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DODGERS PRIDE NIGHT A Rousing Success. 49,000 Attend Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Honor.

DODGERS’ PRIDE NIGHT A Rousing Success. 49,000 Attend Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Honor.

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Final score: PRIDE NIGHT 1 – HATERS 0.

Despite heavy police and security presence along the first level of seating, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were honored with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ community hero award on the team’s Pride Night which was packed despite threats and protest from right-wing extremist.

Fans in attendance of Friday’s Pride Night at Dodger Stadium enjoyed the game and celebration of the LGBTQ community, despite the thousands of protesters outside who opposed the team’s decision to include the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in their event.

Fans were still able to make their way into the stadium and the Sisters were given their Community Hero award from the Dodgers in a small ceremony before the game. Eventually, the stands filled up with people ready to celebrate Pride and watch a baseball game.

Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts made it clear all were welcome at the ballpark ahead of the game as well. “I love everyone. Anyone who wants to come in and support the Dodgers, I’m all in, we’re all in,” said Roberts.

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While the PRIDE Night festivities were happening inside the stadium, outside a few hundred people protested the Sisters’ recognition.

Outside the Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels in downtown L.A., a lone protester used a bullhorn and fliers to alert people to the demonstration at the stadium. Another said he was disappointed that the archdiocese didn’t provide shuttles to the site.

Friday’s protest was organized in part by Catholics for Catholics, a Phoenix-based 501(c)(4) organization that IS NOT officially connected to the Catholic Church that counts retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who previously pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, as a senior adviser.

IRS Grants Anti-LGBT Hate Group Family Research Council Church Status From IRS

IRS Grants Anti-LGBT Hate Group Family Research Council Church Status

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And Jesus wept. The Family Research Council a notorious multimillion-dollar “Christian” LGBT hate group is now a “Church” in the eyes of the IRS.

Via ProPublica: According to documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act and given to ProPublica, the FRC filed an application to change its status to an “association of churches,” a designation commonly used by groups with member churches like the Southern Baptist Convention, in March 2020. The agency approved the change a few months later.

Originally a 501(c)3 “public charity” changing to a 501(c)3 status “Church” does not change it’s tax exempt status at all. But there are special rules limiting the IRS’s ability to audit a “church” to make it harder as compared to a public charity.

Via the IRS website: Congress has imposed special limitations, found in section 7611 of the Internal Revenue Code PDF, on how and when the IRS may conduct civil tax inquiries and examinations of churches. The IRS may begin a church tax inquiry only if an appropriate high-level Treasury official reasonably believes, on the basis of facts and circumstances recorded in writing, that an organization claiming to be a church or convention or association of churches may not qualify for exemption, may be carrying on an unrelated trade or business (within the meaning of IRC § 513), may otherwise be engaged in taxable activities or may have entered into an IRC § 4958 excess benefit transaction with a disqualified person.

The Tax Exempt Government Entities (TE/GE) department of the IRS should have never changed their status according to their own rules to qualify as a “Church” you must:

  • The organization must operate exclusively for religious, scientific, educational or charitable purposes
  • The net earnings of the organization may not provide an advantage to a shareholder or private individuals
  • The organization can’t devote a substantial part of its activity to influencing legislation
  • The organization can’t intervene in political campaigns
  • Any activities or purposes by the organization must be legal and in line with public policy

Perhaps those 87,000 new IRS hires has FRC President Tony Perkins a known white supremacist supporter is running scared.

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Leaked FBI Memo: Pre Vatican-II Latin Mass Catholics Share the Same Ideologies As “Anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, Anti-LGBT, and White Supremacy” ideology.

Leaked FBI Memo: Pre Vatican-II Latin Mass Catholics Share the Same Ideologies As “Anti-Semitic, Anti-immigrant, Anti-LGBT, White Supremacist”

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Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI special agent and federal whistleblower, had obtained a retracted, FBI memo stating that Catholics who prefer the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass are labeled an extremist threat, since they adhere to “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, and white supremacy” ideology.

Titled “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities,” the bureau designates so-called “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics (RTC)” as persons of interest since the designated group offers a recruitment pool for “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVE).”

Released on January 23rd, the document claims that RTCs—adhere to “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT and white supremacy” ideology and that such Catholics are opposed to the Second Vatican Council, which among other things introduced a new liturgy and shows a “disdain for popes elected since Vatican II.”

