Oklahoma Education Chief: Teach The Bible As History

WTF is happening in the US?   This idea of the US being founded as a Christian Nation is a complete fiction, yet there are so many republican governors and legislators pushing it.  When did the bible become more important than the constitution?  I remember that shit being push on James when he was a teen and he is now 3o years old.  We have a serious problem that generations since the 1980s have grown up being taught this fiction as fact.  This was done through homeschooling and church schools.  This fiction was / is promoted by churches to increase their political power and the income from adding more asses in pews.   I have to tell you this drive to turn the US into a theocracy is terrifying to me and should be to others.   We have seen it happen in other countries where a fundamentalist religion get governmental power, and they use it to wipe out personal freedoms in order to establish a religious doctrine enforced by the power of the state.   Look at Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Afghanistan.    Those restrictive laws entrench the political power and funds of the religious leaders but restrict any kind of growth or advancement for the public.  I can not imagine how devastating it would be for the US people to be forced to live according to the dictates of people who think morals and science was at its peak 2,500 years ago.    Hugs

“Oklahomans, we have a clear choice in front of us. When it comes to our schools, do we want the radical ideology in our classroom that pushes gender theory? That pushes graphic pornography in order to push a social experiment on our kids?

“Or do want the US Constitution? Do we want documents like the Federalist Papers and the bible? So that our kids understand our history and how our government was put together?

“Those core fundamental principles have made us the greatest country in the history of the world. Real Americans know that we’ve got to support our kids by giving them a great understanding of our history.

“Radical leftists and Biden administration, they would prefer to sexualize our kids.” – Oklahoma superintendent of public schools Ryan Walters.

Walters, who was appointed state secretary of education by Christianist Gov. Kevin Stitt in 2020, faced calls to resign in 2022 after it was revealed that a Koch-funded group that advocates for privatizing public schools was paying him $120,000/year.

Stitt rejected calls for Walters’ resignation and attempted to reappoint him again earlier this year, but the state Senate refused to allow him to hold the elected superintendent and appointed secretary of education posts at the same time.

Walters last appeared on JMG in October 2022 when he called for reeducating all teachers with “Christian patriotic history” in a program operated by Michigan’s far-right Hillsdale College.

 

 

Oklahomans, we have a clear choice in front of us. When it comes to our schools, do we want the radical ideology in our classroom that pushes gender theory? That pushes graphic pornography in order to push a social experiment on our kids?

Are people so stupid that they think teachers are hauling out their Honcho magazines into the classroom? That’s what Sunday school is for.

That’s what gets me. People eat this crap up with absolutely no proof of any of it. And hey, what happened to the kitty litter in the classrooms issue?

“the Bible,” as if there’s only one. He’s clearly one of those heretical blasphemers the nuns & priests warned us about in Catholic school.

The Bible is not history. The four Gospels don’t even agree.

 

Hateful Karens Occupy Montana Capitol Hallway Bench So That Trans Lawmaker Is Forced To Work Standing Up

Please remember that what the republicans say this is about and what is really happening it two different things.   The republicans claim she violated decorum by claiming that she accused them of killing kids.   That is not at all what she said.   She said if the republicans pasted the bill denying trans kids medical assistance would cause kids to try to commit suicide, which is true, so the people passing the bill would have blood on their hands.   No one doubts the validity of that statement.   But this was the opening they used with republicans claimed victimhood and talked of how badly they were being abused by being accused of having kids blood on their hands.   Yes the big bad in charge republicans were the victims here.   

What this really is about is the fact Rep. Zooey Zephyr is trans!  And the republicans want her gone!   That is what this is about.   They don’t care her constitutes not only voted her in to office to represent them, they have increased their support for her after this happened.   So they are trying to make her life so miserable, hoping she will just go away.  That is what the anti-trans and anti-drag people bills are about, trying to make those people so miserable they will just go away.   It is what red states with the don’t say gay laws are doing in schools, just trying to make gay  / trans kids just hide and go away.   How proud the republicans must be to make people hide who they really are just so republicans can feel good in their lives.  

Please note every act the republicans took was to make her life miserable which included locking her out of the work areas and bathrooms.   She is forced to work and vote representing her voters from a public hallway, so this week some hateful people made sure to show up and occupy the only seating available, causing an elected official to be forced to stand all day and work from a food counter.   This is not democracy people!   This is one party trying to make those they don’t like to disappear from the public.   Hugs

The Associated Press reports:

Republicans moved to sideline Zephyr further by canceling some meetings of the two committees on which she serves and moving the bills they were to hear to other committees, Democrats said.

