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Food Service Giant Sued Over ‘White-Men-Need-Not-Apply’ Program

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A former employee of a large food service corporation is suing the company in federal court after it fired her for refusing to participate in a program that discriminates against white male employees.

…participation in the program was restricted to “women and people of color.” White men were not allowed to participate and receive the associated benefits of training, mentorship, and guaranteed promotion.

By calling it “Operation Equity,” the company “used a euphemistic and false title to hide the program’s true nature.” The program would more accurately be called the “White-Men-Need-Not-Apply” program because it is an example of “‘outright racial balancing,’ which is patently unlawful,” and is the kind of program “promoted by people … who harbor racial animus against white men,” according to the legal complaint.

Ms. Rogers claims she informed management that high-level employees said of the program, “This is the direction the world is going, jump on the train or get run over,” and “We are not here to appease the old white man.”

Ms. Rogers claims she also informed management that the program was illegal and requested that she be allowed an accommodation because the program “violated her ethical beliefs.” Management assured her she would be exempted from participating in it and that she would not be retaliated against for sharing her concerns with management.

Ms. Rogers claims she was fired in November 2022 after she refused to participate in the program that discriminated on the basis of race and sex, even though she received positive performance feedback from supervisors and colleagues. The stated reason for termination was “failure to perform job duties,” the legal complaint stated.

In the lawsuit, Ms. Rogers is seeking relief for religious discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, as well as wrongful termination.

An attorney for Ms. Rogers, Robert Weisenburger of LiMandri and Jonna in Rancho Santa Fe, California, told The Epoch Times in an interview that his client’s personal, religious beliefs as a Christian prevented her from being part of “Operation Equity.”

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Same can be said for morality and integrity. All three are often found together with spiritual realization. Christians in particular distinguished themselves during covid. Not all stood strong but those that did in USA were most often Christian. ABN

‘No One Has A Right To Sterilize A Child’: Two Detransitioners Sue Doctors Over Medical Interventions

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Prisha Mosley and Soren Aldaco, two young women who were medically transitioned as teenagers and have since detransitioned, are suing their doctors, alleging that the defendants’ medical interventions caused irreversible damage to their bodies.

North Carolina woman Prisha Mosley, who was just 16 years old when she was first put on a path to medically transition to male, says in a lawsuit that healthcare professionals lied to her, both by telling her she could become a boy and “grow a penis,” and by withholding critical information about permanent damage from such treatments.

Mosley, now 25, was given testosterone injections and underwent a double mastectomy as part of her transition when she was a teenager. She now has a deep voice, facial hair, a damaged vagina and chest, and doesn’t know if she’ll ever be able to have children.

Mosley’s doctors “lied to and misled her into these treatments and procedures for the purpose of making money off of her and bolstering their credentials in the emerging field of so-called gender-affirming care,” the lawsuit claims, naming her plastic surgeon Eric Emerson, counselor Brie Klein-Fowler, Shana Gordon, and Dr. Martha Perry as defendants.

“They lied when they told Mosley she was actually a boy; they lied when they told her that injecting testosterone into her body would solve her numerous, profound mental and psychological health problems,” the complaint continues. “They lied by omission, withholding critical information from her about the long-term adverse health consequences and permanent damage these treatments would cause her, and failing to inform her of alternative courses of treatment for her psychological problems.”

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California school superintendent is thrown out of meeting after opposing new rule forcing teachers to notify parents if a student asks to identify as a different gender

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Parents reacted with cheers of ‘leave our kids alone’ as a California superintendent was thrown out of a school board hearing for aggressively opposing a policy forcing teachers to notify parents if their child is transgender. 

Tony Thurmond, the California State Superintendent of Schools, was booted from the Chino Valley Unified school board meeting on Thursday after going over his allotted time to vigorously attack the policy. 

Over 300 people filled the main hall at Don Lugo High School in Chino, California to weigh in at the hearing, which was marked with hostility as Thurmond clashed with the school board’s president, Sonja Shaw.  

After Thurmond condemned the new guidelines for putting transgender students ‘at risk’, Shaw fired back that the official was ‘proposing things that pervert children.’ 

The board eventually voted 4-1 to introduce the parental notification policy, a move which was met with cheers from the audience. 

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No matter what you call it, transgender ideologies and pedagogies do not belong in K-12 classrooms. Children of these ages (and older) are too vulnerable to what are, in Buddhist terms, delusional attachments to a false sense of self which will lead to suffering. Adults can do as they please though they face similar problems with these ideologies as children do. But adults are adults and legally allowed to change their bodies if they want to, whether that’s a good idea or not. Making your body conform to a delusional mental state in most cases will only increase suffering. Neither seducing children into these ideologies nor destroying their bonds with their parents is morally right or the purpose of early education. Yes, there are bad parents but, no, making schools dens of iniquity will never fix that. ABN

We need a revolution in our minds…

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Elitist ‘leadership’ is a mockery of good ethics. Let’s all throw off their mind-control. Boycott elitist mind-control as Bud Light was boycotted. Don’t buy their swill. ABN

Disabled ‘sexting’ Texas nun’s $1M defamation suit against bishop who accused her of breaking vow of chastity with priest is tossed by court

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A judge in Texas has tossed out a Catholic nun’s $1 million defamation suit against the bishop who accused her of sexting with a priest, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction in the dispute.

Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach and the Discalced Carmelite Nuns filed the suit against Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson, who ejected her from the religious order after accusing her of breaking her vow of chastity with a priest. 

The priest was identified this week as Father Philip G. Johnson of the Diocese of Raleigh, a Navy veteran and brain cancer survivor who first contacted Gerlach seeking prayers from her nuns.

In a ruling on Friday, Judge Don Cosby of Tarrant County’s 67th District Court said that the nuns’ suit was ‘dismissed for want of subject-matter jurisdiction’ after the bishop argued the bitter dispute was purely a religious matter.

Within hours of the ruling, the Arlington Police Department told DailyMail.com that it had also closed its criminal investigation into claims associated with the civil case, after finding no charges were merited.  

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Google drops its sponsorship of ‘Pride and Drag Show’ after hundreds of workers signed petition calling it a ‘direct affront to the religious beliefs and sensitivities of Christians’

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  • The tech giant was due to sponsor a drag show featuring popular performer Peaches Christ at Beaux gay bar in San Francisco, California
  • It pulled the show after hundreds of employees signed a fiery petition saying it violated the company’s event guidelines regarding sexually explicit activity 
  • Peaches Christ, real name Joshua Grannell, hit back at the petitioners, accusing them of promoting ‘anti-queer and anti-gay rhetoric’ and said the show went on

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Hard to believe this links to a real photo

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copy-paste: https://twitter.com/Steveadams76/status/1673658748471001092

Either Twitter or WP is not allowing this Tweet to link or embed. It is purportedly a photo of Hunter with his niece. From a Buddhist point of view, this should be contemplated as either: 1) the uncleanness of our cultural & political reality or 2) a possible deep fake, though I doubt it’s fake. Either way, important levels of this delusive human realm and its excesses are revealed by it. ABN

Vatican Dicastery of Bishops completes investigation of Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, according to media reports

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The Vatican’s Dicastery of Bishops has completed a formal investigation of Bishop Joseph E. Strickland and the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, according to multiple media reports.

What prompted the inquiry, known as an apostolic visitation, remains unclear, but it marks a rare though not unprecedented intervention by Rome into a U.S. diocese and points to possible disciplinary action against Strickland, a widely popular though polarizing Texas firebrand viewed as a culture war champion by many U.S. conservatives for his staunch defense of the unborn, marriage, the traditional Latin liturgy, and Catholic orthodoxy.

The leader of the eastern Texas diocese since 2012, Strickland, 64, has faced criticism for what some see as intemperate social media posts unbecoming of a prominent U.S. prelate, including a May 12 tweet that suggested Pope Francis was “undermining the Deposit of Faith.”

Not one to sit on the sidelines, he recently played a prominent role in a eucharistic procession and prayer rally in Los Angeles on June 16 organized to protest Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers for honoring an anti-Catholic drag group at the team’s annual Pride Night game.

Though he was hailed for his leadership in some circles for joining the Dodgers protest, others saw the involvement of a bishop from another diocese as a breach of ecclesiastical protocol. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which condemned the Dodgers’ actions, emphasized in a statement that it had not given “backing or approval” for the rally.

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Thrown to the Wolves: A physician reveals the nightmare of transgender ideology in a major children’s hospital

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Within these academic institutions, so-called experts in the field of transgender medicine would simply declare that puberty blockers and other interventions were the gold standard of care. The evidence to support this is completely fraudulent, but no dissent was permitted. Everyone within the medical community knew that if he questioned transgender ideology, he would suffer the same type of repercussions that had happened during Covid. 

But in reality, when you “affirm” these individuals’ gender identity, what you are doing is affirming their hatred for themselves. You have these children who are going through confusing times, difficult times; when you affirm this belief system, what you’re really doing is telling them: “You hate yourself at this moment, and I will affirm that.” We have to ask ourselves, why do these people have such high rates of suicide? Because we’re affirming that they should hate themselves and that they should try to destroy themselves.

One of the things I’ve been thinking about is what puberty blockers do to children. This medication is called a “gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist” and it comes in the form of monthly injections or an implant. And because it simulates the activity of this hormone, it shuts down the activity of the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is this almond-sized structure in your brain, it’s one of the most primal structures we have, and it controls all the other hormonal structures in your body—your sexual development, your emotions, your fight-or-flight response, everything… To shut down that system is to shut down what makes us human.

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