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The Babylon Bee has put together the following list of sobering examples of how LGBTQ people are oppressed in the United States to this very day:

There are only 37 parades in their honor per day: Any number of daily parades less than 40 is equal to a slap in the face.
They are only represented by 7 characters in every TV show: There will be no equality as long as movies and television shows only depict 10 times the representation of reality.
They are still required to be fully clothed when teaching their elementary school classes: Such bigotry.
The Capitol hearing room is now off-limits for making sex tapes: Way to ruin it for everyone, creepy congressional staffer guy.
They can only get married in Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Anglican, Unitarian, Baptist, and Quaker churches: Horrible.
They live in daily fear of fake hate crimes: Fake assaults happen on every street corner of every city.
They have only managed to get 75% of Christians fired for their beliefs: As long as any Christians remain employed and unostracized from society, there will be no justice.
That one specific baker in Colorado won't bake a wedding cake for them: It doesn't matter that there are hundreds of bakers who will. This guy won't.
When they twerk naked in front of children, people say horrible things like "Hey, what do you think you're doing?" and "Woah, knock it off!": The blind hatred of these comments is horrifying.
No gay person has been elected president since Barack Obama: Make the White House gay again!

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed into law a bill that would allow state judges to sentence those convicted of sex crimes against victims under the age of 13 to undergo surgical castration.

Senate Bill 371, sponsored by state Sen. Regina Ashford Barrow, is expected to take effect on Aug. 1 following the Republican governor’s signature on June 18.

The law allows Louisiana judges to punish offenders aged 17 and older with surgical castration if they are convicted of aggravated sex crimes against a victim under the age of 13.

Michael Knaapen, the leader of the LGBTQ Democrats of Maryland, has been caught on video attempting to rape a teenage boy. ...

43-year-old Searby is charged with felony counts of lewd and lascivious behavior, communicating to lure a minor, traveling to lure a minor, and using a device to commit a felony.

Searby is currently being held at the Alachua County Jail without bond.

According to the arrest report, Searby used the messaging platform Snapchat to groom an underage boy.

He reportedly sent inappropriate pictures and text messages to a 15-year-old child.

Searby then attempted to lure the boy to a meeting in order to rape him.

Lego Launches Drag Queen Figures to Promote Pride to Children

Yet another NeverTrumper has been accused of inappropriate messages to an underage boy

"'The Alachua County [Florida] Sheriff's Office (ACSO) continues to investigate the case of Archer resident and Newberry education activist Joel Searby after a judge denied him bond in a pretrial hearing on Tuesday,' reported local news.

'Searby was arrested [June 20] for [alleged] lewd and lascivious behavior, obscene communication to lure a minor, and obscene communication to travel to meet and lure a minor,' the report continues, adding: 'The arrest report recounts Snapchat conversations between Searby and a 15-year-old boy in which Searby solicited the victim for photos and sexual acts.'"

Who is Joel Searby, you ask?

Well, he was the "Chief Strategist" for the failed 2016 presidential campaign of Evan McMullin!

Remember McMuffin McMullin? The ex-CIA agent that the "NeverTrump" crowd put out in 2016 to try and help Hillary Clinton win the presidency?

(Well, you'll be forgiven if you don't recognize him at all.) ...

What's crazy is that he's not the first NeverTrumper to have an apparent attraction to underage boys. Remember John Weaver?

NeverTrumper

No man is innately gay. Gayness is just an acquired vice, like alcoholism or heroin addiction. Nothing to be proud of.

I do think some women are innately lesbians though. At least it's evolutionarily plausible, since women didn't have much choice about getting pregnant. But there is no plausible way for innate exclusive male homosexuality to evolve. Evolution would stomp it out instantly.

In California, it is currently a misdemeanor to solicit a minor for sex. SB1414 aims to make this offense a felony. And wouldn't you know, the one group coming out against this bill is the people over at the LGBTQIA+ club.

