this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
55 points (100.0% liked)

news

24147 readers
651 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --

-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --

-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today/ . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --

-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--

-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--

-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --

-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Not long ago I posted an article about how Christians were trying to have the Pride flags removed. Now the council has given in and removed them.

*It is not clear how many people complained but one was Cornerstone Bookshop, run by a Christian charity, which said it was “grateful for the speedy removal” of the Pride flag.

Judy Crook, who runs the bookshop, told the Guardian that, though as “a point of basic Christian belief, we welcome everybody”, they did not want to promote homosexuality and “we’re not happy with the gay rights situation”.

“We have to respect other people’s views. But we didn’t want the flag flying outside our shop.”

In a statement, the bookshop added: “Fortunately, we are blessed in this country with freedom of conscience and freedom of religion legislation, enshrined in the Equality Act of 2010 which allows religion or belief as a protected characteristic. We are therefore very grateful for the speedy removal of this flag when we raised our concern to the council.”*

top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“a point of basic Christian belief, we welcome everybody”

“we’re not happy with the gay rights situation”.

right right of course, I'm sure this makes sense in your twisted brain gunpointcatgirl-disgust

They probably mean they welcome gay people to church as penitent sinners who want to be converted from their "evil" lifestyle. Of course they don't mean they welcome them as they are.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

“we’re not happy with the gay rights situation”.

This sounds like something a homophobic character in a British sitcom would say

[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago

People think the Briush have some amazing cultural-ancestral capacity for deadpan satire - but really it's all just drily reporting on the unparodyable real takes that can be found everywhere across Briain.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Vikings should have burned more churches

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Never too late

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TERFs have done amazing things for the homophobic movement. That bookshop would've been too scared to utter a word a few years ago.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Turns out when you coopt homophobic talking points you empower homophobes. Who could have possibly predicted this?

[–] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Judy Crook

How do these fucking ghouls all have the most ridiculously villainous names in existence?

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

You can have society or Christianity. Pick one.

[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Every day I wish the Romans had done one good thing with their empire and stamped this evil cult out when they had the chance.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I am once again calling for a cultural revolution against kkkristianity

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Bring back the Glittarti