And so the Christian Taliban maga brownshirts win.ย I have seen one of the videos of these extremists telling other shoppers that a rainbow shirt was from the devil and it was supporting child sex, question workers and other shoppers if they were Satanist or believed in god, talking of grooming kids, all this hyper anti-gay religious stuff.ย That video is below in the comments.ย These people have learned to be violent, like the maga that went into stores and threw beer out of the shelves and coolers.ย Instead of standing up to these domestic terrorist, these chain stores are giving in to them.ย ย Shades of 1930s Germany.ย Hugs
Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. โSince introducing this yearโs collection, weโve experienced threats impacting our team membersโ sense of safety and well-being while at work,โ Target said in a statement Tuesday.
โGiven these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.โ Target confirmed that it has moved its Pride merchandise from the front of the stores to the back in some Southern stores after confrontations and backlash from shoppers in those areas.
Targetโs Pride month collection has also been the subject of several misleading videos in recent weeks, with social media users falsely claiming the retailer is selling โtuck-friendlyโ bathing suits designed for kids or in kidsโ sizes.
Target is removing certain items from its stores ahead of Pride month after an intense backlash from some of its customers, including violent confrontations with workers. https://t.co/cJsNN6m73F
Target has had a Pride collection for 10 years. Itโs not new. What is new is that bigots have learned that threatening violence works, so Target capitulated. And given the nature of violence in this country, part of me canโt blame them. In 2023, violent intimidation works https://t.co/VGm3OpKcI9
— Eric Ansley Diaz ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ (@GeekBoyEric) May 24, 2023
BOOM โก๏ธโก๏ธโก๏ธโก๏ธโก๏ธ And itโs only been 1 day!!! Donโt let up!https://t.co/jS5uzIgOp3
I get so sick and tired of this shit! I understand Target wanting to protect its employees but caving in to terrorist demands only emboldens these cretans. “Don’t have a Pride parade or we’ll kill ya!” Result: Pride parade canceled. “Don’t have Drag Queen story hour or we’ll kill ya!” Result: Drag Queen story hour canceled. “Don’t sell gay merchandise or we’ll kill ya!” Result: Gay merch banned. Seriously, when does this end? What’s next? “Don’t be gay in public or we’ll kill ya!” So all gay people have to act straight? This is nonsense! I am tired of Bible thumping bigots trying to rule our lives.
This video is a year old. Not complaining, mind you because it shows the mindset of the Christian nut jobs who go around preaching hate. But it is not a recent event from this year.
That said there has been some hateful woman going around filming herself in Target screaming about LGBT merchandise. I saw one of her videos yesterday, can’t remember if it was here or on Reddit.
What a little weenie with his little agenda. What an wrongly righteous creep. I hope I don’t run into these kind of people anywhere. What idiocy for Christian grooming and Christian nationalist terrorism.
If the store staff was being threatened, call the police and have the terrorist arrested! If the local yocals, county clowns, or staties won’t prosecute, call the FBI. After all, they are the ones who are supposed to deal with domestic terrorism. Turn over the store security videos to the FBI and make examples of a few NAZIs.
Most Target stores I’ve been to have security already. They are usually up by the front doors (not far from where Pride items are/were). Now that Target is hiding the Pride merchandise it will be more vulnerable to vandalism.
Target might as well get rid of all the Pride stuff. They’re shown they really don’t have our backs like they’ve pretended to.
It is definitely different this year in a few of the Tucson stores. Not only is there NOT as much stuff, it is hidden in the very back of the store. The display is inconspicuous. There is only but a few items of clothing, translucent cups, plates, and … yep, that’s about it. A couple of years ago, in that same store, there were three (maybe FOUR!) displays, including one dedicated to music by itself. What in the hell is wrong with Target? As you mentioned, they are capitulating to the whims of the bigots. Something has to change…for the better.
Correction: What the hell is wrong with SOCIETY that Target has to actually protect its employees and its customers from this shit? I wholeheartedly agree with posters (in different threads) here that Target still deserves our support. Unlike other corporate chains, Target has been — and hopefully, will continue to be — supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. I sure as hell would not expect to even find any pride merchandise in, say, Hobby Lobby to start with. So, the mere fact that Target employees have toย HIDEย merchandiseย in the first placeย speaks volumes about the supportive environment of the store and the corporation.
