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Turns Out, Hillsong Megachurch Has Allegedly Been Full of 'Inappropriate Sexual Relationships' for Years!
Last month, news broke that Carl Lentz, one-time “spiritual confidant” to celebrities including Justin Bieber and head pastor at Hillsong megachurch, was “released” from his job due to unspecified “moral failures.” Soon afterward, it was revealed that Lentz cheated on his wife, having had an affair with Brooklyn-based fashion designer Ranin Karim (and potentially, many others). As of last week, it appeared like his redemption arc was beginning to unfold, having reportedly entered treatment for anxiety, depression, and “pastoral burnout.” Except, of course, new information about a seedy, “sexual inappropriate” culture at Hillsong has begun to emerge, and I just don’t get how a “religious man” gets out of this one!
According to Page Six, back in 2018, whistleblowers within the Hillsong organization sent a letter to church leaders citing “verified, widely circulated stories of inappropriate sexual behavior amongst staff/interns,” allegedly labeling Hillsong “...dangerous and a breeding ground for unchecked abuse.”
Apparently, one high-ranking church leader was instructed to leave after the letter exposed he had “multiple inappropriate sexual relationships with several female leaders and volunteers and was verbally, emotionally, and according to one woman, physically abusive in his relationships with these women.” Another high-ranking male church leader was accused of “not respecting physical and sexual boundaries within dating relationships with female church volunteers.”
Turns Out, Hillsong Megachurch Has Allegedly Been Full of 'Inappropriate Sexual Relationships' for Years!
Head pastors at Hillsong Church are accused of using volunteers as their personal babysitters for little or no pay, insiders said
After celebrity pastor of Hillsong NYC Carl Lentz was fired for cheating on his wife in November, sources told Insider that the issues at Hillsong run much deeper than one affair.
Several former volunteers said top pastors regularly took advantage of free and underpaid labor, and in some cases paid little or no money for volunteers to babysit their children.
In 2017, former Hillsong Boston volunteer Tiffany Perez said she was asked to take care of the top pastor Josh Kimes' daughter, Lyla, who was 4 at the time for $150 a week.
Perez often worked up to 25 hours a week babysitting, she said, which comes out to about $6 an hour, or half the minimum wage in Massachusetts. Perez also cleaned their home and looked after their dog, she said. She was not paid extra for the cleaning or dog care.
Head pastors at Hillsong Church are accused of using volunteers as their personal babysitters for little or no pay, insiders said
The Prom’s James Corden Under Fire For Offensive, Gay-Face Performance
According to Indiewire, many critics are frustrated with Corden's overtly flamboyant performance. The actor, who identifies as straight, is said to be overplaying the femininity of his character in an effort that comes across as gay-face. Much of the frustration around this centers the fact that the film is supposed to be an uplifting queer story, but it seems as if Corden's performance gets in the way of that. While not everyone hated the performance, it seems as if the general consensus is that it's insensitive, if not overtly offensive.
With the criticism around Corden's casting at the forefront, one of the questions surrounding it is why a queer actor was not cast in the first place. There is no shortage of queer actors in Hollywood, as the industry continues to evolve and give space and access to LGBTQIA+ folks that were previously denied. Opinions differ as to whether being queer is a prerequisite to playing a queer role, but it does seem counterintuitive to cast a straight man in a queer role in a film that celebrates queer acceptance.
The Prom’s James Corden Under Fire For Offensive, Gay-Face Performance
Dudes, he's always been gay-faced. You just noticed? He's just a shitty actor. 02-Dec-2020
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Viewers Troubled by Racist Scene
During the meal Franklin, the one and only person of color in the core Peanuts gang, ends up sitting on a different side of the table from the rest of his friends and is seated in the only piece of "non-proper" furniture, a lawn chair. The scene, for some, has undertones of racial bias and, as it does every year, has prompted some to take to social media to speak out about the moment. Here is a selection of what people are saying and be sure to let us know your thoughts in the comments!
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Viewers Troubled by Racist Scene
Baby Yoda Canceled Amid Accusations of Genocide
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. That also turns out to be true of the tiny.
