Pastor Jonathan Shelley Photo: Screenshot/TwitterChristian preacher Jonathan Shelley of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, Texas said that he doesn’t think the Holocaust happened but that he would feel “lucky” if it did. He compared genocide of the Jewish people to shooting gay people.
“These Jews that are out there, they want to destroy everything that is holy, everything that is righteous,” Shelley said. “In our culture, it is not acceptable to say anything negative about them.”
He then mocked people who oppose antisemitism: “The Hol- Haven’t you heard about the Holocaust, Pastor Shelley?”
“Yeah. Why do I care? I mean, if someone walks into a homo bar and shoots ’em all, shoots a bunch of homos and kills all of them, you know how many tears I’d shed for that? Zero,” he said, saying that he doesn’t “care how many of them die” because they “worship the devil.”
“You say, ‘Well, Adolf Hitler was evil,’” he continued. “Absolutely! That guy was full of the devil. That guy was an antichrist figure. You know what? If an antichrist kills another antichrist, I don’t cry even one second.”
“‘Well, he killed six million,’” he said in a mocking tone. “I doubt it. Only if we were lucky.”
He then said that the defining characteristic of Jesus was that he would “preach against the Jews” and not that he was Jewish.
Writer Hemant Mehta, who posted the clip to Twitter, noted that Shelley’s church still has a YouTube channel.
“And why is YouTube allowing it on their platform?” he asked.
Shelley has a long history of hateful comments, and not just in his church. Earlier this year, he told the Arlington, Texas city council that gay people should be executed as some people in the audience shouted “Amen” and “Yup.”
“According to God we should hate Pride, not celebrate it,” he said. “God has already ruled that murder, adultery, witchcraft, rape, bestiality, and homosexuality are crimes worthy of capital punishment.”
Shelley has declared that gay men are all pedophiles and once celebrated the death of a 75-year-old gay man last year. Jim Fahy, a member of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus, was killed when a driver accidentally drove into the Wilton Manors Pride Parade.
“And, you know, it’s great when trucks accidentally go through those, you know, parades,” Pastor Shelley said about the tragedy. “I think only one person died. So hopefully we can hope for more in the future.”
“You say, ‘Well, that’s mean.’ Yeah, but the Bible says that they’re worthy of death!” he continued. “They say, ‘Are you sad when fags die?’ No. I think it’s great! I hope they all die! I would love it if every fag would die right now.”
“And you say, ‘Well, I don’t think that’s what you really mean.’ That’s exactly what I mean. I really mean it!”
Last week, Shelley said that gay men’s intestines fall out and compared being gay to eating one’s own vomit every day.
“What men do with men is defiling their body, hurting their body, they’re hurting each other,” Shelley said. “They’re causing themselves all kinds of problems. Their intestines will sometimes just fall out because of the actions that they do.”
“Pastor Shelly, you’re gonna have to eat Indian food and ranch dressing every day of your life, or do that one time?” he said, referring to sex with other men. “It’s like, bring on the Indian food.”
“What if you, what if you, Pastor Shelley, what if you had to eat Indian food and ranch and then vomit it up and then eat it again, or do that one time? It’s like, bring on the vomit.
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Florida Man Cites “Don’t Say Gay” Law In Lawsuit Over Pride Flag In Classroom: This Is Against Jesus [VIDEO]
Because rainbows make Jesus cry. As I said in the last post on this guy, not everyone lives by his bible. Deliu said his family is Christian-Orthodox and considers homosexuality a sin, saying in the lawsuit it’s “not in accordance with their Bible.” Gay people exist, and they have rights. Gay kids exist and they have rights. This child is in the 7th grade, he is quite aware of gender and sexual orientation, and sorry but not everyone is the same. My rights, gay kids in the 7th grade don’t lose their rights because the bible says they are icky, and his daddy is a bigoted asshole. Hugs
West Palm Beach’s NBC affiliate reports:
A Wellington father is suing the School District of Palm Beach County after he claimed his son’s teacher put up two LGBTQ pride flags in her classroom. Dr. Francisco Deliu’s 12-year-old son is in seventh grade at Emerald Cove Middle School.
Deliu filed a lawsuit on Oct. 12 against the school district, Palm Beach County School Board, the middle school, principal Dr. Eugina Smith-Freeman and teacher Rachel Raos. Deliu said his family is Christian-Orthodox and considers homosexuality a sin, saying in the lawsuit it’s “not in accordance with their Bible.”
Deliu claimed the teacher’s actions are a violation of Florida’s “Parents’ Bill of Rights” law, which went into effect in 2021. Deliu is asking for a jury trial and wants the court to declare the teacher’s [alleged] decision to discuss gay pride and homosexuality illegal.
Read the full article. Deliu also wants an apology from the school and the teacher to be posted on the district’s website. Wellington, it’s worth noting, is one of Florida’s wealthiest communities. Many of its homes include horse stables and Wellington hosts the annual US Polo Open as well as other equestrian competitions.