This actually happened to a friend. A man trying to police a bathroom followed the friend into the bathroom and forced open the stall door just "to check and make sure." I think we found the perverts.
— Ze'ev Mishpacha (((Alpha Wolf))) ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ (@TheSylvreWolfe) May 21, 2023
No one should be harassed or discriminated against based on their appearance or identity.
My cousin is a lesbian and she gets confused for a man like every single day. Men in public call her โSirโ so she responds back to them by calling them โMaโam.โ Iโm seriously nervous for her now going out in public. This is getting really dangerous for the LGBTQ+
— ZoรซbethC-MeidasMightyโ๏ธโ๏ธ๐๐บ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ (@Meidas_ZobethC) May 21, 2023
I really, really want to know why conservatives are so obsessed with and threatened by other people's genetalia. Can someone please explain it to me like I'm 6?
— Cynical Resister ๐ป๐โโฌ๐ฉ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ต๐ฑ (@trumpocalyps17) May 21, 2023
As a cis woman of a certain age, I donโt care who is in the restroom next to me โ when Iโve got to go, Iโve got to go. Why canโt people just mind their own business???
30yrs ago, lived in Belgium which even back then had local pubs with unisex washrooms. Wall of urinals one side, cubicles along the opposite wall ALL WITH HALF DOORS (saloon style). No problem back then & shouldnโt be a problem now. Shame on anyone saying otherwise.
It ALWAYS starts out with the Trojan Horse of protecting the young children, before quickly expanding to including all teens/minors, and then the banishing of LGBTQ adults from sightโฆโfor the sake of the children,โ and not for the bigoted adults hiding behind them.
bans the โinstruction, guidance, activities, or programming regarding sexual orientation or gender identity to students enrolled in prekindergarten through 12th grade
Question 1. Are you married? Question 2. How do you explain that to an 18 year old without alluding to the fact that you’re a man and the person to which you are married is not?
Question 3. Why is that an exception to your rule?
This is about absolute power and control. Abortion bans/contraception bans Book bans Attacks on LGBTQ+
Can you tell the difference between Republicans/Conservatives and Muslims/ISIS and Sharia Law? pic.twitter.com/9MgNgF0AR2
— Fight4Justice Fight4Equality! AbortionIsARIGHT! (@fight4women) May 17, 2023
All 3 members of the Republican freshman class of 2020 who lectured us the loudest about family values and marriage didnโt have their marriages survive a second term. pic.twitter.com/Zel6uyB6Ut
I’ve been dubious of the word “fascism” being thrown around. But it’s the right word. After reading How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley, I am convinced that DeSantis is in fact a fascist.
“What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been.”
If you think racism is dead and doesn’t exist in Florida, you are wrong.ย It is being openly taught in Florida schools.ย ย A teacher is facing discipline and may lose her job because she showed a Disney animated movie that included a gay 16-year-old boy.ย That movie had no gay sex and very little talk about the boy’s feelings.ย ย But a teacher promoting:ย ย “Every year our state celebrates and memorializes that valiant, brave fight and the countless sacrifices by our men and women during what is known as the Civil War, but may be more correctly titled the War To Prevent Southern Independence,ย he said”, has been found to have done nothing wrong.ย ย Despite many parents complaining.ย Many upset parents.ย ย One parent complaint to get a teacher fired for showing just the existence of an openly gay character in a children’s movie, but many parents complaining and they are ignored when a teacher promotes racism.ย The entire reason the South started the civil war was they demanded to not only be allowed to keep humans as property, as slaves, but they wanted to expand that country wide.ย ย It was entirely about slavery, their own leaders wrote that themselves.ย Think if you are a person of color in that school, a black student maybe, think how that hits knowing a teacher is praising the very people who fought to keep you not only without rights but as their personal property to do with as they wish.ย Do you think black students can get fair grades, fair treatment, fair discipline compared to the white kids?ย ย Just as that teacher in Illinois said when she faced criticism for letting students read a book about coming out, she claimed that she figured she had gay students in her classes.ย ย I bet there are kids of color in the classrooms when this racist teacher showed that movie.ย Btw, Collier Countyย is the next one below the one I live in.ย ย Hugs
A Florida middle-school teacher who had his class watch a self-made, pro-Confederacy video for Confederate History Month has filed a complaint against his school district for launching an investigation into his questionable teaching practices. Collier County Public Schools looked into a video that Manatee Middle School social studies teacher Jonathan Papanikolaou had his students watch during morning announcements on April 12.
