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Idaho Bar Celebrates “Hetero Awesomeness Month”

Idaho Bar Celebrates “Hetero Awesomeness Month”

And republican spewed hate continues.  I have a few of these to post this morning. We have to be as vocal and determined to push back on this attempt to force the nation back decades in LGBTQ+ and women’s rights.   We need to decide to fight for the country we want, one of equality and diversity for all as hard as they try to make it a cis straight Christian country.     Hugs.  Scottie

June 8, 2024 Christianists, Idiocracy

 

NBC News reports:

An Idaho bar has drawn national attention for celebrating “Heterosexual Awesomeness Month” in response to LGBTQ Pride month, which has been celebrated during June for decades.

The Old State Saloon in Eagle, a suburb of Boise, announced its “inaugural Heterosexual Awesomeness Month” on social media last month.

“Each Monday will be Hetero Male Monday and any heterosexual male dressed like a heterosexual male will receive a free draft beer,” the bar said in a Facebook post that has since gone viral. “Each Wednesday is Heterosexual couples day and each heterosexual couple will receive 15% off their bill.”

Fox News reports:

Even Idaho bar owner Mark Fitzpatrick was surprised by the strong reaction to his Heterosexual Awesomeness Month promo in response to Pride Month.

“I was thinking of a way that we could celebrate the other side of sexuality, heterosexuality, the way God designed it. And that’s kind of where I’m at with people that support us and are like-minded. So we decided to do Heterosexual Awesomeness Month and then launched it and boy, oh boy, did it take off,” Fitzpatrick told Fox News Digital.

He added, “I’m not just going to sit there and do nothing anymore. I’m going to be involved. I’m going to be out there. I’m going to be rallying people to help do the right thing, celebrate godly things. And I think the rest of the country should do that.”

The Christian Post reports:

The business states on its website that its celebration of “Heterosexual Awesomeness Month” has led to threatening backlash and “theft of our property, vendors refusing to fulfill our orders for ingredients, wedding catering [cancellation], libel, slander — even the owner being falsely accused of being a sex offender!”

In addition to the deals on food and alcohol available to heterosexual patrons, Old State Saloon is selling special merchandise during its “Heterosexual Awareness Month.”

T-shirts with the American flag and the symbols for male and female, as well as T-shirts with a picture of a glass of beer emblazoned with the Old State Saloon logo accompanied by a caption reading “Beer for Breeders” and “Heterosexual Awesomeness Month” are available for $28.

In the interview below, the owner, who says he’s a former cop, boasts that “Idaho is everything that California isn’t.”

 

DoctorDJ14 hours ago

Their best selling brand.

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Doug105 15 hours ago
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April in OK 14 hours ago edited

Bar owner says: I’m going to be rallying people to help do the right thing, celebrate godly things…

Their bible has much to say about being a drunkard and drunkenness. Not so much about being LGBTQ,

Dwight Williamson14 hours ago edited

😂

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2guysnamedjoe 15 hours ago

“I was thinking of a way that we could celebrate the other side of sexuality, heterosexuality, the way God designed it.
In a pickup bar

Doug105 14 hours ago
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patty thomas 14 hours ago

The reason heterosexuals don’t need a Pride is the same reason there aren’t soup kitchens for the rich.

(thought I saved that great meme and can’t find it!)

Shy Guy  patty thomas14 hours ago

One of these?

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Doug105 15 hours ago
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Houndentenor  Doug10513 hours ago

You laugh but there are people who believe that the King James Bible (whatever version of that they grew up with) is the only true Bible. They are serious. It’s hilarious (You have to know zero about languages to believe something so absurd.) but that’s fundamentalism for you: Certain in their uniformed absolute beliefs.

Bluestocking  Doug10510 hours ago

The scary part of this is that there probably are at least a few Americans who are stupid enough to actually believe all this garbage — not just the idea that Jesus was somehow American (despite the fact that America didn’t exist until over one and a half millennia after the presumed year of the Crucifixion), not just the idea that Jesus wrote the New Testament (let alone the Old Testament), but also the idea that the New Testament somehow wasn’t assembled by people who existed more than two centuries after the supposed year of the Crucifixion and therefore could never have met Jesus of Nazareth or even met anyone who had met someone who had met him

 

 

 

Christian families sue for the right to mistreat LGBTQ+ foster children

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/christian-families-sue-for-the-right-to-mistreat-lgbtq-foster-children/

I love that they say Vermont doesn’t care about vulnerable children when these people want to abuse vulnerable LGBTQ+ children by forcing a religion on them that calls them an abomination.  They want the right to force these kids into conversion therapy or to not let them transition.  This is seriously scary shit.  Hugs.  Scottie

They claim it’s religious discrimination to not let them foster children they say they will refuse to accept.
 