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JoeMyGodMod • an hour ago
I’m mostly surprised that a doctor who lives in Wellington has a kid in public school.
He looks to be a lawyer
https://www.queerty.com/lit…
It surely isn’t his first go-round with making big accusations, either. In 2017, the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal found him guilty of nine different charges including “misconduct”, “unprofessional conduct” and “conduct unbecoming a lawyer”.
The misconduct charges resulted from a series of allegations the barrister made against two high court judges of “discrimination and racism by the Judges towards both counsel and clients, and corruption in carrying out their duties.”
Deliu was fined a quarter of a million dollars and his law license was temporarily suspended.
Paddycakes2001 JoeMyGod • 30 minutes ago
I love the part of the article where the guy says he’s a “libertarian.” I’m sure he has a great explanation for why libertarianism* means the state must affirmatively take actions to send the message that there is a lower caste of depraved people who must not be spoken about or acknowledged.
*We all know that real-world Ron Paul-style libertarianism wants exactly that, but it’s hilarious to watch them try to explain themselves.
Houndentenor JoeMyGod • 34 minutes ago
Some affluent areas have public schools that rival the best private schools in their area. So I’m not surprised. The high home prices and high property taxes that fund those schools keep out anyone they don’t want there.
Stoned and loving it JoeMyGod • an hour ago
when the legislature passes laws designed to allow the GQP to loot the treasury, one must establish standing before suit
GO BACK TO ROMANIA where you can get all of the Orthodox Christianity you crave!
ChrisMorley TampaZeke • an hour ago
He’s also pissed of with Romania:
Romania decriminalised homosexuality in 2001
Jay Ryan in Illinois • 30 minutes ago • edited
“The dad, a self-described ‘live and let live’ libertarian”
So no neck here wants the state to impose rules against those he finds offensive. Yeah, that’s a real live and let live libertarian there. Lol
I guarantee you this concerned father has never once attended a PTA meeting, volunteered, or gone to a parent teacher conference in his child’s life.
Kieth ChristopherM • an hour ago
It’s also interesting that people had issues with Ye saying bad things about Jewish people but anyone is free to say horrible things about LBGT people and its ok because it’s your opinion yet both our people were in hitlers concentration camps
It’s ok to be an open homophobe in our society. Whenever you see it racism is just below the surface though.
Jack Frost ChristopherM • an hour ago
Oh, those are the loudest ones. Not really a part of their kids education until they get to hate on a minority group.
Rebecca Gardner • an hour ago • edited
The law reads, prohibits classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels;
Ok, which grade? Is 7th grade too old to be covered by this? Also, it says nothing about a flag, it only prohibits discussion.
Jack Frost Rebecca Gardner • an hour ago
The law was written so poorly and so broadly that it allows for any parent to sue for anything and to let the courts or jury decide.
Its supposed to chill speech these asshats dont like so in this case they assumed all LGBTQ teachers/school officials would just pull all the “gay stuff” out of the classroom in advance.
Chris Baker Jack Frost • 35 minutes ago
Yes, it was more of a scare type law that was so vague that teachers would be afraid to do anything, even putting up a pride flag. I hope this is a test case that turns out well to knock down this law.
Why is saying that ‘straight people exist’ legal, but “gay people exist’ illegal?
It would be funny if some wise-ass elementary school let boys and girls use whichever bathroom they wanted to because “discussing gender identity was forbidden by law and discussing or asking students what gender they are might be illegal.”
Jack Frost Rebecca Gardner • an hour ago
Maybe he wants to expand on the grade levels. Maybe make it K-12?
I wouldn’t put it past anti-gay people to start with a wedge like K-3 and then work to expand that outward.
That “Don’t Say Gay” law in Florida HAS to be unconstitutional. Besides, being “against Jesus” has no bearing on education, unless you’re a Christian religious school. I hope he’ll get told to go away and take his jury trial with him; but it’s Florida, so who knows?
Chucktech thatotherjean • an hour ago
“Against Jesus,” Jesus…
Yeah, Jesus was always ragging on those filthy queers…
Chris Baker tbj5 • 39 minutes ago • edited
Didn’t they just rule for freedom of speech of teachers in the ‘praying coach’ case? of course, they will contradict themselves in a case like this when they rule -against- freedom of speech.
The religious right is now targeting sexless marriages as “selfishness.” They want to ban those too
It seems the religious right is on a push to have as many kids born as possible, even if it kills the woman. I am not sure why? The went after same sex marriage claiming they couldn’t be real because they did not produce offspring / children. Now any childless marriage is not real because no children being born. Is that because less and less people are religious in the US. Are they worried that soon they will lose too much money in the collection plates if they don’t get the US to over populate? Do they need more sacrificial lambs to the altar of their god? And why do these people obsess with the marriages / sex lives of other people so much. Are they jealous? I just don’t get it. Hugs
Photo: ShutterstockIn July, the Supreme Court of Sweden ruled in a landmark case that a relationship doesn’t have to involve sex to be considered significant. In a case involving an asexual couple in which one of the two parties is deceased, the court emphasized that a relationship should be characterized by a close community in personal terms that normally occurs between married people and that sex doesn’t have to be involved for that to happen. It was a significant win for asexual people in Sweden.