Collier County Public Schools told The Daily Beast that its employee review committee met on April 27 and May 11, and went through a 90-page report about Papanikolaouโs Confederacy lesson. Ultimately the committee found that the lesson didnโt go against the schoolโs curriculum and there was โno just cause for disciplineโ despite outrage from parents and community members.
The school district wouldnโt identify the teacher but said they are investigating. โIf you didnโt know, April is an officially celebrated month here in the State of Florida named Confederate History Month,โ the teacher said in the video.
โEvery year our state celebrates and memorializes that valiant, brave fight and the countless sacrifices by our men and women during what is known as the Civil War, but may be more correctly titled the War To Prevent Southern Independence,โ he said.
So not only is the video no cause for discipline, theย teacherย is filing a complaint because it was even questioned. Collier County is on the southwest coast of Florida.
The social studies teacher filed a complaint against the review committee, claiming the investigation caused a โhostile work environmentโ because colleagues were asking why heโs racist.https://t.co/nEAveu8rGW
โEvery year our state celebrates and memorializes that valiant, brave fight and the countless sacrifices by our men and women during what is known as the Civil War, but may be more correctly titled the War To Preserve SLAVERY.โ
Or that Black people have worth and are an important part of our nation’s story. Or that there were people with rich history and cultures on this land thatE Europeans claimed they “discovered” and that these people still exist.
So Black history lessons can’t be taught in public schools because White children are uncomfortable but parents complaining about pro-slavery lessons must suck it.
Boycotting Florida is something every Black person should do. It’s a completely racist state.
I would like to remind all the former Ohioans in Collier Country (which there are many), we fought for the Union, were part of the Underground Railroad and Ohio was the birthplace of Grant and Sherman.
Let’s START with the fact that retitling the damn thing (“what is known as the Civil War, but may be more correctly titled the War To Prevent Southern Independence”) shows that you’ve got no grasp of the history behind slavery, therefore shouldn’t be pretending to “teach” it.
If one goes back and looks at the various letters and published speeches of the politicians of the time, not to mention the CSA Constitution and the Acts of Secession passed by the different states, they did not try to hide their motivations. A few years ago I read a history of the lead-up to the Civil War and the effects it had on the rebellious states after it was over.
The sort version is that it was essentially 14,000 people in a few hundred families who caused the Civil War. They were the most wealthy families in the United States and up in the top ranks for the world for that matter. But all their money came from slavery – either slaves used to pick cotton or tobacco or breeding slaves as if they were cattle and selling them.
In the Deep South, they essentially ran the entire state. If they did not have a family member in the governor’s mansion or the state/federal legislature, they bought one. Because of their effect on the economy, they not only exploited the slaves they owned but they financially exploited the white population as well. The slave owners used slaves as skilled craftsmen in carpentry and other skilled trades, and this meant that free white craftsmen could not economically compete. This lowered wages for the free workers. There was little cash available for the development of an diverse economy since all the money was tied up in the plantations’ economy and affiliated businesses.
When the Missouri Compromise died and territories were free to choose if they wanted to be free or slave states, they Southern elite knew it was only a matter of time before they were history. Cotton was rough on the soil and after a certain amount of time the fields had to be left fallow for a number of years until they recovered. So. they had to expand or they would die economically.
So, it really didn’t matter what Lincoln said or even if he was sincere in what he said. They knew that there were going to lose everything unless they did something, so they did something. They killed close to a million human beings, destroyed most of the South economically and physically, cemented the budding Northern Capitalist elites firmly in place, and sat back to economically exploit the Southern white and black populations right up to present. It took just over 100 years for the Southern economy to reach the same level it held just prior to the first shots over Ft Sumner.
But, these morons are still teaching the same lies about the Noble Lost Cause. It seems like 163 years is long enough to lies about that treason.
I find the while “heritage not racism’ meme to be very stupid. one of my nephew’s has this sign on the wall of his outdoor kitchen at his river cabin in southeast Missouri. funny thing is, his great great grandfather rode his horse to St Louis to join the Union Army and was a very staunch Union man. sigh…
Yes indeed, nothing like watching a film that idolizes the slave owning confederacy! But hey, at least it’s not “woke!” I’m trying to think of the proper name for it. Oh yeah, “FASCIST!”
