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CO Republicans And GOP House Candidates Call For Chair To Resign Over “Burn All Pride Flags” Message

CO Republicans And GOP House Candidates Call For Chair To Resign Over “Burn All Pride Flags” Message

This is what drives the increased hate and attacks on the LGBTQ+.  This is what republicans consider to be high quality discourse and thought.  Attack anyone different and hurt them hard, wipe them out.  It is gang thug rule and it is the cults they are in.  Either the tRump cult or the Fundamentalist cult.   Hugs.  Scottie

June 7, 2024 Christianists, Trump cultists

 

Denver’s ABC affiliate reports:

The fallout from the Colorado GOP’s anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric earlier this week continued Friday with state Republican leaders calling for party chairman Dave Williams to resign.

The latest denouncement came from the Jefferson County Republicans, who on behalf of “numerous Colorado Republican County Chairs, other county party officers, members of the Colorado State Central Committee in all 64 Counties, and many Republican candidates” called on Colorado GOP chairman Dave Williams to “immediately resign.”

The mounting backlash against Williams follows a blast email from the Colorado GOP that was signed by the chairman, in which the party accused the LGBTQ+ community of being “godless groomers” who want to harm children. On its official profile on X, the Colorado GOP also called for the burning of Pride flags.

The Advocate reports:

Williams sent an email to GOP voters earlier this week that referred to queer people as “barbaric,” “creeps,” “degenerates,” “godless,” “groomers,” “predators,” “radicals,” and “reprobates.”

Valdamar Archuleta, the head of Colorado’s Log Cabin Republicans, has been one of the few GOP members to defend Williams. He said Wednesday that “I do not think Dave hates me because I’m gay. I don’t think that Dave is a homophobic person. He’s trying to get a reaction.”

The Colorado News-Press reports:

Five of the six Republican candidates running for Congress in Colorado’s 4th District are disavowing their state party’s leadership, citing its recent anti-LGBTQ messaging and concerns over campaign impropriety.

The conservatives, who are on the primary ballot this month, have called into question Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams and are advocating for new leadership. Only U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, who received the endorsement of the party, declined to comment on Williams’ messaging.

Williams has sparked criticism inside and outside of the Colorado Republican Party for an email sent from the state party that claimed people in the LGBTQ community are “evil” and “godless groomers.”

As I reported earlier today, Colorado has seen a spree of stolen Pride flags since the state GOP issued its “burn all Pride flags” message. Williams has called reports of the thefts a hoax.

Last month the Colorado GOP called on Christians to remove their children from public schools because Democrats are using schools to “turn more kids trans.”

Williams is running to replace retiring GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn. Williams, you may recall, lost a lawsuit seeking to have “Let’s Go Brandon” by his name on the ballot during his failed 2022 House bid.

During a December 2023 appearance on extremist Laura Loomer’s podcast, Williams told the Colorado Supreme Court to “go fuck themselves” after they removed Trump from the ballot. It’s what Jesus would want.

 

N649309 PG702 days ago

My 90 year old Colorado Father in law has always been a republican. He loves his Gay son and his gay sons husband (me), He told us last night, “I’m done with the republican party” after he received this email.

JoeMyGod Mod2 days ago

“Only U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, who received the endorsement of the party, declined to comment on Williams’ messaging.”

Dwight Williamson2 days ago
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Oklahoma Gov Signs Bill Allowing Students To Leave School Three Periods Per Week For Religious Lessons

Oklahoma Gov Signs Bill Allowing Students To Leave School Three Periods Per Week For Religious Lessons

These same republicans constantly complain and bitch about public schools teaching things other than standard education.  They complain about woke subjects and learning true history for example.  Back to the basics is their goal they claim.  But letting kids miss classes for religious church lessons is great they claim.  Kids don’t need schooling they need bible and more bible.  Who needs reading especial about people who are different from the majority when they can learn bible by sitting in church having someone tell them what they think god said or meant.  And it must be their god not one of those false ones that the bad people worship.  Public school is for the multiple of people who believe different things, in different gods or no god.  They have churches for that.  Keep god in your church and out of public schools.   Hugs.  Scottie  

June 7, 2024 Christianists, Republicans

 

Oklahoma City’s NBC affiliate reports:

Governor Stitt signed legislation Wednesday on a framework for public school students to get credits by attending religious instruction during school hours. “What HB 1425 does is that it gives the schools a framework,” said Representative Clay Staires (R-Skiatook), who authored the bill.

