Category: Courts / Laws / legal

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

GOP Works To Make It Harder For Students To Vote

TN Lawmakers Approve Snitch Line For Professors

 

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

TX Senate Approves Ban On “Harmful” Library Books

 

Yalma Cuder-Zicci  Sam_Handwich2 days ago

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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SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad2 days ago

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

Gigi2 days ago

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.

Uncle Mark 2 days ago edited

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.”

 

another_steve  Uncle Mark2 days ago

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.

IamSmartypants  Uncle Mark2 days ago

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.

TnCTampa 2 days ago

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

AyJayDee2 2 days ago

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.

Octoberfurst 2 days ago

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

Ross2 days ago

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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Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️2 days ago

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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TnCTampa  Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️2 days ago

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 

Harveyrabbit 🐱16 hours ago

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

 

WaPo: “Freedom Is Under Assault In DeSantis’ Florida”

WaPo: “Freedom Is Under Assault In DeSantis’ Florida”

Originally I was not sure that if DeathSantis was a true believer, a gang thug, or just a pandering republican.   I have come to the opinion that he really is all three.   While he seemed smart enough to get through an Ivy League school, he was considered really backward and thuggish in the military, which carried over to him being thought of as stupid in the congress.   He really is as ambitious, as religious, as callous, and as entitled thinking a white man who will hurt anyone to advance himself as they come.    The only difference between him and trump is his age and his willingness to listen to others who tell him they can get him what he wants.   Otherwise, he is a trump clone.    Give him authority and power and he will abuse it to enrich himself, create more authority for himself, and to hurt those he can while enjoying doing so.  Terrifying because he took the trump base and entrenched himself as the governor that will do what every they want regardless of how it hurts others or is illegal, if they will continue to support him.    In the article you will see a free link to the story and I suggest you use it.   I have and won’t abuse the privilege to copy it here.     Hugs  

From the editorial board of the Washington Post:

Backed by GOP supermajorities in both chambers, Mr. DeSantis is waging frontal assaults on press freedom, reproductive freedom, free enterprise and academic freedom. Meanwhile, in the name of protecting gun rights, he has scaled back prudent safety rules. And now he’s poised to target undocumented immigrants, including “dreamers,” with what will be some of the cruelest policies in America.

One of the cruelest steps Mr. DeSantis plans to take in the coming weeks to bolster his presidential bona fides is a crackdown on undocumented immigrants. He wants to require hospitals to collect data on the immigration status of patients, which would deter people from seeking needed medical care. Another measure under consideration would make it a felony to shelter, hire or transport any undocumented immigrant.

Read the full editorial. It’s really something. Gift link.

 

SoCalGal20 11 hours ago

He’s a fascist with a fascist supermajority legislature supporting him. Having said that, I don’t see him winning outside of Florida. If Trump drops dead maybe he can get the R nom but even then I’m not sure.

Watch what he does with the Disney thing. As long as he can bully his opponent he can run over them but when he can’t (see: Disney) he becomes a petty, vindictive bitch who resorts to bluster (tolls! taxes!) and just comes off as throwing a tantrum.

What, me worry?  SoCalGal209 hours ago

The Disney fiasco is going to cost the taxpayers in Floriduh a lot of money. Tourism may suffer too, with groups advising their members not to travel to Florida due to the real danger they could face there.

SoCalGal20  What, me worry?8 hours ago

Definitely. One would hope that would turn some people in Florida off from supporting DeSantis but they do seem to love their fascist government given his margin of victory in his reelection.

I do wonder if his base won’t care too much because the brunt of the punishment is going to be felt in and around Orange County, which is blue.

I think him ignoring the looming insurance disaster while he’s out running for president/on his book tour might get him in more trouble with his base but we’ll see.

carswell12 hours ago

Everything they say is true. And it’s playing well to his base, which is part of the plan (securing the GQP nomination for president, the other part being pretending he’s Viktor Orban).

But there’s another side to this coin. He may have enshrined all this fascist ideology into Florida law and got lots of media coverage doing so. But that will come back to haunt him if he runs in the general because he won’t be able to walk it back, to tack to the centre. That will spell his doom.