We had a civil war to preserve the Union, the Constitution, the rule of law and theyโre celebrating the losers who attempted to overthrow all of that.
A friend of mine who was successfully able to flee the swampland of Louisiana told me growing up in her school, it was routinely referred to as “The War Against Northern Arrogance.”
Pro-Confederacy Teacher Complains About School Districtโs Probe
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A Florida middle-school teacher who had his class watch a self-made, pro-Confederacy video for Confederate History Month has filed a complaint against his school district for launching an investigation into his questionable teaching practices.
Collier County Public Schools looked into a video that Manatee Middle School social studies teacher Jonathan Papanikolaou had his students watch during morning announcements on April 12, local outletย ABC 7 Southwest Floridaย reported.
โEvery year, our state celebrates and memorializes that valiant, brave fight and the countless sacrifices by our men and women during that known as the Civil War, but may be more correctly titled the War To Prevent Southern Independence,โ Papanikolaou reportedly narrated in the video.
In the lesson, Papanikolaou allegedly taught about โslaves and property rights, over taxation and a variety of violations of stateโs right and sovereignty,โ according to ABC 7.
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Collier County Public Schools told The Daily Beast that its employee review committee met on April 27 and May 11, and went through a 90-page report about Papanikolaouโs Confederacy lesson. Ultimately the committee found that the lesson didnโt go against the schoolโs curriculum and there was โno just cause for disciplineโ despite outrage from parents and community members.
A district spokesperson also told The Daily Beast that morning announcements had been evaluated, and were previewed before they were presented to students.
โThe Manatee Middle School principal met with his staff to openly discuss the issues, and he continues to maintain open lines of communication for students, staff, and parents on this and any other school-related issue,โ the spokesperson said.
But one Manatee parent, Christina Cooper, told ABC7, โI think thereโs just cause for some type of disciplinary action.โ
Whatโs more, Papanikolaou then filed a complaint against the review committee, claiming the investigation caused a โhostile work environmentโ because colleagues were asking why heโs racist.
In the complaint, Papanikolaou said the ordealย โhas caused [him] grief and awkwardness in classroom and school exchangesโ and that some students were no longer comfortable taking his class.
โThis situation has created emotional turmoil for myself,โ he said.
Collier County Public Schools declined to provide the entire contents of Papanikolaouโs video to The Daily Beast or comment on any requests the teacher made in his complaint against the district.
These people can deny it all they want but kids know both gender and sexuality at a very young age.ย ย Kids understand gender from the time they learn of boy or girl, Mr or Mrs / Miss.ย ย Gender is not a strange thing in human society, it is ingrained in everything we humans do.ย ย Simply think how kids are taught which bathroom to use in public, little kids don’t care until they are forced by adults to use the “proper gendered” bathroom, which forces them to identify their own gender.ย ย As for sexuality, kids also understand who they are attracted to long before they are given words to understand it.ย ย The idea that kids are somehow clueless to their attraction as they grow is not what medical science or personal experience of people asked shows.ย Ask yourself when you knew you were attracted to … and you will say well forever.ย When did you know you were a boy / girl, well I just knew.ย Well so do trans kids.ย Also gay / lesbian kids know who they get tingles and attractions to.ย ย Plus the idea that kids are not sensual in knowing what feels good with their own bodies is just stupid.ย How often do you hear of little kids being told they shouldn’t touch themselves in public, because even as little kids it feels good and they don’t know to not do what feels good in front of other people.ย ย The problem is some people want to keep society in the 1950s strict gender roles when society and the public has moved beyond that.ย We have evolved, and that terrifies those that have invested interests in keeping the country in the past.ย Why because in the past they were in charge, their ideas were taken for granted as being the only correct ideas, their god was not really questioned in society.ย ย Think of the history of child abuse in churches, in the time frame these people want you / the country to return to the church leaders doing the abusing were not questioned and kids not believed.ย ย Because of the automatic authority of the church.ย ย That is what these people want to force us all to return too.ย ย
