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Another university has forfeited a match with San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team for reasons that have nothing to do with sets or serves.

As a former restaurant critic, I don’t get to go to dinner on assignment much anymore. But last week, I spent a grueling few hours in the private back room of a restaurant in North Beach, listening to a crowd gnash their teeth about “parental rights,” and the Trans Conspiracy to Destroy the American Family, while noshing on very dry garlic bread. Hosted by the San Francisco Republican Party, the event was billed by the group’s chairman John Dennis as “a reasonable conversation for parents who have concerns.” Speakers included Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, a Bay Area-based former social worker and a...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/elliot-page-lgbtq2-rights-juno-awards-1235859335/#recipient_hashed=9e3182e527018d7a4287c84a6b05ef6fc439383cb673b09c79546377b26a30f2&recipient_salt=033f0cdf936cc9231f8f544532ddab055a675f19b1417ab664d902fc9216dbd4:~:text=The%20%E2%80%98Umbrella%20Academy,2024%207%3A24PM Elliot Page came to the Junos Awards on Sunday night to denounce a rollback of LGBTQ2+ rights after the Umbrella Academy star came out as a transgender and nonbinary at the end of 2020. “We are at a time in history where the rights of LGBTQ2+ people are being revoked, restricted and eliminated throughout the world, and the effects are devastating,” Page said when citing the work by the Tegan and Sara Foundation to support and build social change for trans and queer youth at the Junos in his hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

This street preacher is preaching at a church sponsored pride event. Not sure which church sponsored it. Only that one women who said she had a Doctorate in Theology came out and spoke to the preacher for all of the video. Others joined in either being rude or talking religion and warping it to fit their views.

"...Pride parades man right there's kids 0:11 around and then there's like um people 0:14 walking around you know nude yeah so this journalist a real he's a real journalist he's out there at one of these parades he's asking these other people who's attending is this okay so he's asking them to explain if this..."

The Texas Rangers have sparked anger among LGBTQ+ groups by again refusing to host a Pride Night during the Major League Baseball season. Texas stands alone among the 30 MLB teams but they responded to fury from campaigners by insisting that they are welcoming to all baseball fans. In September 2003, however, two years after the Chicago Cubs hosted what is considered the first Pride game, the Rangers invited local LGBTQ+ groups to a game as part of a fundraising event. Some Rangers fans expressed opposition and there were even some protests outside the stadium before the game. DeeJay Johannessen...

As I was doing my morning reading, I was pointed to this article at Religion News Service (RNS) praising and celebrating the abomination of drag performances in churches, particularly, in the pulpit. This abomination is a clear indication of the modern professing Church’s utter degeneration. I know they say that there is nothing new under the sun, but this sure seems like a new invention. I can’t think of a time in history when the professing Church was so celebratory of sexual immorality. Perhaps, though, this is exactly what Paul was addressing in 1 Corinthians 5 when he addresses sexual...

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Are Leftists stupid, ideologically blind, or just preying on the stupidity/ignorance of young people? It's probably some combination of all three, I suppose. There are plenty of really smart Leftists who are ignorant; most Leftists think of people with whom they disagree as evil or stupid, and ideological blindness is a characteristic that describes most Leftists. Then, of course, there are just plain evil people who sell nonsense to these other groups whom they consider useful idiots, in the way Stalin used Westerners who wanted to believe in communism. NEW: Keffiyeh-donning gay activists in Seattle have declared a “homosexual intifada.”It...

The Greek parliament on Thursday passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage, in a landmark victory for human rights in Greece and making it the first majority Orthodox Christian country to establish marriage equality for all. The decision, supported by 176 out of 300 lawmakers in parliament and with 78 against, follows months of polarized political and public discourse, and has been welcomed as a long-awaited vindication by the country’s LGBTQ+ couples.

A Christian protesting a Pride event over the weekend in Watertown, Wisconsin, was handcuffed and detained by police in a video that went viral. Several members of the Christian group Warriors for Christ were evangelizing at the city's annual "Pride in the Park" on Saturday, an event organizers advertised as family-friendly. In the video, Marcus Schroeder is reading from the Bible into a microphone when officers surround him and grab his microphone and speaker. As his group questions the officers, they handcuff Schroeder and explain that he was being arrested for violating a sound ordinance about noise amplification. Jason Storms,...

The United Nations has joined LGBT Pride Month. This Tuesday, the iconic Rockefeller Center, in New York City, was filled with rainbow flags, replacing the 193 flags that are usually found in the plaza, one for each country that belongs to the United Nations: The initiative sparked a lot of criticism on social media. Some users criticized replacing country flags with the LGBT flag. Others complained that the display in honor of Pride Month is larger than the one for Christmas. In addition, many Americans have criticized the UN for making such a statement at Rockefeller Center. Many consider the...

Today, I’m a super proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, but the journey to get here wasn’t easy. I was outed at school by someone I’d trusted as a friend before I was ready to tell my own story. It was a really vulnerable time for me, and I felt ashamed to be myself even in the fairly progressive area where I live. I spent a lot of time with these feelings, thinking really deeply about why I had so much fear about coming out. I felt different and marginalized, whereas before, I’d never felt anything but “normal.” It...

The Disney Channel is set to introduce the children-oriented cable network’s first-ever gay storyline. The storyline, set to air on Friday, will form part of the second season of the show Andi Mack and will explore the realization of a young male that he is attracted to one of his male classmates

These must be very troubling and frustrating times for you, homophobes. A majority of Americans now support marriage equality, and face it, if it’s not fully recognized where you live yet, it will be and soon. A majority of us also support gay political candidates, and we seem to be able to watch gay people on television and movies and listen to them as we drive around in post breakup sadness without the fabric of society crumbling — probably because if you look across the population, it’s composed entirely of people who either are LGBT or who know someone who...

The USA’s first openly gay Episcopal bishop, Gene Robinson, has responded to presidential hopeful Rick Perry's anti-gay TV promotion suggesting that "it must break God's heart to see religion used in a political campaign like this." Bishop Robinson of the Episcopal Church showed his distaste in a TV interview with MSNBC and also by writing an opinion piece in the Washington Post newspaper. Perry had stated in his commercial that “You don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t...

Those of you who regularly tune in to this radio broadcast are not surprised when I say America has been taken over by communists, and along with the rest of the world, is spinning down into the hellish abyss of the Last Days foretold in the Bible. Satan’s global regime is smoothly working its sinister way into place, and the days ahead will grow ever darker. I know there are many, many people who do not want to hear such words and do not believe what I say is true. There are many people who are content to keep their...

The no-longer-gray lady indulges its taste for not-fit-to-print news. Just wondering—what exactly was the news value of the New York Times’s huge front-page Metro-section spread yesterday: A Sex Stop on the Way Home? Subtitled Just Off a Park’s Playing Fields, Another Game Thrives, with an eye-catching cropped photo of the gut (but not the shoulders or head) of a beefy man in shorts and pink socks standing just inside his SUV’s open door, the story recounted in jaw-dropping detail the pick-up rituals of anonymous homosexual sex in a Queens parking lot. The lot adjoins athletic fields used by both youth...

Earlier this month, an attempt to undo gay marriage in Massachusetts went down in flames. State legislators rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have voided a 2003 ruling by the state's Supreme Judicial Court extending marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples. The measure lost by a stunning 157-to-39 margin. In 2004, the amendment (which must be repeatedly approved to be adopted) had narrowly passed the legislature, 105 to 92, before the ruling went into effect. Even in notoriously liberal Massachusetts, opinion among the general public is more closely divided than this month's vote might suggest. A survey earlier...