The fold in the flag highlights the quality of the Second Annual Pride March in Ferndale’s participants. [Image by Ryan Hutson]
Yesterday, starting at noon, participants in the Second Annual Ferndale Pride march met on the lawn outside City Hall for a some “quality” equality time and wound their way on the sidewalks through the charming Victorian village to the Fireman’s Park.
The march participants gathered at Ferndale’s Town Hall. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
The event began last year in response to Pastor Tyrel Bramwell’s sign offering healing for those who have been “hurt by LGBTQ culture” posted outside the St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Ferndale.
In 2021, Rev. Tyrel Bramwell of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Ferndale read scripture while rainbow flag waving demonstrators protested over a sign posted at his church at the First Annual Pride March in Ferndale. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Bramwell continued to post provocative signs this last year including the one posted yesterday.
A rainbow suspender wearing protester stands near the sign yesterday. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Though last year’s crowd were more confrontational with the controversial pastor, this year the crowd and the church were bathed in sunshine, rainbows and smiles.
According to a tweet by Carolyn Titus, the former editor of the town’s newspaper, “Ferndale’s second annual pride march [was] at least triple the size of last year’s. Organizers vow next year’s will be off the sidewalk and down Main Street.”
“Don’t mess with Trans kids,” reads the t-shirt worn by one half of the smiling couple walking their dogs during the protest.
This year, once the protest was over, the Pride participants enjoyed the businesses of the town.
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You actually believe that pack of LIES, called the Holy Bible most of it written Hundreds sometimes Thousands of years after the “Fact”??? The Bible is the BIGGEST selling work of Pure FICTION EVER PUBLISHED!!!!
Did you perchance forget the whole “Love thy neighbor as thyself” bit?
This is the part about fundy christians that I don’t get — it’s supposed to be all about love (for god, for others, etc..) but instead it seems to be more about being a vindictive asshole towards anyone who isn’t exactly like you.
Wrong in so many ways but spot on, truth hurts . I’m the government and I’m here to help you , crack me up. Someday these peeps will figure it out, or maybe they won’t. Keep voting in worthless piles and this is what you get, lets go Brandon! What else can we ignore.
The Democrats are a bunch of wimps. They never take a hard stand when they need to. They whine about obstruction but I’ve never seen them give up a vacation to perform a sit-in in Congress.
They should have done anything possible to cease the function of federal government until Merrick Garland was confirmed. Obstruction to his confirmation should have meant civil war.
And let’s not forget who we have to thank for Trump, the DNC. It was Hillary and her supporters in the DNC who overrode the will of their constituents in order to nominate Hillary over Bernie Sanders. And nearly every poll indicated very clearly that Bernie had a significantly better chance of defeating Trump.
I don’t share your sentiment. But I agree with your prediction. There is a backlash in the works. I support everybody being free in their own bodies and I don’t relish the backlash that is arriving. All that polarization and hate that was thrown around by the “progressive” and “woke” people was counterproductive. Hope y’all enjoyed self-righteously calling people terrible names because all you did was create more hate and anger. You didn’t heal anything by that attitude. Them mean-ass social conservatives…they didn’t disappear they just regrouped. And I don’t like them much either!
Wow Kym, you are even censoring Bible scripture now? And to this I say to you as well. “….and the Lord laughs at the wicked for He knows their time is near.” Psalm 37:13. See if you censor it AGAIN! It’s all good ya’ll know deep down how morally bankrupt ya’ll are.
All the alphabet movement is about is giving perverts cover so they can be in public and draw near to your children.
Like a Catholic priest? Numerous Christian ministers?
Careful, so called Christians shouldn’t be throwing rocks..
“It’s Christians themselves that give Christianity a bad name.”
Joe Evangelical——
Ya, unfortunately Christianity these days, especially the fundamentalist evangelicals alongside the Catholics, is basically a cover for pedophiles and other morally deranged folks to operate with a free pass. As a Christian it’s deeply disturbing. I think it’s called projection when you see people hyper focused on the ridiculous notion that “all the gays want to do is have sex with your children”, and then whoopsie a shit ton of priests and ministers preaching that viewpoint get caught for doing just that.
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” has a simple but deeper meaning than most understand. It means exactly what it says, but that would mean nobody should criticize anyone until their own house is in order, good advice, the reasoning behind it is because you should prepare to be scrutinized when casting stones. I’m open to being scrutinized, so I’ll hurl away. Besides, I start to be respectful, and then I remember how respectful the woke progressives are, so instead no quarter shall be given.
Remember, I’m a Christian, but I’m a damn sinner too.
I checked. I’ve deleted very few of your comments (see attached) None reference the Bible.
I do see in posted comments your reference to Psalm 37:13. Sometimes, comments (because of a caching system that I had to institute to keep too many visitors from breaking my system) will be held till the cache clears.
In the future, I’m happy to tell you if I’ve deleted any of your comments. A less aggressive tone will produce kinder responses.
And in the boy scouts, coaches, politicians, immigrant traffickers, and almost any occupation you can think of where people are trusted alone with children.
The hyperbole in modern political discourse isn’t helpful at all. To compare a Supreme court decision finding that the abortion issue isn’t in the purview of the federal government (a decision I don’t agree with and think there will be negative impacts beyond abortion access) to removing an explicitly enumerated right like peaceful assembly is just silly.
I have not read the entire 200+ page opinion. I’ve read a couple of interpretations from various constitutional scholars and the scariest thing to me is the damage this ruling does to our collective medical privacy.
None of it had any impact on the explicitly enumerated right to assemble, which is what a pride march is protected by.
So yes, stating that this Supreme Court finding is somehow precipitating the outlawing of pride marches is hyperbole.
…stating that this Supreme Court finding is somehow precipitating the outlawing of pride marches is hyperbole.
I think you’re smart enough to know that most Germans (NAZI sympathizers to regular farmers) did not acknowledge the horrors of their leaders as it happened, and for more than many it took years with endless bits of denial.
How many saw the writing on the wall, bud?
Know what I mean?
The backsliding of democracy is slow, most of the time, and that is what is happening here, now.
Well, doubling down on hyperbole and bringing in the Nazis is also an option.
You realize that the majority of Americans will still have broader legal access to abortion than the average European right? The liberal abortion access laws in places like California remain the most permissible in the world.
This ruling adds a reason that I feel bad bad people that live in places like Oklahoma and Mississippi, but it’s hardly the first thing that has made me feel bad for those people
I don’t think it’s hyperbole to look at historical context.
With regards to German-occupied Europe, historians highlight that governments were acutely aware of the implications of their complicity and that the general population, to varying degrees, were usually not aware of the implications of ghettoization and deportation.
With regards to general populations, the overall consensus amongst historians appears to be that many were aware of a hatred towards the Jewry but not insofar that a significant comprehension of the Nazis’ genocidal policies was reached.
If only more people had been willing to stand up to the governments insistence that they could mandate medical procedures these last few years maybe we could have slowed that creep
Can’t speak for Gorsuch, but if I’d have been Kavanaugh I would have been looking for any reason to stick a figurative knife in the back of any liberal and their ideals.
Clarence Thomas too, for that matter.
Perjury don’t matter at the federal level. Ask Obummer. “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”
Or Bill Clinton… “I did not have sexual relations with that woman!”
Or Brandon… (okay, never mind. No reason to ask Brandon to recollect anything….)
As always, the left and woke crowd lose their fucking minds for the exact wrong reasons.
Community doesn’t need to tolerate behavior that is degenerative.
You can grow your own food, and not expect the truckers to keep your shelves full, if you believe you deserve anything for pushing your pride where it don’t belong.
Do you know what did happen under Trump? The Covid pandemic, the two week lockdown that became months, federal rules requiring masks and Covid tests for travel, the “rapid development” of vaccines that previously existed, and the creation of Covid in a US funded lab, funded by a man who kept working in the government the entire time Trump was in office and is still working in the government under Biden. As Ralph Nader once said, the democrats and republicans are not two separate political parties. They are two heads of a two-headed monster. What do democrats believe in? Mandating vaccines, allowing abortion, and promoting war, at least right now. And republicans, not mandating vaccines, making abortion illegal, and promoting war? Real Brian is right about something though, sort of. Did you see the most recent Supreme Court ruling about school prayer? Yes, Trump put those people on the Supreme Court to basically dismantle a lot of US laws that have been standards for many years, that are currently at this time considered to promote democratic more than republican ideology, all though some of the court rulings are very old and what the parties supported when they were originally made was very different than their current supposed beliefs. Trump was gloating about it in his speech I saw parts of today on the news, taking full responsibility and bragging that he’d stopped abortions.
Brian, I have a question for you and I’m actually serious, because I seriously do not understand how people think. It’s kind of adding to my comment below. When your political party changes it’s beliefs on something, do you change yours as well? I just read several articles about how several years ago when passing state anti abortion laws, a lot of republican governors and politicians made statements saying that the laws should always have exemptions that allow abortion in the case of rape or incest, but recently like in the last few months they’d changed their statements and started to oppose these exemptions. I watched a video about it today and it showed a female governor saying “it’s horrible when a horrible thing happens to a person and it’s sad when a person is in a horrible situation, but being in a horrible situation doesn’t excuse doing something horrible to another person” meaning that if a woman is raped and impregnated, it’s horrible for her but she shouldn’t kill her baby, while she was explaining why the laws in her state would have no exemption in the case of rape or incest. So the party has changed their beliefs on this issue. Have you? Or have they not changed their beliefs, were they lying when they passed the law originally to get it through? Are they changing their beliefs only to “get the democrats back” as you’re describing? Please just explain without getting mad at me for asking.
I guess I could have pointed out the omission without being such a smart ass.
But it wouldn’t have been as funny to me if I didn’t.
Here’s my view:
I have gay friends. I have known and worked with one trans person. They are all good people just struggling to get through this life like anyone else and have extra burdens that I couldn’t fathom. But none of them felt it necessary to push their beliefs on me. Nor did I know any that tried to draw extra attention to themselves.
Live and let live. Get to know people outside of your circle. They may just contribute untold joy and meaning to your life.
