• cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    White light is a tightly squished rainbow, so I guess these people’s only option is to all go blind.

    I mean, more blind than they’re now.

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    Right wing conservative “Christians:”

    Libs are snowflakes!

    Also

    I’m triggered by a sequence of colors!

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      Right wing Christians (don’t put it in quotes, don’t do a No True Scotsman, they’re Christians) hate rainbows now and I can’t love it more because it ruins their precious Noah story for them.

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        The guy has a dope, but do people really think they hate rainbows and not what this flag is supposed to represent?

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      It’s even dumber because a rainbow doesn’t necessarily mean LGBTQ. Sometimes rainbow is just rainbow.

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        Kids love rainbows. I’m an adult and I love rainbows. They are literally fun colors and beautiful.

        If your religion is making you hate rainbows, it might be time to take a look at your religion and the batshit stuff it teaches you.

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          The rainbow was hijacked from the Abrahamic religions by the homosexuals.

          Instead of hating rainbows, I’m teaching my children that the LGBTQ+ community is part of shaitan’s army.

          I’m even thinking that every year, for a month, we take a family vacation to Saudi Arabia to avoid the child grooming agenda in the month of June across the western world.

          I’ve also been filtering all tv shows/cartoons that present us with LGBTQ+, like in bluey, that British pig show, and sesame street etc… thank God for torrents, amirite?

          No worries tho, my children won’t be taught to hate, they will be taught to avoid like the black plague and to only stick with the community/ummah.

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              lol did you report my comment?

              Nah, we Muslims have different priorities, a different culture, different way of life. It’s why we’re incredibly difficult to sway off the path.

              If and when the secularists turn a Muslim into one of them, take that as a trophy. You’ve achieved almost the impossible.

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        Rainbows? In the sky? Where kids can see? Fucking wokeys mate, making the fucking sky GAY.

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    Jeffery Little, who has worked for the city for 22 years, filed a lawsuit on Friday claiming he is being discriminated against for his evangelical faith by being made to stand in the same vicinity as the Progress Pride flag. Little alleges he was suspended from his role with the department’s background investigation unit last year after he took down three LGBTQ+ flags during Pride month.

    The Los Angeles county board of supervisors voted last year to require the rainbow banner be flown during the month of June at government buildings, which includes lifeguard stands. Little, who claimed the flags present a “direct conflict” with his religious beliefs, fought to be placed at stations that would not fly the flag, as they did not have the right flag poles to fly any banner.

    I gotta go to work so I’ll leave that to comment for myself.

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    Little typically works at Will Rogers Beach, long considered a safe space among LGBTQ+ beach goers. The beach is so popular with queer residents and visitors that it earned the nickname "Ginger Rogers Beach.

    Why doesn’t he just ask to be stationed at a different beach? He’s offended by a flag, but not a bunch of men and women making everyday PDAs right in front of him?

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      Because it’s all bullshit and he’s just a greedy asshole who wants to make a quick buck at taxpayers expense. Fuck him.

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    That someone who believes in the Bible and is professionally contracted to prevent people from drowning is being upset they are doing that job near the Biblical symbol of a covenant not to drown humanity again is making me drown in the irony.

    Please send help.

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        It’s a reference to Noah’s Ark, where God supposedly flooded the whole world except two of each animal and Noah’s family, then put a rainbow in the sky as a symbol that He’d never do it again. Young Earth Creationists and their like take the story as fact, despite the fact that such an event would have put humanity well below the number of people needed for a stable gene pool, and that two of an animal likely wouldn’t repopulate an entire species. I digress.

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    Rule in his favor, then I have precedent to sue every church, business, and government entity that displays a cross. ❤️

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    I’m sick of Christians who work for the public suing because they don’t want to do their jobs.

    If you cannot serve the whole public, quit your job in public service.

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      Sometimes, a “reasonable accommodation” is to let them quit.

      It cracks me up though. they accomodated him. Put him at a station that didn’t have a flag. then he went and removed the 3 other flags that were simply in view…

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          Hasn’t been to church in a bit I guess…

          13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

          Genesis 9:13-17

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        What I hate the most is that his whole excuse is bullshit. The Bible dosen’t even know what being gay is, it’s only against bronze age booty thief power displays, it knows absolutely nothing about being trans, these people really need to start specifying that they are against ‘loving thy neighbor’ because they interpret out of context verses written in old English they don’t understand to mean they can hate people they don’t like or are currently pretending not to be one of.

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          Yup it’s simply hateful, spiteful people being assholes. Inconsiderate pricks using religion as an excuse to be inconsiderate pricks.

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          because they interpret out of context verses written in old English

          You can’t seriously believe any of these twats is capable of even that much.

          Not one of them has actually attempted to read the Bible.

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          it’s only against bronze age booty thief power displays

          I was once in a band called Bronze Age Booty Thieves. Our first album Power Displays didn’t sell too well…

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          Early Modern English.

          Here’s John 3:16 in Old English: “God lufede middan-eard swa þæt he sealde hys akennedan sune þæt nan ne for-wurðe þe on hine ge-lefð. Ac habbe þt eche lyf.”

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          There have always been gay people, and in every culture, though. While trans is a relatively modern concept, there have definitely been gender-variant people across cultures too.

          The fact that it’s been vaguely mentioned at all in the Bible suggests it was a non-issue. Romans, for example, social advancement revolved around patronage… which involved gay sex.

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            The only modern part of things are the hormone medicines and surgeries we have now. And the language and terms we use. But people being trans, intersex, both sexes, neither, etc, etc is as old as humanity as far as we can tell. There are ancient examples of things like I think it was a grave of a person born female, but was buried with armor and honors of an exclusively male role, like a warrior something. Like a “Mulan” type thing. Which means either nobody knew they were born female or it didn’t matter.