library called, “Drag Queen Story Hour.” Present at the event were children, parents and other community members.
A group of men entered the library and disrupted the reading event. The men were described as members of the Proud Boys organization, known to be a right wing hate group with anti-LGBTQ affiliations.
The men began to shout homophobic and transphobic slurs at the event organizer. The men were described as extremely aggressive with a threatening violent demeanor causing people to fear for their safety.
Deputies responded to the scene and were able to de-escalate the situation. An active hate crime investigation is underway as is an investigation into the annoying and harassing of children.
ACSO will dedicate all resources to ensure the safety of members of our LGBTQ community. We will make sure any future events at the library are safe against hate speech and threats of violence.
As we celebrate Pride Month, we will be swift in our response to any incidents where there are threats to harm members of this community.
Image above via Google Street View. The Proud Boys may have been alerted to the event thanks to a tweet from the anti-LGBTQ account, LibsOfTikTok.
Yesterday:
Proud Boys stormed Drag Queen Story Hour at San Lorenzo Public Library, wearing AK-47 shirts & calling the drag queen “pedophile” & “it.”
A right-wing militia was arrested for planning to attack Pride in Idaho.
Direct results of political attacks on LGBTQ people.
— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) June 12, 2022
NEW: San Francisco drag queen Panda Dulce says their Drag Queen Story Hour for kids at San Lorenzo Library today was stormed by people shouting homophobic slurs and hate speech.
— Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) June 12, 2022
I'm transcribing Dulce's post: "They were wearing AK 47 shirts. they recorded me on their phones, yelled, called me a 'tranny', a 'pedophile' and an 'it', and totally freaked out all of the kids. they got right in our faces. they jeered. they attempted to escalate to violence."
— Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) June 12, 2022
"I left the room with the security guard. we hid in the back office while the other librarians called the sheriff.
when the sheriff arrived with backup, they escorted the protesters out. the protestors formed a line, tried to block the library exits and waited."
— Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) June 12, 2022
Hate-crime investigation underway after 5 men who are members of the far-right Proud Boys interrupted a “Drag Queen Story Hour” at @aclib San Lorenzo Library w/kids, parents & community members & shouted homophobic & transphobic comments at event organizer, per @ACSOSheriffspic.twitter.com/6x5Uwaxc1B
These guys aren’t patriots: their self-description is as National Socialists. That’s NAZIS — literally. They actually promote the murder of all Blacks and Jews. They’re in favor of Genocide. The FBI needs to trail them relentlessly. https://t.co/VaO1Gzadt8
They also apparently object to the fact that the library’s activities are, gasp, funded by local property taxes. Presumably most people who pay property taxes have no particular problem with this activity or we would hear more from them. Question: what is the “libs” in this handle supposed to mean?
Generation that grew up laughing uproariously and without any sense of embarrassment at Flip Wilson in drag on prime time as Geraldine…
…now worried what will happen if kids see a drag show.
DeSantis now wants any parent who takes a child to a drag show to be investigated by DCF, charged with child abuse, and have their parental rights taken away.
The Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers, among other neo-fascist groups, have been a big problem for quite a while now, and it’s only getting worse, rapidly.
Canada has wisely designated the Three Percenters and the Proud Boys, at least, as “organizations designated as terrorists.” We have not been so wise in the US.
“Investigating?” What exactly needs to be “investigated?” The Proud(ly Idiotic) Boys clearly engaged in trespassing and disturbing the peace. Why aren’t they being arrested?
I think literacy is a noble goal and should be a community effort. We need some of those Drag Queens to go into the teaching profession and teach numeracy too.
Kudos to all the Drag Queens who volunteer to further the effort of educating children. The Proud Boys only teach hatred, violence and idiocy. I see no purpose in being a Proud Boy, except to promote narcissistic Nihilism.
Wow he takes Greg Locke down so hard and in a funny manner. Wait until he talks about his panties. I burst out laughing and I never thought I would hear a man of the cloth have such a normal good take on humor. Hugs
I enjoy listening to this person talk on different subjects, because he is a person who uses reason and thinks things through without just relying on tropes or rote. This short talk is on the topic of the great replacement idea that Tucker loves so much and immigration. He talks about how it influences people to do horrible things to others. Hugs
I am not a believer in deities nor the supernatural. I am not religious, and I am an atheist. But I do post a lot of the very hateful asshole stuff Christian / religious people to do harm others. Today I thought I would give a religious leader a chance to speak for themselves on this subject. I have posted this gentleman before. While we do not agree on if there is a god, we do agree on other things especially that a personal faith is not a club to harm others you dislike with. He seems a rather smart man I would enjoy an afternoon with. Hugs
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I’m an Anglican Priest in the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and I get to serve in the Parish of St Margaret of Scotland, in the beautiful city of Halifax, NS, that sits on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people.