The pastor has a right and duty in his capacity to save as many souls as he can. And the people that may be triggered by a sign have the right to ignore it and chalk it up to ignorance. Maybe some need thicker skins but the entire town of Ferndale doesn’t need to be vilified or disrupted because of a simple sign on private property.
I don’t know what you are seeing, but as a small business owner in Ferndale…I’d be seeing customers. Those folks mostly look like smiling tourists out for a good walk in the sun not folks vilifying or disrupting anyone–or at least not anymore than a line of tourists sauntering across a street can be disruptive to a local in too big of a hurry to enjoy the charming small town atmosphere of Ferndale.
Sigh… the sign has been vandalized in the past. Several commenters had negative things to say about Ferndale in last years article. Some may pop up in this years.
However, I agree, Ferndale has some excellent eateries and wonderful people that probably love a parade of any type and, as an evil capitalist, the more customers the merrier.
The usual crowd never gives up, do they? What they do not seem to understand is that pushing society to accept their lifestyle is a failure and will never work, ever. But keep trying because nobody cares if you wear a strap on or insert things in the out hole and in fact would rather not want to know what you do in the bedroom. So keep your pants on, stop hijacking rainbows, keep your morality away from children, and leave people alone because your rights stop at my property line.
First they came for the rainbows, and I did not speak out, for I am…
Then they came for my pants, and I did not speak out.
Then I got got really mad because I totally know all about how other peoples lifestyles are destined for failure…and it is really important for them to know this, so I spend my energy denigrating other people simply trying to exist so they know they are wrong.
If they are destined to fail then why are you so hot and bothered?? Just let them fail then.
Stop hijacking Christianity and “morality”. In quotes because lol, nothing you folks are saying sounds well thought out.
From a fellow Christian.
Free the rainbows from people trying to be happy and find a place in this fucked up world! How dare they!
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curlybill
1 year ago
Can this group get a permit for a parade down Main Street?
If this group keeps expanding they will need more room.
They will need permits from both the City and Caltrans, so they better start preparing for next year, soon!
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Martin
1 year ago
Just another group of people that I could care less about. Is the Rev. Bramwell gay? Perhaps not if the Gay Pride Marchers vandalized the church sign. Walking and waving your flag is fine but attacking God’s house and property are not. You want some respect, show some respect.
As a Christian: lol. The church should start showing some decency and respect. We are ALL created in gods image.
That being said vandalism is a lame and disrespectful way to make a point.
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Tim
1 year ago
Republicans complaining about mask mandates: We trust our citizens to make the right choices about their personal lives so get rid of all mandates!
Also Republicans complaining about LGBQT: We can’t trust our citizens to make the right choices about their personal lives, so let’s ban all of those types!
Wrong. Most Republicans don’t care what people do in their own bedrooms. (At least I don’t) Just keep it there. Same goes for straight people. There’s a time and place for everything and it doesn’t need to be In people’s faces. Nor does it need to be pushed on our kids.
My comment was meant to encompass popular media culture and recent news of people from LGBTQ community “preaching” so to speak, to school age children.
Anyone can be proud of who they are in a private setting, too.
And from the few pictures posted, you’re correct, I don’t see any sex acts either. Irish Pride entails alcohol? Kind of a bigoted supposition, methinks…Lol!
“St. Patrick’s Day is the fourth most popular drinking holiday, following New Year’s Eve, Christmas and the Fourth of July. Thirteen million pints of Guinness will be consumed worldwide.” https://www.cadca.org/blog/luck-irish-drinking-culture-st-patricks-day And bein’ Iresh meself, me lad, I’ll be takin whatever liberties I like wit ooehr good name.
I had forgotten about the green beer that was served on St. Patrick’s day (maybe still is, don’t go to taverns much anymore). Or getting pinched is you weren’t wearing green. Which always irritated me, because most of the kids doing the pinching weren’t Irish or most of their victims either.
Come to think of it, most were Southern Baptists. Why were they celebrating a Catholic saint?
Yeah, there’s more open debauchery in the average St. Patrick’s Day parade or in Lent-inspired Mardi Gras but don’t see any of these folks complaining about those events.
This. Mardi Gras can get crazy. Women expose their breasts to get the beads. And clearly no one here has seen some the “actions” at some college sports games (football especially). Speaking of alcohol. 🙂
I do think it is okay for white folks to gather up with their allies and have a white pride parade–think 4th of July parades celebrating the white colonists declaring their independence from Britain while still enslaving blacks and passing out chicken smallpox blankets to natives. I love a good 4th of July parade.
FYI Kym- both freed and enslaved blacks, as well as native Americans fought in the American revolution, for both sides. Therefore it can NOT be called a white pride holiday. I did not know this:
“Whether we want to point to Crispus Attucks being the first man shot down at the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, or the actions of minutemen assembling from the hills around Lexington and Concord, the evidence is plain and clear that black citizens rallied to defend their mixed communities from the British army. Individuals like Peter Salem, Lemuel Hayes, Barzillai Lew, and Salem Poor, among other noted participants, were eyewitness to events because they were fighting in them. The Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, is of specific importance because Salem Poor was officially recognized by his superiors for mortally wounding British Lieutenant-Colonel James Abercrombie, the highest-ranking officer to die in the battle. “
“Many Native American tribes fought in the Revolutionary War. The majority of these tribes fought for the British but a few fought for the Americans. Many of these tribes tried to remain neutral in the early phase of the war but when some of them came under attack by American militia, they decided to join the British.Nov 15, 2018 https://historyofmassachusetts.org › …
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War – History of Massachusetts Blog
Yes, I knew about Attucks and the Native American tribes. I’m not saying that Independence Day doesn’t have meaning for many different people. (I passionately celebrate Easter and Christmas but am not a Christian–but I am very aware that these are Christian holidays and I totally acknowledge their primary purpose). But, by in large, white culture is celebrated on the 4th of July. Just as St. Patrick’s Day is an Irish Pride day but black people can sport a clover, Native people can talk with an Irish accent, and Hispanic people can tip a Guinness and the event is still, mostly, a day of pride for Irish people so too, is Independence Day a day where we celebrate white American culture –with a marbling of other wonderful cultures.
I think you are saying that white people may have committed wrongs but so have other peoples. You’ll get no argument from me on that. Yes, biological warfare has happened before and will likely happen again.
But, the point I made was is that the 4th of July is largely a celebration of white people culture. We celebrate white people culture all the time so don’t get so bent out of shape when other cultures want to celebrate. And for god’s sake…who gets grumpy about people enjoying themselves? Hallelujah for folks enjoying life. These folks here in the photos and video are smiling and having fun, probably spending money in the local stores and don’t appear to have caused any problems. Win, win for them and for the shopkeepers of Ferndale.
Thanks for proving my point. The truth is that “pride” has been stripped from white people. Often referred to as “oppressor”, and white children are raised to feel “white guilt”, and coerced to believe they have “white privilege”…to the point where it has become reverse racism.
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Unless I am proud of being white and want to have a parade. That becomes racist. Or, I’m proud of my Christian heritage and want a parade it is considered pushing religion and discrimination against non Christians. If I’m anti abortion and want a parade I’m closed minded and hate women.
The left is all for parades and protests only if it supports their agenda and viewpoint. The left is the most intolerant of those who have a different point of view. On the other hand, the right may disagree, but doesn’t strive to ban any parade or protest they disagree with.
“Doesn’t strive to ban any parade or protest they disagree with”. Hmmm…
Btw the aclu, a frequent boogeyman of the right, has fought for the rights of literal nazis to March in public.
I’m white. I’m proud of my Norwegian and French ancestry but unfortunately white pride parades tend to attract people who are proud of being white and also hate everyone who is not a wasp. So you won’t catch me organizing one of those.
What is so scary about a tiny “parade” in ferndale full of Americans who are happy with who they are. To contrast this with most “white pride parades” where there is a lot of hate directed towards nonwhites.
I know you’ll want to bring up blm, please do I’m waiting.
Because you asked. I believe BLM has the right to protest or have legal parades with the proper permits. What unfortunately goes with their protests is vandalism, looting, burning down businesses, etc. If ANY group has a protest or parade legally without crime they have my blessing whether I agree or not. I just request the same for things I believe in that others disagree with.
For sure I agree, although from what I’ve seen a lot of claims about the blm protests being out of control destructive riots are without merit. Or the fire was fueled by mercenary instigators. Either way I don’t support violent protests no matter the cause. what are your thoughts on Jan 6th out of curiosity?
I certainly agree it was bad. I don’t believe in violence by anyone for any reason. To blame it on Trump is bogus, since it has been verified that for a long time prior he offered to activate the National Guard, yet both the Capital Police and the DC Mayor refused the offer, likely only because it was Trump, who they hated who offered.
Also, in condemning the Jan 6th incident, I condemn the major riots that caused many injuries, deaths, loss of businesses, homes, was rampant with looting, etc. In the grand scale, the facts are clear that the riots were far more costly, dangerous to far more people and in general they were like Mount Everest compared to the relatively small uprising at the Capital.
It saddens me that so much time has been spent on the Jan 6 event which was one day and basically no time has been spent bringing charges against those who were part of the months and months of riots. Both deserve prosecution to the fullest extent of the law for all who broke the law.
Not that I don’t sympathize that there are elements of the left that are draconian…but does “take a knee” ring any bells? That poor guy, a very fine quarterback according to people who pay attention to these things, can’t get a job. And book banning?–I love when folks won’t let Ruby Bridges talk about how terrifying it was to be a six year old black child integrating a white school. Remember the counter protest in Charlottesville where one woman died and multiple were injured because conservative rhetoric encourages rage at protesters? Staten Island parade (pretty much the I’m Proud of being straight and white parade) still bans gay marchers: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/nyregion/staten-island-st-patrick-parade-lgbtq.html Those are just the ones I can think of.
