Friday, June 26, 2026
Via FB \\ Ecclesiasticus Cor Iesu Sacratissimum \\ 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗝𝗢𝗛𝗡 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗟, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆𝗿𝘀
𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟲
𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗝𝗢𝗛𝗡 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗟, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆𝗿𝘀
The Roman brothers John and Paul distributed to the poor the wealth they had been left by Constantia, the daughter of Constantine, whom they had served justly and faithfully.
Invited by Julian the Apostate to join the members of his household, they boldly declared that they did not wish to live in the house of a man who had abandoned Jesus Christ.
They were therefore given ten days in which to be persuaded to sacrifice to Jupiter.
As they steadfastly refused to commit this sin, they were beheaded in their home, at the command of Terentian the judge, thus meriting the palm of martyrdom.
The news of their glorious death was spread abroad by unclean spirits, who began tormenting the bodies of many persons, among them the son of Terentian.
He was freed of his diabolical tormentor at the tomb of the Martyrs. This miracle led both him and his father, Terentian, to believe in Christ; and the latter is said to have written the life of the holy Martyrs.
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Quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut nos geminata laetitia hodiernae festivitatis excipiat, quae de beatorum Joannis et Pauli glorificatione procedit; quos eadem fides et passio vere fecit esse germanos. Almighty God, fill us, we beseech thee, with the twofold gladness which doth flow down upon this bright day from the glory of thy blessed servants John and Paul, whom one faith and one suffering made to be brothers indeed.Via White Crane Institute \\\ Obergefell v Hodges
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The Supreme Court of the United States, in a landmark 5-4 decision, Obergefell v Hodges, rule that the Constitution of the United States assures the right to MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR LGBT PEOPLE and that every state in the union must recognize and respect same-sex marriages. Heterosexual marriages begin crumbling…oh wait…that didn’t happen. Nevermind.
In the last two years, since SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade, we have been put on notice that the radical right wing justices have Marriage Equality in their sites.
Just a few days ago, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to the fundamental rights of married couples on Friday in an important and ominous immigration case, Department of State v. Muñoz. Justice Amy Coney Barrett held—over the dissent of all three liberals—that American citizens have no constitutional “liberty interest” in living with their foreign spouses, denying them the most basic protections against arbitrary government discrimination. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s fierce dissent condemned Barrett’s opinion as, among other things, an unsubtle assault on marriage equality for LGBTQ+ Americans.
As assessed by lawyer, writer, and journalist Dahlia Lithwick, "The court could easily say, just down the road, that it already called Obergefell into question, and overruling it is the next logical step. I think that’s why Sotomayor also hinges her dissent on Dobbs, pointing to false assurances that the court would overturn abortion rights but go no further. We all knew that was bogus at the time. And remember, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson signed on to this dissent in full. I think all three liberals are ringing this alarm so everyone can see that overturning marriage equality is very much on the table at this Supreme Court."
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Via White Crane Insitute \\ James Melville "MEL" WHITE
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June 26James Melville "MEL" WHITE, born on this date, is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting autobiographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994 and devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, also writing extensively on the subject of gay Christians. After their marriage, White admitted to his wife that he had always been attracted to men. He embarked on a long process of attempted cures for his homosexuality, including psychotherapy, prayer, electroconvulsive therapy, and exorcism. Shockingly, none of these techniques changed his attraction to men, and after he attempted suicide, he and his wife agreed to an amicable divorce. His son, producer, writer Mike White is bisexual (and married to a man) and is the writer, producer, showrunner of the wildly successful White Lotus streaming series. In 1984, White began dating Gary Nixon. In 1994, White wrote his autobiography, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay And Christian In America, which detailed his former career in the Religious Right and his struggle coming to terms with his sexuality. His ex-wife wrote the foreword to this book. His latest book, Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells To Deny Gay Equality was released in hardback as Religion Gone Bad: Hidden Dangers from the Christian Right. After coming out, White transferred his clergy credentials to the gay-affirming Metropolitan Community Church. In 1997, White was awarded the American Civil Liberties Union's National Civil Liberties Award for his efforts to apply the "soul force" principles of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to the struggle for justice for sexual minorities. He founded Soulforce, a gay advocacy group, in 1998. In June 2008, White and Nixon were the first same-sex couple legally married at All Saints Episcopal Church (Pasadena, California) following the May 16, 2008 action of the Supreme Court of California overturning the state's ban on same-sex marriage. They lived in Palm Springs, CA. Nixon, passed away in 2024
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Via White Crane \\\ Feast Day of SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL,
 2018 - It is the Feast Day of SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL, martyred lovers According to their Acts, which are of a legendary character and without recorded historical foundation, the martyrs were eunuchs (Galli) of Constantina daughter of Constantine the Great, and became acquainted with a certain Gallicanus, who built a church in Ostia. At the command of Julian the Apostate, they were beheaded secretly by Terentianus in their house on the Cælian, where their church was subsequently erected, and where they themselves were buried. Galli (singular Gallus) was the Roman name for castrated followers of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, which were regarded as a third gender by contemporary Roman scholars, and are in some ways like transgendered people in the modern world. The chief of these priests was referred to as a battakes, and later as the archigallus. | ||
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Thursday, June 25, 2026
Via James Fell \ FB
Jim Parsons is an openly gay man who played the character Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon had a web show within the show called Fun with Flags where he analyzed the history and symbolism of various flags, from Bavaria to Nebraska to Star Trek’s United Federation of Planets. But he did not cover the vexillology of the LGBTQ+ rainbow flag, so let’s have some fun.
