ANTI-TRUMP DISORDER UPDATE: XHALE City Vape Shop FIRES Racist Trump-Hating Liberal After SCREECHING MELTDOWN CAUGHT ON VIDEO

By Jim Hoft December 29, 2018

A clerk at Xhale City vape shop in Tucker, Atlanta went absolutely ballistic after a customer wearing a Trump t-shirt walked into the establishment.

The pro-Trump customer was denied service and asked to leave the store while the vape shop employee accused him of being a “racist motherf*cker.”

A black man was also standing in front of the counter watching it all go down and it was all caught on video.

“If you do not stop recording in my store, I’m going to call the police and ask you to leave,” the triggered employee said.

The customer refused to be bullied and told the clerk to call the police — this is when things took a wild turn.

“F*ck off dude! F*ck off! Get the f*ck out of here!” the employee screamed as he assaulted the customer.

The employee is heard talking on the phone presumably to his boss where he calls President Trump a “treasonous asshole.”

At this point the lunatic employee walks back over to the Trump-supporting customer, assaults him then calls him the N word.
“Leave the store! Leave the store! Leave the store! F*ck off! Get the f*ck off n*****!” the employee screamed.
At one point the customer threatened to call the cops for assault if the employee didn’t ring up his order.

The employee continued to melt down and refused to serve a paying customer — the best part about the video is that the pro-Trump customer REFUSED to back down to the liberal lunatic.

The Yelp page for Xhale City vape shop in Tucker, GA was quickly filled with one-star reviews calling for the unhinged employee to be fired.

UPDATE—–
Xhale City FIRED THE UNHINGED EMPLOYEE last night.
The unhinged lunatic was costing the store business and it’s reputation.

The Facebook page has since been suspended.  [Source]

ANOTHER TRUMP-INSPIRED ‘HATE CRIME’ TURNS OUT TO BE A HOAX

Rachel Stoltzfoos | Managing Editor, The Daily Caller News Foundation

A Trump-inspired “hate crime” at a university in Chicago has turned out to be a hoax.

An openly bisexual senior at North Park University claimed she was the recipient of a homophobic note and hateful emails following Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election. But the school president reported Tuesday the notes are “fabricated.”

Taylor Volk said she found a note taped to her door that read “Back to hell” and “#Trump” and included homophobic slurs following the election, as well as several anonymous emails with similar messages. She reported the messages on her Facebook, and spoke to the press about the incidents. “I just want them to stop,” she told NBC News last week.

Volk also said she was confident the school would investigate. Indeed, the university’s president announced Tuesday the notes were a hoax, and that Volk is no longer enrolled at the university.

“We are confident there is no further threat of repeated intolerance to any member of our campus community stemming from this recent incident,” David Parkyn said in a statement on behalf of the university. [Source]

Anti-Latino Note Reading 'Bye Bye Latinos Hasta La Vista' Found in An Elon College Hall Explained As A Commentary

Photo by Bryan Anderson | Elon News Network 
Note found Thursday morning in Kivette Hall reads "Bye Bye Latinos Hasta La Vista." Photo courtesy of Laura Roselle, professor of political science and policy studies at Elon University.

University says Latino student upset with presidential election wrote message as 'satirical commentary'

UPDATED 5:30 p.m. Nov. 12

In a reversal of prior statements, Elon University sent out an email to students, faculty and staff Friday night with information about the student who wrote the note "Bye Bye Latinos Hasta La Vista."

Though the university declined to explicitly identify the person by name, it said a Latino student wrote the note as a joke.

"The message was written by a Latino student who was upset about the results of the election and wrote the message as a satirical commentary," said Smith Jackson, vice president for Student Life.

Multiple sources confirmed on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning the person who wrote the note was of Latino heritage and did so as a joke. ENN looked to confirm the information with a university official, but representatives either refused to provide the information or said they did not know the student's identity.

"Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the university protects the privacy of student educational records, including any proceedings in the campus judicial system," said Dan Anderson, vice president of University Communications, on Thursday. "We would not disclose the identity of students involved in conduct matters without their permission."

Elon has come under much scrutiny since the note gained national attention on social media.

A hateful note saying "Bye Bye Latinos Hasta La Vista" was found in Kivette Hall Room 100 this morning at @elonuniversity. pic.twitter.com/xL2SCMdBhR

— Bryan Anderson (@BryanRAnderson) November 10, 2016
With accusations of Elon being a non-inclusive campus, the university had a compelling reason to provide information about the student's identity. By doing so, though, it went against previous statements it made to ENN and the Elon community.

"I am writing with some additional information about the report we received yesterday of an offensive message written on a classroom white board related to Latinos," Jackson said in an email Friday night. "While privacy laws prevent us from sharing the name of the student, I think it is important for the campus to know some key facts about the incident."

On Thursday evening, Jackson sent out a prior email saying the student came forward and the university is adjudicated the matter through Elon’s Office of Student Conduct.

University Police Chief Dennis Franks confirmed Friday morning that the university was handling the issue because no crime report had been filed to his office.

"Since this was not a criminal incident, there is no need for Campus Safety and Police to be involved in the matter," Franks said in an email. "It is being handled by the Office of Student Conduct."

A representative from the Office of Student Conduct was contacted on Thursday but has yet to respond to a request for comment about how the office is handling the investigation and what its response would be if there was no malicious intent behind the note.

Efforts to speak Thursday at noon with the suspected author of the note were unsuccessful.

The note emerged Thursday morning when Tony Crider, associate professor of physics, found it on a whiteboard in his classroom before his 8 a.m. Global Experience course. He posted the photo on Facebook during class time and discussed it with his students.

