He is trying hard not to say the quiet part out loud. He really just wants a white Christian straight cis male run society. He is struggling with the changes in society that the majority of the people accept and wants to force his minority view on everyone by making it the law. He wants his small minority to rule the majority. He wants to roll back rights and equality. It is flat out bigotry, the same bigotry that led to slavery, Jim Crow laws, anti-miscegenation laws, and laws forcing a religion on other people’s children in hopes it will install in them the same hates against the LGBTQIA that they have. These laws are about stopping children learning tolerance and acceptance of people who are different, of people who are LGBTQIA. It is a way to let bullying go unchallenged and leaving the targeted LGBTQIA with no support or defenders. As it has been mentioned repeatedly, no color flag or book or movie ever turned anyone gay or trans. It is a shame that these people have managed to get into positions of power and think they have the rights to rule others lives, that they have the right to dictate how others must think or live. I wonder if the Christian flag will be one of the exemptions? Hugs. Scottie
January 8, 2024
Nashville’s ABC affiliate reports:
Republican State Rep. Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood) has filed a bill to ban all flags in schools that aren’t the official Tennessee or United States flag. Bulso said he drafted the bill after hearing concerns from constituents about pride flags being displayed in schools.
Bulso said the country used to have a “very strong consensus” on what the nation’s values are, and these are the values he believes most parents taught in schools.
“Certainly, you know, 50 years ago we had a consensus on what marriage is; we don’t have that anymore. One-hundred years ago, we had a consensus on sexual morality; I don’t think we have that anymore. So the values that I think most parents want their children exposed to are the ones that were in existence at the time that our country was founded,” he said.
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I think most parents want their children exposed to are the ones that were in existence at the time that our country was founded
Like enslaving people?
Like selling people?
Like denying Blacks and women the right to vote?
Ahh, yes. The good times.
Colors.
We are talking about colors.
Think about that. Not rape. Not guns. Not murder. Not abortions. Just colors.
So, this wouldn’t count either…
And what those colors stand for are equal rights. Apparently we no longer have a consensus for equal rights.
Remember, flags don’t make people gay!
Conservatives is so stoopid!
Betcha he doesn’t want to ban the Confederate Flag.
Or the Gadsden flag. Or the Nazi flag. Or the “Christian” flag.
I lived in that world he yearns for and it was a shit show for everyone but straight white men.
And he’s a straight (or at least able to pass for straight — you can’t always tell, you know) white man.
What does your argument have to do with flying a rainbow flag??? I know you are all about discrimination…but this is a different era from when you grew up grandpa. You were the bully in school who used to beat up gay students, all the time you were secretly closeted. We know you.
Few things in life are “simple.” Easy to understand.
But here’s one of the simple, easy to understand things:
“If, in 2024, it’s Republican, it’s evil.”
Sing it with me:
Democrats HELP
Republicans HARM
Ross, you coined it.
And boy oh boy… did ya hit the jackpot with that one.
The nation used to have a very strong consensus on limiting roles for “decent” women, so fuck that noise.
He’s aware it isn’t the 1700’s, right?
More like the 1600s. No Enlightenment and lots of “witch” killings.
the country used to have a “very strong consensus” on what the nation’s values are,
Values such as EQUALITY for ALL!!!
Certainly, you know, 50 years ago we had a consensus on what marriage is; we don’t have that anymore. One-hundred years ago, we had a consensus on sexual morality; I don’t think we have that anymore.
I’m sure he laments that 175 years ago we could keep n*****s as slaves.
50 plus years ago a marriage could only be of the same race
> 50 years ago we had a consensus on what marriage is
Back 50 years ago you had adultery, infidelity, and **SHOCK!** same-sex relationships! You know, “Uncle Henry and his roommate Jack.”
Saint Ronnie and his first wife got divorced 74 years ago.
“So the values that I think most parents want their children exposed to are the ones that were in existence at the time that our country was founded.”
Including slavery, women as their husbands’ property, and Native American genocide.
so, no Christian Flag?
” the official Tennessee or United States flag”
But I’d bet the “Christian” flag would still be allowed. Probably flown along with the U.S. and Tennessee flags.
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Scottie, really? This is what the state of Tennessee thinks is important? Don’t legislators have real issues to discuss than contrived encroachments? Keith
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Hi Keith. Stunning isn’t it? But I guess for some people like this guy forcing his Church doctrines on how people must not allow and must live by. It is far more important to push the country back to the morals accepted / tolerated in the 1950s than working to stop childhood hunger, lower test scores, students dropping out, and student violence among a lot of other problems. I read a post yesterday that in one Florida county they removed the dictionaries, the thesauruses, encyclopedias, and some Guinness World Records. Talk about indoctrination and trying to dumb down public education. Hugs. Scottie
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Maybe there should just be no flags at all. Even the US flag has caused a great deal of strife between people.
(I like the US flag. I like many flags, exceptions being the stars and bars and the nazi ones, and others of similar nature. I’m just sayin’, though.)
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Hi Ali. It is not just the flags. It is what they represent. And who. The point is to strip any positive signs from public schools supporting LGBTQIA kids. First they came for the books, then the movies, and now even the symbols. Those kids exist, they are there, and their identity is being wiped out, wiped away. It really is about stopping the current safe spaces, and the anti-bullying programs. That is why they must be rejected and fought. Hugs. Scottie
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That’s what I mean, though. The other day, I was driving, and it occurred to me that I’d almost like to fly a Gadsden flag, except that those who’ve appropriated it would think I was one of them. For me, it’d be a symbol of what I want to tell them; I guess Ten Bears says it better when he says he’ll tread where he pleases. I know why the right wants to ban certain things, but just like banning the bible and dictionaries along with “The Guncle,” some things need to be all or nothing. The right ought to be against pledging allegiance to the US flag, anyway, since that’s idolatry. But, oh, well.
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