Hate group fears the LGBTQ rights, safety being protected under the law

With Trump attempting to seize all of the oxygen in the room, it is difficult to pay attention to other crucial issues, such as LGBTQ equality. But thanks to hate group the Family Research Council, let's have a reminder:

It’s a sweeping and wrongheaded extension of #ENDA to add in sexual orientation and gender identity and at least 25 areas of law as opposed to just hiring practices.
Do not pass the #EqualityAct or its sister proposal, the Fairness for All Act. @WashTimes https://t.co/J5NYdeXm0W

— FRC (@FRCdc) February 12, 2019

Don't be fooled by the nonsense of this piece but please pay attention to the fear FRC has about any extension of LGBTQ equality. When ENDA was being considered, the group freely lied about what it would lead to and it is lying about the Equality Act and the Fairness for All Act.

Remember that FRC's entire brand is undermining LGBTQ equality and safety. Don't let them fool you as to where it stands regarding the LGBTQ community and our children:






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'Chris Pratt avoiding legitimate questions about anti-LGBTQ history of his church' & other Tue midday news briefs

Chris Pratt need not avoid the anti-LGBTQ history of his church.

Chris Pratt Responds To Ellen Page’s Claim His Church Is ‘Infamously Anti-LGBTQ’ - I hate to be involved in this but I smell how the religious right are going attempt to use this in order to make the LGBTQ community seem like bullies. Pratt sidestepped several points about his church and I be DAMNED if the LGBTQ community will be looked at as bullies because we are making legitimate call outs, like such: 

Chris Pratt attends an anti-gay church with a history of child molestation and ex-gay therapy  

Is Hillsong Church anti-LGBT? What you need to know about its views 

Inside Hillsong, the Church of Choice for Justin Bieber and Kevin Durant  

Sex Abuse & Gay Conversion Therapy: The Dark Past of Justin Bieber’s Megachurch Hillsong

NYC Lawmaker Says Chamber Controlled By ‘Homosexual Community,’ Won’t Apologize - This is what is wrong with the media. Framing the story as if his ignorance is somehow courageous. We don't need the jerk to apologize. Call him out with the facts. Stop asking an asshole not to be an asshole.

West Virginia lawmaker says there’s no reason to punish him for comparing LGBTQ community to KKK - Second verse same as the first. Stop demanding apologies. To hell with their apologies. Call out their words. 

This Republican told LGBTQ youth that homosexuality is equal to bestiality & pedophilia - A part of a larger problem. "Ignore them" we are told by some people. You can't ignore ignorant people who have the power to make policy which will affect your life.

Hate group called out for junk science attack on LGBTQ children

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'LGBTQ women and allies dominate the 61st annual Grammys' & other Mon midday news briefs

2019 Grammy Awards: LGBTQ women shine at 61st annual music event - From Janelle Monae to Lady Gaga. From Brandi Carlile to St. Vincent to Kacey Musgraves. Was there any doubt who stole the show at the Grammys this year?

‘I’m Gay’ Uttered on Disney Channel for First Time in Groundbreaking Episode of ‘Andi Mack’ - Yes this is a huge deal. Our kids are watching.

Watch Queer “Family Feud” Contestant Shock Steve Harvey With Perfect Answer - Seemingly innocuous incident which underscores just how America does not talk about the reality of gay families and how the anti-LGBTQ industry count on that to render our families invisible.

ICE confirms 45 transgender women being held at Texas detention center - This right here is some mess.

Exclusive: Rep. Kennedy leads congressional resolution against Trump trans military ban - Good for Congress and good luck.

'Alumnus of Karen Pence's anti-LGBTQ school speaks out' & other Fri midday news briefs

Luke Hartman

Student Voice: For LGBTQ teens, ‘hope does exist’ - This is important. The manufactured issue of "religious liberty" gives the religious right and its allies like 2nd Lady Karen Pence an opportunity to bogart the conversation when it comes to the LGBTQ community and particularly our children. We forget how this narrative erases LGBTQ children and silences their voices. People like Luke Hartman reminds us of this. His one voice speaks for the generation that Pence and her cohorts are attempting to drown out. 