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Two Christian families in Vermont, alongside the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, are suing the state after it stripped their foster care licenses over their homophobic and transphobic beliefs.

“Vermont says they’re unfit to parent any child because of their traditional religious beliefs about human sexuality,” said ADF legal counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse in a press release. “Vermont seems to care little about the needs of vulnerable children, much less the constitutional rights of its citizens. That’s why we’re suing them in federal court.”

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The Wuoti and Gantt families filed the lawsuit along with the ADF on Tuesday, initiating a formal complaint against the state. 

Vermont changed its policies regarding foster families in recent years to better support LGBTQ+ youth. It requires that foster parents are supportive of young people’s identities – such as properly gendering trans youth or allowing kids to embrace their sexual orientation. 

It strictly prohibits “discrimination and bias based on a child or youth’s real or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.”

The lawsuit argues that both families are required by their religion to misgender any foster children, stating that “a person’s sex is binary and fixed by God at conception.” It goes further in arguing that, in the case of the Gantt family, they believe that trans people must detransition and that people should not gender trans people correctly.

The lawsuit also claims that Kaitlyn Wuoti had gender dysphoria as a child, leading her to be filled with “compassion” for children. Both Brian and Kaitlyn Wuoti believe that they cannot even associate with a Pride parade or those in it because “they convey a message about human sexuality that goes against their faith.”

Radke emphasized in a statement that while DCF does not comment on pending lawsuits, the lawsuit was nevertheless filed at the beginning of Pride Month, a time normally dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ people.

“It is a human right for all to be valued and supported, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity,” Radke said. “The Family Services Division is here to serve all and upholds that expectation for both its staff, as well as the foster parents who agree to take on the care of the youth in our custody.”

This lawsuit comes at a time when LGBTQ+ youth are especially vulnerable, facing attacks on their healthcare across the world. This atmosphere contributes to stigma against these youths. Moreover, LGBTQ+ youth are more likely to be homeless and in the foster system.

“It’s the role of families to provide that kind of affirmation and validation,” said Amanda Rohdenburg with Outright Vermont. She says it’s impossible to tell who is LGBTQ+ just by looking at them, so LGBTQ+ youth might be placed with anti-LGBTQ+ foster parents. “They are at high risk of experiencing rejection or internalizing homophobia or transphobia that impacts their sense of sense over their lifetime.” 

The named defendants in the suit are Department for Children and Families (DCF) Commissioner Christopher Winters, Deputy Commissioner of the DCF’s Family Services Division Aryka Radke, and DCF’s Director of Residential Licensing & Special Investigations Stacey Edmunds.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, Windham Division and has Gretchen M. Wade of Wadleigh, Starr & Peters, P.L.L.C as additional legal counsel.

The Alliance Defending Freedom is known for its ties to the book The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, which was written by former ADF CEO Alan Sears and ADF member Craig Osten. They group also supports banning LGBTQ+ individuals from the military and the Boy Scouts of America.

The ADF has filed lawsuits across the country, such as in the case of 303 Creative vs. Elenis, where they defend an individual trying to discriminate against LGBTQ+ individuals based on religion.

 

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Israel Caught Using Fake Accounts & AI To Sway U.S. Lawmakers

A report in the New York Times, verified by documents and Israeli government officials, confirms that Israel has been using fake social media accounts and websites in an attempt to sway U.S. policy.

These clowns couldn’t organize a 1-car funeral procession in a town with 1 one-way street.

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As always I love that TG posts on Mock Paper Scissors.   I know we share many of the same viewers … but this is too damn good not to repost.   Thanks TG.  Hugs.  Scottie

