Hollywood celebrities, from Ellen DeGeneres to Cynthia Nixon, celebrated the Supreme Court&#8217;s 6-3 ruling on Monday stating that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects LGBT individuals from employment discrimination.
&#8220;This is just incredible news! A bright spot in a dark time,&#8221; tweeted actress Mandy Moore.
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This is just incredible news! A bright spot in a dark time. <a href="https://t.co/SVUpOIL7LC">https://t.co/SVUpOIL7LC</a>
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&#8220;HUGE VICTORY FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS!!! Happy Pride Everybody &#8212; the Supreme Court has decided LGBTQ people can sue for workplace bias,&#8221; tweeted &#8220;Sex &amp; The City&#8221; star Cynthia Nixon.
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HUGE VICTORY FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS!!!
Happy Pride Everybody &#8212; the Supreme Court has decided LGBTQ people can sue for workplace bias.🏳️‍🌈⚖️
Thank you to <a href="https://twitter.com/LambdaLegal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LambdaLegal</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ACLU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ACLU</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/chaifeldblum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chaifeldblum</a>, trans leaders and litigants. <a href="https://t.co/CFMuikumxy">https://t.co/CFMuikumxy</a>
&mdash; Cynthia Nixon (@CynthiaNixon) <a href="https://twitter.com/CynthiaNixon/status/1272536993084444675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Today the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which banned employee discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, also protects LGBTQ employees from workplace discrimination!&#8221; tweeted model Karlie Kloss.
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Today the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which banned employee discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, also protects LGBTQ employees from workplace discrimination! ❤️💚💜💛💙🧡
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&#8220;This is astonishing and very welcome news. It’s a game changer,&#8221; tweeted &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; actor and activist George Takei.
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This is astonishing and very welcome news. It’s a game changer. <a href="https://t.co/Kg2YtQAVsJ">https://t.co/Kg2YtQAVsJ</a>
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Comedienne Ellen DeGeneres declared the moment &#8220;historic.&#8221;
Despite being appointed by President Donald Trump and being hailed by conservatives as an originalist, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion in the case.
&#8220;An employer who fired an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex,&#8221; Gorsuch wrote. &#8220;Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.&#8221;
&#8220;Those who adopted the Civil Rights Act might not have anticipated their work would lead to this particular result,&#8221; he added, &#8220;But the limits of the drafters&#8217; imagination supply no reason to ignore the law&#8217;s demands. Only the written word is the law, and all persons are entitled to its benefit.&#8221;
Since the ruling became public, gay rights advocates have hailed it as the biggest landmark decision since Obergerfell legalized same-sex marriage.
“The Supreme Court’s clarification that it’s unlawful to fire people because they’re LGBTQ is the result of decades of advocates fighting for our rights,&#8221; said James Esseks, director of the American Civil Liberties Union&#8217;s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender &amp; HIV Project. &#8220;The court has caught up to the majority of our country, which already knows that discriminating against LGBTQ people is both unfair and against the law.”
&#8220;The decision gives us hope that as a country we can unite for the common good and continue the fight for LGBTQ acceptance,&#8221; said Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and CEO of GLAAD, as reported by <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-existing-civil-rights-law-protects-gay-lesbian-n1231018">NBC News</a>.
Gerald Bostock, a plaintiff in the case who lost his county job in Georgia after joining a gay softball team, said he hoped the decision delivers some light to America during these dark times.
&#8220;In this this time of uncertainty, and certainly some dark days with a civil unrest going on around us, my hope is that this this brings a little bit of sunshine to these dark days, because what it tells me is there is hope,&#8221; Bostock said told NBC&#8217;s Katy Tur. &#8220;I had faith in the system and I had faith that the justices would do the right thing. And I think this is just one step in laying the groundwork, though, because it underscores given everything going on in our country today that we still have more work to do.&#8221;
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In a landmark 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court decided Monday that Title VII, which protects workers from employment discrimination on the basis of gender, can be interpreted to include discrimination based on sexual orientation, extending the protections of federal employment law to LGBT individuals.
The ruling was unexpected, given the largely conservative makeup of the Supreme Court, and will likely give rise to further cases testing the limits of Title VII protections for LGBT workers, <a href="https://apnews.com/ef3c19a79b65c060fd9e82b9dd87a1d9?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow">The Associated Press reports</a>.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, wrote for the majority, which included the four &#8220;liberal&#8221; Justices &#8212; Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg &#8212; and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented, as did the court&#8217;s most recent addition, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote his own dissenting opinion separate from the other two.
“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in his opinion. “Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.”
Alito and Thomas argued that, while the Court may believe it is achieving a judicious result, that same result could have &#8212; and should have &#8212; come through legislation and a specific, Congressional change to Title VII, rather than through the courts, and that the word &#8220;sex&#8221; cannot be read to include &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; or &#8220;gender identity.&#8221;
“The Court tries to convince readers that it is merely enforcing the terms of the statute, but that is preposterous,” Alito wrote. “Even as understood today, the concept of discrimination because of ‘sex’ is different from discrimination because of ‘sexual orientation’ or ‘gender identity.’”
&#8220;During the Obama years, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had changed its longstanding interpretation of civil rights law to include discrimination against LGBT people,&#8221; the AP adds. &#8220;The law prohibits discrimination because of sex but has no specific protection for sexual orientation or gender identity.&#8221;
The decision covers only those employees who claim to have been fired for their sexual orientation in jobs with no other conditions for employment. The plaintiffs whose cases were joined under the Bostock v. Clayton County decision include Donald Zarda, a former skydiving instructor who claimed to have been fired after his employers discovered he was gay; Gerald Bostock, a civil employee of Clayton County, Georgia; and Aimee Stephens, a transgender individual who was fired from a job at a Detroit-area funeral home after coming to work wearing women&#8217;s clothing.
