ANTI-GAY HOAX: CA State Senator Scott Weiner and the case of a fake email account used as yet another anti-gay hoax by another mentally-ill person

 

December 2, 2022 
By: The Horn editorial team

A state senator from California tweeted about a “threat” from hate mail.

As evidence, state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco posted only one screenshot from a Notes app… he left his cursor in the screenshot, along with spellcheck lines.

In other words, the senator wrote his own Note.

Critics accused him of faking hate mail and compared him to Jussie Smollett, the actor known for falsifying a hate crime in 2019.

“This California state senator seriously tried to fake hate mail but included his cursor and the grammar lines in his screenshot,” one conservative strategist noted on Twitter. “Unreal.”

The senator, for his part, responded to the critiques. He claimed to have been transcribing a voicemail, and he dismissed his political opponents as “conspiracy theorists.”

“For all the MAGA conspiracy theorists out there, the threat was a voicemail. This is a transcription. But have fun spinning around with your conspiracies,” Wiener wrote on Twitter, apparently rolling his eyes.

Some conservatives called on Wiener to release the audio.

“Oh so you got a voicemail death threat and instead of posting the audio you carefully transcribed it, posted the transcript, and never even mentioned that it was a voicemail until everyone doubted your original story? Sure that makes sense, Jussie. Totally believable,” conservative author Matt Walsh wrote on Twitter.

Take a look —  

This California state senator seriously tried to fake hate mail but included his cursor and the grammar lines in his screenshot.

Unreal 😂 pic.twitter.com/8b64ZC9gXW

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 1, 2022

 

Oh so you got a voicemail death threat and instead of posting the audio you carefully transcribed it, posted the transcript, and never even mentioned that it was a voicemail until everyone doubted your original story? Sure that makes sense, Jussie. Totally believable.

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 1, 2022

Wiener blamed the “hate mail” on conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

However, Wiener didn’t accuse Kirk himself of sending the voicemail himself. Rather, the senator accused Kirk of pandering to Q-Anon hysteria, siccing his fans on political opponents, and creating an environment likely to result in hate mail.

“Words have consequences,” Wiener tweeted. “Not even 24 hours after MAGA grifter Charlie Kirk tweeted homophobic lies about me, I received this threat repeating one of his lies. But that was the point: Riling people up against me & other LGBTQ people.”

The state senator had previously gone viral for blithely dismissing the risk factors for monkeypox.

“People will make their own decisions about their own risk levels,” Wiener told The Washington Post over the summer, during the height of the monkeypox outbreak. “If people want to have sex, they are going to have sex.”[SOURCE]

Anti-Gay Hoaxer Jussie Smollett's Initial Media Coverage Montages

Jussie Smollett, Pals Reportedly Rehearsed Alleged Attack

Jussie Smollett; Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo

By Lia Eustachewich February 17, 2019 | 9:58am

Jussie Smollett allegedly promised to pay his two pals $4,000 to stage his racist and homophobic assault — which the trio even rehearsed beforehand, according to a new report.

The embattled “Empire” star paid $3,500 to bodybuilding brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo before they left for Nigeria the day of the Jan. 29 attack, and promised another $500 upon their return to the US, sources told CBS Chicago.

Late Saturday, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said cops reached out to Smollett’s lawyers to arrange a follow-up interview.

“We can confirm that the information received from the individuals questioned by police earlier in the Empire case has in fact shifted the trajectory of the investigation,” said Guglielmi, who did not elaborate further.

The brothers told cops that the alleged attack in Chicago was supposed to happen before Jan. 29 and that they practiced it in the days before it happened.

Smollett, 36, also allegedly paid for the rope, which was purchased from the Crafty Beaver Hardware Store in the Ravenswood neighborhood the weekend of Jan. 25.

Sources said one of the brothers held the rope and poured bleach on Smollett during the 2 a.m. attack, while the other donned a red hat and shouted racist and homophobic slurs at him.

The red hat was bought at an Uptown beauty supply store.

Smollett has claimed his two attackers called him a “f—-t,” “n—-r” and yelled “This is MAGA country!” before throwing a noose around his neck and dousing him in an unknown “chemical substance.”

The Osundairo brothers were arrested Wednesday, the same day they returned from Nigeria, and identified as suspects — but then released Friday without charges.

They are cooperating in the investigation and holed up at an undisclosed location.