My pronouns are he/him/his. My theology is primarily Christo-centric – Jesus is at the centre and it is against Him that all values are bounced off. I believe all people are created in the image of God and are children of God and are heirs to the throne of God – no conditions – therefore every single person we meet deserves our love, and respect.
Sexual attraction is a spectrum, and we know that where on the spectrum people fall is something we are born with. The environment may have some determination in how some facets of how we enjoy or act on what we were born being. But the fact where you fall on the straight / bi / gay spectrum is something you are born with, and it cannot be changed. What these ex-gay and conversion therapy do is effect behavior to a degree but don’t change the inborn attraction you started with. They pretend to be healed or changed but all they do is change their behavior, and now most of these groups admit the feelings are still there and will be forever. They just try their best to ignore them. They eventually give in, have same sex and go back to it, or they deny their basic needs to live in a way their bodies fight against. Hugs
Declaring their testimonies of how Jesus has transformed their lives, formerly LGBT-identified young men and women gathered in Washington, D.C., Saturday for the Freedom March. Gathered next to the Washington Monument for what has become an annual event in the nation’s capital, the hosts of the march continue to see the Holy Spirit doing remarkable work in the lives of people who reach out to them.
Jeffrey McCall, founder of the Freedom March, said he’s amazed by how the Lord is stirring among younger people. Since 2018, when the first march took place, their growing tribe of formerly LGBT-identified people has become especially close. “We call each other, do Bible studies together, encourage each other. It’s built a family. It’s a young family,” McCall told the Christian Post.
From the Metro Weekly article I excerpted in December:
Jeffrey McCall, the founder of “ex-gay” group Freedom March, has confessed to having multiple hookups with men since last year.
McCall claims to have lived as a gay male sex worker, and then as a transgender woman named Scarlett, before renouncing his sexuality and gender identity and founding Freedom March.
But in a post last month on his Facebook page, McCall told his supporters that he had engaged in “multiple” sexual encounters with men since 2020.
In 2020 I met someone that I was trying to help (I was helping in other ways he didn’t deal with SSA) which lead to me being unfaithful to Jesus and giving my heart away.
After denying what I wanted with him I then went on to fall sexually with a man when I felt wounded and lonely. This lead to multiple falls with men over time. (None of these men were Christians or people from ministry)
Every time I fell I would truly repent and turn away again. I would feel Gods love, mercy, and forgiveness sometimes before I could even finish the prayer. (I am not condoning this sin at all I’m just sharing what happened when I fell).
Last year McCall was featured in the Netflix “ex-gay” documentary “Pray Away” and his appearance in the film resulted in adulatory posts on Christian sites.
The only ones buying his lies are the ones whose bigotry run far and deep, to begin with. He’s not changing anyone’s mind with his nonsense babble and he very likely knows it.
Men living their lives of quiet desperation caused by religious guilt tripping. Been there, done that, don’t work. I am now out and have freedom that God wanted for me. Religion is evil.
Well, praying for forgiveness after is what the clergy who assault kids do, and it seems to go over well for the cult in general… but they still hate consenting gays more than child predators in the church. So they claim gays are the child predators and consider the job done.
Notice this is not about their kids, it is about regulating what other people’s kids can see / read. They are trying to force their views on other people’s children, trying to force other parents to follow their church doctrines. Your freedom as a parent to decide what your child should be able to read or have access to is being removed by a religious group. It is about forcing the public to follow the doctrines of a religion in a secular country. These people claim it is about protecting children, but their group is responsible for the largest mass molestation of children ever! So they claim the LGBTQ+ are dangerous for kids, that the LGBTQ+ are molesting kids, but again their very group has the largest know child abuse instances. Don’t we need to take away all books about these people, the religious groups, the Catholic church. Hide the churches and don’t let them be mentioned in schools. Plus one last thing when it comes to books with sexual improprieties they bible is the worst. Incest is rampant, sex with little girls, sex with concubines, approval of prostitutes and so much more. I think this short article is something all people who claim the bible says one man / one woman is the only way should read. https://valerietarico.com/2012/03/29/captive-virgins-polygamy-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/ How is this a moral guide that children should be forced to read? Hide this book from kids before you go after LGBTQ+ books. Hugs
A controversial conservative Catholic organization is urging parents to “Hide the Pride” during Pride Month — by checking out any LBGTQ-related books they see at their local libraries so that no children will see them.
The group, Catholic Vote, says “recent polls” show “American moms and dads do not want their children exposed to sexual and ‘trans’ content as part of their education.”
The group says parents can inconspicuously check out materials and place them away from children at home.
Catholic Vote’s Hide the Pride parental resource page includes step-by-step instructions and tips for parents who want to send that message to their local library board.