School forced to shut down after inviting lesbian politician to speak for Black History Month - Cause apparently some folks think that LGBTQ history and black history don't intertwine.

Tennessee lawmakers kick off legislative session with litany of anti-LGBTQ bills - A huge grouping of every anti-LGBTQ aspiration from undermining gay adoption to attacking the trans community. What may be successful here could be a ground game for the rest of the country. Bring it on. 

Report: Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Christian Adoption Agency - Not LGBTQ per se, but we may be hearing more about this as time goes on.

So homophobic, Jesus can't help you . . .

Randy Short don't like the LGBTQ community or the National Black Caucus

As if the LGBTQ community doesn't have enough to deal with how the Trump Administration is empowering overt attacks on us and our families, even the dregs of bigotry are attempting to take wild shots.

A press conference I referenced earlier this week took place and according to Right Wing Watch, it was a doozy:

Imagine an anti-LGBTQ gathering that included remarks by a trio of aggressively anti-gay activists—Scott Lively, Peter LaBarbera, and Brian Camenker—and now imagine that none of them was the most ridiculous, obnoxious or extreme speaker. Such was the scene at the National Press Club on Tuesday afternoon, where a new group calling itself “Gone Too Far” introduced itself with tirades against the LGBTQ equality movement, the proposed federal Equality Act, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus who support it. 

Three right-wing African American pastors—Randy Short, Stephen Broden and E.W. Jackson—are part of the group’s organizing committee, as are Lively, LaBarbera, and Camenker. (Notably, the latter three were all part of a group of Religious Right leaders who defended Rep. Steve King when he was punished by his House colleagues for his most recent racist comments.) Additional organizing committee members include Arthur Shaper, head of the California branch of Camenker’s MassResistance; Paul Blair, president of Reclaiming America for Christ; and his Oklahoma clergy colleague, Dan Fisher. Blair is also a promoter of “nullification”–the notion that the individual states hold the power to nullify federal laws. 

The press conference began with the blowing of a shofar, prayer, the singing of “Jesus Loves the Little Children” and “God Bless America,” and the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. When Short took to the podium, things went downhill quickly.

Trump makes accidental but very accurate condemnation of anti- LGBTQ religious hypocrisy at National Prayer Breakfast

Look out!

Trump and the conservative evangelical right exploits the National Prayer Breakfast to seize the spotlight, justify anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and make a very interesting but accurate Freudian slip:

President Trump gave a shout out to Karen Pence at today’s National Prayer Breakfast for teaching at “a Christian school,” one that recently garnered national attention for barring #LGBTQ employees and students pic.twitter.com/FtIzaPeNp8

— NBC Out (@NBCOUT) February 7, 2019

Trump just openly defended adoption agencies who wish to refuse service to same-sex couples, unmarried couples, and couples of different religious faiths. PURE DISCRIMINATION. pic.twitter.com/AAfOBne4uw

— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) February 7, 2019

All leading to this:

By saying people of faith are behind abolishing civil rights, Trump Freudian-slips the most accurate definition of #ReligiousFreedom EVER!pic.twitter.com/H87NHmKpNz

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) February 7, 2019

'Pro-lifers' taking same disastrous route into hysteria as anti-marriage equality movement

Taking advantage of attempts to pass bills in several states loosening restrictions on abortions done late in pregnancy (which would be done in case that the mother's life is in danger or the child has severe complications), conservatives and the religious right have pushed the lever of mass hysteria to the highest degree. According to Politico:

Republicans are launching a multi-pronged strategy to try to keep “late-term abortions” in the spotlight, a thorny political issue that they hope will put vulnerable Democrats in a tough spot and excite their conservative base. It’s a move that House Republicans are pushing in part to capitalize on comments President Donald Trump made during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, when he used the high-profile platform to call for legislation banning abortions later in a pregnancy.

In addition,  organizations such as the Family Research Council, the American Family Association as well as right wing activists have been posting "articles," spreading memes, and passing along hashtags claiming that these bills are nothing more than "infanticide" and that the Democratic Party intent on murdering healthy babies coming out of the womb.

