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Post by YankeeFan on Oct 24, 2023 14:15:25 GMT
LOL. It’s the White Man’s fault that the Navajo Nation does not recognize same sex marriage.
They and other same-sex couples are at the center of a contentious debate on the Navajo Nation, where the tribal council is weighing legislation to repeal a ban enacted in 2005. The change would grant them equal rights in situations involving property and hospital visitation. Indigenous scholars say it also would honor Navajo tradition, which recognized multiple genders and sexualities that were suppressed and stigmatized after Europeans arrived.
The debate touches on sensitive issues of deference to elders and religion, the vestiges of colonialism and the influence of American political battles on native land. The outcome is likely to reverberate across Indian country, where about 10 of 574 federally recognized tribes still explicitly ban same-sex marriage. About 50 allow or accept gay unions, including the Cherokee Nation, the nation’s second-largest tribe, which deemed its own ban unconstitutional in 2016. Hundreds of others have no specific laws. … Many members of the youngest-ever Navajo Nation Council — as well as the nation’s 36-year-old president — have shown support for LGBTQ rights. But efforts to reverse the ban have failed twice before, and the pending bill still faces opposition among the 170,000 or so residents of the 27,000 square-mile Navajo Nation, where conservative Christian teachings run deep.
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Post by YankeeFan on Oct 29, 2023 14:45:30 GMT
What a terrific event.
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Post by YankeeFan on Dec 22, 2023 16:06:05 GMT
Great news. Long overdue.
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Post by YankeeFan on Dec 27, 2023 16:46:26 GMT
Hopefully Delta takes appropriate action.
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 11, 2024 15:01:09 GMT
Story does not match the headline.
“Imagine going to your dream wedding venue with your fiancé, kids & parents,” Waggy posted to Facebook. “Seeing it, falling even more in love with it, deciding it’s it. Your parents coming over & making lists, coming up with plans.”
The couple was ready to commit with deposits, and Waggy emailed the owners one last time that evening after the tour with a question before arranging a contract.
A bombshell response followed, one the women have yet to recover from.
“While our deeply held religious belief keeps us from celebrating anything but marriage between a man and woman, we desire to serve everyone equally and do not want to keep anyone from using our building who would like to,” wrote the venue co-owner, Amanda Balzer. “Our hearts are to serve, regardless of race, creed, color, origin, sexual orientation, gender or marital status, while maintaining our convictions and beliefs as well.”
Waggy and Robinson were devastated.
“Honestly, I just started crying hysterically, and it was pretty awful and heart-crushing,” Waggy said.
In her Facebook post sharing the traumatic incident with friends, Waggy characterized the co-owner’s response as, “Basically, ‘it’s illegal for me to tell you you can’t use it; so you can. We will take your money, but we’re not going to celebrate your marriage & want to make sure you know that.”
Balzer called the response “an open and honest line of communication” to let Waggy “know who we are and where our heart is.”
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Post by Whitman on Jan 11, 2024 15:16:40 GMT
I don't understand. What are they being kept from doing? The email seems like, "Yeah, you can use our facility. But we're not gonna like it!"
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 11, 2024 15:18:08 GMT
I don't understand. What are they being kept from doing? The email seems like, "Yeah, you can use our facility. But we're not gonna like it!" Exactly. If I'm renting a room for an occasion, I don't really care if the owner of the room is "celebrating" along with me.
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Post by Da Man on Jan 11, 2024 20:39:42 GMT
They were stocked and shunned.
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Post by YankeeFan on Feb 9, 2024 17:21:49 GMT
We’re going to need a new flag.
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Post by YankeeFan on Feb 14, 2024 23:16:20 GMT
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Post by YankeeFan on Feb 18, 2024 20:19:59 GMT
Science is amazing.
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Post by YankeeFan on Apr 20, 2024 17:04:59 GMT
It’s about damn time this glass ceiling was broken.
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Post by YankeeFan on May 30, 2024 1:59:41 GMT
Tough situation.
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Post by batman on Jun 1, 2024 0:13:48 GMT
"What do you mean you won't wear the ribbon!? Everyone wears the ribbon."
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Post by YankeeFan on Jun 1, 2024 0:27:44 GMT
Similarly...
A longtime Los Angeles County lifeguard stationed in Pacific Palisades near a stretch beloved by gay beachgoers is suing the county for requiring him to work feet away from a Pride flag last summer and punishing him for taking three of the flags down.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court May 24 a week before this year’s Pride month kicks off, brings the county’s sparkling coastline squarely into the nation’s culture wars.
Jeffrey Little, an evangelical Christian who has worked for the county for more than 22 years, is represented by attorneys from the Thomas More Society, a conservative Catholic legal group known for challenging abortion rights, the 2020 election results and same-sex marriage.
In a show of support for LBGTQ+ constituents, officials with both the city of Los Angeles and L.A. County have recently pushed to raise the Pride flag at government buildings. Last year, the county board of supervisors voted to require that many government buildings fly the Progress Pride flag throughout Pride month.
That included the lifeguard facilities where Little worked at Will Rogers Beach, which is home to a historically LGBTQ+ friendly section known as Ginger Rogers Beach.
A spokesperson for the L.A. County fire department, which oversees lifeguards, said the agency does not comment on personnel issues or ongoing litigation.
Little, a captain with the county’s lifeguard division, told higher-ups in June that he wanted to be exempt from the county policy ordering the raising of the flag, which is a modified version of the traditional rainbow flag with extra stripes representing people of color and transgender and nonbinary people.
He informed them that he was a devout evangelical who “adheres to traditional Christian beliefs regarding the moral illicitness of same-sex activity, the immutability of sex regardless of gender identity, and the view that all people are children of God regardless of their skin color” according to the lawsuit.
“The views commonly associated with the Progress Pride flag on marriage, sex, and family are in direct conflict with Captain Little’s bona fide and sincerely held religious beliefs on the same subjects,” the suit said.
Last June, some of the county’s lifeguard stations weren’t flying the Pride flag because they didn’t have the right flagpoles, according to the suit. At Little’s request, his bosses initially agreed to give him a religious accommodation and change his shift so he could work at a site that didn’t have a flag, the lawsuit said.
When he arrived at Dockweiler Beach on June 21 — one of the sites he alleged was supposed to be flagless — Little said he found the Pride flag hoisted at three nearby facilities, according to a complaint he filed with the county. He was informed that a chief had dropped off the flags and ordered they be flown, which Little alleged was a form of religious discrimination.
“I was confused [as] to why they were flying as I was under the impression that I would not have to deal with working in these conditions,” he wrote in the complaint filed June 22.
He took down all three flags, according to the suit.
The next day, Fernando Boiteux, the chief of the lifeguard division, hand-delivered him a “direct order” to ensure the Pride flag was flown through June.
The day after, according to the lawsuit, Little was suspended from his role with the department’s background investigation unit, which investigates “emergency incidents” on the beach. Little also said he later received a death threat in the mail at his home calling him a “fascist pig” and threatening his children, according to a copy of the note attached in the lawsuit.
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