However, in America, a darker reality exists for asexuals even on this Ace Week, as religious nationalist groups are actively trying to block the Respect for Marriage Act from passing in the Senate. Not only is the religious right seeking to ban gay marriage once again, but they have also signaled a future attack against asexual marriages.
As obtained by Politico, some 83 Christian nationalist groups (led by the Alliance Defending Freedom) released a letter in July imploring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to block the Respect for Marriage Act, because marriage equality somehow opens the door to further immorality, like platonic marriages.
“H.R. 8404 would require federal recognition of any one state’s definition of marriage without any parameters whatsoever. This would include plural marriages, time-bound marriages, open marriages, marriages involving a minor or relative, platonic marriages…”
It’s impossible to ignore calling out the perfidious groomer libel conservatives keep trying that is recycled garbage from the 1970s. However, we cannot ignore the religious right calling for platonic (asexual) marriages to be banned also!
There is an abundance of evidence to show asexual marriages are under threat, also.
The Ace Couple, an asexual married couple who runs a podcast discussing topics related to asexuality, did a four-episode series on the 83 religious groups who signed onto the letter to McConnell asking to block the Respect for Marriage Act.
Each group essentially states in no uncertain terms that asexuality is unacceptable to their religion and should be banned from having equal marriage rights.
The Witherspoon Institute, a right-wing think tank founded by Robert P. George (who founded the anti-LGBTQ hate group American Principles Project), came out with an op-ed entitled “Why We Should Push Back against Platonic Marriage.” The editorial’s author, Alan J. Hawkins, laments the idea of asexual marriages existing because he feels allowing asexual marriages will lead to a “marriage inferno.”
I think it matters deeply that we continue to define marriage as a sexual union. It matters because the continual pruning of marriage reduces its core purpose to something that does not really set it apart from other committed relationship possibilities. This ongoing thinning of marriage’s meaning leaves less and less of the concrete conjugal elements that can bind marriages together. Also, it seriously erodes the legal justification for the benefits, responsibilities, and protections with which the law endows marriage.
The Witherspoon Institute is not alone in this thinking.
No group stated this more than the Heritage Foundation, which wrote a 2016 article, “The Obligations of Family Life: A Response to Modern Liberalism,” in which they vocalized their hatred of autonomy and choosing not to have sex and procreate.
Autonomy has within itself the seeds of ever-greater radicalism because coercion can be given an ever-broader definition, beginning with physical coercion but ending with any external or natural consideration shaping one’s “choice.” Truly autonomous choices, on this ever more radical understanding, must be made without the influence of imposed habits, human reason, education, social pressure, legal pressure, cultural expectations, or any other external demand. Autonomous choices spring from within the individual, lest they be traceable to something oppressive or alien to the individual. One wonders, therefore, whether such choices are made in consideration of anything but selfishness.
The religious right views exercising freedom of choice as nothing more than being selfish. They view choosing individual happiness as somehow wicked and evil, and they want to remove the right to choose from us all, forcing us into sex on their terms.
It’s weird to me seeing the religious right come right out and attack sexless marriages.
Growing up in a purity culture right in the heart of the Bible Belt, all I heard as a youth were messages about abstaining from sex, with pastors and Christian leaders imperatively saying, “Don’t have sex! Don’t even think about it!”
Now, the commandment has apparently flipped, with the religious right commanding everyone to have sex.
The religious right states in no uncertain terms that anyone not entering into a sexual, procreative relationship should not be allowed to marry.
This has large ramifications on asexual people—many of whom desire companionship and love— as well as on asexual married couples who depend on the benefits marriage provides. The Respect for Marriage Act would be a vital help to asexual couples who now find themselves in the crosshairs of the culture wars.
Florida man sues son’s school for violating his “natural rights from God” by displaying Pride flags
And it begins. This is what the Republicans and what Gov. DeathSantis wanted. How is just seeing a rainbow flag being educated “in the ways of homosexuality.” I keep saying the goal is to erase gay people from society. Sorry your religion doesn’t give you the right to kick the people you don’t out of the country, you don’t get to make the people you don’t like hide the fact they are real, you don’t get to use your church doctrine to force people to live straight lives because you don’t want gays to live their lives freely. What other things will it be illegal for a kid to see, that will instruct them in the way of …, how about icons of other religions? For that matter I an atheist, I don’t like all the religious symbols and pictures I see, can I sue people for displaying a cross like wearing one around their neck? They already banned the books that offended them, what next?
The US is built on diversity and different cultures. There is a drive on the right to roll back all advances in society over the last 70 years. To return women to traditional stereotypical roles, to drive minorities back to a subservient roles, To erase the LGBTQ+ and remove representation of them. They want a white Christian ethnostate, and they are pushing hard to get their way. They are a minority that is getting their way, claiming my very existence as an openly gay man in a same sex marriage is wrong and instructing their kid in homosexuality. They want me gone, erased, hidden, it offends their Christianity. Tough shit, their religion offends me. What about that. No one has the right to not be offended.
