Tag: LGBT

Chosen CEO of Australian Football Club Resigns Following Pressures on Religious Views

The chosen chief executive officer of Australian rules football club Essendon, Andrew Thorburn, has resigned after only one day in the job on the basis of his religious belief.  Thorburn is chairman of City on a Hill church which said on its website that lust, practicing homosexuality and sex outside of marriage are sins according to…


Nonprofit Offers Conservative Texas School Boards Alternative Training

Texas conservatives against liberal-based training for school administrators and trustees last week launched an alternative program focusing on education instead of a “woke” agenda. James Dunn, founding president of the Gulf Coast Community Action Agency (GCCAA) in Angleton, Texas, told The Epoch Times his nonprofit was recently approved to offer training for superintendents and elected…


Police Decline to Investigate North Texas Pride Festival After Kids Exposed to Obscenities

The Plano Police Department in Texas won’t investigate whether a Sept. 17 LGBT pride festival violated state obscenity laws, according to a state representative. The North Texas Pride Festival was marketed to children 12 years old and under. At the event there were low tables where magnets bearing obscene phrases were openly displayed. Rep. Matt…


Attempt to Add Climate Change and Oppression Into Texas Social Studies Fails

Democrats on the Texas State Board of Education were blocked from adding climate change and painting Texas Rangers as oppressors in social studies lessons during a Sept. 26 meeting. The special meeting held in Austin was billed as a public hearing on proposed social studies learning standards to meet SB3 requirements. The bill, which became…


Culture War Erupts in Texas Town Over Drag Bingo Event Hosted by Christian Church

Katy, TEXAS—Outside a drag bingo event hosted by a pro-LGBT church in Texas, a microcosm of America’s culture war played out with liberals and conservatives screaming at each other across a boulevard on Saturday. About 300 Texas conservatives lined an entire block to protest the First Christian Church in Katy, which sponsored a sold-out family…


Law Firm Challenges School Halloween Party Sponsored by Sex-Change Surgeons, Gay Nightclub

Nothing says “Halloween” like a party for children sponsored by surgeons offering to cut off healthy body parts. But at San Diego’s La Costa Heights Elementary, that’s just what the K-6 school is offering. On Oct. 29, the school plans to host “Boo Bash,” billed as the “Queerest Free Halloween Party For Youth and Families,”…


Yeshiva University Suspends Club Activities After Supreme Court Says It Must Recognize LGBT Group

Yeshiva University announced it will suspend all campus club activities in its latest attempt to resist a Sept. 14 Supreme Court ruling that lifted an order that allowed the university to refuse to accept an LGBT group based on the school’s religious beliefs. The temporary freeze came ahead of the Jewish High Holidays that start…


Allowing Trans Identifying Individuals to Alter Birth Certificates a Danger to Women: Advocate

An impending decision by the Queensland government to make it easier for people to change the gender on their birth certificate could have wider implications that are dangerous to women, according to Sall Grover, founder of women-only app Giggle. Under proposed changes to the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriage Registration Act 2003, a person will potentially…


Detransitioner Suffers Irreversible Harm, Fears Sterility

A Texas man who came out as transgender, got breast implants, and then later had them removed has joined a growing number of other “detransitioners” in a mission to share their experiences and demystify some of the popular beliefs about transgenderism and “gender-affirming care.” When Abel Garcia was 21, he was convinced that with enough…


‘Your Job Is to Educate, Not Indoctrinate’: Miami-Dade Parents Reject LGBT History Month Proposal

Parents and residents of Miami-Dade County, Florida, want the district’s public schools to teach children English, math, and science, not “left-wing” socialist ideology, according to a range of opinions voiced at a public meeting on Wednesday. At the Miami-Dade County Public Schools board meeting, parents and community members shared a range of viewpoints on resolution…