As of 2021, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified nine RTC hate groups operating in the United State.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chairman of the Committee for Religious Liberty under the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said on February 16th that anyone espousing racism or promoting violence is “rejecting Catholic teaching on the inherent dignity of each and every person.”

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Top 10 States With the Most Active Hate Groups Per Person

Top 10 States With the Most Active Hate Groups Per Person

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According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights advocacy group, there were 733 active hate groups in the U.S. in 2021, spanning all 50 states. Using data from the SPLC, 24/7 Wall St. identified the states with the most hate groups. In each state on this list, there were at least four active hate groups in 2021, and at least 2.5 active hate groups for every 1 million state residents. Population and demographic data came from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey.

10. Idaho
> Hate groups in 2021: 3.2 per million people (6 total)
> Place(s) with active hate group(s) include: Bonners Ferry, Coeur D’Alene, Meridian
> Hate group ideologies include: Anti-Muslim, antisemitism, white nationalist
> State demographic makeup: 78.7% white; 0.7% Black, 6.1% foreign born
> Total population: 1,900,923

9. Louisiana
> Hate groups in 2021: 3.2 per million people (15 total)
> Place(s) with active hate group(s) include: Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Metairie, Monroe, New Orleans, Shreveport
> Hate group ideologies include: Anti-LGBTQ, anti-Muslim, antisemitism, neo-Confederate, white nationlist
> State demographic makeup: 56.9% white; 31.0% Black, 4.3% foreign born
> Total population: 4,624,047

8. South Carolina
> Hate groups in 2021: 3.3 per million people (17 total)
> Place(s) with active hate group(s) include: Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, Summerville
> Hate group ideologies include: Anti-LGBTQ, antisemitism, neo-Confederate, white nationalist
> State demographic makeup: 62.6% white; 24.9% Black, 5.2% foreign born
> Total population: 5,190,705

7. West Virginia
> Hate groups in 2021: 3.4 per million people (6 total)
> Place(s) with active hate group(s) include: Berkeley Springs, Purgitsville
> Hate group ideologies include: Anti-LGBTQ, neo-Confederate, white nationalist
> State demographic makeup: 90.4% white; 2.8% Black, 1.6% foreign born
> Total population: 1,782,959

6. Montana
> Hate groups in 2021: 3.6 per million people (4 total)
> Place(s) with active hate group(s) include: Dayton, Whitefish
> Hate group ideologies include: Anti-Muslim, racist skinhead, white nationalist
> State demographic makeup: 83.8% white; 0.5% Black, 2.2% foreign born
> Total population: 1,104,271

5. Delaware
> Hate groups in 2021: 4.0 per million people (4 total)
> Place(s) with active hate group(s) include: Bear, Wilmington
> Hate group ideologies include: Anti-Muslim, antisemitism, white nationalist
> State demographic makeup: 59.3% white; 20.5% Black, 10.1% foreign born
> Total population: 1,003,384

4. Tennessee
> Hate groups in 2021: 4.0 per million people (28 total)
> Place(s) with active hate group(s) include: Bartlett, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville
> Hate group ideologies include: Anti-LGBTQ, anti-Muslim, antisemitism, neo-Confederate, neo-Nazi, racist skinhead, white nationalist
> State demographic makeup: 72.1% white; 15.4% Black, 5.3% foreign born
> Total population: 6,975,218

3. New Hampshire
> Hate groups in 2021: 4.3 per million people (6 total)
> Place(s) with active hate group(s) include: Hollis, Manchester, Richmond
> Hate group ideologies include: Anti-Muslim, neo-Nazi, radical traditional Catholocism
> State demographic makeup: 87.3% white; 1.3% Black, 5.9% foreign born
> Total population: 1,388,992

2. South Dakota
> Hate groups in 2021: 4.5 per million people (4 total)
> Place(s) with active hate group(s) include: Rapid City
> Hate group ideologies include: Neo-Nazi, white nationalist
> State demographic makeup: 80.0% white; 1.9% Black, 3.5% foreign born
> Total population: 895,376

1. Nebraska
> Hate groups in 2021: 4.6 per million people (9 total)
> Place(s) with active hate group(s) include: Lincoln, Omaha, Scottsbluff
> Hate group ideologies include: Anti-Muslim, Christian identity, neo-Nazi, white nationalist
> State demographic makeup: 76.4% white; 4.6% Black, 7.4% foreign born
> Total population: 1,963,692

Anti-LGBT Food Chain Chick-fil-A Sends Support to Perpetual LOSER Kevin McCarthy

Anti-LGBT Food Chain Chick-fil-A Sends Support to Perpetual GOP LOSER Kevin McCarthy

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Ain’t that the shit. Literally.