And of course, even Fox News has gotten into the act of spreading the lie with its latest disgrace of a journalist, Ainsley Earhardt. Her claim that the Democratic Party care more about abused geese than children was low, even for someone working for that network which employs her.

'Is Mike Pence going to stand in the way of Trump's HIV pledge?' other Wed midday news briefs

Mike Pence

Mike Pence will never allow Trump’s HIV pledge to become reality - One of the main reasons why we don't believe Trump's pledge to eradicate HIV. His vice president is a homophobic so-and-so who's crappy governance in Indiana helped to cause an HIV outbreak. Amongst the other things . . .

Trump Makes Big HIV Promises In State Of The Union Despite Poor Track Record - Let's talk about this some more. 

Arizona’s new head of schools wants to repeal the state’s ‘no promo homo’ law - Thank you!

Carrollton Leaders Consider Anti-Discrimination Ordinance To Protect City LGBTQ Employees - Pay close attention because this is where they religious right's "LGBTQ equality laws will ban the Bible" lie is probably going to take root. 

To Christian Parents of Gay Children - THIS is needed!

The Trump Administration has attacked the LGBTQ community 92 times in policy and rhetoric

Since taking office, the Trump Administration has targeted the LGBTQ community 92 times.

In anticipation of that bozo Trump's State of the Union address come a reminder from GLAAD.

“There is no reason for LGBTQ Americans or anyone else to see tonight’s State of the Union as anything more than empty rhetoric designed to distract from what’s really happening behind the scenes every day,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO at GLAAD. “What LGBTQ people know is this: The Trump Administration is the most anti-LGBTQ in modern history, and will seemingly stoop to any low to roll back the hard-won progress of marginalized communities in this country.”  

 According to GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project (TAP), President Trump and his administration have unleashed more than 92 attacks against LGBTQ Americans in policy and rhetoric. From disbanding of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS, discharging two service members living with HIV, and banning transgender service members from openly serving their country, GLAAD has catalogued every anti-LGBTQ action by this administration at www.glaad.org/trump.

Ninety-two reasons why the Trump Administration is easily the most homophobic one we have been in a generation. You can read the complete list here. But here are some of the latest items on the list to get you started:

01.28.19 - President Trump meets with Ginni Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and anti-LGBTQ group Groundswell at the White House. According to news reports, Ms. Thomas led a meeting with President Trump at the White House where participants denounced transgender Americans and claimed the historic, nationwide marriage equality ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court was “harming the fabric of the United States.” The Supreme Court is on the verge of deciding whether to take up a case regarding Trump's ban on allowing transgender service members from serving in the nation's armed forces.

01.23.19 - The Trump Administration approved a waiver request by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, which could give faith-based adoption agencies the ability to deny LGBTQ couples adoption rights based on so-called "religious exemptions" -- all while using government tax dollars. 

 01.11.19 - More than 13,000 federal workers identifying as LGBTQ do not receive a paycheck as President Trump's government shutdown becomes the longest shut down in U.S. history.

01.03.19 - In a leaked memo by the Justice Department, the Trump Administration considers dissolving the "disparate impact" regulation, which grants marginalized communities (including LGBTQ Americans) legal protections from unintended discrimination in housing, education, and other ways of life.  

 01.01.19 - NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine invites Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, to visit the United States. Rogozin, a politician, is vehemently anti-LGBTQ and even compared the community to ISIS.  

12.21.18 - The Department of Justice issued a "Statement of Interest" on a pending case involving the University of Iowa and an anti-LGBTQ student organization. The DOJ sided with the student group that indirectly bars an LGBTQ person from joining their organization. This indirect discrimination is known as a "disparate impact" form of discrimination.  

 12.20.18 - The Trump Administration tightens its regulations on access to food stamps, affecting about the 1 in 4 LGBTQ adults who apply for the SNAP program.   

 12.19.18 - The Trump Administration discharges two service members in the Air Force after disclosing their HIV-positive status to the Department of Defense.  