The court did not specifically address whether religious organizations, many of whom prohibit openly gay individuals from serving as employees, will receive a carve-out exception to the ruling, or whether transgender individuals who have not had gender-reassignment surgery can be considered members of the opposite sex &#8212; an issue at the forefront of women&#8217;s athletics.
There are cases pending in lower courts on both of those issues, and both could come before the Supreme Court as early as next term.
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In the wild, sea sponges aren&#8217;t known to have sexual preferences, but according to a tweet by children&#8217;s programming network, Nickelodeon, at least one cartoon sponge might practice an alternative lifestyle.
In a missive marking the beginning of Pride Month, Nickelodeon introduced a rainbow-colored version of their hit cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, showing the anthropomorphic yellow sea creature dressed in his typical outfit of a white shirt and brown pants, but with the addition of a tie printed with the LGBTQ &#8220;pride&#8221; flag.
“Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month,” the network said in the tweet.
Although the tweet doesn&#8217;t explicitly say SpongeBob is gay, the two other &#8220;rainbow&#8221; character treatments, released alongside SpongeBob, are of queer characters, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/13/nickelodeon-pride-tweet-hints-spongebob-squarepants-is-gay/">the New York Post</a>: &#8220;Korra from &#8216;The Legend of Korra,&#8217; who is bisexual, and the transgender actor Michael D. Cohen [who plays Schwoz] from &#8216;Henry Danger.'&#8221;
&#8216;Fans have known for a while Korra was gay/bisexual &#8212; as it was revealed in the show itself and actually written into the script. Again, not so much with words&#8230;but just action,&#8221; entertainment news outlet <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/13/spongebob-squarepants-gay-lgbtq-pride-month-nickelodeon/">TMZ added</a>. &#8220;As for Schwoz, the actor who plays him &#8212; Michael D. Cohen &#8212; is a transgender man in real life &#8230; something that wasn&#8217;t revealed until recently. He transitioned decades ago. Now, when it comes to the Krusty Krab fry cook &#8230; well, let&#8217;s just say folks had their suspicions for a long time now. If you know, you know &#8230; we won&#8217;t break it down for boomers.&#8221;
News of SpongeBob&#8217;s sexual orientation is, of course, not exactly news. &#8220;Fans of the nautical cartoon, which began airing in 1999, have long-suspected Spongebob to be gay. In one 2002 episode called &#8216;Rock-a-Bye Bivalve,&#8217; Spongebob and his best friend Patrick parent an abandoned scallop like a married couple,&#8221; the New York Post said.
Social media fans of SpongeBob were also quick to point out that the sea sponge is a &#8220;queer icon,&#8221; especially after an extended run on Broadway.
Of course, SpongeBob&#8217;s sexual orientation would be a surprise to his creator, Stephen Hillenburg, who called the cartoon sponge &#8220;asexual&#8221; in an interview with <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/spongebob-asexual-not-gay-creator/">People Magazine</a> back in the early 2000s, seemingly chastizing viewers for ascribing any type of orientation to a perpetually childlike cartoon character.
&#8220;We never intended them to be gay,&#8221; Hillenburg said, referring to SpongeBob and his best friend, sea star Patrick. &#8220;I consider them to be almost asexual. We’re just trying to be funny and this has got nothing to do with the show.&#8221; Nickelodeon, which aired SpongeBob SquarePants, reportedly agreed with Hillenburg&#8217;s assessment of his characters.
Hillenburg, though, gave the interview in a less woke time. He passed away in 2018 of ALS, leaving the character open to interpretation.
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Christopher Street West, the non-profit organization that hosts LA Pride, has withdrawn its permit for a black solidarity march and apologized after an event organizer applied for a police protest permit, which mentioned the group’s historically “strong and unified partnership with law enforcement,” ahead of the upcoming march.
“We would like to apologize for missteps in our rush to create the June 14th solidarity march meant to rally against the systemic social injustice the Black community faces every day,” said LA Pride in an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBE4Xi1haMF/">Instagram post</a> on Friday.
The organization claimed that as they “quickly mobilized” the event, they “overlooked the direct police involvement” associated with protest permits, and further explained that they “understand that clearly goes against the demands for systemic police reform.”
According to <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/la-pride-organizers-under-fire-after-seeking-police-permit-for-black-lives-matter-solidarity-protest/">KTLA-5</a>, the 50th anniversary of the Pride parade was cancelled due to coronavirus, but instead of rescheduling it, the event organizers decided to plan a Black Lives Matter solidarity march to rally &#8220;against the systemic social injustice the black community faces everyday.&#8221;
“We are committed to listening to the Black community more closely and to truly be a better ally in the fight to end systemic racism and oppression,” continued LA Pride in its apology statement, which also noted that the organization itself has a “problematic” relationship with “marginalized groups within our community.”
Jeff Consoletti, an event organizer who filed the permit on behalf of Christoper Street West, has also withdrawn from the event and apologized for his actions, which he says “demonstrated the type of privileged, passive and systemic issues that permeate society today,” according to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-05/la-pride-organizers-under-fire-after-seeking-police-permit-for-black-lives-matter-solidarity-protest">the Los Angeles Times</a>.
