The mayor of a small Saskatchewan city is wondering if doing away with flag raisings is one way to avoid fights over whose flag gets to be raised. It’s in the wake of a city council meeting on June 26 that saw passionate debate over whether the City of Estevan should raise a “straight pride”…
SK Mayor Mulls Cancelling Flag Raisings as Discord Over Straight, Pride Flags Intensifies
Starbucks Shares Tumble Amid LGBT Decor Controversy
Shares of Starbucks tumbled on Friday as a union representing the coffee chain’s baristas said on Friday that over 3,500 workers at over 150 locations would walk off the job next week to protest claims that the company banned some LGBT-themed decorations at some of its cafes. The Starbucks Workers United union said in a…
Democrat Attorneys General Respond to Target Boycott Over ‘Pride Month’ Items
Democrat prosecutors sent a letter to Target Corp. after it removed some of its “Pride Month” merchandise last month in the midst of boycotts. A coalition of 15 Democrat attorneys general sent a letter to Target CEO Brian Cornell, saying that the decision to pull LGBT products—including clothing for small children—is a setback for the…
Saskatchewan Teaching Assistant Fired for Online Post About Walkout Over Pride Month in Schools
An educational assistant in Saskatchewan has been fired for posting an article to a private Facebook group about parents keeping their kids home on June 1 in protest against Pride Month in schools. Leah Maier worked with Kindergarten to Grade 5 students at P.J. Gillen School, an elementary school in Esterhazy, for five years prior…
Mayor who Apologised for Taking Part in Pride Told to Step Down
A mayor of a west Yorkshire town is facing calls to stand down after apologising for taking part in a Pride event he described as “a lapse of judgement.” In a lengthy statement posted to social media, newly elected Mayor of Keighley Mohammed Nazam expressed his “deep regret” for helping raise the colourful Pride flag…
Enough of Pride–It’s a Sin
Commentary I support gay rights but oppose the endless Pride celebrations and Pride Month. This isn’t just because of the recent display on the White House lawn that made us the laughingstock of the world—or a good portion thereof. That event was the unfortunate apotheosis of a movement that surfaced in 1970 with the first…
Pride Video Shown in Huntington Beach High School Classroom Sparks Debate
June 15, 2023
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A high school in Huntington Beach, California has found itself in the spotlight after a video has gone viral of students reacting to a Pride video shown during a math class. Students at Edison High School were threatened with detention for shouting and objecting to the video which showed two girls intimately touching. “Wow! Ms….
The Misconstrued Virtue
“It was pride that changed angels into devils,” St. Augustine of Hippo once wrote, “it is humility that makes men as angels.” Though Augustine was addressing theological matters, if we convert his thoughts into a secular metaphor, we can still find truth in them. Pride and arrogance in tyrants, for example, can make them demonic,…
VIDEO: Christian Man Arrested While Preaching at Pennsylvania Pride Event
June 7, 2023
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Police in Reading, Pennsylvania, arrested street preacher Damon Atkins for speaking briefly at a pride event at Reading City Hall. The arrest was caught on video on June 3 by Matthew Wear of Reading, another street preacher. For the last three years, the city of Reading has flown a pride flag at city hall during…
Double Standards on Aisle One
Commentary One of the funniest and most original Monty Python skits finds a man paying a receptionist to have an argument with one of her fellow office workers, who does this for a living. But he enters the wrong door. “This is abuse,” he is told by another employee whose job it is to insult…
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