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AMAZON Caves To UAE Pressure, Limits LGBT Product Search

AMAZON Caves To UAE Pressure, Limits LGBT Product Search

Amazon has bowed to pressure from the United Arab Emirates and restricted search results for LGBT related products such as books, videos, and rainbow-colored flags on its website in the country.

Amazon decided to restrict the searches after being threatened with penalties by the UAE government, according to the New York Times .

Homosexuality is illegal in the UAE, one of 69 countries in the world that have laws that criminalize being gay and can be punished by death, life in prison, floggings.

As a company, we remain committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and we believe that the rights of LGBTQ+ people must be protected,” an Amazon spokesperson told the BBC. NEWS. However, they added: “With Amazon stores around the world, we must also comply with the local laws and regulations of the countries in which we operate.”

Amazon claims to be a staunch LGBT ally and has a HRC Equality Index rating of 100%.

They must have donated a lot of $$$’s

Amazon Tells GOP Senators It Won’t Sell Books That “Frame LGBTQ+ Identity As Mental Illness”

Amazon Tells GOP Senators It Won’t Sell Books That “Frame LGBTQ+ Identity As Mental Illness”

Via The Daily Beast:

Last month, Republican Senators. Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana, and Josh Hawley of Missouri, wrote to Jeff Bezos demanding an explanation of why When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment was no longer for sale on Amazon. In a response seen by The Wall Street Journal, Amazon exec Brian Huseman wrote: “We have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.” The senators haven’t commented on the response, but whined in their initial letter that book’s removal was a message “to conservative Americans that their views are not welcome on its platforms.”

Rubio, Hawley, and Cruz. The usual anti-LGBT insurrectionist suspects.

Amazon gets it. Who knew?

FRC Hate Group Pres Tony Perkins Has Written A Book “No Fear” aka Mein Kampf 2: Electric Bugaloo

No Fear perkins

 

Anti-gay hate group Family Research Center President and known friend of white supremacists Tony Perkins has written  a book about how hard it it is to be a Christian in America and on the last page a HUGE cross pops up so the reader can climb up on it and whine.

From the description on Amazon:

Containing stories of young Christians facing intense opposition, No Fear shows the dramatic influence one person can have as they stand resolute for biblical truth in the pursuit of fairness, justice, and compassion. No Fear also reminds us of the biblical heroes who stood up for God in their own day and culture, modeling the same brand of courage that is needed today. No Fear will be on sale and in stores Tuesday, September 8. As a special offer, if you pre-order a copy of No Fear today, August 18, you will receive a second copy for FREE. So buy one for yourself and get one you can give to a friend, family member, pastor or better yet – a fearless young person in your life. The offer applies to the first 500 customers, so don’t miss out.

Perkins also sent out the following email shill to his evil minions

Dear XXXX

What could God do through you, if you had no fear of man?

Today, genuine followers of Jesus Christ face more opposition to their beliefs than in any previous generation in American history. Yet even in such a hostile and threatening cultural, it is an exciting time of opportunity for those who will stand firm in the faith.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been writing a new book titled, No Fear. Containing stories of young Christians facing intense opposition, No Fear shows the dramatic influence one person can have as they stand resolute for biblical truth in the pursuit of fairness, justice, and compassion. No Fear also reminds us of the biblical heroes who stood up for God in their own day and culture, modeling the same brand of courage that is needed today.

No Fear will be on sale and in stores Tuesday, September 8. As a special offer, if you pre-order a copy of No Fear today, August 18, you will receive a second copy for FREE. So buy one for yourself and get one you can give to a friend, family member, pastor or bet yet – a fearless young person in your life. The offer applies to the first 500 customers, so don’t miss out. Visit www.TonyPerkins.com/NoFear for more information on how to receive your free copy when you pre-purchase.

Join the No Fear movement, where courage breeds courage! When we fear God more than man, the possibilities are endless. It’s time to get started! I can’t wait to see what difference we can make as we stand for truth, firm in our Christian faith.

You can leave a comment about the book at Amazon by clicking HERE. (When his Matyrfest is released that is on September 5th.) Or better yet take a few minutes and call Amazon at – U.S. and Canada: 1-866-216-1072 – International: 1-206-266-2992 and let them know that they are carrying a book full of anti-gay propaganda and adding to the revenue of a known hate group leader.

 

No Fear Franklin Graham

Amazon.com FAIL! – Linda Harvey’s Dangerous Book “Maybe He’s Not Gay” Back On Sale At Amazon

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Linda Harvey’s extremely dangerous and harmful Kindle book to LGBT at risk youth “Maybe He’s Not Gay” returned to Amazon on Friday, along with a dozen new fake 5-star reviews.