Ah Chick-fil-A still tastes’ like shit hate.

Back2Stonewall was responsible over a decade ago in 2010 for exposing Chick-fil-A the second-largest chicken-based fast-food chain in the United States behind Kentucky Fried Chicken for sponsoring anti-gay religious hate groups and politicians when it Ohio’s anti gay hate group the Citizens for Community Value’s 23rd Annual Celebrity Golf Classic Fundraiser.

Chick-fil-A  has a long history of supporting anti-gay organizations.  Chick-fil-A has also promoted the anti-gay group Focus on the Family via toys and CDs with links to it’s websites included in children’s meal and also does cross-promotion with Focus on the Family.

Some things never change.

Hate Group Sues To Block LGBT Questions On The US Census

Hate Group Sues To Block LGBT Questions On The US Census

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Via PLF:

Today, Maureen Murphy of Washington and John Huddleston of California filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Census Bureau, challenging the agency’s demand for inappropriate and intrusive information about them and their families. The American Community Survey’s deeply personal questions include questions about a person’s job, gender and sexual orientation, whether parents and children in the same home are biologically related, and whether and how many times each person was previously married, widowed, or divorced. “The Census Bureau does not have the authority to compel Americans to divulge any information it sees fit, beyond what’s needed for the 10-year census,” said Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Adi Dynar. “Unlike the decennial census, the American Community Survey is conducted every year and asks detailed and personal questions such as the person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, fertility history, marital status, and divorce history,” one of the complainants explains.

The Pacific Justice Institute: “The Census Bureau does not have the authority to compel Americans to divulge any information it sees fit, beyond what’s needed for the 10-year census,” said Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Adi Dynar.

Their parent organization, was named a hate group by the SPLC in 2014.

And you guessed it! It’s a Nonprofit Tax Code Designation: 501(c)(3)!

FRC "Christian" Leader Tony Perkins: COVID's Bright Side Is Children Won't Learn Critical Race Theory or “Explicit LGBT Curriculum” In Schools

FRC “Christian” Leader Tony Perkins: COVID’s Bright Side Is Children Won’t Learn Critical Race Theory or “Explicit LGBT Curriculum” In Schools

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Via email blast from Family Research Council hate group leader Tony Perkins:

The silver lining of the coronavirus pandemic is that parents were forced to spend more time at home with their children and saw firsthand the radical indoctrination being pushed on them.

Despite Leftist mockery, the pushback against critical race theory, explicit LGBT curriculum, social justice activism, and other offensive material is coming from parents across the political spectrum.

In fact, some of the most vocal parents are those in Left-leaning suburbs of Washington, D.C., Palm Beach County in Florida, Westchester County in New York, Maricopa County in Arizona, and suburbs of Detroit. They also recognized the benefit to their child, when they could tailor the education to their child’s needs and interests, away from the negative peer pressure, wasted time, indoctrination, and other disadvantages of the public-school model.

America will recover from the pandemic, but many families who are determined to educate their children at home will never send them back

“Explicit LGBT Curriculum” = Teaching children that gay people exist and deserve the same rights and freedoms as everyone else.

Oh, the horror!

"Christian" Hate Groups Form Anti-LGBTQ Equality Act Coalition For The Children Of Course

“Christian” Hate Groups Form Anti-LGBTQ Equality Act Coalition For The Children Of Course

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Via NBC News:

A new initiative backed by a coalition of right-wing organizations is courting lawmakers and parents in an effort to stop the passage of the Equality Act — a federal LGBTQ rights bill — and promote policies targeting transgender Americans at the federal and state levels.

Backed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Policy Alliance, Heritage Foundation and other national and local groups, the Promise to America’s Children coalition says it is fighting “a culture – and sadly, a government – around us seek to sexualize our children for the sake of a political agenda.”

