Category: Hate

MEDIA STILL QUESTION WHETHER TRUMP’S CHRISTIANS ARE ‘REAL’ CHRISTIANS

Media Still Question Whether Trump’s Christians are ‘Real’ Christians

I can not remember who sent me this one, but thank you.   It is in one of my old windows of open tabs.  Hugs.

The criminal former president is so far ahead of his closest GOP rival that the Washington press corps is already reviving themes from the 2016 and 2020 elections. Here’s the AP on Friday: “Some critics see Trump’s behavior as un-Christian. His conservative Christian backers see a hero.”

How can a lying, thieving, philandering sadist like Donald Trump continue to hold the overwhelming approval of “conservative Christians”? Since he first ran for president, reporters have tried explaining this apparent contradiction. They’re going to keep trying.

But all this rests on an assumption—two assumptions, actually. Once we drop them, a greater truth stands before us in plain sight: For Donald Trump’s Christians, there is no difference between religion and politics. They’re not pretending otherwise. The rest of us shouldn’t either.

What assumptions? 

The first is that Christianity is just one thing—the particular teachings of Jesus regarding God’s universal love, let’s say. The second, based on the first, is that there’s a contradiction between Trump and Christianity. How could supporters believe in God’s universal love while backing a man whose campaign has become explicitly a vengeance movement?

There is no contradiction, however, if we concede the obvious—that there’s more than one kind of Christianity, that there’s always been more than one kind, and that there are varieties of Christianity.

Once you concede this, you see a relationship that’s not at all based on a contradiction. It’s based on common interests. They aren’t drawn to him in spite of the fact that he’s a lying, thieving, philandering sadist. They’re drawn to him because he’s a lying, thieving, philandering sadist.

The implication here is one that few want to talk about, including religion reporters and their religious sources. If a variety of religion makes common cause with a bad man (for instance, with a lying, thieving, philandering sadist), isn’t that religion, well, a bad religion?

Reporters don’t want to be seen as adjudicators of faith. So they pretend that politics and religion are separate. Their religious sources don’t want the reputations of their respective religions to be irreparably harmed by Trump and his Christians so they pretend that religious faith isn’t what’s pushing them together. It’s politics, they say. 

For instance, the AP cited retired Catholic priest, the Rev. Peter Daly. 

In 2017, Daly wrote “Donald Trump’s gospel is not the Gospel of Jesus” in which he “depicted Trump as an uncharitable bully, prone to lying, lacking in empathy and tolerance.”

“He sees every opponent as someone to be shouted down or roughed up,” Daly wrote. “He is not a peacemaker.”

Six years later, the AP reported, Daly still can’t fully explain “why so many conservative Christians remain in Trump’s camp despite behavior and rhetoric ‘that are antithetical to everything they stand for.’”

It must be politics, not religion, he says. According to the AP:

“Some pro-Trump pastors have relished the proximity to power afforded during White House visits or special political events, Daly said. And some rural, white Christians ‘feel like nobody speaks for them,’ Daly added. ‘They think, “Here’s Donald Trump. He’ll be our champion.” It has nothing to do with being Christian. It’s the politics of grievance.’” 

Oh, but it has everything to do with being a Christian!

This is evident by Christian supporters explaining themselves in Christian terms:

“Some evangelicals, since early in Trump’s presidency, have likened him to Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who, according to the Bible, enabled Jews to return to Israel from their exile in Babylon.” [The Jews here are metaphors for God’s chosen people.]

They explain themselves in explicitly political terms, too. 

Megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffries told the AP: “In many ways, Christians feel like they are in an existential cultural war between good and evil, and they want a warrior like Donald Trump who can win.” 

There’s no difference between religion and politics.

I don’t know why there’s so much resistance to stating the obvious. Any religion that supports Donald Trump, and does so in explicitly religious terms, is not a religion that anyone, especially religious people, should be defending. Christianity isn’t just one thing. There are many Christianities. What’s so bad about calling one of them bad?

Most people, especially religious people, prefer to say that the Christians who support Trump aren’t “true” or “real” Christians—as if all Christianities privilege the Bible’s more peaceful and inclusive teachings. This is not (and never has been) the case.

God’s universal love, for many Christianities, is secondary to God’s particular (non-universal) punishment of God’s enemies—of the people who stand against Donald Trump. Politics and religion are not separate. They are one. Trump’s Christians don’t pretend otherwise. 

The rest of us shouldn’t either. 

Children’s picture book flagged at Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’

https://www.al.com/news/2023/10/childrens-picture-book-was-on-library-list-to-be-moved-to-adult-section-because-authors-last-name-is-gay.html

How far will these racist bigots take their crusade to take the US society back to the 1950s?  Books banned not for sexual content but for the fact that the last name of the author being gay and another for the fact that an unarmed black teenager is shot.  Only white cis straight morally Christian sanitized stuff is fit for people to read.   Banning adult magazines for adult people is coming next.  Below is a quote from the article.   Hugs

“This proves, as always, that censorship is never about limiting access to this book or that one. It is about sending the message to children that certain ideas—or even certain people—are not worthy of discussion or acknowledgement or consideration,” Brassard said. “This is a hateful message in a place like a public library, where all children are meant to feel safe, and where their curiosity about the world is meant to be nurtured.”

"Read Me A Story, Stella"

“Read Me A Story, Stella” was added to a book list of potentially sexually explicit books at the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library because the author’s last name is Gay.