If this man wants his child isolated from the other people then send his child to a Christian school that follows his religion. Gay kids are real, they go to school, they have the right to live their lives openly as do straight kids. They have as much right to date, to have clubs, to see their symbols as much as Christians have the right to wear their crosses. LGBTQ+ have as much right to be and to live openly as straight kids, as Christian kids, as Muslim kids, as atheist kids and so on. This is not the first time this father has tried to force his religion on others and seems to also be a racist who demands the right to discriminate against others.
People we need everyone to stand up and say enough and fight back against the attempt to remove others from society and existence. We must fight against the attempt to force one religion in the laws and lives of everyone else. These people are the US version of the Taliban. Help us stop them. Vote them out of office. Hugs
Photo: ShutterstockA Florida father is suing his 12-year-old son’s school district over the fact that his son was exposed to Pride flags in his computer science classroom.
Dr. Francisco Catalin Deliu of Palm Beach County is arguing that Emerald Cove Middle School, principal Dr. Eugina Smith-Freeman, and his son’s teacher Rachel Raos have been “expressly and/or implicitly advocating for homosexuality as an alternative way of life,” reports CBS 12.
Deliu, a Romanian refugee who fled due to religious and political persecution, is an Orthodox Christian who believes being gay is a sin.
The lawsuit says that in early September, Deliu’s son informed him that Raos had hung two Pride flags in her classroom, searched online “about homosexual lifestyles,” and “proselytized to the students in the class.”
Deliu claims the principal dismissed him when he complained and said she’d have to speak to the Board to determine whether Raos was breaking the law. He also claims that after asking for his son to be removed from Raos’s class and placed in a different computer science class, the school instead moved his son to an art class without telling him.
The suit reportedly does not accuse the school of breaking Florida’s infamous Don’t Say Gay law. It argues that the school violated Deliu’s “substantive human rights” and “natural rights from God.” It accuses the state of “acting contrary to his religious beliefs” and says he has a right to prevent his child from being educated “in the ways of homosexuality.”
Deliu has also previously accused the school of spreading homosexuality through library books.
And these tussles are far from his first time getting involved with the law.
While living in New Zealand in 2017, Deliu’s law license was suspended for 15 months and he was ordered to pay over $250,000 due to “six charges of misconduct, one charge of unprofessional conduct, and one charge of conduct unbecoming a lawyer,” according to the New Zealand Law Society.
The charges were due to allegations of racism and discrimination he made against two judges, which the court reportedly said were “excessive, disgraceful, and baseless attacks on Judges made in provocative and intemperate language, and for the purposes of protecting the practitioner’s own interests.”
For the accusations against his son’s school, he reportedly is seeking a jury trial.
NOM: Our Fight Against Marriage Bill Is “On The Ropes”
Why has this man fought against rights for gay people all his adult life. He has made it his quest to deny gay people the right to exist in society. His crusade against same sex marriage is totally weird in that it is unreasonable the passion he has to destroy same sex marriage and gay rights. He has traveled the world to try to stop this in other countries. I don’t understand his hate for gay people, for the LGBTQ+. But I do notice in each thing he says he begs for money. Is it a scam, a grift, or a personal mission from his god. He has 6 kids that I am aware of, statistically one or more of them are LGBTQ+. How much he must be hurting them and how desperate they must be to hide it from him. Hugs
Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown:
Right now, there are as many as half a dozen Republican Senators working on a potential backroom deal to impose gay ‘marriage’ on the entire country by codifying it in federal law. NOM is leading the opposition to this scheme, but we are on the ropes and need your help.
Among the Republican Senators scheming to pass the gay ‘marriage’ legislation are Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Rob Portman and Thom Tillis. Their gambit is to include some fig leaf language “protecting” religious liberty in exchange for every state in the nation being forced to recognize homosexual ‘marriage.’
It is ironic that of these US Senate schemers, three come from states where voters enacted state constitutional amendments defining marriage solely as the union of one man and one woman – Utah, Ohio and North Carolina. So did voters in several dozen additional states.
Our only chance to prevent gay ‘marriage’ from being enshrined in federal law is to mobilize grassroots marriage supporters around the country. We have less than two weeks left before the midterm elections. After that, a lame duck Congress will return to Washington DC and the gay ‘marriage’ legislation will be taken up.
Please make an immediate donation to NOM to help us fight to stop the imposition of gay ‘marriage’ into federal statute. Your donation will be 100% matched thanks to a $100,000 matching fund that has been made available.
I can’t wait till gay marriage is forced on everyone in the US. I have a few people picked out, but it’s hard to narrow it down just just one of them. So can we start working on polygamy now? That would solve a lot of my problems.
Boreal Outlaw Woman • 14 hours ago
Also Jesus hates divorce so it must be a til death do them part marriage.
