As I said in a recent post these hyper religious anti-LGBTQ+ should be careful complaining about men with beards reading and talking with children. I again post several pictures of their savior god who is in a dress, wearing a beard, surrounded by children. What is it these people think is happening in public with children and drag performers? It is only dress up. It is not a stip and have sex show. Plus when they do the drag queen story hour again everyone is in public and they are just men in costumes reading to kids. And why do these assholes think they get to tell everyone else what they can do and can not do when it comes to raising their own children. These are the same assholes who claim no one can make them vaccinate their kids, no one has the right to demand their kids wear masks at schools. Yet they feel entitled to tell you what event you can allow your child to attend. Entitled wannabe kings of the world or as I call them big asshole jerks. Hugs
From Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton:
The events of this past weekend were horrifying and show a disturbing trend in which perverted adults are obsessed with sexualizing young children.
As a father of two young children, I would never take my children to a drag show and I know Speaker Dade Phelan and the rest of my Republican colleagues wouldn’t either.
Protecting our own children isn’t enough, and our responsibility as lawmakers extends to the sexualization that is happening across Texas.
I promised my voters that I would stand up for their values and fight to protect Texas kids.
I was re-elected on that promise and I intend to keep it by authoring legislation to defend kids from being subjected to drag shows and other inappropriate events.
I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass this important legislation.
Slaton, who is fond of making public appearances carrying an assault weapon and wearing a belt of ammunition, first appeared on JMG in March 2021 when he introduced a bill making abortion a death penalty crime for doctors and even women who undergo the procedure.
Earlier this year he introduced a bill requiring genital exams for trans athletes in public schools.
As I reported yesterday, extremists on Saturday mobbed and attempted to enter the Dallas gay bar hosting the event that has enraged the usual haters.
Drag shows are no place for a child.
I would never take my children to a drag show and I know Speaker Dade Phelan and my Republican colleagues wouldn’t either.
Reminds me of the line in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” from Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer’s character): “Isn’t it interesting how fascists always abuse the word ‘freedom?’”
Parents have the FINAL WORD on how they raise their propertymini-mes children!!!!
Unless it’s something the most holy and righteous straight-and-narrow Rethuglicans declare to be perverted and evil, then parents absolutely CANNOT be trusted!!!!
are you going to ban Milton Berle, Flip Wilson (Geraldine), Laugh-in, The Three Stooges, all sorts of 1930s-2000’s Broadway plays, college plays, school plays, and the like to “protect” kids from “drag queens” ?
Your wife is Asian ..guess who plays female roles in Japanese and Chines plays from long ago? Yep — men.
But sure, walk around with police-killing bullets and a weapon of war on your shoulders … and watch the innocents get slaughtered, doing nothing in the legislature, except make it easier to destroy our youth …
This state cannot adequately fund their schools now and just wasted billions on a border stunt that failed. But they will do anything other than talk about how easy it is to get a gun in their state to shoot school kids. Hugs
Patrick said he wants police in as many Texas schools as possible to have bulletproof shields before the fall. He’s asked other state leaders to move around money in the state budget to make it happen.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, center, has asked state officials to move $50 million in the state budget to provide bulletproof shields for school police officers before the start of classes in the fall. Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called on state leaders Friday to move around $50 million in the state budget to buy bulletproof shields for school police officers following a mass shooting last month at an elementary school in Uvalde where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.
“I am asking the Speaker of the House to join the Senate members of the Legislative Budget Board and me next week in a budget execution letter to move $50 million to either the Governor’s Office or Department of Public Safety (DPS) to begin buying these bulletproof shields as soon as possible so every member of school law enforcement has one,” Patrick said in a statement Friday afternoon. “This will begin the funding necessary to eventually provide bulletproof shields to all law enforcement.”
Patrick’s request would require the approval of House Speaker Dade Phelan and other House members of the state’s Legislative Budget Board. But because lawmakers have already appropriated the money for the two-year budget cycle, it would also require letters from the agencies where the money would be taken certifying that the transfer would not negatively impact their functions.
Patrick said he would send a draft letter Monday and asked Phelan to act quickly. Phelan’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
State Republican leaders have already signed off on twosimilar transfers worth about $1 billion this year to send money to Gov. Greg Abbott’s costly border security initiative, Operation Lone Star, which was running out of funds. Patrick, who approved those transfers, said the same should be done to provide bulletproof shields to school police officers.
