Dallas Express, Updated. Brother runs the Christian Union.
One of the local anti-Gay forces in DFW
Dallas Express
This information resource has three parts: (1) Backstory; (2) Posts about Dallas Express campaigning against Gays; (3) Anti-Gay individuals and organizations he supports or works with; (4) A listing of their homophobic articles. (5) Information on who is working with Monty Bennett. These posts will get updated and expanded as time goes on.
Get the word out to warn the Gay community.
DALLAS NEEDS A HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.
The existence of groups like this is why Dallas needs a human rights commission. Please sing the petition.
This is a basic item to have the rights of Gays protected. Fort Worth has had one since 1967.
Backstory
The Dallas Express was originally an African American newspaper founded in 1892 as the Dallas Bee, but in 1893 was renamed the Dallas Express. It had an important role in African American journalism.
The publication of the Dallas Express ceased in the 1970s.
This is the history of the Dallas Express at the Texas State Historical Association Handbook online.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dallas-express
In 2020 a wealthy Trump donor, Monty Bennett, founder and CEO of Ashford Inc., a publicly traded company purchased the Dallas Express. Though it hadn’t been published it can be purchased.
This is the article about his purchasing the Dallas Express in D Magazine.
This article shows the heroic role this paper had played in fighting racism during its long history and the tragedy that its past will be obscured by the present politics of this journal.
Campaign Against Gays
From the most recent to the oldest. Generally it does reporting to support hysteria over drag shows.
The very latest Dallas Express article negative towards the interests of Gays is here, the rest of the Dallas Express articles are further down in this post after links to posts about my reporting on them.
(2023/01/28)
https://dallasexpress.com/education/local-isd-considers-hosting-pride-fest/
This article is written to assist Kelly Neidert blocking a local Pride event in Dallas.
(2022/09/29) This article reports on multiple anti-Gay groups working in Dallas.
(2022/08/23) This article points out that how they plan to use classifying Drag Shows as Adult Oriented Business and then use local zoning ordinances to shut places down.
The text of the State of Texas applicable laws as well as Dallas City Zoning is provided and reviewed so you can see how they would use it to either shut down Drag Shows or shut down the Gay bars.
Update 2: Dallas Express publisher Monty Bennett is a conservative Christian activst.
This article reports on Monty Bennett’s conservative Christian connections.
https://therealdeal.com/magazine/national-may-2023/monty-bennetts-fire-and-brimstone-journey/
Monty and his siblings, including twin brother Matt, who currently runs Christian Union, a New York-based Christian leadership development …
https://www.christianunion.org/about/who-we-are/executive-leadership-team
Bennett supports the Christian Union according to the above article.
Bennett’s support of conservative causes — he contributed to his twin brother’s Matt’s religious organization, Christian Union, donating a three-story Victorian near Brown University
https://www.christianunion.org/
They have a strategic plan to “transform” the United States.
https://www.christianunion.org/about/welcome/vision-mission
Some of the Christian Unions statements about Gays.
Affirming Marriage. Because God created the institution of marriage to reflect His glory in the union of one man and one woman in a lifelong and exclusive covenant commitment, we affirm the need to (1) uphold and promote marriage as the exclusive context for the expression of sexual intimacy and procreation, and (2) avoid all forms of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, homosexual behavior, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, and use of pornography) as distortions of God’s design for marriage and sexual expression. [Boldface added.]
https://www.christianunion.org/about/what-we-believe/statement-of-ethics
This devotional is titled, “Social Injustice of the Sexual Revolution.”
https://www.christianunion.org/the-magazine/2653-covid-19-evening-devotional-for-day-31
He sues people who report on him. From the above article.
Bennett has rallied against criticism of the Express, suing two Dallas journalists, including Rogers and Steven Monacelli, who wrote in the Dallas Weekly that Bennett was running a “right-wing propaganda site.” In August, a judge dismissed Bennett’s claim against Monacelli, noting all the passages in question were protected statements of opinion or true.
His twin brother Matt Bennet runs Christian Union.
https://dallasexpress.com/city/christian-union-to-host-fundraiser-in-dallas/
https://www.christianunion.org/
The homophobic belief is stated here.
https://www.christianunion.org/about/what-we-believe/statement-of-ethics
Anti-Gay individuals and groups that the Dallas Express works with.
Kelly Neidert – https://protecttxkids.org/
Opinion pieces by Kelly Neidert are often run in The Dallas Express and her activities favorably reported. (There will be a post about her anti-Gay campaigning.)
https://dallasexpress.com/journalist/kelly-neidert/
These are articles in which she is mentioned and regarded as credible. This makes it clear that some articles which might be represented as neutral objective reporting are actually not.
https://dallasexpress.com/?s=neidert
For example, June 4, 2022 article, “Planned ‘Family-Friendly’ Drag Show Draws Protest,” is about an upcoming drag show. It can be question whether this article is neutral reporting or mobilizing people to protest the event.
https://dallasexpress.com/planned-family-friendly-drag-show-draws-protest/
In this article Kelly Neidert is quoted:
Organizer Kelly Neidert spoke to The Dallas Express about why she wants to see events like this one stopped.
“I’ve organized the protest against this drag event because I want to make it clear that events like this are unacceptable,” Neidert said. “Pride month events seem to get progressively worse per year, and we should never normalize inherently sexual events directed at children.”
Links to Dallas Express Articles attacking Gays.
Note, I am also making sure they are also at the Internet Archive so if the Dallas Express decides to delete them, they will still be available. These articles will be listed as the most recent first going to the oldest last. Note: Getting the
The following are older articles. The above two director pages were created later to track their homophobic activities.
links listed on this page might lag individual items on this directory. The archive can sometimes be slow in loading a page. Dallas Express is fairly well archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20221001225455/https://dallasexpress.com/
This list will be where the Dallas Express is pushing an agenda rather than reporting on the news of anti-Gay campaigns. Though in some cases this reporting is about enabling.
20230128
https://dallasexpress.com/education/local-isd-considers-hosting-pride-fest/
This article is written to assist Kelly Neidert blocking a local Pride event in Dallas.
20220824
https://dallasexpress.com/local-bar-hosting-drag-show-for-kids-may-violate-ordinance/
20220822
https://dallasexpress.com/dallas-club-investigated-after-drag-show-for-kids/
(20220621)
(20220605)
https://dallasexpress.com/police-allegedly-break-up-kid-friendly-drag-show/
(20220604)
In this article the Dallas Express quotes a series of conservative commentators against the event and I think that the article was basically to mobilize support for the protest against the drag show.
https://dallasexpress.com/planned-family-friendly-drag-show-draws-protest/
Those who are working with Monty Bennett.
Candace Evans of Candy’s Dirt, is a member of the board of his hotel corporation as reported by D Magazine.
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2024/04/has-monty-bennett-hoisted-himself-on-his-own-petard/
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