Am expecting DeSantis to be 2023-2024’s Scott Walker (remember him?).

AyJayDee2  carswell12 hours ago

I hope that’s the case, but I can’t be too sure. American voters can be astoundingly shallow come Election Day, not to mention the potential for the Green Party to ratfuck the Democrats like in 2016.

carswell  AyJayDee212 hours ago

Though Trump was nominally against abortion in 2016 (typically it was hard to pin down exactly what his position was), few believed Roe v. Wade would be in danger if he was elected. It just wasn’t a big issue.

But it is now and will be even more so in 2024. And DeSantis’s position is crystal clear. Add in other things like his stance on guns, his white supremacy, his weaponizing of government, his picking on the beloved Disney franchise, his targeting of minorities and his blind ambition, none of which play well with the US public, and it’s clear he has an uphill battle ahead of him, even if the shitgibbon is somehow neutralized.

Not saying your skepticism is misplaced. A sharp downturn in the economy, say, or war with Russia or China could radically change the calculus. But if so, most voters would be voting against Biden, not for DeSantis.

AyJayDee2  carswell11 hours ago

That’s what worries me – enough people voting for DeSantis just because he’s “the other guy” or sitting out or voting third-party would be enough to hand the GOP fascists the White House.

Anastasia Beaverhousen10 hours ago

They tried this in Alabama about 15 years ago. Guess how many houses didn’t get build and construction companies that folded. They had no one to pick watermelons, oranges, etc. They rotted in the fields. So you do that Ronnie!

Friday  Anastasia Beaverhousen7 hours ago edited

Georgia boned at least one vidalia crop with their anti-migrant labor BS, (which was therefore short-lived) …cause local people can’t *live* harvesting one crop a year for subminimum wages, or even minimum wages, thus did not appear. Seasonal labor essentially *has* to move around to get through every year, and average American job-seekers neither have an unofficial system and infrastructure for that, nor do they generally find that appealing.

Not to mention that if someone that’s a citizen is physically-capable of that kind of labor, chances are they will have a *better* job than that at least available. I mean, when I was homeless I made an attempt to get something out of that but between the disability that largely put me there in the first place and the whole not-being-fed part, all I got was sick from being in the Sun and …no pay at all to use to go eat something and try again the next day.

I think what Republicans and racists expect to happen very quickly proves to not be what happens. But they still will neither pay for better arrangements or stop blaming the migrant labor they presume is ‘illegal’ for all their perceived problems.

Friday  Anastasia Beaverhousen7 hours ago edited

Georgia boned at least one vidalia crop with their anti-migrant labor BS, (which was therefore short-lived) …cause local people can’t *live* harvesting one crop a year for subminimum wages, or even minimum wages, thus did not appear. Seasonal labor essentially *has* to move around to get through every year, and average American job-seekers neither have an unofficial system and infrastructure for that, nor do they generally find that appealing.

Not to mention that if someone that’s a citizen is physically-capable of that kind of labor, chances are they will have a *better* job than that at least available. I mean, when I was homeless I made an attempt to get something out of that but between the disability that largely put me there in the first place and the whole not-being-fed part, all I got was sick from being in the Sun and …no pay at all to use to go eat something and try again the next day.

I think what Republicans and racists expect to happen very quickly proves to not be what happens. But they still will neither pay for better arrangements or stop blaming the migrant labor they presume is ‘illegal’ for all their perceived problems.

margaretpoa 12 hours ago

Why do you think I call him DeFascist? Fucking WaPo! All of you bastards in the both sides media are complicit in bringing this about. How long have you scoffed at those of us who have literally spent decades warning you that this was happening?
That is what happens when you are securely ensconced in your ivory tower. You look out at the world and think that you have sure knowledge of reality when actually you’re just seeing your own biases.

George K Wright a day ago

“Felony to shelter, hire or transport undocumented immigrant”. So three quarters of Florida employers will be felons?

Nic Petersona day ago

Who the fuck does he think is going to tend to the landscaping all of the low rent gated communities? Who is going to harvest the agricultural bounty? Can’t wait for next year’s strawberry crop to rot in the fields.