--On This Day in History Shit Went Down: June 25, 1978--
A symbol of pride and social movements, the rainbow flag originated in San Francisco, making its first appearance at the city’s Gay Freedom Day Parade on June 25, 1978. It was designed by Gilbert Baker, a gay man and civil rights activist. He was tasked with making the flag by Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California.
Prior to 1978, the symbol for the LGBTQ+ movement was an inverted pink triangle, but this had significant negative connotations, what with it being designed by fucking Nazis to identify and persecute homosexuals. Although it had been reclaimed as a symbol of pride in the face of homophobia, Milk still wanted something uniquely their own.
One rumor proclaims Baker was inspired by Judy Garland singing “Over the Rainbow” in The Wizard of Oz, as Garland was one of the first gay icons. Another hypothesis states he borrowed from the World Peace Association’s multicolored Brotherhood flag.
Baker’s original design was eight-colored: hot pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, and violet. The colors represented, respectively: sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic/art, serenity, spirit. Thirty volunteers hand-dyed and stitched two flags for the parade.
Five months later, Harvey Milk was assassinated; demand for the flag grew. Hot pink was dropped because of lack of availability of that fabric color. A year later, turquoise and indigo were merged into a single royal blue to make a six-stripe flag that remains most popular, although numerous other variations have sprung up over the years.
Thirty-seven years and one day later, the White House was illuminated in the colors of the rainbow flag to celebrate the federal legalization of gay marriage. And in June 2020, in a historic decision, the Supreme Court of the United States voted 6–3 asserting federal law prevents employers from discriminating against workers for being LGBTQ+.
History should take note that Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas voted on the side of bigotry.
NOTE: This piece was researched and written by a human, not some bullshit "ai" plagiarism software.
Those who cannot remember the past need a history teacher who says “fuck” a lot. Get both volumes of ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY SH!T WENT DOWN at JamesFell.com/books.
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Via Bil Browning’s Tummy Ache Nation \\\ These nuns want to make dying of cancer even worse
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If you want to know why Americans are turning away from religion in droves, look no further than this shocking lawsuit. A group of Catholic nuns is suing for the right to disrespect dying transgender cancer patients.
What could possibly be so upsetting to the cadre of decidedly un-Christian sisters that forced them to file a lawsuit against the state of New York? They don’t want to refer to trans women as “she,” and they don’t want them dying in beds with other women nearby.
Now, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has picked a side in the case, and, as you probably guessed, it’s siding with the nuns.
“For more than a century, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have provided free palliative care to indigent cancer patients in their last days,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement. “New York’s law would force these religious women to choose between their faith and their license if they wish to continue serving the dying.”
Which is complete horseshit, of course. No one is asking the nuns to evangelize gender affirmation surgery. They’re simply required to treat dying people with respect. Apparently, that’s a step too far.
“It is unconstitutional for [the state] to dictate how the Sisters speak and how they care for those on their final journey,” one member of the nuns’ legal team declared without a hint of self-awareness of exactly how shitty that makes the sadistic sisters sound.
When someone is on their “final journey,” would Christ expect his followers to demean, antagonize, and insult them? Is that what the Catholic church is teaching its followers? I reached out to the Vatican to ask them, but didn’t get a response.
The federal government is spending taxpayer money to help nuns misgender cancer patients on their deathbeds. What does that say about this DOJ’s priorities? The civil rights division, which was created to protect minorities, not harass them, has made a determined effort to undermine absolutely everything the department has championed for decades under Dhillon’s leadership.
It’s not shocking that Trump is eagerly watching his toadies and henchmen work against minority groups, but Leo has supposedly made the protection and visibility of minorities and marginalized communities a cornerstone of his papacy.
For all of the positive PR the Church obviously seeks as it pits Pope Leo against Trump in a war of words, the sheer fact that he hasn’t picked up the phone and asked the naughty nuns, “What the fuck is wrong with you?” speaks volumes.
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Is it any wonder that only 65% of American Catholics think that religion has a positive view of religion? Only a quarter of them think that ignoring the law in favor of “but my religion tells me…” excuses is a net positive for the country.
In other words, 75% of American Catholics think petty bitches like the Dominican Sisters are doing the right thing, and almost half of them think that people like the nuns are making life worse for everyone.
And seriously, if using the word “she” to describe a woman who is dying is enough to get their knickers in a twist, these nuns have to be the worst possible choice to be caring for anyone about to shuffle off this mortal coil. They need compassion and respect, not abuse or callousness.
If disrespect and mean-spirited judgmental condemnation are all you have to offer, you’re in the wrong fucking business.
Christ fed the hungry, healed the sick, and sat with the dying. The Dominican Sisters sued the state of New York for the right not to. Somebody’s religion got lost on the way to the courthouse.
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