On its website, the Promise to America’s Children coalition says anyone who signs the pledge is not signaling support or opposition to legislation, “with the exception of the federal Equality Act, which clearly violates all principles of this Promise.”

This incarnation of the Equality Act was approved by the US House this week along in a party-line vote with 3 Republicans breaking ranks, but the EA faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where it will surely be met with a filibuster effort.

The first version of the Equality Act was introduced to Congress in 1974 by the late Bella Abzug.

LGBT Hate Groups Received Millions of Dollars in COVID-19 PPP Small Business Loans

LGBT Hate Groups Received Millions of Dollars in COVID-19 PPP Small Business Loans

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It has been exposed that LGBT hate groups, anti-immigration groups and anti-Muslim groups have received MILLIONS of dollars in government-aid backed Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) , intended for small businesses with 10 or fewer employees that have been harmed by the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic.

Via The New Civil Rights Movement:

The groups include the anti-Muslim organization The Center for Security Policy; the two anti-immigrant groups, the Center for Immigration Studies and the Federation for American Immigration Reform; and three rabidly anti-LGBTQ groups, the American Family Association (AFA), Liberty Counsel and the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI).

The  Liberty Counsel received somewhere between $350,000 and $1 million from the PPP program while listing they had no jobs to retain . It is unclear what Liberty Counsel was planning to do with its hundreds of thousands in government loans but I am sure we can all guess.

The largest loan went to the anti-LGBT hate group the American Family Association, which was allotted between $1 million and $2 million to support 124 jobs.

In its 2017 tax filing, which is the latest available, the AFA reported revenues exceeding $18.4 million, net assets of about $30 million.

In 2010 AFA’s most notorious wingnut Bryan Fischer blamed gay men for being Nazis and causing the holocaust.

“Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.” — Bryan Fischer, AFA director of issue analysis for government and public policy, 2010.

Other AFA statements on homosexuality include:

“This [policy] means a man can simply say he ‘feels like a woman today’ and enter the women’s restroom … even if young girls and women are already in there. Target’s policy is exactly how sexual predators get access to their victims. And with Target publicly boasting that men can enter women’s bathrooms, where do you think predators are going to go?”
— Tim Wildmon, April 2016.

“Homosexuality is a poor and dangerous choice, and has been proven to lead to a litany of health hazards to not only the individuals but also society as a whole.” — AFA Action Alert, July 20, 2012.

“The homosexual movement is a progressive outgrowth of the sexual revolution of the past 40 years and will lead to the normalization of even more deviant behavior.” —Don Wildmon, AFA website.

“Homosexuals are rarely monogamous and have as many as 300 to 1,000 sexual partners over the course of a lifetime. … [T]he risk of sexual abuse in a homosexual household is much greater than in a heterosexual household.” – Bryan Fischer Web post, “The Truth about Gay Marriage and Civil Unions,” 2006

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Judge Rules Indiana Hate Groups Cannot Challenge LGBT Rights Laws

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In 2015 Mike Pence, signed a “religious freedom” bill into law in Indiana that caused a  national uproar because it could be used to discriminate against gays and lesbians. Days later, legislators made revisions blocking its use as a legal defense for refusing to provide services, goods, facilities or accommodations on the basis of race, religion, gender, military service or sexual orientation. Pence fearing boycotts of the state then signed those revisions into law.

Various Indiana anti-lgbt hate groups including the The Indiana Family Institute, Indiana Family Action and the American Family Association of Indiana then filed a lawsuit against the newly revised law claiming that the changes threatened to “substantially burden” a person’s ability to follow his or her religious beliefs. (Their definition of “person” includes religious institutions, businesses and associations) And would also hinder their ability to speak out against same-sex marriages and would expose them to claims of discrimination in hiring.

The lawsuit also challenged local civil rights ordinances that include protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Indianapolis, Carmel, Bloomington and Columbus, which is Pence’s hometown.

On Wednesday Hamilton County Judge Michael Casati canceled the trial finding that the “conservative groups” failed to prove they were harmed by the changes or by the civil rights ordinances. Casatit did not elaborate on how he reached the decision.

At the time of this posting 21 Indiana cities or counties — representing about 38% of the state’s population — now have local LGBT protection ordinances.