“We have used transfer authority this year to spend billions on the border. We can surely find this amount of money to better protect our kids,” Patrick said, adding that there are “several sources in the current budget that can be tapped to provide this funding.”
Patrick did not name those sources.
During the last of these budget transfers in April, DPS, one of the agencies that Patrick is suggesting should be given money to pay for the bulletproof shields, was forced to relinquish $160 million of its approved budget to keep Operation Lone Star going. Without that transfer, leaders for the Texas Military Department, which has assigned 10,000 service members to the mission, would have been unable to continue the operation.
Patrick said the state should start by providing bulletproof shields to all school police officers and then expand to all law enforcement officers. The state could experience supply-chain issues in obtaining the shields, but it should push to get “every quality shield we can find.”
“This straightforward solution can begin right away,” Patrick said. “If all responding law enforcement had bulletproof shields last week, lives may have been saved.”
Patrick’s plan continues the trend in the state’s Republican leadership of responding to mass shootings by pushing for more teachers to be allowed to use firearms in schools and funding school police. But the law enforcement response to the shooting has been roundly criticized after state and law enforcement officials gave inaccurate information in the initial aftermath of the shooting that has since been debunked.
Police responding to the shooting took more than an hour to engage the gunman who was inside a classroom shooting at children and teachers. The police chief for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, Pete Arredondo, determined police were dealing with a “barricaded suspect” and that the children were no longer in danger, state officials said. The leader of DPS later said it was the “wrong decision, period.”
Patrick said that if every police officer in the state had a bulletproof shield, “their ability to respond to an active shooter situation would be greatly enhanced.”
Texas lawmakers have responded in a similar manner in the past. After a gunman with a high-powered rifle ambushed and killed five Dallas police officers in July 2016, state lawmakers responded by allocating $25 million in the state budget for police agencies across the state to buy bullet-resistant vests that could withstand rifle ammunition.
Last session, after two DPS troopers were fatally shot through a windshield in their patrol car, lawmakers agreed to foot the bill to bulletproof windshields in DPS patrol cars, Patrick said.
While a huge crowd was gathering in Fair Park for the first day of Dallas Pride weekend and the Miller Lite Music Festival, a handful of right-wingers hit The Strip on Cedar Springs today (Saturday, June 4) to protest …. well, something.
The protesters reportedly gathered first in front of Mr. Misster, at the corner of Cedar Springs Road and Reagan Street before Dallas police officers forced them to move across Reagan to the sidewalk in front of the fire station.
Activist Cannon Brown, who was at the scene, said the protesters were there to rally against a drag queen story hour happening at Mr. Misster. “They were there to scream at kids,” Brown said on Facebook, noting that some were Roman Catholics who were “actually behaved and just chanting the rosary. It’s the Infowars/fascist crowd that is problematic.”
The group, described by Brown in a Facebook post as “christofascists,” carried signs vaguely resembling the Texas flag and the U.S. flag along with a large white flag with some sort of X symbol in red, and a gold-and-white flag with some symbol in the center. The size of the group has changed over the course of their protest, but Brown said it averaged about 20.
Photos show one protester carrying a sign declaring “confuse a child, abuse a child,” and another had a sign shouting “stop groomers.” Yet another demands, “Stop exploiting our kids.” And, in what is apparently a swipe at the rainbow power of Pride Month, one woman wore a black T-shirt with a block of rainbow colors saying “rainbow revival.”
— Tammye Nash, photos by Chad Mantooth
From Joe My God the right wing religious bigots couldn’t resist lying.
A spokesperson for the extremists claimed to Dallas’s ABC News affiliate that police removed children from show. That didn’t happen. The bar reports having gotten hundreds of threatening emails. Some of the tweets below are from far-right extremists.
I want to respond to the religious asshole in the above video. He starts out making a claim about doing something to between boys legs, then he makes a comment about letting children near men in dresses. Has this pious asshole threatening parents with children which is traumatizing the kids ever looked at the pictures in his church? What does he think Jesus and the disciples wore, three piece suits?
So I do not want to hear anything more about men in dresses talking with or reading to kids.