After collecting signatures on a letter to the library board, members of the public will go to the library, find the “Pride Month” display full of LGBTQ books targeted at kids, and simply check out all those books at the front desk.
Catholic Vote recommends participants take a friend or two along so multiple library cards can be used. Having emptied the children’s “Pride” display, parents can go home and “place the Pride books on a shelf out of reach of children,” Catholic Vote suggests.
"Hide the Pride" seeks to to "empty libraries of LGBTQ content aimed at kids" by checking out and hiding LGBTQ books on library Pride displays. https://t.co/Wg2XjLZuFa
RELATED: Longtime JMG readers will recall Catholic Vote as the home of former NOM communications director Thomas Peters, who famously battled the hate group for insurance coverage after a diving accident left him a quadriplegic. Peters, who helped lead NOM’s campaign against Obamacare, later admitted that his treatment was being covered, in part, by…..Obamacare. Catholic Vote last appeared on JMG in January 2016, when they issued a lengthy rant against Trump, calling him a womanizing loser who had opened a “sinful” titty bar in one of his casinos.
Indeed. Unlike these idiots, who want to hide information away, I actually want people to read bibles and other religious works of all sorts. But they should be properly categorized.
If they actually read what’s in there, tons of violence, sex, genocide, slavery, etc. But to the religious zealots, it’s much more scary to see a kids book whose message is that some families have two mommies, or that some people are different from them and that’s ok.
I once asked one of those holier than thou shitbaskets “How many kids in our city went to bed last night without enough to eat”? he didn’t know and said he’d “pray for the starving children” while laughing out loud. I nearly preformed a dickarectomy on the spot.
btw, he and his fellow imbeciles were harassing folks going into PP.
If you find material in a PUBLIC library objectionable, don’t go there. But don’t assume everyone else finds it objectionable. If you’re concerned about your children mind them more carefully, but don’t hold other people’s children to your standards.
Who knew that kids today were spending so much time in libraries?
(I mean they DO realize that any kid with a double-digit IQ can get an education in everything LGBTQ in a day through YouTube more complete than most of us have accumulated in a lifetime, right? And that you can’t throw a remote control without hitting a queer character on TV.)
Is this the idea of what prayer should be? Is this the meaning of being a Christian? I know that some decent good people are Christians or believe the Christian faith, how do they feel about this hijacking of their religion into a tool of complete hate and used to harm others. As for lifelong faith the fact is Biden has shown his dedication to his faith all his life, and Boebert has only used her professed faith as an attack tool. When Muslims are accused of a crime the US media demand that the other Muslims stand up and denounce the bad ones. Will Christians do that with members of their own religion? Hugs
A video of Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert saying she prays that President Joe Biden’s days are few has gone viral on social media.
Speaking on Saturday at the Charis Christian Center Family Camp Meeting in Colorado, where she was a guest speaker, the Republican politician referred to bible verse Psalms 109:8 as she spoke about the 79-year-old Biden, much to the delight of the crowd.
“I do want you to know that I pray for our president,” Boebert said. “Psalm 109:8 says, ‘May his days be few and another take his office.’ Loud cheers can then be heard from the crowd and Boebert takes a pause and smiles before saying “Hallelujah”.
Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
And then these idiots wonder why Americans are becoming less religious: it is because of examples of Christian love that she and oh, so very many people are all too happy to promote.
Police in Idaho arrested 31 people who had face coverings, white-supremacist insignia, shields and an “operations plan” to riot near an LGBTQ Pride event on Saturday afternoon. Police said they were affiliated with Patriot Front, a white-supremacist group whose founder was among those arrested.
Authorities received a tip about a “little army” loading into a U-Haul truck at a hotel Saturday afternoon, said Lee White, the police chief in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a city of about 50,000 near the border with Washington. Local and state law enforcement pulled over the truck about 10 minutes later, White said at a news conference.
Many of those arrested were wearing logos representing Patriot Front, which rebranded after one of its members plowed his car into a crowd of people protesting a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens.
The men were standing inside the truck wearing khakis, navy blue shirts and beige hats with white balaclavas covering their faces when Coeur d’Alene police stopped the U-Haul and began arresting them on the side of the road.
“They came to riot downtown,” Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said at a news conference. All 31 were charged with conspiracy to riot, a misdemeanor, White said. The men were going through the booking process Saturday afternoon and are scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, he said.
Police led the men, one by one, to the front of patrol cars, took off their masks and then brought them to a police van. The group’s manifesto calls for the formation of a white ethnostate in the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.
Right wingers and Trump cultists are flooding social media with their usual claims that Patriot Front is a secret FBI operation to make them look bad.
Patriot Front first appeared on JMG in February 2020 when over 150 members chanted “reclaim America” as they marched through Washington DC.