Melissia  amy cuscuriaea day ago edited

They think the only way to compete is also to go far right.

It’s stupid. DeSantis constantly increases the size and authority of the Floridian government and its control over Florida’s people, you’d think that “small government” would be an easy rallying cry without having to tread on going far right.

JWC a day ago

There was a time when the GOP kept their NAZIISM under wraps . No longer . It’s out there front and centre under spot lights

The_Wretcheda day ago

Next up, DeSantis has the FL legislature declare him king for life.

Cel 18 hours ago

“…would make it a felony to shelter, hire or transport any undocumented immigrant.” Replace “undocumented immigrant” with “Jew” and it’s a page right out of Hitler’s playbook.

 

Dem House Rep Points Out That $115 Billion Budget Proposed By DeSantis Includes $41B In “Biden Bucks”

Dem House Rep Points Out That $115 Billion Budget Proposed By DeSantis Includes $41B In “Biden Bucks”

MO Republican Backs Marriage For 12 Year-Old Children

MO Republican Backs Marriage For 12 Year-Old Children

As I keep writing, this is not about protecting children, but instead it is forcing a religious lifestyle on everyone.   Clearly in his mind it is a 12 year old girl marrying an older boy / adult man.   He would be the first to be appalled if a 12 year old boy was allowed / forced to marry an older boy or adult male.   That is because to some religious minded people, girls / women are property of men for the use of childbearing and providing men with pleasure as the man wishes.  It is misogyny at its worse.  This is about allowing religious parents and church leaders to set the rules for all other parents and those parents kids.  It is the attempt to return to a Christian religion dominated society that these religious people are desperate to have as a way to please their god.   I wish people would see how blatant this has become.   Hugs

The Springfield News-Leader reports:

During debate Tuesday on a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, Missouri State Senator Mike Moon suggested children as young as 12 should have the right to marry with parental permission.

“Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They’re still married,” Moon said in response to questioning by Democratic state Representative Peter Meredith.

In debate on the bill, Rep. Meredith cited Moon’s stance on child marriage as inconsistent with his aim of protecting children through his bill banning transgender care for minors.

Read the full article.

Moon last appeared here in February when he introduced a K-12 “Don’t Say Gay” bill. He first appeared on JMG in June 2017 when he slaughtered a chicken on Facebook Live in an attempt to make a point about abortion. Yes, really. Moon was a primary sponsor of Missouri’s successful resolution calling for a convention of the states, at which right wingers hope to approve constitutional amendments to ban abortion and same-sex marriage nationwide.

 

From the linked article.   

A southwest Missouri Republican from Ash Grove, Moon’s support of child marriage in some instances has been long documented. In 2018 Missouri passed a law raising the marriage age in the state from 15 to 16 and requiring parental permission for older teenagers to marry. Moon opposed the bill at the time — citing the same anecdote of a couple he met in college who had married one another at age 12.

 

Moon’s support of the practice resurfaced during a committee hearing on a bill introduced by Moon that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender children. If passed the bill would ban health care providers from performing gender-affirming surgeries on any minor or from prescribing or administering cross-sex hormones or puberty-blocking drugs to a minor for a gender transition, unless such minor was receiving such treatment prior to August 28, 2023.

In debate on the bill, Rep. Meredith cited Moon’s stance on child marriage as inconsistent with his aim of protecting children through his bill banning transgender care for minors.

“I’ve heard you talk about parents’ rights to raise their kids how they want. In fact, I just double checked. You voted no on making it illegal for kids to be married to adults at the age of 12. If their parents consented to it, you said actually, that should be the law because it’s the parents right and the kids right to decide what’s best for them. To be raped by an adult,” Meredith said.

HZ8118 hours ago

God forbid a child bride hears a drag queen read Charlotte’s Web.

Doug105  HZ8118 hours ago

Might give her the idea she has value beyond being a broodmare.

Trevor Brown  HZ8117 hours ago edited

If you want to get technical the Bible never specifies an age of consent (for marriage or sexual activity). So IF they want to be biblical they should allow child rape from birth. It’s one of the moral failings that the Bible got wrong. Just like slavery.