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This maybe one of his most important videos about Christians not forcing their beliefs on others.  When I was getting ready for my left hip replacement the PA who was processing me was clearly Christian.  She wore crosses and all the ornaments of her faith.  When we got to my stay in the hospital she said “And of course you will want a visit from the Chaplin, what Christian denomination would you prefer”.  Absolutely none I said.  She wouldn’t accept it but then kept asking if I was willing to have this sect / denomination visit.  I was getting pissed.  Ron stepped in and told her if any clergy enters that room, Scottie will claw his way out of the bed to drive them into the hallway … No way is anyone of any religion welcome.  She was upset and angry.  She got her revenge.  She failed to send my pain medication requirements to the hospital so I went from early afternoon to midnight with no pain medication after surgery, and it was not the fault of the nurses.  They called her and the doctor, then just kept called him.  Finally he answered at midnight and was so angry. WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME, MY PA HANDLES THESE CALLS.  They told them they couldn’t get in touch with her, she was not answering and I was in horrible pain from serious surgery.  He told them to put me on my home medications which was the plan as my pain doctors were handling it, so soon I got morphine and other drugs.  She got her revenge, no hate like Christian spurned.  When I went for my follow up I learned she had been fired.  I hope my 10 hours of horrible pain was worth it to her.  

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FRC: Ten Commandments Belong In Schools Because All The “Other Religious Ethical Statements Are Myths”

FRC: Ten Commandments Belong In Schools Because All The “Other Religious Ethical Statements Are Myths”

This is complete nonsense.  Our founding fathers were trying to escape the rule of a country run by kings and religion.  They could have made Christianity the nations religion but they did not, and did not want that.  I recently heard that the reason fundamentalist Christians want the ten commandments which is a Jewish symbol from the Old Testament instead of the beatitudes from the New Testament is they don’t like or follow Jesus but do like the vengeance, violence, and anger of the OT god.  These people should be listed as domestic terrorists.  They can not be compromised with.  They can’t be happy with them being allowed to live as they want, they demand the right to force you to live as they do.  They are a minority in a minority that is shrinking.  Yet they managed to get their people into positions of power so they are even more dangerous.   Hugs.  Scottie

June 4, 2024 Christianists, Hate Groups

 

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website:

The Louisiana legislature has passed a bill that “requires schools that receive public money to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said on Thursday’s “Washington Watch,” and “the anti-Christian Left is convulsing.”

“We’re focused on the historical aspect of the Ten Commandments, which all of our laws are derived from,” bill sponsor Louisiana Rep. Dodie Horton (R) explained to Perkins.

Skeptics will still ask, but why are the Ten Commandments displayed and not other religious ethical statements, like the writings of Confucius or Native American myths? One answer is America’s historical development. This great nation was not built by Confucians or Muslims, but by people informed by the Bible and the moral teachings found therein.

Therefore, “We want our children to see what God’s standard for our moral conduct is,” urged Horton. “We’re not asking the teachers to teach it, but we want our children to be able to see one — that there is a God, and that he does have a moral standard [by] which they need to conduct themselves.”

Read the full article. In the interview below, Perkins tells Horton that lawsuits against posting the Ten Commandants in Louisiana schools will fail because “we’ve got a new [Supreme] court.” Horton replies, “We do, praise God!”

 

ohbear1957 21 hours ago

Dennis Turgeon 21 hours ago

How can a Christian Nationalist group or groups dictate how public money, via taxes, be spent or allocated by forcing public schools to display religious text? That’s what Sunday school is for. When will all religions be taxed like any other corporation. Talk to me about grooming again.

  • madknits  Dennis Turgeon21 hours ago

    Meanwhile, as a civil service worker, I haven’t had an actual raise, except for cost of living adjustments to bring us more on the lowest level of private enterprise, since I was hired. So I might get a 2 or 3 percent adjustment, but my health insurance goes up 5%.

    madknits 21 hours ago

    All three versions of the Ten Commandments, two in Exodus, and one in Deuteronomy, are based on the legal code of Hammurabi. There is some tweaking, to compensate for cultural differences, but they are, by and large, the legal code of Hammurabi.

     

    • NorthBayBrian21 hours ago

    ”This great nation was not built by Confucians…” These bitches really have no idea who this country was built by. See also: Enslaved people.

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    TK-Fla 21 hours ago

    Religion (of any type) belongs in their churches, synagogues, mosques, etc. It does NOT belong in our schools. The Christo-fascists are trying to force their beliefs onto kids and that’s just totally wrong. And should be illegal. And they are trying to force their religion into laws affecting everyone. Fuck that shit. I agree with so many commenters on here – religion is poison. Fuck their god, Jeezus and everything in their warped view of the world.

    Mike C21 hours ago edited

    “This great nation was not built by Confucians or Muslims”

    Christians wouldn’t have built shit without the mathematics the Muslims perfected, and Christians wouldn’t have “discovered” this continent if they didn’t have such a rabid taste for the goods the Confucians were selling them.