Then we get to the second part of the video.ย ย The videos of the Texas Guard putting up razor wire in front of people seeking asylum and trying to enter the country.ย ย My gods if you think that this huge country couldn’t find a more humane way to handle people fleeing death and destruction to work for a better life I have to ask what is wrong with you.ย ย We have states in this country that are so underpopulated they can not afford to provide for themselves without federal wealth sharing.ย ย This country is huge and needs more people willing to be in it supporting all the infrastructure.ย ย That is a known fact.ย ย Ask what would happen if you let these people come in and establish lives working and paying taxes while being part of the communities they live in?ย ย The only reason this push to keep people out at the southern border is completely racism.ย ย The white ones convinced that the brown ones are going to take over if they are let in the country, that somehow the white ones will lose all the assumed authority and power they once had.ย Well guess what, it has already happened and will keep happening.ย If you are one of those people, the tipping point was reached long ago, and yes the white majority rule is pretty much over and will be soon.ย ย The thing is that is not such a scare thing as these white supremacist want to make it.ย The only difference is whites that don’t want other races will have to accept them, everyone will be equal.ย ย That is all, everyone regardless of race will be equal.ย ย Everyone’s traditions and celebrations will be give equal time.ย See the world won’t stop, the destruction won’t happen, just equality and expanded awareness for everyone.ย ย Now to the video.ย ย Hugs
A religious person forcing her church doctrines on what is acceptable in society on all students, teachers, and other parents.ย It is not enough for her child to deny gay kids exist, but to force all kids, even the gay ones, to pretend that no gay people exist.ย ย Are we going to let this keep happening?ย Is everyone OK with driving the country back to civil inequality and denying human rights to appease a religious view of how things should be based on a misinterpreted book written before people understood what germs were?ย ย I cannot stand this drive to return to the time when gay kids were scared and in hiding, when there were no books for them to read with gay content, when there were no positive role models, when kids were targeted for abuse if it was discovered they might not be straight.ย ย Why are we letting a group of religious conservative bigots drive us to a theocracy with a Christian Taliban in charge?ย ย Hugs
ย Also I want people to understand just how repressively religious these people are.ย ย Want to know where else this movie won’t be shown due to the gay story line of a few minutes of just dialog?ย Disney refrained from showing โStrange Worldโ in the Middle East, China, Indonesia, Turkey, Nigeria, Uganda and other countries because of the LGBTQ storyline.ย ย Yes other religious fundamentalist countries and countries that restrict personal freedom with the government ruling what people can do in their private lives with other consenting adults.ย Hugs
A Florida teacher is under investigation by the state Department of Education after what she believes is a targeted attack by a school board member who took issue with a Disney movie shown in her classroom. At a Hernando County School Board meeting Tuesday, fifth-grade teacher Jenna Barbee alleges school board member Shannon Rodriguez reported her to DOE for showing her students Disneyโs 2022 movie โStrange World.โ Itโs the first Disney movie with an out, gay character.
Barbee, a teacher at Winding Waters K-8, said during public comment the Disney movie tied into her studentsโ Earth science lesson and did not have sexually inappropriate content. Rodriguez, who was elected to the school board last fall, was endorsed by conservative parentsโ rights group Moms for Liberty. In her short tenure, she has argued there is โsmutโ and โpornโ on schoolsโ library shelves and has asked for books to be removed, according to Suncoast News.
A complaint by a #Florida school board member who belongs to the fascist group Moms for Liberty may lead to a first-year teacher being fired for showing a Disney movie in class. Welcome to what America would be like with #DeSantis as President. https://t.co/FABUjNVXP8
“The word indoctrination is thrown around a lot right now, but it seems that those who are using it are using it as a defense tactic for their own fear-based beliefs without understanding the true meaning of the word,” Barbee said at the lectern.
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Florida educators are prohibited from teaching about gender and sexual identity due to the Parental Rights in Education Act, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year. Also known as “Don’t Say Gay” by critics,ย teachers have expressed anxiety and confusionย over the vague wording of the law for fear of losing their teaching licenses or criminal penalties if found in non-compliance.
Opponents of the law say the vague wording unfairly targets books and classroom materials with gay and transgender characters and themes.
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Hernando County’s school district confirmed a fifth-grade teacher is being investigated for showing “Strange World,” and that a parent complained to the principal about the movie not being appropriate for students.
Rodriguez, who was elected to the school board last fall, was endorsed by conservative parents’ rights group Moms for Liberty. In her short tenure, she has argued there is “smut” and “porn” on schools’ library shelves and has asked for books to be removed,ย according to Suncoast News.
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She also alleges Rodriguez called her father to tell him about the DOE complaint.
