Transgender Christian leader appointed to White House Advisory Council

www.glaad.org/blog/transgender-christian-leader-appointed-white-house-advisory-council

Teacher Used Grindr to Sext His Students, Police Say

The teacher faces multiple charges for allegedly sending nude photos and arranging sex with minors.

www.advocate.com/crime/2016/5/16/teacher-used-grindr-sext-his-students-police-say

PHOTOS: 39 Pics of New York at Its Best

www.advocate.com/hiv-aids/2016/5/16/photos-39-pics-new-york-its-best

Crazed Mother Of 12 Warns Target Customers The Devil Wants To Rape Their Children In Must-See Video

The frenzy over Target’s new trans-friendly bathroom policy rages on, and on.

A “Christian” mother of 12–yes, 12–recently brought her dozen offspring to their local discount department store to march up and down the aisles waving Bibles in the air and warning customers, mothers in particular, that Satan wanted to rape them and their children.

Related: Antigay Street Preachers Film Themselves Terrorizing Shoppers At Target Stores Across The Nation

“Attention Target customers,” the woman, dressed in her Kim Davis’ best with a purple floral print top and long braid trailing down the center of her back, hollered. “Do not be deceived, Target would have you believe with their Mother’s Day displays that they love mothers and children! This is a deception! This is not love, and they’ve proven it by opening their bathrooms to perverted men. I’m a mother of 12 and I’m very disgusted by this wicked practice.”

Related: Bigoted Target Protesters Smacked Down By Facebook Pranksters

The crazed woman continued: “Mothers! Get your children out of this store! Mothers! Have enough decency to Get. Out. Of. This. Store! It’s a dangerous place! … Are you gonna let the devil rape your children?!”

Never mind the fact that has her own kids in the store.

Watch the truly amazing spectacle in the video below.

h/t: Raw Story

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Meet the Terrifying Right-Wing Legal Group Behind Anti-LGBT Laws in the U.S. – WATCH

What do HB 2, the Supreme Court Hobby Lobby case, and Indiana’s Religious Freedom law have in common? An anti-gay legal group called Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

In a new video from Media Matters For America, Carlos Maza delves into the terrifying and homophobic group which likes to masquerade as a run-of-the-mill Christian legal group but in fact is a virulently anti-LGBT extremist organization that has been working for decades to subvert gay rights.

PREVIOUSLY: Alliance Defending Freedom Wants to Make a Martyr Out of Anti-Gay Kentucky Printing Company – VIDEO

If you look closely at any number of recent anti-LGBT laws passed throughout the U.S., you can see ADF’s hand at work. Maza explains:

“Arizona’s ‘Don’t Serve The Gays’ law? ADF. Indiana’s ‘Religious Freedom’ law? ADF. North Carolina’s creepy bathroom law? You guessed it: ADF.

ADF often ghost writes these laws, and hands them over to state lawmakers, testifies on their behalf, and then defends them in state and national media.”

And ADF isn’t just creating laws that would suppress LGBT rights; they are actively fomenting anti-LGBT hate. Says Maza,

“ADF’s whole media shtick is that they’re just protecting Christians who just want to live out their faith freely. Pretty harmless right? But off camera, they’re basically monsters…ADF opposes hate crime laws, they oppose anti-bullying efforts, the think that gay kids are ‘trapped in homosexual behavior’ and need to be freed of their lives of sin. One ADF document warned that anti-bullying policies would ‘promote homosexual behavior to impressionable children.’”

RELATED: Alliance Defending Freedom Fights For Right To Turn Away Gays In US, But Aims To Put Them In Jail Overseas

ADF fought to uphold Texas’ ban on gay sex in the Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, and, after losing that battle, have sought to uphold bans on gay sex in countries around the world.

And yet, representatives from ADF are invited on news shows and treated like anything but the radicals they are. As Maza puts its,

“[ADF are] extremists who have spent years trying to put gay people behind bars and deny women access to basic reproductive healthcare. That’s who ADF is. And that’s how news networks should identify them if they’re going to give the group air time.”

Watch, below.

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Why Does the Defense Secretary Find It ‘Complicated’ to Let Trans People Serve Openly? – VIDEO

A cadet at the Air Force Academy in Colorado questioned Defense Secretary Ash Carter last week about the military’s plan to allow transgender people to serve openly and how the military planned to educate those who are ignorant about trans people.

Carter responded that the matter is “complicated.”

The question brought renewed attention to the length of time it is taking to make the proposed changes.

The Washington Blade reports:

Aaron Belkin, director of the San Francisco-based Palm Center, echoed on Friday in response to Carter’s remarks frustration he already expressed over the pace of review of the trans ban, which was ordered nearly a year ago in July. “The notion that ending discrimination is ‘complicated’ is belied by all the evidence,” Belkin said.

“This includes research commissioned and reviewed by the Pentagon itself, which has found that implementing inclusive policy is straightforward.”

The Washington Post adds:

Officials say disagreements remain in the Defense Department about how to move forward, suggesting that the Pentagon isn’t close to wrapping up the review, let alone instituting any changes.

Peter Levine, who recently took over as the Pentagon’s acting personnel chief, said that Carter remains committed to pursuing the change, but added that it will likely take “months, but not large numbers of months” more to finalize details.

“If there was consensus on it, yeah, we would have done it,” Levine said. “But obviously there are different views from different officials in the services.”

He added: “We’re going to work through that . . . and we’re going to do it expeditiously so that we can do it in this administration. But it’s important that we not only do it, but do it right.”

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John Oliver Explains Why Calling 911 Might Not Save Your Life – WATCH

John Oliver took a deep dive into America’s reliance on 911 emergency services and exposed how 911 call centers are neglected, underfunded and in dire need of a tech update.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle faced by 911 today is the struggle to locate callers, a struggle which stems from outdated GPS technology. That technology could be improved yet has not been. Via Rolling Stone:

“Even the Domino’s app can tell where you are,” Oliver said,  “and they’ve barely mastered the technology to make a palatable pizza!” According to a USA Today report highlighted by Oliver, “Your chance of 911 getting a quick fix on location ranges as low as 10 percent to as high as 95 percent.”

“People making emergency calls are on the very short list of things we expect to be found 100 percent of the time,” he said. “It’s that, the clitoris and Nemo.” […]

And while the FCC has mandated improvements in location services from cell phone carriers by the year 2021, locations will still only be about 80% accurate (!).

Watch Oliver probe the troubles facing 911, below.

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