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Police: Brutal Beating That Left Florida Gay Man Blind Came Because Victim Was Dating Family’s Son
I have waited to post about this as I wanted to be sure what the real issues were. The violent family’s lawyer has tried hard to muddy the water with attacks on the character of the victim. This was a horrible attack that left the victim badly injured, afraid and from reports blinded all because the family found out that the adult younger son was having a secret sexual affair with the victim. From what I have read prior the family forced the adult son that was having sex with the victim to accompany them to the victim’s home and help them get the victim to let them into his home and then injure, rob, and restrain / detain him. All of this because the parents and older brother couldn’t stand the idea of the younger adult son have male with male sexual relations. This is the results that come from the right-wing hate preaching about gay people, this is the results of don’t say gay talk about the LGBTQ+ are pedophiles that want to rape and sexualize children. This shows clearly how dangerous this talk pushed on the right is.
Miami’s ABC News affiliate reports:
Members of a Ukrainian refugee family appeared in a South Florida courtroom on Wednesday. That’s where they are facing hate crime and attempted murder charges for an alleged family ambush.
Police say Oleh Makarenko was in a nine-month homosexual relationship, which would end with his lover being beaten so badly by Makarenko’s family that the victim became blind. Authorities allege that Oleh Makarenko, who is also known as Alex, was being forced to marry a woman by his mother.
On Aug. 6, three members of the Makarenko family barged into the victims home, according to police. A police report stated that, “All four of the suspects continued holding him and began punching, kicking, and hitting him all over his face and body.”
Miami’s Fox News affiliate reports:
According to the arrest documents, 19-year-old Oleh Makarenko and the victim had been romantically involved for about nine months, but the victim said Oleh told him his father was not accepting him as gay.
After a two-week break in the relationship, on Aug. 6, the victim said he remotely opened his community’s gate believing it was a friend when it was actually the Makarenko family. The victim went outside but quickly went back into his apartment.
“There’s no indication that anything was said or done to show that they had specific intent to kill,” said public defender Katherine Lopez. “It seems like, based on my reading, that their probable cause for beating him was because of a relationship with a family member of theirs.”
In the non-embeddable video at the first link, the female fiance of the gay son denies everything because she has an engagement ring.
Evangelical groups in the U.S. have been, for at least a couple of decades, sponsoring immigration of a small subset of Ukraine’s population that is too extreme in its religious viewpoints to get along well with anyone else in Ukraine. They arrive as religious refugees and immediately join with their U.S. evangelical sponsors to try to impose their religious extremism on others. I don’t know if that is this family’s story, but their actions fit the profile. I have friends in Ukraine that I chat with every week, and I have no sense that the evangelical-sponsored religious refugees are at all typical of the Ukrainian population as a whole. In fact, that is why they leave Ukraine, because Ukraine isn’t oppressively religious enough for them.
‘Til Tuesday 🌼 ☔️ 🌷 ☀️ • a day ago
Let’s see how long it takes before a Christian legal group takes up their case and claims they’re being persecuted for their faith.
I can just imagine the family’s defense to this awful crime: “[the victim] was grooming our child.” That should at least earn them pardons from De Santis.
Will ‘Til Tuesday 🌼 ☔️ 🌷 ☀️ • a day ago
Those are already close to the claims being made by their friends. They would have us believe that the family are falsely accused Christians who pray a lot.
“They are a Christian family, believers in God, members of the church and get together on the weekends to pray in their family circle and community.”
Interestingly, the arguments that their friends use for why they must be innocent, make me more likely to believe they are guilty.
discouragerofhesitancy • a day ago
This is as awful and inhuman as “honor killings” that take place around the world…usually driven by religious motives.
Unfortunately way to many societies around the world are so brainwashed by The CHURCH this shit is far to common. They move to a new country to start a new life and because of their blatant ignorance taught by the CHURCH it all goes up it smoke Wake up Frankie Graham and all you other NUTZ quit spreading the hate
The Christian Right has been importing Christian Righties and their thuggery from Eastern Europe for some time, taking advantage of these programs, then of course projecting that onto Democrats and brown people.
Presumably his parents and his church succeeded in creating such an astounding level of shame and self-loathing about being gay, that he was willing to participate with his family in the attempted murder of his boyfriend. The seething hate that is required to do something like this is so disturbing.
Populist Group Speaker: Ban Women And Feminine Men From Voting Because Of Their “Chaotic Nature”
Wow, a women / gay hater who doesn’t understand history or science. I am so stunned at how open these people are about restricting voting to only the people they like or that are like them. They do not seem to understand the term democracy. I worry about the people attracted to this stuff.
“I have to double down on this. They care so much about everybody voting and democracy. And it’s like, if you went back to the founding and the founding fathers would have probably said something like, ‘Women and probably feminine men shouldn’t be allowed to vote because then their chaotic nature would just manifest throughout society.’
