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Contents:
- IS EVERY CHRISTIAN WHO'S AGAST GAY MARRIAGE NECSARILY A BIGOT?
- “BIGOTRY WAS THE BLUE PLATE SPECIAL”: HOW CRACKER BARREL WENT OM ANTI-GAY TO ANGERG THE GOP
- ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY IS STILL A PROBLEM – WE NEED TO RADILISE AGA
- PSYCHOLOGIL HETEROSEXISM AND ANTI-GAY VLENCE: THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF BIGOTRY AND BASHG (FROM HATE CRIM: CONONTG VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN, P 149-169, 1992, GREGORY M HEREK AND KEV T BERRILL, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-134558)
- GARY BER’S ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY: THE HISTORIL RERD
- WHY THE CHURCH SHOULD FIGHT ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY
IS EVERY CHRISTIAN WHO'S AGAST GAY MARRIAGE NECSARILY A BIGOT?
The ll of today's anti-gay Christians is "Stop llg bigots, everyone! Jt bee we believe what the Bible says about homosexualy do not make bigots!" So let's thk about that. * anti gay bigotry *
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“BIGOTRY WAS THE BLUE PLATE SPECIAL”: HOW CRACKER BARREL WENT OM ANTI-GAY TO ANGERG THE GOP
* anti gay bigotry *
In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY IS STILL A PROBLEM – WE NEED TO RADILISE AGA
Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.
PSYCHOLOGIL HETEROSEXISM AND ANTI-GAY VLENCE: THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF BIGOTRY AND BASHG (FROM HATE CRIM: CONONTG VLENCE AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN, P 149-169, 1992, GREGORY M HEREK AND KEV T BERRILL, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-134558)
Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
GARY BER’S ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY: THE HISTORIL RERD
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Poilievre tells T to 'butt out' of New Bnswick's policy on LGBTQ stuntsPoilievre wish Canadians a happy Pri month — but won't say if he'll attend an eventThe "straight pri" movement has emerged recent years as a backlash agast growg social acceptance of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and other sexually diverse Pri paras are held around the world throughout the summer months. They mark the June 1969 Stonewall rt, when gay bar patrons fought back agast a police crackdown — a pivotal moment wily seen as the start of morn gay rights paras are meant to celebrate a muny that has endured generatns of opprsn and events have taken on new promence at a time when some jurisdictns, notably the U. Notably, Chick-fil-A never explicly said would permanently stop donatg to anti-gay groups or anizatns that discrimate agast LGBTQ people — jt said was changg s philanthropic givg mol.
In 2012, the Chigo-based Civil Rights Agenda issued a statement claimg that Chick-fil-A had promised to “no longer give to anti-gay anizatns, such as Foc on the Fay and the Natnal Organizatn for marriage.
WHY THE CHURCH SHOULD FIGHT ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY
As ThkProgrs reported 2017, Chick-fil-A ntued to bankroll anti-gay groups like the Fellowship of Christian Athlet, the Salvatn Army, and the Pl Anrson Youth Home through s foundatn. A year earlier, a Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A’s cisn to donate food to a marriage semar nducted by the Pennsylvania Fay Instute, a group known for s anti-gay advocy, prompted a natnwi boytt of the cha.
Cathy issued a vio statement rponse to the boytt, which he claimed the pany “serv all people” and that, while he personally believ the “biblil fn of marriage, ” his pany don’t have an “anti-gay agenda. In 2011, the same year a Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A anchise donated food to a lol anti-gay anizatn, the LGBTQ advocy group Equaly Matters obtaed tax rerds which revealed that the Cathy fay had donated more than $1. 1 ln gift to the Marriage & Fay Foundatn, a group that promoted so-lled tradnal marriage and opposed both gay marriage and divorce; $480, 000 to the Fellowship of Christian Athlet, an athletic anizatn that requir applints to agree to a “sexual pury statement” that nmns LGBTQ people for livg “impure liftyle[s]”; and $1, 000 to Exod Internatnal, a group that promot anti-gay nversn therapy.
For Chick-fil-A’s opponents, the problem was bigger than Cathy’s anti-gay ments, was that he was apparently puttg his money where his mouth was, and he had a lot of money to go around.