Christian actress spent 5 years in court defending her right to make anti-LGBTQ+ comments. She just lost.
Christian actress spent 5 years in court defending her right to make anti-LGBTQ+ comments. She just lost.
Seyi Omooba was fired from a 2019 production of The Color Purple in which she was to play queer lead Celie.
“I do not believe you can be born gay, and I do not believe homosexuality is right, though the law of this land has made it legal doesn’t mean it’s right,” Omooba wrote in the post. “I do believe that everyone sins and falls into temptation but it’s by the asking of forgiveness, repentance and the grace of God that we overcome and live how God ordained us to, which is that a man should leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh.”
Hmm, being homophobic and trying to have a career in theater. Thats a bold move, lets see how it pays off.
After hearing testimony in 2021 that Omooba had previously told her agents that she refused to play gay roles and had not bothered to read the script for the musical version of The Color Purple before accepting the role, an employment tribunal dismissed the actor’s religious discrimination claim, The Telegraph reported.
How can you not even read the script, the book its based on, or even at the least watch the Hollywood movie for a part you're trying to land in an acting performance?
“I have long forgiven all those who have sought to ruin my theatre career,” Omooba said in a statement following the ruling, “but the theatre world needs to be told, loud and clear, that canceling people for their Christian beliefs is illegal and wrong.”
Doesn't look like it turned out well for her.
Another Christian religious nut. Get fucked.
Maybe don't accept queer roles after explicitly telling people you won't play queer roles and that you don't believe homosexuality exists. Seems pretty easy.
lol this bitch didn't just get fired from a job for saying homophobic shit...SHE TOOK A ROLE PLAYING A GAY CHARACTER!
She didn't read the script. Found out later she played a gay character. Why didn't she just quit?
Hey she still has the right. Just no job lol.
"Defending her right to make anti-LGBTQ+ comments" is a strange way to frame this by a pro-LGBTQ source. No one here is saying she doesn't have a right to say these things, they're saying she doesn't have a right to stay employed at this job after saying these things and refusing to work with her employer to manage public perception
She always had the right to express her ideas... she just didn't have the right to be free from the consequences of doing so. I also enjoy the tension of "I follow everything the Bible says" / "I'm not homophobic"
she's not defending her rights, she's challenging the rights of studios to choose who they work with.
How to ruin one’s public image in 10 seconds.
How often does it happen that the people who make such an effort to outwardly project something, is also hiding it.. calling it, she is gay
A society doesn't have freedom if I can't insist others can't have freedom! /s
You have the right to be a fucking dumbass. A jobless dumbass.
Just because deities within certain polytheistic religions were rivals, doesn't imply the advent of monotheism.
Youre right, it doesn't.
But just because you assume I've assumed something doesn't make it so.
Polytheism having more explanatory power and being inherently more tolerant is somewhat the consensus on the subject, and I have no need to defend that position to someone I'd have to first lecture for several hours.
That the Viking culture was based on the rape and pillage of Christianity, not exactly a progressive perspective.....
See sentences like that reveal your inherent ignorance. I put quotations around "viking", because that's just how a lot of people view Scandinavian historical culture. And that you don't know that viking is a profession, not an ethnicity, is one of the reasons I'm not debating anything with you.
Yes, the people who went on raids usually did the things that were common for raids.
That's like you saying that robbers rob. Wow.
And saying "their culture was based on rape and pillage" is about as true as racist claims about black people stealing more; amazingly ignorant and inherently racist.
on assuming that Viking in Viking culture women were thought of as equals.....which is doubtful.
So because you're ignorant and assume something, that is how it is? I assume you're capable of using Google, so you chose not to even check. You just asserted that something is "doubtful" when it's not. No historians doubt that gender equality was more advanced in Norse communities than in Christian/Islamic countries of the time.
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-gender-equality-dates-vikings.html
You're not even aware of what Norse society was like, imaging all they did was "raping and pillaging", but you're expecting examples from societies which you probably know even less?
Okay.
"Explain the Mongol Empire"
Lol Did I say polytheism makes one an unconditional pacifist?