“And you would say, ‘No, that’s not right. That’s mean. You’re probably an incel.’ And then the founding father would just say, ‘Oh, well, do you have any evidence from your time to contradict this?’ And you’d just be like, ‘No, not exactly.’ So it would seem that they were actually right.” – Podcaster John Doyle, speaking at an American Populist Union event.
They believe in oppressing others while trying to find ways to disenfranchise them.
M • 20 hours ago • edited
Chaotic nature? Have you seen Donnie dementia? His freakshow cronies? The ever spiraling insanity spewed by conswervatives like this?
M M • 20 hours ago
Oh, and George Washington had a cross dressing homosexual train the continental army to fight.
Straight white male fragility.
Frightened little boys all of them.
The Blessed Reverend • a day ago
If you go to their website APU is only 6 individuals – all of them complete unknowns and all early 20s I would guess. I predict they will bitch flame out in about 1 month
AyJayDee The Blessed Reverend • a day ago
I’d like to think so, but they’re part of a larger and increasingly powerful national movement that is very well-funded and well-organized.
Jim Bakker: Gays Are Killing Preachers In Their Pulpits
I just have no idea what goes on in the head space of these people? Really the idea that gays are hunting killing preachers in the pulpit is more than nuts, it is trying to claim the very harm hate preachers do from the pulpit to / against gay and LGBTQ+ people.
“They call it ‘Don’t Say Gay’ and it’s not true. It’s not even in there. I’m asking the woman of wisdom here what to do. Because I get fought on every hand if I mention anything. And it’s going to be preachers – we’re not going to be able to preach much longer. Because they’re going to shoot us in the pulpit. They will kill us in our pulpits. You don’t believe me? They’re already doing it.” – Scamvangelist Jim Bakker, on today’s show.
Typical Evilangeliar. Just making shit up all the time. No wonder the youngsters are fleeing the churches.
Carlson Blames BLM For Rise In Traffic Fatalities
WTF. This is such a lie. Cops never stopped harming black drivers. In fact, it increased due to police officers wanting retribution and revenge.
Media Matters has the transcript:
If you look at the numbers, you will notice that traffic deaths among African-Americans in the year 2020 surged in the month of June. Fatalities among Black drivers in June 2020 were fully 55 percent higher than they were in June of 2019. You never see increases like that. What could have happened?
Well, let’s see. It was in the last week of May of 2020 that a convicted felon called George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis and after that, you’ll recall, everything changed.
What changed most of all was how we regard the rule of law. As Russ Martin of the Governors Highway Safety Association put it, Floyd’s death, quote, “accelerated national discussion about equity in transportation.” And that discussion would include, quote, “questions about enforcement.” Oh, there it is, right there. That’s the answer.
Cops across the country were told to stop enforcing traffic laws against Black drivers. No one wanted to be accused of arresting somebody for the crime of, quote, “driving while Black.” So, in the name of equity, the law no longer applied to huge numbers of people. Result? Thousands of Americans died.
‘Til Tuesday 🌼 ☔️ 🌷 ☀️ • 5 hours ago
Carlson had a point he wanted to make (Black Lives Matter is bad), so he threw some shit together. It doesn’t have to be true or make sense or have any facts behind it. His audience doesn’t care about any of that, only that he tells them what they want to hear (BLM is bad). Remember, Fox New is an entertainment network, not a news network.
Tucker makes shit up again. Actually *general* traffic fatalities went up during the pandemic by a lot because there was a lot more room on the road for people not used to driving very fast to drive too fast. Pointing out this applies to black people too doesn’t mean it somehow has to do with a lack of traffic stops, cause those went *up,* too.
Meadows Was Registered To Vote In Three States
The right / Republicans are sure there is voter fraud and that is because they are the ones doing it. They accuse the Democrats of course because every accusation is a confession for the Republicans.
The Washington Post reports:
Voter-list maintenance is one of the dividing lines in American politics. Republicans argue that if voter-registration records are not regularly purged and updated, election fraud can take place. Democrats push back that too many voter-list purges are conducted haphazardly, removing eligible voters who don’t learn they are no longer listed until they show up to vote.
Now it turns out that until last week, Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three different states — North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina — according to state records obtained by The Fact Checker. The overlap lasted about three weeks, and it might have continued if revelations about Meadows’s voting record had not attracted scrutiny in North Carolina. Meadows is still registered in Virginia and South Carolina.
Read the full article.
