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Right Wing Watch ðŸ‘€ Intercessors for America, a network of pro-Trump prayer warriors that works closely with the White House . . . 


. . .  is celebrating the Trump administration’s refusal to acknowledge Pride Month—celebrated in the U.S. in June—and praising the State Department’s “hard shift away from promoting pride and ungodly sexuality,” which includes a ban on embassies displaying Pride flags.

In a Wednesday post, IFA suggest that people offer prayers of thanks for “leaders who are willing to stand for biblical truth” and to ask God to “help our leaders stand strong against the lies of the pride and LGBT agendas.”

We prayed for an end to the erosion of biblical truth under President Biden, and those prayers have been answered through President Trump,” says IFA. “Let’s continue to pray for truth and wisdom for our leaders, as well as for policies that uphold God’s design for individuals, families, and society.

IFA kicked off Pride Month on Monday by promoting a “prayer guide” that asks God to “expose the demonic agenda behind ‘Pride’ Month and the ever increasing push toward normalizing sexual perversion and transgender ideology.” It warns that LGBTQ-affirming Christians will face “eternal consequences” for “promoting what is detestable” to God.

Continue @ RWW.

Christian Nationalist Trump Allies Celebrate Administration Snub of ‘Demonic’ Pride Month

National Secular Society ★ Homosexuality Is "Lewd, Unnatural And Vile".

Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) also warns wives should not 'nag like a dripping tap'

The National Secular Society has reported three newly registered Christian charities to the Scottish charity watchdog for promoting homophobia and misogyny.

The three charities are Inverness - Greyfriars Free Church of Scotland (Continuing), Ayr Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) (pictured), and International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) in Scotland.

All three are registered under the charitable purpose 'the advancement of religion'. Charities are legally required to act for the public benefit.

Homosexuality is a 'distortion of Satan'

A 2022 statement from the Free Church's general assembly states homosexuality is condemned by god as "abomination", "vile affections", "against nature" and "unseemly".

Churches which solemnise gay marriage are "overturning God's order, seeking to bless what He has cursed, and is deceiving men and women, in affirming them in their sin", it says.

A Free Church report on a pride parade in Glasgow describes gay people as "perverted" and their way of life as "lewd, unnatural and vile". It says warns against normalising homosexuality, which is an "abomination in the sight of God".

Continue @ NSS.

Christian Charity ðŸŠķ Homosexuality Is "Lewd, Unnatural And Vile"

Right Wing Watch 👀 Written by Kyle Mantyla.


.After the Supreme Court rejected a petition to overturn the court’s 2015 Obergefell marriage equality ruling last week, anti-LGBTQ activists vowed that this was only the beginning of their effort to eliminate the constitutional right of same-sex couples to wed.

In the wake of the court's decision, right-wing activist Katy Faust appeared on the Family Research Council's "Washington Watch" program to promote the End Obergefell movement she has launched. She wants to convince SCOTUS that Obergefell must be overturned because children are losing "their right to their own mother and father."

"When you take a case to the court and it's the wrong victim or you're asking the wrong question, you'll get a wrong decision that can sometimes reaffirm a previous bad decision," Faust said. "We do not need to bring a court case to the Supreme Court, in my opinion, that says, should a cake baker have to bake this cake, should a woman have to arrange these flowers, should Kim Davis have to sign this document? That matters, but that does not ultimately matter."

The Next Phase In The Crusade To Overturn Obergefell

Right Wing Watch 👀 Religious-right activist Mat Staver sent followers an email Saturday blaming Charlie Kirk’s murder on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 pro-marriage-equality ruling in Obergefell.

Staver is founder and chairman of the anti-LGBTQ religious-right organization Liberty Counsel, which is pushing the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell.

Liberty Counsel represents Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to allow her office to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court’s ruling. A federal court held her liable for damages in a suit brought by a couple she turned down, and an appeals court upheld that ruling. Liberty Counsel is using its latest appeal on her behalf to urge the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell altogether and strip same-sex couples of the right to marry.

Staver wrote in his fundraising email that “we are asking the Supreme Court to overturn the Obergefell ruling that abolished gender, and in doing so, created this entire mess — from Kim Davis’ persecution to Charle Kirk’s assassination.”