I agree there are some right wing extremists out there. It’s unfortunate to say the least. But it was leftist rioters who nearly burned Berkeley to the ground over the invitation to a conservative speaker to a Republican club meeting. This is the general way leftist “protests” go far more often than right wingers. It is just like a TV program that you don’t like. Turn the channel instead of violently demanding it be canceled. If you don’t want to listen to a speaker, don’t tune in or go to the meeting. That’s what I do whenever Biden tries to bumble his way incoherently through a speech.
If Republicans are so tolerant, why were the log cabin Republicans (a gay group) banned from the Texas GOP convention? I don’t think they were planning on an orgy nor were there any kids there.
Equality is what we’re supposed to have, “equal protection under the law”.
Equity is what we’re getting.
The left thinks it’s ok for them and them only to choose who to favor.
Wait, I thought you were a Libertarian who was all about letting each individual make their own choices about everything, including freedom of speech and freedom of association? Or is that freedom only applicable to people who look, think and act exactly like you do?
One set of people have a month to parade their beliefs before everyone, yet one man has to go to the SCOTUS to express his privately.
SCOTUS sides with a high school football coach in a First Amendment case about prayer at the 50-yard-line. In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS says the public school district violated the coach’s free speech and free exercise rights when it barred him from praying on the field after games.
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.“
Farrakhan spoke publicly frequently among the crowds. So does the Squad, Omar and friends.
So if it’s a parade about Jesus, it’s a public spectacle,
But if it’s about LBGTQ, it’s not?
And the government employers sure get involved in favor of LGBTQ affairs.
From one Christian to another…
Has it occurred to you that queer folk might not give a damn about the Bible (due to the Bible thumping haters) and at the same time posses a valid moral compass?
Keep making it hard for me to identify as a Christian I guess….
People are often shocked to find out my religious beliefs simply because I care for the well-being of all living beings.
Seriously the fact that I, as a compassionate and helpful community member, have a hard time getting the idea across that yeah, I’m a Christian, this is what we are supposed to do, should raise some serious red flags concerning the state/health of the modern church as we know it t.
That verse always gets forgotten in the “put prayer back in school” or other public spheres. I say that as someone old enough to remember having to pray in the classroom every morning.
One set of people have been persecuted, criminalized, vilified, attacked, and killed for being who they are in this country. And it ain’t the Christians.
If that had been a Muslim praying on the 50-yard line, I’d be willing to bet you wouldn’t be quite so supportive. Nor would the Supreme Court.
Faith should be intensely personal. Making it a public display to pressure the people you supervise in a non-religious setting is demagoguery.
What’s a bit laughable about this is that if it had been a black athlete kneeling quietly on the sidelines during the anthem, they would’ve been demonized by the same folks who applaud the coach for kneeling on the 50 yard line.
Or just maybe they are praying for the safely of the players, or saying thank you for the safe game just played.
Maybe a prayer for a child with a need.
Maybe God isn’t bothered as easy as you are.
Really? No churches set on fire or defaced?
Including the one in Washington, DC after the Trump speech?
Buildings offering non abortion services being attacked because they are perceived as being Christian.
No attempts at all to remove Christian values from society?
Who are you kidding?
Some people think they do, so they want to crush them.
I know some atheists that have better values than some Christians do.
But you and I don’t have the same definition of a Christian.
What you call Christian I call religion,
not the same thing.
I don’t defend religion.
Separate out attacks on churches that were racist-driven from those that were simply anti-Christian. About 5 seconds of searching will give you some comparison.
Compare the number of abortion clinics attacked to those faith-based pregnancy centers.
There have been attempts to restore the separation of church and state — you know, what’s actually required by the Constitution?
And you might be mis-remembering the church damaged in DC. The damage occurred the day before Trump had the group of protesters in front of St. John’s tear-gassed and cleared away for his photo op where he held a bible upside down. The church wasn’t happy at all about him being there.
You’re correct about the timing.
And Trump isn’t a biblical scholar by any means.
That doesn’t justify setting it on fire.
AND there’s no justification for violence against any LGBTQ+ persons either.
You can’t say that a gay person who seeks out a Christian bakery and demands a gay theme cake couldn’t find a bakery to accommodate him and wasn’t trying to force his lifestyle on the Christian bakery with the intent of causing conflict.
It would be easy for each side to live a lifestyle of their own choosing.
I agree that there’s no excuse for violence (or arson) regardless of the motivation behind it or the intended target.
There are some people of every persuasion and philosophy that actively seek out ways to be aggrieved in order to push a particular point of view or to justify a sense of victimhood and I do find them annoying.
However there are also real victims of discrimination and persecution and trying to lump everyone into the same category isn’t productive towards solving our many social ills.
Or they are much more “situational” than they would like to admit (see support for the former president, the walking incarnation of the 7 deadly sins).
Also, see the cherry-picking from the Bible.
Leviticus has very strict dietary laws, but Christians who love to quote the verse from Leviticus condemning homosexuality often quote it while at that church BBQ or Crab feed. There are a lot of things Christians ignore from Leviticus and most of the Bible.
Or that one from Psalms saying how happy it is to dash the infants (of their enemies) heads against a wall.
This says it all. No one is having abortions because of convenience. It is a very personal and extremely difficult decision not made lightly.
Here’s a thought: we live in a hells cape of fuck you got mine capitalism where the only lives valued are the unborn. Sure ban abortion but keep stripping away any chance at a decent life away from people in the name of corporate freedumbs.
Elizabeth Warren, AOC and others right now are conspiring on spending BILLIONS of dollars to create abortion clinics on federal lands.
Why aren’t they thinking how to spend that money helping the impoverished pregnant mothers get better housing and childcare?
Companies now want to give $4000K to assist in abortions but not to assist in childcare, ask yourself why? Why don’t they use the money to open a childcare center at work?
Is it because you’ll be a more dedicated slave to the company, answer their every call, instead of putting a child to bed at night?
Or is because they just care about you, more than their profits?
Woman, you make a better worker ant when you don’t have children.
Lame. The whole bible is basically a historical record of the evolution of religious values. The Ten Commandments is pretty solid as well as my personal favorite the sermon on the mount.
Just because the vast majority of Christianity is either exploitative or ignorant doesn’t mean that it is intrinsically valueless.
These folks came from out of town to harass a preacher! No different than going to a judges house and doing the same thing. It’s not a libertarian issue, nor am I one. Nor am I religious. It’s that these particular homosexuals are without restraint, dignity or manners and are disturbing the peace.
Uhh pastors and judges are public figures and servants. Their decisions that affect the lives of others should not open them to harassment of any kind? What happened to this country I thought that’s what we were all about?
Should Martin Luther have just left that church door alone and sat back and watched Christianity rot???
some societies pay attention to the clear lessons of history, that accepting open sexual degeneracy is the herald of a civilization’s downfall.
which could very well be why it’s being promoted in the west. and judging by our birthrate crisis, it’s done its job.
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Cetan Bluesky
1 year ago
I am Atheist, Queer and Proabortion.
I am NOT morally bankrupt. As a matter of FACT I am often told by Christians and other people’s of faith of what a good Christian I am.
I am a decent and responsible individual. Religion has nothing to do with it. I live by a “code”, harm no thing. Very simple. Don’t need anything else to guide me conscience. If you need to have something like religion to guide you to your better self, then its likely you also need professional therapy.
Keep your religion to yourself!
Is a potato raised by a farmer/rancher as food for people?
Is a chicken raised by a farmer/rancher as food for people?
To a chef in a restaurant are not both prepared for its human patrons?
Although I am personally vegetarian, I understand that anything grown for food is nothing but a crop and there is no need to consider how they are cared for by the farmer/rancher. It’s just food after all. PETA is just getting their panties tied in knots over how to treat food.
My comment was in reference to people who try to deride vegetarians (I do eat occasional meat/fish BTW) by saying that killing a plant is the same as killing an animal. Yes, it’s the same in the sense that they were both intended as human food. But to say it is the same in other ways is like saying mammals are the same as plants. It’s another level of killing, regardless of whether you condemn or support it.
Right. Because hey, the more people waving the rainbow around the more adolescent girls can do just like their friends are doing and start T therapy, and make plans to chop off their breasts.
Recently, I’ve read a lot of articles saying that they should give gay men specific warnings about Monkeypox but carefully, without stigmatizing them. Also, a bunch of California counties just got together and put out a joint warning about Monkeypox. The list of counties seemed to include counties south of and east of Humboldt but not us. Do you know that the WHO just declared Monkeypox to be a pandemic, and there’s articles being written saying the US government and media aren’t taking it seriously enough? Here are some interesting “facts” from recent articles: The CDC has made it so incredibly difficult to get patients tested for Monkeypox, difficult to the tune of staying on the phone for hours, so most doctors won’t do it, which has made it difficult for patients to get tested, which has made patients write news articles and doctors go on rants on Twitter. Most articles say not to refer to Monkeypox as a gay man’s STD, other than one just published written by a gay man who says that they have to call it that, who describes his own experience when he broke out with a rash in a certain part of his body and couldn’t get tested. Then, there’s the article called “Biden handling Monkeypox like Trump handled Covid,” and already, anyone who diverges from whatever the official story is, and I’m not sure what it is because of conflicting articles, is being called a conspiracy theorist. Just, please, keep a close eye on this situation and don’t only publish the next short and free of information press release the county releases, without a story or context.
It’s pretty apparent that it’s very much a homosexual thing. Same thing with marching and other such nonsense. The most celebrated class of individuals constantly whining and often shrieking about how shunned and threatened they are by the same society that puts them on a pedestal, while at the same time bragging about their sexual behavior. It’s truly a sight to behold.
Fact check . Because you lying. And what is the motivation to pinning hiv spread on heteros?
Took me a one second Google search to confirm what I already knew:
“HIV continues to have a disproportionate impact on certain populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities, gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men and transgender women.3,4,5 “
Well, in SF Castro many Gay and Bi are trading sex for desperately needed drugs and not all that concerned about what they may catch as long as it comes with a fix.
If fentanyl doesn’t scare them, you think monkeypox does?
