LGBTQI+ rights are human rights. Our government has a moral responsibility to defend and promote these rights – here and everywhere.

Today @StateDept hosted its first-ever policy convening on LGBTQI+ rights and U.S. foreign policy. pic.twitter.com/gVB6Caymzo

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) June 27, 2024

You know, you hear something like this, and you laugh.

But look at what they’re saying.

Antony Blinken, from the US Department of State website:

Defending, promoting LGBTQI+ rights globally is the right thing to do, but beyond that, it’s the smart and necessary thing to do for our country, for our national security, for our well-being. And why is that? It’s pretty basic. If you look around the world and look at the countries that respect the rights of the LGBTQI+ community, they’re more stable, they’re healthier, they’re more prosperous, they’re more democratic. Those that don’t are not. And that’s a pretty basic thing, because a world of stable, healthy, prosperous, democratic countries is a world that’s good for the United States. A world that features the opposite is not. And there is a direct correlation – a direct correlation – between countries that respect these rights and the health of their societies that we see every day.

Is that wrong?

Here, look.

More Blinken:

On his first day in office – and you heard the letter from the President, but on his very first day in office President Biden issued an executive order stating that, and I quote, “All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or whom they love.”

It’s as simple as that. LGBTQI+ rights are human rights. And our government has a responsibility to defend them, to promote them – here and everywhere.

Upholding these rights is crucial to safeguarding and accelerating our renewal at home. Our ability to stand up for human rights and democracy internationally is also tied directly to whether we’re strong on these fronts here in our own country. So much of what we do, we see the connections between what we’re doing and how we’re doing at home, what we’re doing and how we’re doing abroad. And this is no different.

It’s also profoundly in our national interest – and vital to our national security, which gets us to what Jessica shared with you earlier; really, the focus that we’re bringing today. But it’s in our national security interest to stand up for LGBTQI+ persons around the world.

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Since 2021, the State Department has helped lead a whole-of-U.S. Government effort to ensure that every person, everywhere, can live free from violence and discrimination, with their equal rights respected.

We’re defending and promoting LGBTQI+ rights around the world, and we’re doing it in several key ways. And that’s what I wanted to just spend a few minutes highlighting for you today.

First, we’re applying diplomatic pressure to urge governments to reverse discriminatory laws and practices. Seven nations have decriminalized consensual same-sex conduct over the past two years. Greece, Liechtenstein, Thailand voted to legalize marriage equality this year. More countries are banning so-called “conversion therapy.”

Now, first and foremost, these achievements are possible because of incredibly courageous human rights defenders and government partners on the ground. But I believe America’s support is indispensable. When we engage – sometimes publicly, sometimes privately, sometimes both – when we share our own knowledge and experience, we can and we do achieve change.

Second, where human rights abuses are carried out against LGBTQI+ persons, we hold the perpetrators accountable. When Uganda enacted its Anti-Homosexuality Act, we redirected U.S. Government assistance so that it doesn’t go to those carrying out this abusive policy, while at the same time increasing aid to Ugandan people who need it more than ever before in the LGBTQI+ community. We sanctioned Ugandan officials who were involved in gross human rights violations. We ended Uganda’s eligibility for beneficial trade status under the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act until – until – it repeals the legislation and addresses its human rights situation.

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Today, I’m announcing that the United States is updating our own interpretation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This is one of the key treaties committing nations to upholding universal rights. That means that, starting from now, the United States considers sexual orientation and gender identity as covered by this treaty. (Applause.) In our regular reporting to the council on human rights, we will continue to include incidents of discrimination or abuse committed against LGBTQI+ persons, now with the clear framework of this well-supported interpretation. That will further empower our efforts.

So, I don’t think I invented the slogan, but I popularized the phrase: “no country with gay pride parades has ever won a war.”

That’s factual.

But you know what is also probably a factual slogan?

“No country with gay pride parades ever had a war with another country with gay pride parades.”

