This is what the right wing / republicans in office want to do here. They are already doing it in schools by banning any positive mention of the LGBTQI+ while they continue to spew lies and misinformation. They are already doing this by trying to ban drag queens or making them a sexual orientated business. Hugs
Russian parliament passes law banning ‘LGBT propaganda’ among adults
People take part in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community rally “VIII St.Petersburg Pride” in St. Petersburg, Russia August 12, 2017. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File Photo
MOSCOW, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Russia’s parliament approved on Thursday a bill that widens a prohibition of “LGBT propaganda” and restricts the “demonstration” of LGBT behaviour, making any expression of an LGBT lifestyle almost impossible.
Under the new law, which still needs the approval of the upper house of parliament and President Vladimir Putin, any action or information that is considered an attempt to promote homosexuality – whether in public, online, or in films, books or advertising – could incur a heavy fine.
Previously, the law had outlawed only promotion of LGBT lifestyles aimed at children. The new bill also bans the “demonstration” of LGBT behaviour to children.
Lawmakers say they are defending traditional values of the “Russian world” against a liberal West they say is determined to destroy them – an argument also increasingly being used by officials as one of the justifications for Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine.
Authorities have already used the existing law to stop gay pride marches and detain gay rights activists. Rights groups say the new law is intended to drive so-called “non-traditional” LGBT lifestyles practised by lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people out of public life altogether.
‘HYBRID WARFARE’
“LGBT today is an element of hybrid warfare and in this hybrid warfare we must protect our values, our society and our children,” Alexander Khinstein, one of the bill’s architects, said last month.
Legal experts said the vagueness of the bill’s language gives room for law enforcers to interpret them as broadly as they wish, leaving members of the LGBT community in a state of even greater uncertainty.
Kseniya Mikhailova of the LGBT support group Vykhod (“Coming Out”) said adults-only gay bars or clubs would probably still be allowed to function, although perhaps not to advertise, but that same-sex kissing in public might be taken as an infraction.
And she said same-sex couples would begin to fear that their children might be taken from them on the grounds that they were having an LGBT lifestyle demonstrated to them.
The law stipulates fines of up to 400,000 roubles ($6,600) for individuals and up to 5 million roubles ($82,100) for legal entities. Foreigners could face 15 days of arrest and subsequent expulsion.
Mikhailova said the original ban nine years ago on LGBT “propaganda” towards minors had triggered a wave of attacks on the LGBT community, and that it could now expect a “tsunami” because the amendment in effect “says the state is not against violence towards LGBT people”.
Political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann said the law aimed to prohibit anything that showed LGBT relations or inclinations to be “socially acceptable” or “equal to so-called traditional family relations or sexual relations”.
“People – authors, publishers, just people – will think twice before even mentioning anything related to LGBT,” she said in an interview from Cologne, Germany.
Schulmann said the bill was also a “huge win” for the communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, which had already “assumed the powers of a political police” and now had the authority and responsibility to monitor all kinds of information in search of LGBT propaganda.
The video-sharing app TikTok was fined 3 million roubles last month for promoting “videos with LGBT themes”, while Russia’s media regulator asked publishing houses to look at withdrawing all books containing “LGBT propaganda” from sale.
Notice Russia is not attacking military targets. This is terrorism, it is targeting civilians and infrastructure needed to survive to get what they cannot achieve fighting the Ukraine army. They want to make the people so scared and desperate that they will just give in and give Russia what it wants. This is about a bully making the victim suffer. My gods how can the world just let this continue when we can stop it. Think of what it is like in the US snow belt when the power goes out? This is what is going to happen in Ukraine all over the country. Think about when there is no running water. That is what is happening in Ukraine due to Russia. Russia is losing the war, so they want to make the Ukrainian people so miserable and frightened that they will negotiate giving Russia parts of their country. We have the tech to stop this, we have the tools. We need to move in and stop these missiles. But even more we have tied Ukraine’s hands, we have given weapons and support only as long as they don’t attack inside Russia. Yet Russia can attack inside Ukraine. So Ukraine cannot fight back, cannot make Russia suffer as Russia is doing to Ukraine. It means that while Russia gets to do anything it wants to hurt Ukrainians we are preventing Ukraine from hurting Russia back. Damn one sided if you ask me. Hugs
Russia launched 70 missiles at Ukraine in its latest “large-scale attack on crucial infrastructure facilities,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Telegram. Fifty-one of the 70 missiles were intercepted, as well as five attack drones, the military’s statement read.