"Regardless of what its intent was, which I don't know, I told the students, 'This is s---,'" Crider said in an interview on Thursday. "'I do not let this s--- just go by in my class.' I don't usually drop profanity in my class, but I felt it was appropriate."

"Thinking about if afterwards, I don't know if it was dumb s--- or if it was hateful s---. But at least it was that. It was s---."

Many people on social media accused Elon of being a racially intolerant campus, while those within the Elon community said the note did not reflect the university's values.

Calling the message "reprehensible," Elon President Leo Lambert said it was "directly in conflict with Elon’s values of inclusion and treating each other with dignity and respect."

A significant portion of people who saw the note on social media linked the message to President-elect Donald Trump and viewed it as an attack on the Latino community.

Sylvia Munoz, director of El Centro and interim director for the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Education (CREDE), was sad when she heard the news but said she was not surprised. When asked Friday whether information about the note coming from a Latino student should be included in a news article, she said publishing the student's Latino heritage would "diminish the fear that people feel right now."

"I think it would be disrespectful not just for my community but also for all the other minority community groups to divert the attention," Munoz said.

Regardless of the person responsible for the note and the motives behind it, Munoz said the focus should be on the message itself and the impact it has had on the Latino community.

"If it was a joke for them, I hope they realize that this is not a joking matter because the fear is real for some people."

UPDATED 6:02 p.m. Nov. 10

The person who wrote the note "Bye Bye Latinos Hasta La Vista" has made a confession, according to a statement from Elon University.

"This afternoon a student stepped forward, took responsibility for writing the message and is deeply remorseful," said Smith Jackson, vice president for Student Life. "The matter is being adjudicated through Elon’s Office of Student Conduct."

Though the person has been identified, the university will not be releasing a name.

"Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the university protects the privacy of student educational records, including any proceedings in the campus judicial system," said Dan Anderson, vice president of University Communications. "We would not disclose the identity of students involved in conduct matters without their permission."

Efforts to contact the author of the note were unsuccessful. A representative from the Office of Student Conduct did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Tony Crider, associate professor of physics, found the note today on a whiteboard in Kivette Hall Room 100. He arrived to teach his 8 a.m. Global Experience course. When he saw the note, he talked about it with his students.

"Regardless of what its intent was, which I don't know, I told the students, 'This is s---,'" Crider said. "'I do not let this s--- just go by in my class.' I don't usually drop profanity in my class, but I felt it was appropriate."

"Thinking about if afterwards, I don't know if it was dumb s--- or if it was hateful s---. But at least it was that. It was s---."

Crider said he took a picture of the note, talked about it with his class, erased the message on the whiteboard and filed a notice of the incident through the university’s bias response system.

Laura Roselle, professor of political science and policy studies posted the note on Facebook early in the morning, writing "There is WORK to be done."

Sylvia Munoz, director of El Centro and interim director for the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Education (CREDE), was sad when she heard the news but said she was not surprised.

"I'm shocked, but not really," she said. "Things like this would be expected, but we're going to address that."

Several students in El Centro de Espanol expressed their frustration when they saw the note, but they did not wish to be identified.

UPDATED 1:15 p.m. Nov. 10

In an email sent via Jeff Stein, associate vice president and chief of staff, to all undergraduates, graduate students, law students and faculty and staff of Elon University, President Leo Lambert addressed the message found on the whiteboard in Kivette Hall this morning.

In the statement, Lambert said the professor who found the note on his classroom's whiteboard erased it after photographing it and submitting it via the university's bias response system.

"I want to say emphatically that this incident is reprehensible and directly in conflict with Elon’s values of inclusion and treating each other with dignity and respect," Lambert said in the email. "Because this is a potential violation of Elon’s Code of Conduct, we will investigate the matter using our campus security camera system, attempt to determine who wrote the message and hold them accountable. Elon will not tolerate harassing, denigrating, or intimidating actions that create a hostile environment."

In the email, Lambert also acknowledged "great differences in our society" and offered the support of the community to Hispanic/Latino students.
Sylvia Munoz, director of El Centro and interim director for the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Education (CREDE), was sad when she heard the news but said she was not surprised.

"I'm shocked, but not really," she said. "Things like this would be expected, but we're going to address that."

Several students in El Centro de Espanol expressed their frustration when they saw the note, but they did not wish to be identified.

This story will continue to be updated.

ORIGINAL STORY

A note reading "Bye Bye Latinos Hasta La Vista" was found on a whiteboard in Kivette Hall Room 100 at Elon University this morning. It is unknown at this time who wrote the note.

Laura Roselle, professor of political science and policy studies posted the note on Facebook early in the morning, writing "There is WORK to be done."

Tony Crider arrived in the classroom today to teach his 8 a.m. Global Experience course. Roselle said she heard about the note from Crider and took to Facebook to express her frustration. 

The note was erased on the whiteboard before 11 a.m.

Sylvia Munoz, director of El Centro and interim director for the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Education (CREDE), was sad when she head the news but said she was not surprised.

"I'm shocked, but not really," she said. "Things like this would be expected, but we're going to address that."

Several students in El Centro de Espanol expressed their frustration when they saw the note, but they did not wish to be identified.

Around 11:30 a.m., multiple faculty members, including Munoz, were called into a meeting to address the situation. The university is expected to release a statement shortly.

