Tag: Homophobia
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RCC must do more to oppose a bill that would decriminalise homosexuality in Sri Lanka
INTERFERING with progressive legislative processes in countries across the world is something the Roman Catholic Church and evangelical organisations are particularly adept at. But in Buddhist Sri Lanka the Catholic church, led by Archbishop of Colombo—His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, above—stands accused of failing to adequately oppose a bill that that would do away with…
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Christian teacher, sacked over her objection to an utterly inoffensive kid’s book, is awarded $181,000
ALL Are Welcome is an innocuous New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. But diversity and inclusion are alien concepts to Lindsey Barr, above. In her hateful world all are assuredly unwelcome! After expressing concern over some the images in the book, claiming they depicted same-sex couples,…
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Orthodox Jewish man stages protests outside a synagogue who ousted him for being gay
WHEN Brian Mandel, 53. and his husband moved from New York to Florida in 2018, they later discovered a home-based synagogue—Kehillas Hollywood Hills—close to their home, and joined the small congregation in 2021. But their relationship with the shul soon turned sour after some members some members of the congregation began expressing “discomfort” with the…
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US Christian hatemongers spawned Uganda’s latest anti-LGBT+ bill, says lawmaker
FOX Odoi-Oywelowo, above, is one of only two Ugandan MPs who voted against the country’s controversial and draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 that was passed by Parliament this week. It punishes homosexuality by life in prison—and advocates for the death penalty in certain cases. In an interview published by Open Democracy, Odoi-Oywelowo, a longtime member of…
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The FBI partnered with white evangelicals in a bid create a Christian nationalist nation
Images via YouTube & Princeton University Press EDGAR Hoover, who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1935 to 1972, was a thoroughly nasty piece of work who masterminded a programme to identify gays working for federal agencies in order to have them fired. His animosity towards homosexuals most likely…
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Christian cake creator loses Colorado Court of Appeals case
Image via YouTube JACK PHILLIPS, above, gained international notoriety more than a decade ago when he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. What followed was a series of court hearings that went all the way up to the US Supreme court where the devout owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver…
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Homophic Republican Congressman, who won support from NY right-wing Jews by pretending to be Jewish, is outed as a drag queen
George Santos. Image via Wikipedia CC LAST December New Yorker Santos entered the US Congress with Jewish support after telling a whole bunch of lies. These including a claim that he was a Jew, and a descendant of Holocaust survivors. At the time, Jacques Berlinerblau, writing for MSNBC, said that right-wing Jews—”a minority in the Jewish…
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Spray away the gay: Mexican woman launches a holy water attack on loving couple
Screen shots and main image via Pixabay (Jeff Jacobs.) LEONARDO Hernández, inset, and his partner Thomas were doing just what millions of couples do when they are love. They were relaxing with their arms around each other when a mad, unidentified woman appeared out of nowhere. Brandishing a plastic bottle reportedly containing holy water, she…
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Trump and his crazy Christian cohorts wanted a more godly nation. Their plan crashed and burned.
Photo by Jon Tyson via Unsplash A recent study conducted by American author Brandon Flanery shows that churches in the US are facing a crisis of abandonment. Rampant homophobia and Donald Trump hastened the trend. Flanery, who is due to publish a “sassy” memoir, Stumbling, later this year, parted company with evangelicals and learned to…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 