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Activist Mommy

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About

Activist Mommy is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Johnston, a conservative vlogger and activist, who has gained a notable following through her Facebook videos against the LGBTQ community, specifically transgender people.

Online History

On April 30th, 2016, Elizabeth Johnston began The Activist Mommy Facebook page,[2] posting about a protest outside of a Target, which she protested over the company's neutral bathroom policy. She captioned a picture of her, her husband and 10 children (shown below), "Do not get a babysitter so you can go protest. Take your children with you! They need to see their Activist Mommy impacting the culture for good! My children's lives have been tremendously impacted by joining me at outreaches like this one. It is harder when you take your children with you, but the impact on generations to come is immeasurable and so very worth the challenge! #ActivistMommy." As of June 2017, the post has more than 190 reactions and 20 shares.[1]


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The following day, she posted a video about Target bathrooms, specifically how to defend themselves against attackers in bathrooms. She goes on to make more remarks about how she's read reports about how people identify as "animals, cats, dragonlizards." As of June 2017, the video has received more than 1,300 reactions and 4,300 shares.



On May 19th, 2017, Johnston posted a video of her in her bus entitled "LGBTQQIAAPP?? Asexual? Non-binary? Gobbledygook! Gender insanity! This is out of hand! 😡" to her Facebook page. The post (shown below), received more than 4.9 million views, 74,000 reactions and 23,000 comments.[3]



Criticism

On February 9th, 2017, The Activist Mommy's Facebook account was suspended after she posted a comment (shown below) featuring a Bible verse that referred to homosexuality as "detestable" and an "abomination." When she received access to her account again, on February 11th, she re-posted the comment, so Facebook suspended her account, again.


Sara Tuttamore But don't those Old Testament passages condemning homosexuality as an 'abomination' also condemn eating shellfish and pork as an 'abomination'? Christians are hypocrites for condemning gays with Bible passages that also condemn them." Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13 similarly call homosexual sex "detestable" and an "abomination." It is true that those passages also condemn eating shellfish, and other things Christians do not consider sin. However, when we come to Scripture to determine what it says about a subject, we must come to it on its own terms. We can't redefine a debate opponent's terms, for example, in a way to twist the outcome in our own favor. That would be dishonest and insincere. How does the Bible handle this apparent contradiction? According to the New Testament, some commandments in the Old Testament applied only to the Jews. Gentiles (non-Jews) are not obligated to travel to Jerusalem three times a year for feasts, to be circumcised on the 8th day after birth, to keep the dietary law and ceremonial cleansing laws, to sacrifice in the temple, etc. The New Testament books of Hebrews and Galatians informs us It is commonly believed that Jesus never condemned homosexuality, but nothing could be further from the truth. He frequently condemned lust in the harshest of terms, as in Matthew 5:28. He picked an example of heterosexual lust-a man lusting at a woman- but those words apply to all forms of lust, whether females lusting after males, homosexual lust, p---------, b---------. All sexual contact outside of natural marriage is lust Moreover, Jesus, in Matthew 23, says, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. This is an affirmation of what the scribes and Pharisees said about God's law. Well, what were they saying about God's law? They were saying homosexuality and adultery were not only sins, but crimes! Romans 1 is a unique passage in the New Testament on the subject of homosexuality, because it reveals that the sin of homosexuality does not occur in a vacuum, but is at the end of a whole spectrum of sins, beginning with ungratefulness. Their rebellion to God's attempt to govern their sexual appetite with His law is birthed out of this damnable ingratitude. Verse 26 and 27 specifically deal with the transition of the sinner to homosexuality "Because of this [the previous unforsaken sins], God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their womern xchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error." Here again is the concept of natural sexual relations unnatural. Homosexuality is unnatural and perverse, an abuse of our sexual faculties. It is "shameful." Notice how the passage concludes: Gays "receive in

On February 12th, she posted a screenshot of both comments with an explanation as to why her account froze (shown below), essentially blaming the freeze on supposed Facebook's anti-Christian bias built into the site's algorithm, which is designed to filter hate speech.[5][6] Her post received more than 1,000 reactions and 450 shares.

"Where have I been? I was banned from facebook for 3 days because I quoted what the Bible says about homosexuality. Facebook is now censoring Christian speech! Facebook allows the most vile speech and photos, yet censors Christian speech and the Bible. I'm out of "facebook jail" for now, but the threat to delete my page if I continue to speak on this is still very real. I will not be intimidated. You can physically place me in jail for all I care…I will not be silenced. You can read what I wrote below which facebook deleted. Let's see if this post gets deleted. Please share far and wide with the hashtag…#FacebookCensorsBible.
#Censorship #biblecensorship #christiancensorship #facebookcensorship"


The Activist Mommy added 2 new photos. February 12. it Where have I been? I was banned from facebook for 3 days because l quoted what the Bible says about homosexuality. Facebook is now censoring Christian speech! Facebook allows the most vile speech and photos, yet censors Christian speech and the Bible. I'm out of "facebook ail" for now, but the threat to delete my page if I continue to speak on this is still very real. I will not be intimidated. You can physically place me in jail for all I care...l will not be silenced. You can read what I wrote below which facebook deleted. Let's see if this post gets deleted. Please share far and wide with the hashtag…#FacebookCensorsBible. #Censorship #biblecensorship #christiancensorship #facebookcensorship

On June 3rd, Kai Ross started a Change.org[7] petition to have The Activist Mommy removed from Facebook permanently. In the plea, Ross wrote:

Hello Facebook,

The Activist Mommy a page run by a supposedly good Christian mother of 10. She speaks what she believes is true about the LGBTQ community, but in doing so refers to constant hate speech. She doesn't politely extend her views but instead refers to us as sinners, disgusting people, shames on society.

The Activist Mommy is everything that's wrong with the world. She can't wrap her head around new ideas of the 21st century and instead takes to Facebook to shame them. She's harming the LGBTQ community (and many other communities) with her harmful assumptions and constantly refers to the Bible to justify her actions.

A woman like this does not deserve her own Facebook page.

Within two weeks, the petition has gained more than 12,000 signatures of its 15,000 signature goal.

Personal Life

Johnston resides in Ohio with her husband, Patrick, both of whom speak at and lead pro-life ministries. She homeschools her 10 children.[8]

Search Interest

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Mr. Candles
Mr. Candles

Okay, no, I oppose this.
At most I'd allow teaching your kids about why you think that way, and if demonization happens so be it. But taking them to actual protests, handing them signs and everything? No, I can't say I'm good with that. You shouldn't be bringing kids into the shit that early, it radicalizes them to the point of later unreasonableness and generally fucks them up.
That and using your own damn kids to get a point across like they're just another tool in the political arsenal is bullshit.

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