Orlando Outlets Warn That Ron DeSantis’s Attack On Disney May Cause “Financial Ruin” For Local Counties
DeathSantis doesn’t care the cost to the people. People mean nothing to the Republican ruling class. DeathSantis is sending a warning shot across the bow of big business, large corporations, support us with money and keep your mouth shut or we hurt you. Even when Disney said they would work to overturn the don’t say gay bill the Republicans did not turn on them. Disney bankrolls a lot of the Republican party in Florida. DeathSantis is sure he is going to be President after the 2024 election. He is raising money like a pirate. But then Disney threatened to withhold the donations they were giving the Republicans. Granted they said the donations they were giving both parties. That is when the Republican shit hit the fan. That is when at the orders of emperor DeathSantis the Republican cult wrote the bill taking away the special district Disney had. That it hurts the public of that area doesn’t matter. What is important is the money must flow.
The Orlando Sentinel reports:
Dissolving Walt Disney World’s Reedy Creek Improvement District could saddle local taxpayers with about $1 billion in debt and leave local governments scrambling with how to take over vital services for Florida’s top tourist attraction.
What happens next is unclear, but Orange County’s tax collector and other opponents of the bill say ending Reedy Creek could lead to higher taxes for Orange and Osceola residents. The Legislature did not conduct an economic study on the ramifications of dissolving the district.
Legislators spent only two days examining the bill, unveiled on Tuesday, providing little opportunity for public input. Reedy Creek collects about $164 million in property taxes to maintain roads, utilities and other services, which is almost entirely paid by Disney.
Orlando’s ABC News affiliate reports:
One of the biggest myths circulating on the internet is that the end of Reedy Creek will finally force Disney to pay its fair share of taxes, boosting the economies of Florida and the counties its resorts are located in.
Let’s dispel that rumor right now: not only is it wrong, it’s the opposite that will take effect.
Despite zero debate or public comment, and the near-total opposition of Central Florida’s delegation to this maneuver, Orange and Osceola County taxpayers will shoulder the hit alone, leaving both counties staring at financial ruin.
Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 (((heleninedinburgh))) • 7 hours ago
He doesn’t really even care about hurting people, he wants to look tuff & manly, in preparation for his campaign to be Trump 2.0.
TK-Fla Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 • 4 hours ago
Yes, he only cares about his own selfish political ambitions. Fuck the people and businesses of Florida or anyone else. It’s all about him. He is the “new Trump”.
Gustav2 (((heleninedinburgh))) • 6 hours ago
He wants to own the Libs, and make everyone do what he wants.
So far the Republicans in the legislature are following his dictates.
FRC: Celebrate Earth Day By Making Christian Babies
These people are obsessed with sex and kids. Just what the world needs on Earth Day, more people.
Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins:
April 22 marks Earth Day, and this year’s theme is “Invest in our planet.” On this day, environmentalists and nature-lovers around the world unite to appreciate the beauty of God’s creation (whether they recognize it as such or not) and advocate for its conservation.
However, respect for the earth ought never to be in opposition to respect for humanity — the pinnacle of God’s creation. As some environmental extremists have begun to favor population reduction as a means to improve the planet, it is more important than ever to affirm that valuing the blessing of children and caring for creation are not mutually exclusive.
The anti-natalist vegan organization Stop Having Kids proclaims, “There is an unconscionable amount of needless suffering and death in the world. Birth serves as the catalyst for it all.”
According to the group’s website, anti-natalists believe that human reproduction is “an irreversible, unnecessary, indefensible, and enduring form of harm, regardless of circumstances, situations, or consciousness in living.”
In other words, anti-natalists want the human race to voluntarily wipe itself from the face of the earth in order to prevent future harm to the planet.
In 2021, Elon Musk said at the Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO Council, “I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate […] if people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words.” Musk’s warning contradicted generations of environmentalists who have argued that the human race was on its way to overpopulation.
Children are not a curse to be ended; rather, they are precious, unrepeatable souls made in the image of God. Children represent an opportunity to instill the principles of stewardship and respect for God’s creation in future generations.
A wholistic appreciation for creation is incompatible with the degradation of the value of human life. This Earth Day, let us remember that humanity can make no greater investment in the planet than investing in its children.
No babies are born x-tian. They have to be taught. What will they do when some pf their babies turn out to be GLBT?
We have 7 billion people on this planet. And there isn’t another planet to populate
More personally, my life is so much simpler snd better just because I don’t have kids
Only have kids if you really want to. Otherwise it’s just a burden
“And the Lord said, ‘Go forth, be fruitful and spawn ’til you die'”.
If anyone really wants a lot o kids, there are about 2 million in American foster care needing homes.
And let’s face it, these hard-core evangelicals don’t care about the planet — it’s disposable, they’re all going to be Raptured away and leave the rest of us to clean up the mess they’ve made.
There’s something terrifically egocentric about Perkins’ brand of “Christianity”.
evanedwards • 6 hours ago • edited
No such thing as a Christian baby. Babies are innocent until they become children and are groomed by Christians into their lifestyle.
Less children=less grifting money. Simple as that.
The_Wretched Joe in NM • 6 hours ago
I’m pretty sure with Tony Perkins that there’s also a racist element of trying to out breed the Black and brown people.
