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The latest religious news affecting the LGBT community in the UK and internationally.

  • Woman Told To “TONE DOWN” Her Gay Garden In “Christian” Area

    The Baltimore Sun has reported that Julie Baker a local resident has started a GoFundMe campaign so she can make her “relentlessly gay” yard even more relentless and more gay.

    The campaign is in response to a note left by one of her neighbours that read:

    “Dear resident of ___ Kenwood Avenue
    Your yard is becoming Relentlessly Gay! Myself and Others in the neighbourhood ask that you Tone it Down. This is a Christian area and there are Children.
    Keep it up and I will be forced to call the police on You!
    Your kind need to have Respect for GOD.”
    Signed A Concerned Home Owner

    Ms. Baker immediately posted this on her Facebook page and then when she launched the Fund wrote,

    “I am a widow and the mother of four children, my youngest in high school and I WILL NOT Relent to Hatred. Instead, I will battle it with whimsy and beauty and laughter and love, wrapped around my home, yard and family!!!”

    By 10:15 Wednesday night Baker had more than doubled her $5,000 fundraising goal to make her home relentlessly gayer.

  • Anti-Gay Marriage Cake Baker Outlines Appeal Grounds

    Anti-Gay Marriage Cake Baker Outlines Appeal Grounds

    The Christian-run bakery which refused to bake a pro-marriage cake has outlined its appeal to the judgement that found it had acted unlawfully in refusing the cake order.

    The bakery, in Northern Ireland, was found to have acted unlawfully when it refused to make a cake that bore a pro-gay marriage slogan for Gareth Lee, by a court last month. It was ordered to pay £500 in compensation to Mr Lee.

    In a statement released by the Christian Institute, an organisation that has funded many appeals against legal matters surrounding gay issues, has raised three questions to support their appeal.

    1. Whether the judge was correct, as a matter of law, to hold that Ashers had discriminated against Mr Lee directly on grounds of sexual orientation.
    2. Whether the judge was correct, as a matter of law, to hold that Ashers had discriminated against Mr Lee directly on grounds of religious belief or political opinion.
    3. Whether the judge was correct, as a matter of law, to hold that Ashers was not entitled to protection as a result of the rights under Articles 9 and/or 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

    A spokesperson for the Christian Institute, Simon Calvert, believes that “most people” would support an overturning of the ruling that found that the business had acted unlawfully, this despite a poll undertaken in 2014 which showed that the majority supported same-sex marriage.

    The Christian Institute is a registered charity that has sought to retain section 28, to raise the age of consent for gay people and opposed the Civil Partnership Act and same-sex marriage act.

    The Christian Institute has backed many legal actions in the past, but has been unsuccessful in many attempts, most notably the Christian Institute backed Hotel owners Mr and Mrs Ball, who infamously denied lodgings to a gay couple. Numerous attempts of appeal have all subsequently failed.

     

  • Three Men Accused Of Being Gay Executed In Iraq By ISIS

    Hundreds of people gathered below a tall building in Iraq to watch ISIL fighters reportedly execute three men accused of being gay, shocking pictures reveal.

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  • Just What Do The Scientologists Call Poppers?

    Are you still calling your favourite inhalant ‘poppers’?

    Well according to the Church of Scientology’s ‘Foundation For A Drug-Free World’ you are so behind the times. They have been touring New York City public schools teaching children about the evils of some fo the world’s more popular recreation drugs. Parts of the information they are imparting are the street names that are now used for inhalants.

    We are not quite sure where/how they discovered these terms, maybe some leading Scientologists filled them in… but calling poppers names such ‘Satan’s Secret” suddenly makes us think maybe we have underestimated them.

    Poppers that is, not the Scientologists.

  • Being Gay Is A “Behaviour” According To Anti-Gay Group

    With US Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriage just a month a way, the opposition is up to its usual dirty tricks with it’s latest highly offensive action.

    Faith 2 Action, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, Judicial Action Group, American Family Association of Pennsylvania and Conservative Republicans of Texas are among groups behind a campaign making itself known on billboards that are now springing up around Michigan.

    These anti-gay billboards claim that homosexuality is a behaviour and not a civil right and advertise a website called ‘Restrain the Judges’ which urges people to send a ‘Restraining Order’ to every member of the Senate and the House along with each of the United States Supreme Court Justices.

    @RogerWalkerDack

  • Religious Political Parties Against Gay Rights Fail To Achieve 7000 Votes

    Two political parties that would have would have looked to undo equality for LGBT people in the UK have faired terribly in the UK general elections as fewer than 7,000 people voted in favour of religious based politics.

    The Christian People’s Alliance which was staunchly against the redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples and would have looked to repeal women’s right to choose, by abolishing the 1967 Abortion Act has at time of publish just 3260 votes failing to declare any seats in Parliament.

    The Christian Party faired no better with just 3205 votes.

    According to the The Christian Party’s website it believes that there is a “homosexual agenda” and a “militant homosexual lobby” and they are alone in “opposing the redefinition of marriage to include civil partnerships”.

    The CP would have wanted civil partnerships to be redefined to a civil contract.

    On their official website the Christian Party suggest that the “homosexual agenda” is a moving one, which began with the campaign to decriminalise what two people do in the privacy of their own homes, toleration, equality and fairness, coming out and now it believes“, and it is now in the coersion phase; it plans to move on to the paedophilia phase soon”.

