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Feminist Writer Sues Twitter Over Ban for Transgender Tweets

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Feminist writer Meghan Murphy sued Twitter on Monday for deceptive trade practices and breach of contract. Twitter banned Murphy in November over tweets about transgender issues. “Twitter is quite literally enforcing a 1984-style version of newspeak, wherein we may not speak or name material reality,” Murphy told TheDCNF. Canadian feminist writer Meghan Murphy is suing Twitter after she was banned for her tweets about transgender people. Attorneys for Murphy on Monday filed suit in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, accusing  Twitter  of  deceptive trade practices and breach of contract. Twitter  banned Murphy in November over a series of transgender-related tweets that included statements like “men aren’t women” and “How are transwomen not men?” “Twitter’s repeated representations that it would uphold the free speech rights of its users and not censor user speech were material to the decision of millions of users, like ...

Twitter locks out conservative Christian for saying gay sex ‘spreads disease’ and is a ‘sin’

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Editor's note: The following report is written by Peter LaBarbera, a former reporter for LifeSiteNews and the president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH.org), based outside Chicago, Illinois. He shares a letter he wrote to Twitter after being banned from the platform for posting what the social media giant deemed "hateful conduct." WARNING: This this letter contains graphic medical descriptions of homosexual acts. October 17, 2018 – I sent a version of the following letter to Twitter today appealing their decision Monday to lock me out of my account ( @PeterLaBarbera ) due to a 2016 tweet describing homosexual acts as a “sin” that “spreads disease” – which Twitter deemed in violation of its rules against “hateful conduct.” Near the end of the letter, I state the following: "If Twitter no longer allows its users to advocate for healthy behaviors on its platform, and to defend their sincere moral and religious beliefs--shared by billions worldwide--th...

The confusion and casualties of the Gay Civil War in the Catholic Church

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In the 1990s, I attended a gay wedding ceremony at a Catholic Church in San Francisco – performed by a Catholic priest . Friends and acquaintances had similar marriage "blessings" in San Francisco. As of a few years ago, when I spoke with another priest involved in these ceremonies, this practice continued. When I left the Castro in 1999, I thought my experiences with facilitating and lecherous priests were endemic to a relatively small section of the world ranging from the Castro to USF . Ten years later, when I started writing about the topic, I heard stories from Catholics (primarily mothers with "gay" sons) who lived in every part of the U.S. They told a similar tragic tale – how a concerned parent sent a confused kid to an officially sanctioned LGBT ministry in his diocese, and the boy later emerged as a gay rights advocate. They also usually picked up a boyfriend at these ministries. When I began my outreach in San Francisco to the LGBT community,...

Twitter suspends commentator Mark Dice for saying transsexualism is a mental illness

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Mark Dice, famous for YouTube video interviews with random passers-by in public spaces, says that his Twitter account was suspended Thursday of last week after he implied that transgenderism is a mental illness. The exchange that led to Dice’s suspension began with a tweet by Dice on April 10, in which he  wrote , “58 different genders wasn't ‘inclusive’ enough for Facebook, so now instead of picking from a list of options, that section is a 'fill in the blank.'  The company is embracing mental illness on a massive scale.  # Zuckerberg ”. An outraged reader named “Davon” tweeted back to Dice, “Are you calling gender identity a mental illness? The fact that you're able to tweet this [EXPLETIVE] is proof enough that there's [no] liberal social media bias.” Dice then responded to “Davon,” writing, “All of them but two, yes.” Soon after the exchange, Dice’s response disappeared from his Twitter feed, and Dice announced via Facebook that Twitter had suspe...

Chilling: Police investigate stay-at-home mom for tweets against transgenderism

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I’ve written often in this space that the trans movement will countenance no dissent in their attempts to remake our culture and implement their agenda in schools, universities, and beyond—but even I was stunned when the Christian Post broke the story of a stay-at-home mother of four being contacted by the police for making comments critical of transgender ideology on Twitter —a story that has received very little attention so far. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, it is important to note, is not a conservative Christian or even a political right -winger—when I emailed her, she noted in her response that she is “a feminist and pro-choice.” Keen-Minshull’s story is positively chilling. She was contacted last month, apparently because Susie Green, the CEO of a UK organization called Mermaids which “supports transgender persons,” had decided to report Keen-Minshull to the police, who then got her details from Twitter. According to the Post, “the officer told her she was a ‘test case’ i...

