Fine Them A Million $ For Not Wearing The LGBTQIA+ Pride Jersey!

No Thanks, I respectfully opt out of promoting your social crusade. Wait, what!

You are not allowed to opt out, especially if you dare challenge us with your heretic Christian beliefs! The nerve, you must be punished, the whole team must be punished!

This is where we are at now.

Woke Canadian journalist MELTS DOWN after Christian hockey player refuses to wear pride jersey

Following Flyers defenceman Ivan Provorov's refusal to wear a rainbow jersey for the team's "Pride Night" warmup against the Ducks on Tuesday, Breakfast Television hosts Sid Seixeiro and Dina Pugliese melted down live on air, shocked that someone might have a different opinion.

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BREAKING: NHL goalie James Reimer REFUSES to wear LGBTQIA+ Pride jersey, citing Christian faith

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"For all 13 years of my NHL career, I have been a Christian - not just in title, but in how I choose to live my life daily. I have a personal faith in Jesus Christ who died on the cross for my sins and, in response, asks me to love everyone and follow Him.

"I have no hate in my heart for anyone, and I have always strived to treat everyone that I encounter with respect and kindness.

"In this specific instance, I am choosing not to endorse something that is counter to my personal convictions which are based on the Bible, the highest authority in my life.

"I strongly believe that every person has value and worth, and the LGBTQIA+ community, like all others, should be welcomed in all aspects of the game of hockey.

Many likened the media reaction to an episode of Seinfeld in which Kramer refused to wear the AIDS walk ribbon, causing virtue signaling lunatics to go nuts. This kind of mob behavior, which used to be comedy fodder, is now commonplace.

The irony is thick. Progressives who think they hate Nazis act exactly like Nazis when confronted with anything they don't like.

They literally want to fine, jail, and expel everyone different from them. And they actually think that's "enlightened."

Most closed-minded people on the planet today.

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The “don’t hide behind religion” jibe is one of the dumbest and laziest smears going. It’s a favorite of bullies who act like they can bore into the souls of the heretics.

But when these amateur theologians declare that dissenters are “hiding” behind faith, they’re not only arguing that religion is a mask for bigotry but that no genuine faith could possibly have a problem with the cultural norms he adopted about five minutes ago.

Of course, many orthodox faiths, not only Russians but Orthodox Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Lutherans and so on, believe same-sex relationships are sinful. Their adherents have believed that for centuries, if not millennia. A person of good faith can “respect” others — they can even respect people for taking a stance — without celebrating their choices. In a truly open and diverse society, we don’t demand everyone abandon their tradition and critical thinking to skate lockstep in a rainbow flag. Dear Lord, it’s such vacuous virtue signaling.

Because it shouldn’t be forgotten that the LGBTQ+ movement encompasses an entire open-ended ideological agenda, not merely the ability of gay people to live in peace or marry. Some of the other Flyers, for instance, spent time celebrating the achievements of a “nonbinary” 13-year-old. As old-fashioned atheist, I don’t care who you sleep with, but I do still cling to the antiquated notion that humans have immutable biological characteristics and that objective truths can’t be wished away. To my mind, that 13-year-old kid is a victim of an irrational, destructive and trendy pseudoscience. Yet folks like LeBrun will help normalize the quackery while hiding behind the idea of “tolerance.”

Just to be clear, it isn't the Canadian government imposing such a fine, neither is it the team nor league imposing such a fine.

It is a suggestion by a morning TV show host:

Seixeiro attacked Provorov for adhering to his religious beliefs, and went so far as to suggest that the Flyers should be hit with a million-dollar fine for his actions.

It's a craptastic suggestion for obvious reasons, but just a suggestion by a TV personality... for now anyway.

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Twitter haters are alive and well. Appears they already smeared him on Wikipedia

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originally posted by: Boadicea
Just to be clear, it isn't the Canadian government imposing such a fine, neither is it the team nor league imposing such a fine.

It is a suggestion by a morning TV show host:

Seixeiro attacked Provorov for adhering to his religious beliefs, and went so far as to suggest that the Flyers should be hit with a million-dollar fine for his actions.

It's a craptastic suggestion for obvious reasons, but just a suggestion by a TV personality... for now anyway.

Classic outrage porn from professional turd stirrers whose job is provoking their audience because angry or insecure consumers are more vulnerable to suggestion and therefore profitable. IMO these talking heads desperately need acting classes if they're going to sit in front of a camera and conjure a human rights controversy out of very calm and polite display of free speech.

originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: Boadicea

Twitter haters are alive and well. Appears they already smeared him on Wikipedia

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On the plus side, 13.5k likes ain't too shabby. That wouldn't even have been possible a year ago!