It seems to me that is true and will remain true indefinitely. There is no reason for two gay countries to go to war, because they can just get together and have gay sex with each other instead.

I’m sure I agree with all of the various criticisms of Disney.

I’m sure they’re woke lesbians who make terrible shows and people are right to hate them over it.

Where did it all go wrong with #StarWars ? What cues did we not give as fans to show what was needed for them to make money? Who in their right mind would greenlight #theacolyte or any show LIKE the #acolyte to EVER air in front of Star Wars fans? #Disney has LOST THEIR MINDS pic.twitter.com/5cfqca010O

— Xwing (@XwingsHangar) June 12, 2024

However, I must also say: making a show that you know everyone is going to hate and then lashing out and blaming the fans when they complain about it is hilarious.

You gotta respect that.

New York Post:

The creator of the controversial Disney+ “Star Wars” show “The Acolyte” is pushing back against those who say that her show is “woke” propaganda featuring “lesbian space witches,” slamming the criticism as “reductive.”

Leslye Headland, the “first openly queer person to create” a major Star Wars project as The Hollywood Reporter (THR) described her, spoke to the outlet this week about the backlash the show has gotten for its progressive themes, telling the outlet that she never intended to make a show with an overt political agenda, even if it contains some LGBTQ messaging.

“I don’t believe that I’ve created queer, with a capital Q, content,” Headland told the entertainment outlet.

Leslye Headland

“Star Wars: The Acolyte” has proven to be one of the most divisive entries in the Star Wars franchise since its debut on Disney’s streaming platform earlier this month.

I think we can probably say “the single most.”

People hate this more than the third JJ Abrams film, and people really hated that a lot.

Despite being a hit with critics – it currently features an 85% Rotten Tomatoes rating among professional movie reviewers – it has a 14% audience score, the lowest rating in that category among all Star Wars content.

The Disney-owned film franchise has been criticized by fans in recent years who claim the company has embraced “woke” storylines and characters, with fans slamming “The Acolyte” as the most progressive one yet.

The show’s LGBTQ reputation has preceded itself, generating a now-viral moment where a journalist from The Wrap told Headland and non-binary series star Amandla Stenberg during an interview that the show is “arguably the gayest Star Wars by a considerable margin.”

Amandla Stenberg, the star of Star Wars: The Acolyte, decided to pull the racism card and “own the haters” by flailing around like a fish out of water gasping for air while singing about how oppressed she is.

This is what Star Wars is now. pic.twitter.com/p35XyJXCP2

— MasteroftheTDS (@MasteroftheTDS) June 20, 2024

Headland also weighed in on a controversial storyline in episode three of “The Acolyte” which seemed to confirm critics’ worst fears about overt LGBTQ propaganda being part of the show.

The narrative in question implied that two powerful witches belonging to an all-female society used force magic to generate their female offspring, the twin main characters of the show played by Stenberg.

In social media circles, disgruntled fans started mocking the series for having made “lesbian space witches” a legitimate part of the Star Wars canon.

Well, the bitch is kinda thicc.

You know?

But yeah, also I hate the color of her skin and so on, so I guess she’s right that I didn’t watch this show because I’m hateful.

So I guess now I have to watch it and leave a good review so I don’t feel guilty.

Leslye Headland really thought she cooked with this goofy shit bruh 😂 #theacolyte pic.twitter.com/GEVtz80bU3

— Verbal Riot (@verbalriotshow) June 12, 2024

It’s a cool strategy to make shows you know people are going to hate and then try to guilt trip them into watching them.

It’s way funnier than just hiring talented people to make entertaining media.

The fascists who run academia have been hiding just how gay animals truly are.

Basically, all animals do is having gay sex, which means it’s good.

A lot of animals also eat their own children, so this is also good and humans should do it.

CNN:

Same-sex sexual behavior has been observed in more than 1,500 animal species, but a new study has found that it is massively underreported by researchers.

