The Whitefield Academy is a “Christ-centered, college-preparatory school for grades PreK-12 fostering a passion for learning, others ahead of self, and the living and active Jesus.” That is to say, it’s a school for religious maniacs.
Tag: homophobia
13 years later, World of Warcraft is STILL telling queer guilds they’re not allowed to advertise their queerness
13 years ago, World of Warcraft was embroiled in a scandal when company management backed up a moderator who punished a player for advertising an LGBTQ-friendly guild, who argued that advertising the fact that you’re queer violated the game’s hate speech laws by provoking homophobes to send hateful messages to group members.
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Zuck’s personal head of security resigns after allegations of homophobia, transphobia, “pervasive discriminatory conduct,” and “horrific levels of sexual harassment and battery”
Ex-Secret Service officer Liam Booth was the head of security for Mark Zuckerberg’s “family office” and charitable foundation; two former employees accused Booth of homophobia, transphobia, “pervasive discriminatory conduct,” and “horrific levels of sexual harassment and battery,” saying that he had made racist remarks about Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan; that he had told a staffer that he “didn’t trust Black people” and that he believed that “white lives matter more than Black lives” and had personally sabotaged Chan’s attempt to hire more diverse staff; that he’d complained about the number of Black people working for the family charity; and that he’d “angrily advocat[ed] against diversity in the workplace and the movement Black Lives Matters, which he called ‘reverse racism.'”
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After the Boy Scouts opens up to trans kids, queer kids and girls, the Mormons severed their 105-year relationship to scouting
The Church of Latter Day Saints insists that its decision to end over a century of close association with the Boy Scouts has nothing to do with the organization’s decision to admit girls, gay kids and trans kids — the Mormon leaders say that its launching of a competing scouting organization based on the “spiritual, social, physical and intellectual goals outlined by the church” is merely a coincidence.
Bigots who swore their religious beliefs would force them to divorce if Australia passed marriage equality renege on promise
In 2015, Nick and Sarah Jensen publicly swore that their religious beliefs would force them to divorce in protest if Australia enacted marriage equality laws that allowed for same-sex marriage. This week, Australia passed such legislation, but the Jensens were evidently lying, and now Nick Jensen told the press (by text-message!) that they meant their “public comments regarding civil divorce never envisaged me separating from my wife, but rather our marriage from the state.”
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Roy Moore is still in the running because “values voters” would support Satan himself if he was anti-abortion and homophobic
The term “values voter” is taken to mean someone who votes for politicians on the basis of their personal integrity and values; in reality, polls and studies show that evangelicals who identify as “values voters” support candidates they know to be repugnant or even monstrous, if they believe that those politicians will promise to take away abortion rights and persecute queers.
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Septic masculinity: when homophobia prevents men from literally wiping their own asses
Keith Calder has been looking around on Reddit and has found a string of messages from baffled, distressed women whose male romantic partners literally don’t wipe their asses because touching themselves between the cheeks might make them gay.
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Ugandan ethics chief boasts of his new magic South Korean pornography filter and its efficacy against “homos”
It’s been a year since the Ugandan government placed an order with a South Korean company for a “censor gadget or machine” that would “detect homos and porn actors, especially those misusing applications like Whatsapp with sex acts.” Now, they’ve taken delivery of same.
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Livejournal’s Russian owners announce new anti-LGBT policy, fandom stages mass exodus
Mitch Wagner writes, “LiveJournal is a venerable online community that predates Facebook and even blogging. It got acquired by a Russian company a few years ago, but some of its American and British users hung on, including sf and fantasy writers and fans. Lately, I know one of my friends was scrambling to leave, but I’d been too busy to look into why.”
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Idiocraski: the apocalyptic situation in Poland after a year of trumpism
It’s been a year since the Law and Justice Party won the Polish election, on familiar-sounding promises to drain the swamp and restore Poland to its former greatness: now school textbooks are being redesigned to downplay evolution and climate change and to recount a fanciful version of Poland’s history; the government is mooting giving hoteliers the right to turn away customers based on sexual orientation or skin-color; a minister rejected an international accord against wife-beating because it subverted traditional gender roles; Parliament is about to get the right to choose which journalists may report from its debates; the guy in charge of national sex-ed curriculum believes that condoms give women cancer; a proposed law will virtually end opposition protests; and disloyal journalists at the “independent” state broadcaster have been purged.
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