These religious groups are terrified that same sex marriage will be codified into law as they see their goal of getting it overturned at the supreme court. We have had legal same sex marriage / marriage equality in the US since 2015 which is by my math today been 7 years without any of the horrors they promised happening. But more than that same sex marriage has been legal in other countries for over 20 years now. I think the real reason they are desperate to stop the legal same sex marriage / marriage equality is it gives a lie to their view of their holy book and the power of their god. If it was truly such an abomination and so hated by the supreme most powerful being in the universe and yet he doesn’t do anything to stop it or prevent it, it makes their god look very weak. I really do not understand why this issue matters so much to them and why they try so hard to stop it. I don’t care about straight couples and their marriages because it doesn’t affect me at all. Why would my marriage, which is in reality a civil legal contract between adults be of any interest to these straight guys? Maybe other people can figure it out. But as Ali said to me on another post, think of how many people could be housed or fed with that money. Hugs
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, is spending more than $1 million to run advertisements during the Thanksgiving weekend NFL and college football games to warn Americans that the new Respect for Marriage Act will “expose religious schools and nonprofits to lawsuits,” Fox News Digital reported. It is the biggest campaign the Heritage Foundation has ever launched.
The Respect for Marriage Act’s final vote in the Senate is scheduled for Monday, which, if passed, will codify the right to same-sex marriage. “America’s religious liberty is under attack with this impending vote in the Senate,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said. “This legislation does not add one additional benefit to same-sex couples in the United States; it’s an attack that sets the stage to take rights away from people of faith.”
See the ad below.
What religious schools and organizations could face in the very near future if the (Dis)Respect for Marriage Act passes:
❌ Exposed to lawsuits ❌ Targeted by the IRS ❌ Doors closed and services cut
This radical legislation, while posed as anti-discriminatory, is anything but. pic.twitter.com/XI4okDOG1r
I’ll bet that these same people think that black athletes and allies should just shut the fuck up about civil rights because sports shouldn’t be used for political reasons.
It is just so exhausting to ride this fucking rollercoaster. We have marriage equality, then we don’t. Then we do in some states, then we don’t. Then because of ONE swing vote on SCOTUS we got it. Now Congress votes on it, we think we have it for good, now possibly we don’t again. What the FUCK is wrong with this fucking country?
Horrors They are trying to take away our right to Hate and Lie. This is America !! We we will not tolerate it. its an infringement on out God given rights
Radical anti-gay pressure group “Heritage Foundation” wears a 3-piece suit rather than a brown shirt, but it’s still a bunch of thugs doing all they can to smear, revile and cancel gay Americans.
A U.S. company is being investigated by the Department of Labor for employing children in slaughterhouses. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.commondreams.org/news/202… “A federal judge on Thursday granted a nationwide injunction against an industrial cleaning company, ordering the company to end its use of “oppressive child labor” after an investigation found it was employing dozens of children as young as 13—some of whom were injured while working in meatpacking facilities. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) requested the injunction in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska after completing an investigation of Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI) that began in late August. The federal government had received a tip alleging that PSSI was illegally employing children and that they were working in hazardous conditions.”
The war on women! This is the republican white male religious thugs on their glorious war path for their lord! What else is the legal system / law enforcement for except to enforce males’ supremacy over women and to use the power of the state to enforce control over a womans sex organs. Hugs
An Alabama woman who was jailed for allegedly using drugs during pregnancy has filed a lawsuit against the sheriff’s office saying she wasn’t pregnant, AL.com reports.
According to her lawsuit, an investigation was launched against Stacey Freeman by the Department of Human Resources for substance use when one of her children told a social worker her mom was pregnant. Freeman offered to take a pregnancy test and Etowah County Department of Human Resources employees ordered one for her, but she never ended up taking the test and Etowah County Sheriff Investigator Brandi Fuller issued a warrant for her arrest.
She was arrested and charged with chemical endangerment of a child. She was released a little over a day after her arrest and the charges were dropped.
“It’s just shameful you can go off somebody’s word that somebody’s pregnant,” her attorney Martin Weinberg said. “It’s easy to verify through a pregnancy test.”
Fuller has been involved in “an obscene number of arrests for pregnant and postpartum women,” according to the lawsuit.
