Last week, several dozen men from a Christian extremist group dubbing itself the Soldiers of God trashed a Beirut club hosting a drag show. They beat up several people, driving some patrons to hide in a bathroom.
Some heroes fight ISIS or Israel. Some chase drag queens into a bathroom.
The education minister also recently banned a game of Chutes and Ladders that was distributed to schools as part of a USAID project because it was decorated with a rainbow
I always said Chutes and Ladders is for strags.
A video circulated online showing a man in the northern city of Tripoli using black paint to cross out a rainbow on the side of a van distributing books.
Further analysis of the video showed the man was actually Ron DeSantis.
Culture Minister Mohammed Murtada requested for the General Security Directorate to ban the movie βBarbie,β saying it βpromotes homosexuality and transgenders.β The Directorate, however, ruled that the movie is permitted
Deciding which movies are too gay for Lebanon sounds like a great job. "I'm watching Fate of the Furious for the 10th time to make sure it's not gay. Thanks for the paycheck."
In a meeting earlier this month, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, several government ministers and the head of the Maronite Church Cardinal Beshara Rai discussed homosexuality.
We do that every day. When do we get to be political and religious leaders?
The spiritual leader of Lebanon's minority Druze community
Christians, Sunnis, Shi'a, and the Druze. I've never seen this kind of unity in Lebanon before.
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This but unironically. It's snakes and ladders.
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