Tennessee Anti-Gay Marriage Bill Dead For Session

Tennessee Anti-Gay Marriage Bill Dead For Session

Please understand what this bill is about. Bigotry! Anti-same sex marriage. It is the religious right wingers thinking that the icky gays stink up their straight marriages by being able to get married the same way they do. What next separate roads or drinking fountains? Every horrible apoptotic thing the religious right claimed would happen if the gays could get married has not happened, and they cannot stand it. They don’t want to share a doorway or hotel with those people. Let’s make a way the straight good holy people can get married, and we will deny that to the awful gays. Fear them, fear the gays people they are coming for marriage and equal rights. That must not be tolerated. What next, they will have children and be recognized families. No no we will make laws saying that to mention them in schools is illegal. They cannot be allowed to use the same stores and shops we do. We will erase them from the language and then they will disappear never to bother our sleepless nights again. This sounds silly doesn’t it. Yet it is happening in red states with Republican leaders and legislatures.

The Tennessean reports:

A Tennessee General Assembly bill to create a legal marriage pathway available only to straight couples will not advance this year following public outcry over the initial version of the legislation.

After a tough line of questions from Republican colleagues last week, sponsor Rep. Tom Leatherwood on Wednesday said he wanted to send the bill to summer study. The move essentially kills the bill for the session, though it could re-emerge next year.

The bill aimed to create an alternate legal pathway to marriage, allowing opposite-sex couples to file marriage “contracts” based on common law principles that have not yet been legally recognized in Tennessee. The contracts would not be available to same-sex couples.

Read the full article.

Leatherwood’s bill was backed by the Family Action Council of Tennessee (FACT), which has appeared on JMG many times over the years for its attempts to outlaw same-sex marriage.

The Tennessee marriage bill that drew widespread public outcry last week over lack of explicit age limits is essentially dead for the session: https://t.co/wbIPDIJ546 via @tennessean
— Melissa Brown (@itsmelissabrown) April 13, 2022

Max_1 • 3 hours ago

SPECIAL RIGHTS!

Old enough to remember when that label was used against the LGBTQ+ community.
Now, the homophobes “feel” they’re the ones that require special Rights.

Ragnar_Lothbrok Max_1 • 3 hours ago

Posted just 2 hours ago

“Back in the day everyone knew who the homosexuals and others were and just live and let live and as long as they didn’t bother anyone but now we get attacked and called names if they do get what they want. It’s like they’re something special so they need to be treated better and demand they get what they want. Why all the grief over three percent of the population. Why the demand that we have to agree with what they want but they won’t accept how everyone else wants to live or believe.”

-Farmer chat

Ninja0980 Ragnar_Lothbrok • 2 hours ago

Live and let live other then beating us, killing us and ensuring we had no equal rights under the law.

Max_1 Ragnar_Lothbrok • 3 hours ago

Yes… Separate but equal… except it’s not equal.

The homophobes have always depended on that balance of basic Rights being refused the LGBTQ+ community as evidence to support their views against the LGBTQ+ community. It’s a reinforced bias against us. Now that bias has been removed, watch their ways to reclaiming it…

Trump: I Told Bill Barr To Get Himself Impeached

Trump: I Told Bill Barr To Get Himself Impeached

Mediaiate has the transcript:

Look, we also had a chance, but Bill Barr, the attorney general, didn’t want to be impeached. They were vicious with him. They said, “We’re gonna impeach him.” They didn’t even know why. But they were gonna impeach Bill Barr. He didn’t want to be impeached.

How do you not to get impeached? You sit back and relax and wait out for your term to end. That’s what he did. And it was a sad thing and a sad day for our country. Then he writes a crummy book, which was so false. But you know what? Had Bill Barr had the courage, a lot of this could’ve been taken care of.

The U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia said Bill Barr told him not to investigate the fraud in the elections, and he said “Don’t do it.” And he wrote a letter to that effect and you know, had Bill Barr had the courage to do what he should’ve done instead of being worried about being impeached.

I said, “Look, get impeached. I went up a lot in the polls when I got impeached. You have to get impeached, maybe.” But he was so afraid of being impeached that he refused to do his job.

#BREAKING
Trump admits he pressured Bill Barr to take the fall for his coup: 'You have to get impeached, maybe' https://t.co/Gk31OyPEew
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 14, 2022

DeSantis Submits House Map That Erases Dem Districts

DeSantis Submits House Map That Erases Dem Districts

Florida Politics reports:

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office has submitted the map he wants lawmakers to pass in the upcoming Special Session. Sen. Ray Rodrigues, an Estero Republican and Chair of the Senate Reapportionment Committee, said he was briefed on the submission (P 0109). He said it’s one the Florida Senate can pass.