Starting in November of this year students from all grade levels would understand their opportunity when leaving their classroom during school and heading to a religious instructional class that has to be off-site. Another rule is that it cannot be led by the school or anyone employed with the school.

Students would be allowed to leave for three class periods a week and 125 class periods a year to attend it. The Satanic Temple announced that if Governor Stitt signed HB 1425 they would offer up their instructional programs.

Read the full article.

Below, Christian nationalist state education Superintendent Ryan Walters says satanism is not a religion and therefore leaving school to attend classes offered by atheist trolling outfit the Satanic Temple will not be permitted.

As for Gov. Kevin Stitt, he last appeared here in March 2024 when he declared that God personally had him elected to stop abortion in Oklahoma.

Stitt, who appeared here in November 2023 when he publicly praised illegal cockfighting, is a self-avowed Christian nationalist.

Last year he declared November to be “family month as ordained by God.” In June 2023, he authorized the nation’s first state-funded religious charter school.

In 2022, he claimed “every square inch of Oklahoma in the name of Jesus.” Upon his inauguration, Stitt’s wife declared that his administration’s main priority would be “bringing people to Jesus.”

 

Jack Frost 2 days ago

Superintendent Ryan Walters says satanism is not a religion and therefore leaving school to attend classes offered by atheist trolling outfit the Satanic Temple will not be permitted.

Fingers crossed for the lawsuit this will bring.

ECarpenter  Jack Frost2 days ago

Supreme Court rulings have been clear that you don’t have to prove that your religion is “true” – since that’s impossible, of course.

(((GC))) – End the filibuster!  ECarpenter 2 days ago

But we’ve seen how much regard the current corrupt SQOTUS has for precedent or “settled law”.

kevway2 days ago

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The IRS Officially Recognizes the Satanic Temple as a Church.

Being granted tax-exempt status essentially means that the Satanic Temple has the same legal protections that other religions do, including “access to public spaces as other religious organizations; affirming its standing in court when battling religious discrimination; and enabling The Satanic Temple to apply for faith-based government grants,” according to a press release sent to Rolling Stone.

https://www.rollingstone.co…

JWC 2 days ago

Religion does not belong in politics even thought they are like a cancer. If schools can delete Black and Gay studies calling it indoctrination yet encourage religious studies . That is the personification of Hypocrisy

kal61678 2 days ago

Bet the Satanic Temple’s lawyers will have something to say about the first amendment not magically applying to them because some rando says so.

Doug105 2 days ago
    • Uncle Mark’s Stormy Mood 2 days ago

    FYI: The other nonChristian faiths will inevitably be conflated with Satan.

    New Jamieboy Highballs 2 days ago

    There goes math and science classes.

    Bert_Bauer 2 days ago

    So the next time the conservative brown shirts start screaming about “the basics” and “the 3 r’s”, remind them that “religion” isn’t one of them.

    SFBruce 2 days ago

    For a few seconds, I was thinking at least these sessions won’t take place in school, and then I saw that the state is determining exactly which religions for which this will be allowed.

    Houndentenor 2 days ago

    They can’t schedule religious classes before or after school or on weekends? They have to have them during math or history or English class? What bullshit!

     

    Teen Charged With Shattering Library’s Pride Display

    Teen Charged With Shattering Library’s Pride Display

    Kids are not born haters, they are taught to hate by adults and older kids around them.  Every maga republican and fundamentalist religious leader is spreading this hate like an infectious disease.   Hugs.  Scottie

    June 8, 2024 Crime, LGBT News

     

    Portland, Oregon’s CBS affiliate reports:

    A juvenile suspect has been arrested in connection to an incident at the Newberg Public Library in which a window that displayed an LGBTQIA+ Pride flag was shattered by a BB gun.

    According to the Newberg-Dundee Police Department in a post on Facebook, police were originally dispatched to investigate the incident on Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. No one was injured and it was initially investigated as a vandalism complaint.