Do men have a uterus?

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Did you ever wake up and look at the latest news and find yourself wondering, “Has the whole world gone mad?” It takes a lot to get me to that point. I see a lot of strange stuff here on the front lines of the culture wars. But every so often the accumulation of crazy stories strikes a nerve, making me ask myself, “Have we totally lost our minds?” It started again for me a few days back when I saw this now infamous tweet from a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Kentucky , declaring, “Some men have a uterus.” And in case you didn’t get their point, they repeated it 11 times. (Count them for yourself.) Planned Parenthood@PPIndKentucky Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. What on earth were they saying? Simply that there are biological females who now identif...

Facebook says group wanting to ‘burn…alive’ Christian mom meets ‘Community standards’

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A Facebook group wanting to “burn...alive” a U.S. Christian pro-family activist who takes bold stances against feminism, political correctness , and the LGBT lobby "doesn't go against...Community Standards,” according to Facebook . Conservative blogger  Elizabeth Johnston , also known as “The Activist Mommy,” took umbrage when she found a Facebook group called “I will find The Activist Mommy and burn whoever runs it alive.” The Activist Mommy's common sense and bucking of political correctness have gained her large online audiences. Her social media accounts have been targeted for censorship by  Facebook  and  Twitter .  Johnston first reported the group to Facebook for “harassment” and then encouraged others to flag it.   Facebook responded to Johnston,  saying  that the group didn’t “go against one of [Facebook’s] specific community standards.” The Facebook moderator suggested that Johnston send the exact content that she d...

Catholic farmer, banned from market for his gay marriage stance, wants judge to intervene

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A Michigan farmer banned from selling his produce in East Lansing because he won’t let same-sex couples rent his property for weddings plans to ask a federal judge Wednesday for an injunction against the ban. City officials plan to ask the judge to deny the farmer’s request and also dismiss his lawsuit against the city. A Michigan farmer banned from selling his produce in East Lansing because he won’t let same-sex couples rent his property for weddings plans to ask a federal judge Wednesday for an injunction against the ban. City officials plan to ask the judge to deny the farmer’s request and also dismiss his lawsuit against the city. The Facebook post in question said that Tennes’ Country Mill Farms Inc. would continue scheduling weddings at its orchard as long as the ceremonies did not violate Tennes’ Roman Catholic beliefs. After months of conflict between the farmer and East Lansing officials over Tennes’ refusal to allow same-sex marriages to be held on his property, whi...

Nursing home workers may be jailed for not using transgender pronouns

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If liberal California legislators have their way, calling a transgender man “he” could result in a $1,000 fine and a year in prison. The “ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Resident’s Bill of Rights ,” or Senate Bill 219 , will criminalize referring to a transgender nursing home resident by his/her actual gender. The proposed law, which passed the California senate, states , “It shall be unlawful for a long-term care facility or facility staff to … willfully and repeatedly fail to use a resident’s preferred (transgender) name or (opposite sex) pronouns after being clearly informed of the preferred name or pronouns.” The bill also requires nursing homes — whether Christian-owned or not — to accommodate transgender bathrooms and showers. Penalties are capped at $1,000 and a year in prison. Supporters say the law is justified because nursing homes and long-term care facilities are state regulated and licensed , and “professional-client speech is subjec...

Ivanka Trump’s ‘pride’ tweets upset LGBT activists and people of faith

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First daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump went out of her way to celebrate June as  “LGBT Pride Month”  on Twitter , but many homosexual and transgender activists were having none of it. Neither was at least one fellow Orthodox Jew , who said it was “massively offensive” for Ivanka — as a  professed follower of Orthodox Judaism  — to “honor” homosexual “pride” in the same tweet mentioning Shavuot (Shavu’ot), the Jewish holiday Feast of Weeks celebrating God’s gift of the Torah to his people. The Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, is the basis for much of Judeo-Christian and Western law and moral tradition, which includes a proscription of homosexual acts as sinful. Ivanka Trump, like her husband Jared Kushner (also a Trump adviser), curiously embraces both Orthodox Judaism and the homosexual agenda, including  same-sex “marriage.” On June 1, Ivanka  tweeted , “Logging back on after Shavuot, wishing everyone a joyful...