Five lawyers on the Supreme Court may have tried to abolish the historical and biological FACT of gender, via Obergefell, but the American public did not. 

Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver Blames Marriage Equality Ruling For Charlie Kirk’s Murder

National Secular Society ★ The National Secular Society has reported a newly registered Christian charity to the regulator for promoting homophobia.


Speke Baptist Church, which is based in Liverpool, registered under the charitable purpose 'the advancement of religion' in May. Charities are legally required to act for the public benefit.

In a sermon titled 'The world's biggest problem', Church pastor and charity trustee Stephen Casey says homosexuality is a "degrading perversion", adding "it's not natural, it's not decent and it's not normal".

The sermon was uploaded to YouTube in September but appears to be have delivered in person to an audience including children.

Casey says the media had carried out a "relentless campaign" over 25 years to "reject the biblical understanding of homosexuality".

He says there is "glaring anatomical evidence" that homosexuality is unnatural, and opposes the idea that "there's no sordidness that goes with it".

He says people "feel very crushed by this temptation" but the answer is not to say homosexuality is natural, decent or normal.

He says people "pretend it's not a sin" in order to deny the "emotional trauma" and "torturous effects" of pursuing such "sexual addictions".

Saying a sin is okay "doesn't remove the internal damage" it causes, he says. He says homosexuality is "so against nature", a form of "sexual brokenness" and an "addiction".

Continue @ NSS. 

Christian Charity ðŸŠķ Homosexuality Is A “Degrading Perversion”

Right Wing Watch 👀 Written by Kyle Mantyla.


Television personalities Chip and Joanna Gaines are currently being relentlessly attacked by anti-LGBTQ activists for including a married gay couple and their children among the participants on their new program, "Back to the Frontier."

Among those denouncing the Gaines was pastor Brooks Potteiger of Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a far-right church located outside of Nashville, TN, that is aligned with Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson and counts Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as a member. In fact, Potteiger delivered the inaugural sermon at the Pentagon when Hegseth began holding prayer services there earlier this year.

During a recent episode of the "Reformation Red Pill" podcast, Potteiger blasted the Gaines' program as "a satanic Trojan horse," declaring that he hopes God burns their Magnolia Network media empire to the ground unless they repent.

"They have seemed so solid, so wholesome for so long and then this," Potteiger fumed. "This really is a satanic Trojan horse where the enemy has commandeered Magnolia as a Trojan horse."

"That's what this is," he continued. "Lull to sleep, lull to sleep, wholesome, get it in every single corner of your house, consume it all day long . . . 

Continue @ Right Wing Watch 

A Satanic Trojan Horse

Right Wing Watch 👀 Written by Kyle Mantyla.


Micah Beckwith Says The LGBTQ Movement Is Following An Ancient 'Demonic Playbook'

Indiana’s far-right Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith posted a new episode of his "Jesus, Sex, and Politics" podcast in which he doubled down on his warning that Pride Month is "the rainbow beast" and "a state-corporate-pagan alliance to reprogram society."

For nearly an hour, Beckwith and his co-host Nathan Peternel railed against Pride Month and the LGBTQ agenda in general, which Beckwith called "demonic."

Beckwith said:

If you've ever studied the origins of, just the history of the LGBTQ movement throughout ancient history and all the way up to today, this is the same demonic spirit that basically just keeps coming back again.
Back in ancient Israel, there was a goddess, her name was Ishtar, and she was the goddess of transgenderism, a gender-warping goddess. She was a homosexual goddess. Men would give themselves over to lustful acts with other men, women the same, pedophilia, everything like that. They would warp their genders. All those things. Same things that we're seeing today in the LGBTQ movement.

Ancient Demonic Playbook

Right Wing Watch ðŸ‘€ A Trio of Anti-LGBTQ Bigots Long for the Days When Gays Were Beaten Up and Forced Into the Closet.

Kyle Mantyla 

Vincent James, an unapologetic racist, antisemite, misogynist, conspiracy theorist, and fascist who currently serves as the treasurer of white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ America First organization, appeared on the bigoted Christian nationalist program “CrossTalk” last night, which is hosted by racist conspiracy theorists Edward Szall and Lauren Witzke.

During the course of the program, the three complained that gay people are infiltrating the conservative movement as part of an effort to weaken and ultimately dismantle it.