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Yeah, let’s have more of this.

Ouch It Bit Me  Robert Conner18 hours ago

The young boys that are kept as sex toys aren’t in the picture because that’s private men’s business.

Nico El Azul Gato Let’s play  Robert Conner 18 hours ago

I seem to recall some xstain men getting some of that too.

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April Smith 18 hours ago edited

Hey, if he thinks 12 year-olds can do adult things like marry he should have no problem with 12 year olds having access to gender affirming healthcare.

This useful idiot accidentally made one of the best arguments concerning healthcare for Transkids.

Boreal  April Smith18 hours ago

Republican Jesus:

Child brides-A-okay

Gender affirming healthcare-a plot to destroy murica.

amandagirl15701  Boreal15 hours ago

12 year olds getting married and pregnant, but not allowed to learn how they got pregnant.

jec 18 hours ago

Girls married off at 12 are not likely to have the knowledge or resources necessary to extricate themselves from that situation. OF COURSE they’re still married! They have absolutely nowhere else to go, as Humbert said about Lolita.

clay  jec18 hours ago edited

His only measure for the “success” of marriage is if it ends in divorce, or if it ends in death. The ones that end in death are the “successes”.

Lizard  Buford18 hours ago

Makes no more sense than “a 15-year-old is too immature to decide to get an abortion, but is mature enough to have a baby.”

Ann Kah18 hours ago

“They’re still married”. Ah, but did they ever get the chance to grow up?

 

Tennessee City OKs Pride Festival In 5-4 Vote [VIDEO]

Tennessee City OKs Pride Festival In 5-4 Vote [VIDEO]

Again people are not forced to go to or watch a pride parade.   Yet these Christian Taliban don’t care that participation is voluntary but instead wants to keep everyone from viewing the pride parades and banning them from being presented at all.   Please note that one of the people against it was angry that the parade organizers won’t provide a booth for a Christian group to berate the parade participants / viewers and also to demand that gays never have sex with others but instead stay celibate.    Also notice that in all prior years there was no issue with the parade, but now the Christian fundamentalists feel free to demand the entire community live by their views like a ruling religion.    Hugs  

Nashville’s Fox affiliate reports:

The City of Franklin voted to allow the annual Pride festival to occur in town this year. This comes right after the city decided to wait to vote on the “community decency” policy for another few weeks.

The result came after the aldermen tied 4-4 in their votes, making it so Mayor Ken Moore of Franklin had to break the tie. He said while he approved the permit, he warned those putting on the festival will be under a microscope, but ultimately Moore said he wants to unite the community.

The Tuesday night vote comes just weeks after Governor Bill Lee signed the drag bill into law in March, which bans “adult-oriented performances” in places where children would be able to view them.

Nashville’s ABC affiliate reports:

Some aldermen said they received threatening emails from people over this vote and repeated that figuring out which way to vote was not as easy of a decision in particular because of a potential lawsuit if they deny Franklin Pride the permit.

According to city leaders, last year, the event’s permit was approved 8-0 and the city has never denied a permit. “I don’t want to see a guy twerking in front of me. I am 60 years old,” said one speaker. “God’s word is clear that homosexuality is a sin,” said another.

While they were in the minority Tuesday night, those who wanted the event to take place believed denying the permit would infringe on their free speech, and send a harmful message to the LGBT community, and people who don’t want to attend are not forced to do so.

Give the tweets below a minute to fully load.

 

Christians Seek To Ban Tennessee Pride Festival

One mother claimed that the festival was part of a coordinated national movement to groom children. A man read a passage from the Bible about resisting “sexual immorality.” “You think you are doing things based on laws,” a crying woman said, “but you are letting Satan in.”

Read the full article. Festival organizers have already agreed that there won’t be any drag performances.

