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Ohio news station employee fired after Facebook post advocating for celebration of Straight Pride
wtrf.com ^ | June 12, 2024 | Amber Baker

Posted on 06/14/2024 5:03:55 PM PDT by lowbridge

WFMJ TV in Youngstown, Ohio, confirmed through a Facebook post last week that the station’s Community Relations Director, Madonna Chism Pinkard, was fired over a Facebook post advocating for “Straight Pride” during June’s Pride Month, according to news outlet Mahoning Matters.

According to Mahoning Matters, Pinkard made the post under her personal Facebook page, where she goes by “Madonna Jean, where her profile picture includes the WFMJ logo, and she identifies herself as the station’s Community Relations Director.

“The post that has since been taken down showed a meme with a newlywed man and woman that stated, “Celebrate Straight Pride,” “It’s Natural, It Has Worked for Thousands of Years,” “And You Can Make Babies!”

Mahoning Matters reports that Pinkard quickly took the post down, apologizing for offending viewers and stating that she had removed it.

On June 6, not long after Pinkard removed her post, WFMJ took to Facebook, stating: “Dear WFMJ Viewers, Early this morning, WFMJ management was made aware of an unauthorized social media post by a WFMJ employee. That post has since been removed. WFMJ is conducting an investigation into the unauthorized post. We are concerned by this incident and are moving forward with a thorough investigation.”

On Tuesday, June 11, WFMJ The station posted: “WFMJ has terminated the employment of our Community Relations Director following her unauthorized post on a company-linked social media site last week.

WFMJ is committed to serving our entire community with the respect we believe all people deserve. We recognize we live in a diverse community with differing views on many topics, and we believe discussions of those views and reporting on them should be done in a respectful manner by all. We deeply regret that our Community Relations Director crossed the line.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: dissent; freespeech; homosexualagenda; ohio; ohomo; straightpride
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1 posted on 06/14/2024 5:03:55 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Let the station know that you won’t watch their shows anymore.


2 posted on 06/14/2024 5:05:27 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: lowbridge

so much for the tolerance of the intolerant leftists.


3 posted on 06/14/2024 5:05:35 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Jonty30

OK. But they might find that hard to. believe when they find out I live in New York.


4 posted on 06/14/2024 5:07:55 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Jonty30

There’s a descrimination lawsuit.


5 posted on 06/14/2024 5:10:55 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: lowbridge

Sounds like grounds for a juicy lawsuit


6 posted on 06/14/2024 5:20:18 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: lowbridge

The station fired her because she is black!


7 posted on 06/14/2024 5:21:35 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

She sure us.


8 posted on 06/14/2024 5:29:17 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: lowbridge

Jiggle the handle after you flush this third-world Commie cesspool down the toilet.


9 posted on 06/14/2024 5:31:13 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Whoa!

globohomo Trumps Black.


10 posted on 06/14/2024 5:33:03 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Robert DeLong

Oops. That was supposed to say, She sure is. 😋


11 posted on 06/14/2024 5:36:11 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: lowbridge

During the 1990s our group “Normal People” fought to march in the Gay Pride Parade the same way they fought to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.


12 posted on 06/14/2024 5:37:55 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: lowbridge

“...serving our entire community with the respect we believe all people deserve.”

Except straight people, obviously.


13 posted on 06/14/2024 5:41:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: lowbridge

God is going to kill them and probably us to for not coming together to stop this evil.


14 posted on 06/14/2024 5:50:46 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

And I hope she sues the station for everything they have.


15 posted on 06/14/2024 6:03:30 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: lowbridge

(“Celebrate Straight Pride,” “It’s Natural, It Has Worked for Thousands of Years,” “And You Can Make Babies!”)

That’s the fact, Jack.

BUT

God’s truths are not popular with Godless Reprobates


16 posted on 06/14/2024 6:30:30 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Here we are, perhaps on the verge of a nuclear World War III and they just keep doubling-down on evil.

Like Sodom and Gomorrah, they just keep ignoring God.

We truly are in The Days of Lot - just as prophesied in the Gospel According to Luke.

Do NO harm, Christians, but reject this
Godless Reprobate Agenda.
(For the thread)




17 posted on 06/14/2024 6:38:27 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: lowbridge

nein nein nein

verboten under a nazi regime

just like

white lives matter


18 posted on 06/14/2024 6:46:17 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Jonty30

I did. Oh wait. They are broadcast in my area or via cable.


19 posted on 06/14/2024 7:41:40 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: SaveFerris
They can't see it coming. They believe they have the upper hand and can intimidate at will. They forget this passage in the Bible:

Matthew 10:26-28

26 “Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.
28 Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

20 posted on 06/14/2024 8:21:12 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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