The discussion prompted Szall, who is virulently anti-gay, to assert that gay people having children should not be tolerated, for the good of the children.

“There used to be a day and age,” Szall said, “[when] it was just bad for the kid. When you think about the kid in the situation; we beat up the kid at school who had two dads. And we weren’t jerks for that, that’s just what we did.”

James, who has openly declared that he would love to live in a society where gay people are thrown off of buildings and have their children kidnapped by government task forces . . . 

Continue reading @ Right Wing Watch.

Bigots Long For The Days When Gays Were Beaten Up

Right Wing Watch ðŸ‘€ Earlier this year, far-right anti-LGBTQ pastor Jack Hibbs announced that he was launching a campaign to pressure local school boards  . . . 


 . . . to adopt policies requiring schools to inform parents if their children identify at school in any way other than as the sex listed on their birth certificate.

A bill imposing this requirement on all schools in the state had been introduced in the California legislature, but when it stalled, members of the Chino Valley Unified School District school board enacted a local policy based on the bill’s language.

It is no coincidence that the Chino Valley school board was among the first to enact this policy, given that the president and several members are congregants at Hibbs’ Calvary Chapel Chino Hills church, as Hibbs confirmed when he appeared on his close friend Charlie Kirk’s program on Wednesday.

“As soon as somebody sent me something that said, ‘Chino Valley school board fights for parents, rights,’ I said, ‘I know Jack Hibbs is involved,'” Kirk said. “I have now learned that my suspicion was correct. All of the Chino Valley USD school board members whose voted for parental disclosure go to your church.”

Continue reading @ Right Wing Watch.

Megachurch Pastor Jack Hibbs’ Campaign To Out LGBTQ Students Begins At Home

Only Sky ✒ A California Anti-LGBT Bill Fails (for now)

Sikivu Hutchinson
13-April-2023
This week, California Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, the head of the Assembly’s Education Committee, refused to schedule a hearing for AB1314, a bill that would have required school officials to notify parents when a child identified as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. Muratsuchi slammed the bill for being “bad policy” and potentially harmful to the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ students. 

Days before, the Chino Valley Unified school board in San Bernardino County (which has no legislative say over the bill) voted to approve the bill on a 4-1 vote.

The bill, which was introduced in February by conservative Republican California Assembly members Bill Essayli and James Gallagher, would have revised student privacy protections guaranteed under the California Education Code, allowing adults on school campuses to police and potentially surveil youth. Such a precedent would fundamentally compromise the few safe spaces that exist on California campuses for queer youth. Nationwide, lack of family acceptance is a leading driver of homelessness among trans and queer youth. The implications of AB1314 were quickly seized on by LGBTQ-affirming activists and policymakers.

Continue reading @ Only Sky.

Hate Disguised As ‘Parental Rights’

Right Wing Watch ðŸ‘€ Religious-Right Figure Steve Turley Celebrates Uganda Legislation Criminalizing Homosexuality.

Peter Montgomery

Steve Turley, a religious-right media personality with more than a million YouTube subscribers, is celebrating the passage of extremely harsh new anti-LGBTQ legislation in Uganda that makes it a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to simply identify as a gay or transgender person. The legislation is part of a broader crackdown on freedom and civil society in that country.

Like other right-wing political figures who posture as lovers of freedom while supporting freedom-crushing regimes around the world, Turley is a huge fan of Russia’s strongman Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor OrbÃĄn, even celebrating the latter’s moves to consolidate power by “crushing” liberalism and threatening to jail journalists.

“Uganda BANS LGBT!!!” screamed the headline at Turley’s online newsletter Monday, celebrating the draconian law as evidence that “a new conservative age has already arrived!”

In the accompanying YouTube video, Turley mocked the United States’ condemnation of the Ugandan legislation and excitedly recounted anti-LGBTQ actions taken by governments around the world, including those in Russia, Hungary, China, and Kenya. 

Continue reading @ Right Wing Watch.

Celebrating Uganda Criminalizing Homosexuality

Anthony McIntyre ☠ On occasion in previous years I have turned up at the Patrick's Day parade through Drogheda, but never walked in it. 