“I’m a first-year teacher. I’ve had to learn so much this year,” she told the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida. “I work with teachers who have taught for 20 years, 30 years, tell me every day it never used to be like this. Times have changed so much and they are so micromanaged, they’re not allowed to teach anymore. They’re basically a caregiver who has to teach the standards. Teachers stay for the children, but because of the laws and the fear of being let go for saying one wrong thing, they can’t connect to their students.”
At the end of the school board meeting, Rodriguez said Barbee broke school policy because she did not get the specific movie approved by school administration and said the teacher is “playing the victim.”
Rodriguez’s daughter is in Barbee’s class.
“It is not a teacher’s job to impose their beliefs upon a child: religious, sexual orientation, gender identity, any of the above. But allowing movies such as this assist teachers in opening a door, and please hear me, they assist teachers in opening the door for conversations that have no place in our classrooms,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez also said she has called DOE about other issues in the district and believes children should not be “a pawn in the crossfire” of liberal political agendas.
“As a leader in this community, I’m not going to stand by and allow this minority to infiltrate our schools,” she said.
Please note again the religious parent / school admits above that she who is a minority on the school board and among the parents and is the only one objecting to the movie, is saying “She is not going to let this minority (meaning gay people or the LGBTQ+) infiltrate our schools”.ย ย Think about what she is saying, gay kids existing is an infiltration, that gays in society / public are so offensive to her that she needs to wipe them out.ย ย In other words, genocide!ย ย Hugs
Disney refrained from showing โStrange Worldโ in the Middle East, China, Indonesia, Turkey, Nigeria, Uganda and other countries because of the LGBTQ storyline.
โIn countries where we operate, we seek to share our stories in their original form as we and the artists involved have created them. If we make edits, because of legal or other considerations, they will be as narrow as possible. We will not make an edit where we believe it would impact the storytelling. In that circumstance, we will not distribute the content in that market,โ Disney says in itsย Human Rights Policy, which was updated in 2022.ย
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Hanna believes the investigation began after Brandi Andrews, a board member of the Leon County chapter of Moms for Liberty, sent a letter to the governor calling on the superintendent “to be removed from his position.” The letter was stamped with โLETโS GO BRANDON,โ a saying popular among conservatives who use the G-rated term in place of โ(Expletive) Joe Biden.โ
Andrews included an excerpt from an email, a Facebook post and an op-ed in the Democrat, all written by Hanna in August 2022, as examples of โissues we have with our local school board right here in Leon County.โ
In a statement, Andrews told the Democrat her complaint is “one of many.”
“Any assertion that concerns I expressed as a parent should not be presumed as a catalyst for any investigation,” she said.
The movie had no sex. It had a gay person. The prudish homophobes on the right are not worried about children being exposed to porn, they are worried about children being exposed to the fact that gay people exist.
They also think we are evil, so they don’t want to see us treated as normal or equal to them. We must be despised if they are to feel good about themselves.
I find it remarkable that that’s what they believe. There wasn’t a single gay person in my sphere of influence whatsoever as I was growing up. Not one. Thus, the reason it took me to 23 yrs old to fully come out. I had zero exposure to the gay universe. Let me tell you that I made up for lost time…
Those people seem to believe that gay sex is so hot, so rapturous, so absolutely irresistible, that even the thought of it is enough to entice anyone into giving up straight sex immediately. That’s why they are so adamantly against having anyone even mentioning anything that reminds them of what they want but won’t allow themselves to have. The temptation is just too strong and they are just too weak.
Indeed. You’d think that would give them pause, but at least some of them seem to mean it when they say they’d rather have a dead child than a gay one.
One of the first people I met when I was coming out, was an only child of a couple who disowned him when he came out to them. Not only did they disown him, however, but when people would ask how many children they had, they would say that they didn’t have any children.
Conservative Plan to Destroy the Public Education System: 1. Create fake outrage about “horrible” things kids are being taught. 2. Attack teachers and the education system to sow distrust. 3. Get radical conservatives on local school boards to create havok. 4. Siphon off funding for public schools by creating vouchers for private schools. 5. When educated teachers quit, lower standards to allow others without teaching degrees to “fill the gap”.