“I am appreciative of the education I am receiving on how to be better and can see now that it is not right to take up space or attention from the conversation of racial inequality and the injustice Black people face from law enforcement,” he said.
While a lack of permits hasn’t stopped demonstrations from popping up across the country in the aftermath of George Floyd&#8217;s death, it’s unclear whether LA Pride will still hold the solidarity event. In the apology, the organization said that the event, which was scheduled for next weekend, would be “reevaluated” in the coming days.
“Our board is continuing to meet today and in the days ahead to collaborate with Black leaders and organizations that share our desire for social justice for the Black community. The previously announced solidarity march scheduled for June 14 is currently being reevaluated through these discussions with more updates to be shared shortly. We pledge that the LGBTQ+ community will continue to speak up and speak out against racism and stand in solidarity with you on the long march to freedom and equality,” said the organization.
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San Francisco&#8217;s 50th annual LGBT Pride Parade has been canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
&#8220;Uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified in recent weeks, and the organization has concluded that the risks to public health of a large-scale gathering such as Pride preclude this year’s production of the annual event,&#8221; organizers said in a <a href="http://www.sfpride.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/RELEASE-APRIL-14-2020-SF-PRIDE-EVENT-CANCELLATION-__FINAL__-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">news release</a> on Tuesday.
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D) praised San Francisco Pride organizers for making the &#8220;tough decision.&#8221;
“I have no doubt that SF Pride will put together a terrific slate of virtual events for this year’s celebration,&#8221; said Wiener. &#8220;Pride is my favorite part of every year, and though it’s disappointing that we can’t be together in person, we will find creative ways to uplift and celebrate the LGBTQ community.”
San Francisco Pride Executive Director Fred Lopez said the decision was not made lightly and was made in consultation with city officials.
“This was not a decision we arrived at lightly,” said Lopez, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/492782-san-francisco-pride-parade-canceled-on-50th-anniversary-due-to-covid-19">The Hill</a>. “Far from it: Our staff has been in frequent talks with our board, our production team, our partners at many departments of City Hall, officials at other Pride organizations worldwide — and most of all, our LGBTQ communities.&#8221;
Carolyn Wysinger, the organization&#8217;s board president, said that alternative methods to celebrate LGBT Pride will be explored.
“We know our decision means disappointment, canceled plans, and one less thing for us all to look forward to,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We also know that protecting the safety of all our communities is the most important. We look forward to gathering with all of you, our friends and our families and our allies. In the meantime, SF Pride will offer new and creative ways to commemorate LGBTQ+ Pride.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://time.com/5814554/coronavirus-lgbtq-community-pride/">TIME</a>, the LGBT community has been organizing online Pride celebrations ever since the COVID-19 pandemic brought the economy to a standstill.
<blockquote>Three months into 2020, <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sbMOE10qUQgnwQWKaokZK5weEhV5fFCkam8c2vkvwvk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">more than 220 Pride celebrations scheduled worldwide</a> have been forced to cancel or postpone due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, with rights coming under threat in various places and exacerbated by the virus outbreak, organizers are finding innovative ways of reaching out to their communities to provide alternative spaces online to celebrate.</blockquote>
J. Andrew Baker, co-President of Interpride, the international association of Pride organizers, said the quarantine should not deter such peoples since they face &#8220;isolation every day.&#8221;
“LGBT people around the world are insanely resilient, but they face isolation every day in their life,” said Baker. “One of the challenges we find today is that LGBT people are even more isolated.”
The San Francisco Pride Parade now joins the many festivals and high-profile public events to be shut down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Burning Man, Coachella, SXSW, the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, and the Met Gala, all have been either postponed or canceled.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/californias-newsom-outlines-plan-to-loosen-stay-at-home-orders-praises-residents-but-warns-we-are-not-out-of-woods">announced</a> on Tuesday that he will be looking into ways for the state&#8217;s economy to reopen again in the coming weeks.
“There is no light switch here, it is more like a dimmer,” said Newsom.

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It sounded like a parody at first.
Conservatives have long accused Marvel Comics of going woke at the expense of solid storytelling. A similar sentiment, others said, leaked into the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/25/white-male-and-brawny-feels-tired-is-this-the-age-of-feminist-marvel-movies">Marvel Cinematic Universe</a>. Now, the fabled comic book company is <a href="https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/introducing-the-new-new-warriors">introducing a new array of heroes</a> straight from <a href="https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath">Titania McGrath’s</a> wish list.
Marvel’s updated “New Warriors” title, out April 15, will be passing the heroic baton to characters unlike their predecessors.
Let’s meet a few of the new New Warriors, created by “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” writer Daniel Kibblesmith and artist Luciano Vecchio (“Ironheart”).
The Psychic Twins
<blockquote>Snowflake, a cryokinetic, can materialize snowflake-shaped shuriken projectiles for throwing. Safespace can materialize pink forcefields, but he can’t inhabit them himself, the reflex only works if he’s protecting others. They’re hyper aware of modern culture and optics, and they see their Super Heroics as “a post-ironic meditation on using violence to combat bullying.”
“…it’s this idea that these are terms that get thrown around on the internet that they don’t see as derogatory. [They] take those words and kind of wear them as badges of honor….
Snowflake is non-binary and goes by they/them, and has the power to generate individual crystalized snowflake-shaped shurikens. The connotations of the word ‘snowflake’ in our culture right now are something fragile, and this is a character who is turning it into something sharp.</blockquote>
Trailblazer
<blockquote>Trailblazer is &#8220;a regular kid scooped up into the world of teenage Super Heroing. Her “magic backpack” is actually a pocket dimension with seemingly infinite space, from which she can pull out useful or random objects—it’s not always under her control.