This story will continue to be updated as more information emerges. [Source]

Police: Threat To Burn UM Student Wearing Hijab Did Not Happen

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (WJBK) - Police have determined a University of Michigan student's claim that a man threatened to burn her if she didn't remove her hijab was false. Ann Arbor Police Lt. Matthew Lige says there was not enough evidence to support her claim.

The woman, who hasn't been identified, told police she was walking along William Street and State Street when she was approached by by a man. She told police the man threatened to set her on fire using his lighter if she did not remove her hijab. The victim described the suspect to police as a white man with bad body odor and slurred speech, as if he may have been drunk.

The university sent out a safety alert email to students after the incident was reported. In it, the school said the "hate and intimidation" happened Friday evening between 5:30 and 7.

Police talked to businesses nearby and reviewed surveillance tapes in hopes of tracking down the suspect. Lt. Lige says no one witnessed the event, and the woman was never seen in any surveillance footage. Detectives reviewed hours of footage, he said.

Now, more than a month later, police have determined that the incident she described did not happen.

The woman could be charged with filing a false police report, according to Lt. Lige. The prosecutor's office will be reviewing the case, which could include a felony charge because the crime she reported -- ethnic intimidation -- is a felony.

The woman reported the incident to police a few days after the election, in which a surge of hate crimes were reported all across the country. [Source]

HATE HOAX: BLACK SUSPECT ARRESTED FOR DAMAGING STORE, WRITING THREAT FROM TRUMP-SUPPORTING ‘WHITE AMERICA’

Police have arrested a black male suspect in connection with a fire at a store owned by South Asian immigrants left damaged with a note from “White America” telling them to “go back to where they came from.”

A window was broken and a flaming object thrown inside the store last Thursday. No serious damage occurred as the fire was contained.

There was also a note left at the scene that read, in part, “Our newly elected president Donald Trump is our nation builder for White America. You all know that, we want our country back on the right track. We need to get ride of Muslims, Indians and all immigrants.”

The note ended with a signature from “white America.”

Despite the effort to make the act seem like the actions of a white Trump supporter, Curtis Flournoy, a black male, was arrested in connection to the fire on Sunday.

He is being charged with, “burning a building of trade, malicious damage by use of an incendiary material, felony breaking and entering, ethnic intimidation and anonymous or threatening letters,” WNCN reports. [Source]

BLACK MAN BURNED AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCH, PAINTED ‘VOTE TRUMP’ ON THE WALLS

Andrew McClinton has been charged with arson

Chuck Ross | Reporter

A black man has been arrested and charged with burning an African-American church in Greenville, Miss. last month and defacing its outer walls with “Vote Trump” graffiti.

The Mississippi state police arrested Andrew McClinton, 45, on Wednesday and charged him with first-degree arson of a place of worship, Warren Strain, a spokesman with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety told The Daily Caller.

McClinton allegedly set fire to Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, where he is a member, on Nov. 1, a week before the election. The fire destroyed 80 percent of the church. A GoFundMe account raised more than $240,000 to repair the facility.

“We do not believe it was politically motivated. There may have been some efforts to make it appear politically motivated,” Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, who also serves as the state fire marshal, told The Associated Press.

Clarence Green, a bishop at Hopewell, told the AP that McClinton is a member of the church.

The attack, which was investigated by local and state authorities as well as the FBI, was widely attributed by media outlets to Trump supporters. The Atlantic, to cite one example, published an article entitled “A Black Church Burned in the Name of Trump.”

Mississippi U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, whose district encompasses Greenville, said last month that the arson and vandalism was an act of “domestic terrorism.”

“If there is something like the Ku Klux Klan or the Aryan Nation…we look at that as domestic terrorism,” he told the AP at the time.

The case appears to be yet another hoax targeting Trump supporters. Several Muslim women who have claimed since the election that they were targeted by Trump fans because they wore hijabs have been charged with making false reports. [Source]

Another 'Hate Crime' Meant To Paint Trump As Nazi Exposed As HOAX

ByAMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO
@AMANDAPRESTO

Fresh off the presidential election this November, someone vandalized St. David's Episcopal Church in Indiana with a spray-painted gay slur, a swastika and the words '"Heil Trump." George Nathanial Stang, a 26-year-old organist employed by the church, found and reported the apparent hate crime. But it turns out that the man who "discovered" and reported the vandalism was actually the one who staged the hate crime.

Stang was upset that Trump won the presidency so he lashed out like a small child, building upon the Left's narrative that Trump supporters are racist and the Republican's win was, as CNN's Van Jones called it, a "white lash."

The 26-year-old admitted that he bought the black spray paint used for the vandalism at a local hardware store, says the Brown Country Prosecutor's Office. "He told police that he wanted to 'mobilize a movement' because he was disappointed in and fearful of the presidential election results," notes RTV 6.

Stang has been charged with the class A misdemeanor of criminal mischief. According to the office of the prosecutor, the 26-year-old's "intentions were not racially or religiously motivated," just political, apparently.

"This incident has been a blight on our small and diverse community, and I am proud of the hard work put forth by the Brown County Sheriff’s Office, especially Detective Brian Shrader and Sheriff Scott Southerland. It was truly a team effort involving many nights away from each of our families," said Theodore F. Adams, the Brown County prosecuting attorney, on Wednesday.

Since the stunning election of President Trump, there have been numerous reported "hate crimes" which have turned out to be politically-motivated hoaxes. Here's Daily Wire's John Nolte with a shortlist of such hoaxes:

The Muslim woman robbed of her hijab in Louisiana? Never happened.

The black woman racially-harassed at a Philadelphia gas station? Never happened.

The Asian student racially-taunted in Minnesota? Never happened.