 12.09.18 - The Trump Administration quietly shuts down a HIV research facility in Montana after the administration objected to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its scientists using fetal tissue as a part of its research to find a cure for HIV and AIDS.

'DC school refuses to play sports where Karen Pence teaches over anti-LGBTQ policies' & other Tue midday news briefs

Karen Pence

DC school refuses to play sports at school where Karen Pence teaches over anti-LGBTQ policies - The anti-LGBTQ school 2nd Lady Karen Pence has chosen to associate with is feeling the heat for its homophobic policies. Another school doesn't want to associate with it. Rather than taking in the irony, some folks are no doubt whining about being victims.

After years of bullying, this trans teen was named Homecoming Queen by her classmates - Sweet! Enjoy your victory. 

In ‘Single Record,’ Rapper Finds His Truth Could Cost Him A Career — And His Life - Fascinating and much needed.

Madonna to receive major LGBTQ honor at 2019 GLAAD Media Awards - Congratulations, Madonna!

Group accusing LGBTQ community of being racist has own problem with racism

E.W. Jackson (first photo) Peter LaBarbera (second photo)

A bunch of religious right leaders will be assembling a press conference on Tuesday for something they call the Gone Too Far Movement. 

Right Wing Watch mentions the event.

Scott Lively, Peter LaBarbera, Stephen Broden, E.W. Jackson and other anti-LGBTQ activists have founded something called the Gone Too Far Movement and will be holding a press conference in Washington, D.C., next week to “challenge the attempt to hijack America’s Civil Rights laws with the pending Equality Act H.R. 2282 in Congress.”

What it actually is the usual assemblage of predominantly white anti-LGBTQ activists so radical ('Porno Pete' Labarbera, Scott Lively) that "mainstream"religious right groups avoid them, sprinkled with odd and ends of black leadership (?)  willing to be used for some media attention, and all united to accuse the LGBTQ community of perverting society, molesting children, recruiting children, and attempting to grab the mantle of the Civil Rights Movement.

Here are two things you should know:

1. The Equality Act HR 2282 they are railing against is a bill which would provide massive anti-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community. That explains why these charlatans are so opposed to it. This is what they are claiming:

The GTFM (Gone2FarMovement) recognizes that the Equality Act H.R. 2282 is a dangerous, irresponsible, outlandish, morally perverse, and socially deleterious legislation. The Equality Act poses a direct threat to religious freedom and the dignity of Blacks and women by blending the immutability of sex and race with radical-LGBTQ theories, and H.R. 2282 aims to amend 59 existing federal laws and regulations. GTFM believes that H.R. 2282 if passed, will create a dangerous legal precedent creating social chaos and legal loopholes permitting reverse discrimination, and it has the potential to establish legal protections for previously illegal sexual practices and conduct. The GTFM will issue a Proclamation of Faith opposed to the Equality Act and call for the Congressional Black Caucus to resign. The Gone Too Far Movement is bi-partisan, interracial, interfaith, and a nationwide collection of Americans who want to protect and preserve faith, family, freedom, traditional values, and to counter the movement to legalize pedophilia.

2. And this is the funny part of it all - it's ironic that this group is specifically targeting the Congressional Black Caucus and claiming that the Equality Act would high jack the Civil Rights Movement, when one of its members, E.W. Jackson, is known for several eyebrowing raising and racist comments

E.W. Jackson: Men Wearing Earrings Is A Plot By Racist White Liberals To Emasculate Black Men

E.W. Jackson: America’s “Never Been” Racist Since “Arab Muslims” Started Slave

E.W. Jackson: Electing Muslims to Congress Is ‘Just Beyond the Pale’

E.W. Jackson Says Shooting Of Philando Castile Was Reasonable

E.W. Jackson: Black Lives Matter Is ‘Demonic’

Seems to me that if you are starting a group implying that the LGBTQ community is racist, maybe it's not a good idea to be joining up with someone who has been accused of being an actual racist.

