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'Evil and disgusting': Days-long Israeli LGBT festival planned near Sodom prompts biblical backlash



The Israeli government announced on Monday that this June, "the Dead Sea becomes Pride Land, the biggest LGBTQ+ festival ever in the Middle East," adding that "Pride rises at the lowest place on earth."

This celebration of degeneracy and non-straight lifestyle choices — set to take place near what is believed to be the site of Sodom, the city razed by God because of its brazen sexual corruption — will run 24 hours a day from June 1 to June 4.

'You won't see this anywhere else in the region.'

According the Jerusalem Post, the non-straight festival will raise a city in the desert featuring parties, a central performance arena, art complexes, "relaxation" areas, and "family-friendly areas with children's activities."

"This is not just another festival; it's the biggest thing we've done here," Aaron Cohen, the main producer behind "Pride Land," told the Post. "It's an experience that lives 24/7, from quiet visits to nights of Pride, with a living envelope of music and people."

The promotion of the event by the Israeli government — just one day after the Israel Defense Forces confirmed that one of its soldiers smashed a statue of the crucified Christ outside a church with a sledgehammer — prompted significant backlash among some conservative Christians.

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American theologian and pastor Dale Partridge tweeted, "The devil couldn’t have written it better. 'The lowest place on earth' 'The Dead Sea becomes pride land.'"

BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre raised the matter of whether his tax dollars might be subsidizing the event, then asked, "Can anyone very carefully explain to me why American Christians owe anything to this?"

Conservative commentator Michael Knowles insinuated that the Israeli government's announcement answered the question recently posed by the New York Times about the cause of the recent increase in meteor sightings overhead.

Knowles' colleague, Matt Walsh, called the planned festival "absolutely evil and disgusting."

Tomasz Froelich, an Alternative for Germany politician who serves in the European Parliament, noted that "the Patriarch of Jerusalem was denied access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday for security reasons, but there is comfort: The Pride can take place without a care!"

The eponymous host of BlazeTV's "The John Doyle Show" wrote, "God could do the funniest thing ever."

On Friday, the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., plugged the event, stating, "You won't see this anywhere else in the region."

While the Israeli government appears keen to get the word out about the Sodom-adjacent LGBT festival, the U.S. State Department has recommended that Americans reconsider travel to the country due to terrorism and civil unrest and instructed travelers to avoid crowds.

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Mayor stands firm despite backlash after he mocked androgynous lesbian 'creature'



A Long Island mayor is standing firm despite calls for his resignation after he ridiculed a local activist online.

The Sag Harbor Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to formally request that Tom Gardella resign as mayor of his Long Island village. Gardella said he would participate in social media and anti-harassment training but that he wouldn't think of resigning.

'Church man. He's a Christian.'

"I will not resign from the office of mayor," said Gardella, reported the Sag Harbor Express. "That is not going to happen. You have me confused with somebody else. I’m not the guy that runs from a crisis. I’m the guy that runs into it."

While the board members provided other justifications for Gardella's ouster, their ire centers on a comment the mayor left on an Instagram post last month.

Animal rights activist Rebecca Chavez shared a video on March 6 in which she grooves to a song with a dog in her lap while her masculine lesbian lover dances in the background.

Gardella — a Sag Harbor resident for over 30 years who runs a plumbing company, served as chief of the local fire department, and served in military intelligence during the Cold War — reportedly commented, "What's that thing in the background? A guy? A girl? Some creature?"

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Chavez wasted no time tracking down Gardella and making a stink, noting in a video, "Church man. He's a Christian. And a mayor?!"

Chavez's characterization of Gardella as a "church man" may be the result of her superficial reading of an event posting advertising a talk the mayor gave at "The Church," a creative center on Long Island.

The Texas-based lesbian, committed to giving a "Master Class in pettiness and accountability," stated, "I would expect an elected official and Christian man like yourself to behave better."

Chavez then directed her followers to "send him a few emails to remind him that his behavior is unbecoming of a public servant."

Deputy Mayor Edward Haye noted during a village board meeting last month, "We were made aware on March 9, yesterday, of a social media comment attributed to Mayor Gardella that disparaged members of the LGBT community."

"Sag Harbor has long prided itself being a welcoming and a tolerant village, and those values deeply matter to us both as members of the village board and as residents," continued Haye. "While the comment appears to have been made on a personal social media account, it has understandably caused concern and hurt within our community."

Gardella apologized, but that evidently wasn't enough for the activist.