Baby Yoda, who one year ago today cozied into the hearts of Star Wars fans with his bottomless eyes, fuzzy head, and adorable cooing, has invoked genuine social media wrath for last week's episode of The Mandalorian, in which the mystical infant remorselessly snacked on the eggs of an endangered galactic species.
Whether this is serious or silly depends, as Obi-Wan Kenobi would put it, on "a certain point of view."
In Chapter 10 of the Disney+ show, titled “The Passenger,” Pedro Pascal's bounty hunter agrees to ferry an amphibious alien woman known only as “Frog Lady” to a swampy distant world so she can fertilize her canister of eggs, which floated in the brine like peeled apricots. (Usually this show conjures memories of Boba Fett, but these called to mind boba tea.)
Baby Yoda Canceled Amid Accusations of Genocide
Keke Palmer Is Facing Major Backlash After Tweeting That Food Stamps Should "Only Work On Healthy Items"
EBT, also known as food stamps or SNAP, is a government-run program that gives individuals with low incomes a small budget every month to buy groceries. And the idea that the government should control what EBT recipients are allowed to buy is a talking point often made by conservatives who would like to see the program either reduced or cut entirely. (Trump, for example, has proposed getting rid of EBT and replacing it with preset boxes of food, in which the recipient has no choice in what they get.)
Suffice to say, Keke was ratioed pretty hard on Twitter for her suggestion — generating a lot more comments than likes.
Keke Palmer Is Facing Major Backlash After Tweeting That Food Stamps Should
Kelly Ripa Cropped Mark Consuelos' Bulge Out Of Their Halloween Photos, And I'm Dead
LOL, Kelly Ripa is done handing out free (eye) candy.
Anyway, today, Kelly decided to share more Halloween photos, but this time she cropped Mark's — ahem — package from the post.
Kelly Ripa Cropped Mark Consuelos' Bulge Out Of Their Halloween Photos, And I'm Dead
This Small Town Is Fighting Over the Usage of Pride Flags
For the past two years, rainbow banners had flown from lampposts on Main Street in the city of Heber, Utah, in celebration of Pride month. But when some residents complained that Pride and LGBTQ+ rights were political and did not represent the values or beliefs of the community, Yahoo News reports the city passed a new ordinance in August raising the costs and generally making it more difficult to continue the practice.
“It has pretty much eliminated the option of private citizens funding banners and requesting them to be hung on Main Street, unless they are able to get sponsorship from the city, the county or the chamber, and that sponsorship means some financial sponsorship,” Kelleen Potter, the mayor of Heber City and mother of two LGBTQ+ teens, explained.
The new ordinance requires any event or message promoted on the banners must be nonpolitical and not for profit. Additionally, banner applicants must first obtain sponsorship from the city of Heber, Wasatch County, or the Heber Valley Chamber of Commerce before their application will be considered by the city. In the past, residents could apply to hang banners from the city’s lampposts for a few hundred dollars as long as they were noncommercial in nature.
“As a Christian, our family believes that marriage is between a man and a woman,” one woman is quoted as saying, while others claimed the flag and, by extension, LGBTQ+ rights, were political. Potter claimed she began receiving inquiries wondering if the previous banner policy allowed banners with other allegedly similarly political messages protesting abortion or pornography or featuring symbols associated with the Ku Klux Klan or Nazis.
This Small Town Is Fighting Over the Usage of Pride Flags
Jane Fonda, 82, says she has no time for sex: 'I’ve had so much of it'
Jane Fonda has no time for crazy sex but that’s okay — she’s had plenty of it.
On Friday, the 82-year-old icon appeared remotely on The Ellen DeGeneres Show hosted by Girls Trip star Tiffany Haddish, who filled in for DeGeneres.
"I gotta say, you look amazing,” Haddish, 40, told Fonda. “...I need to know because you look so good, are you still having sex? Are you having, like, crazy sex?"
“No,” answered the actress, giving a thumbs-down. “No, zero...I don’t have time. I’m so old and I’ve had so much of it, I don’t need it right now because I’m too busy.”