But while Republicans in Florida appear to be coalescing around the map, a growing number of Democrats assert the lines won’t withstand court scrutiny. “If this map is enacted, Florida will be sued,” tweeted Marc Elias, a Democratic attorney involved in redistricting legislation across the nation.

This map has 20 seats where Republican Donald Trump won the 2020 Presidential Election, and just eight seats won by Democrat Joe Biden. Trump won Florida by three percentage points.

Read the full article.

https://twitter.com/PhilAmmann/status/1514358554081341446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1514358554081341446%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joemygod.com%2F2022%2F04%2Fdesantis-submits-house-map-that-erases-dem-districts%2F

DeSantis’ congressional map favors Republicans, likely diminishes Black representation https://t.co/roPnSmc616
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) April 14, 2022

I do not know if @RonDeSantisFL does or does not like black people. What I do know is that @GovRonDeSantis does not like them voting. These new maps he is proposing are racist & against the law. I do not know if Ron Desantis is racist, however, he is sure acts as if he is.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) April 14, 2022

DeSantis' proposed map could allow Republicans to pick up an additional four seats this year. GOP leaders in the Legislature have signaled they'll accept whatever he hands them. https://t.co/55PeC23Xor
— POLITICO (@politico) April 14, 2022

#DeSantis is demanding we return to Tallahassee to draw new Congressional maps that are WHITER that eliminate Black majority districts in Florida which is ILLEGAL.

By surrendering this entire process to the Guv, the legislature is abdicating its constitutional responsibility. pic.twitter.com/QqMLuRE9O6
— Rep. Carlos G Smith (@CarlosGSmith) April 13, 2022

Please understand that Florida is not a hard right state. It is a swing state. It used to be a Blue state until Republicans managed to start restricting voting which swung elections to the Republicans. What the Republicans are doing here is killing democracy in Florida. Half the state is Democratic voting yet we cannot win elections due to gerrymandering and voter restrictions. The more the Republicans cement their authoritarian rule the less they respond to the people but instead for the people to live under minority rule. The Republican party is no longer wanting to have a democracy, they want power, pure power. Instead of the people controlling the government the Republican party wants the government to control the people. The Republican party is making it clear they want to be like Russia and China.

One Million Moms Vs Credit Karma “Sexual Perversion”

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Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole:

Credit Karma continues to normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle with its liberal advertising choices. The company’s most recent ad, “Limo Valet,” focuses on a pregnant character (a former limo driver) and her current home life with her lesbian partner.

They are living in cramped quarters, which must change before the birth of their baby. Because the lesbian couple is able to monitor and raise their credit score, they have the means to move into a larger space for the family of three to call home. The commercial ends with the two lesbians sitting on the floor playing with their baby in their new home.

Promoting same-sex relationships has nothing to do with marketing a product. Instead of remaining neutral in the culture war, Credit Karma wants to make it clear where they stand on this controversial topic. 1MM spoke out when the company also aired a commercial featuring two gay men in October 2021.

One Million Moms continues to stand up for biblical truth. Romans 1:26-27 is very clear about this particular type of sexual perversion and sin.

TAKE ACTION: If you agree that this commercial featuring two lesbians who are expecting a baby together is inappropriate, please sign our petition urging Credit Karma to pull its “Limo Valet” ad immediately. And please share this with your friends and family.

The ad doesn’t seem to be on YouTube.

So let’s start with acknowledging that this is mostly a single woman who constantly uses her religious views to attack everything LGBTQ+ and she is constantly online doing it. Her following is far from 1 million. Last I looked it was almost 1 thousand. Not sure what it is now. But the thing is she uses her online platform to ack everything LGBTQ+ as anti-family. We gays or what ever are destroying the good godly set up of god and we need to stop this shit right now. What is the issue, well anything LGBTQ+ is horribly bad and god will extract revenge especially if it is on TV or in public. She at one time had a following, but I now look at her mostly as a joke, except her views are gaining traction among the religious. The religious who want to force their views on how everyone should be have and what our laws in a secular country are about. That scares me.

Rebecca Gardner • 3 hours ago

Monica and her ilk are so disgusting that one of the commenters in a similar skreed of hers complained that commercials are also tying to normalize black people.