On the King’s Hall Podcast, Brian Sauve and Eric Conn talk about how women are living in insanity because they have the right to work and vote, and that normalcy is women not having said rights.
Journalist Patrick Howley confronts Josh Hawley about the recent multiple allegations against him.
You may have already heard of Senator Tuberville’s fear mongering about violent furry pilots flying planes and manning the air traffic. Personally I don’t mind if the pilots and controlers are nude as long as they know their craft of flying the plane well. But as I already posted on this subject he is spouting lies and misinformation. He is simply trying to use fear to rile up the base because he is losing his race for governor of Alabama. Also what is that graphic he is using of a pregnant person? That is not a furry. Hugs
Just how hateful a misinformed Christian do you need to be to equate Nazism to LGBTQ+ pride? One aggressively harmed others and ostracized entire groups from society, eventually imprisoning and killing them. LGBTQ+ pride flags, festables, and exisitance don’t harm anyone nor force anyone to live a LGBTQ+ lifestyle or be LGBTQ+. I cannot imagine the bigotry and being that unquestioningly misinformed. It stuns me how these bigots especally those claiming to be Christians following the Jesus Christ of the bible feel free to try to force everyone to live by their church doctrines and feel they have the right to tell others how they must live including who they can love and how they can pratice sex. HugsP
“The offensive aspect of her conduct was not her personal beliefs about homosexuality or what she calls ‘gender ideology,’ but rather her choice to use her social media platform to ostensibly equate support for gender and sexual diversity with Nazism.”
Red Deer Catholic school trustee Monique LaGrange at a meeting on Monday, September 25, 2023. Global News
Alberta’s highest court has struck the decision by a Catholic school division requiring a trustee to publicly apologize for a social media post that compared children waving Pride flags to Nazi Germany.
The social media post, which LaGrange later deleted, featured an image of children holding Pride flags in a classroom underneath an image of children waving swastikas, with the caption “brainwashing is brainwashing.”
The board ruled the post and media interviews LaGrange did in the weeks that followed violated division policies and the province’s education law. It sanctioned LaGrange by demanding an apology, censuring her from parts of her job and requiring she undergo sensitivity training.
LaGrange unsuccessfully challenged the board’s decisions multiple times in court.
A story shared online from the account of Monique LaGrange included an old black and white photo of smiling children leaning out a window waving Nazi flags with the swastikas on them.A more modern photo directly beneath it shows young children in a classroom holding up homemade Pride rainbow flags.The caption reads: “Brainwashing is brainwashing.”. Supplied to Global News
On Wednesday, a panel of three Court of Appeal judges ruled partly in her favour, striking the ruling that she issue an apology.
The court, in a written decision, says the board mandating LaGrange be “deeply sorry” amounts to compelled speech and imposes an impossible disciplinary standard, since she doesn’t believe she was in the wrong.
LaGrange had told the board that the “Holy Spirit” told her to make the social media post. She also told court she would do it again if she had the opportunity, says Wednesday’s court decision.
It notes that another court previously ruled the board couldn’t require an apology from LaGrange be “sincere,” since it amounted to compelled speech. The Appeal Court says it struck the entire apology requirement for the same reason.
It cited a number of past rulings about forced apologies, including one that determined they’re “likely to be regarded primarily as a form of unjust humiliation and not necessarily as a vindication of what is right.”
The court dismissed other aspects of LaGrange’s appeal, including her attempts to have the board’s decisions quashed for being unfair or unreasonable.
It also dismissed an argument by LaGrange’s lawyer that the board didn’t properly take Roman Catholic values into consideration.
The court says whether LaGrange’s post represented those values is irrelevant and subject to “considerable disagreement,” because her actions violated board rules.
“Ms. LaGrange was not sanctioned for her religious beliefs – she was sanctioned for engaging in conduct contrary to the behavioural standards set out in the (board’s) code of conduct,” says the decision.
“The offensive aspect of her conduct was not her personal beliefs about homosexuality or what she calls ‘gender ideology,’ but rather her choice to use her social media platform to ostensibly equate support for gender and sexual diversity with Nazism.”
James Kitchen, LaGrange’s lawyer, said in an email that they’re pleased with the decision striking the apology sanction. ”Especially since this has practical utility for other trustees and councillors encountering compelled apologies from their respective boards and councils,” he said. ”It is good to see that the Court of Appeal at least got that right.”
The school division didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
LaGrange ran for municipal council in Red Deer County last year but was defeated.
The Maine Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that a father can prevent his daughter’s mother from taking the child to an anti-LGBTQ+ church in Maine. The mother was represented by the Christian nationalist legal group the Liberty Counsel, which drew national attention to the parents’ custody battle by portraying the child’s dad as anti-Christian.
