IGF CultureWatch

Kurt Schlichter captures how a lot of average Americans are feeling these days. He writes:

You’re stupid because you think there’s just two genders and that you don’t consider a “bi-curious femme-friendly questioning two-spirit” an option.

You’re a monster for wondering why boys in drag are competing (and setting “records”) in girls’ sports and for not accepting that men have periods too. …

Racist. Sexist. Ableist. Imperialist. Global Warming Denialist. Fatist.

Homophobe. Islamophobe. Transphobe. Confronting-Your-Owning-A-Dog-Privilegephobe.

Blah blah blah blah blah.

No matter what, you’re wrong.

This picture says it all.

Also:

As Angelo wrote recently:

There is potential for federal legislation that guarantees protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans while yet shielding people of faith and good will from heavy-handed punishment by the government. But the “Equality Act” isn’t it.

Worth repeating:

If the next wave of the gay rights movement is a relentless attack on mom-and-pop businesses, all of the goodwill (and public support) for LGBT Americans built up over the years will rapidly evaporate.

An excellent piece from the editors of @NRO: https://t.co/5QXXqnSild

— Gregory T. Angelo (@gregorytangelo) June 13, 2019

And I believe this Tennessee Cracker Barrel had every right to refuse to serve a Pastor who called for executing LGBT people, in the very same way that a Christian baker has every right to refuse to serve a gay couple for their same sex wedding. https://t.co/QjNOAdYCmI

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 19, 2019

The DC Dyke March banning flags and signs with the Star of David is #antiSemitic, plain and simple. Diversity is a tremendous strength of the community of #LGBTQ supporters. We call on the organizers to reverse this policy immediately: https://t.co/6Vg3xxcL6m

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) June 6, 2019

Progressive anti-semitism is on the rise, including on the LGBTQ left (and including among some secular Jewish LGBTQers whose religion is now progressivism). https://t.co/0To39GlPzu

— IGF CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) June 8, 2019

I’m not anti-French. I just don’t believe France should exist. There’s a difference between anti-Frenchism and anti-Francism.

— Howard Lovy (@Howard_Lovy) June 7, 2019

Show me the Gaza City or Damascus Pride Parades – because Tel Aviv’s celebration of equal rights for gays is massive. #heightofhypocrisy https://t.co/nobIujxz6H

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) November 17, 2018

Last year, LGBTQ activists complained that President Trump did not issue a pride month proclamation, although many high-ranking officials and executive departments did so, This year the president issued a statement, and LGBTQ activists complained about it. But of course.

As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great Nation, let us also stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute individuals….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2019

You work overtime to make equality a partisan issue. Stop. You aren’t helping. Gays and lesbians know President Trump is for equality. Your list is ridiculous spin and all about your own survival. https://t.co/PmtqDYNsOa

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) May 31, 2019

This, from today’s print edition, is embarrassing for the Washington Post. Didn’t the editors realize that @realdonaldtrump said three days ago what they report him today as expected not to say? pic.twitter.com/yVTdAZidFQ

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) June 3, 2019

More. Obama was a more self-evidendently pro-LGBTQ rights president, as progressive activists view LGBTQ rigthts. But activists give Trump no credit for anything – from his convention acceptance speech pledging “to our protect LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression” (following the shooting deaths at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub) to openly gay appointments, to his administration’s raising the issue of the safety and security of gay people around the globe. Instead, efforts to find a workable balance between the rights of religious traditionalists not to face state coercion to provide creative services to same-sex weddings get denounced as “bigotry” and “hate” by progressives who have nothing but contempt for the rights of those whom they detest.

This is your friendly reminder that — despite all his faults — Donald Trump is the most pro-gay president in American history. https://t.co/aRm0ILsP0Q

— Brad Polumbo (@brad_polumbo) May 31, 2019

“Internment camps” ?!?

This is what Trump Derangement Syndrome looks like. https://t.co/sdnPJb6CUI

— Brad Polumbo (@brad_polumbo) June 2, 2019

When @RealDonaldTrump tweeted out his best wishes for #PrideMonth, left-wing activists responded with smears and lies. @Brad_Polumbohttps://t.co/531NharTLQ

— Red Alert Politics (@RedAlert) June 4, 2019

More Fake News from twisted gays. Only 3 out of 294 embassies requested to fly the gay flag. The rules state no flag except the stars and stripes may fly on the official pole. The embassies were told they could hang the gay flag anywhere else. SO HATEFUL https://t.co/MTOxqNlgCk

— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) June 11, 2019

New comment policy: Comments that use obscene language will be deleted instead of edited. Repeat offenders will be blocked.

And a sympathetic view of trans weightlifters, via NBC News.

More.

This is why we can't have nice things: following demands and disruptions from social justice activists, organizers decide to cancel the 2019 Edmonton Pride Festival https://t.co/QyPFGBZ7tI

— Walter Olson (@walterolson) April 11, 2019

Coming soon to a Pride march near you!

>>Global News has obtained a copy of an email sent out by the Edmonton Pride Festival Society explaining why the 2019 edition of the annual event, which aims to educate people and create a spirit of unity by celebrating gender and sexual diversity, has been called off. …
The society was presented with a list of seven demands including ending the Pride Parade and providing annual funding for Shades of Color and RaricaNow. …
“So no floats, no corporate, just community groups and it would be a protest march instead, and then they asked for each group to receive $20,000 a year in funding from us.”…
The Pride Society’s decision not to act on a call to ban police and military officers from taking part in the festival boiled over during the Pride Parade last summer.
The parade was stalled for about a half-hour when demonstrators blocked the route to demand that police, RCMP and military members be banned from marching in future parades.<<