Handsome and Majestic

A wonderful short film about being awesome.

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post 500: PM delivers Canadian Goverrnment apology for The Purge

Winnipeg  Free Press story here
New York Times story here
The Globe and Mail story here

happy Samhain, y'all

New West Pride street party

    

MP Peter Julien and MLA Judy Darcy

Vancouver Pride 2016, staging area #3

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Vancouver Pride 2016, staging area #2

police and politicos

^^Park Board Commissioner Casey Crawford and unidentified officer

^^ Park Board Commissioner Stewart Mackinnon

^^Parks Board Chair Sarah Kirby-Yung and unidentified Park Ranger

Vancouver Pride 2016, staging area #1

Amerigod speaks

YouTube preachers were falling over themselves

to heap scorn and abuse on the folks in Orlando.

YouTube is pulling them as hate speech.

 

 

A sermon by Pastor Roger Jimenez, of Verity Baptist Church,

is similar and was also removed by YouTube as hate speech... but not before it was copied:

 

Later, Pastor Jimenez refined his position:

“As a Christian, we shouldn’t be mourning the death of 50 sodomites. Let me go ahead and start right there. As a Christian, we shouldn’t be sad or upset,” Jimenez said in his sermon, which was posted online to YouTube. YouTube has since removed the sermon, deeming it “hate speech.”
ABC10 News spoke with Jimenez at his Sacramento home on Tuesday morning. He said he did not have any regrets about the sentiments expressed in his Sunday sermon.
“The bible does teach that homosexuality deserves the death penalty. Leviticus 20:13 says that if a man lie with mankind like he does with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination and will surely be put to death. Romans 1 says that they which commit such things are worthy of death,” Jimenez said. “My whole point was, if people die who deserve to die, we don’t need to be mourning that. This gunman there that shot people up, the bible says he deserves to die, he died and we shouldn’t be mourning his death, either. That’s the whole point I was making, and it’s been taken out of context.”
Jimenez was asked to explain how his statements are not an incitement to violence against the LGBT community.
“I’m not calling people to arms. And I’m not telling people they should go do this … What I’m saying is that if the government followed the laws of God, that’s what they would be doing. And if the government did that, I’d be fine with that,” Jimenez said.
When asked to clarify whether he was saying that he’d support the government killing gay people, Jimenez said, “I would be fine. I would be totally okay with that, if the government did that. That’s what they would do, if we lived in a righteous nation.”
Jimenez said he will be holding his weekly sermon on Sunday as usual, and invites Christians who are not afraid of the media to attend Verity Baptist Church.

other Christians disagree
 



"Saying that singling people out because of their religion, sexual orientation,

or nationality must be offensive to God, Bishop Robert Lynch responded to the

attacks on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando..."

read the full article on the Tampa Bay Times

gender 101

random sounds 66: Conchita Wurst

" ...Online petitions were started in Belarus, Armenia and Russia — whose government
passed a law last year banning "gay propaganda" among minors — to have Wurst removed
or edited out of broadcasts in their countries."

 CBC May 10, 2014

snuggle up to Sochi

Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion
related posts on stormidae:
Russia and the new Dark Age
Russia and the new Dark Age pt.2: Immigrants and Queers

I brought the first stone, Mr. Webb...

... in case that your Bible talk isn’t just a smoke screen for personal prejudices.”

 Pamela Raintree, Shreveport, Louisiana City Council meeting, January 2014

original story from Americans Against the Tea Party
see also Huffington Post, Towleroad, and TYT

fun with fundies: Why I'm joining the the boycott of the Salvation Army kettle drive

^^Zinnia Jones

The Salvation Army was quick to issue an apology  for the comments made by Major Andrew Craibe on June 21st 2012, in an  interview with Melbourne radio station Joy 94.9 FM. Craibe was answering questions about the Salvation Story: Salvationist Handbook of Doctrine, the manual used to train Salvation Army “soldiers” and members.

Craibe, a Salvation Army Media Relations Director in Australia, spoke to journalist Serena Ryan about calls by LGBTQ parents for a boycott of the nonprofit due to its anti-gay policies and beliefs.

Page 28 of the handbook cites Romans 1:18-32:
“For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. . .
 

“They know God’s decree, that those who practise such things deserve to die—yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practise them.”

Asked whether the Salvation Army took the wording literally, i.e. that practising homosexuals should be put to death, the Major Craibe replied in the affirmative. Truth Wins Out transcribed the resulting discussion

“ RYAN: According to the Salvation Army gay parents deserve death. How do you respond to that, as part of your doctrine?”
CRAIBE: Well, that’s a part of our belief system.
RYAN (cutting in): So we should die.
CRAIBE: You know, we have an alignment to the Scriptures, but that’s our belief.
RYAN: Wow. So we should die."