The case involves Matthew Bradeen and Emily Bickford – two parents who never married and separated as a couple over a decade ago – and their 12-year-old daughter Ava. In 2021, Bickford began taking Ava to Calvary Chapel. When he started noticing changes in Ava’s behavior, he asked a court to change his and Bickford’s custody agreement to give him greater control over Ava’s religious upbringing, Friendly Atheist reported.
Bradeen said that Bickford took Ava to a church service during the week and two services held on Sundays. He said the church began teaching Ava about the end of the world in the Book of Revelation, demons, suffering in Hell, and the reign of Antichrist, which reportedly made his daughter start experiencing “fear and anxiety” and panic attacks, and compelled her to try to convert Bradeen so that he wouldn’t go to Hell.
During Sunday services, Bradeen said Ava listened to testimonials from people who claimed that Jesus had saved them from “sexual and physical trauma, gay and lesbian relationships, and infidelity.” She also brought home work study pages about demons, adultery, and sexual impropriety. Bradeen reportedly never told Ava that he thought her mother and the church were “wrong,” but rather explained to her that people believe in different things and that he personally disagreed with the church’s teachings.
Bickford reportedly told Bradeen one day that she was taking Ava out of school to visit the state capitol, but in reality, the purpose of the trip was to attend an anti-abortion protest. She also sent the child to a church-sponsored overnight retreat without Bradeen’s knowledge and had planned to have her baptized without his knowledge as well. Their child custody agreement required Bickford to discuss these issues as part of their shared rights regarding religious education and upbringing.
During court child custody hearings, Dr. Janja Lalich, an expert on cult-like organizations, observed that the church’s sermons are “filled with hateful rhetoric,” including “homophobia, disdain of science, and hatred of public schools.” Lalich never called the church a “cult” but said that its “charismatic” leader positioned himself as a supreme authority with a connection to God that should never be questioned.
“The organization is based on fear – fear of the outside world and its risks – breeding paranoia, anxiety, and separation from the outside world,” a 2024 court document said of Lalich’s characterization of the church. Lalich also said that Ava’s attendance at the church was seemingly involuntary and that a child of her age would likely seek to conform to church teachings to gain parental and adult approval.
During one church service that Ava attended, Pastor Travis Carey spoke about the custody battle between Bickford and Bradeen and claimed that Bradeen had hired a private detective to “find dirt” on the church. The speech characterized Bickford and the church as being on the side of “good” and Bradeen as being on the side of “evil”; the pastor referred to Bradeen and the government as an “enemy” who seeks to “crush,” “quench,” and “strangle” the church and Ava’s faith.
Bradeen also said that Bickford opposed recommendations from the child’s doctor that she receive flu and COVID vaccines and also opposed Ava taking an antibiotic to treat pneumonia, though the mother later agreed to let her take an alternate antibiotic for the illness.
Bickford also reportedly opposed Ava getting any counseling or mental health treatment for her increasing anxiety, viewing both as “hoaxes” and believing that prayer alone should address her fears.
In 2024, a Maine District Court ruled in Bradeen’s favor, stating that the church’s influence psychologically harmed the child and giving the father sole responsibility for the child’s religious upbringing. However, the anti-LGBTQ+ Christian nationalist legal group, Liberty Counsel, appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court, saying that the district court decision violated Bickford’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to freedom of religion and due process.
In its fundraising emails about the case, Liberty Counsel falsely claimed that the district court’s ruling forbade Ava from “attending any church or Christian event — even Christmas or Easter,” from discussing faith with her mother, and from being exposed to the Bible or any “religious philosophy.” The court’s ruling said none of those things and, in fact, said those issues can remain subject to the joint agreement of both parents.
At the Maine Supreme Court last November, Liberty Counsel argued that the case involves one simple question: “Does a district court have the authority to prohibit a parent from taking her child to Church?” When asked by the court justices what sorts of church activities he would deem too potentially harmful to children, Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Mat Staver pointed out that children in other cases have been allowed to attend churches with snake-handling and child marriage.
The justices based their ruling not on the church’s teachings but rather on the harm inflicted on the child.
“Far from ‘declar[ing] that the Christian religion is psychologically harmful,’ the court’s finding reflected simply that it is harmful for a child to hear negative and frightening messages about one parent from the other parent or the other parent’s authority figures,” the justices wrote in their decision.
Liberty Counsel has said it will appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Cracking up at the mental picture of Duffy sitting in a car for 30 minutes, frustration increasing, until someone finally tells him to press the brake pedal first. https://t.co/FMXHbCm5TV
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The issue erupted in the summer of 2023 and led Monique LaGrange to resign from the board of Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools after fellow board members voted to disqualify her.
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