    It’s unclear what charges may brought to the juvenile, including whether or not they may include bias crime charges. However, police said the case is being “referred to the Yamhill County Juvenile Department for prosecution.

    Read the full article.

     

    Todd20036 20 hours ago

    Teens usually don’t hate that much without help

     

    Country Of Georgia Moves To Criminalize All LGBTQ Events, Ban All LGBTQ Rights, Erase LGBTQs In Media

    Country Of Georgia Moves To Criminalize All LGBTQ Events, Ban All LGBTQ Rights, Erase LGBTQs In Media

    Welcome to Russia under Putin, Hungary under Victor Orban, North Korea under Kim Jong Un, or China under Xi Jinping.  Now the nation of Georgia.  What do these countries have in common?  They are dictatorships with the people have no rights or limited rights.  They have to live as the state demands, live as the govern tell them they must, like it or not. 

    Do we really want that here?  But that is what the minority of Fundamentalist Christians and right wing maga republicans want.  Complete control over the lives of the people.  The want a white controlled cis straight society who are forced to live by their version of Christianity.  They want to do this to the US also.  Plus notice the hater bigots leaders in the US had been over there stirring up anti-LGTQ+ hate and vilification.   Hugs.  Scottie

    June 8, 2024 LGBT News, Politics

     

    Deutsche Welle reports:

    The latest effort to restrict the rights of LGBTQ+ people in Georgia comes shortly after a “foreign agent” law was adopted in May despite weeks of unrest and pro-EU rallies. The Georgian parliament, where the ruling Georgian Dream party has a decisive majority, will start discussing the planned LGBTQ+ bill in the coming weeks. The final reading is expected to be held in the fall.

    If adopted, the bill, as well as amendments to 18 existing laws, would make any kind of LGBTQ+-related gatherings illegal. The proposal would also outlaw same-sex marriages, gender transition and the adoption of children by same-sex couples; it would also ban LGBTQ+ “propaganda” in schools and prohibit the broadcast of intimate scenes involving same-sex relationships.

    Politico Europe reports:

    Same-sex couples would be stripped of their rights under terms of a new draft law put forward by Georgia’s ruling party. The move marks yet another major break between the European Union and the candidate country in the South Caucasus.

    On Tuesday, Shalva Papuashvili [screenshot] — the speaker of Georgia’s parliament and one of the leaders of the governing Georgian Dream faction — brought forward a package of legislation targeting so-called “LGBT propaganda.”

    Broadcasters, advertisers and movie theaters will also be ordered to redact any content that features same-sex relationships, regardless of the intended age of the audience, before broadcast.

    So much for their EU candidacy.

    I first reported the then-proposed bill in March 2024, at which time its backers acknowledged that it could even criminalize the possession of rainbow flags.

    As I reported at the time, last year Tbilisi Pride was shut down after police failed to stop hundreds of violent extremists from storming the event.

    A similar incident in 2021 resulted in a fatality and a formal call for prosecutions from the US State Department. 

    That same week in 2021, it was revealed that US hate group leader Brian Brown had endorsed an extremist affiliated with that year’s anti-LGBTQ mob.

    As noted by Right Wing Watch at the time, Brown also accompanied said extremist when he organized “illegal gangs” to protest Tbilisi Pride in 2019. Video of Brown at that protest is still on Facebook.

    Georgia, population 4 million, is around 90% Christian with most belonging to the Georgian Orthodox Church. Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

    The Georgian Dream Party holds half of the seats in parliament, with the rest scattered among 14 other parties.

    Of note, in 2022 I reported that Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili met with US leaders in Washington DC to plea for support should Russia’s attack on Ukraine expand into Georgia.

    Zourabichvili leaves office later this year, after which future Georgian presidents will be “selected indirectly” by parliamentary electors.

     

     

    Christian families sue for the right to mistreat LGBTQ+ foster children

    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/christian-families-sue-for-the-right-to-mistreat-lgbtq-foster-children/

    I love that they say Vermont doesn’t care about vulnerable children when these people want to abuse vulnerable LGBTQ+ children by forcing a religion on them that calls them an abomination.  They want the right to force these kids into conversion therapy or to not let them transition.  This is seriously scary shit.  Hugs.  Scottie

    They claim it’s religious discrimination to not let them foster children they say they will refuse to accept.
     
