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Western Journal Founder Fired from Kennedy Center After CNN Prodded About His Christian Beliefs: 'I Refused to Recant'
The Western Journal ^ | 5/29/2025 | Randy DeSoto

Posted on 05/30/2025 6:08:27 AM PDT by unlearner

CNN is taking credit for prompting the firing of The Western Journal founder and former owner Floyd Brown, who only a month ago had taken a senior position at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The piece by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski describes Brown as a “far-right activist” who is a professing Christian and who has made statements in the past critical of the homosexual lifestyle and same-sex marriage.

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In February, President Donald Trump announced that he was naming Ric Grenell as interim director of the Kennedy Center.

The president wrote on social media, “Ric shares my Vision for a GOLDEN AGE of American Arts and Culture, and will be overseeing the daily operations of the Center. NO MORE DRAG SHOWS, OR OTHER ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA — ONLY THE BEST. RIC, WELCOME TO SHOW BUSINESS!” In other words, no more woke.

Grenell has been a Trump loyalist dating back to his first term, when he was acting director of national intelligence and ambassador to Germany.

By all appearances, he has acquitted himself well and is an effective communicator of Trump’s America First agenda.

He also identifies as homosexual and is married to a male spouse.

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However, in his decision to fire Brown, that does not look to be the case.

Brown posted on social media platform X, “I was fired yesterday by @RichardGrenell from the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. One month ago, I was recruited to join the Kennedy Center as a Vice President.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andrewkaczynski; brown; christianity; floydbrown; gay; grenell; homosexual; kennedycenter; kfile; lgbt; professingchristian; ricgrenell
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Christians can treat homosexuals and other LGBT individuals respectfully, but I do not believe they can reciprocate.

These are not types of people but are types of sexual perversions/addictions. In some cases these people are "high-functioning" addicts, but they are addicts. And part of the delusion of sex addiction is that it is simply part of one's identity.

1 posted on 05/30/2025 6:08:27 AM PDT by unlearner
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To: unlearner

I thought discrimination based on religion was ILLEGAL !!!?


2 posted on 05/30/2025 6:18:29 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: unlearner

Interesting. Thanks for posting.


3 posted on 05/30/2025 6:19:14 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: cuz1961

“I thought discrimination based on religion was ILLEGAL !!!?”

That is true, as long as you’re not Christian, or Jewish (in some cases).


4 posted on 05/30/2025 6:19:58 AM PDT by BobL
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To: PGalt

bkmk


5 posted on 05/30/2025 6:19:59 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: unlearner

Homosexuality has ever and always will be with us. There are some people who are born that way, and a whole lot who are recruited, according to the best science I can find.

The trouble is normalization. You just can’t have a sane civil society when the guy at the urinal next to you is checking out your penis as a sexual object. There is no getting over that.

The status quo of the 1970s was approximately right. There are gay people, and we know who they are, and we don’t give them hell. We ALL just pretend they are straight so that society can function.

The downhill slide to where hairy intact men perv on 12 year old girls in the public pool women’s locker is the absolute result of accepting public homosexuality.

I prefer the saner earlier accommodation.


6 posted on 05/30/2025 6:20:15 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (we know God is dead; they told us; but listening to you I wasn’t sure)
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To: unlearner

God bless Floyd Brown.


7 posted on 05/30/2025 6:20:44 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: unlearner

marriage is an institution created by God, and since God can not bless sin, homosexuals can not marry.

the homosexual lifestyle is simply sex before marriage when is equally condemned along with hetrosexual sex before marriage.

There is no hate in either one of those statements. They are just fact.


8 posted on 05/30/2025 6:21:11 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: unlearner

Do you actually know anyone who is gay?


9 posted on 05/30/2025 6:21:40 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Uncle Miltie

You found evidence of the “gay gene”? I don’t believe anyone is “born that way”.


10 posted on 05/30/2025 6:26:21 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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He also identifies as homosexual and is married to a male spouse.

Yep ... and that is NOT news. We've known that since the first Trump Administration.

Queers are mentally deranged. All of them, utterly without exception. No matter how competent and effective they may be in some jobs, they are simply not right in the head (and in the soul); sooner or later their mental derangement will manifest itself.

Queers should NEVER be put in any position of public trust. America was a better place when being a queer was a serious impediment to military service or being granted any kind of security clearance.

11 posted on 05/30/2025 6:27:54 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Do you actually know anyone who is gay?

HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.

12 posted on 05/30/2025 6:28:07 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE fSPEECH! )
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To: Uncle Miltie

Personally I don’t care how consenting adults amuse themselves in the privacy of their domiciles. As long as no kids are being hurt, puppies kicked, or kittens are skinned do what you want.

Just don’t try to force me to agree with it or pay for the consequences of your behavior.

I don’t flaunt my heterosexuality so please don’t flaunt your sexual proclivities.

Mrs L and I have a lovely lesbian couple across the street. We’ve been friendly neighbors for over 20 years. They’ve raised two straight daughters and now have 3 grandchildren with another on the way.

One of them is married to a Marine.

Of all the people who’ve come and gone in the time we’ve lived here we’d take 10 more couples just like them in a heartbeat.

L


13 posted on 05/30/2025 6:31:01 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: unlearner

What have we become? I nation that was built on Christianity ,is now a nation that fires you from your job, for believing in Jesus Christ. These are truly dark days.


14 posted on 05/30/2025 6:33:25 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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He also identifies as homosexual and is married to a male spouse.
If that was the only issue ,CNN would have pushed to keep in that position.


15 posted on 05/30/2025 6:35:25 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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To: unlearner

I’ve never trusted Grenell.


16 posted on 05/30/2025 6:39:26 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Uncle Miltie
"...according to the best science I can find."

😀😁😂🤣

Thanks for the morning humor...

17 posted on 05/30/2025 6:41:16 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: 9YearLurker

“Do you actually know anyone who is gay?”

Lots of people. And bi-sexual and transgender.

A friend of mine in college decided that I was the one person he felt comfortable talking about being bi and trans. He told me first that he was going to transition, sitting in my car after class. (No, there was nothing sexual between us.)

I tried to persuade him to go a different direction, but he was determined and has gone down that road. He now identifies publicly as female.

A lesbian just thanked me two weeks ago for being kind and respectful to her over the past year.

Do you know anyone who is actually Christian?


18 posted on 05/30/2025 6:44:29 AM PDT by unlearner (Still not tired of winning.)
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To: cuz1961

“I thought discrimination based on religion was ILLEGAL !!!?”

It is. And LGBT is not a protected class, no matter how much CNN and the left wants to pretend that it is.


19 posted on 05/30/2025 6:46:01 AM PDT by unlearner (Still not tired of winning.)
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To: unlearner

KFILE is scum. His karma already caught up with him.


20 posted on 05/30/2025 6:53:23 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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