Mom’s for Liberty is active in my area too. I absolutely despise them! They are an outright fascist group made up of prudes and religious fanatics. They don’t want schools to acknowledge the existence of gay / trans kids and they want to whitewash American history in regards to racism. I think it was in Tennessee where one Mom’s for Liberty member wanted a book on the life of Martin Luther King banned because it was “anti-American”! JFC!
But, according to the article, they are winning. This is the saddest part, so many are supporting them and they’re increasing their control and dominance over others.
It’s because a large section of our population is made up of bigoted idiots. Plus their pleas of “Think of the children” resonates with people with no critical thinking skills.
A point repeatedly made is that the parent / school board member that is on a rampage about the gay kids in the movie who did not even kiss had no problem with all the kissing done by the straight couple in the beginning of the movie.ย The parent / school board member is entirely about removing all representation of gays in schools at any level.ย She finds them abhorrent and wants them out of society.ย ย Notice this is not about trans which is where this started, it is about pushing a religious message about being gay is shameful and bad, so don’t admit to being gay.ย ย They must not be allowed to make another generation of gay kids targets of that hate.ย ย Replace gay with Jewish or black and it wouldn’t be accepted, yet.ย But that is where these haters are going, back to the 1950s with only Christian white straight males being in charge and gender roles strictly enforced.ย ย Hugs
Florida teacher probed after showing Disney film in class. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live
Read more HERE: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/new… “A Florida teacher is under investigation by the state Department of Education after what she believes is a targeted attack by a school board member who took issue with a Disney movie shown in her classroom.
At a Hernando County School Board meeting Tuesday, fifth-grade teacher Jenna Barbee alleges school board member Shannon Rodriguez reported her to DOE for showing her students Disney’s 2022 movie “Strange World.”
It’s the first Disney movie with an out, gay character.”*
Along with their parents and two health care providers, two trans teens are suing the state of Montana for its recent ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.
Theย plaintiffs argueย that the law, S.B. 99, violates the state constitution, which guarantees the right to equal protection, the right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, the right to dignity, and the right to seek healthcare.
Her lawsuit to be allowed back in failed right as the legislative session ended. Some of her colleagues were happy to see her.
The lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs by the ACLU of Montana and Lambda Legal, also argues the unjust nature of the law because it bans gender-affirming care for trans youth but allows cisgender youth access to the same medical care for other reasons.
โThe Act is so damaging to the health and well-being of transgender adolescents that some of these adolescentsโ families with the resources to do so have taken steps to uproot their entire lives to move out of Montana in light of the Act,โ the lawsuit states.
โFor many more, however, that devastating option is not available, so these families and youth will have no choice but to remain and endure the harms that the Act inflicts.โ
The litigants include 16-year-old trans girl Scarlet, along with her parents Jessica and Ewout van Garderen; 15-year-old trans boy Phoebe, along with his parents Molly and Paul Cross; Dr. Katy Mistretta of Bozeman Creek Family Health; and Dr. Juanita Hodax of Community Medical Center.
โI will never understand why my representatives are working to strip me of my rights and the rights of other transgender kids,โ saidย Phoebe Crossย in a statement.ย โJust living as a trans teenager is difficult enough, the last thing me and my peers need is to have our rights taken away. There were many things I hoped my elected officials would achieve, this regression in human rights is not one of those things. The blatant disrespect for my humanity and existence is deeply unsettling.โ
Jessica van Garderen added, โIt is mentally and physically painful to feel like you are trapped in the wrong body. Going through puberty for the wrong sex is like having your body betray you on a daily basis. The only treatment we have found to be effective and give our daughter hope again is hormone therapy. The difference we have experienced is night and day and there is no going back. Taking away this crucial medical care is inhumane and a violation of our rights. We will fight this law for our daughter and every other family whose rights are being trampled.โ
The legislation was signed in April by Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte and will go into effect on October 1. The state became the center of national discourse after the anti-trans Republicans banned trans Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr (D) from the state house floor for speaking out against the bill.
Zephyr accused Republicans of having โblood on your handsโ for supporting the bill. They then voted to prevent her from entering the chamber after she raised an inactive microphone toward protestors in the state house galleryย who chanted, โLet her speak!โย The protestors were later arrested.
Zephyr was forced to vote remotely on bills while sitting on a bench outside the chamber in the state Capitol building. She also filed a lawsuit, but the judge declined to grant her relief from the Republicansโ censure order.
She would remain barred from the state house floor until the legislative session was adjourned. It has since ended, and sheย made a triumphant return.
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