'Transgender service members to attend State of the Union address' & other Mon midday news briefs

Transgender service members to attend State of the Union as guests - Wonderful. Let Trump stare these men and women in the face. They protect our freedoms, but he has the nerve to claim that they are unfit to serve. What a coward.

Federal judge says harmful conversion therapy is just ‘speech’ and shouldn’t be restricted - What kind of okie doke bullshit is this?

Disney Will Host Its First Official LGBTQ Pride Event This Summer - The first "official" LGBTQ pride event that is.

Black History Month: 11 black LGBTQ trailblazers who made history - Last, but not least . . . gone are the days when LGBTQs of color are ignored during Black History Month.

8 Inspiring Queer Black Icons You Should Know About- And if some of the names in this article are the same as in the above article, then good. You're less likely to forget who they are.

'Drag Queen Story Hour' opponents are hypocrites . . . featuring Bugs Bunny

There is a twofold purpose of this post - 1. To provide a bit of comedy  2. To poke fun at the hypocrisy of all the folks who have a problem with the Drag Queen Story Hour taking place across the country. You have a problem with a perfectly innocent event enjoyed by children and their parents simply because it is about drag queens reading to children? You have no problem when Bugs Bunny dresses in drag to entertain your children. Why do you have a problem with folks dressing in drag to entertain AND educate your children?

'Franklin Graham embarrasses himself in defending Donald Trump's lies' & other Thur midday news briefs

Franklin Graham

Franklin Graham Comes Up With A Brazen New Way To Excuse 8,000+ Trump Lies - One of the very few good things (and I don't even want to give the Orange bozo credit for that) with Trump being in the White House is how his presence is exposing the blind hypocrisy of the anti-LGBTQ right and their leaders like Franklin Graham. 

 And it's a wonderful to bring up this piece from 2011 in which Franklin embraced birtherism - i.e. the idea that Obama is not an American citizen. - Rev. Franklin Graham a birther?

Armed Man Disrupts Houston Library During Drag Queen Storytime - What the homophobic whine about Drag Queen Storytime can lead to. It is an innocent event popular with children AND their parents. And that is it.

This is what a local government thinks transgender people look like? - Oh good Lord . . . 

Report Finds Slowdown in Schools' LGBTQ+ Inclusion - It's all about deliberate erasure.

Jussie Smollett attack highlights amplified risks facing black LGBT community - So dang true.

Parents of trans youth remind us what is important in this 'culture war'

HRC's Parents for Transgender Equality National Council

When it comes to transgender issues, the anti-LGBTQ industry and activists generally bogart the conversation  so much that it's difficult to hear from transgender men, women, children and their families. That's why this recent event held by the Human Rights Campaign's Parents for Transgender Equality National Council is so important and needs to be elevated in the spotlight:

Today, HRC's Parents for Transgender Equality National Council, a group of the nation’s leading parent-advocates in the fight for transgender equality, met with members of Congress to discuss their families’ moving journeys and the urgent need for Congress to pass the Equality Act. The Equality Act is a comprehensive LGBTQ civil rights bill which is a priority for the U.S. House’s new pro-equality leadership and is expected to be re-introduced soon. 

U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy, III (D-MA), chair of the Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force, hosted the convening of parents of transgender and gender expansive young people. Representative Kennedy was joined by U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), Mark Takano (D-CA), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Chris Pappas (D-NH) and Gil Cisneros (D-CA). 

“For transgender young people, passing the Equality Act would be life-affirming and, in some cases, lifesaving,” said Jay Brown, Acting Senior Vice President, HRC Programs, Research & Training. “These parents’ children need and deserve clear protections from discrimination throughout daily life, from welcoming schools to inclusive health care. The unique stories and voices of these parents have already changed countless minds, and they will be critical in continuing to push equality forward alongside allies like Representative Kennedy and the Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force.” 

“For two years, transgender children have fought daily battles against intolerance in their schools and their communities, while the adults tasked with protecting them at the highest levels of this Administration offer words of bigotry and hatred instead,” said U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy, III, chair of the Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force. “Listening to these parents today demonstrated once again that there is no force greater than a parent’s love and no force darker than a government that fails to see the humanity in her youngest citizens. We fight with those children and their parents because they should never doubt that they are heard and they are seen, and they should always know that they will never be erased.”