We heard from them again last summer when they were chased back to their U-Haul by counter-protesters in downtown Philadelphia.
They marched again in Washington DC in December 2021 before crashing January 2022 anti-abortion rallies in Chicago and Washington DC.
BREAKING: Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White said 31 members of the white nationalist group "Patriot Front" were arrested for conspiracy to riot. Those arrested traveled to North Idaho from 11 different states. https://t.co/dlDu2k85jW
Patriot Front was once known as Vanguard America (VA), one of the main organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017. James Fields, the scum who murdered Heather Heyer, marched with VA and was photographed near Patriot Front's current leader. pic.twitter.com/n3KdQYUV7S
— New York City Antifa (kolektiva.social/@nycantifa) (@NYCAntifa) June 24, 2021
This is Thomas Ryan Rousseau marching into Charlottesville chanting 'blood and soil' with his group at the time Vanguard America. They didn't wear masks but after that day they do. He was arrested in Idaho with his Patriot Front guys. VERY dangerous guy on a mission pic.twitter.com/xPdDuQq5LQ
Following the arrests of 31 Patriot Front members, Chief Of Police Lee White and Sheriff Bob Norris held a prompt press conference describing how a "telephone call from a concerned citizen" was what prompted a traffic stop leading to them finding and arresting the men. pic.twitter.com/ZAwnk7F6ak
Members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front were intercepted and detained today in Idaho while allegedly en route to possibly commit another white supremacist terror attack pic.twitter.com/GvWOtLAE9X
Here is the full video of the 31 Patriot Front members being taken out of the U-Haul truck in Downtown Coeur d'Alene 1 block from the Pride in the Park event, as first reported on our FB page. #NorthIdahoNewspic.twitter.com/AV0Fkuz6S2
— North Idaho News🎙️📻 ™️ (@NorthIdahoNews1) June 12, 2022
As a reminder, it was GOP Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott who first invited a local biker gang to protest the Pride event. The biker gang, in turn, contacted Patriot Front.
She’s everything you could expect her to be, and more. In 2015 Scott is reported to have cut wires which were part of the fire-suppression system in her office. Scott believed at the time that the wires were in fact listening devices planted to spy on her. The wire-cutting incident was witnessed by other Idaho House members.
In August 2017, Scott defended white nationalism on her Facebook page. She reportedly said, “The way the media has set this up, the mention of white nationalist, which is no more than a Caucasian who (sic) for the Constitution and making America great again, and confusing it with term, ‘white supremacist’ which is extreme racism. Therefore, if one is ‘guilty’ of being white, one is clearly racist.”
At the start of the 2017 legislative session, Scott reportedly made a remark to fellow state representative Judy Boyle, upon learning of her appointment to the state legislature’s agriculture committee. The reported comment was that female lawmakers obtain ranking committee appointments and other leadership positions only if they “spread their legs.” The alleged comment received widespread rebuke from other state lawmakers.
In the 2019 legislative session, Scott sponsored a bill that would have required Idaho’s Child Protective Services to mirandize parents before assessing them or their children. After passing the House, the bill was held in committee in the Senate.
In 2019, it was reported that Scott was a member of the Coalition of Western States (COWS), a group founded by Washington state representative Matt Shea that has been accused of involvement in domestic terrorism.
In 2020, she dismissed the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming the virus was trying to kill the U.S. Constitution and “The lying, Trump-hating media who continues to push global and socialist agendas has told us that there is an emergency.”
In February 2021 Scott had a Zoom meeting with constituents about gun rights, the 2021 United States Capitol attack, and free speech.
In April 2021 it was reported that Scott claimed the book To Kill a Mockingbird was an example of critical race theory in schools.
In 2021, Scott sought a copy of the police report accusing fellow state republican Aaron von Ehlinger of rape and asked the victim’s legal representative how a person who files a false police report alleging sexual assault could be charged with a crime.
Two Pennsylvania lawmakers plan to introduce a bill “to address discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in Pennsylvania schools.”
State Senators Scott Martin [photo] and Ryan Aument, both Republicans representing Lancaster County, say the bill would pertain to age-inappropriate conversations in elementary schools.
According to the senators, the proposal would prohibit classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students and require public schools to develop a policy for notifying parents when there is a change to a student’s services or monitoring.
Martin and Augment claim their bill would exempt LGBTQ students from the parental notice requirement if it can be “reasonably demonstrated” that doing so would put them in danger of “abuse or abandonment.” Yeah.
Martin, who dropped his bid for governor in March, authored the state Senate bill against transgender student athletes. The bill, which passed this week, has zero chance of being signed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.
Two Pennsylvania lawmakers plan to introduce a bill "to address discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in Pennsylvania schools." https://t.co/yymP6rz1n4
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