Nic Peterson Chris Baker • 14 hours ago
We were promised polygamy. I have been quite patient waiting for it. I am not getting any younger, though. Tick tock muthafuckas!
rednekokie Chris Baker • 13 hours ago
That’s the whole problem — no one is trying to force “gay” marriage, or any other kind of marriage down any one’s throat. However, those who do want to participate in it resent highly those who don’t like it and want to bother others with their bigotry and stupidity.
James L. Greenlee rednekokie • 2 hours ago
How exactly do you get someone else’s marriage “shoved down your throat?” It has nothing to do with you. And what “bigotry and stupidity?”
Most of Brian Brown’s adult life has been spent fighting to deny rights and marriage equality to the LGBTQ community. What a horrible person he is.
I remember one of his staffer defected when she went around the in the bus and saw the lack of interest. She realized that same sex marriage hurts no one, and there simply isn’t any reason to deny it.
Their gambit is to include some fig leaf language “protecting” religious
liberty in exchange for every state in the nation being forced to
recognize homosexual ‘marriage.’
If your religion needs protecting from my marriage, you should be out shopping for a more powerful god right now.
Diogenes Onionpants Boreal • 13 hours ago
He knows damn well that religion is already protected; religious discrimination claims are subject to strict scrutiny, unlike sexual orientation. And yet, show up at a Catholic church and demand a Jewish wedding, and you won’t get it: the institution can refuse to perform a service outside its tradition.
So why does this lying sack of before-the-water-runs-clean anal-douche-extrusion think gays could sue for being refused?
He doesn’t. He’s lying because he’s a liar whose fortune rests on a throne of lies. (Also see above re: his soul being composed of anal douche water.)
His wallet is “on the ropes” since the only place he was making a dime was in Russia and, for some reason, Russia ain’t so lucrative right now.
It’s also hilarious that he’s talking about “gay marriage” being imposed on the country when marriage equality has been the law of the land for 7 years and it’s supported by a solid majority of Americans.
Ron DeSantis called “anti-business” in debate over his “Don’t Say Gay” war with Disney
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)Photo: ShutterstockOn Monday night, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his Democratic opponent Charlie Crist went head to head in a debate, where Crist called DeSantis “the most anti-business governor I’ve ever seen” as a result of his battle to ban teachers from talking about LGBTQ issues.
“I’m pro-business I want to make sure we keep our businesses open. I’m not the governor who attacked Walt Disney World because they deigned to express their point of view.”
“I’m not the governor who attacked the cruise industry because they just wanted to make sure that their customers weren’t sick before they got on the boat. That’s you. You’re the most anti-business governor I’ve ever seen.”
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The news you care about, reported on by the people who care about you.Crist: I’m pro-business. I want to make sure we keep our businesses open. I’m not the Governor who attacked Walt Disney World.. I’m not the Governor who attacked the cruise industry.. that’s you. You’re the most anti-business Governor I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/2WY1uqmEFh
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 25, 2022
After Crist’s dig about Disney, the audience laughed. He was referring to DeSantis’s war on the company after it spoke out against Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill that prohibits K-3 teachers from talking about sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom.
DeSantis not only continuously criticized the company in public, but he also oversaw the Florida legislature’s revocation of Disney’s decades-old special zoning agreement to punish them for speaking out for LGBTQ people by issuing a statement opposing the Don’t Say Gay law.
And last summer he battled with the cruise industry, banning them from requiring proof of vaccination from passengers. A federal court sided with a cruise line against DeSantis, saying that the state’s ban on vaccine passports violated the cruise line’s rights.
In July, he ordered his administration not to invest funds in “woke” corporations, prohibiting pension fund managers from using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings when deciding which companies to invest government funds into.
Crist’s dig at DeSantis accuses him of doing the exact opposite of what the Republican party – the alleged pro-business party – claims to support.
During the debate, DeSantis also would not commit to serving another full four-year term as governor, presumably because he is planning a 2024 presidential run.
DeSantis avoided Crist’s questions about 2024 and declared, “I know that Charlie is interested in talking about 2024 and Joe Biden, but I just want to make things very, very clear: The only worn-out old donkey I’m looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.”
Crist served one term as Florida’s Republican governor from 2007 to 2011. In 2010, he ran for Senate as an independent, and in 2012, he registered as a Democrat. In addition to being governor of Florida, he has been a state senator, attorney general, and the state’s education commissioner (all as a Republican). Until a few months ago, he was serving in Congress but resigned to focus on the gubernatorial race.
In the debate, he also took aim at DeSantis’s anti-trans and anti-abortion views.
DeSantis signed a 15-week abortion ban that has no exceptions for rape and incest, and he has repeatedly spoken out against trans youth. During the debate, he called gender-affirming care the practice of “mutilating” children.
“You think you know better than any physician or any doctor or any woman,” Crist said. “You need to lead by uniting people, not dividing them.”