Two weeks  ago I contacted Amazon.com to complain about the book and filled them in on Linda Harvey’s hate group leader status, her past hateful and extreme anti-LGBT propaganda and and how potentially dangerous this book was to LGBT children. In 2012,  The Southern Poverty Law center designated Harvey’s group Mission; America a hate group, based on the on their extremist fringe anti-LGBT stance.

I received an email from Amazon.com saying that they would remove the title from its library.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 

I’d love to forward your email to our Catalog Team to remove the book from our website, but I couldn’t find the exact book in our website. Please write back with the following information to locate the item on our website so that we can contact our Catalog Team.

Anitha M.

After sending Amazon.com the information requested and the link, 4 hours later Linda Harvey’s book was removed from the catalog.
Two days after the book was removed Linda Harvey claimed that SHE had the book withdrawn the book from the site because evil gay bloggers like me who were encouraging bad reviews from people who hadn’t even read it.

On the third day following the removal  I received the following email from Brittany Turner who works for Amazon.com’s PR team.

Hi Will,

I work on the Amazon PR team, and saw your post on Back2Stonewall titled “Hate Group Leader Linda Harvey’s Book “Maybe He’s Not Gay” Pulled From Amazon.com.  I wanted to let you know that the publisher removed the book from sale.   Can you please correct your story to reflect this.

Brittany Turner | Public Relations | Amazon.com
turnerb@amazon.com

Obviously I did not change the story.  Instead I wrote back to Ms. Turner and asked why, if Harvey’s publisher, Penrhyn Press, pulled her book did I receive an email stating that the book would be pulled.  I also asked for a statement from Amazon.com  regarding the selling of a potentially dangerous book to LGBT youth from an officially recognized fringe anti-gay hate group leader.

Now three follow-up emails to Amazon and I still have not received answer.

Here is a review of Harvey’s book by 

As she introduces the book, Harvey describes homosexuality as “an emperor without clothes,” claiming repeatedly that gay people’s “feelings” (I can just hear her saying it in a mocking voice) are totally misguided and don’t actually reflect facts or represent the “truth” — which is, apparently, that nobody can be gay.

The “factual” pillars she believes we’re violating are that being gay hasn’t been proven to be genetic and that there are “risks” associated with homosexuality — as you may have guessed, she throws around lots of outdated data and incorrect stereotypes about HIV/AIDS. (Chapter 4 is called “Friends Don’t Let Friends Be Gay,” and it’s all about gay sex. Which religious conservatives seems rather obsessed with…)

Here’s a pseudo-thesis statement:

If it’s not genetic and some people think there are some real risks and problems with homosexuality … then why can’t there be reasonable discussions about it? Wouldn’t that be reasonable, compassionate and… tolerant??? Maybe being gay isn’t “who they are.” Maybe their feelings have just had a head-on collision with facts.

She makes the argument that “our ancestors” throughout history opposed homosexuality, and she gets really tripped up trying to decide whether or not homosexuality is genetic, i.e. fixed at birth and unchangeable.

If there’s no reliable research supporting the claim that being gay is inborn — then why can’t we still allow open discussions in our schools, universities, legislatures? Can an opposing opinion still be allowed without name-calling? Without people being called hateful, bigoted, intolerant? Without fines, job loss, public humiliation? (Yes, those things are happening!) Can we listen to other voices on this issue, in an attempt to find the truth? And if we aren’t willing to do so, what does that say about us?

The part of this that made me start to hyperventilate is when she compared homosexuality to skipping class, being overweight, cheating on exams, cheating on a spouse, or even developing an eating disorder: all behaviors she considers “not genetic, high-risk, and changeable.”

(There are so many problems with this logic. So. Many.)

But that’s the argument she uses to claim that homosexuality is probably not inborn, but merely a bad choice that some people make and can be counseled out of. Take a look:

Some girls — even a few boys — develop eating disorders. Why? What in the world could make a person intentionally starve herself? One would think, since this is so obviously a bad idea, that all you have to do is point out this fact to an otherwise smart person, and they’ll snap out of it — right? But it turns out, it’s not that simple. Sometimes it takes years of counseling to get a person to eat. Think about that. To get a person to eat, the most basic human desire we have. And in the meantime, serious damage can be happening to her skin, hair, heart and other organs. Why do we not think people could be deeply deceived — emotionally — about other things? Things like their perceptions about who they are attracted to? Things like sex and gender identity?