All scientific resources say, Monkey Pox is not actually a sexually transmitted disease like HIV, It spreads by close contact, anyone can get it by being in close proximity to someone who has it, or if your in Africa, you can get it from rodents
I know this, I have made five videos about this already. As I said there is an NPR article where a whistleblower calls out the FDA and claims they only have the case count they have because they’re lying about how many tests they did and discouraged drs from testing. I suspect they only tested a few very sick gay guys. Two thousand samples pending waiting to be tested, numerous personal accounts of people saying they have it and can’t get tested, it’s really awful, and look at the article called monkeypox vaccines are not for the masses or whatever it’s called that I read part of in one of my videos. It’s a truly despicable situation already and one doesn’t have to dig to deep to find out how bad it already is. Like, google search the word monkeypox, read some articles, then search that word with other key words like vaccine or cases or pandemic or – great one – Russia. Try that one first actually.
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trout fisher
1 year ago
Lets send christian extremists to Saudi Arabia where Sharia Law is the rule of the land. They’ll be happy there, and we can maintain our country and wonderful constitution in a complete state of separation of church and state.
New reality show idea. Drop off 5 participants from the ferndale pride parade and 5 members of the Lutheran church in Saudi Arabia and see who gets out alive.
I know, right?! The Constitution as written is a very enlightening document in the history of man. Let’s continue to use it as written and not find bullshit that’s not in there to rule us, mmkay?!!
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trout fisher
1 year ago
Rainbows are God having gay sex…….just kidding…. there are no gods
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Corporate Serfdom
1 year ago
If you can be prideful, you can most definitely be fallen.
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Kurt Russel
1 year ago
I haven’t seen anything this normal since the G7 meeting
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Kurt Russel
1 year ago
Children need to be forced to look at this all the time so that they can explore their own sexual identities to express their best selves without hate and judgement.
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Kurt Russel
1 year ago
Don’t ask any questions or fed-backed Antifa rioters will attack your home and really make you pay for your lack of faith.
When you deleted Brian’s comment you also deleted my 2 responses including a very long thing I typed out asking him if when the Republican Party flips it’s opinion on issues if he also does, and I am sad that I won’t be able to see the answer to my question. Brian, if the Republican Party suddenly changes it’s opinion on an issue, do you immediately also change your opinion? For example, recently changing their opinion from saying that victims of rape or incest should be exempt from anti abortion laws to saying they should not be exempt and forced to carry their rapists children. Did your opinion change with them? Why did their opinion change? As a republican can you explain? This is actually a serious question. I have a hard time understanding how other people think.
I have said for years on RHBB that I have eliminated belief from my operating systems.
Belief is the most detrimental old-world practice performed against truth, as belief is the lack of truth.
I was a Republucan when Trump was nominated as GOP presidential primary, when he was elected I left that party as I thought Republicans were smarter than to nominate such a fool.
I’ve been through 4 political parties during my voting tenure in the US.
I’ll continue to change to the one that best represents my idea of the best way forward for society.
Brian, the comment I was replying to was you saying that the republicans were now going to make democrats suffer because of THEIR covid lockdowns and other policies and something like “and you thought it was gonna happen under Trump!” It seemed to be a “we are getting you back” kind of comment which is why I assumed you identified as republican.
So what’s up with the “we are now getting the revenge on democrats for Covid lockdowns…. you thought the revenge would happen under trump” because the covid lockdowns happened under trump and Fauci was funding the lab when Biden was the Vice President, when Trump was president, and now is still working for the government under Biden, nobody likes my Nader quote so I won’t repeat it because I’ll be blamed for the Iraq war which was perpetuated by both democrats and republicans, god what a mess. I wish they’d stop with the pandemics though, although I like to listen to Phish, I am not down with disease.
Well sounds like i need to get my Unite the Right Rally going in Arcata.
Since the Arcata crowd wants to come to Ferndale. Since no one in Ferndale wants these types coming in and trashing the towns values and culture, im sure arcata will not mind our White Supremist March. We will be bringing Swaskia arm bands, new Khakies, and will be waving our favorite flags that stand for our values. Since Arcata thinks this is alright, id love to spead other cultures to arcata. Maybe next we can roll out the rugs and have our daily call to Islamic Prayer. Pretty soon we can take over arcata and rename is the Peoples Islamic Republic.
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Alf
1 year ago
It’s fascinating how so many look so negatively at this Ferndale pastor. Although his signs seem to some to be harsh toward the LGBTQ community, please be reminded that as a pastor, he cannot condone that which the Bible clearly states is not according to God’s plan. Remember the article some time back about the torn sign at the LGBTQ church in Eureka? Although the vandalism was a terrible thing, the reality is that the church has chosen not to believe the Bible. If there is teaching contrary to what the Bible teaches anywhere from Genesis to Revelation it is not one I would choose, but it is still their right to exist in peace.
To be inclusive in a Church setting is very simple. If you want to join, you must know what you are joining. Then, by joining, you strive to support the beliefs of that church in faith and lifestyle. It’s simple. Church is not meant to be inclusive to those who choose alternative beliefs and lifestyle. It is supposed to try to reach out to all, but not to be inclusive of those contrary to its beliefs.
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This march will be illegal in a couple more years.
Make the most of it.
“….but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for He knows their day is coming.” Psalm 37:13
The god of love is talking to YOU
You actually believe that pack of LIES, called the Holy Bible most of it written Hundreds sometimes Thousands of years after the “Fact”??? The Bible is the BIGGEST selling work of Pure FICTION EVER PUBLISHED!!!!
Looks like g*d is downvoting you!
Did you perchance forget the whole “Love thy neighbor as thyself” bit?
This is the part about fundy christians that I don’t get — it’s supposed to be all about love (for god, for others, etc..) but instead it seems to be more about being a vindictive asshole towards anyone who isn’t exactly like you.
Wrong in so many ways but spot on, truth hurts . I’m the government and I’m here to help you , crack me up. Someday these peeps will figure it out, or maybe they won’t. Keep voting in worthless piles and this is what you get, lets go Brandon! What else can we ignore.
Again, blaming Biden. When will you stop? You want to get pussy grabbing tRump back in office?
Unfortunately YES They DO!!!!
When the courts get done with Donald he won’t be running for anything.
I guarantee Donald will run;
He’ll be running for Russia.
Putin will accept to piss-off the US.
10 bucks
The Democrats are a bunch of wimps. They never take a hard stand when they need to. They whine about obstruction but I’ve never seen them give up a vacation to perform a sit-in in Congress.
They should have done anything possible to cease the function of federal government until Merrick Garland was confirmed. Obstruction to his confirmation should have meant civil war.
And let’s not forget who we have to thank for Trump, the DNC. It was Hillary and her supporters in the DNC who overrode the will of their constituents in order to nominate Hillary over Bernie Sanders. And nearly every poll indicated very clearly that Bernie had a significantly better chance of defeating Trump.
I don’t share your sentiment. But I agree with your prediction. There is a backlash in the works. I support everybody being free in their own bodies and I don’t relish the backlash that is arriving. All that polarization and hate that was thrown around by the “progressive” and “woke” people was counterproductive. Hope y’all enjoyed self-righteously calling people terrible names because all you did was create more hate and anger. You didn’t heal anything by that attitude. Them mean-ass social conservatives…they didn’t disappear they just regrouped. And I don’t like them much either!
Wow Kym, you are even censoring Bible scripture now? And to this I say to you as well. “….and the Lord laughs at the wicked for He knows their time is near.” Psalm 37:13. See if you censor it AGAIN! It’s all good ya’ll know deep down how morally bankrupt ya’ll are.
All the alphabet movement is about is giving perverts cover so they can be in public and draw near to your children.
Like a Catholic priest? Numerous Christian ministers?
Careful, so called Christians shouldn’t be throwing rocks..
“It’s Christians themselves that give Christianity a bad name.”
Joe Evangelical——
Truth.
Ya, unfortunately Christianity these days, especially the fundamentalist evangelicals alongside the Catholics, is basically a cover for pedophiles and other morally deranged folks to operate with a free pass. As a Christian it’s deeply disturbing. I think it’s called projection when you see people hyper focused on the ridiculous notion that “all the gays want to do is have sex with your children”, and then whoopsie a shit ton of priests and ministers preaching that viewpoint get caught for doing just that.
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” has a simple but deeper meaning than most understand. It means exactly what it says, but that would mean nobody should criticize anyone until their own house is in order, good advice, the reasoning behind it is because you should prepare to be scrutinized when casting stones. I’m open to being scrutinized, so I’ll hurl away. Besides, I start to be respectful, and then I remember how respectful the woke progressives are, so instead no quarter shall be given.
Remember, I’m a Christian, but I’m a damn sinner too.
You forgot rabbis
I checked. I’ve deleted very few of your comments (see attached) None reference the Bible.
I do see in posted comments your reference to Psalm 37:13. Sometimes, comments (because of a caching system that I had to institute to keep too many visitors from breaking my system) will be held till the cache clears.
In the future, I’m happy to tell you if I’ve deleted any of your comments. A less aggressive tone will produce kinder responses.
1911 is certainly p3nis obsessed, isn’t he?
More child raping perverts in the christian church , than micro plastic particles in the ocean
And in the boy scouts, coaches, politicians, immigrant traffickers, and almost any occupation you can think of where people are trusted alone with children.
Even Biden’s son stands accused.
There are many wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Why will marches be illegal?
Q: Why would a woman choosing what happens with her body be illegal?
A: WE ARE LOSING CHOICE AND FREEDOM TO CHOOSE.
(Marches will be welcome, like in North Korea, but not gay pride marches.)
The hyperbole in modern political discourse isn’t helpful at all. To compare a Supreme court decision finding that the abortion issue isn’t in the purview of the federal government (a decision I don’t agree with and think there will be negative impacts beyond abortion access) to removing an explicitly enumerated right like peaceful assembly is just silly.
Did you read C Thomas opinion?
This after his wife plotted with Trump for a coup.
After Kavanaugh and Gorsuch committed perjury.
None of that is hyperbole, it’s facts.
But what about Putin?
I have not read the entire 200+ page opinion. I’ve read a couple of interpretations from various constitutional scholars and the scariest thing to me is the damage this ruling does to our collective medical privacy.