School board proposes banning furries after rumors of litter boxes in schools spread
Lets be honest what the furries thing is about. It is about attacking trans kids without using the word trans. It is adults mocking the idea of identifying with a different gender than your born identified sex. It is stupid and another example of the right making up something that is not happen and not real simply to create outrage to be offended over. Hugs
April 14, 2018, European furry walk at Volkspark Friedrichshain in Berlin Photo: ShutterstockA school board in North Carolina considered a proposal to ban furry costumes in schools after they say they received numerous complaints about students dressing up as animals and using litter boxes in school restrooms.
Jeff James, superintendent of Iredell-Statesville Schools, said that he’s spent hours responding to emails and messages on social media about the rumor. He said that the rumors are false and that there is no evidence that students are bringing litter boxes into school restrooms.
But that didn’t stop school board member Bryan Shomaker from supporting the proposal to ban ears, tails, gloves, collars, or full furry costumes from being worn in schools. The proposal has exceptions for school spirit days and theater.
“We’re trying to address it before it becomes a major problem,” he said at a school board meeting.
But some parents were angry that it was even being discussed.
“We have classrooms without teachers, and you’re wasting your time focusing on a kid at a Scotts Elementary Panthers basketball game who wants to wear a cat ear headband,” said parent Jean Foster.
“We’ve spent a lot of time on masks over the past few years,” a frustrated Foster told Queen City News after the meeting. “We’ve spent a lot of time talking about which books we are wanting to ban. All of that is a distraction from what’s important. This was just something else – something ludicrous.”
“You may not want it to be a distraction, but it was a distraction. A large distraction,” school board member Martin Page said.
Lincoln County Schools in North Carolina was also the subject of furry rumors.
“There is nobody identifying as a cat at North Lincoln High School and we have no litter boxes!!!” an employee wrote in a Facebook group. “Quit spreading this stupidity!”
A spokesperson for Lincoln County Schools told The Charlotte Observer that there have never been litter boxes in any of its schools.
An early example of the stories about students identifying as house pets and demanding litter boxes was Michigan activist Lisa Hansen. Because Hansen opposed federal regulations allowing trans students to use school restrooms matching their gender identities, she claimed that students who identify as cats were allowed to use litter boxes in one school’s unisex restroom.
A Michigan school superintendent was forced to write an email to parents debunking such a lie. An Oregon public school district superintendent was also forced to send a similar email after one social media user claimed that furries were wearing leashes and being petted by other students at local schools.
Nevertheless, the lie has been repeated by right-wingers, including by Nebraska Sen. Bruce Bostelman (R).
During a televised debate, Bostelman claimed that student “furries” were allowed to interact with teachers by meowing and barking. He also said that one student who was denied a litter box later defecated on a classroom floor. Bostelman later admitted that the story wasn’t true.
It has been spread online by anti-LGBTQ activists like Chaya Raichik of LibsofTikTok, when she pushed a lie that a second grade Texas schoolteacher encouraged students to become furries. The Austin school district disavowed the claim as misinformation.
Similarly, Christian hate pastor Aaron Thompson and anti-LGBTQ televangelist Andrew Wommack both said that schools allow students to identify as animals and demand litter boxes in classrooms. Michigan Republican Party Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock also repeated the lie, as did Heidi Ganahl, the Republican candidate for governor of Colorado. She claimed that student “furries” are identifying as cats in over 30 different schools in the state.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has claimed that a father in Michigan told her that his son got into trouble when he stepped on the tail of a student who identified as a furry.
Reuters published a fact check in July that said there is “no evidence of them disrupting classrooms or schools developing a policy of including them as a formal identity.”
Earlier this month, conservative radio host Joe Rogan told former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) that he knows someone who knows someone who said that “there’s a girl who’s a furry, who identifies as an animal and her mother badgered the school until they agreed to put a litter box in one of the stalls.”
“So this girl goes into the litter room or to the girl’s room and urinates or whatever — I don’t know if she poops in it, that’s pretty gross.”
County bans all volleyball games with school because a trans student is on their team
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/county-bans-volleyball-games-school-trans-student-team/
I want to point that the coaches said that the cis girls had hit the ball harder than the trans gender girl did. The anti-trans hate came through loud and clear, with one guy says no one should play against the team “based on their morals, ethics, and Christian upbringing.” These people were just waiting for an excuse to attack the trans girl. Despite the other teams wanting to play against the team with the trans girl, the coaches wanted to play against the team, despite the fact that the trans girl has been on the team for four years without any issues, the bigots claim this must be done to protect the girls. What a crock. They did not listen to any thing they were told instead wanting to show how bad the trans people are. They couldn’t stop the trans girl from playing so what they did was make sure her teammates couldn’t play, her entire team was not banned from anyone playing against them so that the team will turn on the trans girl and force her off the team. That is their out. Make the team do what they legally can not do. Hugs
Photo: ShutterstockNearly two months after a North Carolina girls’ high school volleyball game resulted in a one team’s player being “forcefully struck” by a spiked ball, and later a ban on playing any more games with the opposing team, a school board’s meeting notes reveal the opposing team’s high school is being barred from competing against county schools for allowing a transgender girl to play on their team.
