Nextdoor Reviewer says Bible condemns "sodomite," behavior & Nextdoor pulls our post on homophobic church Trinity Church with a bogus justification. SF paper has run an article.
How many homophobes are reviewing posts and getting them pulled?
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The Bay Area Reporter (SF) has done a story on Nextdoor pulling our post.
This is a developing story.
Nextdoor is headquartered in San Francisco and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission is going to issue a statement. We await the response of Nextdoor.
The Bay Area Reporter is the LGBT newspaper there.
We don't have a human rights commission in Dallas, but we do have excuses why we don't have one. I will put in the comments the article which Nextdoor banned.
https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=national&id=331012
Introduction
We have twice had posts about local homophobes pulled, though in one case it was restored, but with the lasted pulled post in Nextdoor, it was appealed and denied.
When we posted about how local homophobes are targeting the Dallas Independent School District, the post was pulled, we appealed and it was re-instated. However, the conversation gets stopped and even though the post was re-instated, it is somewhat terminated in terms of effectiveness.
Just recently we did a post about a homophobic church which has opened a branch in the Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff in Dallas, Texas.
This post was shared in Nextdoor and we got this reply. Quoting the post.
The Bible also condemns sodomite behavior.
Turns out that he is a member of the Nextdoor Review team. (The red arrow points to the note that he is a member of the Nextdoor Review team.
A person who uses the term “sodomite” is a member of the Nextdoor Review team. How many LGBT hates are part of Nextdoor’s review teams?
The people in the neighborhood were NOT supportive of him and he was losing the battle. So suddenly there is this notice about the post. Quoting:
Your post Trinity Church Bishop Arts, Stealth homophobia knocking at our front door, was hidden because it may have broken the guideline: Non-local topic outside of a group. [Boldface in the original.]
I appealed and this came back.
The fact is that the Trinity Church Bishop Arts is right in the heart of our neighborhood. Trinity Church Bishop arts is at the red dot indicated by the red arrow and I am in the Beckley Club Estates, the area in the red circle.
The church is 1.4 miles 5 minute drive from my house, 1.4 miles 9 minutes bicycle ride, or 1.3 miles 31 minute walk from my house. It is a very local topic.
What Next?
The LGBT is under siege here in Texas and in Dallas. Getting the word out to various social media platforms about threats to our community is important.
Our warning to the community was pulled after a Nextdoor review team member using the term “sodomite,” was not favorably received by the neightborhood.
In the post I was warned in a comment about my post that implied that Ryan Short wasn’t atypical of Nextdoor.
Again, I think we should ask how many homophobes have inflitrated Nextdoor Review teams and are suppressing the LGBT?
Nextdoor is headquartered in San Francisco, California. I think San Francisco leadership of all types there should be informed. I think also the LGBT across the nation should be warned. This type of suppression of the LGBT maybe happening elsewhere.
So I will be writing letters to alert San Francisco, that whatever Nextdoor might do during Pride month, or whatever they might say, the reality in the field is what happened to us here in Dallas.
The letters as they are written will be added in this section. I will be writing the SF mayor and city council, local newspapers including the Gay papers, and alerting SF Facebook groups and my friends still back in San Francisco.
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