- If the LGBTQIA+2S community is truly an oppressed folk, why is that when someone so much as looks at them cross-eyed, the clap back is a veritable tidal wave?
The Chicago Bulls waived guard Jaden Ivey for conduct detrimental to the team Monday, hours after he posted a lengthy video rant on social media about religion and other topics that included anti-gay sentiments.
Ivey has gone live on his Instagram account more frequently in the past week, posting at least three lengthy videos after he was shut down for the rest of the season by the team because of injury last Thursday. On Monday morning, he called out the NBA for promoting Pride Month, saying it celebrates "unrighteousness."
"The world proclaims LGBTQ, right?" Ivey said during the video stream. "They proclaim Pride Month and the NBA does, too. They show it to the world. They say, 'Come join us for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness.' They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it on the streets. Unrighteousness."
In another live stream Monday evening, Ivey questioned why he was waived before speaking again at length about religion.
"[The Bulls] said my conduct is detrimental to the team," he said. "Why didn't they just say, 'We don't agree with his stance on LGBTQ'? Why didn't they say that? ... How is it conduct detrimental to the team? What did I do to the team? What did I do to the players?"
— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) March 30, 2026
The Bulls likely believe this gives them plausible deniability in that they didn't specifically cite Ivey's comments about LGBTQ.
Naturally, most Christians believe this is yet another instance of bigotry against their faith and that Ivey wasn't bullying others as much as he was questioning forced advocacy. But those who supported Ivey's ouster claim it was more out of concern for his mental health than what he was actually saying. Well if that's true, why didn't the team intervene to provide him whatever assistance he needed as opposed to leaving him high and dry? And the fact Ivey will receive his entire salary for the season suggests the Bulls organization just wants this to go away. Heh. In a country bound up by nonstop culture wars, this definitely is not the last we'll hear of this.
- Just your periodic reminder that students, in the minds of the teachers union, are not the top priority when it comes to education funding.
WATCH: A Minnesota teacher testifies against a bill that would incentivize donations to private and public schools
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) March 30, 2026
In a stunning moment, she says the bill should be rejected because "donations to private schools would decrease tuition, making private school more affordable to… pic.twitter.com/wSJ0vyjyQf
There has been ungodly amounts of money thrown at Minnesota public education for decades, yet there's been no discernible improvement in student aptitude. Also, why should schools continue to receive funds for a student who is no longer attending there? That's not "defunding" as much as it is refusal to allocate resources for a kid who isn't even a part of that school.
Public schools are a failing business model, yet not enough people are asking why. Let's start there.
- I'm thinking the Rocky Mountain state oughta get out of the business of demanding people acquiesce to the LGBTQ+ lifestyle.
The power of government to regulate the professions, especially in medicine and law, has created a lot of levers to enforce conformity. That power can be exercised openly through lawmaking, and more subtly by delegating licensing and disciplinary powers to quasi-public cartels run by the professions themselves. In Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court struck a blow against the use of those powers to dictate orthodoxy and stifle disfavored opinions. Still more encouragingly, Justice Neil Gorsuch’s ringing opinion attracted a lopsided 8–1 majority, with only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent.
Chiles arose from yet another effort by Colorado to ban dissent from “LBGTQ+” ideology, which was yet again defeated by a legal team from Alliance Defending Freedom. A state law bans licensed counselors from engaging in “conversion therapy” with minors, on penalty of fines and loss of license. The law is flagrantly one-sided: It applies only to therapy that aims to resolve gender dysphoria or to reduce homosexual attraction, while permitting state-favored counseling in favor of gender transition and homosexuality. It is coercive and destructive of parental authority: While blue states have schemed to let public schools “socially transition” kids without telling their parents, Colorado won’t even let the disfavored therapists talk to minors when both the minor and the parent consent. It is speech-specific: Unlike red-state bans on irreversible surgeries and puberty-blocking drugs, the law applies to purely talk-based therapies. And it is harmful as well: Most children and teens suffering gender dysphoria can outgrow the problem and learn to live in their bodies; talking through their problems can help.
he Court called this what it is: discrimination against a particular viewpoint. As Gorsuch wrote, “Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety. Certainly, censorious governments throughout history have believed the same. But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.” Even Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, emphasized that “the case is textbook. The law distinguishes between two opposed sets of ideas—the one resisting, the other reflecting, the State’s own view of how to speak with minors about sexual orientation and gender identity.” To Kagan’s credit, she added that this is just as bad when her own side does it: “It does not matter what the State’s preferred side is.” Justice Jackson, who opened by urging that there is “no right to practice medicine which is not subordinate to the police power of the States,” could use a remedial course on that score.
As has often been the case, Justice Jackson shows she's more of an emotional ideologue than a legal mind.
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