The bisexual student receiving hate-notes in Chicago? Never happened.

The black church burned to the grown and defaced with "Vote Trump!" Committed by a black man.

Asian store firebombed by a white Trump supporter? Committed by a black man.

Michigan student told to remove her hijab or be lit on fire? Never happened.

Racist note left for Hispanic students in North Carolina? Written by a Trump-hating Hispanic.[Sourc e]

Nebraska Woman Convicted Of Hate-Crime Hoax Fails To Show For Jail Term

Charlie Rogers. Photograph: KETV

Charlie Rogers, a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln basketball player, was convicted of lying to police about being attacked by anti-gay men

A 36-year-old woman convicted of a hate crime hoax in Lincoln hasn’t shown up for jail time that she was required to serve because she didn’t meet the conditions of her probation.

Charlie Rogers is a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln basketball player who was convicted of lying to police about being attacked by masked men who carved anti-gay slurs into her skin. She has said she’s a lesbian.

A prosecutor told the Lincoln Journal Star Thursday that Rogers’ probation officer didn’t sign a document that would have waived the 90-day jail term ordered at her April 2013 sentencing. She was immediately required to serve seven days in jail. The terms of her probation included 250 hours of community service and a requirement to get a full-time job.

Chief deputy county attorney Pat Condon said Rogers didn’t show up as required at 8am Thursday at Lancaster County Jail. A jailer said Rogers still wasn’t in custody there on Friday.

Rogers’ lawyer didn’t immediately return a call from the Associated Press. The county’s chief deputy probation officer has declined to talk about Rogers and her probation problems.

Prosecutors say Rogers reported in July 12, 2012, that the men who attacked her tried to set fire to her home before leaving. A neighbor told police that Rogers crawled from her home naked, bleeding and screaming for help.

Rogers’ story quickly fell apart, and prosecutors said she faked the attack because she thought it would inspire change in the treatment of gay people. [Source]

New York DJs Suspended for Anti-Gay Party-Invitation Hoax

Why did the morning-show hosts say that they created this fictitious party and response?

By Albert Lin

Two Long Island radio-station personalities have been suspended indefinitely after perpetrating a hoax involving a fictitious anti-LGBT parent.

Steve Harper and Leanna Karlson, cohosts of The K-98.3 Morning Show on Hempstead, N.Y., radio station WKJY, told listeners on Wednesday about a birthday-party invitation returned to gay parents with an anti-LGBT rant written on it. Except that all details of the story "were completely fabricated independently by Steve and Leeana," read a statement posted to the station's Facebook page.

"This was done without the knowledge of K-98.3 management or ownership," the statement continued. "The story, presented as a real event, was, in fact, fictitious. An internal investigation was quickly launched which has resulted in the immediate suspension of Steve Harper and Leeana Karlson from The K-98.3 Morning Show."

In an apology posted to the station's website on Friday evening, Harper and Karlson wrote, "We were attempting to spur a healthy discourse on a highly passionate topic, but we made a mistake by misleading our listeners into thinking that this specific situation actually existed.

"We are very sorry that we perpetuated this falsehood, even after it was clear that it had taken on a 'life of its own.' We deeply apologize for violating your trust, and we will work hard to regain that trust."

The "RSVP" to an invitation to a 7th birthday party was posted on the station's Facebook page. (It has since been removed.) "Tommy will NOT attend," wrote the mother, identified as Beth in the post. "I do not believe in what you do and will not subject my innocent son to your 'lifestyle.' I'm sorry Sophia has to grow up this way. If you have an issue or need to speak to me: [phone number]."

The Facebook post said: "Beth gave us permission to post her phone number and said anyone who has a problem with what she wrote can call her, too!"

The phone number went to a voicemail that had received "well over 2,000 messages before it was taken down," a station spokesperson told Newsday.

Reaction to the original post—which had more than 2,500 comments as of Friday morning—was overwhelmingly in support of "Sophia" and her parents. Reaction to the Facebook post announcing the suspension was more mixed, with many applauding the disc jockeys for raising awareness, but others saying it was hurtful and not funny.

David Kilmnick, CEO of the Long Island GLBT Services Network, said, "We applaud the quick and decisive actions from the management team at K-98.3 FM. While we don't agree with how the information was presented by Steve and Leeana, we do recognize the impact and importance of fostering discussions of this important and sensitive social issue."

Kilmnick told WNBC-TV that he had met with Harper and Karlson, and in the station's statement Kilmnick is quoted as saying, "I look forward to continuing this discussion on The K-98.3 Morning Show with Steve and Leeana upon their return." [Source]

Racist, Anti-LGBT Flier Found Outside Dallas Nightclub Appears To Be Hoax

The flier used in the Dallas anti-gay hoax.

A racist and anti-LGBT flier reportedly found on the windshield of a vehicle parked near a gay nightclub appears to be a hoax, Dallas police said.

The Dallas Voice reported the incident to police Wednesday and said the derogatory flier was found Saturday on a windshield in the 3200 block of Fitzhugh Avenue, near BJs NXS Nightclub, police said.

In its initial story about the flier posted Wednesday, the Voice reported it was unable to reach the person whose car the paper was allegedly found on, and that its authenticity had not been verified.

The publication has since reported that the incident appears to be a hoax. A copy of the flier was found on an "alt-left" website with the headline "Welcome to Trump's America," and the claim that the same flier was seen in the yard of a gay person accompanied by a burning cross, the Dallas Voice said.