Next up, Harvey claims that accepting homosexuality will “shake the foundations of human culture.” And that it’s already happening! (The horror!) She offers a long list of the horrible, horrible consequences of greater acceptance of LGBT folks. While the list is too long to post in its entirety, here are some of the gems:

  • Someone may confess a gay “crush” on you, whether or not you have any interest, and if you aren’t polite, even if they are quite aggressive, you may be accused of bigotry and discrimination. In fact, being repulsed by a gay person’s pursuit of you will no longer be an acceptable reaction. You won’t have a choice — it won’t be “cool” and it may also go against the school or company rules on discrimination and you will become the “bad guy” who is expelled or fired.
  • You may get a summer job where you are in contact with practicing homosexuals, and you may be forced to listen to them describe their homosexual relationships, even if you don’t want to. Complaining may result in a charge of discrimination, a demotion or even being fired.
  • Same sex marriage will become legal and you will be expected to attend and applaud these weddings, and to introduce partners to your family and friends.
  • It will become illegal to say anything against homosexuality even in church or even to your own children.
  • You may belong to a health plan where the doctor or counselor assigned to you is homosexual and also the same sex as you. If that makes you feel uncomfortable during physical exams, too bad.
  • No one will be allowed to joke about men who want to wear dresses or women who have beards, and restrooms and locker rooms will be non-gendered.

She also whines that acceptance of homosexuality will lead kids to start wondering about sex, and having sex earlier, and that we’ll all have to accept it. Wrong, wrong, wrong. If your child sees a same-sex couple and their first question is how that couple has sex, you need to have another conversation entirely.

The kicker comes in the third chapter: “Why No One Is Born Gay.”

Homosexuality is really a rebellion against the norm, against most or all norms. It’s one type of behavior that some people today are saying should be explored by anyone who wants to. And the person doesn’t have to call himself or herself a homosexual.  It’s called “fluid” sexual behavior and feelings, or being “queer.” That’s not my word, but theirs. That is, go into the homosexual life if a person wants, or heterosexuality, or bisexuality. Change genders or have an undefined gender, or do whatever you want, whenever you want. This is what is being promoted. Not long ago, such recklessness would have been unheard of and considered what it quite logically is: a recipe for personal chaos and disaster. Others are proposing widespread acceptance of bizarre practices like sex between people and animals, or sado-masochism, which combines violence and sex. Finally, some people believe that the criminal penalties that exist for sex between adults and minors should be eliminated, and that even children should have sex.More chaos, damage and disaster.

Harvey says that “hundreds” of organizations in the U.S. can help gay people work through their feelings and turn straight, and that plenty of “converted homosexuals” will tell you that it really works. Never mind that the most prominent ex-gay organization Exodus International shut its doors and its president said homosexuality is unchangeable — Harvey says he’s not a good representative of the ex-gay movement because “there seems to be a lot of confusion going on in his life.”

Later, she defends parents who kick their gay children out of their homes. She suggests that children whose parents don’t try to shield them from homosexuality will commit suicide. She says that it’s the responsibility of churches to try to warn people about homosexuality. She suggests that gay teenagers are the victims of broken homes or sexual abuse. She waxes poetic on Sodom and Gomorrah. And finally, she says that God is the answer to a troubled life of homosexuality.

This is the book that Amazon.com finds acceptable and is allowing to be sold on its website

Right now I don’t know who is more disgusting.  Linda Harvey or Amazon.com

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“Santa Claus Conquers The Homophobes” On Sale Now At Amazon.com – REALLY!

From Amazon.com’s Description page verbatim:

Santa Claus is back. And flying beside him is Wendy, his freshly minted stepdaughter, who can peer into the future of selected children and offer them glimpses of the wonders ahead. But with that power come horrific visions of the turmoil and trouble the less fortunate among them are fated to suffer. Can Wendy and her stepfather prevent the suicide of Jamie Stratton in his teen years, as he grows up gay in a homophobic household and community? God the Father grants them three Thanksgiving visits to Jamie’s tormentors, in hopes of bringing about a change of heart in them and eliminating their ingrained prejudices. Beyond the challenge of rescuing one precious child lies the far more daunting task of expunging entirely this brand of bigotry from the human race, as Santa and Wendy strive to remake the world in compassion and generosity. Along the way, they enlist the aid of the Easter Bunny, a highly persuasive fellow indeed. But the Tooth Fairy and her loathsome imps are hell-bent on doing all they can to stop Santa and Wendy-nay, to heighten mortal fear and hatred of anyone whose orientation strays even the slightest from the norm.

Average Customer Review: 4.5 Stars

Robert Deveruex is a fantasy and horror fiction writer who has a well-deserved reputation as an author who pushes every envelope, though he would claim, with a stage actor’s assurance, that as long as one’s writing illuminates characters in all their kinks, quirks, kindnesses, and extremes, the imagination must be free to explore nasty places as well as nice, or what’s the point? 
 