None of it had any impact on the explicitly enumerated right to assemble, which is what a pride march is protected by.
So yes, stating that this Supreme Court finding is somehow precipitating the outlawing of pride marches is hyperbole.
…stating that this Supreme Court finding is somehow precipitating the outlawing of pride marches is hyperbole.
I think you’re smart enough to know that most Germans (NAZI sympathizers to regular farmers) did not acknowledge the horrors of their leaders as it happened, and for more than many it took years with endless bits of denial.
How many saw the writing on the wall, bud?
Know what I mean?
The backsliding of democracy is slow, most of the time, and that is what is happening here, now.
Well, doubling down on hyperbole and bringing in the Nazis is also an option.
You realize that the majority of Americans will still have broader legal access to abortion than the average European right? The liberal abortion access laws in places like California remain the most permissible in the world.
This ruling adds a reason that I feel bad bad people that live in places like Oklahoma and Mississippi, but it’s hardly the first thing that has made me feel bad for those people
I don’t think it’s hyperbole to look at historical context.
With regards to German-occupied Europe, historians highlight that governments were acutely aware of the implications of their complicity and that the general population, to varying degrees, were usually not aware of the implications of ghettoization and deportation.
With regards to general populations, the overall consensus amongst historians appears to be that many were aware of a hatred towards the Jewry but not insofar that a significant comprehension of the Nazis’ genocidal policies was reached.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_of_the_Holocaust_in_Nazi_Germany_and_German-occupied_Europe
Europe has a general rule of around 12 weeks, no questions asked – that’s better than 26 States in 2 months.
Europe also has a 24 week rule if 2 doctors agree, and further allowances if there are reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Europe
Your concept of what will stay in SOME US States is optimistic at best, but your statement that most of US will have better access is false.
You KNOW the Christian extremism is pushing for a NATIONWIDE ban in the US.
The fact is we are “backsliding” in democratic ideals;
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/01/1059896434/united-states-backsliding-democracy-donald-trump-january-6-capitol-attack
If we aren’t moving forward with freedoms to choose, we are moving backwards.
So, I disagree that I’m using any hyperbolic concepts.
If only more people had been willing to stand up to the governments insistence that they could mandate medical procedures these last few years maybe we could have slowed that creep
Can’t speak for Gorsuch, but if I’d have been Kavanaugh I would have been looking for any reason to stick a figurative knife in the back of any liberal and their ideals.
Clarence Thomas too, for that matter.
Perjury don’t matter at the federal level. Ask Obummer. “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”
Or Bill Clinton… “I did not have sexual relations with that woman!”
Or Brandon… (okay, never mind. No reason to ask Brandon to recollect anything….)
Or Hillary Clinton. “Russian Collusion…”
Or Adam Schiff. “Russian Collusion part deux”
Or Jerry Nadler. Did you shit your pants?
“No!”
Or any Democrat in the last 50+ years.
“We’re gonna give you free shit!”
I’ve got no reason to give respect where it isn’t earned.
Nailed it!
As always, the left and woke crowd lose their fucking minds for the exact wrong reasons.
Community doesn’t need to tolerate behavior that is degenerative.
You can grow your own food, and not expect the truckers to keep your shelves full, if you believe you deserve anything for pushing your pride where it don’t belong.
Community doesn’t need to tolerate behavior that is degenerative.
How Hitler of you.
It’s almost like another holocaust
what is a woman, brian?
Do you know what did happen under Trump? The Covid pandemic, the two week lockdown that became months, federal rules requiring masks and Covid tests for travel, the “rapid development” of vaccines that previously existed, and the creation of Covid in a US funded lab, funded by a man who kept working in the government the entire time Trump was in office and is still working in the government under Biden. As Ralph Nader once said, the democrats and republicans are not two separate political parties. They are two heads of a two-headed monster. What do democrats believe in? Mandating vaccines, allowing abortion, and promoting war, at least right now. And republicans, not mandating vaccines, making abortion illegal, and promoting war? Real Brian is right about something though, sort of. Did you see the most recent Supreme Court ruling about school prayer? Yes, Trump put those people on the Supreme Court to basically dismantle a lot of US laws that have been standards for many years, that are currently at this time considered to promote democratic more than republican ideology, all though some of the court rulings are very old and what the parties supported when they were originally made was very different than their current supposed beliefs. Trump was gloating about it in his speech I saw parts of today on the news, taking full responsibility and bragging that he’d stopped abortions.
Brian, I have a question for you and I’m actually serious, because I seriously do not understand how people think. It’s kind of adding to my comment below. When your political party changes it’s beliefs on something, do you change yours as well? I just read several articles about how several years ago when passing state anti abortion laws, a lot of republican governors and politicians made statements saying that the laws should always have exemptions that allow abortion in the case of rape or incest, but recently like in the last few months they’d changed their statements and started to oppose these exemptions. I watched a video about it today and it showed a female governor saying “it’s horrible when a horrible thing happens to a person and it’s sad when a person is in a horrible situation, but being in a horrible situation doesn’t excuse doing something horrible to another person” meaning that if a woman is raped and impregnated, it’s horrible for her but she shouldn’t kill her baby, while she was explaining why the laws in her state would have no exemption in the case of rape or incest. So the party has changed their beliefs on this issue. Have you? Or have they not changed their beliefs, were they lying when they passed the law originally to get it through? Are they changing their beliefs only to “get the democrats back” as you’re describing? Please just explain without getting mad at me for asking.
I have said for years that the best thing individuals can do to improve themselves and society for the long term is:
Eliminate belief from your lives.
All beliefs are detrimental to truth, as belief is the lack of truth.
I was a registered Republican when Trump was nominated as GOP presidential candidate.
I swiftly moved to Democrat as I could not associate myself with Trumps idiocy (to be really nice)
I have been through 4 different political parties in my voting age here in the US.
I will continue to move and change to the party with the best argued policies for the US Constitution, which is a liberal document.
Fascist, authoritarian, theocracy. It’s coming folks.
I don’t know if you know this but your ignorance is showing
How so? Or are you just another delusional “insert political party here”?
A rainbow suspender wearing__________stands near the sign yesterday….
?
A man who will now think twice against getting pregnant?
Or are we running out of appropriate pronouns now?
Fixed
Thank you, Kym.
I guess I could have pointed out the omission without being such a smart ass.
But it wouldn’t have been as funny to me if I didn’t.
Here’s my view:
I have gay friends. I have known and worked with one trans person. They are all good people just struggling to get through this life like anyone else and have extra burdens that I couldn’t fathom. But none of them felt it necessary to push their beliefs on me. Nor did I know any that tried to draw extra attention to themselves.
Live and let live. Get to know people outside of your circle. They may just contribute untold joy and meaning to your life.
The pastor has a right and duty in his capacity to save as many souls as he can. And the people that may be triggered by a sign have the right to ignore it and chalk it up to ignorance. Maybe some need thicker skins but the entire town of Ferndale doesn’t need to be vilified or disrupted because of a simple sign on private property.
I don’t know what you are seeing, but as a small business owner in Ferndale…I’d be seeing customers. Those folks mostly look like smiling tourists out for a good walk in the sun not folks vilifying or disrupting anyone–or at least not anymore than a line of tourists sauntering across a street can be disruptive to a local in too big of a hurry to enjoy the charming small town atmosphere of Ferndale.
Sigh… the sign has been vandalized in the past. Several commenters had negative things to say about Ferndale in last years article. Some may pop up in this years.
However, I agree, Ferndale has some excellent eateries and wonderful people that probably love a parade of any type and, as an evil capitalist, the more customers the merrier.
Context .
The usual crowd never gives up, do they? What they do not seem to understand is that pushing society to accept their lifestyle is a failure and will never work, ever. But keep trying because nobody cares if you wear a strap on or insert things in the out hole and in fact would rather not want to know what you do in the bedroom. So keep your pants on, stop hijacking rainbows, keep your morality away from children, and leave people alone because your rights stop at my property line.
Seems to have worked
https://news.gallup.com/poll/350486/record-high-support-same-sex-marriage.aspx
Same sex marriages rarely procreate
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Yay, we pulled one over on god and stole the rainbow, its our rainbow, we are going to keep it. Hurray for the gays!
“Stop hijacking rainbows”.
First they came for the rainbows, and I did not speak out, for I am…
Then they came for my pants, and I did not speak out.
Then I got got really mad because I totally know all about how other peoples lifestyles are destined for failure…and it is really important for them to know this, so I spend my energy denigrating other people simply trying to exist so they know they are wrong.
If they are destined to fail then why are you so hot and bothered?? Just let them fail then.
Stop hijacking Christianity and “morality”. In quotes because lol, nothing you folks are saying sounds well thought out.
From a fellow Christian.
Free the rainbows from people trying to be happy and find a place in this fucked up world! How dare they!
Can this group get a permit for a parade down Main Street?
If this group keeps expanding they will need more room.
They will need permits from both the City and Caltrans, so they better start preparing for next year, soon!
Just another group of people that I could care less about. Is the Rev. Bramwell gay? Perhaps not if the Gay Pride Marchers vandalized the church sign. Walking and waving your flag is fine but attacking God’s house and property are not. You want some respect, show some respect.
God is petty vengeful moron who’s always attacking random people, and his cult followers have burnt down African American churches from the get go.
Calling God, a vengeful moron is a pretty rotten statement. I bet you have never read the Bible. You are just adding to the fire!
As a Christian: lol. The church should start showing some decency and respect. We are ALL created in gods image.
That being said vandalism is a lame and disrespectful way to make a point.
Republicans complaining about mask mandates: We trust our citizens to make the right choices about their personal lives so get rid of all mandates!
Also Republicans complaining about LGBQT: We can’t trust our citizens to make the right choices about their personal lives, so let’s ban all of those types!
Wrong. Most Republicans don’t care what people do in their own bedrooms. (At least I don’t) Just keep it there. Same goes for straight people. There’s a time and place for everything and it doesn’t need to be In people’s faces. Nor does it need to be pushed on our kids.