But, is the apology worth anything or is the S.A. just covering it's ass over the Major's honest answers? It has a long history internationally of vigorously opposing lgbt equity. lgbtqnation lists just five:

• When New Zealand considered passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986, the Salvation Army collected signatures in an attempt to get the legislation killed. The act decriminalized consensual sex between gay men. The measure passed over the charity’s objections.
• In the United Kingdom, the Salvation Army actively pushed passage of an amendment to the Local Government Act. The amendment stated that local authorities “shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality” or “promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.” The law has since been repealed, but it led many schools and colleges to close LGBT student organizations out of fear they’d lose their government funding.
• In 2001, the organization tried to extract a resolution from the White House that they could ignore local non-discrimination laws that protected LGBT people. While the commitment would have applied to all employees, the group claimed that it needed the resolution so it “did not have to ordain sexually active gay ministers and did not have to provide medical benefits to the same-sex partners of employees.” After lawmakers and civil rights activists revealed the Salvation Army’s active resistance to non-discrimination laws, the White House admitted the charity was seeking the exemptions.
• Also in 2001, the evangelical charity actively lobbied to change how the Bush administration would distribute over $24 billion in grants and tax deductions by urging the White House deny funding to any cities or states that included LGBT non-discrimination laws. Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary, issued a statement saying the administration was denying a “regulation sought by the church to protect the right of taxpayer-funded religious organizations to discriminate against homosexuals.”
• In 2004, the Salvation Army threatened to close all their soup kitchens in New York City to protest the city’s decision to require all vendors and charities doing business with the city to adhere to all civil rights laws. The organization balked at having to treat gay employees equal to straight employees."

In Canada, a Supreme Court ruling from 1998 has set the rules for religious groups which accept public funding. Delwin Vriend, a lab instructor at King's University College, a Christian institution in Edmonton, was fired from his job because he is gay. When the case came up in front of the Supreme Court, the justices ruled that gays working in publicly-funded institutions were covered by Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms even if the institutions are religiously controlled.

So while the S.A. in Canada cannot discriminate against employees based on sexual orientation in it's publicly funded endeavours, it is still a fundamentalist Christian organisation which teaches that lgbt people are contrary to god's plan.

There are other places to donate.

sources:
tjchase
Clerical Whispers
the FreeThinker
America Blog
lgbtqnation
gayglobe us
Metro
Wikipedia

Russia and the new Dark Age pt.2: Immigrants and Queers

 On July 25, the Daily Caller published an op-ed  titled “Putin is not the gay bogeyman,” written by Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) President Austin Ruse. According to Ruse, international concerns about Putin’s brutal crackdown on LGBT people are wildly exaggerated. In fact, Ruse argues, America should be learning from Russia’s anti-LGBT policies...  (article by Carlos Maza on Equity Matters Blog, July 29, 2013)

 Violence against lgbt people is now a national Russian sport. With the Olympics 

coming up, some athletes are speaking out.

Canadian speed skater Anastasia Bucsis has come out in support of lgbt Russians.

(from: Daniel Carter, Pink News, Sept.3, 2013)

" ... Ms Bucsis has been open to her family for over 2 years but this is the first public statement she has made regarding her sexuality, she went onto say: “I could never promote that message of concealing who you are with all of this going on in Russia..." She added that it was vital that young LGBT people in Russia were sent a clear message that they were not alone.

Ms Bucsis is among a handful of athletes who have now spoken out against the gay propaganda law... Last month Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird slammed Russia’s anti-gay law as “hateful” and promised that the Canadian Government would raise the issue with Russian officials..."

Immigrants and migrant workers are traditional targets

" ...In the past year, “50 coffins of those killed in Russia at the hands of nationalists have come home to Azerbaijan,” Vremya Novostei reported, citing Soyun Sadykov, the leader of an Azeri cultural organization in Moscow. Another 30 coffins have gone to Georgia and over 100 have returned to Central Asian countries like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Mr. Sadykov said.
Denis Kislov, the editor of the Central Asian news portal Fergana.ru, blamed the Russian government for provoking attacks on foreigners by passing anti-immigrant legislation, which, he said, many Russians have interpreted as “a call for action,” Gazeta reported... )
Michael Schwirtz writing at The Lede, New York Times Blogs

trigger warning: this video depicts extreme ethnic violence


trigger warning: this video depicts extreme ethnic violence



Out4Russia
Pink News: violent crimes against gays
Russia and the new Dark Age pt.1

happy Pride, BC: Sylvia Rivera

Trans rights in Canada: Canada's House of Commons passed a bill on Mar. 20 2013 making it illegal to discriminate against transgender Canadians.

The Opposition private member’s legislation passed by a vote of 149-137, with 18 Conservatives, including four cabinet ministers, voting against the government in favour of the bill. Opposition parties were united in their support for the bill, sponsored by New Democrat Randall Garrison.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Labour Minister Lisa Raitt and Port Coquitlam MP Heritage Minister James Moore were among the Conservatives who supported the bill. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the majority of the front bench and of backbenchers opposed it.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has been mounting a strong defence of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights globally, notably in Uganda and Nigeria.

Globe and Mail story here
Gender posts on stormidae here and here

trans talks: Lana Wachowski

trans talks: Dr. Carys Massarella

random sounds 54: The Clicks

MySpace
Wikibio

via Argentina

from LGBT Federation of Argentina

see all 4 at Blabbeando
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