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Georgia Pastor Has No Time For Anti-LGBT Hypocrites
Georgia Pastor Has No Time For Anti-LGBT Hypocrites
Religious people who are critical of the LGBT community and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage are “hypocritical,” Georgia pastor E. Dewey Smith said in a videotaped sermon that was posted Thursday.
Smith, who is pastor of the House of Hope Atlanta in Decatur, Georgia, and the House of Hope Macon, chastised his congregation and others who “demonize and dehumanize” artists and even members of their own choir who are gay while enjoying and benefitting from their work.
“We have done what the slave master did to us,” he said. “Dehumanize us, degrade us, demonize us, but then use them for our advantage.”
Vocal opponents of homosexuality will cite Leviticus, Smith went on to say, but the same book of the Bible also prohibits eating shellfish, wearing mixed fabrics and sharing a bed with a woman while she’s menstruating.
“Here’s my point. We pick and choose the scriptures that we want to use to beat folk up with, rather than look at our own lives.”
“Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, ‘I don’t condemn you. I don’t judge you. I will preach Christ to you,'” he said. “You can’t evangelize and antagonize at the same time.”
H/T Independent i100
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Bobby Jindal warns Westboro Baptist Church to stay away from funerals of victims murdered in movie theater
Bobby Jindal warns Westboro Baptist Church to stay away from funerals of victims murdered in movie theater
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is prepared to do everything in his power to block the Westboro Baptist Church from protesting the funerals of the victims in the last week’s Lafayette movie theater shooting.
According to The Hill, he issued an executive order yesterday (25 July).
‘In times of grief and mourning, the rule of law is especially important to protect the rights of citizens when they are most vulnerable, and any effort to disrupt or interfere with a family’s ability to grieve following the loss of a loved one is a reprehensible act,’ the Republican wrote, according to The Hill.
‘Any action by any individual or group to in any way disrupt, interfere, or cause additional suffering during this time of mourning is unconscionable and morally reprehensible,’ the order continued.
Last week, 21-year-old Mayci Breaux and 33-year-old Jillian Johnson were gunned down by John Russell Houser. The 59 year-old man, who according to reports had a history of mental illness, entered the theater and watched 20 minutes of the comedy Trainwreck. According to witnesses, he started shooting without saying anything.
He fired at least thirteen rounds in the audience of approximately 20 people, killing the two women and injuring nine.
According to his Twitter account, Houser supported the anti-gay church.
‘The Westboro Baptist Church may be the last real church in America[members not brainwashed],’ he allegedly tweeted in 2013 June.
The church quickly hailed the crime as an act justifying its crusade. Last Friday, 24 July, they posted the following on Twitter:
t.co/P0NkvGk7Ab Read the signs @BobbyJindal! We told you God would send more shooters. Put your flags down southern rebels & repent!
— Westboro Baptist (@WBCSaysRepent) July 24, 2015
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James Withers
“I Am Cait” Promises to Increase Transgender Visibility
“I Am Cait” Promises to Increase Transgender Visibility
“I Am Cait,” the E! network’s documentary series on Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner premieres this Sunday, July 26, and promises to give unprecedented visibility to the transgender community.
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Madonna Is Hard At Work in Newly Surfaced Outtake Reel from 1990 ‘Vogue’ Music Video Shoot: WATCH
Madonna Is Hard At Work in Newly Surfaced Outtake Reel from 1990 ‘Vogue’ Music Video Shoot: WATCH
A previously unreleased collection of outtakes from Madonna’s 1990 “Vogue” music video shoot has surfaced online, showing the Material Girl hard at work on what would later become the most iconic music video of her career.
The Backlot reports:
Featuring dancers Donna DeLory, Niki Haris, and a slightly different hairstyle than what ultimately was used in the stylish David Fincher directed video, the short rejected segments give us an idea of what could have been.
The 25th anniversary of “Vogue” took place back in March.
Related, “26 Moments That Make Madonna The Most Pro-Gay Pop Ally of All Time”
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Kyler Geoffroy
Madonna Is Having a Ball in Newly Surfaced Outtake Reel from 1990’s ‘Vogue’ Music Video Shoot: WATCH
‘Kissing’ pride parade by Swedish nationalists planned in Muslim-majority Stockholm
‘Kissing’ pride parade by Swedish nationalists planned in Muslim-majority Stockholm
A controversial pride march is set to take place on July 29 in two Muslim-majority districts in Stockholm, Sweden.
The march is being criticised for: ‘Pit[ting] two oppressed groups against each other,’ by LGBTI people and Muslim groups.
Jan Sjunnesson, the former editor newspaper the Samtiden, is organizing the march – the paper was owned by the far-right political party, the Sweden Democrats.
He said on his blog: ‘The same laws of assembly and expression should apply everywhere, regardless of the area or population’ regarding the event.
The march will go through Tensta and Husby, which have large Muslim populations. Järva, the name of the event, is nearby.
The event description says: ‘Clothing optional. In sunny weather, you can tan your stomach and legs. [The march will] take about 2 hours with stops at the piazzas for flag waving, public kissing.’
A counter-demonstration has been organized by Noah North and Emelie Mårtensson, who live in Järva. In an interview with Swedish newspaper Fria Tider, they said the march will aggravate tensions between LGBTI people and Muslims.