Observations of this same-sex behavior in animals, such as sexual mounting and genital touching, date back to the 1700s and 1800s. But research on the subject only progressed in the 20th and 21st centuries.

In a study published Thursday in the journal PLOSOne, a team of researchers at the University of Toronto, Northwestern University and the University of Warsaw found that experts who study animal behavior are underreporting and rarely publishing their observations of same-sex sexual behavior.

The study surveyed 65 experts and found that 77% of them observed same-sex sexual behaviors in the species they studied. But only 48% collected data on these behaviors and even fewer – just 18% – had published papers on these findings.

“Many respondents reported that their lack of recording data or publishing on SSSB [same-sex sexual behavior] was due to a perception that it was very rare,” Karyn Anderson, a PhD candidate in evolutionary anthropology at the University of Toronto, who led the study, told CNN. “When looked at on a broader scale, we found instead that it was very commonly observed by our survey participants.”

The notion that these sexual behaviors are rare in the animal kingdom has been, and continues to be, used in debates about the ethics of human homosexuality, the study noted.

Anderson says that their study, like others on same-sex sexual behavior in animals, has found that this behavior is in fact “widespread and natural in the animal kingdom.”

Yet homosexual behavior continues to be newly discovered among different species. In 2018, the first report of sex between male spider monkeys was recorded. That same year, two male Gentoo penguins made headlines for “adopting” an egg that had been abandoned by a male-female penguin pair.

The field appears to be ripe for future research –– of the species identified as engaging in same-sex behaviors in the survey, nearly 39% had no prior reports of these behaviors, according to the authors.

We need more research into this.

We also need more subsidies for Tesla.

And more money for the Ukraine. And Taiwan. And Israel.

It’s a good thing the US government has infinity money.

Could a gay married Taiwanese gender non-binary have sex with a gay animal in a CyberTruck while bombing a homophobic Palestinian infant?

There’s only one way to find out: through science.

Some argue that homosexual behavior is found in all kinds of animals, therefore it’s ok.

But this same logic would make things like murder and cannibalism ok too.

The truth is, God defines morality, not nature, not society, not the individual.

God.

— Wasson Watch Co. (@WassonWatch) June 20, 2024

Hey, buddy – my gay asshole is the only “cockpit” on this plane.

It’s deeply offensive.

New York Post:

The world’s largest airline pilot union suggested airmen and women stop using terms purportedly offensive to women and LGBTQ individuals, calling out terms like “cockpit” as non-inclusive.

Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l, represents over 70,000 pilots worldwide and states that it collaborates with a United Nations agency on its policies.

The UN says “cockpit” is a term for a gay man’s asshole.

Not a room on an airplane.

According to a diversity, equity and inclusion language guide released in 2021, the ALPA lists numerous terms and phrases to avoid — especially “masculine generalizations” — that it deemed to be non-inclusive.

“Inclusive language in communications is essential to our union’s solidarity and collective strength and is an important factor in maintaining flight safety,” the guide states. “The purpose of this language guide is to offer examples of terms and phrases that promote inclusion and equity.”

Safety threat.

Some homo could crash a plane because he’s emotionally distressed by the term “cockpit.”

ALPA, for example, suggested replacing the word “cockpit” with “flight deck.” The purportedly offensive term “has been and may be used in a derogatory way to exclude women in the piloting profession,” the guide states.

Similarly, ALPA’s guide called for the words “man” and “men” to be avoided. It offered suggestions for the word “manpower,” including “people/human power.”

Haha.

Manpower is better than what they used to call it: “big dick energy.”

“Who will provide the people/human power to support this event?” the guide stated as an example.

The guide also suggests avoiding using masculine terms, like “guys,” when addressing groups, since the word is not inclusive of “women, transgender people and people with different gender identities.”

ALPA advised against using “mother/father.” That phrasing could alienate “different family structures, such as grandparents as caregivers, same-sex parents,” among others. Similarly, “husband/wife” and “boyfriend/girlfriend” should be avoided since the phrases could ignore same-sex couples.