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    Two Christian families in Vermont, alongside the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, are suing the state after it stripped their foster care licenses over their homophobic and transphobic beliefs.

    “Vermont says they’re unfit to parent any child because of their traditional religious beliefs about human sexuality,” said ADF legal counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse in a press release. “Vermont seems to care little about the needs of vulnerable children, much less the constitutional rights of its citizens. That’s why we’re suing them in federal court.”

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    Roger Gannam said that trans-inclusive anti-discrimination policy would lead to sexual assaults against women.

    The Wuoti and Gantt families filed the lawsuit along with the ADF on Tuesday, initiating a formal complaint against the state. 

    Vermont changed its policies regarding foster families in recent years to better support LGBTQ+ youth. It requires that foster parents are supportive of young people’s identities – such as properly gendering trans youth or allowing kids to embrace their sexual orientation. 

    It strictly prohibits “discrimination and bias based on a child or youth’s real or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.”

    The lawsuit argues that both families are required by their religion to misgender any foster children, stating that “a person’s sex is binary and fixed by God at conception.” It goes further in arguing that, in the case of the Gantt family, they believe that trans people must detransition and that people should not gender trans people correctly.

    The lawsuit also claims that Kaitlyn Wuoti had gender dysphoria as a child, leading her to be filled with “compassion” for children. Both Brian and Kaitlyn Wuoti believe that they cannot even associate with a Pride parade or those in it because “they convey a message about human sexuality that goes against their faith.”

    Radke emphasized in a statement that while DCF does not comment on pending lawsuits, the lawsuit was nevertheless filed at the beginning of Pride Month, a time normally dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ people.

    “It is a human right for all to be valued and supported, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity,” Radke said. “The Family Services Division is here to serve all and upholds that expectation for both its staff, as well as the foster parents who agree to take on the care of the youth in our custody.”

    This lawsuit comes at a time when LGBTQ+ youth are especially vulnerable, facing attacks on their healthcare across the world. This atmosphere contributes to stigma against these youths. Moreover, LGBTQ+ youth are more likely to be homeless and in the foster system.

    “It’s the role of families to provide that kind of affirmation and validation,” said Amanda Rohdenburg with Outright Vermont. She says it’s impossible to tell who is LGBTQ+ just by looking at them, so LGBTQ+ youth might be placed with anti-LGBTQ+ foster parents. “They are at high risk of experiencing rejection or internalizing homophobia or transphobia that impacts their sense of sense over their lifetime.” 

    The named defendants in the suit are Department for Children and Families (DCF) Commissioner Christopher Winters, Deputy Commissioner of the DCF’s Family Services Division Aryka Radke, and DCF’s Director of Residential Licensing & Special Investigations Stacey Edmunds.

    The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, Windham Division and has Gretchen M. Wade of Wadleigh, Starr & Peters, P.L.L.C as additional legal counsel.

    The Alliance Defending Freedom is known for its ties to the book The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, which was written by former ADF CEO Alan Sears and ADF member Craig Osten. They group also supports banning LGBTQ+ individuals from the military and the Boy Scouts of America.

    The ADF has filed lawsuits across the country, such as in the case of 303 Creative vs. Elenis, where they defend an individual trying to discriminate against LGBTQ+ individuals based on religion.

     

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    Happy (And Safe) Pride Month!

    Happy (And Safe) Pride Month!

    By my dogs that love gravy I love Barry’s post.  I can not think of a better way to present the facts.  The most needed facts about trans people, facts about pride parades, and about young people knowing who they are.  Please read the post.  Also please subscribe to Barry’s blog, he present things with a view point that is often refreshing compared to what we normally hear about things.   In honor of Barry, Best wishes.  Scottie

    These clowns couldn’t organize a 1-car funeral procession in a town with 1 one-way street.

