I’m sick of Christians who work for the public suing because they don’t want to do their jobs.
If you cannot serve the whole public, quit your job in public service.
Sometimes, a “reasonable accommodation” is to let them quit.
It cracks me up though. they accomodated him. Put him at a station that didn’t have a flag. then he went and removed the 3 other flags that were simply in view…
What I hate the most is that his whole excuse is bullshit. The Bible dosen’t even know what being gay is, it’s only against bronze age booty thief power displays, it knows absolutely nothing about being trans, these people really need to start specifying that they are against ‘loving thy neighbor’ because they interpret out of context verses written in old English they don’t understand to mean they can hate people they don’t like or are currently pretending not to be one of.
Yup it’s simply hateful, spiteful people being assholes. Inconsiderate pricks using religion as an excuse to be inconsiderate pricks.
it’s only against bronze age booty thief power displays
I was once in a band called Bronze Age Booty Thieves. Our first album Power Displays didn’t sell too well…
I would unironically buy that if I saw it at a pawn shop.
There have always been gay people, and in every culture, though. While trans is a relatively modern concept, there have definitely been gender-variant people across cultures too.
The fact that it’s been vaguely mentioned at all in the Bible suggests it was a non-issue. Romans, for example, social advancement revolved around patronage… which involved gay sex.
I didn’t mean these groups didn’t exist, but no legitimate scholar has found any evidence of ancient Hebrews having any concept of sexual orientation or trans identity as we have today. They DID have 6-9 genders, and Jesus himself mentions 5 genders, so it’s not clear how people we call homosexual or trans today fit into that culture. Jesus mentions Men, Women, Eunichs by birth, Eunichs by choice, and Eunichs by force, and there were other designations by his culture, the Bible very specifically forbids one sexual act, a man penitrating a man. No mention of sex with eunichs of any variety, no mention of non penatrative sex, no mention of women having sex with women, it does forbid men dressing as women and women dressing as men, but it is forbidding only the deception of the act, where did men who decided they were in fact women fit in? Is that a deception? We don’t know, and we know rabbis of the day we’re capable of very nuanced application of law, there’s records of entire arguments going on for hours worth of legal analysis, like how to treat a man who’s testicles are crushed, or if his penis is damaged to prevent typical ejaculation, what the law requires, what common sense requires, we also know the law section of the Bible was never in fact a legal system used by ancient Hebrews, it was literally propaganda, and it’s largely draconian, and the legal system used in fact, wasn’t. Rabbis rarely if ever sentanced anyone to death, they viewed human life as sacred to God, so the risk of falsely executing anyone was considered too high a risk in almost every case.
My whole point is, if you honestly study the text, there’s clearly no stance on homosexual orientation, and no stance on trans identity, what isn’t ambiguous or lacking a mention on, is what ‘‘love thy neighbor’’ means and how to apply it to your life, and how high a priority it must be. It’s very clear. Treat others beyond baseline humanely, do all you can to help others, do more than is expected, and never fail to forgive even highly repeated sin, or face the judgment of God, as any negative effect you put on others, God will act as if you did that directly to him.
To throw that all out for the opportunity to act as if hate and abuse are validated by their religion is the definition of evil.
The only modern part of things are the hormone medicines and surgeries we have now. And the language and terms we use. But people being trans, intersex, both sexes, neither, etc, etc is as old as humanity as far as we can tell. There are ancient examples of things like I think it was a grave of a person born female, but was buried with armor and honors of an exclusively male role, like a warrior something. Like a “Mulan” type thing. Which means either nobody knew they were born female or it didn’t matter.
Early Modern English.
Here’s John 3:16 in Old English: “God lufede middan-eard swa þæt he sealde hys akennedan sune þæt nan ne for-wurðe þe on hine ge-lefð. Ac habbe þt eche lyf.”
Fair enough, but it’s still not modern English and it’s easy to read a verse in the KJV Bible and think it means exactly the opposite of what it says due to language changes
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The problem is, if you read the Bible it will make you an atheist. Ironic.
The number of outspoken atheists who started out diligently learning all they could about their faith, often to become a leader in their religion, is high. You don’t have to know much to find out a very old collection of mythology, propaganda, sermons, prophecy, and history is NOT a magical intruction manual from God.
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Dude totally hates rainbows.
Plaintiff is a closet case.
dude probably hates himself more.
Hasn’t been to church in a bit I guess…
13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Genesis 9:13-17
I’ll sue every building with a cross inside since Christianity offends me.
The fact that he was able to sue… especially in the state of California of all places. This could actually be a trend for the entire nation.
That someone who believes in the Bible and is professionally contracted to prevent people from drowning is being upset they are doing that job near the Biblical symbol of a covenant not to drown humanity again is making me drown in the irony.
Please send help.
What is the biblical symbol you’re referencing? Explain it like I’m not a Christian (I’m not lol).
