Christian lifeguard can't handle standing near a Pride flag, sues Los Angeles

I’m sick of Christians who work for the public suing because they don’t want to do their jobs.

If you cannot serve the whole public, quit your job in public service.

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Sometimes, a "reasonable accommodation" is to let them quit.

It cracks me up though. they accomodated him. Put him at a station that didn't have a flag. then he went and removed the 3 other flags that were simply in view....

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- Dude totally hates rainbows.
  
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- What I hate the most is that his whole excuse is bullshit. The Bible dosen't even know what being gay is, it's only against bronze age booty thief power displays, it knows absolutely nothing about being trans, these people really need to start specifying that they are against 'loving thy neighbor' because they interpret out of context verses written in old English they don't understand to mean they can hate people they don't like or are currently pretending not to be one of.
  
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That someone who believes in the Bible and is professionally contracted to prevent people from drowning is being upset they are doing that job near the Biblical symbol of a covenant not to drown humanity again is making me drown in the irony.

Please send help.

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Wow I hadn't even thought of it that way. For real.

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What is the biblical symbol you're referencing? Explain it like I'm not a Christian (I'm not lol).

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- It's a reference to Noah's Ark, where God supposedly flooded the whole world except two of each animal and Noah's family, then put a rainbow in the sky as a symbol that He'd never do it again. Young Earth Creationists and their like take the story as fact, despite the fact that such an event would have put humanity well below the number of people needed for a stable gene pool, and that two of an animal likely wouldn't repopulate an entire species. I digress.
  
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Brilliant :D

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Snowflake.

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“The colors, they’re too scary!”

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Right wing conservative "Christians:"

Libs are snowflakes!

Also

I'm triggered by a sequence of colors!

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Right wing Christians (don't put it in quotes, don't do a No True Scotsman, they're Christians) hate rainbows now and I can't love it more because it ruins their precious Noah story for them.

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- The guy has a dope, but do people really think they hate rainbows and not what this flag is supposed to represent?
  
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It's even dumber because a rainbow doesn't necessarily mean LGBTQ. Sometimes rainbow is just rainbow.

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- Kids love rainbows. I'm an adult and I love rainbows. They are literally fun colors and beautiful.
  
  If your religion is making you hate rainbows, it might be time to take a look at your religion and the batshit stuff it teaches you.
  
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- Rainbows? In the sky? Where kids can see? Fucking wokeys mate, making the fucking sky GAY.
  
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- The rainbow was God's sign of the covenant with all people. Does he reject God?
  
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What does he do if a man needs mouth to mouth?

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I think you can just say "No Homo" and do whatever. Sources needed.

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- The lack of socks cancels that out.
  
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I think you just have to waft it in, Mr Bean style.

https://youtu.be/7bpUIuCWvlY?t=90

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How many bets this asshole goes on and on about how people are too easily offended and cancel culture is out of control?

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I'll sue every building with a cross inside since Christianity offends me.

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The fact that he was able to sue.. especially in the state of California of all places. This could actually be a trend for the entire nation.

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White light is a tightly squished rainbow, so I guess these people's only option is to all go blind.

I mean, more blind than they're now.

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its a funny post, but I'm almost completely certain you cant contract "they are" here, but I could be wrong

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- You definitely can contract it.
  
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I've never seen a snowflake on a SoCal beach before.

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They're all over Huntington Beach

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- Those are ooids.
  
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It's very rare, but we even get some from time to time east of the mountains. They don't really ever stick, but it has happened.

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Here's something they can do

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These christyboys must have such a hard time with such prejudice

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Pride and prejudice

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- The sequel, pride and prejudice and projection.
  
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- Lol
  
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Yes, boys... hard... Oh god, I've got to go sue someone now!

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I read the headline and thought this was the onion

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Oh. You’re … not from the USA are you? Just a guess

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- you don't have to guess, you can tell by the instance i'm on xd
  
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Reality left the Onion in its dust a long time ago.

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- Life imitates Art
  
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What if the homophobic lifeguard sees someone drowning that "looks gay"? I don't know if this guy can do his job.

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I wish people, regardless of personal beliefs, experiences, or values, would learn to appreciate one another for the things they have in common, and stop being triggered by the expressions of those characteristics that we don't.