Kelly Neidert is the ignorant trumpist that is causing trouble in Dallas Texas. Shes the one you will see protesting here in our gayborhood because she has HATE in her heart. Remember God is watching you. pic.twitter.com/zGB1qUH5Ei
If they didn’t blame us they would have to face the fact that they have been enabling child predators in the name of their worthless non-existent god. Introspection isn’t their strong suit.
Hell, if these folks didn’t have external targets to focus their hate and measure their “moral superiority” against, they would be tearing each other apart. (I’ve seen it first hand.)
Lol, what was your first hint. Maybe the fact that 75% of rethuglicunts actually believe that the election was stolen! Proof positive that if you say a lie enough times it is believed regardless of facts. This is the same ploy they are using to paint the LGBTQ community as those grooming children to become gay. As if it were a fucking choice in the first place! All the while they hand over their kids to the real groomers, the churches, where they are indoctrinated and scarred mentally for life by the daily harrowing experiences they are forced to endure by the church community. What is worse is that the people they most should be able to rely on for protection, their family, are the very ones that force them into it! Seriously hating what this country is becoming.
This candidate doesn’t even pretend to hedge her belief in this. Yet these same people in this same party are demanding these same teachers be armed to protect children even when the police cannot. All so they can keep their gun fetish. Because that is what it is if you reject common sense regulations, it is a fetish. The Republican party is / has become the party of hate and disinformation. These people think that teachers of the youngest grades are organizing gender swapping sex orgies. In their minds little kids are being made to strip off all their clothing and notice in every story they are always little boys, and then instructed in sexual acts. Some acts I doubt these Republicans really understand how they are done, maybe they should read up on it. Oh wait, those books are banned now aren’t they? These people really think this is going on, when teachers are underpaid, cannot get enough instruction time as it is, and cannot even get supplies to teach normal subjects. What did they read to give them this idea, the erotic fiction of Anne Rice? Do they think the kids have Only Fan accounts? Teachers have to be everything from mothers and nannies, to councilors, to instructors, mandatory reporters, child armed protectors, and so much more.
But beyond that what is the real point here? It is to ridicule the idea that if little johnny asks if it is OK for boys to get married or even kiss the teacher says yes two boys can love each other and move on with the lesson plan. If little Sally says someone has two mommies, the teachers say yes, some families are two mommies and move on with the lesson plan. The teacher taught acceptance of alternative non-heterosexual lifestyles instead of screaming no, no, no never boys must only marry girls and only kiss girls or the great sky daddy will destroy the planet! That is what terrifies the right and what they want to outlaw, so they have to make it as unpleasant and horrible as possible by changing it to the teacher telling the boys to line up, pull their pants down, and suck each other’s dicks.
The rabid right doesn’t want tolerance of other ideas than their own extreme traditionalist religious ideas to be taught to kids. They don’t want kids to be taught that people can be of different religions and it is OK, that people can have different kinds of families and it is OK, that two boys or two girls can fall in love and it is OK. That calling a person by a different pronoun is the right thing if they ask you to do so, and it is OK. No, they demand we indoctrinate kids that an impossible global flood happened, that the earth is only 6 thousand years old despite the evidence, that god created a man and woman from dirt just as they are, magic is real and good when our god does it, and evil and bad when someone else’s god does it or a human does it.
They want their bible to be the new textbooks and their religion to be what all society and understanding to be based on. Anything else is indoctrination and child abuse. They are violent thugs that are willing to use threats and intimidation to get their way while claiming they are victims of cancel culture who are not allowed to get their racist bigoted hate speech out to the public. I am done with these people and this party who have members sitting in congress spouting this stuff and refusing to disavow it. They are the US Taliban! Please watch the last video, it says it so much better than I can. Hugs
“You can’t just sit and say, ‘Oh, that’s terrible. Maybe somebody else will take care it. Oh, that’s not so nice.’ Well, I don’t think it’s so nice when they’re telling your five year-old that he can go suck another five year-old’s dick, do you? This is what they’re doing!” – Rayla Campbell, GOP nominee for Massachusetts secretary of state, speaking at the state Republican convention.
Campbell first appeared on JMG in February when she led a group of QAnon nutjobs and anti-vaxxers in a protest outside a Boston hospital where an anti-vax man had been denied a heart transplant for refusing to get vaccinated.
Of note, some of her QAnon tweets that I included in that report have since been deleted. In the final video below, reporters debunk her insane claims.