When the children were much younger it was a day out for them to enjoy as we stood behind the safety barriers and enjoyed the pagentry.  In later years I felt I had discovered what drove the snakes out of Ireland – the weather on Patrick’s day rather than the great man himself. There seemed better ways to spend the holiday than getting soaked or chilled. 

When I lived in Belfast I never attended a parade there. They never interested me in the way that Easter Sunday republican parades once did. That was until last Friday.


I don't actually set out to annoy the Mr Bean Of Irish Fascism. It seems I do it without even trying. He allows me to live rent free in his hollow head. And ungrateful globalist that I am, I never as much as notice my Irish host. 

He, or the type of hatred he promotes, obviously played some part in my decision to take part in the parade. On learning that far right hate groups were directing their venom towards the gay community by intimidating librarians I along with my wife agreed that we would walk with Drogheda Pride in this year's parade.

Our decision was firmed up by elements of the far right turning up at a book event for young gay people in Drogheda's local library, then to later go on social media to complain about the the type of books the library was making available. While there is nothing to indicate that the person in question sought to intimidate or be disruptive when at the library, it seems only a matter of time before what happened in Cork occurs in libraries across the country:

Opposition to certain books aimed at young members of the LGBTQ+ community has taken the form of everything from verbal abuse to disturbing behaviour. In recent days an individual was even observed ripping up a copy of Juno Dawson’s book, This Book is Gay in protest.

This is not an isolated Irish phenomenon. For all its professed hatred of globalism the Irish far right is not averse to joining in a global campaign to advance its hate agenda.

As the Atlantic reported a year ago:

Book banning is back. Texas State Representative Matt Krause recently put more than 800 books on a watch list, many of them dealing with race and LGBTQ issues.

So, with that in mind, and to the consternation of Mr Bean, in drizzle we set off to make our way through the streets of Drogheda to the sounds of the samba. While it might have infuriated the far right, it was wonderful to see the composition of people lining the streets – there was plenty of colour both in terms of skin and dÃĐcor. Around my neck was a rainbow garland, while in tandem with an Irish mother who too had turned out in support of inclusivity, I carried the rainbow flag. Normally I am averse to flags but the universalism of the rainbow flag seemed most appropriate.

Targeting of the gay community is done by the far right for the same reason that other vulnerable groups are targeted. Scapegoating minorities is a classic tactic of fascism in its war of position. 

With that in mind I was disappointed to have my attention drawn to an article in the Sindo from last month by Eilis O’Hanlon asking What have drag queens got to do with St Patrick?

While rarely agreeing with her I have always admired O'Hanlon's courage for swimming against the tide and unlike some of her colleagues, not resorting to the spoof to beef up her case. Yet, on this one there was no need for her to paddle downstream on the right hand side of the river. 

While I think there is always a case that can be made regarding the over-sexualisation of society, feeling that with most things change should be gradual rather than rushed so that in the event of it going pear shaped the brakes will still work, my response was simple.

If they are Irish drag queens, they have as much to do with Patrick's Day any other Irish person. If they are not Irish drag queens they get the traditional welcome that other non Irish citizens get. A Patrick that embraces is much preferable to one that repels.

Out of all the things that pose a serious threat to society, a drag queen is hardly going to storm the Capitol.  

⏩ Follow on Twitter @AnthonyMcIntyre.

Walking With The Rainbow

Right Wing Watch 👀 Dozens of Congress Members Participate in Anti-LGBTQ Prayer Service
Kyle Mantyla 
1-February-2023

Dozens of members of Congress joined an audience of religious-right activists and Christian nationalists at the Museum of the Bible this morning for a “National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance.”

Sponsored by various anti-LGBTQ religious-right groups such as the American Family Association, Liberty Counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Pacific Justice Institute, the prayer gathering was emceed by right-wing activists Jim Garlow of Well Versed, who is associated with the dominionist New Apostolic Reformation, and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. 

Both Garlow and Perkins were active promoters of former President Donald Trump’s stolen election lies, with Perkins and FRC actively working to overturn the election results via pressure on state legislators, members of Congress, and former Vice President Mike Pence.

The two-and-a-half-hour event consisted of a steady stream of penitents offering prayers on behalf of this nation covering everything from reproductive choice and marriage equality to foreign policy and the media.

