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A poster on a message board where I found this clip commented, "this ad is gay." I'm only the messenger, not the message.
Don't be distracted by the rainbow colored word Tough at the end of the ad in reaching any conclusion. You decide.
Washington Examiner: Florida teacher upset he can't share gay experiences with kindergartners.
A kindergarten teacher in Florida spoke out against the state's Parental Rights in Education Act Tuesday, stating how upset he is he won't be able to share the experiences of his and his partner's lives with his students.
"It truly makes me feel like I am not trusted as a professional. I know my kindergarten standards through and through, and nowhere in our curriculum does it have anything about teaching sexual orientation or sexual identity," Cory Bernaert said while speaking with MSNBC. "I am afraid for my colleagues, myself, and my students."
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Educators need to discuss their home lives with students to build meaningful and productive relationships, he argued.
"I'm afraid." Afraid of what? Specifics, please. "I'm afraid" is now the new default statement for Liberals who feel their personal behavior overrides everything and everyone else.
NBC News (Archived): 'I cannot teach in Florida': LGBTQ educators fear fallout from new school law.
Last month, a group of parents in Orlando, Florida, demanded “consequences” against sixth grade science teacher Robert Thollander. His crime? Thollander acknowledged his marriage at school.
“He married a man. This alone is not an issue. Sharing the details … with all his 6th grade students is the issue,” the parents wrote in a letter sent to their children’s school board, which was shared with NBC News. “It was not appropriate. Many of these students felt very uncomfortable with the conversations and shared this with their families.”
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...the incident prompted Thollander to make this school year his last after 11 years of working in Florida as a teacher.
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Nicolette Solomon, 28, taught fourth grade in Miami-Dade County for more than four years. As HB 1557 passed through the Legislature, she quit. Solomon, a lesbian, said that after months of having taught virtually through the coronavirus pandemic, the law was “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
Good. QUIT! Teachers are replaceable. There are many teachers whose goal and desire is to do their jobs without injecting their personal lives into a classroom discussion with children.
I'll be fair here; I wouldn't want children hearing about the personal, sexual lives of heterosexual teachers either.
Cory, Robert and Nicolette and other teachers who feel they're being oppressed by the Florida law should quit their jobs and Learn to Code.
The Meow Mix cat has more intelligence and class than Rapinoe. And...Women's Soccer is not a real sport....Rapinoe said she stands by her White House comments and still has no intention of celebrating the USA's championship with President Donald Trump because of his message that "excludes a lot of people."
"It excludes people that look like me and are me, of course," Rapinoe explained.
A member of Nivea's longtime advertising agency says the skincare brand balked at an image of two men touching hands.
FCB, one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, has parted ways with Nivea, amid allegations the skincare brand rejected an image of two men touching hands.
According to Ad Age, an openly gay FCB creative on the call said a rep from the client told the team, "we don't do gay at Nivea."
In an internal memo, FCB announced it was terminating its global Nivea account at the end of 2019, when contracts expire.
Founded in Germany in 1882, Nivea is part of Hamburg-based Beiersdorf Global AG, which also makes Eucerin, La Prairie and Hansaplast. According to the memo, written by FCB Global CEO Carter Murray, those other brands will remain with the agency.
FCB's relationship with Nivea goes back more than a century, according to Ad Age, but tensions have been escalating for the past few years.
"There comes a point in every longterm relationship when you reflect on what you've accomplished together and set your sails for where your journey will take you next," Murray wrote. "Sometimes that journey ahead demands tough choices that lead down different paths."
He added that the decision followed "much reflection and discussion on our creative ambitions."
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Accusations of homophobia have damaged international brands in the past: In a 2013 radio interview, Barilla pasta chair Guido Barilla declared, "I would never do a commercial with a homosexual family. Not for lack of respect, but because we don't agree with them." Adding that he opposed adoption by gay parents, Barilla said if LGBTQ customers didn't like his view, they could go buy another brand of pasta.
The announcement led to calls for boycotts and the removal of Barilla products from Harvard dining halls.
"I was concerned about the market share, but I was much more worried about people perceiving Barilla as an out-of-date brand," CEO Claudio Colzani told Bloomberg.
To address the controversy, Barilla unveiled a limited edition box of its Spaghetti No. 5, showing two women with a single strand of pasta between their lips, a la Lady & The Tramp. The company also introduced a Diversity & Inclusion Board, hired LGBTQ advocate David Mixner as a consultant and made contributions to LGBTQ nonprofits.
By 2014, Barilla received high marks on HRC's corporate equality index.
It's Teh Science...US women’s football star Megan Rapinoe fired her team into the World Cup semifinals with two goals against France on Friday night, before stating that “you can’t win a championship without gay players on your team.”
Fresh from a week in which she was involved in a row with President Donald Trump over her comments that she wouldn’t “go to the f*cking White House” if the US won the World Cup[.]
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“You can’t win a championship without gays on your team – it’s never been done before, ever. That’s science, right there,” the 33-year-old said.
“I’m motivated by people who like me, who are fighting for the same things. I take more energy from that than from trying to prove anyone wrong. That’s draining on yourself.
“But for me, to be gay and fabulous, during Pride month at the World Cup, is nice,” she added.
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Rapinoe’s claims raised some eyebrows online, in particular those of the ever-irascible UK TV personality Piers Morgan.
Erm, yes you can.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, Ms Rapinoe... football competence isn't linked to sexuality. https://t.co/rJpcSbbY4i
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 29, 2019
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And in that one statement, undermines all the good work of those that have helped to support & raise LGBT awareness.
— andrew easto #FBPE (@captmarvel1008) June 29, 2019
The parents of a six-year-old girl have filed a human rights complaint after her teacher told her “there is no such thing as boys and girls”.
Pamela Buffone said her daughter became increasingly distressed and worried, asking if she could “go to a doctor” and saying she was “not sure if she wanted to be a mommy”.
The family are now asking a tribunal to ensure that classroom discussion does not “devalue, deny or undermine” biological reality.
[.]...the teacher named as ‘JB’ showed the children at Devonshire Community Public School a video promoting radical gender ideology.
The video – ‘He, She and They?!? – Gender: Queer Kid Stuff #2’ – taught that “some people aren’t boys or girls” and some people don’t “feel like a ‘she’ or a ‘he’”.
The teacher then proceeded to tell the class “girls are not real and boys are not real”.
When the Buffones met with JB two months later to discuss their concerns, she claimed that gender ideology was part of the school policy and said she was ‘committed to the teaching of gender fluidity’.
The Buffones were increasingly concerned that their daughter was becoming traumatised.
Mum Pamela said her “gender identity is – or was – seamless comfort in her biological skin. She had never questioned that comfort.”
“Suddenly, she was told to believe that at any moment, what she believes to be real – that she is a girl – may not be true.”
“How very frightening that thought must be to a child”.
Their human rights complaint states that the teacher subjected their six-year-old daughter “to ongoing discrimination on the basis of gender and gender identity, by a series of lessons that denied the existence of the female gender and biological sex and undermined the value of identifying as female”.
...after decades of speculation, one of the show's writers has lifted the lid on its most famous and beloved characters.
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Mark Saltzman, who joined the Sesame Street team in 1984, has revealed he did indeed write Bert and Ernie as a gay couple.
