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WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com Prohibits Gays, Allows Adulterers, Polygamists

A Utah company has launched a dating website specifically for white people, but same-sex connections are prohibited.

A billboard advertising WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com went up recently near Salt Lake City, sparking an uproar on social media. 

“I am sure some of you are wondering about the concept and need for a dating website titled ‘Where White People Meet.Com,'” the site’s “About Us” section states. “Our answer to that would be why not? There are various dating websites that promote and cater to just about every origin, race, religion and lifestyle out there. So again, why not ‘Where White People Meet.Com’?

“The question naturally arises, can anyone join?” the “About Us” section continues. “That answer is yes, as long as you are at least 18 years of age and you agree to abide by the rules and regulations set forth for all members to follow.”

The company says it wants to help “connect like minded people in a non discriminatory fashion.”

A blog post on WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com, based in North Salt Lake, states that the site’s staff “won’t tolerate rude, aggressive or racist behavior.”

As of Saturday, the site had more than 300 members, most of whom had apparently joined in response to news reports over the last few days. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, the site had only 35 members on Thursday. On Saturday, WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com wrote on Twitter that users were experiencing difficulty logging on due to heavy traffic overloading the site’s server.

The Tribune notes that although gay searches are prohibited on WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com, the site appears to allow users who are married, and lists no policy related to polyamory or polygamy. Utah is heavily Mormon, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints condemns homosexuality. The church renounced polygamy in 1890, but the practice continues in some Mormon subcultures. The church didn’t allow black members until 1978, and Utah is 91 percent white. 

Although some expressed outrage about the idea of a whites-only dating site, particularly in Utah, the president of the NAACP’s Salt Lake chapter, Jeanetta Williams, told the Tribune she simply thinks the concept is “odd.” 

“I just thought it was kind of strange they would put it in Utah,” she said. “A large population here is white. So you’re going to put up billboards here so you can meet other white singles? Every day you can meet white singles.”

“If it were some type of a hate group that was putting these billboards up, we would take a closer look at the actual target,” Williams added. “But here we’re seeing other advertisements for [dating services for] black singles, for LDS singles.”

The New York Daily News notes that WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com joins other dating sites that cater based on race, creed and religion, such as blackpeoplemeet.com, christianmingle.com and latinopeoplemeet.com.

However, some Salt Lake residents and Twitter users aren’t convinced. 

“I just feel we should be past that whole mindset of staying within our own race and segregation pretty much,” Michelle Dessau told the local Fox affiliate, KSTU-TV. 

“I have a lot of friends who are biracial couples and they’re in love and they’re happy,” Kayla Lemmon said. “I don’t think we should have a dating site with only one race. I think it excludes someone who could be your soul mate and is a different color than you.”

 

Video and screenshot via FOX 13

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Tennessee Governor Slammed After ‘Praying’ for Nashville School Community Without Mentioning Mass Shooting

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Governor Bill Lee quickly drew tremendous outrage in the wake of a school mass shooting where six people including three young children were shot to death. Social media users criticized the Tennessee Republican, who had signed a permit-less gun carry law, for declaring he was “praying for the school, congregation & Nashville community,” without posting any mention of the mass shooting.

Tweeting he was “closely monitoring the tragic situation at Covenant,” Gov. Lee said, “As we continue to respond, please join us in praying for the school, congregation & Nashville community.”

There was no mention of any loss of life, and, as Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts passionately noted, the “situation” was a mass shooting.

“If thoughts and prayers alone worked to stop gun violence, there wouldn’t have been a shooting at a Christian elementary school. It’s your actions – including weakening the state’s gun laws – that’s killing kids in Tennessee,” Watts also tweeted. “SHAME ON YOU.”

Gov. Lee signed a permit-less carry bill into law in 2021, at a Beretta gun manufacturing plant.

According to the CDC, as of 2020 – one year before the permit-less carry bill was signed into law – Tennessee ranked tenth in the nation in per-capita firearm mortality.