The tenor of the prayer service was well encapsulated by Pastor Andrew Brunson, who became a right-wing celebrity after he was freed from detention in Turkey during the Trump administration.

Continue reading @ Right Wing Watch.

‘We Are Babylon’

Anthony McIntyre ☠ Beginning with the 1970 World Cup final in Mexico, as a 12 year old, I have watched every tournament. 

It is a form of ritualised devotion, not unlike the observance religiously adhered to by many Catholics when they dutifully attend the Novena in Clonard Monastery year after year. 

The cynic in me is bursting to say that at least my devotion is to something real. The Catholic might retort that there is not much real about this World Cup, pointing to the fraudulent way in which it was gifted to the host Qatar. The Catholic would have a point.

The following tournament I began watching as a sixteen year old teenager in Crumlin Road prison, turning 17 during it. The Netherlands lost and I was disappointed. The Dutch were the team of the competition by far.

On a couple of occasions I was taken right to the wire by the prison regime, just managing to watch the 1978 final staged in Argentina four days before I lost my political status and was delivered into the cruel custody of the H-Blocks. I knew at the time that Argentina under its military dictatorship had an atrocious human rights record and would use the event to project a benign image across the globe. I watched it anyway and rooted for the host side throughout. So engrossed was I that when the Netherlands hit the woodwork in the final, with only seconds remaining of normal time, I almost succumbed to premature heart failure. 

For years after that I never saw or listened to a game of any sort, nor read a match report. All television, radio and newspapers were denied to the Blanketmen as criminals in peaked cap uniform unsuccessfully tried to force into another uniform people who were not criminals. Prison uniform would be worn by the screws, not by us. 

Fortunately my sojourn on the blanket protest was sandwiched in between the Argentine and Spain finals. The 1982 tournament we watched in fits and starts. Much of it depended on whether we were out of the cells on the alternate day roster introduced by prison management post-blanket but while we were still officially Non-Conforming Prisoners. NCP was the term the regime tagged onto us and ran as a binary opposite to management's preferred prisoner, the ODCs - Ordinary Decent Criminals. The main concession was that NCPs and ODCs alike got to watch the final between Italy and West Germany.

By 1986, what we did not see we could listen to on the radio in our cells. That was my last World Cup final in prison. The highlight of the competition apart from Maradona's super goal was Pat Livingstone's response to it. He lay prostrate on his back in front of the English screw manning the gate, arms and legs moving in sync in some form of upside down doggie paddle, cackling and gloating.

I was still a prisoner for the 1990 World Cup but managed to be out on a week's parole and watched the final in the Rose and Crown pub in the Lower Ormeau Road. A disappointing Argentina were dragged into the final by the dogged determination of Maradona. But even he could not overcome the Germans on Italian turf. 

With jail behind me, all future World Cup tournaments were viewed in the comfort of my own home or the pub. Since 2010 I have watched them almost exclusively in the company of my son, as avid about soccer as myself. So, when I didn't go in for today's opening game he told me he couldn't believe that I was depriving myself of a feast of football. I was told that it is what we live for during each four year cycle; it was our last chance to watch Messi and Ronaldo grace the pinnacle of world soccer; I would suffer severe withdrawal symptoms having to wait until Christmas to watch soccer again. All his cajoling failed to persuade me. I simply explained I had no interest in watching any of the Qatar games. 

He is 17 so I don't expect him to closely follow the associated politics. Nor had I the remotest interest in virtue signalling to him. I am happy for him to do what he has done since he was five.

Greasing the right palms had won Qatar the right to host World Cup 2022. Much of the grease had been derived from the sweat of exploited workers who had the job of constructing the stadia and associated infrastructure. It is simply impossible to overlook:

the questions around the voting process where Qatar won its bid and the corrupt FIFA officials at their centre, the treatment of migrant workers who have allegedly died by the thousands while the stadiums were being built, and the lack of LGBTQ rights in the country.

Not watching the World Cup is like a Catholic refraining from Holy Communion after a lifetime of receiving it. I don't even know if I will stick it out - my son let me know during today's game that he missed my company. There was me thinking he would have enjoyed the quietude afforded him by the absence of a grumpy dad who sighs, effs, blinds, and shakes his fist or flips the bird in the direction of the television screen.  Surely, he cannot be experiencing invective cold turkey.