Santa Steps Out,  is the sequel to “Santa Claus Conquers The Homophobes” in which Santa Claus’s gradual recall of his prior existence as Pan leads to an affair with the Tooth Fairy, while a voyeuristic Easter Bunny tries to twitch and wiggle his way into Mrs. Claus’s good graces. Santa Steps Out, which won much praise for its mythological underpinnings and  also had the honor of being banned in that cultural backwater of intolerance and censoriousness known as Cincinnati.
 
Take that “I’m Not Gay Just A Sissy Calendar!”
 
Check out and /or purchase Santa Claus Conquers the Homophobes here.
 

VICTORY – Barnes & Nobel Pulls “I’m Not Gay Just A Sissy” Calendar From Website

KKKhristian Catroonist Joe King is feeling the heat over his “I’m Not Gay Just A Sissy” 2012 Wall calendar if his last Facebook posting above is any indication.

 Barnes & Nobel has confirmed that it has pulled and stop the sale of Joe King’s offensive and homophobic calendar “I’m Not Gay Just A Sissy” from its website and will no longer ofer it for sale.  The calendar was not stocked in B&N stores and was only available online until it’s offensive content was brought to the retailers attention.

Amazon.com still has the calendar listed for sale at Amazon.com

PLEASE Contact  Amazon.com’s Corporate Headquarters @ 206-266-1000

“I’m Not Gay Just A Sissy” Calendar Cartoonist Claims He’s Being “Bullied” Defends AIDS

Yesterday we posted about the highly homophobic and offensive 2012 Calendar called  ”I’m Not Gay, I’m Just a Sissy” wall calendar by “so called” Christian cartoonist Joe King on sale at Amazon and Barnes & Noble that mocks not only Gays and Lesbians but also AIDS.

Well  King has responded on his Facebook page claiming that he’s being “bullied” and defending the calendar.

Hoo-we! Hell hath no fury like a he/she scorned… The telephone tree of tantrums is lit up like a Las Vegas marquee for “Boy-Lesque” today with hate mail, threats of boycott and even the risk of Jesus spitting on me for my “Sissy” calendar. I SAID I WAS A SISSY UP FRONT. Ironic who the real bullies are isn’t it? Let’s see if I get a call from Oprah’s people or even Anderson Cooper…

Like most bullies bluffs, the facts outweigh the fists: with almost 100 hissy- fits being thrown today only a couple of my calendars are in actual circulation. All the hysteria is coming from those nice folks who haven’t bothered to actually purchase and read my collection. Stranger still – these are REPRINTS of nationally distributed work several years old. No outcry then. Even funnier, reprint rights were obtained by “Q” one year- Utah’s largest gay paper. GUESS WHAT THE “Q” STANDS FOR?

KKKristian King goes onto actually call AIDS an “elective” disease

The “truth” is that AIDS is an “elective” disease.
It STOPS the day guys quit sticking it to each other.
And for the tragedy of women and children infected…
THAT stops the day their gay husbands and fathers stop cheating on them.
Anyone need MORE education, science or funding to understand THAT?

Okay guys time to do your duty and contact Amazon and Barnes & Noble and shut this homophobic asshole down.

Contact  Barnes & Noble’s Customer Service @ 800-843-2665 (Press #6) or email service@barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com’s Corporate Headquarters @ 206-266-1000 – resolution@amazon.com

Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com Sells Offensive “I’m Not Gay, I’m Just a Sissy” Calendar

Both Amazon and Barnes & Noble are selling a HIGHLY offensive 2012 Calendar called  “I’m Not Gay, I’m Just a Sissy” wall calendar by “so called” Christian cartoonist Joe King.

So ofensive is this calendar that the cartoonist makes AIDS a target of his “Christian humor” by making fun of World AIDS Day with a sign that says, “We All Have AIDS.”

Nothing says KKKhristian more than making fun of AIDS.

Contact  Barnes & Noble’s Customer Service @ 800-843-2665 or 1-800-THE-BOOK (1-800-843-2665) and Amazon.com’s Corporate Headquarters @ 206-266-1000 – resolution@amazon.com

Interestingly enough, on the Amazon page, customers who viewed this (indeed) tasteless trash also viewed these other pithy calendars: “Provocateur Masculinity 2012,” “Hairy Men 2012,” “Lucas Entertainment: Monster Cocks 2012,” “BangBangBoys.com Naked & Exposed 2012,” “Colt Butt Beautiful Calendar,” and my personal favorite, “Toilets of the World 2012.” ll