She spent the first day of her exile last week battling to use a bench in a statehouse hallway. Her key card to access Capitol entrances, bathrooms and party workspaces was deactivated, according to the lawsuit.

Zephyr spoke briefly during a House Judiciary Committee meeting Monday morning. The full House — minus Zephyr — reconvened in the afternoon. Zephyr cast votes from a statehouse snack bar because several people occupied the bench.

Read the full article. As you can see in the photo below, the bench seats three people and the evil bitches have a fourth woman on standby as a seat-filler for bathroom breaks.

 

  

 

They get great joy out of HATE

Klanned Karenhood.

The Justice Department really needs to get involved.

I agree. What the slave state legislatures like Montana’s are doing is trampling on any and all minorities’ civil rights. She didn’t break decorum. She was very measured and impeccable with her word. She never raised her voice. Her crime was that she told them the TRUTH. People will die. There IS blood on their hands.

I’ve tweeted to Montana Dems, the Montana ACLU, and Montana Pride with a plea for allies to come tomorrow and hold the bench for Zooey. I added that a couple of drag queens would be a nice touch.

Joe, I’d like to see someone bring in a comfy folding chair for her, even though both state houses would vote, and the governor would sign, a bill banning them on capitol grounds the next day.

They probably attend the same Klan Klavern or Baptist church. Who can tell the difference? Is there a difference?

You think working standing up is a problem for Zooey? History will remember Zooey Zephyr, not the three Karens trying to torment her.

Plus the fact that her name is alliterative, makes it easy to remember.

Edit: I misgendered Zooey at the very end! Damn autocorrect! ☺️☺️

It’s a rock star name from the start.

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Yes. And all of the “lunch counter” protest photos.

I was just looking for that photo, that is EXACTLY what I was reminded me of. I hope they know they are on the WRONG side of history on this issue, and will be shamed for many years.

The level of hatred is astounding, even though I am fully aware of just how hate-filled Republicans are. This is truly epic level pettiness.

I’d bet money that all four of those hateful hags were in church yesterday and believe themselves to be ‘good Christians’ (if that isn’t an oxymoron).

She needs to show up with her own folding table and chair.

With a sign.

ASK ME WHY MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES ARE HATE FILLED TRANSPHOBES

 

No men in dresses?

No more men in dresses you say?

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For those supporting anti-trans bathroom bills

These are trans men.

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Ben Shapiro’s Most Insane Anti Trans Take Yet

This is one of the best dissection of how stupid the rights anti-trans arguments are.    If you are anti-trans and want to educate yourself then watch this.   If you just want to see how damn dishonest the right has to be to promote their Puritan old fashion idea of what is gender / how each gender must behave / clothing they must wear, please watch this.   Also I will remind everyone first that gender acceptable clothing has changed throughout history.   Hugs

Gender Criticals And White Nationalism

Today we’re discussing the proposed change to the UK Equality Act and how absurd and unworkable it is, as well as the unignorable link between gender critical activism and white nationalism.

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Shapiro Calls For Criminalizing “Men Wearing Dresses”

This is Ben Shapiro.  The head of and the leader of the Daily Wire, one of the biggest right wing media outlets.   His hosts include people like Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Michael Knowles, Jordan Peterson, Dennis Prager all who have either called for the elimination, deportation, or making completely illegal the LGTBTQ+ community / people.   This is one of the most watched and quoted right wing media, and Shapiro is wrongly considered one of the right’s intellectual.  Several of these people spoke at the CPAC events calling for the extermination of gay and trans people, and all media about the LGBTQ+ community.

I was talking in the comments the other day about what the republicans / the right want to achieve with these drag bans, what their goal is.   It is not to regulate adult entertainment, burlesque, and strip shows with drag performers as those laws already exist.   This is not about normal obscenity such as showing genitals, as again those are already well regulated.   

What is being regulated out of existence, outlawed in public, is what Nan calls cross-dressing and what right means when they say drag.  They want to make it illegal for a man to dress as a woman, to wear a dress / skirt or a woman to wear clothing normally assigned stereotypically to males.   It is about enforcing stereotypes of what is a woman’s role and what is a man’s role even to what clothing each role typically wore then.   Remember the comedy shows in the 1970’s / 1980s where the laugh line was a man wearing an apron?   Well here is Shapiro just saying what the goal is.   Flat out removing trans people from society and public view.   Flat out trying to legislate what a gender can wear based on old stereotypes of gender roles.   The goal is to return to a time when females were in not in men’s jobs, doing men’s work, when women were home in time to make dinner for their husband and wait on him.   All to protect the children, remember?    