She claims to get her power from god, but “not the god you’re thinking of.”</blockquote>
The updated Marvel title came with a video introduction. And that’s where things get interesting. Viewers didn’t embrace the concept at first blush.
In fact, they loathed it.
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Look at the “thumbs up, thumbs down” ratio on the page in question. As of March 21 the former counted around 2,800+ approval votes, an impressive number. The latter camp?
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A staggering 102,000+ down votes.
Here’s a sampling of the comments:
<blockquote>Literally the worst idea Marvel ever had. Hands down. If Marvel has any interest in their stocks they should run from this man. Nearly 100% negative feedback.
I guess the villain is called “the white privileged heterosexual predator” or something like that
I was expecting the next thing out of his mouth to be: “they don’t actually fight the villains, they just start hashtags on twitter to get them cancelled”
When you cater to about 4% of the population, don’t be surprised when about .004% of said population is interested in your product. How have you not learned?</blockquote>
Certainly those comments don’t reflect the feelings of liberal readers, the kind eager for more diversity.
Think again.
Marvel apparently missed the cultural memo on going woke. You can never, ever be woke enough.
Consider the Tweets reacting to Marvel’s New Warriors announcement. Many excoriated the premise, like the aforementioned YouTube commenters. Others who presumably agree with the concept, on paper, weren’t happy, either.
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Please get some LGBT people of color in the writing room&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;
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I get the intention, and the intention is (presumably?) good, but this reeks of not actually consulting queer PoC creators and just steamrolling ahead without consideration. If people aren&#39;t sure whether or not it&#39;s a joke, that&#39;s not points in your favor.
&mdash; goji @ animal crossing babey (@gojiberry_bbq) <a href="https://twitter.com/gojiberry_bbq/status/1240384207307919361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Even a popular comic book YouTuber, who wanted to like the concept, slammed Marvel’s new title.
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“I don’t make reactionary stuff,” warns YouTuber Comic Drake, using the term to let viewers know he’s not part of any Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. He’s also on board with more diversity in his comic book fare.
Still, he’s aghast at Marvel’s new woke title.
“I cannot defend this one … at all,” he says.
“The new, new team is like peak, peak cringe. This is some of the worst stuff that I’ve ever seen from Marvel,” he says, citing another woke Marvel title, the<a href="https://www.polygon.com/comics/2017/12/22/16810138/marvel-exec-insists-wave-of-cancellations-not-motivated-by-books-diversity"> short-lived “America Chavez”</a> as more sub-standard writing.
He reserved most of his ire for the Psyche Twins – Safespace and Snowflake.
“The names alone … wow,” says Comic Drake, a self-described straight cis white man who shares his pronouns on his page. “This does not seem like representation done right.”
The YouTuber added he’s not alone in his assessment.
“When I Tweeted about this … some of the people who are the most angry are non-binary folks,” he says. “This seems like these characters would fit right at home inside of some super bigoted parody book.”
A version of this article was also published by <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/fans-scorch-marvel-woke-new-warriors/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.
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On Sunday, former NBA player Dwyane Wade posted photos of his 12-year-old son, whom he says is a transgender girl, to his Instagram account, praising the child as an LGBTQ+ leader while using female pronouns.
&#8220;Everyone allow her to re-introduce herself her name is Zaya Wade!&#8221; Wade captioned a photo of young Zaya Wade wearing a bright green tuxedo jacket and pink sash.
The child recently changed his name from Zion to Zaya to coordinate with the gender &#8220;transition.&#8221;
&#8220;Last night was Zaya’s first red carpet and we couldn’t have been prouder of how she handled the questions that were asked of her,&#8221; the former Miami Heat guard wrote. &#8220;She has emerged as one of the young faces and voices for the LGBTQ+ community. <a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/truthawards/">#truthawards</a>.&#8221;
Wade, his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, and Zaya attended the Better Brothers LA&#8217;s Truth Awards together on Saturday night. According to <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1129145/dwyane-wade-s-daughter-walks-first-red-carpet-as-zaya-wade">E! News</a>, the award ceremony &#8220;highlights the accomplishments of the Black LGBTQ+ community and its allies.&#8221;
According to the outlet, the three appeared on stage together &#8220;to honor a friend,&#8221; and Wade spoke about Zaya.
&#8220;When our 8-year-old daughter, Zaya Wade, came home and said she had something to tell us, when she came out to us, as a family, we admitted that weren&#8217;t as educated about the LGBTQ+ plus community as we should have been,&#8221; Wade told the audience.
The athlete reportedly said that he and Union turned to a &#8220;male couple&#8221; to help them &#8220;navigate the right language to use, the questions to ask, and what to listen for,&#8221; with regard to the young boy&#8217;s gender.
&#8220;They also reminded us to make sure Zaya knew her community and felt the love and support inside and outside from home,&#8221; Wade continued. &#8220;From working closely with Zaya to design her room in our homes to make sure that her most authentic self was represented and that her bedroom felt like her sanctuary. Now, that may seem small, but taking the time to make sure Zaya felt seen and heard as she created her own space for us was key. It was key to Zaya&#8217;s comfort and her confidence.&#8221;
In December, Wade similarly spoke about his son becoming who &#8220;she&#8221; is.