Please notice that even when the organizers gave into these Christian Taliban by limiting what is and has been accepted free speech in public society for a long time by agreeing that they wouldn’t have drag at the event.   Not risky sexual drag from an adult venue but not drag at all.   I guess dressing up like Dolly Parton which is a favorite of drag queens is now to sexual for people to see.  But it is not enough, these religious haters that want to force their religion church doctrine on everyone, they want the full Russian model of removing pride and the LGBTQ+ removed from society along with removed from the public in all cases.    These are the same people that freak out when people want to restrict them from plastering their religious symbols everywhere and who try to pass laws to protect the display of confederate statues / symbols.   But they do not give that courtesy to the rest of us, instead they try to demand their church doctrines rule us all.   Hugs

 

Houndentenor a day ago

If you don’t like Pride Fest then don’t go. Don’t think it’s appropriate for kids, then don’t take any. Problem solved. I steer clear of plenty of things myself. Most of us do.

Also, I have ancestors who were here in the 1600s so I guess that guy would think I have even more say than he does? What bullshit. You’re either a citizen or you aren’t no matter when you or your ancestors got here.

Man_in_the_mists  Houndentenor19 hours ago

I wonder how he would react if a Native American countered his argument with the fact that their ancestors lived in the area before the white man arrived.

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Clone War Survivora day ago

There is no hate like Christian hate –

What, me worry?  Clone War Survivora day ago

“We will know them by their hatreds.”

TennesseeEscapee  Clone War Survivor17 hours ago

Any religious hate.

Rex a day ago

Reason is lost on these people – they don’t want to listen to it or accepting of anyone that has different beliefs than they do. Hopeless.

Boreala day ago

“God’s word is clear that homosexuality is a sin,”

If your ‘god’ wants a say in our secular system, he can pay taxes like the rest of us.

zhera a day ago

“I don’t want to see a guy twerking in front of me. I am 60 years old,” said one speaker. “God’s word is clear that homosexuality is a sin,” said another.

You can turn around, walk away, close your eyes, etc. But then it’s not about that, is it? It’s about Other People Having Fun.

Makoto a day ago

““God’s word is clear that homosexuality is a sin,” said another.”

A) It’s not all that clear to me that the Christian bible is the word of any god
B) The Christian bible isn’t all that clear that homosexuality is a sin, especially when compared with other rules
C) Even assuming A and B, the Christian bible has a lot more to say about sins like divorce and eating pork or shellfish, yet I don’t see these folks out in near riot mode against those

DaveMiller135  Makotoa day ago

Adultery makes God’s Top Ten. I’ve read somewhere that the Christians feel comfortable going after gays because, as opposed to adulterers, they can convince themselves that they don’t know any homos.

 

FL Senate Passes Bill Outlawing Minors At Drag Shows

FL Senate Passes Bill Outlawing Minors At Drag Shows

I am stunned at how fast and how forceful some religious groups are pushing their demand that everyone live by their church dictates instead of civil law.   In One state the pride parade is barely going to be allowed to have a permit after 20 people showed up to push religious reasons to deny the parade permit.   They claimed their bible / religious views took priority to any other considerations because of their god / Satan.   These people a decade ago wouldn’t have been listened to yet now seem to be calling the shots.   In Florida Christian religious views trump all other considerations at town council / legislative meetings.   I know in the south a lot of Christian privilege is assumed and there is little you can do right now against it, but it used to never take over the state legislatures.  It is terrifying to see how entitled these Christians Taliban are in regulating other people’s personal lives, what other people’s kids can read, what other people’s kids can watch.   These religious Taliban are not about keeping their freedoms they are about taking away other people’s freedoms, they are not about being to worship as they believe but about forcing others to follow their churches dictates in what is right or wrong.    Hugs

Florida Politics reports:

Blistering Democratic opposition couldn’t stop legislation that criminalizes allowing minors into adult shows with “lewd” content from winning Senate approval. The Senate legislation, advancing on a 28-12 party-line vote, doesn’t mention “drag shows.” But (SB 1438) that Clay Yarborough, sponsored, is largely aimed at stopping children from attending those shows.

It authorizes state government officials within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) to suspend or revoke the liquor license of any establishment that admits minors to a live, adult performance. A person who admits a child to such a show would face a first-degree misdemeanor, punishable by up to $1,000 in fines and up to a year in prison.

Read the full article.

Democrats believe that the bill could also criminalize public drag shows such as those at outdoor Pride events.