First they came for the trans people, but I was not trans … then they came for …  Hugs

“Should wearing dresses and skirts be illegal for men in public? If so, should wearing pants for women in public be illegal in public? Well, pants not so much because there is a female version of pants that is nearly indistinguishable in many cases from male pants. But men wearing traditional female clothing in public – I think that there is a case that local communities should be able to stop that. Sure, I mean, we have local laws about being naked or indecent exposure, at least we used to.” – Ben Shapiro.

https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4004152/embed/embed


 

Ben, you’re an idiot–and a mob of Scotsmen would like a word with you.

Now I’m definitely going to have to don my kilt when I go to the Renaissance Faire in my Renaissance drag

We’re all born naked. Everything else we wear is drag.

We’re all born naked, and the rest is just drag. — Ru Paul

I read a story once about westerners having trouble understanding that in Indian women wore something like pants while men worse robes. This was traditional gender-coded attire in their country. Gender roles differ across time and place. Only right wing Americans who don’t know that there was history before 1950 think that clothing or anything else has a universal meaning.

In the 19th century, Blue was for girls (“like Mary’s mantle”), and Pink was for boys (“his boyish, ruddy cheeks!”).

That was pretty common right up until around WWII. It wasn’t until after the war that it switched around. It was just like the baby dresses they used for both sexes. There are still a few photos around from my dad and my uncle when they were babies and then pre-teens. The short pants are precious.

Oh fuck that. Any actual feminist (meaning, people who aren’t TERFs/”Gender Criticals” aka conservative blowhards) knows that them criminalizing “men wearing dresses” will also inevitably mean criminalizing women wearing pants, which will mean using the violence of government to police womens’ modesty.

In other words, we’ll become Iran after Trump handed the theocrats and autocrats power by rejecting Obama’s deal that was getting them to open up.

 

“Tennessee’s A Drag” – a mini special from Drew Morgan about the DRAG QUEEN ban in Tennessee

This is both funny and informative.   Hugs

Drag Queens I remember from when the republicans thought they were funny also. This is what drag is. This is the villain of the right that they claim is sexualizing and grooming kids. Notice the last set with the maga king

Groovy History - Oh those hairy legs and the man with a plan! "M*A*S*H"  cross-dressing 'Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger' (Jamie Farr) was always trying  to get discharged. 1980 😙 | Facebook M*A*S*H': Why Did Jamie Farr Stop Gag of Wearing Women's Clothes

Klinger in Drag - TV Fanatic

Corporal Klinger: A Man in a Dress – Transgender Heaven

M*A*S*H': Actor Jamie Farr Spoke Show's Morbid Setting Was Important

Klinger's greatest outfits from 'M*A*S*H'

These are the famous actresses who originally wore Klinger's costumes on  'M*A*S*H'

From the Beverly Hillbillies, Jethro as his twin sister – Jethrine Bodine.

JETHRENE BODINE/JETHRO BODINE/ MAX BAER JR. | The beverly hillbillies,  Classic tv, Jethro

Flip Wilson Geraldine on TV all the time

Flip Wilson Geraldine this is your life October 1973 - YouTube

The Flip Wilson Show Flip As Geraldine Jones 8x10 Glossy Photo | eBay

Caldara: Drama over drag queens plays into their manicured hands - Complete  Colorado - Page Two

Geraldine Jones (character) - Wikipedia

geraldine and Jim Brown (Flip W) - YouTube

Papermoon Loves Lucy — LUCY AND FLIP GO LEGIT

Vintage NOLA Drag Queens. Tag the RPDR lookalikes. : r/rupaulsdragrace

The Evolution of Drag — Brownstone Lounge

The Last Queen of Greenwich Village | The New Yorker

Trump Stuck His Face in Rudy Guiliani’s Chest in 2000 Drag Comedy Skit

Trump Stuck His Face in Rudy Guiliani's Chest in 2000 Drag Comedy Skit

born miserable on Twitter: "Rudy Giuliani forgot about 9/11. He also forgot  about Donald Trump motorboating him while he dressed up in drag.  https://t.co/rPpdrNJELs" / Twitter

Remarks: Donald Trump in Parody Skit With Rudy Giuliani - March 11, 2000 -  YouTube

History of Trump Hitting on Giuliani in Drag — Comedy History 101

Watching Sunday morning shows and catching up on days of Joe.My.God news stories I have not been able to get to. I think some of the formatting dropped out on me so … the post is what it is. Hugs

 

Of course there is no racism in slavery based on race / skin color.   

 

It’s Biblical. God didn’t want Adam and Eve to know anything and forbade them from “eating from the Tree of Knowledge”.

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community values** are reflected in each school library catalog in the district

**Some exclusions apply

Gay, trans, Black, Muslim, non-Christian community member’s values will not be reflected – or even acknowledged.