"They always make an apology after the fact. So for me, his apology is not genuine," Chavez told News 12 Westchester, revealing an apparent confusion about how apologies work.

The mayor's thin-skinned peers had the village launch an investigation into his comment.

The investigation culminated in a report that accused the mayor of violating the village government's social media policy and anti-harassment policy and claimed that his 12-word comment was "disruptive to operations, negatively impacted members of the community, and created the false impression that village leadership does not support or tolerate diversity," reported the Express.

On the basis of the report, the board voted to censure the mayor.

"I’m not going to resign as mayor of this village," Gardella, who was first elected in 2023, reiterated on Tuesday. "I would also say that I never sought to be mayor of this village. The residents of this village came to me and asked me to lead them. And I hope I can lead us out of this mess and at some point be able to work together with the board."

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Librarian refuses to move LGBTQ+ propaganda away from kids — and seals her fate



Radicals in Alabama appear to have found a gray-haired figure around which to rally to oppose the broader conservative effort to shield American children from mature and perverse content.

The Rutherford County Library Board removed Luanne James from her position as director of the library system after she refused to fulfill her duties and move hundreds of titles containing inappropriate content — ranging from a book targeting adolescents about sexual activity to books about "genderfluidity" and transgenderism — from the kids' section to the adult section.

'I stand by my decision.'

The usual suspects have characterized the bespectacled obstructionist as a free-speech champion and her termination as unlawful.

How it started

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) repeatedly expressed concern in 2023 over children's exposure to "inappropriate, sexually suggestive materials without adequate means of parental supervision" in her state's taxpayer-funded libraries.

Ivey noted in a Sept. 1, 2023, letter to the director of the Alabama Public Library Service that the growing parental concern underpinning her own would not be remedied by removing books containing inappropriate content, including radical "gender transition" propaganda, but rather by "ensuring that these books are placed in an appropriate location."

In the same spirit, the Alabama Legislative Services Agency proposed rule changes to the APLS in 2024 that would make libraries' state funding conditional on moving content "inappropriate" for kids to an adult section.

Last month, the APLS board of trustees said that the Legislative Services Agency approved the change, reported AL.com.

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Rutherford County Library board meeting documents reveal that Luanne James expressed a willingness to relocate some thematically and graphically mature titles but dug in her heels to keep numerous provocative works of LGBT agitprop in the juvenile sections of her county's libraries.

The Murfreesboro Daily News Journal reported that among the over 130 titles that James refused to move are:

  • "Pride in Sports," an LGBT activist book by a lesbian couple that apparently attempts to normalize non-straight sexual preferences and sex-rejection procedures;
  • "Welcome to Your Period," a book about menstruation that contains illustrations of female body parts and claims that doctors can administer drugs to "try to block or stop periods and other physical changes" for "transgender children," which the authors claim "have existed for as long as time";
  • "The Every Body Book," a book that discusses and illustrates various body parts while pushing gender ideology on kids; and
  • "Lily and Dunkin," a story about a romance involving an 8th-grade boy deluded into thinking he's really a girl.

To James' chagrin, the board decided in an 8-3 vote on March 16 to move over 100 of the inappropriate LGBT titles to the adult section.

James noted in a letter to the board two days later that "restricting access to these materials through subjective relocation or removal constitutes a violation of the community’s right to information and a direct infringement on the principles of free speech."

"I will not comply with the Board's decision to relocate these books," wrote James. "Doing so would violate the First Amendment right of all citizens of Rutherford County and myself."

How it's going

Having proven unwilling to do her job, James was relieved of it on March 30.

The board's 8-3 vote to kick James to the curb was met by a mix of applause by detractors and furious booing by supporters at the packed Rutherford County Courthouse. James later said, "I stand by my decision," reported the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal.

Cody York said in a statement obtained by the Daily News Journal that James' "refusal to implement a lawful directive of the Rutherford County Library Board constitutes insubordination."

Nashville attorney Chuck Mangelsdorf said, "Her termination we believe is completely unlawful," and said James is "a guardian of the First Amendment."

PEN America said in a statement that it "stands with Rutherford County Library System Director Luanne James in her refusal to banish LGBTQ+ children’s books from access by relocating them to the adult section. Children and teens deserve access to diverse books that represent their identities and stories and books that introduce young people to new ideas and perspectives."

Kasey Meehan, the director of PEN America's Freedom to Read program, claimed that James' "story will echo from the courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tenn., across the country as emblematic of the fight against censorship and suppression," reported the Advocate.

Supporters have already crowdfunded over $72,000 on GoFundMe for James.

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