I’m not seeing any sex acts in this event. Looks like any Irish pride parade with less alcohol. Being proud of who you are is not “pushing” anything.
My comment was meant to encompass popular media culture and recent news of people from LGBTQ community “preaching” so to speak, to school age children.
Anyone can be proud of who they are in a private setting, too.
And from the few pictures posted, you’re correct, I don’t see any sex acts either. Irish Pride entails alcohol? Kind of a bigoted supposition, methinks…Lol!
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“St. Patrick’s Day is the fourth most popular drinking holiday, following New Year’s Eve, Christmas and the Fourth of July. Thirteen million pints of Guinness will be consumed worldwide.” https://www.cadca.org/blog/luck-irish-drinking-culture-st-patricks-day And bein’ Iresh meself, me lad, I’ll be takin whatever liberties I like wit ooehr good name.
I had forgotten about the green beer that was served on St. Patrick’s day (maybe still is, don’t go to taverns much anymore). Or getting pinched is you weren’t wearing green. Which always irritated me, because most of the kids doing the pinching weren’t Irish or most of their victims either.
Come to think of it, most were Southern Baptists. Why were they celebrating a Catholic saint?
Why do atheists celebrate Christmas?
Xmas is a holiday.
The whole thing was hijacked from a pagan ceremony by the Church. They even got this Jesus’
dudes birthday wrong.
My dad’s favorite holidays are Christmas and Easter…
That’s when he likes to be acknowledged, especially…
He’s an agnostic…
(He’s playing it safe)
That is funny cause my favorite holidays are July 4th and memorial day.
But then again I am a patriot.
Now I’m needing a pint, lass!
😂oh kimmy u go girl!
Yeah, there’s more open debauchery in the average St. Patrick’s Day parade or in Lent-inspired Mardi Gras but don’t see any of these folks complaining about those events.
This. Mardi Gras can get crazy. Women expose their breasts to get the beads. And clearly no one here has seen some the “actions” at some college sports games (football especially). Speaking of alcohol. 🙂
And end up pregnant.
And end up pregnant.
Exactly
So are saying it’s ok for a bunch of white people to gather up and have a white pride parade? Or would you call them white supremist?
I do think it is okay for white folks to gather up with their allies and have a white pride parade–think 4th of July parades celebrating the white colonists declaring their independence from Britain while still enslaving blacks and passing out
chickensmallpox blankets to natives. I love a good 4th of July parade.If only it was only chicken pox…
It was small pox.
You’re right. I fixed it.
White colonists? You mean Spanish and British colonists? I’m neither and I’m white…
Germans, Scandinavians, French,… do you need the full list?
FYI Kym- both freed and enslaved blacks, as well as native Americans fought in the American revolution, for both sides. Therefore it can NOT be called a white pride holiday. I did not know this:
“Whether we want to point to Crispus Attucks being the first man shot down at the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, or the actions of minutemen assembling from the hills around Lexington and Concord, the evidence is plain and clear that black citizens rallied to defend their mixed communities from the British army. Individuals like Peter Salem, Lemuel Hayes, Barzillai Lew, and Salem Poor, among other noted participants, were eyewitness to events because they were fighting in them. The Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, is of specific importance because Salem Poor was officially recognized by his superiors for mortally wounding British Lieutenant-Colonel James Abercrombie, the highest-ranking officer to die in the battle. “
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/fighting-freedom-african-americans-during-american-revolution
“Many Native American tribes fought in the Revolutionary War. The majority of these tribes fought for the British but a few fought for the Americans. Many of these tribes tried to remain neutral in the early phase of the war but when some of them came under attack by American militia, they decided to join the British.Nov 15, 2018
https://historyofmassachusetts.org › …
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War – History of Massachusetts Blog
Yes, I knew about Attucks and the Native American tribes. I’m not saying that Independence Day doesn’t have meaning for many different people. (I passionately celebrate Easter and Christmas but am not a Christian–but I am very aware that these are Christian holidays and I totally acknowledge their primary purpose). But, by in large, white culture is celebrated on the 4th of July. Just as St. Patrick’s Day is an Irish Pride day but black people can sport a clover, Native people can talk with an Irish accent, and Hispanic people can tip a Guinness and the event is still, mostly, a day of pride for Irish people so too, is Independence Day a day where we celebrate white American culture –with a marbling of other wonderful cultures.
You don’t have to be a Christian to be a good and moral person. Character and decency preceded Christianity.
Well said, Ernie.
Absolutely Ernie. 💪
If religion was to help build morals as is often stated, let them not forget that religion is man-made, so man had morals before religion.
The whites didn’t invent slavery and FYI, sLavery was perpetrated by Africans, on Africans.
Biological Warfare has a long history as well.
Those pox blankets were the modern equivalent of vaccinations.
People are too naive.
I think you are saying that white people may have committed wrongs but so have other peoples. You’ll get no argument from me on that. Yes, biological warfare has happened before and will likely happen again.
But, the point I made was is that the 4th of July is largely a celebration of white people culture. We celebrate white people culture all the time so don’t get so bent out of shape when other cultures want to celebrate. And for god’s sake…who gets grumpy about people enjoying themselves? Hallelujah for folks enjoying life. These folks here in the photos and video are smiling and having fun, probably spending money in the local stores and don’t appear to have caused any problems. Win, win for them and for the shopkeepers of Ferndale.
You mean like Charlottesville?
Thanks for proving my point. The truth is that “pride” has been stripped from white people. Often referred to as “oppressor”, and white children are raised to feel “white guilt”, and coerced to believe they have “white privilege”…to the point where it has become reverse racism.
FOR SALE:
My White Privilege card.
Now 50 years old but in mint, unused condition. Selling
because I’ve never figured out how it works – no free
college, no free medical care, no free housing, no free
food, no free anything. I’ve worked every day of my life in
order to support my family and to pay taxes to support
those who don’t have White Privilege cards. Will consider
an even trade for a Victim Card. which seems to come with
countless benefits. Serious inquiries only!
You should probably try to trade up. That one white privilege card is worth at least three victim cards.
Unless I am proud of being white and want to have a parade. That becomes racist. Or, I’m proud of my Christian heritage and want a parade it is considered pushing religion and discrimination against non Christians. If I’m anti abortion and want a parade I’m closed minded and hate women.
The left is all for parades and protests only if it supports their agenda and viewpoint. The left is the most intolerant of those who have a different point of view. On the other hand, the right may disagree, but doesn’t strive to ban any parade or protest they disagree with.
“Doesn’t strive to ban any parade or protest they disagree with”. Hmmm…
Btw the aclu, a frequent boogeyman of the right, has fought for the rights of literal nazis to March in public.
I’m white. I’m proud of my Norwegian and French ancestry but unfortunately white pride parades tend to attract people who are proud of being white and also hate everyone who is not a wasp. So you won’t catch me organizing one of those.
What is so scary about a tiny “parade” in ferndale full of Americans who are happy with who they are. To contrast this with most “white pride parades” where there is a lot of hate directed towards nonwhites.
I know you’ll want to bring up blm, please do I’m waiting.
Because you asked. I believe BLM has the right to protest or have legal parades with the proper permits. What unfortunately goes with their protests is vandalism, looting, burning down businesses, etc. If ANY group has a protest or parade legally without crime they have my blessing whether I agree or not. I just request the same for things I believe in that others disagree with.
For sure I agree, although from what I’ve seen a lot of claims about the blm protests being out of control destructive riots are without merit. Or the fire was fueled by mercenary instigators. Either way I don’t support violent protests no matter the cause. what are your thoughts on Jan 6th out of curiosity?
I certainly agree it was bad. I don’t believe in violence by anyone for any reason. To blame it on Trump is bogus, since it has been verified that for a long time prior he offered to activate the National Guard, yet both the Capital Police and the DC Mayor refused the offer, likely only because it was Trump, who they hated who offered.
Also, in condemning the Jan 6th incident, I condemn the major riots that caused many injuries, deaths, loss of businesses, homes, was rampant with looting, etc. In the grand scale, the facts are clear that the riots were far more costly, dangerous to far more people and in general they were like Mount Everest compared to the relatively small uprising at the Capital.
It saddens me that so much time has been spent on the Jan 6 event which was one day and basically no time has been spent bringing charges against those who were part of the months and months of riots. Both deserve prosecution to the fullest extent of the law for all who broke the law.
Not that I don’t sympathize that there are elements of the left that are draconian…but does “take a knee” ring any bells? That poor guy, a very fine quarterback according to people who pay attention to these things, can’t get a job. And book banning?–I love when folks won’t let Ruby Bridges talk about how terrifying it was to be a six year old black child integrating a white school. Remember the counter protest in Charlottesville where one woman died and multiple were injured because conservative rhetoric encourages rage at protesters? Staten Island parade (pretty much the I’m Proud of being straight and white parade) still bans gay marchers: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/nyregion/staten-island-st-patrick-parade-lgbtq.html Those are just the ones I can think of.
I agree there are some right wing extremists out there. It’s unfortunate to say the least. But it was leftist rioters who nearly burned Berkeley to the ground over the invitation to a conservative speaker to a Republican club meeting. This is the general way leftist “protests” go far more often than right wingers. It is just like a TV program that you don’t like. Turn the channel instead of violently demanding it be canceled. If you don’t want to listen to a speaker, don’t tune in or go to the meeting. That’s what I do whenever Biden tries to bumble his way incoherently through a speech.
PROUD TO BE WHITE? ??, and deeply aware of the sacrifices my ancestors made to look after family, then community, then country.
If Republicans are so tolerant, why were the log cabin Republicans (a gay group) banned from the Texas GOP convention? I don’t think they were planning on an orgy nor were there any kids there.
You’d have to ask the Texas Republicans, Tim. I can only speak for myself. I personally thought that was a dumb move when I read about it.
The log cabin republicans are weird. I don’t get it.
Oh no people out and about being gay(happy) in public the horrors.
I saw a tanker head to it but then turn around so even though I never heard anything on the scanner, I suspect firefighters must have contained it.
