LGBT Christians Critical of Franklin Graham

Frankly, Franklin needs to pass on like his dear old dad. He does not represent the new generation of Christians who are more welcoming to all. It's funny how Graham's generation are so closed to most everyone who is different. Their generation are the ones who have made this country so WASPish. It's gotta change and it's going to change, whether they like it or not. I no longer follow the Christian faith, but when I did, I viewed the judgement they're so quick to dish out none of anyone's business. God told people to share his "good news" full stop. Not to judge people. Not to do anything but spread his story. Seems to me you'd get more people to join your "club" if you didn't criticize those who joined or wanted to join.

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Democratic presidential candidate, has been facing a lot of criticism from conservative Christians due to his outspokenness about his own Christian faith and his experience as a married gay man.

On Wednesday, Rev. Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, criticized Buttigieg’s sexuality and called into question his standing as a Christian.

Graham tweeted, “Mayor Buttigieg says he’s a gay Christian. As a Christian I believe the Bible which defines homosexuality as sin, something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized. The Bible says marriage is between a man & a woman—not two men, not two women.”

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Morehouse College to Accept Trans Students in 2020

In the 21st Century we still have schools which are single gender. Be they high schools or universities. Plenty of students attend single gendxer schools and have certain expectations while attending these schools. By the time a student is old enough to attend college, he or she knows which gender they identify as and should plan their college attendance accordingly. There are a multitude of factors that enter into the picture when one is deciding which college or university to attend. Perhaps now gender identity needs to be part of that factoring.

Morehouse College, a historically black men’s college, recently announced it would start admitting transgender men in 2020.

Terrance Dixon, Morehouse vice president for enrollment management, said in the announcement, “In a rapidly changing world that includes a better understanding of gender identity, we’re proud to expand our admissions policy to consider trans men who want to be part of an institution that has produced some of the greatest leaders in social justice, politics, business, and the arts for more than 150 years.”

Although it was a historic win for transgender men who want to attend Morehouse, trans women will not be admitted and students who are admitted to Morehouse identifying as men and transition during their time at Morehouse as trans women, would no longer be eligible to stay at the school.

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Minor League Hockey Team Blasts Protesting Fans

With all the shit going on in Ohio, pretty soon no one is going to want to visit there, let alone live there. Their governor just signed into law the strictest and most non-sensical anti-abortion law. And their minor league hockey team is cozying up to one of the largest anti-lgbt groups in the country. Protests - peaceful protests - are indeed family friendly as it teaches children that they can protest something which is wrong (something Ohioans clearly don't believe in) and do so without destroying someone's property.

A group of fans in Cincinnati protested their professional hockey team’s partnership with Chick-fil-A on Saturday, holding signs calling the restaurant chain “anti-gay.” The team responded by blasting their peaceful protest as not “family friendly,” reaffirming their partnership, and barring the fans from coming back.

ThinkProgress reported last month that Chick-fil-A’s foundation donated $1.8 million in 2017 to groups that discriminated against LGBTQ people and that the company is one of a small number of major American businesses with a non-discrimination policy that does not protect employees from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Since then, the company has lost deals to open locations in airports in two different cities and the city council in a third city voted to place rainbow flags and blue, pink, and white transgender flags near the company’s airport spot.

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U of CO students protest presidential finalist

This makes me so happy! Clearly the only diversity this man possesses is that he's diverse in those he hates, be they women, black people or LGBT.

BOULDER, COLORADO — Students at the University of Colorado Boulder held a protest Monday in opposition to the impending confirmation of former Republican congressman Mark Kennedy as president of the university system, citing his record of conservative and anti-LGBTQ votes.

Kennedy, the former president of the University of North Dakota, was named as the sole candidate to be the next University of Colorado president by the University’s Board of Regents in an announcement last week. In the announcement, the Board of Regents cited Kennedy’s “commitment to diversity.”

Kennedy served as a congressman representing Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006. While in office, he voted in favor of and co-sponsored bills that aimed to create a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. He also voted in favor of funding health care providers that do not provide information about abortions and against providing grants to black and Hispanic colleges.

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IN Republicans push anti-trans legislature

Revenge Politics. That's the game the ReTHUGlican party is playing today and every day. They are despicable, horrid human beings. I truly don't know how South Bend ended up with a gay mayor. They must be an island of sanity in a sea of idiocy in the rest of the state.

Indiana lawmakers are trying to make it harder for transgender and non-binary people to correct the gender on their ID cards and driver’s licenses only a few days after Indiana became the sixth state in the nation to provide non-binary people with a gender marker option.

A new amendment, introduced by a Republican state representative, would require people who want their correct gender marker on their ID card to first change their birth certificate — something that is often impossible for people born in a different state.

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Chick-fil-A donated to anti-LGBT group

I confess that it's difficult for me to stay away from Chick-fil-a because I bought into the lie that they had changed their ways back in 2013. I see, now, that Mr Cathy is a liar and will never change his ways. This is totally unacceptable. There are plenty of LGBT individuals, myself included, who you'd never suspect of being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender just to look at them. At my last job, I think I told one of my co-workers once that I am a lesbian and the subject never arose again. He didn't ask, it was just something I said during the course of a conversation on the subject. How, then, do you know if an employee is committing homosexual acts outside of work unless they, themselves tell you?

Chick-fil-A has taken great pains to downplay its anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and giving, seven years into a national boycott by LGBTQ and allied diners. But contrary to the company’s latest claims that it has no political or social agenda, newly released tax filings show that, in 2017, the Chick-fil-A Foundation gave more than $1.8 million to a trio of groups with a record of anti-LGBTQ discrimination.

The donations — $1,653,416 to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, $6,000 to the Paul Anderson Youth Home, and $150,000 to the Salvation Army — actually represent a slight increase from the previous year. The foundation’s funding comes almost entirely from the corporate treasury and shares leadership with the company.

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a religious organization that seeks to spread an anti-LGBTQ message to college athletes and requires a strict “sexual purity” policy for its employees that bars any “homosexual acts.” Paul Anderson Youth Home, a “Christian residential home for trouble youth,” teaches boys that homosexuality is wrong and that same-sex marriage is “rage against Jesus Christ and His values.”

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Stories of the people who need the Equality Act

Not even a full half of the states of this country protect LGBT people, which is why we need this law.

Congressional Democrats reintroduced a sweeping nondiscrimination bill last week to bolster protections for LGBTQ Americans. If passed into law, the bill would clarify existing protections and fill the gaps in federal nondiscrimination laws.

The bill would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation in housing, employment, education, federal programs, jury service, public accommodations, and credit and lending. It would also update the law to include protections against discrimination in public spaces and services like retail stores, transportation services, banks, and legal services.

According to the Movement Advancement Project, only 21 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws explicitly prohibiting discrimination and gender identity in employment and housing. Twenty states and D.C. explicitly prohibit discrimination in public accommodations. Only 14 states have non-discrimination laws covering credit discrimination.

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