It is hard to take to a game with any enthusiasm when the same sort of institutionalised othering of gay people that is endemic in Qatar was so manifest overnight in Colorado where a gunman consumed with hatred or perhaps Christian love - if there is a difference, I am unaware of it - shot dead five people in a gay club. Qatar's state religion is Islam, which can be every bit as wedded to hate theology as US Dominionism and Christian nationalism.

If I opt to watch any games with my son, it will be because I have relented not repented. Hate theology should be given no quarter. That should have worked out as no Qatar.

⏩ Follow on Twitter @AnthonyMcIntyre

No Qatar

Maryam Namazie ✒ Protesters in Cologne, Germany, were met with aggressive heckling by a group of young Muslims on September 10.

13-September-2022

A video posted by Maryam Namazie, a London-based Iranian writer and activist, showed the counter-protesters shouting “Allahu Akbar.” Namazie and her groups protested against Iran, sentencing LGBTQ activists Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Chobdar to death.

According to Iran’s Urmia Revolutionary Court, the two were charged with “Corruption on Earth.” They were found guilty of promoting homosexuality which caused outrage in the international LGBTQ and human rights organizations.

In an interview with the Atheist Republic News Team, Namazie said she was about to give a speech when the incident happened. “I was holding an Allah is a Woman sign,” she said. It was just one of the signs that the protesters were holding.

She explained that most of the signs in the protests were in support of Zahra and Elham.

“They saw the sign, and that’s when they started shouting Allahu Akbar,” Namazie explained. The protest was held in the Domplatte, the square surrounding the Cologne Cathedral. The protesters know that there are a lot of tourists and locals passers-by, Namazie said.

We tried explaining what the protest is about, but they were more offended about the sign than about the lives that will be lost. Here are two people whose lives will be lost, and we are doing our best to save them, but they are more outraged at the sign instead of the blatant human rights abuse and oppression of the LGBTQ.

Police had to be called after one of the protesters was hit by the hecklers.

According to Namazie, she and her team are doing their best to help the activists in Iran. “We need everyone to step-up in their defense until we can have their freedom,” she said. They are doing their best to bring attention to this case and are working with other human rights and LGBTQ organizations to appeal Iran’s ruling.

Other human rights organizations quickly moved to Zahra and Elham’s defense.

6Rang, a German-based Iranian LGBTI rights group, slammed Iran’s ruling, calling it “unfair and unclear.” Shadi Amin, the group’s coordinator, said they are pressuring the German government to intervene.

“This is the first time that a woman has been sentenced to death in Iran for her sexual orientation,” Amin said.


Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born activist and Spokesperson 
of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All.


Protest For Iranian Lesbians On Death Row Met With Allah-U-Akbar In Cologne

Gavin Casey ✒ I encountered an entity online recently who described the LGBTQ community as a ‘cult’. 

They would go on to describe the ‘Fascist’ nature of said humans’ campaign for the same basic human rights which should be afforded to all. When ‘how god made’ them and ‘nature’ entered into the opposing ‘argument’ I realised there would be more point debating with one of the bullocks in my Da’s cattle shed.

I reject the idea of god but I’ve a degree in Biochemistry so I think I’ve gained something of an understanding of nature. Bigots routinely describe LGBTQ as a 'lifestyle choice' when for the most part it's a natural consequence of genetic makeup. As such LGBTQ people are no more abnormal or unnatural than blue-eyed or brown-haired people. To describe their community as a 'cult' is no different to describing brown eyed people as a cult, in my opinion.

Fundamentally, everything exhibits in spectrums. We learn about the atomic spectrum in school whereby atoms can be identified by the characteristic energy patterns of electrons. Indeed, many contributors to or readers of this site may well have become uncomfortably aware of the application of this science; particularly in the case of electron microscopes in forensic science.

Bill Hicks described reality perfectly, in my opinion, when he said: “All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration.”

The autism spectrum is something most people are familiar with - everyone is on it to a greater or lesser degree. But this is also the case with every spectrum and all natural characteristics exhibit as spectrums; hair colour, height, voice, intelligence and sexuality to name but a few. The list is all-encompassing in my perspective.