Cops have said the pair of budding model-actors have a “relationship” with Smollett and worked on his hit TV show on Fox.

Smollett’s attorneys Todd Pugh and Victor Henderson released a statement late Saturday, saying the actor is “angered and devastated” by claims he staged the attack, according to ABC Chicago.

“He has now been further victimized by claims attributed to these alleged perpetrators that Jussie played a role in his own attack. Nothing is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying,” the statement said. “One of these purported suspects was Jussie’s personal trainer who he hired to ready him physically for a music video. It is impossible to believe that this person could have played a role in the crime against Jussie or would falsely claim Jussie’s complicity.”

Meanwhile, Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter to weigh in on the Smollett controversy.

“It appears that Jussie Smollett tried to manufacture a hate crime to make Trump supporters look bad and most of the media not only uncritically accepted his lies as facts for weeks, but attacked those who questioned the validity of his false story,” Trump Jr. wrote.

President Trump previously condemned the alleged hate crime as “horrible.”

Smollett claimed the beatdown was provoked by his public comments against Trump.

Additional reporting by Gabrielle Fonrouge [SOURCE]

Police Sources: New Evidence Suggests Jussie Smollett Orchestrated Attack

Jussie Smollett appears on ABC's Good Morning America with an emotional testimony, complete with details and social commentary, explaining his victimhood.

Chicago (CNN)Two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation tell CNN that Chicago Police believe actor Jussie Smollett paid two men to orchestrate an assault on him that he reported late last month.

Smollett denies playing a role in his attack, according to a statement from his attorneys.


The men, who are brothers, were arrested Wednesday but released without charges Friday after Chicago police cited the discovery of "new evidence."

The sources told CNN the two men are now cooperating fully with law enforcement.

Smollett told authorities he was attacked early January 29 by two men who were "yelling out racial and homophobic slurs." He said one attacker put a rope around his neck and poured an unknown chemical substance on him.

The sources told CNN there are records that show the two brothers purchased the rope found around Smollett's neck at a hardware store in Chicago.

Smollett's attorneys, Todd S. Pugh and Victor P. Henderson, issued a statement to CNN Saturday night saying Smollett was angry about these latest developments.

"As a victim of a hate crime who has cooperated with the police investigation, Jussie Smollett is angered and devastated by recent reports that the perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with," the statement read. "He has now been further victimized by claims attributed to these alleged perpetrators that Jussie played a role in his own attack. Nothing is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying."

Smollett's attorneys said they expect further updates from Chicago police on the investigation and will continue cooperating with authorities.

"At the present time, Jussie and his attorneys have no inclination to respond to 'unnamed' sources inside of the investigation, but will continue discussions through official channels," the statement read.
Smollett identifies as gay and since 2015 has played the gay character of Jamal on the Fox TV drama "Empire."

What happened

According to Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, the actor told detectives he was attacked by two men near the lower entrance of a Loews hotel in Chicago. Police were told the two men yelled "'Empire' fa***t" and "'Empire' n***er'" while striking him.

In a supplemental interview with authorities, Smollett confirmed media reports that one of the attackers also shouted, "This is MAGA country," a reference to President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan.

The day after the incident, police released surveillance images that showed two silhouetted individuals walking down a sidewalk, and police said they were wanted for questioning.

The two men were arrested Wednesday. Police on Friday said the men were being viewed as "potential suspects" and that detectives had "probable cause that they may have been involved in an alleged crime."
But by Friday night they had been released, Guglielmi said, "due to new evidence as a result of today's investigations."

"And detectives have additional investigative work to complete," he added.

One of the men has appeared on "Empire," Guglielmi said. A police source also told CNN on Friday night that the men had a previous affiliation with Smollett, but did not provide additional details.

Smollett has expressed frustration about not being believed

Following the alleged attack, Smollett's colleagues and fans rallied around him, expressing shock and sadness.

"We have to love each other regardless of what sexual orientation we are because it shows that we are united on a united front," Lee Daniels, the creator of "Empire," said in a video posted to his Instagram page on January 29. "And no racist f*** can come in and do the things that they did to you. Hold your head up, Jussie. I'm with you."

Smollett gave his first detailed account of what he says was a hate crime against him, and the aftermath, in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" that aired Thursday.
During the interview he expressed frustration at not being believed.