Sen. Clay Yarborough [photo above] first appeared on JMG in 2010, when as a member of the Jacksonville City Council he declared that gays, Muslims, and atheists should not be permitted to hold public office, otherwise God will smite the fuck out of the country. Or something.

“I would say that when I read Romans Chapter 1, I see striking resemblances between where Rome was just prior to its fall in comparison to where America is today. There are striking similarities in what we allow in our societies. Rome did not fall from an outside attack, whether it was military or otherwise. It fell from within because it was morally bankrupt. And I believe we have been treading in that area for a while and the more that we do not embrace that which honors the Lord, we shouldn’t be surprised if the blessings do not continue on our land.”

 

GayOldLadya day ago

“Adult shows with lewd content”?????

Every public beach in Florida has Adult shows with lewd content everyday.

bearLvrFL  GayOldLady20 hours ago

You should see the parade of young women at the LA Fitness locations here in the Fort Lauderdale area. The women are dressed like something out of Mad Max, strips of clothing barely covering their tits, hanging out all over the place. I don’t object to what they are doing. I’m objecting to the application of one standard at LA Fitness (nothing…kids can go) and drag shows (aunties in drag are being banned).

mythictom  GayOldLadya day ago

So vague…how will the law hold in court?

Nico El Azul Gato Let’s play  mythictom a day ago

It may take years for the law to be ruled unconstitutional but before that happens, many people lives and careers will be ruined.

Nico El Azul Gato Let’s play  mythictom a day ago

It may take years for the law to be ruled unconstitutional but before that happens, many people lives and careers will be ruined.

Ninja0980  Nico El Azul Gato Let’s play a day ago

Which is the point, to drive LGBT people into the closet and out of society.

Rossa day ago

GOP: We must protect the children!!!!!!!!!!!

Note:

Since November 1, 2022:

Church leaders arrested for sexually abusing children or owning child porn: 124.

Drag queens arrested for sexually abusing children or owning child porn: 0.

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BeccaM  Rossa day ago

And the leading cause of kids dying is guns.

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JCF  Doug105a day ago

You’re confused, Caitlin. It’s only embryos/fetuses (esp White ones in ‘merka) that are sacred. After they’re born, fuhgettabout ’em! AR-15 target practice the lot of the lil’ rugrats!

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Tazzari1 a day ago

The party of individual responsibility and parents’ rights proves yet again that it is neither. The nannyfascist state strikes again.

CubbyPQ a day ago

Catholic mass is basically a drag show, so it is outlawed too, right?

Lefty  CubbyPQa day ago

LOL! I am (was) a WASP, but I went to a Catholic college. First time I had (yes, mandated due to course work) to go to mass, I kept thinking, these men are in dresses. With filigree, embroidery, and really ornate hats.

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Yalma Cuder-Zicci a day ago

They allow parents to determine what is taught in schools, but don’t trust parents to determine what shows their own children can attend.

Gregory In Seattle  Yalma Cuder-Ziccia day ago

They demand that parents have the right to make medical decisions for their kids, like not vaccinating them, then make it a serious crime to get their child gender affirming care.

DevilDoga day ago edited

GOP: “Parents know best what’s right for their children so government should back off!”

Also GOP: “Our (Republican) government knows better than parents what’s right for children when it comes to drag shows, CRT, education, gender affirming care, rape and pregnancy.”

Brian Green  DmRa day ago

“When are the sane Floridians going to wake up and do something?“

Probably about the same time that all the sane women in America finally organize to protect reproductive rights….. I’m frankly amazed it hasn’t happened.

 

Christians Seek To Ban Tennessee Pride Festival

 

Sarah a day ago
One mother claimed that the festival was part of a coordinated national movement to groom children.

 

No, you’re thinking of churches, lady.

DreadPikathulhu a day ago

It’s horrifying how quickly we’re backsliding. Decades of work by the LGBT+ community is at risk of being undone.

bearLvrFL  DreadPikathulhua day ago

The one thing that keeps me hopeful is that, socially, we have not backslid. One could make an argument that social progress is still moving forward. What’s critical is that our straight Allie’s be very awake and stand by us as we beat back these laws. If they “sit this one out” politically, we’re in (deeper) trouble.