    They Seem Nice

    As always I love that TG posts on Mock Paper Scissors.   I know we share many of the same viewers … but this is too damn good not to repost.   Thanks TG.  Hugs.  Scottie

    FRC: Ten Commandments Belong In Schools Because All The “Other Religious Ethical Statements Are Myths”

    FRC: Ten Commandments Belong In Schools Because All The “Other Religious Ethical Statements Are Myths”

    This is complete nonsense.  Our founding fathers were trying to escape the rule of a country run by kings and religion.  They could have made Christianity the nations religion but they did not, and did not want that.  I recently heard that the reason fundamentalist Christians want the ten commandments which is a Jewish symbol from the Old Testament instead of the beatitudes from the New Testament is they don’t like or follow Jesus but do like the vengeance, violence, and anger of the OT god.  These people should be listed as domestic terrorists.  They can not be compromised with.  They can’t be happy with them being allowed to live as they want, they demand the right to force you to live as they do.  They are a minority in a minority that is shrinking.  Yet they managed to get their people into positions of power so they are even more dangerous.   Hugs.  Scottie

    June 4, 2024 Christianists, Hate Groups

     

    Posted to the Family Research Council’s website:

    The Louisiana legislature has passed a bill that “requires schools that receive public money to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said on Thursday’s “Washington Watch,” and “the anti-Christian Left is convulsing.”

    “We’re focused on the historical aspect of the Ten Commandments, which all of our laws are derived from,” bill sponsor Louisiana Rep. Dodie Horton (R) explained to Perkins.

    Skeptics will still ask, but why are the Ten Commandments displayed and not other religious ethical statements, like the writings of Confucius or Native American myths? One answer is America’s historical development. This great nation was not built by Confucians or Muslims, but by people informed by the Bible and the moral teachings found therein.

    Therefore, “We want our children to see what God’s standard for our moral conduct is,” urged Horton. “We’re not asking the teachers to teach it, but we want our children to be able to see one — that there is a God, and that he does have a moral standard [by] which they need to conduct themselves.”

    Read the full article. In the interview below, Perkins tells Horton that lawsuits against posting the Ten Commandants in Louisiana schools will fail because “we’ve got a new [Supreme] court.” Horton replies, “We do, praise God!”

     

    ohbear1957 21 hours ago

    Dennis Turgeon 21 hours ago

    How can a Christian Nationalist group or groups dictate how public money, via taxes, be spent or allocated by forcing public schools to display religious text? That’s what Sunday school is for. When will all religions be taxed like any other corporation. Talk to me about grooming again.

  • madknits  Dennis Turgeon21 hours ago

    Meanwhile, as a civil service worker, I haven’t had an actual raise, except for cost of living adjustments to bring us more on the lowest level of private enterprise, since I was hired. So I might get a 2 or 3 percent adjustment, but my health insurance goes up 5%.

    madknits 21 hours ago

    All three versions of the Ten Commandments, two in Exodus, and one in Deuteronomy, are based on the legal code of Hammurabi. There is some tweaking, to compensate for cultural differences, but they are, by and large, the legal code of Hammurabi.

     

    • NorthBayBrian21 hours ago

    ”This great nation was not built by Confucians…” These bitches really have no idea who this country was built by. See also: Enslaved people.

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    TK-Fla 21 hours ago

    Religion (of any type) belongs in their churches, synagogues, mosques, etc. It does NOT belong in our schools. The Christo-fascists are trying to force their beliefs onto kids and that’s just totally wrong. And should be illegal. And they are trying to force their religion into laws affecting everyone. Fuck that shit. I agree with so many commenters on here – religion is poison. Fuck their god, Jeezus and everything in their warped view of the world.

    Mike C21 hours ago edited

    “This great nation was not built by Confucians or Muslims”

    Christians wouldn’t have built shit without the mathematics the Muslims perfected, and Christians wouldn’t have “discovered” this continent if they didn’t have such a rabid taste for the goods the Confucians were selling them.

    Gregory Peterson 21 hours ago

    Fred Clark wrote about the history of the La. Commandments poster law.

    Louisiana Will Post The Twelve Commandments In Schools

    ‘That’s a problem, because there are a lot of different versions of the Ten Commandments, all of which are phrased and enumerated differently. The version of “The Ten Commandments” mandated by Horton’s bill is not taken from any of those. It is, instead, the version concocted in 1950 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Cecil B. DeMille.

    Yes, really.’

    As you might predict if you didn’t know, the Fraternal Order of Eagles was a racist organization.

    https://www.patheos.com/blo…

    Jay P 21 hours ago edited

    “we’ve got a new [Supreme] court.” Horton repliess”

    They’re so high on their own farts right now. Never mind that new Supreme Court was put there by a convicted felon.