I’m so exhausted.

Terrified passengers on a flight from New Zealand to Australia have watched one of the engines on their Virgin Australia plane catch fire just seconds after take off. https://t.co/OF81oZXOfr #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/EoCBFLhQcT

— 7NEWS Sydney (@7NewsSydney) June 17, 2024

BREAKING: Free Palestine protesters block Philly Pride Parade pic.twitter.com/bjDsAWQYW8

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 2, 2024

Free Palestine Protesters blocking Philly Pride Parade 11th and Locust Streets pic.twitter.com/PXLDvw50PU

— PhillyChitChat (@HughE_Dillon) June 2, 2024

I will bet you money that the conservatives are all siding with the pederasts here, claiming that pro-Palestine activists are a threat to our sweet, protected pederasts.

Donald Trump might even throw some lines in a rally about how these anti-Israel activists are hassling our pederasts: “Have you seen what these Jew-haters are doing to our proud American gays? They’re hassling them. Hassling the gays. We can’t have it, folks. Our gays need to be protected from the threat of antisemitism in all its forms.”

New York Post:

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters crashed a gay pride parade in Philadelphia on Sunday, bringing the celebratory march to a halt.

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ revelers were met by the political protesters chanting the anti-Israel slogan, “Palestine will live forever! From the sea to the river!” at the end of the parade route in the City of Brotherly Love, according to a video posted on X by conservative pundit Jack Posobiec.

The showdown took place at the intersection of 11th Street and Locust Street after the Philly Pride March and Festival kicked off around 10:30 a.m. at Washington Square and headed to the city’s Gayborhood section.

At one point, the anti-Israel crowd screamed, “PPP, KKK, IOF they are all the same!” while cops corralled them on one side of the junction and the pride marchers looked on with perplexed and dampened expressions, according to another video posted to X at 12:20 p.m.

While it was not immediately clear if the “PPP” chant referred to the Philly Pride Parade, “KKK” and “IOF” were apparent references to the Ku Klux Klan and the Israel Occupation Forces.

There it is again.

We’re just calling it “X.”

No more “formerly Twitter.”

Well, buddy: I never called it “formerly Twitter.” I just called it Twitter. And I will continue to do so until the day I die – or until the day Twitter dies (which is likely to come much sooner, with the way that fat retard Musk is running the site).

I am so, so happy that pro-Palestinians are protesting the gays with “no pride in genocide” signs.

This is all happening exactly as I dreamed it would.

Why would banning homosexual prostitution affect Iraq’s ability to attract inves….oh. https://t.co/Y9r6TwQOId

— Mr. ✘ (@GlomarResponder) April 28, 2024

I guess the real story here is that Iraq hadn’t already criminalized homosexuality?

Maybe the real story is that it has taken some years for the Iraqi government to overcome the weight of the American influence that was forced on them by the US military.

It didn’t take the Taliban long. But the full surrender of the US in Afghanistan is a bit different than what happened with the pullout of Iraq.

Reuters:

Iraq’s parliament passed a law criminalising same-sex relationships with a maximum 15-year prison sentence on Saturday, in a move it said aimed to uphold religious values but was condemned by rights advocates as the latest attack on the LGBT community in Iraq.

The law aims to “protect Iraqi society from moral depravity and the calls for homosexuality that have overtaken the world,” according to a copy of the law seen by Reuters.

These calls have definitely overtaken the world.

Everything on earth is now about anal. It’s all you ever hear about.

It was backed mainly by conservative Shi’ite Muslim parties who form the largest coalition in mainly Muslim Iraq’s parliament.

The Law on Combating Prostitution and Homosexuality bans same-sex relations with at least 10 years and a maximum of 15 years in prison, and mandates at least seven years in prison for anybody who promotes homosexuality or prostitution.

It also imposes between one and three years in prison for anyone who changes their “biological gender” or wilfully dresses in an effeminate manner.