Did I miss something?
It appears that I somehow responded to the wrong person. This is what I was talking about. https://kymkemp.com/2022/06/27/flume-fire-burning-north-of-trinity-center/
There isn’t any need for a person to hide who they are in the bedroom.
Quality equality! Fabulous!
Equality is what we’re supposed to have, “equal protection under the law”.
Equity is what we’re getting.
The left thinks it’s ok for them and them only to choose who to favor.
when I see the words “quality time”, i automatically finish the phrase : “spending Quality Time with the children.”
nothing is accidental, everything is intentional whether in plain view or not.
Evidently the right don’t care about poor peoples health.
12 red states have refused Medicaid expansion.
https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-obamacare-funding-shifts-medicaid-100009719.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall
What a desecration of Ferndale. Keep your private life out of my face and the face of peaceful communities.
Wait, I thought you were a Libertarian who was all about letting each individual make their own choices about everything, including freedom of speech and freedom of association? Or is that freedom only applicable to people who look, think and act exactly like you do?
One set of people have a month to parade their beliefs before everyone, yet one man has to go to the SCOTUS to express his privately.
Yet the people with the advantage whine and claim victimhood.
There is no month for prayer.
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.“
Did I say anything about in the street?
Or did I say a month of prayer?
Wherever two or more are gathered in my name.
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
What if the coach was Muslim? Would you be so gung ho?
What if he wanted to pray to moloch?
And yeah it’s been pointed out but making a public spectacle of prayer as a government employee ain’t really what Jesus was about.
Farrakhan spoke publicly frequently among the crowds. So does the Squad, Omar and friends.
So if it’s a parade about Jesus, it’s a public spectacle,
But if it’s about LBGTQ, it’s not?
And the government employers sure get involved in favor of LGBTQ affairs.
From one Christian to another…
Has it occurred to you that queer folk might not give a damn about the Bible (due to the Bible thumping haters) and at the same time posses a valid moral compass?
Keep making it hard for me to identify as a Christian I guess….
People are often shocked to find out my religious beliefs simply because I care for the well-being of all living beings.
Seriously the fact that I, as a compassionate and helpful community member, have a hard time getting the idea across that yeah, I’m a Christian, this is what we are supposed to do, should raise some serious red flags concerning the state/health of the modern church as we know it t.
The biblical version of “Don’t virtue signal”.
That verse always gets forgotten in the “put prayer back in school” or other public spheres. I say that as someone old enough to remember having to pray in the classroom every morning.
“why should anyone care what we do in the privacy of our bedrooms?”
Haha what? Please elaborate.
One set of people have been persecuted, criminalized, vilified, attacked, and killed for being who they are in this country. And it ain’t the Christians.
If that had been a Muslim praying on the 50-yard line, I’d be willing to bet you wouldn’t be quite so supportive. Nor would the Supreme Court.
Faith should be intensely personal. Making it a public display to pressure the people you supervise in a non-religious setting is demagoguery.
What’s a bit laughable about this is that if it had been a black athlete kneeling quietly on the sidelines during the anthem, they would’ve been demonized by the same folks who applaud the coach for kneeling on the 50 yard line.
So how do you feel about the woke folk kneeling for the national anthem? They also make it a public display and pressure the people.
Gee, let’s see. One is protesting the actual murders of people, the other is virtue signaling on the 50 yard line.
I has always amused me that sports teams/players pray to God to help them win. Talk about god-bothering.
Or just maybe they are praying for the safely of the players, or saying thank you for the safe game just played.
Maybe a prayer for a child with a need.
Maybe God isn’t bothered as easy as you are.
Wow, I totally agree.
That’s the same thing I was thinking…
🤔🧐God only knows what they pray for…🙂
How do you feel about the military industrial complex and your tax dollars funding it?
Really? No churches set on fire or defaced?
Including the one in Washington, DC after the Trump speech?
Buildings offering non abortion services being attacked because they are perceived as being Christian.
No attempts at all to remove Christian values from society?
Who are you kidding?
Christian values? Care to give us some examples? Do Christians have some special set of values other people don’t?
Some people think they do, so they want to crush them.
I know some atheists that have better values than some Christians do.
But you and I don’t have the same definition of a Christian.
What you call Christian I call religion,
not the same thing.
I don’t defend religion.
Separate out attacks on churches that were racist-driven from those that were simply anti-Christian. About 5 seconds of searching will give you some comparison.
Compare the number of abortion clinics attacked to those faith-based pregnancy centers.
There have been attempts to restore the separation of church and state — you know, what’s actually required by the Constitution?
And you might be mis-remembering the church damaged in DC. The damage occurred the day before Trump had the group of protesters in front of St. John’s tear-gassed and cleared away for his photo op where he held a bible upside down. The church wasn’t happy at all about him being there.
You’re correct about the timing.
And Trump isn’t a biblical scholar by any means.
That doesn’t justify setting it on fire.
AND there’s no justification for violence against any LGBTQ+ persons either.
You can’t say that a gay person who seeks out a Christian bakery and demands a gay theme cake couldn’t find a bakery to accommodate him and wasn’t trying to force his lifestyle on the Christian bakery with the intent of causing conflict.
It would be easy for each side to live a lifestyle of their own choosing.
I agree that there’s no excuse for violence (or arson) regardless of the motivation behind it or the intended target.
There are some people of every persuasion and philosophy that actively seek out ways to be aggrieved in order to push a particular point of view or to justify a sense of victimhood and I do find them annoying.
However there are also real victims of discrimination and persecution and trying to lump everyone into the same category isn’t productive towards solving our many social ills.
I can agree with that.
Christians have no real values
Or they are much more “situational” than they would like to admit (see support for the former president, the walking incarnation of the 7 deadly sins).
Also, see the cherry-picking from the Bible.
Leviticus has very strict dietary laws, but Christians who love to quote the verse from Leviticus condemning homosexuality often quote it while at that church BBQ or Crab feed. There are a lot of things Christians ignore from Leviticus and most of the Bible.
Or that one from Psalms saying how happy it is to dash the infants (of their enemies) heads against a wall.
Or that one from Psalms saying how happy it is to dash the infants (of their enemies) heads against a wall.
That bothers you, but not women killing their own unborn for their own convenience, do you know what happens to their heads?
There’s also the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament.
“Convenience”.
This says it all. No one is having abortions because of convenience. It is a very personal and extremely difficult decision not made lightly.
Here’s a thought: we live in a hells cape of fuck you got mine capitalism where the only lives valued are the unborn. Sure ban abortion but keep stripping away any chance at a decent life away from people in the name of corporate freedumbs.
Elizabeth Warren, AOC and others right now are conspiring on spending BILLIONS of dollars to create abortion clinics on federal lands.
Why aren’t they thinking how to spend that money helping the impoverished pregnant mothers get better housing and childcare?
Companies now want to give $4000K to assist in abortions but not to assist in childcare, ask yourself why? Why don’t they use the money to open a childcare center at work?
Is it because you’ll be a more dedicated slave to the company, answer their every call, instead of putting a child to bed at night?
Or is because they just care about you, more than their profits?
Woman, you make a better worker ant when you don’t have children.
Awww… bless your little heart!
May the Lord bless you and keep you near… always!
Lame. The whole bible is basically a historical record of the evolution of religious values. The Ten Commandments is pretty solid as well as my personal favorite the sermon on the mount.
Just because the vast majority of Christianity is either exploitative or ignorant doesn’t mean that it is intrinsically valueless.
They CODIFIED their values. It’s called the ten commandments. Wtf are you talking about? You mad bro?
Faith is nothing to be hidden, nor should it necessarily be flaunted.
👍
These folks came from out of town to harass a preacher! No different than going to a judges house and doing the same thing. It’s not a libertarian issue, nor am I one. Nor am I religious. It’s that these particular homosexuals are without restraint, dignity or manners and are disturbing the peace.
Uhh pastors and judges are public figures and servants. Their decisions that affect the lives of others should not open them to harassment of any kind? What happened to this country I thought that’s what we were all about?
Should Martin Luther have just left that church door alone and sat back and watched Christianity rot???
Please respond I’m very curious.
Like all humans, MLK had flaws, and was/is a gift to humanity from God.
And thank God he wasn’t aborted before we got to hear what he had to say.
I take it you don’t know the origin of the Pride parades.
edited to add:
“With no bodies to kick or souls to damn”….the bones thrown to the easily distracted. Meanwhile corporations, the actual “enemy” carries on.
You are out of your mind
gay marriage is not allowed in Japan. In the Middle East, gays are killed, same with Africa. You are so safe here.
some societies pay attention to the clear lessons of history, that accepting open sexual degeneracy is the herald of a civilization’s downfall.
which could very well be why it’s being promoted in the west. and judging by our birthrate crisis, it’s done its job.
I am Atheist, Queer and Proabortion.
I am NOT morally bankrupt. As a matter of FACT I am often told by Christians and other people’s of faith of what a good Christian I am.
I am a decent and responsible individual. Religion has nothing to do with it. I live by a “code”, harm no thing. Very simple. Don’t need anything else to guide me conscience. If you need to have something like religion to guide you to your better self, then its likely you also need professional therapy.
Keep your religion to yourself!
I like your comment.
Is this satire?
…”I’m Proabortion”
“I live by a “code”, harm no thing.”
“Very simple.”
“Don’t need anything else to guide me conscience.
“If you need to have… … then it’s likely you also need professional therapy.”
Huh!?!?!?
(For sure on the “also” thing…)
(🤦♂️Sounds complicated…)
SMH
May I suggest a GPS…???
Paper map and compass???
🤔🧐”Sextant”???😁
🤔🧐 “Altimeter”?😁
Better check for monkey pox just to be a safe atheist.
Better to err on the side of caution?
If you eat you harm something, even if you are a vegan.
Uh, right. Prepare a potato for supper, then prepare a live chicken. Now tell me they are the same.
They are not for sure but to play devils advocate a lot of innocent wildlife dies in the mass production of food.
Which really means that big ag is bad let’s go back to doing it ourselves. It tastes better and is more nutritious.