    Neither party managed to gain any seats in any of the constituencies they were standing for.

    Currently, the Conservatives have 325 seats with over 11 million votes, Labour has 228 seats with 9.2 million votes, and Liberal Democrats has 8 seats with 2.3 million seats.

  • This woman wants to sue you, for being gay

    You Are Being Sued – panic not, as we will all be in the dock with you if Sally Ann Driskell gets her own way.

    The Nebraska resident who identifies as an ambassador for God and Jesus Christ has filed a Federal Lawsuit in the US against ALL homosexual people on the planet for breaking “religious and moral laws.” (We are assuming she means Earth.)

    According to the Lincoln Journal Star, 63-year-old Ms. Driskell argues in a seven-page, handwritten petition delivered to the US District Court of Omaha that:

    “Homosexuality is a sin and that the homosexuals know it is a sin to live a life of homosexuality

    “Why else would they have been hiding in the closet(?)”

    Sadly spelling is not one of her better skills and so she challenges US District Judge John M. Gerrard to not “judge God to be a lier (sp),” and slams gay people as “liers (sp), deceivers and thieves” in the case, filed simply as Driskell v. Homosexuals.

    “I never thought that I would see a day in which our Great Nation or our Great State of Nebraska would become so compliant to the complicity of some people(’s) lewd behavior,” she notes.

    “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not.”

    Don’t rush to go pick out a little black number to wear as it is most unlikely her petition will not go any further.

    It’s a pity as we think it could have been fun taking the Stand.

  • ISIS Execute “Gay” Man By Stoning As He Lays Defenceless On Ground

    Islamic State fighters have reportedly thrown another man, accused of being gay, off a building and stoned him to death after he survived the fall.

    The campaigning group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, a Syrian-based campaign against ISIS and the Assad regime, have reported that a man accused of being gay was thrown from a building in Iraq and stoned on the ground after surviving the fall.

    A crowd on the ground watched as a number of masked men, some of whom were pointing assault rifles at the victim, threw the man from a two storey building, a fall that would not have resulted in his death, but one that would have resulted in painful injuries.

    One of the photos published shows the man mid-fall from the building, as up to eleven men are seen on top of the building. One of the men is flying a flag apparently bearing the symbol of ISIS. Meanwhile, a photo shows a large crowd of spectators, including children, watching the entire execution.

    Homosexuality is forbidden under Islamic State. Men who are accused of homosexuality are often thrown from building tops, before being stoned to death as they lay defenceless on the ground from injuries sustained by the fall.

    The pictures surfaced less than a month after two men were hugged by ISIS fighters before being put to death in Homs, in Syria.

  • ISIS Fighters Hug Two “Gay” Men Before Stonning Them To Death

    Shocking pictures have emerged showing ISIS fighters hugging men accused of being gay before savagely stoning the two to death.

    Two more men have reportedly been killed in Syria, for being gay or accused of being gay, in an escalating assault in the area on those ISIS believe are homosexual.

    In pictures released by @Raqqa_Si, a campaign group against ISIS and the Assad regime in Raqqa, two men are seen being led to a holding ground in Homs, a city in Western Syria. Surrounded by onlookers they are treated to an informal reading of their crimes before being bludgeoned with rocks and stones until they die from their injuries.

    Stoning causes a traumatic death that experts suggest can take between 3 and 10 minutes for the victim to die.

    One expert reporting:

    “If you are hit in the head with large stones, then it likely wouldn’t take long at all.
    But, if you are hit only in the body with smaller stones, then it may take quite a while before you actually die from internal injury/bleeding.”

    In pictures released, the men from ISIS apparently hug the charged in a sign of “forgiveness”. Before the stoning commences, an ISIS fighter can be seen, standing by a car, reading out the charges against the accused, using a microphone in a make-shift hearing scenario.

    It has not been made clear if the two men were a couple.

    There have been a number of chilling executions of men accused of being gay in Syria. Up until now, the men have normally been thrown off tall buildings in the region. Many of the accused survive the fall only to be stoned by the bloodthirsty crowd of spectators.

    Hala Jader, award winning journalist for the Sunday Times, tweeted the pictures, saying:

    “#Isis stones homosexual couple 2 death.
    First they hug them apparently in forgiveness, then kill them.”

  • Amazon Links Anal Douche Products With Justin Bieber And Religious Bigots

    Sometimes, just sometimes we’re tickled pink by techie algorithms.

    We were looking around Amazon (as you do on a Friday afternoon) and for some reason we took a look at douches. Just because. No judgement okay…

    It wasn’t until we got to the familiar, “people-also-liked” section that we noticed that people who searched for the intimate washing device also searched for Justin Bieber and a very bigot looking book called: The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing The Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, which was published in 2003.

     

    (c) Amazon
    (c) Amazon

    On the Enema Bulb Syringe page, the Amazon website exclaims: “Looking For “Douche” Products? Other customers suggested these items”, before displaying the book and a Justin Bieber album.

    Recently a pizza business in Indiana was awarded nearly $1million from Internet users after its owners stated that they wouldn’t serve gay customers, because of their religious beliefs.

    Well well, we couldn’t agree more with at least one of the suggestions…

  • France Defends Its Openly Gay Ambassador To The Vatican

    For the second time in the past decade the Catholic Church are allegedly refusing to recognise the France’s nomination as their Ambassador to the Vatican.

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