The bill had initially included the death penalty for same-sex acts but was amended before being passed after strong opposition from the United States and European nations.

It’s good stuff.

I support anyone shutting down this global Jewish anal agenda.

There is a huge backlash against the Pope’s anal agenda, which threatens to cause a schism in the Church. Cardinals and others have been calling for the Pope to recant his support for anal blessings.

The Vatican has refused to recall the anal blessings, and all over the world, Catholic Churches continue to do a ceremony that looks very suspiciously like so-called “gay anal marriage.”

Instead of ceasing his “anal mania,” the Pope has instead decided to try to cool things off by releasing another document against trannies. There were already anti-tranny documents, so this doesn’t actually do anything. It is just intended to try to calm the people who are against the gay agenda.

However, even in this anti-tranny document, the Vatican could not help but again say that homosexuality should be legalized everywhere (???) and that fisters and double-fisters “deserve respect.”

The Guardian:

The Vatican has described the belief in gender fluidity as “a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God”, as it released an updated declaration of what the Catholic church regards as threats to human dignity.

The new Dignitas infinita (Infinite Dignity) declaration released by the Vatican’s doctrinal office on Monday after five years in the making reiterates Pope Francis’s previous criticism of what he has called an “ugly ideology of our time”.

“Desiring a personal self-determination, as gender theory prescribes, apart from this fundamental truth that human life is a gift, amounts to a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God, entering into competition with the true God of love revealed to us in the gospel,” the 20-page document says.

Reiterating opposition to gender reassignment surgery, it adds: “It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception.”

The Holy See distinguished between these sorts of surgeries and procedures to resolve “genital abnormalities” that are present at birth or develop later. It said those abnormalities could be treated with the help of healthcare professionals.

The Vatican said Pope Francis had approved the document, which also reaffirms its condemnation of surrogacy, saying the practice represents “a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child”.

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The chief cardinal, Victor Manuel Fernández, said on Monday that the pope had asked for the Vatican’s doctrinal office (DDF) to include “poverty, the situation of migrants, violence against women, human trafficking, war and other themes” in its updated assessment of threats to human dignity.

The document says gay people should be respected and denounces the fact that “in some places not a few people are imprisoned, tortured, and even deprived of the good of life solely because of their sexual orientation”.

If you want to make homosexuality legal, you want more homos.

And why shouldn’t they be punished? There are arguments that Biblically, gay anal is worse than murder, or at least worse than most forms of murder.

Why should it be legal?

Fernández, a liberal theologian who was appointed to the DDF role – one of the Vatican’s most powerful positions – by Francis last year, said punishing homosexuality was “a big problem” and that it was “painful” to see some Catholics support anti-homosexuality laws.

The declaration also reaffirms the church’s position on abortion and euthanasia while strongly condemning femicide. “Violence against women is a global scandal, which is increasingly being recognised,” it says.

Fernandez is the freak who wrote that book about orgasms being a holy act.

The book also says that homosexuals can’t stop doing anal.

From The Jesuit Review:

In comments to church news websites Crux and InfoVaticana Jan. 8, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández addressed controversy surrounding his 1998 book, “La pasión mística: espiritualidad y sensualidad” (”Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality”).

The 90-page book, circulated among journalists and posted online in early January, contained a chapter detailing the differences between male and female orgasms—and how one can find God’s love in either—while another chapter was titled “God in the partner’s orgasm.”

The cardinal wrote that if mystics can obtain sensual experiences of the presence of God, then “he can also make himself present when two human beings love each other and reach orgasm; and that orgasm, lived in the presence of God, can also be a sublime act of worship of God.”

In the book, Cardinal Fernández also discussed ways of seeking and experiencing God’s love, but he wrote that the “joyful experience of divine love” does not necessarily free one from “psychological weaknesses.”

“It does not mean, for example, that a homosexual will necessarily cease being one,” he continued.

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In “Mystical Passion,” the cardinal graphically described how each gender develops different attitudes toward sex based on their biological experience of intercourse.