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Meanwhile, others took notice of the gun culture Gov. Lee has fostered in “The Volunteer State.”

MSNBC analyst and Bulwark writer Tim Miller commented, “Tennessee governor Bill Lee issued a statement recently about how the drag ban in Tennessee ‘protects children.’ If only he would have instead focused on laws that might have prevented the mass murder of children in his state today.”

Historian Kevin Kruse pointed to an article from last year, after the Uvalde, Texas school shooting, titled: “Rep. Clemmons Seeks Renewed Gun Laws, Gov. Lee Requests Prayer.”

“You chose prayer over gun reforms last year after the Uvalde massacre,” Kruse wrote. “And now here we are.”

The progressive website Tennessee Holler pointed out that Gov. Lee, along with GOP lawmakers, “just appointed Jordan Mollenhour to the [state] board of education— whose company was sued for selling ammo to an underage mass killer (SANTA FE) and sold ammo to at least one more (AURORA) He has ZERO education experience.”

Let’s Give a Damn founder Nick Laparra tweeted, “We are 86 days into 2023. So far, 9859 people have died by gun violence and there have been 128 mass shootings. Meanwhile, @GovBillLee spends his days being outraged over drag queens and CRT and book bans. This is Bill Lee’s and the GOP’s fault.”

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Mystery Grand Jury Witness in Trump Hush Money Probe Is Former ‘Enquirer’ Publisher and Trump Ally

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Avid followers of the Manhattan District Attorney’s moves noted the grand jury had been called into service for Monday, and soon news leaked that yet another witness would be testifying in the probe into Donald Trump’s alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.

Monday afternoon, NBC News’ Garrett Haake reported live on MSNBC that the mystery witness was David Pecker, the former tabloid publisher of the “National Enquirer,” who reportedly had been looking for stories in 2016 to protect Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Haake notes Monday was Pecker’s second appearance before the grand jury in the hush money case.

The New York Times also reported David Pecker as the grand jury witness, calling Pecker “a key player in the hush-money matter. He and the tabloid’s top editor helped broker the deal between the porn star, Stormy Daniels, and Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s fixer at the time.”

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“While the focus of Mr. Pecker’s testimony is unclear, he could provide valuable information for prosecutors. A longtime ally of Mr. Trump, he agreed to keep an eye out for potentially damaging stories about Mr. Trump during the 2016 campaign,” The Times reports. “For a brief time in October 2016, Ms. Daniels appeared to have just that kind of story. Her agent and lawyer discussed the possibility of selling exclusive rights to her story of a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump to The National Enquirer, which would then promise to never publish it, a practice known as ‘catch and kill.'”

Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman weighed in, noting, “nothing about that decision [to have Pecker testify] suggests any change of heart on Bragg’s part to indict Trump.”

Former Dept. of Defense Special Counsel Ryan Goodman, an NYU professor of law, notes that Pecker’s “testimony can show the [hush money] scheme was designed to affect outcome of election.”

“He reportedly communicated directly with Trump on payment,” Goodman adds.

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‘Our Children Deserve Better’: First Lady Jill Biden Speaks Out After Six Die in Nashville School Mass Shooting

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First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, speaking Monday afternoon at a National League of Cities conference, told attendees, “Our children deserve better,” as she broke the news of the Nashville school mass shooting at Covenant Presbyterian School where three children and three adults were shot dead.

“You know,” Dr. Biden, herself an educator and clearly pained by the news, began her remarks by saying, “I hate to say what I’m gonna say next because you know you’re so enthusiastic and with so much energy and hope and I feel it.”

“But while you’ve been in this room, I don’t know whether you’ve been on your phones but we just learned about another shooting in Tennessee, a school shooting and I am truly without words and our children deserve better, and we stand – all of us – we stand with Nashville in prayer.”

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The First Lady, a former public high school English teacher and currently a professor of English at a community college, was speaking at the organization’s Congressional City Conference.

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