According to reporting from Raw Story, Eric Porterfield, a republican delegate from West Virginia, compared gay people to the Ku Klux Klan. You know, because they’re so similar. Not to be outdone by himself, he also made homophobic statements for the second time last week, as Raw Story explained: “The LGBTQ [sic] is a modern day version […] More
As first reported by our friends over at Friendly Atheist, a Christian homeless shelter filed a lawsuit against the city of Anchorage, Alaska for the right to refuse services for trans people. Because nothing screams Christian Values™ more than judging someone on what genitals they were born with. Alliance Defending Freedom argues that the Hope […] More
The considered opinion of the world’s top intelligence agency is that the Russian government had meddled in several elections, most famously in 2016. In that year’s closely contested election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Kremlin chose the former and, according to both domestic and foreign intelligence agencies, tried to put their thumb on […] More
PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – is no stranger to controversy. The group regularly uses controversy and outrage as a tool to gain extra attention from the media. After all, they’re the same group who, in 2014, made this extremely offensive and scientifically incorrect graphic: (As we all know, correlation does […] More
A paramedic and a firefighter from a small town in Alberta, Canada said that they felt as though they were forced out of their jobs because they were behaving “too gay.” According to CBC news: Sheri and Alyssa Monk say they were discriminated against and expected to follow different rules than their heterosexual colleagues, saying […] More
Yes, you read the headline correctly and no, unfortunately, this is *not* The Onion. Only in 2018 – the year that started off with people eating tide pods (yes, that was in 2018) – would we have the president of the largest dating app designed for people of the same sex come out and say that […] More
Roncalli High School is a catholic school on the south side of Indianapolis, about 20 minutes or so from where I live. Shelly Fitzgerald is a guidance counselor at the school, at least until four weeks ago when she was suspended for breaching her contract. Administrators were made aware of the breach of contract after […] More
A clerk in the city of Root, New York denied a same-sex couple a marriage license earlier this week. Dylan Toften posted on Facebook that he and his partner, Thomas Hurd, were denied a marriage license by the town clerk, Laurel Eriksen. If you guessed that Eriksen denied the couple a marriage license for religious […] More