He wrote that by being more receptive to affection in sex, women are “more open to the religious experience,” and that when men only try to be dominant, they “cannot fully experience the richness of love.”

He is the main figure behind the gay agenda at the Vatican.

While the document released this week is supposedly about dignity, Fernandez is just going around talking about how blacks should be forced to legalize gay anal rimming, ramming, fisting, and so on.

Related: Pope Francis Says African Opposition to LGBTQ Blessings is a “Special Case” Because It’s Their Culture

Andrew Anglin made this anal map, showing the countries that fly the rainbow flag, and showing that it’s more or less a direct overlap with countries allied with the United States:

There are some edge cases, with Saudi, Egypt, and Turkey being US allies (apparently that is still the case? No one seems to know), and India apparently moving away from the US.

But one thing is clear: Africans are the most civilized people on earth, the ones who most strictly refuse to engage in anal behavior, and in fact want to end this activity completely.

This is more than denying a visa, by the way. It’s denying a visa for a UN event, which happens virtually never.

I mean…

The UN is a special case, where people get visas virtually always, and are given diplomatic immunity.

The Guardian:

The Ugandan MP Sarah Achieng Opendi, who called for homosexuals to be castrated during a parliamentary debate on the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws has been denied a visa to attend a UN meeting in New York next week.

Opendi expressed “shock” after the US embassy in Kampala rejected her application to travel to the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women , pending “administrative” review.

Sarah Achieng Opendi

“Ninety-six per cent of MPs voted in favour of the bill and I am aware of a number of MPs that have gotten visas to the US yet they supported the bill,” said Opendi, the chair of Uganda Women Parliamentary Association.

A US state department spokesperson said they cannot discuss individual visa cases.

In December, the US imposed visa restrictions on hundreds of Ugandan lawmakers and their families over their involvement in the legislation, signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni, which imposes the death penalty or life imprisonment for certain same-sex acts and sentences of up to 20 years for “recruitment, promotion and funding” of same-sex “activities”.

This is forced gay anal.

The US government is now using every means available to them, including war and sanctions, to force people to have gay sex.

Why?

Well, it’s rather obvious: nothing can exist along side tolerance of gay anal. You can’t have a traditional culture, you can’t have religion, you can’t have a meaningful national identity. Acceptance of gay anal is in opposition to all of those things.

So, if you accept gay anal, the only thing you can do is adopt Americanist style materialistic consumer culture.

Anti Homosexuality Bill Debate
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MP, Sarah Opendi suggests castration of gays in Uganda. “They should be castrated madam Speaker.”#RejectTheAntiGayBill#Standup4HumanRights pic.twitter.com/AQnXSUpBJZ

— justice hunter 🇺🇬🇺🇸 (@hillarytaylorvi) March 21, 2023

Companies running Pride month ads, changing their logos to rainbow then shorting their own Stock pic.twitter.com/Jnud7BRbgg

— J⚡️ (@BynxJM) June 8, 2023

The gays are getting a relatively big backlash from the “pride” stuff this year. It’s because they’re openly going after kids. This was sort of a social agreement where normal people allowed them to be in public, and even to get married, with the understanding that they would not go after kids.

Yesterday, I watched videos from both Glenn Greenwald and Dave Rubin. These are two “conservative gays.” They both argued that things are going too far, and “normal gays” are getting a backlash from gays that are going after kids. However, both of these gays – who are both also Jewish, by the way – have “adopted” (read: kidnapped) kids. There is no more aggressive way to go after kids.

The gay thing is like the feminist thing. It is either/or. With moral issues is no thesis, antithesis, consensus process to be had in the way there is on public policy issues unrelated to morality. You either have to use the Bible or you end up in the hell we current reside in.

It’s good to see companies losing money for promoting this stuff. But it is much too little, too late. We can’t just roll things back to gay marriage, we would have to role things back to historical norms, where homosexuality was illegal and socially ostracized.

