Category: Homophobia
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Iranian chastity enforcer Reza Tsaghati is out of a job following his alleged appearance in a gay sex tape
TSAGHATI, above, was the hardline Director of Islamic guidance and culture in the northern Gilan province of Iran until a video appearing to show him having sex with a “much younger man” went viral last week. The Publica reports that that Tsaghati, “a staunch advocate” for mandatory hijab-wearing by Irianian women, has been dismissed from…
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The gulf between Hungary’s ‘illiberal’ Christian democracy and the ‘anti-family’ European Union widens
UNDER the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, above, a pro-Russian member of the Calvinist Hungarian Reformed Church, the country has increasingly found itself at loggerheads with the values of the E.U. The latest manifestation of Orbán’s hostility to the E.U. took place in Transylvania, Romania, last week where he accused the the E.U. of…
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‘Bible-believing’ councillor ‘cancelled’ by UK’s Conservative Party & others for labeling Pride event ‘sinful’
AFTER learning via social media that nudity had been observed during a Pride event, King Lawal, above, tweeted his displeasure over “sinful” and “illegal” activity. As a consequence the 31-year-old got himself suspended earlier this month from his role of Conservative party councillor in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and is now making suing noises, claiming his “life…
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Finland’s ‘Bible trial’ enters a new phase as prosecutors appeal the acquittal of a Lutheran homophobe
FINNISH authorities stand accused of waging war on Christianity by Christian lawmaker Dr. Päivi Räsänen, above, who has been ordered to attend an appeal court hearing later this year. Premier Christian News reported that Räsänen’s run-in with Finnish anti-hate speech laws began in 2019 when she took to Twitter to express concern that her church…
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Pastor’s recent call for the execution of parents of trans people is an extension of religious moral panics
WHEN I learned this week that Edinburgh had acquired a Museum of Magic, Fortune-telling and Witchcraft, created to cast light light on a grisly period in Scottish history when nearly 4,000 people were accused and 2,500 executed for witchcraft, I immediately made a connection between past religious moral panics and recent reports centred on hysterical…
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British Virgin Islanders told to ‘obey God’ when voting in a referendum on same-sex marriage
THE advice came earlier this year from Vice President of the BVI Christian Council, Rosemarie Flax, inset above, as the BVI—a British Overseas Territory—prepares to hold a vote to decide whether or not to legalise same-sex marriage. She said: It is always better to obey God over man. The Christian Council supports whoever God chooses…
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Google caves into to bigoted Christian staff; distances itself from a Pride event in S.F.
CALIFORNIAN Joshua Grannell, the product of a “very Conservative Catholic school” where the name of Jesus was used “in many ways to instill fear in people,” later reacted by adopting the persona of “Peaches Christ”, pictured above. Grannel, described in a YouTube video as “one of San Francisco’s most legendary and prolific drag queens”, hit…
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Preacher arrested at a Pride event says UK’s ‘biggest problem’ is homosexuality
THANKS to an utterly incompetent Conservative Party, Britain is suffering a cost-of-living crisis, a fast-disintegrating health service, rampant inflation and major post-Brexit damage to the economy. But its biggest problem is homosexuality among teenagers and young adults, claims street US preacher Ryan Schiavo, above. Schiavo, who made the claim in a YouTube video last year,…
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Bigotry on parade: Catholics for Catholics protest Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in L.A.
WHILE charity group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, received a Community Hero Award in a near-empty Dodgers stadium in Los Angeles yesterday (Friday), outside hundreds of haters gathered to voice their disapproval of what Catholic for Catholics labelled a “blasphemous” event. The “prayer procession” was organised by CFC, which said of the Sisters: The group…
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Catholic group calls for $1-m to fund ads calling for a boycott of the LA Dodgers
FURY among conservative Catholic groups over the fact that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will not only appear at a Dodgers game on June 16 but will also be handed a Community Hero Award is reaching fever pitch. One outfit—CatholicVote—has gone so far as to launch a $1-m fundraiser to buy ads aimed at exposing…
