Category: LGBT+ rights

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Jewish baker in New Jersey plays victim card after anger erupts over his refusal to bake Pride confectionery

Barry Duke

https://www.facebook.com/Pinktriangletrust/ YITZY Mittel, co-owner of the West Orange Bake Shop in New Jersey, is being accused of bigotry and is facing a a boycott by local Jews after a regular customer—rabbi Julie Schwarzwald—was refused an order for kosher desserts she … Continue reading Jewish baker in New Jersey plays victim card after anger erupts over his refusal to bake Pride confectionery

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British Virgin Islanders told to ‘obey God’ when voting in a referendum on same-sex marriage

Barry Duke

https://www.facebook.com/Pinktriangletrust/ THE advice came earlier this year from Vice President of the BVI Christian Council, Rosemarie Flax, inset above, as the BVI—a British Overseas Territory—prepares to hold a vote to decide whether or not to legalise same-sex marriage. She said: … Continue reading British Virgin Islanders told to ‘obey God’ when voting in a referendum on same-sex marriage

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UK humanist Barbara Smoker would have turned 100 in April. The National Secular Society marked the event with a memorial this month.

Barry Duke

BARBARA Smoker, above, who died on April 7, 2020, was a British humanist activist and freethought advocate. She was also President of the National Secular Society (NSS) for 24 years, Chair of the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society (now known as … Continue reading UK humanist Barbara Smoker would have turned 100 in April. The National Secular Society marked the event with a memorial this month.

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LGBT+ communities in Antigua and Barbuda have Orden David to thank for his successful challenge of archaic anti-sodomy law

Barry Duke

FAITH-based violence is common in the Caribbean, and for years Orden David, above, suffered abuse and violence at the hands homophobes. Facing ostracism and risking his life as the public face of the LGBTQ movement, David took his government to … Continue reading LGBT+ communities in Antigua and Barbuda have Orden David to thank for his successful challenge of archaic anti-sodomy law

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At the root of Uganda’s draconian anti-gay law is the belief that it would make it ‘a more Christian nation’

Barry Duke

Worldwide revulsion expressed over the signing into law of a bill supported in the main by Western evangelists. Whether or not Uganda will become even more god-besotted than it already is is debatable, but what is certain is that the country could become a whole lot poorer as a result of President Yoweri Museveni signing into law a revised version of an earlier anti-homosexuality bill. This was made clear when President Biden yesterday (Monday) called for the immediate repeal of Uganda’s new Act and warned of possible sanctions against the country. This shameful Act is the latest development in an … Continue reading At the root of Uganda’s draconian anti-gay law is the belief that it would make it ‘a more Christian nation’