[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/alabama-mayor-suggests-killing-lgbtq-people-and-other-lgbtq-news\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/alabama-mayor-suggests-killing-lgbtq-people-and-other-lgbtq-news\/","headline":"Alabama mayor suggests killing LGBTQ+ people and other LGBTQ+ news","name":"Alabama mayor suggests killing LGBTQ+ people and other LGBTQ+ news","description":"Your recap of recent LGBTQ+ news, including an Alabama mayor who suggested killing LGBTQ+ people in a public Facebook post.","datePublished":"2019-06-06","dateModified":"2019-06-06","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/alainaleary\/#Person","name":"Fin Leary","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/alainaleary\/","identifier":6376,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2d51014ed1230c3de5b543787b5bebf7ad45072e559a4cdb76347a56854d47a4?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2d51014ed1230c3de5b543787b5bebf7ad45072e559a4cdb76347a56854d47a4?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Equally Wed","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","url":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","width":218,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1280px-Ptown_Carnival-e1554332526667.jpg","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1280px-Ptown_Carnival-e1554332526667.jpg","height":560,"width":1000},"url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/alabama-mayor-suggests-killing-lgbtq-people-and-other-lgbtq-news\/","about":["News"],"wordCount":618,"keywords":["bi news","bisexual news","gay news","lesbian news","LGBTQ+ news","queer news","trans news"],"articleBody":"In a public Facebook post, Mark Chambers, mayor of Carbon Hill, Alabama, wrote in all capital letters: “We live in a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transvestites lecture us on human biology, baby killers lecture us on human rights and socialists lecture us on economics!” When one of his Facebook friends brought up the idea of revolution, he replied,\u00a0\u201cThe only way to change it would be to kill the problem out. I know it’s bad to say but with out (sic) killing them out there’s no way to fix it.\u201dThe post has since been deleted and Chambers denied writing it. Then he backtracked and admitted he thought he was sending a private message, not posting publicly. Chambers issued an apology earlier this week.Same-sex couple in Missouri denied at rehearsal dinner venueWhen Mindy Rackley and her fiancee called\u00a0Madison’s Cafe O’Fallon in O’Fallon, Missouri, to confirm details of their upcoming rehearsal dinner, they were asked for the name of the groom, according to a Facebook post by\u00a0Tiffany Kaltenbach Unger.Once the venue found out the marriage was between two women, Mindy and her fiancee were told the venue wouldn’t be serving them. Their dinner was canceled.\u00a0The owner of Madison’s explained that refusing to serve them was out of “love” for her and her partner because they are in an unhealthy relationship.A district attorney in Tennesse won’t prosecute gay domestic violence casesCraig Northcott, the district attorney general of Coffee County in Tennessee, was recorded telling a Bible conference that he refuses to prosecute gay domestic violence cases because he’s a “good Christian.” He doesn’t believe same-sex relationships are moral.“Y\u2019all need to know who your DA is,\u201d he explains in the recording. \u201cYou give us a lot of authority. We can choose to prosecute anything. We can choose not to prosecute anything.\u00a0The social engineers on the Supreme Court now decided we have homosexual marriage. I disagree with them.”Current Tennessee law doesn’t mention the gender of people involved in domestic violence cases and being legally married isn’t a requirement.A Georgia motel manager was fired after telling LGBTQ+ people she wouldn’t rent rooms to themNancy, a motel manager at America’s Best Value Inn in Clayton, Georgia, originally agreed to rent 10 rooms for participants of The Rural America Pride Committee’s first in-person gathering to promote LGBTQ+ acceptance and rights in rural America. Then she later left a voicemail for\u00a0Antwon Stephens, the committee’s founder, saying that renting the rooms had been a mistake and she’d been wrong to do so.\u201cAfter looking further into what your group stands for, we are rescinding our offer of a reduced room rate, and do not want to sponsor or offer support in any way,” the voicemail said, according to 11Alive.Stephens returned her call immediately, and she explained that she was against the LGBTQ+ community “and our values, our way of life, as she explained it,” he says. Nancy thought at first that the event was to celebrate people proud to live in rural America and didn’t realize it was an LGBTQ+ group.Soon after he posted about the incident on social media, other hotel owners in Rabun County offered his group discount rates and free meeting rooms to make them feel welcome. Motel owner\u00a0Andy Patel had no idea that Nancy refused to rent rooms to the group and decided to fire her for her discriminatory actions. Georgia doesn’t have any statewide laws prohibiting discrimination based on orientation, so it’s up to individuals to make positive choices like this one."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Alabama mayor suggests killing LGBTQ+ people and other LGBTQ+ news","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/alabama-mayor-suggests-killing-lgbtq-people-and-other-lgbtq-news\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]