It’s a reference to Noah’s Ark, where God supposedly flooded the whole world except two of each animal and Noah’s family, then put a rainbow in the sky as a symbol that He’d never do it again. Young Earth Creationists and their like take the story as fact, despite the fact that such an event would have put humanity well below the number of people needed for a stable gene pool, and that two of an animal likely wouldn’t repopulate an entire species. I digress.
Thanks for the explanation!
Wow I hadn’t even thought of it that way. For real.
What does he do if a man needs mouth to mouth?
I think you can just say “No Homo” and do whatever. Sources needed.
The lack of socks cancels that out.
I think you just have to waft it in, Mr Bean style.
Rule in his favor, then I have precedent to sue every church, business, and government entity that displays a cross. ❤️
I wish people, regardless of personal beliefs, experiences, or values, would learn to appreciate one another for the things they have in common, and stop being triggered by the expressions of those characteristics that we don’t.
I love so many people that don’t vote, worship, recreate, or otherwise live life like I do. That doesn’t change who I am, and I would never want to change who they are.
Stop hating each other FFS.
What if the homophobic lifeguard sees someone drowning that “looks gay”? I don’t know if this guy can do his job.
Here’s something they can do
How many bets this asshole goes on and on about how people are too easily offended and cancel culture is out of control?
These christyboys must have such a hard time with such prejudice
Pride and prejudice
Lol
The sequel, pride and prejudice and projection.
Yes, boys… hard… Oh god, I’ve got to go sue someone now!
Right wing conservative “Christians:”
Libs are snowflakes!
Also
I’m triggered by a sequence of colors!
It’s even dumber because a rainbow doesn’t necessarily mean LGBTQ. Sometimes rainbow is just rainbow.
Kids love rainbows. I’m an adult and I love rainbows. They are literally fun colors and beautiful.
If your religion is making you hate rainbows, it might be time to take a look at your religion and the batshit stuff it teaches you.
The rainbow was hijacked from the Abrahamic religions by the homosexuals.
Instead of hating rainbows, I’m teaching my children that the LGBTQ+ community is part of shaitan’s army.
I’m even thinking that every year, for a month, we take a family vacation to Saudi Arabia to avoid the child grooming agenda in the month of June across the western world.
I’ve also been filtering all tv shows/cartoons that present us with LGBTQ+, like in bluey, that British pig show, and sesame street etc… thank God for torrents, amirite?
No worries tho, my children won’t be taught to hate, they will be taught to avoid like the black plague and to only stick with the community/ummah.
Hey, that is a pretty good way to never see your children again once they find out.
lol did you report my comment?
Nah, we Muslims have different priorities, a different culture, different way of life. It’s why we’re incredibly difficult to sway off the path.
If and when the secularists turn a Muslim into one of them, take that as a trophy. You’ve achieved almost the impossible.
The rainbow was God’s sign of the covenant with all people. Does he reject God?
Rainbows? In the sky? Where kids can see? Fucking wokeys mate, making the fucking sky GAY.
Right wing Christians (don’t put it in quotes, don’t do a No True Scotsman, they’re Christians) hate rainbows now and I can’t love it more because it ruins their precious Noah story for them.
The guy has a dope, but do people really think they hate rainbows and not what this flag is supposed to represent?
They sure as fuck complain every time they see a rainbow anywhere.
Really? Sure as fuck? Well, this should be easy for you to prove then. Or were you lying?
For example, this guy complaining that the rainbow has been ruined for religion ever since it was “secularized” but the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
I’m sure you’ll say this won’t count because this is your typical M.O.
I look forward to you berating me because actually Somewhere Over the Rainbow is about sucking cock or something.
I don’t see where in this article where it shows that “They sure as fuck complain every time they see a rainbow anywhere.”
It don’t even see where it shows this individual complaint when he sees a rainbow outside of on the flag.
Could you be more specific?
Called it.
I love that I even told you what he said and you claim you don’t see it. Try a control-F for the word 'somewhere." That should help.
Jeffery Little, who has worked for the city for 22 years, filed a lawsuit on Friday claiming he is being discriminated against for his evangelical faith by being made to stand in the same vicinity as the Progress Pride flag. Little alleges he was suspended from his role with the department’s background investigation unit last year after he took down three LGBTQ+ flags during Pride month.
The Los Angeles county board of supervisors voted last year to require the rainbow banner be flown during the month of June at government buildings, which includes lifeguard stands. Little, who claimed the flags present a “direct conflict” with his religious beliefs, fought to be placed at stations that would not fly the flag, as they did not have the right flag poles to fly any banner.
I gotta go to work so I’ll leave that to comment for myself.
Bigoted fuck
I’ve never seen a snowflake on a SoCal beach before.
It’s very rare, but we even get some from time to time east of the mountains. They don’t really ever stick, but it has happened.
They’re all over Huntington Beach
Those are ooids.
Snowflake.
“The colors, they’re too scary!”
