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Despite a looming thunderstorm, a large crowd formed in Wilton Manors on the Wilton Bridge in response to the state’s recent order to remove painted crosswalks. It was the second of two demonstrations Monday evening with a simple message: they will not erase us. Around 50 people were seen chanting together along Sebastian Street in Fort Lauderdale Beach for the first gathering. Miss Bouvee, a local drag artist...

A one-time Colorado “counselor of the year” is accused of sexually assaulting a female student over several years — and threatened to kill herself if the girl ever came forward, according to police. Cassandra Poncelow, 40, met her accuser in her high school counseling office in the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colo. — and later began bringing her to her home for “sleepovers,” according to court documents obtained by 9News. The student — who is now an adult — met with police in July and claimed she was assaulted more than 100 times over several years at Poncelow’s...

An American father who moved to Russia to avoid LGBTQ+ “indoctrination” for his kids is being sent to the front line in Ukraine, despite being assured he would serve in a non-combat role. Derek Huffman, 46, feels he is being “thrown to the wolves” after being told that his job in the military would be as a correspondent or as a welder, his wife, DeAnna, said in a recorded plea for prayers, which has since been removed from her YouTube page. Huffman has no prior military experience, DeAnna said, adding that his limited training was conducted in Russian. She suggested...

A crime that keeps repeating in the city of Delray Beach. The LGBTQ Pride intersection near Old School Square in Delray Beach is once again stained with black tire marks after a pickup truck drove by—twice—and did burnouts, video...

So the EU in response to Victor Orban bans on gay pride events in Hungary decided to organize their own illegal event in Budapest on Saturday 28th June. There were counter protestors there who managed to prevent them from using the freedom bridge. How many of the "pride" demonstrators were actually Hungarian is uncertain but I can tell you there were many politicans from EU countries that were playing a part in it including my own Ireland.

...Donald Trump's administration is ending funding for an LGBT suicide prevention hotline that it says encourages "radical gender ideology...the White House Office of Management and Budget said funding would continue for 988 Lifeline, a wider suicide prevention hotline.

Since he was sworn in four months ago after an airtight confirmation vote, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has continued to be at the center of controversy. We have seen Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app on an unsecure personal phone to discuss sensitive military operations, his firing of three senior aides, and a Pentagon chock-full of internal turmoil. ince he was sworn in four months ago after an airtight confirmation vote, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has continued to be at the center of controversy. We have seen Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app on an unsecure personal phone...

The decoration of a Falklands War landing craft in rainbow colours to celebrate Pride has sparked uproar among veterans, who called it “entirely inappropriate” and said, “Our Falklands dead will be turning in their graves.” The Telegraph has more. "Foxtrot 8, which landed Royal Marine and Parachute Regiment soldiers on the South Atlantic archipelago, has been coated in a rainbow vinyl wrap. Portsmouth Historic Quarter, which owns it, commissioned the decoration to mark the 25th anniversary of the ban on homosexuality within the Armed Forces being lifted. But the decoration has been criticised as disrespectful by veterans. A retired senior...

A lieutenant with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office was arrested by the City of Miami Police Department, Local 10 News learned Tuesday. “It’s a superfluous charge that was unnecessary,” Daniel Chala said... The false imprisonment charge, however, was dropped in bond court Tuesday. Chala’s arrest report details the allegations against him, stating that officers responded to his apartment building Monday morning where they found the victim who said that she had been assaulted by Chala.

Few things better explain how common sense and morality have been subverted than the “boiling frog” analogy. Here is a standard definition: The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive.

Colorado Democrat Gov. Jared Polis signed legislation formally repealing the state’s long-unenforced ban on recognizing same-sex “marriage,” a largely-symbolic gesture for LGBT “equality” ensuring the state status quo would remain if the national one changed in the future. Senate Bill 24-014 strikes from the Colorado legal code language stating marriages can only be recognized as valid if “between one man and one woman.” It passed the state House 45-14 and the state Senate 29-6 and was signed into law on April 7. The statutory repeal follows a ballot initiative that passed last November removing the traditional definition of marriage from...

