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School board members proceed to probe claims that a lecturer who advises a high school prayer study group posted Facebook remarks that described homosexuality as "perverted.''
Several hundred people were on hand to defend and denounce Viki Knox at the Union Township educational facility board meeting Tuesday night.
The board is considering whether Knox's conduct violated academy policies. Members contain yet to hold action and would not comment on the teacher's status.
Knox allegedly objected to a school show celebrating Lesbian, Lgbtq+, Bisexual and Gender nonconforming History Month.
Openly homosexual teenagers appeared at the meeting to demand the 49-year-old special education lecturer Viki Knox be fired.
"I felt protected until all of this, because I can only envision how many students she said it to," said Samantha Abreu, a junior.
At the school board meeting Tuesday, another freshman, who gave her name as Stephanie, said of Knox, "She's my in-class support educator, and she switched me with another student. I did nothing wrong. I found out from another student she did this to gays, lesbians and bisexuals."
But there were also supporter
Auto shop’s controversial anti-gay Facebook post sparks cyber backlash
A Facebook post made by the owner of an auto repair shop last week has gone viral, fomented a Yelp rainbow makeover (NSFW), and sparked a peaceful protest at the Michigan shop on Saturday.
The owner of Dieseltec, Brian Klawiter, has since pointed out that he wrote about a lot of things in Tuesday’s post (currently unavailable): gun rights, discounts for customers bringing guns to the shop, entitlement mentality, thievery, immorality, and more.
But what has particularly raised ire is Klawiter’s statement that he’d be fine with refusing service to openly gay people, something which he does have a right to do under Michigan law.
…along with what many have interpreted as a threat to reassemble gay people’s cars in a shoddy manner:
For what it’s worth, Klawiter went on to say that he hadn’t threatened to put anybody’s car together incorrectly.
Rather, he said, it was meant as a metaphor (all quotations are sic):
Yelp reviewers soon festooned Dieseltec’s page with pictures of a unicorn beaming out hearts to President Obama, a rainbow or two,
Meta's New Policies: How They Endanger LGBTQ+ Communities and Our Tips for Staying Safe Online
by Belle Torek •
On January 7, 2025, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a complete overhaul of content policies across Meta platforms. These changes include the end of fact-checking, thinned-down moderation efforts, and a dismantled Hateful Conduct policy that expressly permits abuse against LGBTQ+ people while forbidding the same abuses against all other communities. In the following days, Meta has also announced the termination of its broader DEI efforts, further signaling an abdication from its pledge to inclusion. Here, we explain what these changes mean for the Queer community and offer paths forward, both on and off Meta platforms.
When Identify Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to Meta’s content moderation policies, he framed the move as a bold defense of free speech. But many, especially members of the LGBTQ+ people and allies, worry about what this means for safety on Meta’s platforms and fear this marks an open invitation for Meta users to involve in anti-LGBTQ+ abuse that will disempower and marginalize the community.
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NT teacher posts anti-gay comments on Facebook
The actions of an Alice Springs instructor are being investigated by the learning process department after he posted on a public Facebook forum that the "lifestyle choice" of "gays" was "inherently wrong".
The teacher, who the ABC has chosen not to identify, sparked anger from many after he made the comment in relation to a post by ABC program Q&A that he joint on Saturday last week on the Alice Springs Group Open Forum Facebook page.
"Gays think the reason they don't feel good about themselves is because society currently won't let them phone themselves married.
"Will it change when the law changes?
"No, because the reason they don't feel nice about themselves is because their lifestyle choice is inherently wrong," the mentor wrote.
Regional director for Education in Alice Springs, Sasha Robinson, said there had been a complaint about the teacher's actions and the department was investigating.
"The department is alert of the incident and we are currently addressing this, including discussions with the individual and the school," Ms Robinson told 105.7
Facebook works to remove anti-gay hate speech
Facebook is operational with a gay-advocacy organization to reduce the amount of hate speech and bullying on the online social hub.
Anti-gay bullying has been in the spotlight recently after the suicides of several same-sex attracted teenagers, including Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi, garnered national attention. According to police, the 19-year-old jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate secretly recorded him with another male student and distributed video online.
The Same-sex attracted & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said it reached out to Facebook last week after Internet bullies flooded a page position up to honor teens who recently killed themselves in response to anti-gay hate.
The page, put up by a Facebook user, asks supporters to wear purple next Wednesday in memory of the teenagers. Purple represents "spirit" in the rainbow flag that's the symbol of the gay, lesbian, bisexual person and transgender community. On Friday afternoon, most of the comments on the page were from supporters.
Facebook said that its policies prohibit hateful content and that it has systems in place to take down such posts as soon as workable. But the company also