I love so many people that don't vote, worship, recreate, or otherwise live life like I do. That doesn't change who I am, and I would never want to change who they are.

Stop hating each other FFS.

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Preach

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Bigoted fuck

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Rule in his favor, then I have precedent to sue every church, business, and government entity that displays a cross. ❤️

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Little typically works at Will Rogers Beach, long considered a safe space among LGBTQ+ beach goers. The beach is so popular with queer residents and visitors that it earned the nickname "Ginger Rogers Beach.

Why doesn't he just ask to be stationed at a different beach? He's offended by a flag, but not a bunch of men and women making everyday PDAs right in front of him?

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Because it's all bullshit and he's just a greedy asshole who wants to make a quick buck at taxpayers expense. Fuck him.

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Jeffery Little, who has worked for the city for 22 years, filed a lawsuit on Friday claiming he is being discriminated against for his evangelical faith by being made to stand in the same vicinity as the Progress Pride flag. Little alleges he was suspended from his role with the department’s background investigation unit last year after he took down three LGBTQ+ flags during Pride month.

The Los Angeles county board of supervisors voted last year to require the rainbow banner be flown during the month of June at government buildings, which includes lifeguard stands. Little, who claimed the flags present a “direct conflict” with his religious beliefs, fought to be placed at stations that would not fly the flag, as they did not have the right flag poles to fly any banner.

I gotta go to work so I’ll leave that to comment for myself.

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The lifeguard seemed particularly triggered by the turquoise and pink stripes on the original Pride flag designed by Gilbert Baker, which represent magic and sex, respectively.

Gonna go out on a limb and say that this man is no fun at parties.

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Wait shit that's an option? Can we get a version of the progress flag with magic and sex pls?

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This lifeguard only THINKS they're a Christian. A real Christian wouldn't care because not only does GOD love all, but we're all made in his image. Gay L, straight, Bi, Trans, Asexual. All of us.

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No true scottsman

He's a Christian like any other and Christians will have to recognize that their beliefs are responsible for a lot of homophobia, instead of saying that anyone who makes them look bad is not a "true" Christian.

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- Not true. I'm a Christian who's studying to be a minister and I am an allay. I support LGBTQ individuals right to marry, adopt, basically live their lives as equal members of the human race, because that's what they are.
  
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GLBTA? I honestly thought you were spelling something out with that

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GAY L

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Uhm.. do you even Sodom and Gomorrah? LMAO

You've never picked up a Torah, Bible, or Quran, huh?

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- Technically speaking the wickedness of the cities that were under divine review were because they were narcissistic, enjoyed excess and "prosperous ease" without considering properly the poor and did "abominable acts" before God. Those abominable acts could have been anything. We get the homosexuality related misconception because the test involved hosting two angelic dignitaries disguised as humans whom a mob decended on an demanded they let them "know"..
  
  Funny trick here. The original Hebrew text used for the angels was anashim and the OG word Lot uses for them when he greets the dignitaries is non-gendered as analogous to "master". Anashim is a non-gendered term, it encompasses specifically both the terms woman and man and means "of mankind". However, the English translations of the Bible use male gendered terms like "Lords" "Gentlemen" and "Men" for the angels... Meaning the lust for the angels in the original story was probably not gendered. The angels in the original are not named nor gender coded in any way but there were specifically two of them. We might interpret this to mean there were either angels that appeared to be of both genders or that the genders were deliberately not important because the pluralism means they are never gendered by any other mention in the story. Just as in English when a plural is used it disguises the individual nature of the particular makeup of the group. The crowd calls to know "them".
  
  The test was ultimately a litmus test failure of the town to show it lived up to the laws of hospitality and morality but there's nothing specifically outlining gay sexuallity in the original text of that story moreso than any other sexuallity. The abominations could have been anything and the horny onslaught against the angels was potentially supposed to be coded as lust to defile or possess the divine or even just a lack of consent. The crowd isn't asking if the angels want to come out and play, they are demanding it.
  
  In the end it was a bunch of English translators who had very specific cultural ideas about who was worthy of the term "Master" that occluded any potential of the feminine potential reading and were the ones who through the cultural game of telephone made it a story about gay sex. It kind of benefited the Church to make it less a story about hoarding wealth and comfort because a lot of individual Churches were very VERY wealthy.
  
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