The Obergefell ruling rode rough-shod over religions and dozens of state constitutions on the bases of a moral — not legal — opinion.In late January, the Idaho House of Representatives passed a memorandum calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to “reverse” its 2015 gay marriage decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, “and restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman.” The memo passed 46 to 24 in the House and is heading to the Idaho Senate. If it passes the senate, it will be sent on to the Supreme Court as one more formal encouragement that...

The Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush accused evangelist Franklin Graham last week of being someone who "does not love the LGBTQ community" after the Samaritan's Purse CEO criticized Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's recent rebuke of President Donald Trump.Raushenbush, an ordained Baptist minister who serves as president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, also suggested Graham pales in comparison with his father, the late Rev. Billy Graham.During the Jan. 29 episode of C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," host John McArdle asked Raushenbush to respond to a clip of Graham on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," during which Graham excoriated the bishop of Washington for "mixing the...

Louisa Jacobson’s coming-out journey was gradual. “I was hiding for so long, part of myself that I knew was always there,” the “Gilded Age” star, 33, told Page Six exclusively at the Human Rights Campaign’s Greater New York Dinner on Saturday night.

An Italian bishop has insisted that the rules for admission to the priesthood in his home country haven't changed amid reports that new guidelines allow homosexuals to become priests as long as they remain celibate. Last Thursday, a document titled “The Formation of priests in churches in Italy. Guidelines and standards for seminaries” took effect. The Italian Episcopal Conference, the group of Roman Catholic bishops in Italy, approved the document at its 78th General Conference in 2023. The document generated headlines for its remarks about candidates for the priesthood who struggle with same-sex attraction. It included a word-for-word reiteration of...

President @JoeBiden has officially awarded Conservative Republican Liz Cheney ( @Liz_Cheney ) the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the nation’s highest civilian honors, for defending 'our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency,' following the January 6, 2021, election chaos. "Throughout two decades in public service, including as a Congresswoman for Wyoming and Vice Chair of the Committee on the January 6 attack, Liz Cheney has raised her voice—and reached across the aisle—to defend our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency. Her integrity and intrepidness remind us all what is possible...

It’s amazing how many leftists are ashamed of their bodies but have absolutely zero shame about their minds, their belief systems, or their sexual choices. It’s also amazing how Orwellian Newspeak has conquered the English language. “Gay” used to mean “happy.” Now it means “homosexual.”***Geneticists have yet to find a “gay gene.” Homosexuality (and other peculiarities it spawns) evidently arises not from nature, but from nurture: environmental factors.Drill deeply enough into homosexuals’ memories, and far too often, there’s a history as a child sexual abuse victim. And there’s an entire community — online, at school, in the big city —...

A beloved music director at a Michigan catholic church was fired after an unknown source informed church officials of his same-sex marriage — sparking outrage from parishioners, with many protesting and some renouncing their membership over the termination. Fred Szczepanski was canned from his position at St. Francis Church in Traverse City on Oct. 18 after the church officials discovered he had a same-sex marriage ceremony to his longtime partner in Nevada in 2020, according to Traverse City Record-Eagle. Szczepanski, known by churchgoers as “Mr. Fred,” was confronted by Rev. Michael Lingaur after church leaders received a letter from an...

Evangelicals have expressed "disbelief" at comments made by the Archbishop of Canterbury in which he claimed that gay sex is not sinful if it is within a committed relationship. Archbishop Justin Welby made the comments on "The Rest is Politics" podcast hosted by former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and former Tory MP Rory Stewart. Campbell used the podcast to pose a similar question to one he had asked Archbishop Welby in a 2017 interview for GQ magazine about whether he believed gay sex was sinful. Asked if he now had a "better answer" to that question, Welby said he...

hile serving as a teacher and football coach at Mankato West High School, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz was the faculty adviser to a Gay-Straight Alliance club founded in 1999. In August 2024, the managing editor of the Christian satire website The Babylon Bee, Joel Berry, used that fact to claim in an X post that "Tim Walz recruited young boys into a gay club at school."