The flier had numerous slurs and threats including, "Kill all [expletive] and anyone who helped them at PULSE." It also had a picture of the fence where Matthew Shepard, a gay man, was tied and left to die in October 1998 after he was severely beaten.

Dallas police said the department "takes these matters very seriously" and will follow up on any leads.

"No person has come forth and stated he or she found the flier, however, the department will continue to investigate the incident to determine if an offense occurred," police said in a written statement.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been monitoring reports of racist or hateful incidents in the wake of Donald Trump's election and his subsequent appointment of  Breitbart News mastermind Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist.

Racist rhetoric and hateful fliers, the legitimacy of which has not been confirmed, have popped up at colleges across Texas. Southern Methodist University officials condemned fliers recently found around the campus titled "Why white women shouldn't date black men."

At Texas State University, police are investigating fliers that called for the organization of "tar and feather vigilante squads" to "arrest and torture" university leaders who call for diversity on campus.

A student at Baylor University also reported being taunted with racist language and pushed by another student while she walked on the sidewalk. [Source]

‘Uncomfortable Truth’ In Matthew Shepard’s Death

A cross made of stones rests below the fence in Laramie, Wyo., where Matthew Shepard was pistol-whipped and then hung in a pose resembling a crucifixion. AP

 

Andrea Peyser

Stephen Jimenez didn’t set out to be the most dangerous journalist on earth.

Or, more to the point, the most dangerous gay journalist.

But Jimenez unearthed a story that few people wanted to hear. And it calls into question everything you think you know about the life and death of one of the leading icons of our age.

Matthew Shepard, college student. Killed, at 21, for being gay.

Or was he?

Jimenez’s “The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard,” out last month, challenges every cultural myth surrounding Shepard’s short life and unspeakable death. After some 13 years of digging, including interviews with more than 100 sources, including Shepard’s killers, Jimenez makes a radioactive suggestion:

The grisly murder, 15 years ago this month, was no hate crime.

Shepard’s tragic and untimely demise may not have been fueled by his sexual orientation, but by drugs. For Shepard had likely agreed to trade methamphetamines for sex. And it killed him.

Heresy.

Why dredge this up now? Jimenez’s answer surprised me.

“As a gay man,” he said, “I felt it was a moral thing to do.”

Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, now doing life for murder, were not homophobes, writes Jimenez. Shepard was lured from a bar, then driven to the outskirts of Laramie, Wyo., where he was robbed. McKinney savagely pistol-whipped Shepard with the barrel of a .357 Magnum. The men then hung him, barefoot, freezing and barely alive, on a fence, in a pose resembling a crucifixion. He died six days later.

But McKinney was no stranger. Strung out on meth for a week before the slaying, writes Jimenez, McKinney likely had been Shepard’s gay or bisexual lover.

“To understand who Matthew really was,” Jimenez said, “to alter our perception of him as a martyr and an icon, is not going to be damaging to gay rights.

“I don’t buy it. I don’t think we have anything to lose from telling the truth.”

Activists, journalists, politicians and filmmakers who, with the best of intentions, based careers on Shepard’s murder are furious. But Jimenez insists he’s willing to trade Shepard’s irreproachable image for a serious talk about drugs. Meth, he said, is haunting the gay scene, bringing with it a plague of ultra-violence, new HIV infection — and gay-bashing.

If this book saves one life, it’s worth it.

Jimenez, 60, a Brooklyn native who splits his time between New York and Santa Fe, NM, has seen his work attacked by organizations from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which helped push through a 2009 federal hate-crimes law in the name of Shepard and James Byrd Jr., the black man dragged to his death behind a pickup truck in Texas in 1998.

The New York Times Magazine commissioned, then canceled, a piece from Jimenez in 2004. (The editor claims it wasn’t any good.) But ABC’s “20/20” ran with a story Jimenez produced, which won two major broadcasting awards. Yet the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog recently accused Jimenez of serving as a lapdog of “right-wing pundits, radio hosts and bloggers.”

In Washington, DC, gay activists pestered bookstores to cancel Jimenez’s appearances. So much for free speech.

“It’s offensive,” said Jimenez.

I find it offensive that a gay journalist should be held to a different standard than a straight one. But Jimenez’s every word has been vetted by protectors of Matthew Inc. to determine his agenda. Is he a traitor to the cause?

Jimenez is not the enemy. He’s just a man who told an uncomfortable truth, as he saw it.

He should be proud. [Source]

-Andrea Peyser

Student Charged With Making Anti-Gay Threats Against Herself

(Reuters photo: Kimberly White)

Whether the student intended to or not, she made things more difficult for real victims of discrimination.

A student who had been serving in Ohio University’s student government is being charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly making anti-LGBT threats against herself and reporting them to the police.

The Ohio University police department arrested student senator Anna Ayers on Monday and charged her with three counts of “making false alarms,” according to an article in Campus Reform.

Ayers had apparently gone to the police to report a series of threatening messages, including a death threat, and claimed that the messages were due to her being part of the LGBT community.

“Ayers previously reported receiving a series of threatening messages, two of them in the Student Senate office, and one of them at her residence,” states a police report covering the incident.

When police investigated her claims, however, they found that Ayers had “placed the messages herself,” according to the report.

As Campus Reform notes, Ayers had previously published a tweet thanking everyone who had “supported” her “during a pretty awful time in [her] life.”

“We are still processing and encouraging our members to take time to heal and utilize campus support resources right now,” student-senate president Maddie Sloat told Campus Reform. “We’re complying with the investigation and OUPD.”

“We hope Anna receives the help that she needs,” Sloat continued.

A spokesperson for the student government also told Campus Reform that Ayers had resigned from her position as a student senator.