TnCTampa  DreadPikathulhua day ago

Already is undone. Im just shocked at how quickly they are being allowed to take over. Before the feds wake up and realize it, its going to be to late to cut out this cancer

SilentMikea day ago

How about this…

Don’t take *your* kids or your fucking self to this and other events if you’re against them.

Don’t fucking force your religious beliefs and views on other people.

People that want these events also pay taxes.

Houndentenor  SilentMikea day ago

Many years ago (about 30) I was out with my friends at Houston’s pride parade. In addition to the gay and lesbian people you’d expect to see there, there were also a good number of Hispanic families with their kids. I found that odd until a friend told me that this is what Carnaval is like where they are from (including drag queens) so this is just good fun for the whole family to them. They didn’t think they had to shield children from adults in elaborate costumes. They were just putting on a show to entertain the crowd. They got it. I think most Republican leaders get it too. They just need a minority group to bash to distract their base from how sucky their lives are under GQP policies.

Misutaa Roboto a day ago edited

The people who habitually groom children into their stupid fucking cult feel they have the right to control others’ freedom of expression, and without any sense of irony, seek to enforce that control by labeling all expression they don’t approve of as “grooming”.

TexasBoy a day ago edited

If you REALLY are concerned about children, why not protect them from Ministers and Priests? I mean, if you consider EVERY GAY PERSON a groomer, shouldn’t you consider EVERY Priest and Minister a child diddling monster? Close, or at least tax, the chucrhes.

Sarah a day ago
A man read a passage from the Bible about resisting “sexual immorality.” “You think you are doing things based on laws,” a crying woman said, “but … you are letting Satan in.”

 

1) We don’t govern based on the Bible.

2) Actually, this is more like letting Satan *out.* :p

Halou a day ago

OT, but relevant;
Back in the day when segregation laws were repealed, white people would just close down all the public pools and fill them in with concrete in order to spite black people. They literally made their own lives joyless in order to prevent other people from having fun as well.

And now that the children of those bigots are being told that reading is not a crime and they have to put all the hidden books back…. they’re doing the same thing and making new rules to just get rid of public libraries altogether.

https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1645554493193428997?s=20
 
DaveMiller135 a day ago

It’s always the same shit with the Christians. They could quite easily change the channel, not check the book out, not go to the movie, not marry someone of the same sex, not have an abortion, but that isn’t enough. They have to prevent other people from doing things they object to. Newsflash, Christians: your god is losing ground and followers BECAUSE of your annoying and destructive nonsense.

Cel  DaveMiller135a day ago edited

They have their tax-exempt Churches, their schools, home schools, their colleges, their businesses, their radio/TV stations, their internet sites, their Christmas national holiday since 1870, and their cult is protected by the constitution…but that’s not enough, they want to force everyone to join their cult.

Halou a day ago
Festival organizers have already agreed that there won’t be any drag performances.

 

Just goes to show it doesn’t matter how may times you make concessions to these maniacs they will not stop until the entire LGBT+ community is erased. I’d go so far as to say that banning drag for fear of being called “groomers” merely encouraged them, and they clearly did not shy away from alleging child sexual abuse, “drag performances” or not.

StudioTodd a day ago

This infuriates me.

It’s been said many times, but there’s no hate like christain love.

They claim moral superiority and at the same time overwhelmingly support the most immoral leaders the world has known. They screech about obscenity and at the same time are the most vociferous consumers of porn. They harp on “family values” and at the same time their kids are getting impregnated in middle school, are being beaten by their fathers and are being sexually abused by their clergy. They label us as sexual deviants and at the same time there’s no sexual act that we enjoy that they don’t also engage in. They lie and lie and lie and lie again–claim “gay friends” that they clearly do not have, claim knowledge about us, our lives, our intentions and our activities that they clearly do not hold, and the biggest lie of all–claim that their oppression and marginalization is an expression of love. The glee and schadenfreude that can clearly be seen on their faces every time they succeed at fucking over our community exposes their hypocrisy and treachery.