Also, Missouri has out-uglied Texas.

In Missouri, the Republican-controlled House on Tuesday approved a budget that completely defunds public libraries. The move came in response to an ACLU lawsuit filed by the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association, challenging a recent law that bans certain books. The measure has led to the removal of over 300 books from school libraries — many with LGBTQ characters and social justice topics. Missouri Democrats have denounced GOP censorship

Do Texas lawmakers know about the Internet? Any books they say are “harmful” can be read or purchased online. Prohibitions don’t work.

Tell a kid they can’t do something and they’ll want to do it even more. My parents told me I couldn’t be gay. Look how that turned out.

 

Missouri AG Limits Gender-Affirming Care For Adults

For adults.   This is not about protecting children, it is about wiping out a group of people that the religious right doesn’t like.   It doesn’t fit their view of the world created by their god.  So the right doesn’t just live and let live, these religious right groups force everyone to live by their church doctrines.   Hugs

Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced plans to restrict health care for transgender people weeks ago, when protesters rallied at the Capitol to urge lawmakers to pass a law banning puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries for children. But the discussion was focused on minors, not adults.

Note how effortlessly the goalpost has shifted from saving harming minors to harming adults? Of course, as we here have always known, it was never about “protecting children.”

 

They’re testing the waters. Trans people are easy targets for the theofascists. I guarantee you that 80-90% of Americans know absolutely nothing about trans people, their lives and their challenges.

The theofascists’ ultimate target is the LGB community.

They see what other nations like Russia and Hungary are doing, and are envious.

This is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Creeping restrictions on civil rights and criminalizing the existence of ‘suspect’ groups of people. We have to fight back and beat this before it spreads to other states.

The federal government is going to have to intervene. They did it in the civil rights movement for black people and they are going to have to find their will and courage to do it again. These people mean us harm and will not stop

This has always been the goal – not “protecting children,” but eliminating trans people from society, with an eye toward eliminating gays, lesbians and bisexuals too. Trans people are just the easiest target, and going after them makes for an effective divide and conquer strategy if you can get homocons and TERFs on board.

Anyone with a working brain knew this was going to happen. Like other people have said, this whole “think of the children” BS was just a cover! Now they are coming after trans adults. After that they will come after gay rights! I guarantee it! I’m sure interracial marriage will be on the chopping block too. These fascists will stop at nothing to get the right wing theocracy they crave. We must fight these asshats tooth and nail!

Florida Rep: “Damn Right, We Ought To Erase” LGBTQs

6,000 minors were killed or injured by guns in 2022.

Guns are the leading cause of death for minors.

Minors killed or injured by drag queens? ZERO.

And the GOP?

DRAG QUEENS ARE A DANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Tory Rep: “All White Men Should Have Black Slaves”

The push for racism and white supremacy is making a worldwide comeback due to wealthy racist donors pushing such garbage.  Hugs

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SD Gov: I Gave My Toddler Granddaughter A Shotgun

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Gov, Noem, on celebrating the diversity of the NRA.
“It’s not just a bunch of old white guys…”

(as the camera pans the audience applauding her statement)

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wonder where the big money going to the NRA is coming from

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DeSantis: Florida Had No “State Pride” Until I Was Gov

DeathSantis has made the state of Florida racist bigoted white supremacist religious right conservative maga paradise.   He has made minority rule of pushing hate and intolerance against anyone not following the maga Christian talking points.  It is not enough for these people to publicly live their maga Christian right hateful lives they demand they get to use those Christian maga conservative views against others, they feel entitled to attack those they feel are not following their church doctrines and they attack those that allow or are tolerant of others.  They feel that every one around them must act according to their regressive, backwards beliefs.    Hugs 

Really? Looks like it’s been at least 20 years.

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Florida pride. https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.e… 

Many elected leaders like U.S. Sen. Rick Scott denounced the Nazi salutes, anti-Jewish slurs and Nazi regalia. On Monday, the governor did not condemn the demonstrators. Instead, he criticized Democrats.

Meanwhile, bomb threats forced the temporary closure of historically Black colleges and universities. Also, on the first day of Black History Month, DeSantis asked the Florida Supreme Court whether Black congressman Al Lawson’s district was unconstitutional. Lawson responded that the governor is race-baiting to build political points with his base.

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State Job Applications Demand Praise For Aunt Lydia

Aunt Lydia Axes Demand For Praise From Job Seekers

Boebert’s Teen Son Blows Off Car Accident Court Date

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WaPo: Thomas Reported Big Income From Defunct Firm

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Pro-KKK Former GOP Rep/Pastor Guilty Of Felony Theft