    Also I love it when I get lectured by Christians on why they’re God is real and the rest are fake.

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    How Boring LGBTQ People Made America Great

    https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/how-boring-lgbtq-people-made-america?r=1pk2l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

    I want to thank Ali for the link to this story.  I will try to post the comment she left pointing me to it.  I do not mind a link here or there in the comments if it leads me to new good article on issues.  Ali has offered me many links in the comments and all of them so far have been worth reading, and yes many I end up posting like this one.  Thank you Ali.   Hugs Scottie   Below is Ali’s comment.

    All is well. So many things tend to work out for the very best.

    Here’s a new link. I’ve been reading Oliver Willis for years, and I really like his work. You’ve probably seen his work around. I now subscribe (for free) to his work on Substack, and here is the one he posted today. Bonus on each post is a photo of his doggy Kal-El, who looks like our Chrissy back when she was that age (she crossed the bridge in 2020 at age 21.) Anyway, back to the link: https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/how-boring-lgbtq-people-made-america . Enjoy when you get to it!

    Boring = Good

    OLIVER WILLIS
    JUN 03, 2024
     
     

    When I was a kid and well up until into my teens in the 1990s, the right wing in America sold us a dystopian vision of what would occur if gay and lesbian people were granted equal rights, most notably, the right to marry.

    According to conservative pundits and politicians, if we allowed same-sex marriage to occur, every street in America would immediately, overnight, turn into the most extreme version of a San Francisco leather parade. Innocent families would be forced, Clockwork Orange style, to watch as bulging crotches were shoved into their faces, sparkling zippers twirling before them, women dressed in men’s clothes, men wearing dresses, the kinkiest sexual acts occurring in public at the drop of a hat.

    On Fox News, the propaganda arm of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, equal marriage rights would surely end up in people marrying ducks, cows, goats, etc. Certainly.

    But in the decades since then, after figures like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson (both now thankfully six feet under) blamed LGBTQ people for events like 9/11, none of that happened. For sure, there are sometimes leather parades, but they’re mostly happening in the same places where there have always been leather parades and nobody there is bothered by them.

    Instead, after the epochal event of same sex marriage becoming legal, nothing happened. Nothing at all. No forced Pride parades breaking out in rural Alabama. No kids in Montana getting instructed on the fine art of same-sex kissing. No families in Orange County, California, compelled to learn the words to “YMCA” in gender reeducation camps. Nothing at all.

    Why? Because the vast majority of LGBTQ people are just as boring as straight people. They have jobs, go to school and work, take care of their kids, have marital bliss and squabbles and all the rest of it. They aren’t activists militantly marching in the streets for issues or disco, but simply want to make it through another day in peace. Boring as hell, like all of us are.

    And this is a triumph. Because for all of American history, the people in power – almost always wealthy, straight, white, men – have attained power and retained power by demonizing everyone else who doesn’t look like them. Black men were after their daughters, Muslim people are terrorists, women are emotional hysterics, and on and on and on. These people profit off of the dehumanization of others and by working overtime to scare people about the horror that could happen if we treated everybody with equality and respect.

    Yet every time that the country gets over itself and fulfills the words of the Founders in ways that they could not comprehend in their limited view of the world and who truly deserved “liberty,” we collectively discover that the nightmare was always total nonsense.

    This is a lesson to keep in mind as we watch in horror as the right whips up fears about immigrants, transgender people, and refugees from the Middle East in our current electoral cycle. Integrating LGBTQ families into the mainstream of American life made the country stronger, not weaker. Our collective understanding increased, the rich tapestry that is the United States benefitted from increased diversity. The only ones who lost out were close-minded bigots who can’t accept that the world doesn’t look like the deranged fantasies in their brains (and never existed in reality).

    Boring is good. We’re all boring. Reject the lurid fantasy world of the haters and instead embrace the mundane reality of a diverse world. And throw a leather parade, if you feel like it. This is America, where you’re free to do so if you like.

    If you like this newsletter, please consider becoming a paying subscriber by clicking here to join. I won’t be putting any of my regular columns behind a paywall and they will always be free. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed so far!

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