Rayla Campbell, Massachusetts GOP nominee for Secretary of State, tells Mass Republican convention that teachers in the commonwealth are "telling your 5-year-old that he can go and suck another 5-year-old’s dick"pic.twitter.com/aEs2ZFn6Ap
When Republicans aren’t demanding that teachers die for their students in mass shootings, they’re accusing them of being groomers and sexual deviants. Real normal party.pic.twitter.com/6unnHWwzzO
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 4, 2022
More secretary of state candidates have been added to my QAnon-connected election administration candidates tracker. New additions are Rayla Campbell in Massachusetts & John Cardiff Gerhardt in Nevada. https://t.co/XdxkQ7vmaXpic.twitter.com/XisN7qDOha
Where the hell are they getting this shit ? An overactive deviants mind playing havoc with her mouth. If anyone is perverted it’s people like her coming up with outrageous crap like that. Horrible, horrible person
Its all a diversion from the crisis within the church. Currently the SBC Is having to release all the names of the accused preachers and other church workers involved in sexual misconduct charges with minors.
And never an ounce of evidence that any of this is actually happening–BECAUSE IT ISN’T. I don’t know what the answer is here, but hate speech and lies are not free speech. There needs to be consequences for this.
It’s their strawman argument they use to get the parents riled up to support their next ‘Don’t say gay’ bill. They know it will get people angry, and that almost none of them will look into how true it is.
Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke in favor of “Christian nationalism” during a recent social media broadcast, echoing some of the worst despots and dictators from history. Texas Paul sounds the alarm.
These people just will not stop preaching their religious church doctrines to captive audiences in inappropriate times. Plus this is the real indoctrinating of children that the right keeps claiming is happening. Funny the school made the video private so they did not want it getting out but some of it has. Hugs
A high school graduation speech telling students to “choose a spouse” based on “biblical principles” is sparking outrage online.
“Choose a spouse, I suggest,” alumnus Jim McGuire said in a commencement address at River Valley High School in Caledonia, Ohio. “I also strongly suggest to make sure to choose biblical principles, you know a male with a female and female with a male.”
Caledonia, about an hour north of Columbus, had a population of 560 in the 2020 census.
Since the speech last week, McGuire’s remarks have been called “hateful” and “inappropriate.”
Alexis Osipow, a 2018 River Valley graduate who was at the ceremony to support her younger sister, told the local newspaper, the Marion Star, “When he made the comment that marriage should only be between a man and a woman, my jaw dropped to the floor, and I honestly thought I was hearing it wrong.”
“I had to look around and see if other people were having the same reaction that I was, and they were,” she continued. “I felt like crying when I heard some people in the crowd clapping. But I was absolutely outraged and so were my parents and brother. I heard people behind me whispering about how inappropriate the comment was as well.”
River Valley High School made the video of the graduation ceremony private, but portions of McGuire’s speech circulated on social media platforms.
One Twitter user wrote, “He made himself the center of attention instead of the graduates and their accomplishments. He should take his ignorant views back to the 1950s.”
One user on Facebook shared a post with a clip of McGuire’s speech and a caption asking the administration to address the “hateful speech.” The user also extended sympathy to LGBTQ graduates, writing, “I am sorry this hateful speech overshadowed your amazing achievements and this incredibly special milestone in your lives.
McGuire, a business owner and board member of the Marion County Board of Developmental Disabilities, told NBC News in an email, “My speech was not anti-anything. There was not a negative word or statement in speech to anyone or organization … Being positive is who I am.”
He also shared a statement he sent to the high school, in which he said, “I truly had the best interests of the Graduates in mind; the Graduates were my audience.”
The school administration released a statement Monday saying: “The speech was not reviewed by anyone on the River Valley Administrative team or Board of Education. Any views expressed by the speaker during his commencement speech reflected his personal beliefs. He was not speaking as an official representative of River Valley Local Schools.”
The superintendent of River Valley local schools added, “The alumni speaker was not a member of the River Valley staff and he was not speaking as an official representative of River Valley Local Schools.”