I'm not joking. They're coming out against an anti-pedophile bill.

Dismembered Body of Trans High School Student, 14, Found in Pennsylvania Reservoir. Hate crime? Nope. Pedo killer is black and gay.

One of the most recognizable faces on UK television, Huw Edwards, has been suspended by BBC as he was accused of paying a teenage boy for explicit images. The mother of the boy claims Huw has been paying for his n*des since the boy was 17 years old. The boy is currently 20 years old. ...

While most news platform has not even revealed the gender of the recipient, some reports have. And yes, it’s a boy. As a result, many people have been curious to know if Huw Edwards is really gay. Well, we’ve got you covered.

Huw has been paying for his n*des since the boy was 17 years old.

As a reminder, Ali’s youngest victim was 9 when Ali started grooming him, and 12 when he was first forcibly sodomized by Ali. As a further reminder, Nick Fuentes, the leader of the America First movement, has been dismissing revelations about Ali—and threatening Ali’s victims into silence—since at least 2017. ...

Fuentes even denied knowing about Ali’s long history of criminal underage solicitation, before admitting soon afterward that Ali had even flirted with him when he was 19 or 20. That would have been in 2017 or 2018, five years before Ali was finally exposed, during which Fuentes gave Ali unfettered access to an army of impressionable young men desperate to break into politics.

At 13, I was raped by a priest. His name was Fr Michael. He died years ago. I said some stupid shit trying to make sense of it which was used against me in 2017. The idea that this translates to “Milo is a pedo” is so warped & dark that anyone who says it is dead to me. Forever.

Yesterday, The New York Times ran a long-form, magazine-style exclusive exposé headlined, “A Pattern of Lavish Spending at a Leading L.G.B.T.Q. Nonprofit.” Not just any LGBTQ nonprofit: GLAAD.

Formed in 1985, the “Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation” currently has around 60 employees. The Times described GLAAD as “one of the most prominent proponents of L.G.B.T.Q. equality.” Famously, in 1997, GLAAD pressured ABC into outing Ellen Degeneres’ character as gay on the network’s sitcom Ellen. Like other so-called far-left ‘watchdog groups,’ GLAAD shakes down big corporations by threatening to smear them as bigots and homophobes.

Major GLAAD donors include media and tech companies like Netflix, Google, and Disney; philanthropists like Ariadne Getty; and of course, taxpayer-funded grants bestowed by loony bureaucrats like the ones sitting on the New York City Council.

The story revealed that GLAAD generously compensates its CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis (pictured with Oprah, above), 52, with a salary between $700,000 and $1.3 million a year, depending on bonuses tied to fund-raising. The job comes with perks. For instance, GLAAD funded Kate’s recent trip to the Swiss Alps (to attend the World Economic Forum), including first-class airfare, chauffers, a day of skiing, and a Swiss Chalet that cost a whopping $500,000 for a week’s rental.

When Kate travels for work, she always travels first-class. She stays at luxury hotels like the Waldorf Astoria. She enjoys other perks like expensive luxury car services. She also enjoys a company-funded Cape Cod summer rental and, despite her stratospheric salary, was reimbursed nearly $20,000 for remodeling her home office, which was outfitted with a chandelier, among other luxury accouterments.

Kate claimed her GLAAD-funded home office renovation as a business expense on her tax return.

Kate’s extravagant activism was outed after a whistleblower complained to GLAAD’s board about excessive salaries and luxury expenses, which seemed odd to the whistleblower considering the organization’s allegedly “non-profit” status. The board hired a compliant outside auditor, who cleared the organization of wrongdoing but recommended a few “reforms” in its expense reimbursement policies.

But the damage was done; the story was out.

In a statement, GLAAD’s spokesman insisted that its executives were “good financial stewards.” Kate is unashamed and vowed to soldier on. Kate told the Times, “I take my role as GLAAD’s financial steward incredibly seriously, and we’ll continue updating our procedures to keep pace with the organization’s rapid growth.”