There has been some support for the march. Richard Dawkins tweeted an article by Blazing Cat Fur, an anti-Islamic blog, saying it was ‘pathetic’ to call the march ‘racist’.
“To place an LGBT parade” [in a Muslim area of Sweden] “is an expression of pure racism.” Sums up the pathetic Left. t.co/kfFQXjzVtR
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) July 23, 2015
On the Facebook event a few attendees argue it’s their right to march whereever.
The Sweden Democrats are a far-right party in Sweden, noted for its anti-immigration policies and supporting the highly controversial cartoons which depicted Prophet Mohammed in 2005.
While not hostile to LGBTI people, they are against gay adoption (unless the child is homeless of related to one parent). They have frequently stated that ‘Islamization’ of Sweden is a threat to gay people.
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Jack Flanagan
FRC Hate Leader Tony Perkins: Donald Trump Is a ‘Breath of Fresh Air’ – VIDEO
FRC Hate Leader Tony Perkins: Donald Trump Is a ‘Breath of Fresh Air’ – VIDEO
Speaking with CNN’s Michael Smerconish over the weekend, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins praised Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, saying he thinks it will have a “positive impact” on the other GOP candidates.
A new NBC/Marist Poll finds Trump leading the Republican presidential field in New Hampshire and trailing slightly behind Scott Walker in Iowa.
While acknowledging that Trump may have “a hard time in the end convincing social conservatives to back him,” Perkins claimed Trump is still tapping into legitimate right-wing frustrations with the GOP.
“The conservatives in this country are so fed up with politics as usual among Republicans…that they’re just looking for someone to talk straight to them, even if they don’t agree with them,” said Perkins. “I mean given all of his bluster he is still a breath of fresh air among many conservatives in this country.”
In other words, right-wing conservatives in this country are looking for a candidate who will dish out raw, unfiltered crazy – as opposed to hiding it behind an aura of electability or black-rimmed glasses.
And when asked about Trump’s opposition to abortion in light of his 1992 assertion that he was “very pro-choice,” Perkins seemed to brush the flip-flop off, saying:
“I think social conservative voters are willing to allow people to change because most of them have changed so they understand the dynamics of change.”
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Kyler Geoffroy
FRC Hate Leader Tony Perkins: Donald Trump Is a ‘Breath of Fresh Air’ – VIDEO
Camilla
Watch Lesbians Guess Whether Porn Stars Are Straight Or Gay
Watch Lesbians Guess Whether Porn Stars Are Straight Or Gay
Is is actually possible to tell the whether a woman performing in a lesbian porn identifies as either lesbian or straight (or somewhere in-between)?
Popular YouTube vlogger Arielle Scarcella tackles this question with a bit of nuance in her latest video “Lesbians Guess: Straight Girls Or Gay Girls In Porn.”
Scarcella brings together her usual roundtable of other lesbian YouTube vloggers to watch various porn videos and judge — based on the actions of the performers — whether the women actually identify as lesbians or not.
The twist? Well, for one, this is literally an impossible task to undertake. Secondly… Scarcella doesn’t even know the answer herself! She explains at the end of the video:
“I don’t think it matters because the truth is if somebody told you as a lesbian that you can’t be gay if you use dildos or you can’t be gay if you don’t like when a girl goes down on you, you’d probably be upset about it! Because we know that how we express our sexuality has nothing to do with our sexual orientation.”
Very tricky, Arielle. Want to see more from Scarcella? Head here.
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The twitter hashtag #GrowingUpCatholic turned into #GrowingUpGay
The twitter hashtag #GrowingUpCatholic turned into #GrowingUpGay
A Catholic hastag may be failing to get its message across this week.
#GrowingUpCatholic is currently trending on Twitter, a hashtag about the tribulations of the young and Catholic.
But it looks like it’s morphed into a gay parody of itself.
The new hastag follows the success of #GrowingUpGay which is still trending from last week:
watching jackass on mtv just to see the guys naked #GrowingUpGay
— PKH (@ParkerKitHill) July 25, 2015
#GrowingUpGay playing with your mom’s makeup and then hearing her car pull into the driveway pic.twitter.com/hnceesnfx2 — levi (@what_eve_r) July 20, 2015
The Catholic version is basically the same, but about being Catholic:
#growingupcatholic thinking the Eucharist is delicious but trying it for the 1st time and realizing it tastes like cardboard — shanice laquoff (@CammieBragg) July 17, 2015
Except the hastag has been hijacked by a smaller minority: the gay and Catholic:
#GrowingUpCatholic preparing you for all the time you’ll spend on your knees in the future.
— Conor (@_ConorQ) July 26, 2015
Being told not to chew Jesus Christ’s flesh because He doesn’t like that, apparently. #growingupcatholic
— Fintan O’Toolbox (@FintanOToolbox) July 26, 2015
#GrowingUpCatholic getting excited about going to hell because all the other gays will be there having the bants
— Amy Howell (@AmyHaim) July 26, 2015
#GrowingUpCatholic#growingupgay “you’ll find yourself a nice man and get married in a beautiful church” ok
— lex (@lexiejewels) July 19, 2015
A Catholic advocacy group recently tried to steal gay people’s thunder with a teary-eyed video, which was universally scorned on social media.
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