Sinking some company because they try to force your son to cut his dick off is deck chairs on the Titanic.

But, associating all homosexual symbols with child predation is a good start.

The Guardian:

Bud Light, Target – and now Cracker Barrel? “We take no pleasure in reporting that @CrackBarrel has fallen,” the conservative group Texas Family said in a tweet last Thursday, in response to the southern-food restaurant chain marking Pride month on social media. “A once family-friendly establishment has caved to the mob.”

The conservative backlash against American brands appears to have reached new heights over the last few weeks as companies show their support for Pride month and other LGBTQ+ issues. It is part of a wider backlash against corporate involvement in social, environmental or political issues that appears to be gathering steam.

We take no pleasure in reporting that @CrackerBarrel has fallen.

A once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob. pic.twitter.com/IM0p1NT20S

— Texas Family Project (@FamilyProjectTX) June 8, 2023

Corporate celebration of Pride month over recent years has seemed less radical amid growing criticism that parades and other events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights have actually become too corporatized. Critics have also pointed out that those same businesses are more than happy to fund politicians that oppose LGBTQ+ rights when it suits them. But conservatives have put those sponsorships back in the spotlight and are now more emboldened than ever to turn their fury against them.

At the political vanguard is Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, the presidential candidate who is in the middle of a legal battle with Disney after the company publicly criticized his “don’t say gay” bill to curb discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.

But the attack on “woke” corporations from conservative consumers and the politicians who court their support goes far further than Pride.

Multiple Republican states, including Texas, West Virginia and Florida, have divested from investment firm BlackRock for the company’s support of environmental, social and governance portfolios that focus on sustainability and environmental impact.

It is a notable change for Republicans, who for decades have been the party of business and fought the idea of government interference. Their hero, Ronald Reagan, once said “man is not free unless government is limited”.

But a shift has been happening. Since 2019, the percentage of Republicans who say large corporations have a positive impact has fallen by a quarter, according to a 2021 Pew poll. A Gallup poll showed a similar drop in Republicans who were happy with the “size and influence of major corporations”, dropping from 57% to 31% in a year.

Much of this comes from conservative distaste of “woke capitalism”, with companies coming out in support of progressive issues, such as LGBTQ+ rights, racial equity and concern over the environment, over the last decade. The shift has a strong business case. Younger Americans, who are more diverse and also more liberal, have come of age as consumers and companies have been trying to cater to them by promoting issues they care about. That comes with a price.

“Millennials and younger generations are pushing this, and they have the idea that companies have a social responsibility beyond their business,” said Amna Kirmani, a professor of marketing at the University of Maryland. “Conservatives think that companies should stay out of sociopolitical issues and instead focus on their business.”

In other words, companies can’t appeal to everyone in such a divisive political landscape, as they are quickly finding out. Now that two major corporations have pulled back on marketing efforts that promote LGBTQ+ issues in the face of a rightwing backlash, some experts say conservative resolve against companies promoting the issues has been strengthened.

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Eric Bloem, vice-president of programs and corporate advocacy at the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, said that it stresses to companies that they need to be prepared to defend their values when faced with attacks. Nike and North Face, he pointed out, stood by their decision to work with transgender models (Nike had worked with Mulvaney) after they faced backlash. Meanwhile, Bud Light and Target backed off.

“The message that it sends is that it fuels extremist behavior … and that they can make Pride toxic. Once they are able to make Pride toxic for one company, they’re going to move on to the next,” Bloem said.

“Conservative homosexuals” and “conservatives” who have accepted homosexuality are now in a state of confusion, talking about different tiers of homosexuality.

This is very similar to the TERF feminists who want empowered women, but not trannies.

We used to call this “having your cake and eating it too,” now we might say “sucking a cock and swallowing the semen too.”

There is no dialectic. It’s either/or.

Companies accused of virtue signaling over “pride,” WATCH: pic.twitter.com/5RdD0E3HuQ

— Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) June 5, 2023