And one for Jeff.
Celebrate Earth Day By Making Christian Babies
LMFTFY
Celebrate Earth Day By Eating Christian Babies
Reminds me that in the 1960’s some African countries had high illiteracy, so food manufacturers put pictures on the labels of their products to show what was in the can. Naturally, consumers were horrified when they saw jars of baby food with the picture of the Gerber baby on the label.
I always thought that Gerber was a little on the fatty side. Alex on the other hand is quite lean and more healthy.
Misutaa Roboto The_Wretched • 6 hours ago
Yeah, getting a rescue child is the responsible way to go. I’d imagine the no-kill shelters are already overflowing with them, and it really gets a lot harder to find them a home after they stop being cute, especially if they haven’t already been housebroken.
Arkansas US House Candidate: “Sodomite Predators Are Grooming And Brainwashing Your Vulnerable Children”
The Insider reports:
US House hopeful Neil Kumar of Arkansas leaned into the nation’s culture wars hard on Thursday, seeding a fundraising appeal with homophobic attacks and apocalyptic imagery. The “LBGT Groomers Want Your Kids” email blast is straight from the MAGA culture wars playbook, portraying public schools as “psychological torture camps,” pedophilia as the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and existing politicians as part of a systemic problem.
“Education has been replaced by the promotion of the depraved LGBT agenda, a Satanic attack on God and Nature,” Kumar wrote, adding that “sodomite predators are grooming, brainwashing, and mutilating our vulnerable children.” As for the term LGBT, which refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, Kumar wrote: “I call it LGBTP — the P is for pedophilia.”
The Northwest Arkansas Gazette reports:
The Republican Party of Arkansas’ executive committee announced Tuesday it won’t support Neil Kumar, a Republican, in his bid for the 3rd District congressional seat, adding it won’t endorse or defend “racist, bigoted, sexist or threatening language by any candidate.”
Kumar, 26, of Bentonville, announced in July his plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Steve Womack in the Republican primary for Congress. The primary election is May 24.
“Unlike those corporate-funded clowns, I’m running for Congress to fight for the people of Arkansas — not Walmart, not China, and not the D.C. special interests who are giving away the birthrights of heritage Americans,” he said.
In the video below, Kumar is interviewed on the podcast of the white supremacist group, American Renaissance.
In his Facebook profile photo, Kumar wears a Confederate tie and suspenders.
SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad • 5 hours ago
“Sodomite Predators Are Grooming And Brainwashing Your Vulnerable Children”
Literally two days ago:
Catholic diocese in New Jersey reaches $87.5M settlement with hundreds of sexual abuse victims
‘Til Tuesday 🌼 ☔️ 🌷 ☀️ • an hour ago
Once you start a purge of books it never ends. They’ll just keep finding more and more books to get rid of because the extremists will demand it. But, they’re getting away with it because they’re screaming the loudest, and sometimes it’s the only voice that principals and schools boards hear. Just the climate of fear alone will cause teachers, principals, and school boards to act.
“We want Florida parents to make decisions about what their children read.”
FL School Board Bans Children’s Book About Babies
For anyone who thinks this is not a religious war against gay people, think again. There shall be no mention or visual of any gayness. Yet through out the book there are men and women touching and draping arms over each other.
Panama City’s NBC News affiliate reports:
Dozens of books were recently taken off Walton County schools library shelves, leading to concern on social media and during the school board meeting Tuesday. District officials confirmed 58 were removed from libraries throughout all schools.
“I did it for just a welfare of all involved, including our constituents, our teachers, and our students. I’ll continue to do those things and perhaps add some,” Walton County School Superintendent A. Russell Hughes [photo] said.
The Washington Post reports:
Since its publication in 2001, “Everywhere Babies” — a whimsical, lyrical ode to infancy, illustrated by Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Marla Frazee — has become a staple of family bookshelves, a common recommendation in new parent groups, and a celebrated title on Best Books lists.
But for the first time in its history, “Everywhere Babies” was featured this week on an entirely different kind of list: The book was among dozens of works recently banned from public school libraries in Walton County, Fla.
A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Education referred questions to Walton County, noting that “individual school districts are responsible for making these decisions,” and did not respond to follow-up questions.
The author of “Everywhere Babies” tells the Washington Post that she believes her book was banned due to a single drawing of a man with his arm on another man’s shoulder. There are no explicitly LGBTQ persons depicted in the book.
Republicans are edging ever closer to adopting an outright genocidal attitude regarding LGBTQ people in America, and anyone who supports us.
I use that term very deliberately.
Adam Schmidt BeccaM • 27 minutes ago
They’re taking the Russian approach, trying to eliminate anything at all that suggests that LGBT people exist and certainly anything that says we aren’t explicitly bad. The next step after that is criminalization.
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