“Making false alarms” is punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Ayers is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday — and I certainly hope that she faces some kind of punishment for her despicable actions.

What Ayers did was not a victimless crime. It wasn’t just a stupid, desperate plea for attention; it was actually harmful. Why? Because although her particular claims were apparently false, discrimination against people in the LGBT community is very real. There are actual, real people who face threats just like the ones that Ayers allegedly made against herself, simply because they’re gay.

Doing this to herself for attention, or for whatever reason she decided to do it, minimizes the struggle that real victims have to go through. What’s more, the fact that this turned out to be a hoax may make it less likely that someone who claims to have been targeted will be believed — even if that person is a sincere victim. She didn’t just hurt herself and her own reputation, she also managed to do a serious disservice to her own community. Whether she intended to or not, she made things more difficult for real victims of discrimination, and I hope that she is ashamed of herself for her actions. [Source]

KATHERINE TIMPF — Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.    @kattimpf

Anti-Gay Craigslist Ad a Hoax

You may have read about it first at TalkAboutEquality.com two nights ago, or perhaps you saw the story yesterday on Towleroad or JoeMyGod. Maybe you caught it on Fark.com or today on The Huffington Post.

It seems that a parent was using Craigslist to sell their kid’s Macbook. In itself, it doesn’t seem like a big deal. But in this instance, the parent was getting him a new Macbook because after getting caught in “homosexual acts,” he was “choosing to be straight.” The new Macbook was to be his reward.

While this sounds ridiculous at first glance, this kind of behavior from parents around the world is not unheard of. But as it turns out, this particular story is a fake.

I’ve now done a great deal of research, and this story has now been posted on dozens of other sites so, here’s the story...

The response I received was from a Clarence M., and despite my efforts, there was never another reply from that address, so I googled the full name in Culver City and came up short. Then I just searched his name to see what I could find. Other than the random “find someone’s phone number for $19.99″ ads, one post jumped out at me.

It was a post someone made to GLAAD’s Facebook page in November 2010:

The name was the same, and the circumstances nearly identical. And lo and behold, one of the commenters to the GLAAD post has provided me with a screencap of the Las Vegas ad (click to enlarge):

Having this new email address, I started another search, which wasn’t too hard. It seems that for some inconceivable reason, Alex A. of Las Vegas, Nev., has been posting fake ads to Craigslist where he poses as the parent of a gay teenager, tells a story about catching his kid having gay sex, and either decides to sell his kid’s things or reward him for “choosing to be straight.”

Judging from Alex’s Google+ and Twitter accounts, he’s a handsome young man. So I’m not sure why he sees the need to spend so much time trolling Craigslist with obnoxious, fake stories. I’m trying to figure out how one man’s life could be so boring that he feels the need to obsess over gay teenagers having sex?

Finally, I received a response after calling the poster out via email. It seems a young man named Daryl has been up to no good. Following are excerpts from some of our emails back and forth:

Yes, I need to keep my aliases straight. It’s Daryl actually. I write horrible posts on Craigslist all over the country to see what issues make people angriest for a project I’m putting together. I’m sorry anyone that was offended. ...
It started out when I got my first computer, my friends and I put an ad on Craigslist saying we were selling Justin Bieber tickets. We made fun of the people that would write us. That gave me an idea to start putting up other things on Craigslist to see what people have passion about and to get reactions out of them. I want to write something about issues that people are most passionate about. I want to be a writer one day. I’m sorry about this all. I just don’t want this to affect me going to a good school one day. I’m sorry.

I’ve now confirmed Daryl is who he says he is, and I think he’s been significantly frightened away from pulling this kind of thing again. And, finally, he asked me to tell you all this:

I guess I just never understood how bad it was for most people. I have no problem with gay people at all. It seems so foreign that someone would hate gays. I’m sorry. I never understood. One of my friends I think is gay. We have been friends since we were little kids. If anyone said something to him I would be pissed. I didn’t understand how bad some people were treated. I’ll never do anything like this again. I’m having panic attacks like crazy right now. I would never be against gays, ever. I’m sorry. [Source]

Hate Crime Hoaxes Undermine Left's Agenda

St. David's Episcopal Church in Bean Blossom was attacked with spray paint the night of Nov. 12
(Photo: Provided by Kelsey Hutto)

People who morally disagree about homosexuality or who voted for Trump deserve better.

The same members of the media who don't think it appropriate to speculate as to potential motives for terror attacks perpetrated by someone slamming a vehicle into pedestrians while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” had no problem buying Stang’s heart-wrenching story of Trump-inspired hate speech. Stang, the openly gay church organist, was the perfect victimized hero for driving a conservative bigotry narrative. USA TODAY’s own headline screamed, “Churches vandalized with Trump-inspired slurs.”

And then just days ago, Stang was arrested for criminal mischief after admitting he did the whole thing himself. He spray-painted his own church that morning to frame people he doesn’t like.

Yes, in yet another false flag hoax, pro-LGBT, anti-Trump liberals resort to despicable efforts to impugn the character and demean the moral integrity of anyone who disagrees with them.

As the Washington Post reported at the time of the incident, the church’s minister Kelsey Hutto played the role of martyr: “There were conversations about trying to cover everything up, but in the end, we decided that we’re proud. We’re proud of being targeted for the reason that we were targeted for, at least in which we think we were targeted for, which is being inclusive.”