Jane Fonda, 82, says she has no time for sex
'Black Widow,' 'West Side Story' shift to 2021 as Hollywood's COVID struggles continue
The good news is Marvel superhero fans can look forward to three movies in 2021. The bad news: No "Black Widow" anytime soon.
Thanks to the nation and film industry's continuing struggles with COVID-19, Disney has shifted its movie-release calendar again, most notably kicking Scarlett Johansson's solo "Black Widow" movie from a planned Nov. 6 release to May 7, 2021.
There's quite a bit of movement overall in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Angelina Jole-led "Eternals" is being delayed from Feb. 12 to Nov. 5, 2021, while "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," starring Simu Liu as the Marvel martial-arts master, moves two months, from May 7, 2021, to July 9.
'Black Widow,' 'West Side Story' shift to 2021 as Hollywood's COVID struggles continue
In other words we shall see them before we retire or die and we may have to resort to "street art" to repay the debt. If this means more narcissistic starving artists auditioning in front of my window, I'm out. 23-Sep-2020
‘Tenet’s’ dismal U.S. debut has some calling for a change in Hollywood’s approach to the blockbuster
For a movie like “Tenet” to work, a lot has to happen, financially speaking.
The film, directed by Christopher Nolan, needs to rake in dollars all over the world but especially in the U.S., where studios can keep as much 60 percent of the box office. To turn a profit, the movie basically has to net in America what Nolan’s “Inception” did a decade ago — $348 million in today’s dollars — or at least “Dunkirk’s” $200 million from three summers back.
Since it came to American theaters nearly two weeks ago, “Tenet” has taken in just $29.5 million.
Forward-looking voices note that studios can’t keep making films for $200 million if there isn’t a steady stream of consumers walking through multiplex doors to fund them — after all, it’s all those ticket sales that enable the budgets and slick stars and sharp production values that come with them. Those voices have gotten louder in the wake of “Tenet’s” underperformance. They point out that it should change both how studios produce films and who they pick as their partners.
‘Tenet’s’ dismal U.S. debut has some calling for a change in Hollywood’s approach to the blockbuster
Florida city repeals 13-year ban on saggy pants
After 13 years, a South Florida city has overturned a ban on “saggy pants” — bottoms that reveal the wearer's underwear.
The Opa-locka City Commission voted Wednesday on a 4-1 vote to repeal both the original 2007 legislation and a 2013 ordinance that said women, not just men, could receive civil citations for wearing pants that exposed their undergarments.
Florida city repeals 13-year ban on saggy pants
'Below Deck Med' Producers Promised To Edit Pete Hunziker Out of the Show, Now Some Fans Can't Remember Why
The revolving door of Below Deck Mediterranean cast members moved at such a fast clip, some fans now can’t remember why deckhand Pete Hunziker is suddenly no longer featured on the show.
The series typically features three deckhands and a bosun. And while the deck team hasn’t lost any members on the boat, Hunziker has been essentially erased from the series. Producers and the network fired Hunziker in June after the deckhand shared a racist and violent meme on Instagram. Producers vowed to minimize his likeness on the show and edit him out of the story.
Bravo replayed the entire season, which had some fans wondering what happened to Hunziker. “Sadly the most exciting part of this seasons Below Deck Med is when they have to park the yacht into a narrow space. Also, where’s Pete?” one person shared on Twitter.
“I was just wondering the same thing? Why is he off camera so much all of a sudden??” another person wondered.
'Below Deck Med' Producers Promised To Edit Pete Hunziker Out of the Show, Now Some Fans Can't Remember Why
‘The Batman’ UK Production Halted After Robert Pattinson Tests Positive For Coronavirus – Update
With filming on Matt Reeves’ The Batman having resumed only three days ago after pausing 5 1/2 months ago, the UK production at Warner Bros. Leavesden has stopped again after one of the people on the production turned up positive with COVID-19.
Deadline has confirmed that star Robert Pattinson is the member of the production team who tested positive for the virus.
‘The Batman’ UK Production Halted