Great cats loving gravy, what drugs do these people take? I am serious this rant is deranged. But these people really believe it, and the sex symbols they want to return to were often gay but hiding it. The truth is what he wants is white Christian straight male power. White Christian straight male authority over women and everyone else. How many times the article says that equality is wrong, that women must be servants to the male with no rights or it destroys humanity and western culture. Notice that he blames falling birthrates on women, he blames stealing kid’s virtue on drag queens / trans people. The only one he never blames for anything bad are the men. The men that run the country, the men who refuse to pay living wages so people can afford kids, the men raping and molesting kids, the men are not the problem according to him who is male. To solve the world’s problems, give all power to straight white Christian males who will take the country back to 1950. That was when white straight Christian males were the boss of everything, women obeyed men serving their needs, other religions were not considered a real thing, blacks / minorities knew their place and stayed there, and the LGBTQ+ were deeply hidden too terrified to attract notice. That is the equality that saves the country and makes god happy. Hugs
Via press release from Nazi-haven social media site Gab:
Our culture is what we hand on to our children, but the West isn’t having children. The birth rates are down, and people are wondering why we aren’t having babies. Our men and women aren’t making big families and our communities are becoming sterile and childless.
This is a crisis that’s been building for generations. Sterility is the real climate change crisis of our time. The poles are melting but it’s not the ice caps, it’s the sex symbols.
We have trashed our sex symbols in only three generations. The icons of male and female have been ruined by equality of the sexes, and the West has become almost indistinguishable from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We’re being terrorized by maniacal transvestites who want a genderless future.
Have you ever heard the phrase “You sound like a girl”? What is it about speech that can give away somebody’s sex? There is something in the detail of our tongue that gives it away.
We understand this on an instinctive level, but as a culture, we’ve forgotten that boys and girls are supposed to sound distinct and speak differently to each other.
Husbands marry and wives are married. This follows the pattern of Christ who redeems and marries His Bride. Christ gives His Body and Blood, and the Church receives Holy Communion.
God calls Israel to the wedding feast, and in His parable, the wise virgins trim their wicks until the Bridegroom appears to take them. The women are not running to the groom any more than mankind can run to God. He had to come to us to redeem us.
Do you see the pattern? There is active and passive in these icons. Christianity is marriage. Equality cannot exist in marriage.
Our culture is a cult of equality. The strange irony is that terms for active and passive lovers exist in homosexual slang, but not that of normal couples. I hate to say it, but the rainbow people have clearer terms for these dynamics than most straight people do.
What is it about magnets that give them their unique properties? They aren’t equal. There is a passive and active property to them, and they work on a polarity of positive and negative. Magnets either attract or repel according to their force. Opposites attract and stick. Magnets that lose their polarity lose their sticking power, just like men and women.
Drag Queen Story Hour is the Rocky Horror Picture Show for your children. It’s a linguistic sex-change program. The drag scientists want to destroy the virtue of children and their sense of sexual reality. How can we repair the damage that these “Frank-N-Furter’s” have done to the little Brad and Janets of the world?
Traditionalists need to talk ourselves out of this deadly transgendered sterility and back into our right minds as masculine and feminine creators. We must teach children to talk unequally and uniquely. If we restore the culture of opposites, we can restore the sex symbols. Our culture depends on it.
Photo: Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba. The above piece is attributed to someone calling himself Kilts Khalfan.
This is the "thought out conclusions" of a right leaning Christian academic. What is being shown on Gab and other far right media sourceshttps://t.co/YD30sDulKv
Idiot! Having children or not is a very personal choice. There’s no law that says that you must have children. We chose to have them. We worked hard providing for them and making them good, caring people. Not everybody does that.
The birth rate had already been steadily declining for most of the 20th century. Then during the 1970s it leveled out. It has been remarkably steady since. Rising or falling by only a few percentage points for the last 50 years.
Like the gun issue where they blame everything but the guns these people refuse to acknowledge that “low birth rates” are a direct result of 40+ years of failed conservative economic policy. Happy, well off people have kids. Miserable people, in debt, who own nothing, waiting out the latest boom-bust cycle do not.
Gender isn’t going away. We’re just having more people express gender as they see fit for themselves. You know, embracing freedom and self determination.
If we restore the culture of opposites, we can restore the sex symbols. Our culture depends on it.
Translation from MAGAt Incel to English : “If the ladies don’t cater to our libidos and go all “Lysistrata” on us, then how will we grab pussies when we are horned?
Our ‘culture’ is about getting laid, because we find submissive rapeable women hawt.”
large families were for the mills, the farms, the factories … large because the graveyards were full of infants, toddlers, and older kids who didn’t survive .. and thus couldn’t “contribute” ..
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