As it turns out, St. David’s own organist targeted them because he apparently hates people who voted for Trump and wanted to smear them. That’s not a reflection on Trump supporters. It’s a reflection on Stang and it’s a reflection on the moral lessons either not being taught or not being heeded in the supposedly loving and tolerant St. David’s church. For all the talk about inclusion, this episode depicts in pretty vivid colors that churches like St. David’s is inclusive only to those who think the same.

Keep in mind the fake Nazi graffiti in Bean Blossom was just one of many examples of supposed pro-Trump hate that was actually committed by anti-Trump people. And unsurprisingly, left-wing groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center that absurdly pretend to be the authority on this issue, refuse to correct the record or acknowledge the deception.

Thankfully for his part, Stang seems apologetic: "I'm very sad to have created more hate in a world that already has too much hate … The congregation doesn't deserve it, the emotional turmoil I put them through."

That’s true, but people who morally disagree with Stang and his church on homosexuality or on the decision to vote for Trump didn’t deserve it either.

But they didn’t receive any apology. And that fact alone leaves the impression that while I hope he is sincerely apologetic about his conduct, there are serious doubts as to whether a lesson has been learned. Not everyone who disagrees with the left’s agenda on immigration or sexuality are Nazis. Attempting to defame them as such by creating hoax hate crimes doesn’t end up helping your cause or America’s cause.

It embarrasses and undermines them. All of us have to do and to expect far better.


Heck is a speaker, author and teacher. Email him at peter@peterheck.com [Source]

Was Anti-Gay Rant on Check a Hoax?

Gallup Asian Bistro waitress Dayna Morales, waits on customers at the Bridgewater restaurant. Morales was recently in the news because she claimed that a customer left her no tip, writing on the receipt, that they "did not agree with her lifestyle". Since then support and tips have been flowing in. Morales says that she will be donating some of that money to the Wounded Warriors, an organization that helps soldiers, Tuesday November 19, 2013. Bridgewater NJ. Staff photographer/Kathy Johnson/MyCentralJersey BRI 1120 Bridgewater waitress tip   (Photo: Kathy Johnson, Bridgewater (N.J.) Courier-News)

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. -- A restaurant at the center of a firestorm over an anti-gay note supposedly left on a waitress' check said Tuesday it will review computer records and security cameras to determine whether the incident was a hoax.

The veracity of what Gallop Asian Bistro waitress Dayna Morales first said two weeks ago was thrown into doubt Monday when a husband and wife came forward to claim that the check they saw on the news looked like theirs. The problem, they said, was that they indeed had left Morales a tip and they never left her any message.

The couple defended themselves on WNBC-TV, which did not identify the family by name or show their faces.

On Tuesday, former colleagues and friends of Morales, 22, formerly of Stony Point, N.Y., say she has a reputation for lying.

Morales has been caught in multiple lies, telling co-workers she shaved her head because she had brain cancer and later telling them it was her friend who had brain cancer, her colleagues and friends said.

They said she also told co-workers at a day care center where she once worked that Superstorm Sandy severely damaged her home in Stony Point, and sent a boat into her living room. Concerned co-workers dropped by her home and found only minor damage to the carpet by her front door and no sign of a boat, they said.

"Every story she comes up with has a lie," said Julie Howat, 23, of Pomona, N.Y.

In the news report, the family's customer copy of the check was shown. It has the same "11/13 19:19" time stamp as the merchant copy that went viral. The report also claims that a bill from the couple's credit card company appears to show a $111.55 charge from the restaurant.

The customer check had $18 written for tip on the $93.55 total.

"It's not my handwriting. I don't know," Morales, now of Bedminister, N.J., said when confronted by the TV reporter.

High school acquaintances and former colleagues of Morales said the revelations Monday confirmed their suspicions about Morales' original story. In the past, Morales has sought sympathy from friends and co-workers through questionable stories, Howat said.

"Any tragedy that happened, she had to be a part of it," Howat said. "She needed sympathy and empathy."

Restaurant manager Byron Lapola on Tuesday told the (Bridgewater, N.J.) Courier-News that the eatery, which first opened three months ago, would not comment until they finish their investigation. Lapola said Morales, was "currently not on the schedule" to work.

In the meantime, the same social media that largely slammed the anonymous family in thousands of Facebook and online comments now has seemingly turned on Morales, who could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Days after the story first was reported, Lapola told the Courier-News that he was not working the evening of the incident and that he never saw the family or the original check.

But Lapola stood by his waitress and said that he instructed his staff to discount an entree from the family's check and to credit the difference as a tip.

The message on the check — "I'm sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle and how you live your life" — snowballed into a national story after Morales took to Facebook to rant about being stiffed on the tip by a family who had called her "Dan."

Morales never contacted news outlets, but reporters began reaching out after her post was shared by several blogs.

Within days, camera crews were a regular sight at the restaurant and donations to Morales came pouring in. Last week, Morales said she had received about $1,700 in extra tips and that she, a former United States Marine, was donating the proceeds to the Wounded Warriors Project.

This case has enraged Howat because people from all over the world were sending Morales money after hearing the story.

"It's like she's taking it to a whole other level," Howat said. "Now you're lying to people to get their money. It's not even for sympathy now."

Karolee Larkin, 23, a former classmate, worked with Morales at the day care center.

"You can't believe much of what she says," Larkin said.

The Facebook page that initially shared Morales' check and rant said Tuesday it was waiting for more answers "and only hope that the allegations are not true."

The page's followers chimed in.

"She probably figured they just threw their copy of the receipt away anyway," Brandy Gardner said.

Janilee Caren Hanline-Mourning had her own theory.

