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by nekusar 32 days ago
If you dig, this issue has been brewing for quite some time. Long story short, its the hard-right conservatives and/or Christians who demand everybody *else* follow their recidivist ethics.

Exodus Cry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry explicit christian thinktank

Collective Shout - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Shout not explicitly christian, but mirrors Exodus Cry almost verbatim

Going down the rabbit hole of Financial Censorship also shows a few other bad actor sin this space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_censorship

FiLiA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiLiA hard conservative feminist group, hates transgender

Morality in Media (renamed to "National Center on Sexual Exploitation" to deceive as federal org) - Intersection of Conservatives and Christians, wanting to ban anything their bronze age beliefs indicate are bad.

CATiW - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_Against_Trafficking_... , another far-conservative anti-trans hate group.

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> Collective Shout was founded in 2009 by Melinda Tankard Reist, an Australian conservative political activist, writer, anti-abortion feminist and anti-pornography activist

So close

You have a clear history of anti-Christian sentiment on this site. Your comments repeatedly go beyond criticism of specific abuses and into broad hostility toward Christianity and Catholicism as such.
To be clear, its an anti-Abrahamic sentiment. This includes Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We don't see much of Hinduism and Buddhism and Jainism where I'm at. And none of them are forcing their own religion as state/federal bills. (Although... India has a pretty bad Hindu nationalism problem, sigh.)

At least in the USA (where I live), the Christians cant seem to follow their own rules. Instead, they seek to force their rules on everyone by subverting government by aligning with republicans and creating voting blocs. Ive even had christians in my local community publicly tell people (in service) to vote for trump going back to 2015, and later in 2022-2023. -- back when it was expressly illegal to do such as a church.

I even had christian pastors publicly attack my MiL (she was a director for a local nonprofit). Called her the antichrist and a bunch of other shit. that spillover even hit my SO when they were doing in-home healthcare. Was chased out of their house with a crucifix wall hanging.

Of course, trump's IRS now made church-based political endorsement legal. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/11/irs-...

If they wanted to practice their own rules, I dont care. When they shift to forcing *me* to follow their rules, yeah, I'll be hostile.

> FiLiA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiLiA hard conservative feminist group, hates transgender

Your characterisation is way off the mark. FiLiA is an organisation run by left-wing feminists and their conferences cover a wide range of issues affecting women and girls.

I wasnt wrong about my assessment. FiLiA is:

Sex-work exclusionary. Like Trump's bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSTA-SESTA .

Trans-exclusionary. Like American Republicans' various anti-trans bills https://translegislation.com/

Encourages woman-based (trans-exclusive) laws that give them more "rights", rather than equal rights for everyone. We see this in countless US republican trans bills that protect "women", but not men.

Encourages separation of genders. Like how Mike Pence wouldnt be alone in a room with a woman other than his wife/daughter.

Sure, they're not a broad spectrum political org, but the areas where they speak in, is full of TERF and SWERF hatred. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.....

If you look at the details of what left-wing feminist organisations like FiLiA are advocating for and their motivations for doing so, it is very different to right-wing conservatives.

For instance, on "sex work", FiLiA favours the Nordic Model, where the punters are criminalised and prostituted women are offered support to help their exit from this abusive industry.

You generally will not find conservatives arguing for that.

Similarly for "trans", the motivation is to prevent the erasure of much-needed single-sex spaces, services and other provisions for women and girls.

Compare to conservatives who look at it mostly from the angle of men should be masculine and women should be feminine. Obviously not something that organisations like FiLiA would agree with, at all.

Based on how extreme your positions (and rhetoric) are, I would very much encourage you to go touch grass.

(Hint: trans stuff got us Trump winning again)