“I watched my son, from day one, become into who she now eventually come into,” he <a href="https://people.com/parents/dwyane-wade-watched-child-become-who-she-now-eventually-is/">told</a> the “All the Smoke.&#8221;
“And for me… nothing changes in my love. Nothing changes in my responsibilities. So, all I had to do now is get smarter, educate myself more. And that’s my job,” continued Wade, who recently <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/miami-heat-star-dwyane-wade-kicks-off-nba-62332990">retired</a> from the NBA after an uber-successful career.
“First of all, you want to talk about strength and courage, my 12-year-old has way more than I have,” he said. “You can learn something from your kids.”
After Wade noticed Zaya was not on the &#8220;boy vibe&#8221; that his other son was on, he said he questioned if the boy was gay and how he would feel about that. Apparently, the couple realized Zaya was really a girl.
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dwyane-wade-talks-about-transgender-son-turning-into-who-she-is-hits-folks-questioning-his-parenting">Dwyane Wade Talks About Transgender Son Turning Into Who ‘She’ Is, Hits Folks Questioning His Parenting</a>

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The left-wing haven of California certainly has its priorities in line. As the state faces a burgeoning homelessness crisis spurred on by drug addiction and crippling housing prices, a new bill is seeking to remedy the problem of gender conformity in toy stores.
According to <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/california/should-toys-be-gender-neutral-proposal-would-nix-boys-and-girls-toy-aisles-in-california-stores/">Kron4</a>, Assembly Bill 2826 (AB-2826) will require retailers to have gender-neutral floor spaces inside their stores by doing away with such outdated concepts like &#8220;boys aisles&#8221; and &#8220;girls aisles&#8221; by offering children products in a &#8220;single, gender-neutral section.&#8221;
Proposed by Democratic Assemblyman Evan Low, the bill would apply to all retail department stores with more than 500 employees. Should it become law, retailers who don&#8217;t comply could be “liable for a civil penalty of $1,000.”
From the <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2826#content_anchor">AB-2826 official descriptive text</a>:
<blockquote>Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, specifies that all persons within the jurisdiction of the state are free and equal, and no matter their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status, are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind.
This bill would require a retail department store with 500 or more employees to maintain undivided areas of its sales floor where, if it sells childcare articles, children’s clothing, or toys, all childcare items, all clothing for children, or all toys, regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys, shall be displayed. Beginning on January 1, 2023, the bill would make a retail department store that fails to correct a violation of these provisions within 30 days of receiving written notice of the violation from the Attorney General liable for a civil penalty of $1,000, as provided.</blockquote>
The bill further goes on to say that by dividing the toys into aisles of separate genders, the retailers make &#8220;it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate.&#8221; To remedy this, the bill sets the following guidelines for retail outlets to abide by, which include &#8220;undivided&#8221; areas in both toy and clothing sections of the stores &#8220;regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys.&#8221;
&#8220;Beginning on January 1, 2023, a retail department store that fails to correct a violation of this section within 30 days of receiving written notice of the violation from the Attorney General is liable for a civil penalty of one thousand dollars ($1,000) which may be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General in any court of competent jurisdiction,&#8221; the bill asserts.
As stated earlier, the homeless situation in California has reached crisis levels. According to the <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/13/unhoused-symposium-at-usc-gives-federal-state-and-local-decision-makers-forum-to-address-homelessness/">Orange County Register</a>, a recent poll in the once golden state actually showed that homelessness is the state’s number one issue above climate change or immigration – gender-neutral spaces for toy stores barely makes the list.
&#8220;Of the respondents, 22.9% ranked homelessness as the top problem,&#8221; asserted the register. &#8220;Other issues lagged behind: 14.8% named climate change/environment, 9.2% said immigration, and another 7.5% simply answered &#8216;Trump.'&#8221;

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Disney&#8217;s Pixar will be breaking revolutionary ground on March 6 with the release of &#8220;Onward&#8221; – the studio&#8217;s first animated movie to feature an openly LGBTQ character.
The character, voiced by Lena Waithe, will be a lesbian police officer whose sexuality will be explicitly pointed out in the movie as opposed to just being implied, such as the alleged lesbian couple in &#8220;Finding Dory&#8221; or the &#8220;exclusively gay moment&#8221; in the &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221; live-action remake.
According to <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2020/02/pixar-onward-exclusively-gay-moment-mission-accomplished.html">Slate</a>, Pixar has largely kept the reveal of Waithe&#8217;s character under wraps by not making a huge media splash about it, opting instead to have it leaked slowly through varying reports. Here&#8217;s how the reveal unfolded:
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There’s a lesbian character in Onward, a police officer voiced by Lena Waithe, but the most revolutionary thing that Pixar has done in advance of the movie’s release is not tell anyone about it. A day before the review embargo on the movie lifted, the closest thing to a relevant search result was a Reddit post from a user with the subject &#8216;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/dg4wr9/im_surprised_more_people_arent_talking_about_this/">possible lesbian couple in Pixar’s Onward??&#8217; </a>featuring an ambiguous-at-best screenshot from the movie’s trailer&#8230;
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That being said, the inclusion of Waithe&#8217;s character will probably satisfy nobody who truly craves total representation in the LGBT community, being that Waithe&#8217;s moment of explicit lesbianism is a brief, throwaway line of little consequence:
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But we don’t need to speculate about Waithe’s Officer Spector. We know because she tells us. When she and her partner, voiced by Ali Wong, pull over a driver who claims he was distracted because his girlfriend’s sons have been acting up, she commiserates, “My girlfriend’s daughter got me pulling my hair out.”