On September 2, the two girls’ volleyball teams, from Hiwassee Dam High School in Cherokee County and Highlands School in Macon County, faced off at Highlands in an early evening match. A recording posted to high school sports site Maxpreps, published on September 9, reveals during one game, a player from Highlands spikes the ball from the near side of the court to Hiwassee, striking a player, who drops to the floor.
The video shows coaching staff attending to the Hiwassee player, while the Highlands players huddle, waiting for the outcome. Moments later, the injured player rises to her feet with the help of staff and walks off the court, cheered on by players and fans from both sides.
Two weeks later, the Cherokee County Board of Education met in regular session, where concerns over the incident were aired by attendees and principals from the district’s three high schools, including Hiwassee.
A statement issued by the board summed up the result: “On Wednesday (September 21, 2022) the Cherokee County Board of Education determined the varsity and junior varsity volleyball teams within Cherokee County’s high schools will not play the Highlands School volleyball teams due to safety concerns for Cherokee County Schools’ athletes.”
Those “safety concerns” centered on the player who spiked the ball, who is transgender.
It’s unclear from meeting notes how or when the player’s transgender status became known to the board.
“The competitive advantage issue certainly has to come up in any scenario with that type of transgender conversion, per se,” said school board vice-chair Jeff Martin, according to Christian Education First Alliance North Carolina. “I can tell you that the board wasn’t searching out this kind of thing. It was brought to our attention based on safety concerns.”
Board chair Arnold Mathews described the injured player as “forcefully struck” for Channel 9 News. Board member Jeff Tatham claimed the video of the injury was conclusive.
“The biggest thing for us, especially after seeing the video of the injury, we felt very strongly that it was a safety concern,” Tatham said. “I think most of the board members also felt like there’s a competitive advantage issue.”
Sentiment in the meeting was not universal. Joseph Watson, Athletic Director of Murphy High, advised the Board that feedback from his players and parents revealed the majority wanted to play Highlands and none of his parents expressed concerns. Jordan Lovingood, the school’s volleyball coach, said their school’s team had played against Highlands, including the player in question, for four years running, and that none of her players wanted to forfeit games against the school.
Another Murphy High volleyball coach, Amanda Johnson, said there was always risk of injury, no matter the player, and she’s seen other girls hit the ball harder than the one on the video. She added that a Murphy football player was recently injured playing on turf-field, and “because we aren’t used to playing on turf-fields, should we not play that game because it’s unsafe and our players aren’t used to that type field?” she asked, according to the board meeting notes.
Attendee Dean Shatley said that based on his conversation with the president of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, the president of the group was unaware of any other injuries resulting from athletic play with a transgender athlete.
But sentiment against the trans player and Highlands School was high. Andrews High School principal Lance Bristol said he would decline to play Highlands based on feedback about safety and fairness, and said, “AHS is willing to take that on and they will embrace it.”
Jason Murphy, a Republican running for a seat on the board in November’s election, said the board should vote on forfeiting all games against Highlands “based on their morals, ethics, and Christian upbringing.”
After additional discussion and comment, according to meeting notes, the board considered the question of allowing continued competition with the Highlands volleyball team. Jeff Tatham made a motion that “we as a county not participate in any upcoming games with varsity and junior varsity against Highlands due to safety concerns.” The motion was carried, 5-1.
When reached for comment, Murphy High volleyball coach Amanda Johnson, also a counselor at the school, told LGBTQ Nation, “I’m sorry. I cannot comment about that.” Highlands School principal Brian Jetter also declined to speak about the issue: “I don’t have any comment on that, but thanks for calling.” A message to Keesha Curtis, the lone dissenting vote on the Cherokee School Board to forfeit all games with Highlands School, went unanswered.
Extremists Spark Violence At OR Drag Event [VIDEO]
What more to say. US system at work, right wing domestic terrorist. They did this same thing to shut down abortion centers and it worked for them, so they will try it again against legal events that the right has targeted. Where is the police protection for citizens going to a legal event? Dogs that love gravy, this is the 1960s race attacks, it is the 1970s / 1980s attacks on gay bars and night clubs. This is Nazi thug enforcers for the hateful right wing party, supported by red state governors. Where is the outrage from the left? Why are the rights of normal people being trampled on with impunity? Notice that some of the ones trying to force their regressive views on everyone else were members of a church. I am so tired of the right / republicans / fundies churches targeting the LGBTQ+ because of their book written 2,500 years ago. This is 2022 so get over it, live the way you want but let others do the same. Again notice that the protestors equated drag which is simply dressing up in costume with trans people. The performers normally are cis. Hugs I agree with this comment I posted below.
The Daily Beast reports:
A drag-queen story hour starring an 11-year-old performer at an Oregon pub was targeted by Proud Boys and neo-Nazis, some of whom hurled heavy rocks and smoke bombs during fiery clashes outside the event.
Police in riot gear ultimately had to intervene to stop the mayhem at Old Nick’s Pub Drag Queen Story Time Brunch on Sunday.
The Eugene Police Department said in a statement that it was well aware ahead of time that the event had “drawn polarized attention” across the state.