So, considering sexuality, everyone is somewhere on the spectrum on the basis of their genetic makeup. Some people are naturally, totally heterosexual while others are naturally totally homosexual. But it’s not a yes / no binary situation as many people are on the spectrum somewhere in between.

The same is true for sexual identity in that one's sex is determined by the XY chromosomes where XX is female and XY is male but it’s not that simple. Chromosomal pairing is the result of complex biochemical interactions and often this, naturally, results in pairings which are not as clearly defined. Trans people are people, no different to anyone else and equally deserving of the same human rights.

In conclusion, in my view, LGBTQ people are people born with natural human characteristics no different to hair, skin or eye colour. Progressive humans reject doctrines and ideas which discriminate against people on the basis of skin colour because such discrimination is a crime against nature and humanity. Sexual preference and identification is no different.

⏩ Gavin Casey Gavin Casey is an independent Republican from
County Tyrone who has also lived in the USA and Asia.



Sexual Discrimination Is A Crime Against Nature

National Secular Society ✒ The Church of England's position on same-sex relationships should set the wheels of disestablishment in motion, says Stephen Evans.


The archbishop of Canterbury's affirmation of his church's official rejection of gay sex and same-sex marriage this week has caused much consternation. Those upset and dismayed by the move include many Anglicans who recognise the suffering this regressive position has inflicted upon gay people around the world.

The issue of homosexuality is a source of deep and bitter divisions within the Church of England. The divisions within the wider Anglican Communion are even greater. Some national Anglican churches have taken steps toward approving same-sex relationships, while others remain sharply opposed. Ninety Anglican bishops this week issued a statement seeking to affirm and celebrate LGBT+ people. Meanwhile, Ghanaian bishops have backed a proposed law that would lengthen jail terms for gay and trans people and force some to undergo so-called 'conversion therapy'.

Here, the CofE doesn't permit same-sex marriage and does not officially bless same-sex civil marriages. Gay clergy are permitted to be in relationships, so long as they remain celibate. A cruel expectation that can only fuel loneliness, longing and, presumably, some lying.

Continue reading @ National Secular Society.

Anglican Gay Sex Debate Is A Reminder Of The Need For Secularism

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of Three Hundred And Thirteen

Hemant Mehta ✒ The Archdiocese won’t participate in the National School Lunch Program so it can keep discriminating against LGBTQ kids.


The Archdiocese of St. Louis has told leaders at all its Catholic schools to start charging kids for food, letting them know they should stop participating in the government’s National School Lunch Program which provides free meals to children across the country.

The reason? If they continue using those government funds, they might have to follow the government’s rules prohibiting anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and the Catholic Church believes perpetuating bigotry is more important than feeding kids.

The St. Louis Post Dispatch got ahold of a memo sent to Catholic school leaders in the area:

“Due to changes in the interpretation of the Civil Rights Act, the non-discrimination statements for these programs has changed significantly,” reads the memo, sent by General Counsel Tom Buckley.

Schools that receive funds from the USDA would be required to adhere to the policies of these programs. The changes in these policies would be problematic for schools and programs of the Archdiocese to fully live out the mission of our Catholic Church.

Continue reading @ Only Sky.

St. Louis Archdiocese Chooses Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry Over Free School Lunch

Hemant Mehta ✒ “They didn’t think this was a good fit,” said one of the parents.

11-August-2022

Bible Baptist Academy wanted nothing to do with Zoey because her new parents are both women.

A Baptist school in Louisiana kicked out a child who was about to enter kindergarten because she was recently adopted by lesbians.

It’s the latest example of Christian love in action.

The story is even more tragic when you realize what the child has been through. Five-year-old Zoey already lost both of her biological parents, with her father dying in an industrial accident in 2020. Thankfully, her aunt, Jennifer Parker, took her in, and the adoption became official earlier this month. Zoey had already taken pre-K classes at Bible Baptist Academy in DeQuincy, Louisiana, so the plan was to continue there for kindergarten.

But last week, just days before the school year began, and after the family attended open house and Zoey got her uniform, Jennifer and her partner Emily were told their new daughter was being kicked out… because the two of them are lesbians.

Continue reading @ Only Sky.

Kindergartner Kicked Out Of Baptist School After Adoption By Lesbian Couple

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