“The Sheriff’s department and its employees have been reckless in investigating in making arrests of women for chemical endangerment and then encouraging their prosecution,” the lawsuit said.
While her charges have been dropped, they haven’t been expunged, making the case still available as a public record. The warrant incorrectly states that Freeman tested positive for marijuana, amphetamines and alcohol while pregnant.
Right after I shared one of the things Randy sent me, I got a frantic call from a friend in the park. He needed help sending pictures to FEMA from the computer. This is the only complaint I have with FEMA over the response to Ian, everything is over the computer and we live in an area of a lot of older people and people not computer savvy. So I have let it be know I will help those having issues I will help. I invited them over and took care of the issue. But then we visited for a while. The point is that there are a lot of people who cannot do all the things they need to take care of online. I understand their frustration because I cannot do business over the phone. I can hardly book appointments and other simple things. I am just getting to the point at 59 years old I can talk to friends on the phone. I have explained the reason before. When I was a kid the phone was off limits to me. While the hell spawn could have phones in their rooms and would race to answer the wall phone, I was forbidden to touch it. One time when it rang, I simply lifted the receiver and handed it to someone else, I got reminded physically and verbally that I did not touch the phone. Painfully reminded, the bruises stayed with me for a while to remind me, I did not touch the home phones. Anyway enjoy the posts. Hugs
Another US election, another "Land doesn't vote, people do" style map showing the election results. pic.twitter.com/XmMTSUKJof
Barack Obama Shows What Fox News Destroyed In American Politics
The conservative network started the trend and it’s been turbocharged by social media, the former president told “The Daily Show” host Trevo
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Barack Obama reflected Thursday on what he could do when running for the U.S. Senate in Illinois in the early 2000s that he most likely couldn’t do now — because of Fox News and social media.
In an interview with “The Daily Show,” the former president recalled campaigning in rural, mainly conservative areas and still connecting with voters on a personal level, even though they were skeptical of his progressive ideas.
“There wasn’t the filter that has been created by Fox News or the media infrastructure, the right-wing conspiracy theory folks, and so they came at me with an open mind,” he told host Trevor Noah.
“I could listen to them and they could listen to me and at the end of the day, they might say, ‘Well he’s a little liberal for our taste, but we have something in common,’ ― like the love they have for their children,” Obama continued. “There was some sense of connection.”
“I think the filter now has become so thick,” he said. “It started with Fox News and some of the other traditional media, and now with social media that’s gotten turbocharged. If you go into those same communities now, they have so many preconceptions about what somebody like me believes, cares about, etc., that it’s very hard to penetrate.”
FOX killed our familial and neighborly dialog because conservatives do not want to defend their ‘values’.
Jesse Benton was pardoned by Russian asset Donald J Trump.
Russian spies look after each other.
Rand Paul works for Putin. His voting record is always pro-Russia. He hand-delivered a letter to Putin. No surprise his family has been groomed, as well, to serve our enemies in Russia.
Naming your kid after soulless Russian Ayn Rand was no mistake for Ron Paul.
Did we just catch him with a state funds kick back? We know he is dirty and willing to do what ever he has to win the big prize, but is the crimes going to be this easy to catch? Next is to try to hold him accountable, as he has set up a kingdom here in Florida that he can order to block and defend him. Hugs
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has so far paid more than $1.5 million to a politically connected contractor for a program to fly migrants from Texas to northeastern states — but the private jets chartered by the contractor cost only a fraction of that sum.
Newly released public records show the contractor, Destin, Florida-based Vertol Systems Company, was quoted a price of roughly $153,000 for two charter plane trips from San Antonio to the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard. That leaves about $1.4 million in Florida taxpayer funds unaccounted for.
Vertol has connections at the top of the DeSantis administration. The high-ranking DeSantis official who supervised the migrant flight program, public-safety czar Larry Keefe, handled Vertol’s legal work for years. He also served as President Donald Trump’s U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
Somebody had pay to get the FOX camera crew there to record the migrants’ arrival. Also, I think there was a videographer on board not to mention the mysterious coyote (recruiter) who seems to have disappeared.
Since sales tax is 80% of Floridumb’s revenue stream, it does rely on a huge tourist trade to make up for a lack of state income tax. So it’s not just the idiotic voters.
No big deal, he’ll just write an executive order to criminalize woke journalists who ask questions about how Florida government spends money. Florida voters will love his display of dominance.
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