9on how American-based social media companies have helped provide a platform for Tanzania’s anti-LGBT vigilantes.Įarlier that week, Paul Makonda, regional commissioner for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city, said in an interview posted to YouTube (which is owned by Google), “These homosexuals boast on social networks” and called on the Tanzanian people to “Give me their names. Houston police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
With the hate speech that was spread over the affirming and uplighting mural it is a reminder to continue to be visible.” The owner vowed to continue working with another organization to bring visibility, representation and humanization of the LGBTQIA+ community forward. The owner of the noodle shop posted a statement to the restaurant’s Facebook page that the Pride Wall will be painted over, saying that, “I have now been limited to what I am allowed to put up because I do not own the building.” The owner continued, “My support for the LGBTQIA+ community has not changed and is stronger than ever. The popular “Be Visible” Pride Wall outside a Houston noodle shop was defaced with a black “X” and the words “Stop your gay agenda please!” Surveillance video captured by a neighbor’s camera showed one lone vandal defacing the wall. 27that Houston’s “Pride Wall” had been defaced with anti-LGBT statements and is thus being taken down. In October 2017, a judge ruled that the state of Kentucky owes about $225,000 in legal fees to couples who sued her. As a condition of her release, she was ordered not to interfere with same-sex marriage licenses. She was represented by Liberty Counsel.ĭavis spent five days in jail for contempt of court in 2015.
She stopped issuing all marriage licenses and was sued in July 2015 because of her religious objections to that ruling. According to Newsweek, Mathew “Mat” Staver, head of Liberty Counsel*, said in a radio interview on the Christian show “Crosstalk” that “I think what she’s going to do and where she’s been wanting to go, is into some form of ministry.”ĭavis garnered national media attention when she refused to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples following legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015 through a Supreme Court ruling. 11that Kim Davis, former clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, may be considering pursuing Christian ministry after losing her bid for re-election. Witt’s defense attorney argued that the thefts were pranks, but prosecutors say Witt reportedly told police that he “didn’t want to see a gay flag on a church.” Witt will have supervised release and must wear a GPS monitoring device because of a probationary issue on a separate case. Pastor Ray Banguolo posted a sign in August that pleaded with the perpetrator to talk with the congregation, and noted that the person was welcome in the congregation, too.įollowing the fourth theft, the Suffolk County police Hate Crime Unit set up surveillance cameras at the scene. The first flag was stolen July 29 from the front lawn of the Sayville Congregational United Church of Christ. Ronald Tyler Witt, 21, was charged with six counts of petit larceny as a hate crime. 10that a New York man was arrested after he allegedly stole six LGBTQ Pride flags from a Long Island church on six separate occasions, with the last theft occurring Nov. bishop refusing to comply with the resolution. Susan Russell, an activist for a more inclusive church based in the Los Angeles diocese, Love is the only U.S. Andrew’s in Albany while the letter was being read and ceremonially burned it, the Times Union reported.Īccording to the Rev. Some parishioners gathered on the church steps of St. 2 allowing same-sex marriages to be performed in Episcopal churches nationwide. The Bishop’s directive comes three weeks before a new resolution in the Church, Resolution B012, goes into effect Dec. Love wrote in a statement that “the Episcopal Church and Western Society have been hijacked by the ‘Gay Rights Agenda’” and that “Satan is having a heyday bringing division into the Church and is trying to use the Church to hurt and destroy the very ones we love and care about by deceiving the leadership of the Church into creating ways for our gay and lesbians brothers and sister to embrace their sexual desires rather than to repent and seek God’s love and healing grace.” 10 that bans same-sex couples from marrying in the diocese’s church. 12that Albany Episcopal diocese Bishop Rev.