Reading Time: 4 minutes The Christian Academy of Louisville in Kentucky told students to write letters urging a fictional gay friend to renounce homosexuality. The assignment, which was due on Thursday, came to light after a parent of one of the students shared screenshots of the rubric with a friend, who then posted them online. The assignment was apparently […]
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Florida taxpayers may be left paying for DeSantis’ war on Disney
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2013, Russia introduced a law prohibiting “gay propaganda,” much to the disgust of the civilized world. Then, this year, Florida did much the same with DeSantis signing a “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law last month. This means, according to NPR, that public school teachers in Florida are now banned from holding classroom instruction […]
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Should street preaching be considered hate speech?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Should it be so that just because something is in the Bible, it couldn’t or shouldn’t be viewed as hate speech?
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Michigan lawmaker blasts GOP colleague’s Christian bigotry in viral speech
Reading Time: 4 minutes In a rousing speech that no politician should ever have to give, Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow denounced an attack against her by a conservative Christian politician who falsely accused her of being a “groomer” because she supports LGBTQ rights and schools teaching a comprehensive version of U.S. history instead of the white-washed, dumbed-down kind […]
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Gay lawmaker denounces GOP colleague’s anti-trans bill in viral speech
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you haven’t heard the speech delivered by openly gay Missouri State Rep. Ian Mackey yet, you’re about to, and you’ll be glad you did. Under a new bill designed to change Missouri’s election laws, Republican State Rep. Chuck Basye inserted an amendment that would give local school districts the power to call elections… to […]
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Teachers at UK Catholic school vote to strike after gay author’s speaking ban
Reading Time: 4 minutes Last month a campaign by Christian homophobes, supported by a Muslim psychologist, succeeded in having Simon James Green, an award-winning British writer LGBT+ fiction, banned from addressing pupils at two Catholic schools. According to Church Militant, Green intended discussing one of his books, Noah Can’t Even, which it claims is “blasphemous” and akin to “child […]
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Well, Boris Johnson, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten us into!
Reading Time: 4 minutes From Brexit through to the Partygate scandal, Britain’s posturing prat of a prime minister managed to turn the UK into an international laughing stock—and he’s now landed the country in another pickle over the cancellation of an international LGBT+ conference his own administration organized. Last year, the Conservative government called on businesses and individuals to […]
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Rep. Lauren Boebert: You should be 21 before coming out as LGBTQ
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a statement as bigoted as it is ignorant, conspiracist congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that LGBTQ people should be at least 21 before they make any “decisions” about their sexual orientation or gender identity. To state the obvious: Alcohol harms you. Tobacco harms you. Being gay, bi, or trans harms nobody… except, I suppose, those […]
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Dithering UK government does a second U-turn on conversion therapy in a matter of hours
Reading Time: 4 minutes Left reeling by the outrage that followed his announcement that his government would not, after all, ban the practice of conversion therapy, which attempts to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, Boris Johnson did a hasty retreat, promising that a ban would go ahead. According to The Guardian, yesterday (Thursday) a government spokesperson […]
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IL Catholic school fires teacher after discovering she’s in a same-sex marriage
Reading Time: 3 minutes For what we can only assume is the 34902423rd time this has happened, a teacher married to a same-sex partner was fired from a Catholic school. This time, it was Sue Fustin, a science teacher in Decatur, Illinois. Fustin’s educational career is about as impeccable as it gets. She was a longtime science teacher before […]