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Classic outrage porn from professional turd stirrers whose job is provoking their audience because angry or insecure consumers are more vulnerable to suggestion and therefore profitable. IMO these talking heads desperately need acting classes if they're going to sit in front of a camera and conjure a human rights controversy out of very calm and polite display of free speech.

Very well stated -- yes!

Unfortunately, these spewing heads know damn well there is a small but eager and avid audience for their blatant manipulation. That's the saddest part of it all.

So.........

You will wear our multi-coloured jersey.

No i dont want to.

Outrageous. Why wont you wear it?

Because of my religious beliefs.

F*/K your religious beliefs people feelings are way more important.

My religion is very important to me.

F*/K your religion, you are hurting people's feelings......


For crying out loud. That reporter just wants the story to be about him and his feelings

One of them should claim he's Muslim.

It's too late for that, but someone should and then watch the head explosions.

originally posted by: infolurker

Of course, many orthodox faiths, not only Russians but Orthodox Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Lutherans and so on, believe same-sex relationships are sinful. Their adherents have believed that for centuries, if not millennia. A person of good faith can “respect” others — they can even respect people for taking a stance — without celebrating their choices. In a truly open and diverse society, we don’t demand everyone abandon their tradition and critical thinking to skate lockstep in a rainbow flag. Dear Lord, it’s such vacuous virtue signaling.

Whoa, whoa, easy there. Don't include Muslims. Progressives, who hate religious people, have a weird love affair with Muslims and give them a pass on everything.

Because they racistly associate Muslims with "brown people," who are exempt from any criticism.

originally posted by: Boadicea

It's a craptastic suggestion for obvious reasons, but just a suggestion by a TV personality... for now anyway.

That's the problem. All the craziness today was "just a suggestion" 20 or 30 years ago. And if you suggested it back then, you were scoffed at. I'm old enough to remember when "next they'll want men in women's bathrooms" got you ridiculed and you were assured it would never go that far. Today, you're ridiculed if you don't approve of men in women's bathrooms.

I have to say it was funny hearing all the talking heads at Hockey Night in Canada trying to put out the flames last night. The pandering and virtue signaling was very thick.

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Exactly.

The press is the action organ. Once it gets started there, then it becomes real world force.

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That's the problem. All the craziness today was "just a suggestion" 20 or 30 years ago.

Well, true enough... but not universally true. People say lots of stupid things, and very few come to fruition.

When/if officials with power start trying to make it happen, then it's a concern.

I'm old enough to remember when "next they'll want men in women's bathrooms" got you ridiculed and you were assured it would never go that far.

Me too. I also recall all the nasty schadenfreude from those who wanted to see the "Feminazis" get their comeuppance. And oh-so-gleefully to boot!

It isnt just the LGBTQ folks who cheered that crap on.

Today, you're ridiculed if you don't approve of men in women's bathrooms.

And others are ridiculed if you do approve. That's life. Damned if you do and damned if you don't by someone.

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Exactly.

The press is the action organ.

Nope. The media has no power or authority to legislate or regulate. No action, just talk.

Once it gets started there, then it becomes real world force.

At most, politicians inform the media. Media does not inform politicians. In other words, in your scenario, this talking head was told by politicians to take this stance in the hopes of influencing the public in advance of legislation/regulation.

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Of course, many orthodox faiths, not only Russians but Orthodox Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Lutherans and so on, believe same-sex relationships are sinful.

Some religions are 'waking' up, it seems.

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Orthodox Jews and Catholics have embraced gayness for some time now. It seems empty collection plates and falling membership forced drastic changes on the religious front-go figure.

What's the point of following any religion if mans' interpretation of 'God's Word' keeps changing to fit the economic and social times? That's like changing the laws of gravity, telling us it doesn't and hasn't ever existed; science had it all wrong.

Which path is organized religion leading us down? And why are we following this 'higher authority' when they keep changing the rules?

a reply to: Boadicea

You haven't been paying attention.

Every single crazy idea gets its start like this. Every one. They float the trial balloons there. The press don't come up with the ideas, they take them and put them out there.

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It's called the great falling away.

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Of course I've been paying attention... and you damn well know it. And I already stated that in your scenario, the politicians inform the media; aka "the press don't come up with the ideas."

Does that mean everything media says is dictated by politicians? No. Of course not!

Does this mean that nothing media says is dictated by politicians? No. Of course not!

It does mean that talk is just talk and media has no power to legislate or regulate. If/when those who do have that power start demanding such legislation/regulations, THEN it's a concern to be addressed.