The entire story is here and deserves a read and a share.

''Radical feminists' unite with anti-LGBTQ group for bout of wanton transphobia' & other Wed midday news briefs

The Heritage Foundation plays divide and conquer with LGBTQ community.

A far right conservative group is aligning with ‘radical feminists’ to attack trans rights - When I told folks about this, they hardly believed me and I really couldn't blame them. Now here is confirmation from LGBTQNation. A bunch of so-called feminists are teaming up with a noted anti-LGBTQ group, The Heritage Foundation,  to attack the transgender community. And yes, there are lesbians involved in this awful effort. Seriously, what the hell? What makes these folks think that they can join in an anti-LGBTQ group's attack on one segment on their own community without any negative consequences for themselves?  Hate, fear, and ignorance are powerful things.

Poll: 70% of U.S. voters support transgender military service - In Qunnipiac University Poll results which will most certainly be challenged by the religious right, 70 percent of those surveyed oppose Trump's ban on transgender military men and women.

"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett had noose around his neck when officers arrived, police say - More confirmation on the Jussie Smollett story. BUT with that confirmation from the police about the circumstances, come also the twitter trolls. Because no suspects have been arrested as of yet, a lot of armchair detectives and wannabe "Lara Loomer" activist journalists have come out speculating. And you know how that turns out. My guess is that they waited for a day for no suspects and then uncaged themselves. This situation is still playing itself out. 

Husband/wife tandem working to ensure discriminatory, religiously biased regulations of Trump Administration - My post from last night because this situation needs more attention devoted to it.

Orthodox Jewish therapist claims NYC’s conversion therapy ban violates his rights - The continued weaponization of religious beliefs. Your beliefs shouldn't allow you to do participate in a fraudulent practice. And guess anti=LGBTQ hate group is pushing THIS lawsuit- the Alliance Defending Freedom. That group is trying hard to make itself the arch-enemy of the LGBTQ community.

Husband/wife tandem working to ensure discriminatory, religiously biased regulations of Trump Administration

Roger Severino (first picture) is pushing anti-LGBTQ, religiously biased regulations at DHHS. His wife, Carrie (second picture) is attempt to get judges appointed, via dishonest means, who will uphold those regulations.

A recent post by People for American Way underscores just how deep the Trump Administration is in exploiting the concept of "religious liberty" as an avenue to foster discrimination, specifically anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and right-wing religious bias.

In a move that brought a startling clarity to the end game for “religious liberty” claims made by Religious Right political and legal groups, the Department of Health and Human Services last week granted a waiver from federal non-discrimination rules to South Carolina, allowing the state to continue funneling tax dollars to Miracle Hill, a child welfare agency that refuses to place foster children with Jewish or Catholic families—or anyone who doesn’t share Miracle Hill’s conservative evangelical religious doctrine. The waiver also applies to all other South Carolina faith-based foster care agencies. 

“Under Miracle Hill’s policies, not only Jews are rejected” as potential mentors and foster parents, reported the Religion News Service. “Muslims, Hindus and atheists are also barred from fostering or mentoring children in the nonprofit’s programs; so too are Catholics.” Don’t even ask about same-sex couples, even if they’re Protestant. Miracle Hill has reportedly received millions of dollars from the state and federal governments.

Those watching  the Department of Health and Human Services are not surprised that it came to this. There has been huge cause of alarm since last year that several religious right activists were being appointed to positions in the agency and  were using their positions to further their personal religious agendas. Most specifically, a man named Roger Severino.

According to a  Politico article from last year:

A small cadre of politically prominent religious activists inside the Department of Health and Human Services have spent months quietly planning how to weaken federal protections for abortion and transgender care — a strategy that's taking shape in a series of policy moves that took even their own staff by surprise. Those officials include Roger Severino, an anti-abortion Catholic lawyer who now runs the Office of Civil Rights and last week laid out new protections allowing health care workers with religious or moral objections to abortion and other procedures to opt out. Shannon Royce, the agency's key liaison with religious and grass-roots organizations, has also emerged as a pivotal player.