"A credit-card statement can be easily faked," she said. "Just because they wrote in a tip on the customer copy (which is not a carbon) doesn't mean a thing."

Bichao reports for the (Bridgewater, N.J.) Courier-News; Nguyen and Zacchio report for the (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News. [Source]

Gay Pastor Apologizes, Says Whole Foods Cake Slur a Hoax

A Texas pastor is suing Whole Foods because he said a bakery worker at its Austin store wrote a gay slur in addition to the requested phrase "Love Wins" on a cake he ordered. Whole Foods denies the allegation. The lawsuit was filed Monday, April 18, 2016, stemming from the incident Thursday, April 14, 2016.  (Photo: KVUE-TV, Austin)

“I want to apologize to Whole Foods and its team members for questioning the company’s commitment to its values, and especially the baker associate who I understand was put in a terrible position because of my actions,” Brown said in his statement Monday.

Brown continued, “I apologize to the LGBT community for diverting attention from real issues. I also want to apologize to my partner, my family, my church family, and my attorney.”

Whole Foods: Cake with alleged gay slur is fake

Brown was represented in the initial lawsuit for intentional infliction of emotional distress by Austin Kaplan.


Whole Foods immediately fought back against Brown's accusations, filing a $100,000 defamation suit. The company released surveillance video from the market showing Brown purchasing the cake and said it stood behind its team member. [Source]

Former Vatican Official: Homophobia Is a “Hoax” that “Serves to Threaten People"

                                         Cardinal Gerhard Müller

Just a day after news broke that Pope Francis told a gay man “God made you like this,” another story came to light that a former top Vatican official said homophobia is a “hoax” and compared the movement for LGBT equality to Nazism.  His remark, as well as those of other bishops in response the news about the pope’s statement, highlights how varied official positions towards LGBT issues have become.

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, made his anti-gay statements while being interviewed by an Italian blogger, reported Crux. Asked about church leaders who participate in the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, which occurred May 17, Müller answered at various points:

“‘Some bishops today don’t have the courage to speak the truth, and allow themselves to be intimidated…They don’t understand that homophobia is a hoax that serves to threaten people.'”
“‘[Homophobia] simply doesn’t exist.’
“‘[Homophobia is] an invention, an instrument of totalitarian dominion over the minds of others.'”
Müller said there is a current form of “psycho-terrorism” playing on people’s ignorance that creates such fear. He remarked about movement for LGBT equality:

“‘The homosexual movement doesn’t have scientific arguments, so it’s constructed an ideology that wants to dominate, seeking to construct its own reality. It’s the Marxist scheme, according to which it’s not reality that builds thought, it’s thought that builds reality. . .In the Soviet Union, Christians were put into insane asylums, which are the means of totalitarian regimes such as National Socialism and Communism. . .Today in North Korea, the same fate awaits anyone who doesn’t accept the dominant thinking.'”

Müller’s claim that homophobia is a “hoax” clearly defies not only Pope Francis’ most recent gay-positive remark, but also the pope’s acknowledgement to a former gay student that “there is no place for homophobia” in Francis’ own pastoral ministry. This incident is not the first time Müller has opposed Pope Francis, but it may be one of his most direct refutations of the pope’s vision for the Church.

Elsewhere, Archbishop Kenneth Richards of Kingston, Jamaica made similarly offensive remarks about lesbian and gay people, reported the Jamaica Observer. Responding to Pope Francis comment of “God made you that way,” Richards said:

“‘If a person is known to have the maladaptive behaviour of stealing, does that mean he was born a thief?'”

But whereas Müller stands firm in opposition and Richards remains gay-negative, some church leaders have taken an ambiguous stance when it comes to Pope Francis’ model for LGBT ministry.

During a radio interview, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York responded to the pope’s most recent comments on homosexuality. The cardinal first praised the pope’s comments, stating: “Jesus would have said that.” Crux reported:

“‘What he says is beautiful,’ Dolan said of Francis’s comments.

“‘That’s sort of conservative, traditional, Catholic, orthodox teaching. The Catechism insists on that,’ he added.

But then Dolan continued on a more negative note, Crux reported:

“Dolan, it seems, was primarily referring to the first part of Francis’s comments and went on to note that neither he – nor Francis, he believed – would be qualified to weigh in on whether an individual was born gay.

“‘Even among professional circles, there’s an ongoing debate whether one is born that way or is it nature or nurture,’ Dolan said.”

The cardinal also said that both same-gender sexual activity and the mistreatment of a gay person are “contrary to God’s purpose.”

Dolan’s record on LGBT issues is generally negative, though he has had some positive moments. He once said lesbian and gay people should “wash their hands” before coming to church because there should “no dirty hands.” He said U.S. church leaders were “out marketed” on LGBT rights and remained silent when anti-LGBT hate crimes spiked in New York City. He has defended the inclusion of LGBT groups in that city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade after decades of controversy, and once said to lesbian and gay people, “I love you, too. And God loves you.” When Francis made his “Who am I to judge?” remark back in 2013, the cardinal said it was acceptable to judge people’s actions even if not their person.

Frequent readers of Bondings 2.0 will note the increasing number of posts featuring bishops making LGBT-positive statements.  They are often bishops who were appointed by Pope Francis. But Müller, Richards, and Dolan’s statements are stark reminders that for too many church leaders, a toxic combination of prejudice, ignorance, and/or indifference prevent them from following Francis’ lead.

More reactions to Pope Francis’ recent comments from other Catholic leaders and observers will be posted on Bondings 2.0 in the coming days.

—Robert Shine, New Ways Ministry, May 25, 2018 [Source]