That line isn’t the point of the scene. In fact, it goes by so fast you could barely notice it. But that’s why it works so well. The film doesn’t pause to let it sink in or isolate the moment with a cut for emphasis. It passes unremarked, because in this world, it’s accepted as a fact of life. Some babies have two daddies, and some babies have two mommies, even if those mommies happen to be centaurs or elves.
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The inclusion of Waithe&#8217;s character comes amid a wave of LGBT representation at Disney via the studio&#8217;s various intellectual properties and distribution platforms. In just a few months, Marvel&#8217;s &#8220;The Eternals&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marvels-the-eternals-will-feature-franchises-first-gay-onscreen-kiss">will be breaking new ground</a> by not only featuring the first openly gay superhero, but also the franchise&#8217;s first gay kiss.
“It’s a beautiful, very moving kiss,” said actor Haaz Sleiman. “Everyone cried on set. For me, it’s very important to show how loving and beautiful a queer family can be. Brian Tyree Henry is such a tremendous actor and brought so much beauty into this part, and at one point I saw a child in his eyes, and I think it’s important for the world to be reminded that we in the queer community were all children at one point. We forget that because we’re always depicted as sexual or rebellious. We forget to connect on that human part.”

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On Wednesday, the predominantly Mormon Brigham Young University (BYU) removed same-sex behavior from the student handbook honor code, instead opting to simply say &#8220;all forms of physical intimacy&#8221; outside of marriage. The change stands in line with the Church of Latter-day Saints&#8217; recently released <a href="https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/2/18/21142831/mormon-church-new-handbook-instructions-changes-latter-day-saints-lds">new General Handbook.</a>
&#8220;The updated honor code no longer includes a section on same-sex behavior,&#8221; reported <a href="https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/2/19/21144529/byu-honor-code-mormon-church-lds-updates-honor-code-homosexual-behavior-lgbtq">Deseret</a>. &#8220;That section had proscribed &#8216;all forms of physical intimacy.&#8217; Under the code, each member of the BYU community continues to commit personally to &#8216;abstaining from any sexual relations outside a marriage between a man and a woman.'&#8221;
&#8220;The code continues to say specifically that all sexual misconduct is not permitted,&#8221; continued the report. &#8220;Based on the new church handbook, that would include same-sex relations. The handbook states that &#8216;the Lord’s law of chastity is abstinence from sexual relations outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.'&#8221;
All Latter-day Saint educational institutions, including BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii, BYU-Pathway Worldwide, and LDS Business College will make the change in compliance with the church&#8217;s general handbook.  The previous honor code stated the following:
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One’s stated same-gender attraction is not an honor code issue. However, the honor code requires all members of the university community to manifest a strict commitment to the law of chastity. Homosexual behavior is inappropriate and violates the honor code. Homosexual behavior includes not only sexual relations between members of the same sex, but all forms of physical intimacy that give expression to homosexual feelings.
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Students were, however, confused by the new code&#8217;s lack of specificity regarding how same-sex couples should conduct themselves on campus. On Twitter, BYU clarified that the same rules apply.
“In speaking with Honor Code Office Director Kevin Utt this afternoon, we’ve learned that there may have been some miscommunication as to what the honor code changes mean,” the administration said. “Even though we have removed the more prescriptive language, the principles of the Honor Code remain the same. The Honor Code Office will handle questions that arise on a case-by-case basis. For example, since dating means different things to different people, the Honor Code Office will work with students individually.”
According to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/byu-honor-code-mormon-lgbtq-homosexual-behavior_n_5e4e2839c5b630e74c50576c">HuffPost</a>, LGBTQ advocates welcomed the Honor Code change, viewing it as a sign of progress.
&#8220;Less than a year ago I joined my student body in protesting BYU’s honor code, a policy that banned same-gender romantic relationships,&#8221; celebrated student Matty Easton on Twitter. As of today, homosexual relationships are now treated the same as heterosexual ones at BYU. Girls and gays, we did it!&#8221;
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Less than a year ago I joined my student body in protesting BYU’s honor code, a policy that banned same-gender romantic relationships. 
As of today, homosexual relationships are now treated the same as heterosexual ones at BYU :’) 
Girls and gays, we did it! ❤️🌈 <a href="https://t.co/67VGLC3mgU">pic.twitter.com/67VGLC3mgU</a>
&mdash; Matty Easton (@easton_matty) <a href="https://twitter.com/easton_matty/status/1230247454580203521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In recent years the cultural debate has centered on whether or not religious institutions violate the civil rights of students and faculty by demanding they live according to such codes of conduct. Marcia McCormick, a professor of law and gender studies at Saint Louis University, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/can-religious-school-fire-gay-teacher-it-s-complicated-n1046291">argued to NBC News</a> that such institutions can be sued if Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act were to be interpreted as including sexual orientation.
“Title VII has an expansive definition of religion — not just of beliefs but also practices,” she explained. “There are a lot of rules in a lot of religions about how people ought to behave when it comes to what it means to be male and female, or to sexual or romantic activity.”
The Supreme Court has taken up consolidated cases this term that could decide whether Title VII indeed covers sexual orientation.

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Brigham Young University Removes Homosexual Behavior From Honor Code Agreement

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Feminist, avid social justice activist, and NBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Good Place&#8221; actress Jameela Jamil came out as queer on Wednesday.
The timing of the announcement, however, has raised eyebrows.
The day before her queer declaration, Jamil, who is in a relationship with singer James Blake, was swarmed with criticism concerning LGBTQ representation and her new gig as a judge on a vogueing TV show.