They may claim to love people like me despite my being an evil sodomite, but I don’t mirror their lie. So I feel free to say that I hate these assholes with the burning heat of a thousand suns. Every time one of these brain-dead morons opens their mouth to mewl about protecting their drooling simpleton brats from people like me, I want to smash their face with a bat. Every obstacle that our community has ever faced can be traced back to the hands of these religious freaks. They cannot die off soon enough for me.

Fuck your god, fuck your families, fuck your values, fuck your churches, fuck your morals and fuck you!

 

UPDATE: Tennessee Speaker admits his family lives hours away from the district he represents

https://popular.info/p/update-tennessee-speaker-admits-his

It seems the republican view is that it is OK to break the laws if you are republican.   No matter what it seems they give a pass to themselves while wanting everyone else to “take personal responsibility” or “pull themselves up by their bootstraps”   Hugs

 

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (Screenshot/NBC News)

Yesterday, Popular Information published an article that posed this question: Where does the Tennessee House Speaker actually live? 

The issue is that Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) represents District 25, which encompasses the community of Crossville, about two hours outside of Nashville. Under the Tennessee Constitution, Sexton can only represent District 25 if he is “a qualified voter of that district.”

A Popular Information investigation uncovered substantial evidence that Sexton and his family lived year-round in Nashville, not Crossville. The piece cited property records, school enrollment, and the observation of his neighbor in Crossville. Sexton’s office, however, did not respond to a request for comment. 

After yesterday’s story was published and spread rapidly online, Sexton did communicate with Phil Williams, a high-profile Tennessee reporter. Williams reported that “Sexton argues, as Speaker, he has to be in Nashville so often that it’s easier to have his family here.” So now we know the answer to the question: Sexton, and his family, live in Nashville. 

In addition to not living in Crossville, Sexton has also not paid his property taxes on his two-bedroom condo in Crossville for the last two years, according to the Cumberland County website.

 

Under Tennessee law, “[t]he place where a married person’s spouse and family have their habitation is presumed to be the person’s place of residence.” So, now that Sexton admitted he and his family live in Nashville, there is a presumption that Sexton also resides in Nashville for the purpose of voting registration. That would make his representation of District 25 unconstitutional since he wouldn’t be “a qualified voter of that district.” 

The presumption can be rebutted if “a married person who takes up or continues abode with the intention of remaining at a place other than where the person’s family resides is a resident where the person abides.” But Sexton does not “abide” in Crossville while his family lives in Nashville. Sexton, by his own account, lives with his family in Nashville. 

According to Williams, Sexton also cited a different section of Tennessee residency law, which states, “a person does not gain or lose residence solely by reason of the person’s presence or absence while employed in this service of… this state.” The issue, however, is not the time Sexton is in Nashville during the four-month legislative session or other official business. The issue is that he lives there year-round, whether or not he is conducting legislative business. 

According to the 2022 House Ledger Sheet, for example, Sexton reported working on official business just 42 days outside of the four-month legislative session. But when he is not conducting official business, Sexton still appears to live in Nashville. 

John Spragens, an attorney in Tennessee who litigates election law issues — including residency challenges — agreed that there were legitimate issues about whether Sexton was a legal representative of his district. “Residency for voting purposes involves several factors, but someone could easily conclude that Sexton is living in Nashville,” Spragens said. “He’s not the first speaker to do that — just the first to expel members while his own house is not in order.”

Spragens added that, at the moment, “the legislature is the sole arbiter of any member’s qualifications, so it’s up to [Sexton’s] colleagues to decide whether he or any representative should be expelled.” Spragens said that Sexton’s residency could be challenged in court if he runs for reelection.

Gary Blackburn, an attorney who has practiced law in Tennessee since the 1970s, said that what Sexton is doing “violates the obvious spirit of this law” and is “contrary to the intent of the statute.” Blackburn said, however, that enforcement may be difficult because of vague language in the residency statute. Nevertheless, according to Blackburn, the issue of Sexton’s residency is “worthy of public discussion.” He agreed that Sexton could face a court challenge in any subsequent run for office. 

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