News Briefs, Altar-Cations, and Rant May 21, 2023

What do a traitor, a liar and a cover girl have in common?  They’re all a part of this week’s News Briefs!

For all of you lonely ivermectin lovers out there, disgraced former

General Mike Flynn is here to help. 

Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russians, is a founding member of 4 The Pure a dating and community site for anti-vaxxers.

For those who are blissfully unaware, anti-vaxxers proudly refer to themselves as “pure bloods” – a term you may know from Harry Potter.  The 4 in 4thePure stands for “mind, body, soul, and spirit.”

They claim 4thePURE is an online community of health-conscious, COVID-19 unvaccinated people who can find curated news, important health information, like-minded friendships, search for a date, find quality service providers, blood donors, fertility options, jobs/resumes, events, retreats, conferences, and seminars with some of the biggest experts in the world.

Fertility options? Quality service providers? Like-minded friendships?  Where do I sign up?

You can become a “monthly member “ for $19.95 a month or a “founding member” for a mere $2500 a year.

The site supposedly will launch on June 5th.  We’ll see.

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.  Formerly  known as “America’s Mayor”,

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, was accused this week of making comments about “‘freakin Arabs’ and Jews,” and that in one instance, talked about Jewish men, and “implied that their penises were inferior due to ‘natural selection.’”

In a complaint filed by a former aide, Rudy was accused of forcing her to have oral and vaginal sex, discussed his interest in BDSM, calling her the B and C words as well as continually eating Viagra and chasing them down with alcohol all day, all night.

There’s a lot more, but… I can’t, I just can’t.  You’re welcome.

And can we give a big shout out to Martha Stewart and Sports Illustrated?

This week the magazine showed the cover of their annual swimsuit edition and…

Yep, 81 year old Martha Steward was their covergirl.

Martha says, "I think that all of us should think about good living, successful living and not about aging. The whole aging thing is so boring.”

Stewart said she did take a few extra steps to get cover-ready.

“I didn't starve myself, but I didn't eat any bread or pasta for a couple months. I went to Pilates every other day … I live a clean life anyway. Good diet and good exercise and healthy skin care and all of that stuff, but it was kind of fun.”

You go, girl!

And that’s this week’s News Briefs.

In this week’s Altar-Cations, we again shine light that it is not the drag queens who are grooming children, it’s members of the religious community.

French Catholic Priests have been issued scannable ID cards so people can tell which ones are accused pedophiles!

The French Bishop’s Conference has promised that all 18,000 priests and deacons across the country will receive their QR codes by the end of the year. Bishops have already received them.

Scanning the QR code brings up color-coded information. 

If a certain priest’s color is red you may want to keep you child away from them.  Or any color if you ask me.

Meanwhile in Texas, Michael Anthony Romero,

a former employee of a Magnolia church, reportedly turned himself in and confessed to ‘inappropriate behavior with adolescents’ during his time at the ministry.

Court documents state that Michael Anthony Romero was charged with indecency of a child involving sexual contact.

The age of the victims ranged between 14 and 16 years old and were all reportedly young men. Investigators say two of the five victims stated that they remember him performing these acts on them during church events which were sometimes held at his home.

And last week we told you about

Reverend Michael Jude Zacharias who was on trial in Ohio.  Well, he was found guilty of 5 counts of sex trafficking, two of which involved victims who were minors.

Many states are banning children from attending drag shows for fear of… I really don’t know what.

I’m not saying there has never been a drag queen charged with illegal activities, but the number church folk is a whole lot higher.

That’s this week’s Altar Cations.

My rant this week is about… Florida.  Again.

This week while at a Christian private school, Governor, and Trump wannabe, Ron Desantis,

signed several bills that further attack the Gay/Trans/Drag communities. They included elimination of gender affirming care, a bathroom ban, restrictions on drag shows and the expansion of the Don’t Say Gay bill that extends to “Don’t Say They.”

Also this week, the League of United Latin American Citizens

issued a travel advisory, citing the recent passage of SB 1718 which, among other provisions, requires large employers to verify worker citizenships.

Other groups who have issued travel advisories are the Florida Immigrant Coalition

And Equality Florida

The Florida Chapter of the NAACP has asked their national organization to also join this list.

Ramifications of these laws are already being felt.  Non-citizen workers and their supporters are leaving crops in the fields to rot.  Construction sites are empty.  Delivery trucks are refusing to move goods in and out of the state.

Pride events in Wilton Manors and Tampa have restricted activities in fear of breaking the new laws.

And, the actions of the Governor have encouraged actions such as this

In Orlando, a digital traffic sign was manipulated to read – KILL ALL GAYS.

There are good people in Florida.  I love South Beach and Key West.

However, if DeSantis would be come President, would the United States become Florida?

Sometimes I think my old Drag influencer had a pretty good idea.

And that’s this week’s rant.