Severino has been called out by several LGBTQ groups and activists for his actions since being appointed, including attempting to define transgender people “out of existence”

'Empire' Actor Jussie Smollett hospitalized after racist, homophobic attack' & other Tue midday news briefs

Jussie Smollett

‘Empire’ Actor Jussie Smollett Hospitalized in Chicago After Violent Racial Homophobic Attack - This just came in. We don't know all of the details as of yet. But according to a police report, it did take place:

Chicago Police Department just sent out this statement re:
Jussie Smollett pic.twitter.com/DxQswZn8xd

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 29, 2019

Adulterer Trump approves of forcing public schools to teach Bible classes to improve morality - Of course anti-LGBTQ religious right figures like Franklin Graham is supporting on Trump. So many ironies, particularly the fact that there are stories in the Bible in which hateful leaders - not unlike Trump -are struck down by God, eaten by worms, overthrown or driven to madness because of their un-Christian pride, etc. etc. 

Anti-LGBTQ hate groups wants you to pray for Karen Pence (and ignore the bigoted message she sends to same-families  and children) - Repost from last night. 

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Make It Easier for Doctors to Deny Care to LGBTQ People - SO true, unfortunately.

Five Black LGBTQ Actors on Representation In Hollywood - What's that thing the younger folks say . . YAASSS!

Anti-LGBTQ hate groups wants you to pray for Karen Pence (and ignore the bigoted message she sends to same-families & children)

Tony Perkins (first picture) and FRC wants America to pray for Karen Pence (second picture) while ignoring the negative message she is sending to LGBTQ children and same-sex families 

It's not surprising that the Family Research Council stands with 2nd Lady  Karen Pence's decision to associate herself with a school which bans LGBTQ children and employees. And it's also not surprising how the organization attempts to falsely frame the situation as one with regards to Pence's "religious beliefs" instead of her duty as 2nd Lady to send a message of inclusiveness to the nation.

Nor is this third thing surprising. In its message for people to pray for Pence, FRC  doesn't even mention why the controversy is huge or the same-sex families and children who are sent a negative message by Mrs. Pence's actions:

Over the last couple of weeks the Vice President and Second Lady have endured more than their share of insults and harassment after Karen announced she was going back to teach part-time at Immanuel Christian School. While most people probably wouldn't object to the teaching, they certainly objected to the "Christian" part. 

When the liberal media threw rocks, tens of thousands of you joined us in sending our prayers to the Pences instead. More than 34,000 of you pledged to pray for the Second Family and stand with them as they live by their faith. At a Wednesday meeting at the White House with the president on the immigration crisis, I had an opportunity to deliver our prayer pledges personally to the vice president. I know he was encouraged by your support. More importantly, I know he has no intentions of backing down from the fight until every American has the ability to live and work by their faith

Continue praying for him and for Karen, as well as President Trump and Melania as they work to bring a revival of freedom to this country!

Freedom for who? Apparently, not the LGBTQ community, our families, nor our children.

No matter how FRC and the Pences attempt to sugarcoat it, this controversy is about two people elected and paid to represent us sending the message that we don't rate in their world. And using their religion to hide their prejudice. The LGBTQ community isn't going to forget it and we aren't going to let anyone else forget it either. How about we pray for or at least remember the LGBTQ children and families harmed by the Pences' message.


Related posts:

Karen Pence, LGBTQ discrimination and the Christian right's embrace of victimhood

Franklin Graham the latest religious hypocrite to support Karen Pence's homophobia

Vice President Mike Pence is offended at controversy over wife's choice of teaching at anti-LGBTQ school

Evangelical hate group: Stop picking on Karen Pence because she may think LGBTQs are second class citizens 

Karen Pence's homophobia is bad. The homophobia of her defenders is worse  

Don't expect any honest answer from Karen Pence. Homophobic evasion is a family trait with the Pences