homophobia https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:02:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg homophobia https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 The Irresponsibility of Jussie Smollett https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/03/the-irresponsibility-of-jussie-smollett/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:00:54 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=11085 Written by Jonathon Clay de Hale

When Jussie Smollett’s account of being attacked first broke at the end of January, I watched with interest but didn’t say anything. It seemed a bit cartoonish: two white guys wearing MAGA hats giving a gay black man a beat down in the middle of Chicago on a night of sub-zero temperatures, yelling racial and anti-gay epithets, dousing him with bleach, tying a noose around his neck and proclaiming, “This is MAGA country!”… Continue Reading

]]> 11085 Transgressing the Diversity Dictate https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/04/transgressing-the-diversity-dictate/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:09:35 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=8931 Written by Robert Knight

“All I know is what I read in the papers,” Will Rogers used to say when opening his vaudeville act. In that spirit, here are two items in the news that shed light on our current culture.

In a full-page newspaper ad that ran during the Winter Olympics, Edward W. Stack, chairman of DICK’s Sporting Goods, basically paraphrased Rodney King’s admonition to the Los Angeles rioters in 1992:  “Can we all get along?”… Continue Reading

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