I fully support veganism but I’ve always wondered how manure for fertilizer fit into that ideology.
Is a potato raised by a farmer/rancher as food for people?
Is a chicken raised by a farmer/rancher as food for people?
To a chef in a restaurant are not both prepared for its human patrons?
Although I am personally vegetarian, I understand that anything grown for food is nothing but a crop and there is no need to consider how they are cared for by the farmer/rancher. It’s just food after all. PETA is just getting their panties tied in knots over how to treat food.
My comment was in reference to people who try to deride vegetarians (I do eat occasional meat/fish BTW) by saying that killing a plant is the same as killing an animal. Yes, it’s the same in the sense that they were both intended as human food. But to say it is the same in other ways is like saying mammals are the same as plants. It’s another level of killing, regardless of whether you condemn or support it.
Exactly
Indeed. Two way street. You put some insightful posts on these forums.
Likewise
Oh no rainbows!!
fisher price coloration. for an obvious reason.
Lol the rainbows are coming for you watch out.
A rainbow suspender wearing – insert noun or made up pronoun {HERE} – stands near the sign yesterday. [Photo by Ryan Hutson] kym.
Lol “trans story hour” we’re looking at you.
I’m still mad they stole the rainbow!
Im proud of the gays for stealing gods rainbow, major coupe, god was asleep, snooze you lose
They didn’t steal the rainbow. You can still use it.
Right. Because hey, the more people waving the rainbow around the more adolescent girls can do just like their friends are doing and start T therapy, and make plans to chop off their breasts.
Rainbows, not even once!
We should ban rainbows.
There’s nothing like the real thing.
all the rest is imitation.
Recently, I’ve read a lot of articles saying that they should give gay men specific warnings about Monkeypox but carefully, without stigmatizing them. Also, a bunch of California counties just got together and put out a joint warning about Monkeypox. The list of counties seemed to include counties south of and east of Humboldt but not us. Do you know that the WHO just declared Monkeypox to be a pandemic, and there’s articles being written saying the US government and media aren’t taking it seriously enough? Here are some interesting “facts” from recent articles: The CDC has made it so incredibly difficult to get patients tested for Monkeypox, difficult to the tune of staying on the phone for hours, so most doctors won’t do it, which has made it difficult for patients to get tested, which has made patients write news articles and doctors go on rants on Twitter. Most articles say not to refer to Monkeypox as a gay man’s STD, other than one just published written by a gay man who says that they have to call it that, who describes his own experience when he broke out with a rash in a certain part of his body and couldn’t get tested. Then, there’s the article called “Biden handling Monkeypox like Trump handled Covid,” and already, anyone who diverges from whatever the official story is, and I’m not sure what it is because of conflicting articles, is being called a conspiracy theorist. Just, please, keep a close eye on this situation and don’t only publish the next short and free of information press release the county releases, without a story or context.
It’s pretty apparent that it’s very much a homosexual thing. Same thing with marching and other such nonsense. The most celebrated class of individuals constantly whining and often shrieking about how shunned and threatened they are by the same society that puts them on a pedestal, while at the same time bragging about their sexual behavior. It’s truly a sight to behold.
Gay men went through the aids epidemic and from it know how to have safe sex and prevent STDs. Heterosexuals are now the main spreaders of HIV
Fact check . Because you lying. And what is the motivation to pinning hiv spread on heteros?
Took me a one second Google search to confirm what I already knew:
“HIV continues to have a disproportionate impact on certain populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities, gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men and transgender women.3,4,5 “
there is a subset in the gay community called Bug Chasers who purposely get HIV so they can get disability. never heard of straight men doing this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4768590/
some twisted behavior…
Well, in SF Castro many Gay and Bi are trading sex for desperately needed drugs and not all that concerned about what they may catch as long as it comes with a fix.
If fentanyl doesn’t scare them, you think monkeypox does?
All scientific resources say, Monkey Pox is not actually a sexually transmitted disease like HIV, It spreads by close contact, anyone can get it by being in close proximity to someone who has it, or if your in Africa, you can get it from rodents
I know this, I have made five videos about this already. As I said there is an NPR article where a whistleblower calls out the FDA and claims they only have the case count they have because they’re lying about how many tests they did and discouraged drs from testing. I suspect they only tested a few very sick gay guys. Two thousand samples pending waiting to be tested, numerous personal accounts of people saying they have it and can’t get tested, it’s really awful, and look at the article called monkeypox vaccines are not for the masses or whatever it’s called that I read part of in one of my videos. It’s a truly despicable situation already and one doesn’t have to dig to deep to find out how bad it already is. Like, google search the word monkeypox, read some articles, then search that word with other key words like vaccine or cases or pandemic or – great one – Russia. Try that one first actually.
Lets send christian extremists to Saudi Arabia where Sharia Law is the rule of the land. They’ll be happy there, and we can maintain our country and wonderful constitution in a complete state of separation of church and state.
They get really upset when you point out the similarities
New reality show idea. Drop off 5 participants from the ferndale pride parade and 5 members of the Lutheran church in Saudi Arabia and see who gets out alive.
We will not be dragged back into the dark ages
I know, right?! The Constitution as written is a very enlightening document in the history of man. Let’s continue to use it as written and not find bullshit that’s not in there to rule us, mmkay?!!
Rainbows are God having gay sex…….just kidding…. there are no gods
If you can be prideful, you can most definitely be fallen.
I haven’t seen anything this normal since the G7 meeting
Children need to be forced to look at this all the time so that they can explore their own sexual identities to express their best selves without hate and judgement.
Don’t ask any questions or fed-backed Antifa rioters will attack your home and really make you pay for your lack of faith.
Lgbtq+nra×pie
When you deleted Brian’s comment you also deleted my 2 responses including a very long thing I typed out asking him if when the Republican Party flips it’s opinion on issues if he also does, and I am sad that I won’t be able to see the answer to my question. Brian, if the Republican Party suddenly changes it’s opinion on an issue, do you immediately also change your opinion? For example, recently changing their opinion from saying that victims of rape or incest should be exempt from anti abortion laws to saying they should not be exempt and forced to carry their rapists children. Did your opinion change with them? Why did their opinion change? As a republican can you explain? This is actually a serious question. I have a hard time understanding how other people think.
I don’t think Brian is a Republican
I have said for years on RHBB that I have eliminated belief from my operating systems.
Belief is the most detrimental old-world practice performed against truth, as belief is the lack of truth.
I was a Republucan when Trump was nominated as GOP presidential primary, when he was elected I left that party as I thought Republicans were smarter than to nominate such a fool.
I’ve been through 4 political parties during my voting tenure in the US.
I’ll continue to change to the one that best represents my idea of the best way forward for society.
Brian, the comment I was replying to was you saying that the republicans were now going to make democrats suffer because of THEIR covid lockdowns and other policies and something like “and you thought it was gonna happen under Trump!” It seemed to be a “we are getting you back” kind of comment which is why I assumed you identified as republican.
I definitely no longer identify as Republican.
But it would be hard to put me in a box if you’ve read my comments over the years.
So what’s up with the “we are now getting the revenge on democrats for Covid lockdowns…. you thought the revenge would happen under trump” because the covid lockdowns happened under trump and Fauci was funding the lab when Biden was the Vice President, when Trump was president, and now is still working for the government under Biden, nobody likes my Nader quote so I won’t repeat it because I’ll be blamed for the Iraq war which was perpetuated by both democrats and republicans, god what a mess. I wish they’d stop with the pandemics though, although I like to listen to Phish, I am not down with disease.
That is not a quote of mine.
People say stupid shit though, especially Trump voters.
Maybe you are misremembering the name to the comment.
I am a proud member of the LGBFJB community. Your welcome
LOL !
Good one!
Took me a second…
😆😅😂🤣😁
It’s sad to acknowledge that bigots, like this Ferndale “pastor”, still exist, especially in a place as evolved as Humboldt.
But they do.
Just read the ignorant comments from some, below.
It’s imperative that we see these bigots and educate them.
Otherwise, we are doomed to more trump like monsters coming into power.
For some reason, my recent comment does not appear.
I wonder why?
Your comment is here: https://kymkemp.com/2022/06/27/quality-time-the-second-annual-ferndale-gay-pride-march/#comment-1532293 Sometimes, comments (because of a caching system that I had to institute to keep too many visitors from breaking my system) will be held till the cache clears.
Well sounds like i need to get my Unite the Right Rally going in Arcata.
Since the Arcata crowd wants to come to Ferndale. Since no one in Ferndale wants these types coming in and trashing the towns values and culture, im sure arcata will not mind our White Supremist March. We will be bringing Swaskia arm bands, new Khakies, and will be waving our favorite flags that stand for our values. Since Arcata thinks this is alright, id love to spead other cultures to arcata. Maybe next we can roll out the rugs and have our daily call to Islamic Prayer. Pretty soon we can take over arcata and rename is the Peoples Islamic Republic.
It’s fascinating how so many look so negatively at this Ferndale pastor. Although his signs seem to some to be harsh toward the LGBTQ community, please be reminded that as a pastor, he cannot condone that which the Bible clearly states is not according to God’s plan. Remember the article some time back about the torn sign at the LGBTQ church in Eureka? Although the vandalism was a terrible thing, the reality is that the church has chosen not to believe the Bible. If there is teaching contrary to what the Bible teaches anywhere from Genesis to Revelation it is not one I would choose, but it is still their right to exist in peace.
I know of thousands of Pastors who don’t discriminate or spread hate.
Even the Mennonite Church is trying to be more inclusive (by words, for now).
https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/mennonite-policy-change-lgbtq-community/521-f0097809-7134-4016-a183-2931ee34e2a1
This Humboldt pastor is more of a pasture; shitty.
To be inclusive in a Church setting is very simple. If you want to join, you must know what you are joining. Then, by joining, you strive to support the beliefs of that church in faith and lifestyle. It’s simple. Church is not meant to be inclusive to those who choose alternative beliefs and lifestyle. It is supposed to try to reach out to all, but not to be inclusive of those contrary to its beliefs.