"It feels like if I had said it was a Muslim or a Mexican or someone black I feel like the doubters would have supported me a lot much more," Smollett said. "And that says a lot about the place where we are as a country right now."

Smollett stated that one of the attackers shouted "this is MAGA country" before punching him in the face. But he refuted reports that said he told police the attackers wore "Make America Great Again" hats.
"I never said that," he told ABC's Robin Roberts. "I didn't need to add anything like that. They called me a f****t, they called me a n****r. There's no which way you cut it. I don't need some MAGA hat as the cherry on some racist sundae."

CNN's Ryan Young and Brad Parks reported from Chicago, while Dakin Andone reported and wrote this story in Atlanta. CNN's Lisa Respers France, Sandra Gonzalez, Deanna Hackney, Shawn Nottingham and Amir Vera contributed to this report. [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]

Best Anti-Gay, Anti-Muslim Hoaxes Of 2016

by Jim Geraghty December 23, 2016 8:48 AM

Happy Hoax-idays! We constantly argue that the national news media has to be more discerning and wary about stories that crop up on social media and seem a little too perfect. It is increasingly clear that day will not come anytime soon. The coming years will be filled with lurid, even farfetched tales of horrific abuse in public places, and a slow trickle of retractions when the details of the accounts don’t add up.

For starters, history has taught us to be wary of “you won’t believe the offensive message written on this restaurant receipt” stories. The one in New Jersey was a hoax, the one in California was a hoax, and the one in Tennessee is sketchy, with a handwriting expert saying the writing on the receipt doesn’t match the customer’s. The gay slur on the cake from Whole Foods was a hoax. How many openly racist, sexist or homophobic wait staff feel the need to offer a perfectly offensive written statement to someone they’re hoping will tip them? How many customers feel the uncontrollable impulse to leave physical evidence of socially controversial or unacceptable views, simply to lash out at someone who just brought them food?

Surely, the world has genuine hate crimes. But a lot of the most covered ones in recent weeks have turned out to be hoaxes. A Jewish family is not fleeing Lancaster County after a backlash to their complaint about their school’s Christmas play. A drunken man did not threaten to set a Michigan woman’s hijab on fire. The November burning of an African-American church and spray-painting of “Vote Trump” was committed by an African-American parishioner. That Manhattan Muslim teen who claimed she was attacked by three drunks who called her a “terrorist” on the subway while lots of New Yorkers stood and watched? Hoax. (The hoaxer’s sister later went on Facebook and criticized the police for being excessively skeptical: “It became super clear to me these past two weeks that the police’s first instinct is to doubt your story and try to disprove it.”)

That “YouTube prankster” who claimed he was thrown off the plane for speaking Arabic? Other passengers say he was being disruptive and was only thrown off for repeatedly shouting.

There are lesser-covered cases, too:

      Vincent Palmer, 27, told detectives he taped a note with racial slurs and the words “KKK”

       and “Trump” written on it to his ex-girlfriend’s mailbox early Saturday before throwing a

       brick through her car window and dousing the back seat in gasoline because they were

       having problems over the custody of their children, according to an arrest report.

In South Philadelphia, a group residents found racist, Nazi and pro-Trump graffiti spray-painted on their homes and cars the morning after the election. The perpetrator was a 58-year-old African-American man.

It’s not just the Left, of course; a New York City firefighter said his house was set aflame because he had a “Blue Lives Matter” flag outside. Earlier this month, he was charged with arson, setting his own house on fire.

Note for all future discussions of hate crimes: Did the victim file a police report? If a victim is strangely resistant to the idea of filing a police report, turn your wariness up a notch. If they say they don’t want to make too big a deal out of it, while simultaneously making a big deal out of it on social media, turn it up another notch. Of course, filing a false police report is a crime, and that makes the stunt a lot more dangerous and potentially consequential for the hoaxer.

It’s not just the political realm; social media is full of hoaxes, fueled by credulous people. U.S. Bank Stadium in Minnesota will not be open to the homeless on cold nights. Cee Lo Green’s phone did not explode in his hand. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are not posing as being from the gas company and robbing people’s houses during the Christmas season.

We can complain about the media’s eagerness to share and spread implausible tales – completely different from that Macedonian-generated “fake news” on Facebook, right? – but ultimately we need a warier news-consuming public. I fear we’re unlikely to get one. [Source]