According to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/06/jameela-jamil-comes-out-as-queer-following-voguing-show-backlash">The Guardian</a>, the new contest show set for HBO, called &#8220;Legendary,&#8221; is &#8220;based around the predominately black and Latinx subculture of drag balls in the LGBT community.&#8221;
Jamil, who was known as a straight woman until Wednesday, took flak for &#8220;taking&#8221; a role from a deserving member of the community around which the show is based.
&#8220;The public response to Jamil’s appointment focused on her perceived lack of ties to its subject matter,&#8221; The Guardian explained.
One such example of this, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jameela-jamil-queer-jameela-jamil-comes-out-as-queer-twitter-today-2020-02-05/">CBS News</a>, came from comic artist Adam Ellis.
&#8220;Look I get that we&#8217;re all out here just trying to get a paycheck,&#8221; he posted via Twitter. &#8220;But [Jameela Jamil] how are you gonna work tirelessly on behalf of underrepresented people and then turn around and accept a job on a panel that should be populated with queer and trans people?&#8221;
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Look I get that we&#39;re all out here just trying to get a paycheck, but <a href="https://twitter.com/jameelajamil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jameelajamil</a> how are you gonna work tirelessly on behalf of underrepresented people and then turn around and accept a job on a panel that should be populated with queer and trans people? <a href="https://t.co/iiCriF5YBt">https://t.co/iiCriF5YBt</a>
&mdash; adam ellis (@moby_dickhead) <a href="https://twitter.com/moby_dickhead/status/1224837706389303296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Jamil&#8217;s response, apparently, was to come out as queer.
According Jamil, she largely kept her queer identity a secret until Wednesday because she &#8220;was scared of the pain of being accused of performative bandwagon jumping&#8221; and also noted that it&#8217;s hard for actresses, in particular, to be truthful about their sexuality.
&#8220;I added a rainbow to my name when I felt ready a few years ago,&#8221; her Twitter statement explained, &#8220;as it&#8217;s not easy within the south Asian community to be accepted, and I always answered honestly if ever straight-up asked about it on Twitter.&#8221;
&#8220;But I kept it low because I was scared of the pain of being accused of performative bandwagon jumping, over something that caused me a lot of confusion, fear and turmoil when I was a kid,&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;It&#8217;s also scary as an actor to openly admit your sexuality,&#8221; Jamil said, &#8220;especially when you&#8217;re already a brown female in your thirties. This is absolutely not how I wanted it to come out.&#8221;
The actress added that her announcement doesn&#8217;t &#8220;qualify&#8221; her for her new gig.
“I know that my being queer doesn’t qualify me as ballroom,&#8221; Jamil wrote. &#8220;But I have privilege and power and a large following to bring to this show … sometimes it takes those with more power to help a show get off the ground so we can elevate marginalised stars that deserve the limelight and give them a chance.&#8221;
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&mdash; Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) <a href="https://twitter.com/jameelajamil/status/1225165342965669888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Along with her social justice activism, Jamil is an avid abortion promoter. In December, for example, the actress attacked pro-lifers as “clueless,” likened them to trolls, and instructed them to “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suck-on-that-abortion-loving-jameela-jamil-posts-expletive-laced-tweet-ripping-clueless-pro-lifers">suck on that</a>” if they disagree with her.
Jamil, who has called her own abortion the “best decision” of her life, posted an expletive-laced message after she was criticized for agreeing with fellow abortion-promoting feminist Gloria Steinem that democracy is impossible without on-demand abortion.
“To the people trolling me and (feminist) [Gloria Steinem] because we said there is no democracy without a woman’s right to choose … I SAID WHAT I F***ING SAID and you’re clueless if you think I’m going to take it back,” she wrote.

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On Friday, YouTube comedy channel We The Internet uploaded a new sketch that portrays a world in which everyone gives into the whims of their children.
Mike walks into the office kitchen, and asks his co-worker sitting at a table: “Hey Bill, how was your weekend?”
Bill replies: “Just watched a lot of football. You?”
Mike proceeds to casually explain to his co-worker the new discovery he made over the weekend.
<blockquote>MIKE: Found out my son’s actually a girl.
BILL: What?
MIKE: Yeah. We’re all hanging out on the couch watching Netflix together, and Tommy turns to Sarah and me and says, “I’m a girl now.”
BILL: Wow.
MIKE: Yeah, I had no idea, but who am I to question my 3-year-old child, right?</blockquote>
The two then discuss Mike’s son’s new pronoun, which isn’t “her” or even “they,” but a fart sound. Mike’s son/daughter also isn’t going to begin kindergarten any time soon because he/she/fart sound said, “No school!”
“Also, we’re starting [fart sound] on hormone blockers next week, so we don’t really have a lot of free time,” Mike tells Bill.
While the scene began with shreds of reality firmly embedded in the story, given the ongoing and escalating child transgender issue in the news, it then blasts off to a whole new level when co-worker Steve walks in.
<blockquote>MIKE: You have a daughter, right?
STEVE: Yeah, my youngest is a girl.
MIKE: Any advice?</blockquote>
Steve replies that raising a girl is “a trip,” and that he just “found out” that his daughter doesn’t need the toilet anymore because, although she’s potty trained, she would rather just poop in her pants.
Then co-worker Martha runs in, and things get even crazier.
“Guys, my son’s an astronaut!” Martha exclaims.
The guys congratulate Martha, and she replies:
<blockquote>Thanks. It’s all happening so fast. Yesterday, I went into his room to wake him up from his nap, and I found him sitting on the edge of his bed with his Buzz Lightyear helmet on, screaming, “I’m an astronaut! I’m an astronaut!”</blockquote>
“What an accomplishment,” Mike says.