The Torch reports:
Witnesses stated that at one point the detractors had attempted to enter the pub through a side door but were pushed back by supporters. These anti drag queen detractors were made aware of this event by Andy Ngo, a right wing journalist who considers himself an expert on Antifa and the “militant left”.
Ngo tweeted about the event on Oct. 17, calling attention to Vanellope personally by posting pictures of her. The supporters of Old Nick’s were local community members who brought snacks and water for the allies and protected families as they entered the pub.
Some of the protestors were identified as Proud Boys and members of Rose City Nationalists were present. David Loveall, Springfield’s new county commissioner was there protesting the drag show along with members of the Crossfire Christian Church.
I’m so sick of this horseshit, as if drag is some exotic new phenomenon. Fuckin idiots.
Bruno Sam_Handwich • 16 hours ago
Drag hasn’t changed. These people are just emboldened by Dump and MAGAts.
David Brian Holt Sam_Handwich • 15 hours ago
All of these “Drag Queen Story Hours” were started very innocently by public librarians as a way to encourage children to read more. At its heart, it is a very wholesome endeavor.
JCF David Brian Holt • 15 hours ago
And drag queens, who wanted to give back, as a public service. To inspire closeted children among them? Yeah, sure. But that was never the PRIMARY point.
It was about the importance of imagining, particularly about one’s self.
Drag is just pantomime and has been around, WITH children, FOREVER.
Well, female drag at least. You know what we call male drag? It’s women at the grocery store in a t-shirt and jeans. Because no one bats an eye today if a woman wears mens clothing.
The next moral panic will be all drag shows.
Then all public LGBTQ events, especially Pride.
Then LGBTQ content in libraries (already happening), online, and on TV.
Then pro-LGBTQ policies in the private and public sectors.
Then LGBTQ health care.
The fascists want us invisible, broke, and sick.
We’re about to find out just how deep our allies’ support is.
Ethan Crumbley admits guilt to murder in Oxford High School shooting
I read this quote in the story.
“It was cold-blooded what he did,” Mueller said. “While he may have been dealt a bad set of cards with the parents, it’s still a choice that he made to do the harm and bring the tragedy to Oxford.”
I have mentioned on my other blog about after having been raped violently with no chance to get lube because my sibling from hell of my adoptive parents wanted me to feel as much pain as possible because I was not a real member of his family. He then did something that to this day hurts more than the rape, after he was done and got what he wanted he rolled over in my tiny bed and fell asleep. He slept in my own bed! (Later he claimed the excuse he had been drinking and I should just forget it) Something broke in me. I did something I never did before. Looking back, I am not sure what I felt, but I got up out of the bed and went through the mobile home to the adoptive parent’s room and took the 30 30 gun off the rack and opened the drawer in the bedroom I knew the bullets were in and left. Unlike the other hell spawn, I never had gotten to use or learn the guns, but I understood enough from watching the others. I never woke anyone. I loaded the gun on the way back to my room. I went back to my room and put that gun to that male sibling’s head and went to pull the trigger, his goading words ringing in my head as the pain from what he did rang though my body making every step a fresh prodding of the wound. To this day even as an atheist / nonbeliever in the supernatural I will swear under oath what happened next is true. I am not saying it is supernatural, but I am saying this is my memory of the event.
As I put the gun barrel to his head and prepared to take my revenge on that drunken asshole who had just gloated as he hurt raped me, I heard a voice. I think all the things the voice said I don’t remember clearly these days. But the voice started with a strong “No, Don’t! Stop”! Then continued with “This is not who you are, not what you will be”! “Don’t let them make you what they are, be the person you can be”! There were more words in my head and to tell the truth at my age they are tending to blur out. But the voice was pleading with me to not pull the trigger and to not be what these hateful bastards wanted to make me.
I made a decision that night that I have never regretted. I put the gun back after emptying the bullets, put everything back and vowed I would never be like the vindictive hurtful people who adopted me. I would take everything they forced on me and I would still become the kind of person I wanted to be, the kind of person I respected. I tell this story because we really don’t know what the full story is of Ethan Crumbley and why he felt such a need to take others’ lives. Was he also being hurt raped? Was he being kept hungry while others ate? Looking at my own life I could have been him, as if I had pulled that trigger that night why would I have stopped at just the one in my bed, why wouldn’t I have gone after all of them. Do you see why I have sympathy for this kid? We don’t know what was going on in his life. We do know what his parents did, they lied, ran and tried to escape justice by hiding.
OK I have to get away from this and from these thoughts. I have decided to make a red sauce for spaghetti tonight. Ron has tried to help direct me toward that and I will do so as it is a good Idea. The combination of my old memories (for those that think the pain or humiliation fades, for me it doesn’t. In my nightmares that Ron tries to wake me from they are as fresh as the times it happened) and the loops in my head are threatening to bring the vortex in, something I really cannot afford. So Ron will make a pork loin to go with the stuff I make. Hugs, loves, and so many thanks to everyone.
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