    Gregory Peterson 21 hours ago

    Fred Clark wrote about the history of the La. Commandments poster law.

    Louisiana Will Post The Twelve Commandments In Schools

    ‘That’s a problem, because there are a lot of different versions of the Ten Commandments, all of which are phrased and enumerated differently. The version of “The Ten Commandments” mandated by Horton’s bill is not taken from any of those. It is, instead, the version concocted in 1950 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Cecil B. DeMille.

    Yes, really.’

    As you might predict if you didn’t know, the Fraternal Order of Eagles was a racist organization.

    https://www.patheos.com/blo…

    Jay P 21 hours ago edited

    “we’ve got a new [Supreme] court.” Horton repliess”

    They’re so high on their own farts right now. Never mind that new Supreme Court was put there by a convicted felon.

    Also I love it when I get lectured by Christians on why they’re God is real and the rest are fake.

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    Florida Cities Raise Pride Flags Over City Halls After Failed GOP Attempt To Ban Them From Govt Buildings

    Florida Cities Raise Pride Flags Over City Halls After Failed GOP Attempt To Ban Them From Govt Buildings

    The good people are fighting back now.  DeathSantis and his fundamentalist minority have pushed decent people too far.  But look for a response from the right wing shock troops, the Proud Boys, the militias, the other right wing gang thugs.  Hugs.  Scottie

    June 3, 2024 LGBT News, Republicans

     

    Tampa’s WMNF reports:

    Several Tampa Bay area cities have raised the LGBTQ Pride flags over city buildings this weekend. But that would have been illegal if a bill that died in this year’s Florida Legislature had instead become law.

    On Saturday morning the city of Gulfport in south Pinellas County raised the Pride flag over its public library. It came after a short ceremony of speeches honoring the city’s commitment to equality and before a day-long block party celebration of Pride.

    The nearby City of St. Petersburg raised its LGBTQ Pride flag over City Hall on Friday. Meanwhile, the City of Clearwater will host Pride events but will not fly the Pride flag at a city building.

    Read the full article.

    Also raising the Pride flag over their city halls this weekend were Tampa, Wilton Manors, Miami, and Orlando. If you know of any others, let us know in the comments.

    The Republican bill to ban Pride flags at government buildings passed earlier this year in the Florida House, but died when the state Senate ran out of time to vote on the issue before the session ended for the year.

    Of note, an amendment to the Senate version of the bill would have allowed the Confederate flag, something its sponsor later claimed was as “error.”

     

    Elagabalus2 days ago edited

    Funny how the party that’s always going on about the First Amendment and free speech is always trying to ban speech they don’t like, in this case flying a flag.

    Woke AF  Elagabalus2 days ago

    “Freedom” to the fascists means “You are FREE to do what WE tell you to do.”

     

    JoeMyGod Mod2 days ago

    This is vivid example of what I said yesterday about opposing a gay tourism boycott of Florida. Aside from the fact that countless of our people make their money that way, the major cities in Florida, most of which are run by Democrats, are overwhelmingly on our side.

    Woke AF  JoeMyGod2 days ago

    While boycotts hurt the wrong people many of us trans folk do not feel safe traveling to any state that has bathroom ban legislation on the books.

    JoeMyGod Mod Woke AF2 days ago

    Very understandable. And as I also said yesterday, I completely understand why gay families with children would choose to leave the state.

    SkokieDaddy-Admire my wiener!  Woke AF 2 days ago

    AND you (and all of us) can be refused medical care. What if I get food poisoning, have car accident? And gay-bashed. I won’t want someone’s ‘sincere’ religious beliefs to interfere with my ‘sincere’ desire to stay alive and healthy.

    Hank: NO MORE WoW!!!  Woke AF2 days ago

    I was just in a Tires Plus shop to replace a tire. I had to use the bathroom, so I asked where it was. The guy at the desk pointed to it, and said it was the door to the left. It was marked Ladies!!! The men’s bathroom was out of order, and the guy told me that it was “Uni-sex”!!!

    I replied, that I am glad for the Democracy and Equaiity!!!

    GrandmascienCe  Hank: NO MORE WoW!!! a day ago

    I was in the Eureka/Arcata/McKinleyvillle area of northern California last weekend and every restaurant bathroom I went into was M/F/Who Cares? As they should be.

    letinstar2 days ago

    Bootsy is stamping his little high heeled lifts like a toddler having a tantrum….