“So, what happens now?” Bill asks.
“We launch him into space,” Martha answers.
She then tells the guys that even though they haven’t yet heard back from NASA, her son claims “we go to the moons tomorrow!” so it must be happening.
But Bill has an accomplishment to share as well. His 10-month-old no longer wants to eat, so Bill simply doesn’t feed him.
“He doesn’t need to eat food. That’s so advanced!” Mike states excitedly.
Co-worker Todd then enters the room, despondent over his impending divorce. Apparently, his toddler Jimmy told his mother that he doesn’t like his father anymore. Thus, divorce.
“But what are we gonna do?! He just finished teething&#8230;he knows best,” Todd says.
Finally, a small child enters the room wearing a suit. He rebukes the employees for standing around and not working, claiming that he’s the boss. As the employees all scramble to get to work, and have the new “boss” approve and sign documents, a woman walks in, picks up the boy, and asks what they’re all doing.
They inform her that her son is the boss.
“He’s not your boss. He’s three years old. Idiots!” the woman says before exiting.
After a brief pause, Todd looks at the others, and says, “What a terrible parent.”
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One of the most revealing things about the leftist mindset is the usual leftist&#8217;s lack of self-awareness about his own intolerance, hatefulness and inclusiveness – unless you distort all those terms to whitewash the reality.
I will never forget reading (and writing about) the unfortunate experience of Professor Janice Price, an education instructor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. The school suspended Price and cut her salary for subjecting her students to a &#8220;hostile environment.&#8221; Her sin was placing issues of Teachers in Focus magazine on the table in the back of her classroom that contained articles written from a Christian viewpoint. One of the articles offered suggestions on how teachers should approach the issue of homosexuality in public schools.
Price told the students they could read the magazines if they wanted to but were not required to and would not be given assignments on them. The article on homosexuality offended one student, who filed a complaint with the administration. The vice president of academic affairs sent Price a letter of reprimand, saying her &#8220;reprehensible&#8221; action of providing students with &#8220;intolerant&#8221; material &#8220;served to create a hostile environment&#8221; in violation of school policy. This administrator said that the university &#8220;cannot tolerate the intolerable.&#8221; Savor that!
Price&#8217;s fellow professor and friend Dr. Mary English aptly described the university&#8217;s attitude. &#8220;We have to be tolerant and politically correct in all other areas except Christianity,&#8221; said English. &#8220;So it&#8217;s okay to be intolerant of Christians as long as Christians are tolerant of everybody else.&#8221; Interestingly, DePauw was – and still is – affiliated with the United Methodist Church. And, no, I&#8217;m not kidding.
In the nearly 20 years since this unfortunate incident, the double standard and intolerance against Christians has only intensified. Leftists have grown increasingly intolerant of an expanding universe of things they find intolerable. They are just as lacking in self-awareness as they were then, and even less capable of self-reflection. Their intolerance has, in many cases, turned to hostility and, in some cases, hate.
Now turn with me, if you will, to present-day America, where Sen. Elizabeth Warren seeks the Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential nomination. Warren tweeted a link to a HuffPost article about a U.S. Supreme Court case involving a challenge to a Montana law that provides tax credits for donations to school scholarship organizations that use those donations to fund private schools, both religious and secular. A provision of Montana&#8217;s constitution (the Blaine Amendment) prohibits the expenditure of public funds for religious purposes, and the Montana Supreme Court struck down the tax credit program, even though the use of these funds isn&#8217;t technically an expenditure of public funds and even though secular schools benefit along with religious schools.
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the Montana Supreme Court infringed on the people&#8217;s free exercise of religion under the First Amendment by invalidating the program. The court is being asked to follow its precedent that states can&#8217;t discriminate against religious organizations by allowing secular organizations to benefit and not religious ones.
Warren, of course, stands with the Montana Supreme Court. She is against school choice programs and doesn&#8217;t want any private schools to benefit. But she&#8217;s especially against Christian schools benefitting, because in her view, they teach hate.
&#8220;States should focus on funding public schools, not private ones – especially not ones that maintain anti-LGBTQ+ policies,&#8221; Warren tweeted. &#8220;We must ensure every kid – especially LGBTQ+ kids – can get a high-quality education.&#8221;
How does allowing people tax credits for donations to private Christian and secular schools jeopardize LGBTQ+ kids&#8217; education? Warren knows that&#8217;s nonsense. Her complaint is that some of the Christian schools that will benefit from the donations use a Christian-based curriculum. She&#8217;s upset that their student handbooks teach that God created each person as male or female, and that He created marriage to be between one man and one woman. She&#8217;s distressed that some of the schools require students and visitors to use restrooms and locker rooms that conform to their biological sex.
To have a snowball&#8217;s chance at the Democratic presidential nomination today, you have to push all the politically correct buttons and pander to the party&#8217;s leftist base. Sometimes this means you at least have to pretend that you believe certain scriptural passages constitute hate speech. It means you shouldn&#8217;t tolerate the opinions of those who follow these biblical teachings.
Sadly, there is a growing hostility from the left toward certain biblical teachings and those who subscribe to them – an insistence on demonizing them for their beliefs. Pretending this isn&#8217;t true won&#8217;t make it go away. Calling your attention to it should not be controversial. Pointing out intolerance and hate is not exhibiting intolerance and hate. Rolling over and surrendering one&#8217;s principles to conform to society&#8217;s ever-changing norms is not courageous. Pray for wisdom, understanding, peace and harmony.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is &#8220;Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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