It was odd to see the Times going after a far-left group like GLAAD. But the reason for the Times’s relentless scrutiny might have been revealed in a paragraph about halfway through the story. “The Times,” the story reported, “has been a frequent target of criticism, with GLAAD recently arguing that the news organization has published inaccurate and biased pieces about transgender issues.”

Aha. Live by the media, die by the media, I suppose.

As I have noted many times, in addition to seeking the country’s controlled-demolition, these far-left non-profits, which produce nothing of value, exist merely to enrich elite liberals at taxpayer (and consumer) expense. Thanks to the Times’ irritation at taking fire from the far-left, the paper gave us a rare glimpse into the seedy world of leftist advocacy.

Finally, a few scraps of common sense are still, apparently, flying around the world somewhere, and this time they gathered in Bulgaria. French paper Le Monde ran the story headlined, “Bulgarian parliament bans LGBTQ+ 'propaganda' in schools. The overlong sub-headline, with way too many internal scare quotes, explained, “The bill, which was voted through with an overwhelming 159-22 majority despite outcry by rights NGOs, bans 'incitement' to 'non-traditional sexual orientation' or ‘gender identity other than the biological one.’”

The vote wasn’t even close. The Bulgarian parliament, which Le Monde terrifyingly identified as “pro-Russian,” overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to ban, and I quote, “propaganda, promotion or incitement in any way, directly or indirectly, in the education system of ideas and views related to non-traditional sexual orientation and/or gender identity other than the biological one.”

The rest of Le Monde’s article quoted far-left gay activists who think the new law stinks to High Heaven and will probably cause —without hyberbole— more carnage than one million Vietnam Wars put together. Oh, the Humanity!

Le Monde’s diligent team of crack reporters were, somehow, unable to scrape up a single supporter of the new law who could provide a counter-quote. They couldn’t even find any of the 159 Bulgarian ministers who voted in favor of the excellent new law for a comment. Maybe the power was out. It is Paris we’re talking about, after all.

Le Monde did report at least one fact accurately. The article’s cited critics were all correctly identified as being members of various ‘non-governmental organizations’ (NGO’s) which various countries for some strange reason believe are funded by U.S. intelligence agencies.

But better context was provided in Balkan Insight’s article, headlined “Bulgaria’s Parliament Unexpectedly Outlaws ‘LGBT Propaganda’ in Schools.” It explained the issue had “unexpectedly” united both the country’s traditional left- and right-wing groups, and both its pro-Russian plus pro-Western parties. For some strange reason, they all seem to believe the homosexual agenda is being pushed by “very influential rich people:”

Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova said that Bulgarian families abroad had contacted her to
alert about the dangers of "gender ideology" in the West and criticised those who are "one thing
in the morning,
a second in the afternoon, a third in the evening".
Ninova defined "gender ideology" as something promoted "by very influential and rich people"
and said it was "creeping into and taking over Bulgarian schools".
She noted the recent Eurovision Song Contest, won by a non-binary contestant, and the
aesthetics of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris as worrying examples.
Olympic controversies have been fanned by local conservative politicians, as a recent BIRN
analysis explained.
Ninova's statements are in line with pro-Kremlin leanings of the Socialist Party, which in 2023
tried to initiate a referendum against "gender ideology" and which since 2017 has vehemently
opposed the women's rights treaty, the so-called Istanbul Convention, interpreting it as
promoting LGBTQ+ rights.
"I'll repeat what I've been saying for seven years now: hands off Bulgarian children," Ninova
said on Wednesday.

Note Ms. Ninova’s reference to the opening ceremonies from this year’s Summer Olympics in Paris. One wonders how much that eye-searing display contributed to Tuesday’s “unexpected” anti-LGBTQ+ vote in Bulgaria’s parliament. May that obscene spectacle continue to bear fruit.

Drip, drip, drip. The counter-revolution continues apace.