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“Read Me a Story, Stella” is a children’s picture book about a pair of siblings reading books together and building a doghouse. However, because the author’s name is Marie-Louise Gay, the book was added to a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s section of the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library (HCPL) system.

 

Gay’s book has never been “mistakenly censored,” according to Kirsten Brassard, Gay’s publicist at Groundwood Books.

 
 

“Although it is obviously laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of censored books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the seriousness of the situation,” Brassard said in a statement.

 
 

Brassard mentioned other books on the list, including Angie Thomas’ “The Hate U Give,” which has no LGBTQ themes or sexual content but does depict the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager at the hands of police.

 
 

“This proves, as always, that censorship is never about limiting access to this book or that one. It is about sending the message to children that certain ideas—or even certain people—are not worthy of discussion or acknowledgement or consideration,” Brassard said. “This is a hateful message in a place like a public library, where all children are meant to feel safe, and where their curiosity about the world is meant to be nurtured.”

 
 

HCPL executive director Cindy Hewitt admitted “Read Me a Story, Stella” should not have been put on the list and was added because of the keyword “gay.”

 
 

“Obviously, we’re not going to touch that book for any reason,” Hewitt said. She’s also read “The Hate U Give” and said it’s an excellent book that no librarian should remove from the young adult section. Hewitt insists there was never any intention to target the LGBTQ community. Instead, she was hoping to be “proactive instead of reactive.”

 
 

“Read Me a Story, Stella” was one of 233 titles slated to be reviewed and potentially moved. However, after internal and public criticism that the list targeted the LGBTQ community, the process was halted. Librarians moved some of the books to the adult section, and some have not been re-catalogued.

 
 

“We wanted to be proactive and allow our library staff to look at our collection and make decisions about moving material to an older age group and not have someone from outside dictating that for us,” Hewitt said. She added that HCPL considers public opinion, but “our librarians are trained in collection development, and it should be their responsibility to examine the collection and make those changes.”

 
 

Hewitt said the review was based on a list of 102 books compiled by Clean Up Alabama. Clean Up Alabama has been targeting “sexually explicit” books in libraries around the state this year. “Read Me A Story, Stella” is not on this list. She said the library was gearing up for “unprecedented” book challenges by using this list as a starting point.

 
 

AL.com received a copy of the book review list for the Madison branch and found that 91% of 233 titles had the words lesbian, gay, transgender, gender identity, or gender non-conforming in the subject header, which lists numerous themes for each book. Hewitt said the keywords she asked the 10 branch managers at HCPL to use were “sexuality, gender, sex, and dating.”

 
 

Hewitt insisted this was a miscommunication problem and there was confusion about the process. “We understand and appreciate our community, and the needs of our collection to reflect our community,” Hewitt said. “We were never eliminating any book. We were just looking at it as a whole.”

 
 

Alyx Kim-Yohn is a circulation manager at the Madison branch of the library and said it’s “cosmically ironic” that the situation escalated during Banned Books Week. Kim-Yohn was frustrated because the directive wasn’t simply a review of the books. They said this was a mandate to review and move the books based on a list from the Alabama Public Library Service, which Hewitt confirmed doesn’t exist yet.

 
 

“The decision had been made,” Kim-Yohn said. “There was no debate. There’s no conversation. This is what was happening.”

 
 

Kim-Yohn refused to participate because they said it violated their professional ethics. They said even if they weren’t queer, they wouldn’t participate.

 
 

“Why are we just unilaterally moving all of this before anyone’s even complained about these books yet?” Kim-Yohn wondered.

 
 

Hewitt said she didn’t know how many books librarians moved and returned because she took a “hands-off approach” to the process. Community members with the group Read Freely Alabama, which is against the book challenges, visited several branches and compiled a list of 40 books moved into the adult section from various branches in Madison County.

 
 

AL.com obtained this list and determined that at the time of publication, several books are designated as “adult” in the online catalog at the North Huntsville branch but “young adult” in other branches, including “A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns,” “What’s The T: The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary,” and “We Deserve Monuments” a mystery novel about an LGBTQ biracial teen.

 
 

Kim-Yohn hopes Hewitt apologizes and hopes this never happens again. They also want to encourage the public to visit libraries and utilize staff despite this incident.

 
 

“If you’re mad, what we need you to do is to come check these books out, come to story times, put in purchase requests for books that you want to see,” Kim-Yohn said. “We need you to keep supporting the library.”

 
 

The books in question were checked out or renewed more than 8,000 times. The full list of books slated for review and potential relocation is below.

 
 
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Book Flagged Because Author’s Last Name Is “Gay”

 

omi-palone3 hours ago

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Sarah 3 hours ago

Sounds like a headline from The Onion, but I don’t think anything they can come up with can quite match the current absurdity of reality.

Uncle Mark back in IL 3 hours ago

Can books about the Hiroshima bombing be far behind, because of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay?

weshlovrcm3 hours ago

The absurdity and irrationality of the fascists’ goal to silence, cancel and eradicate the lgbt community from America. Where are the protests?

Houndentenor  weshlovrcman hour ago

Most people don’t care, a good portion think it’s isolated and not really that bad and the rest are too far away from where they things are happening.

 

Let’s talk about Biden, walls, and laws….

White Supremacist ‘Active Club’ Provides Security for Moms for Liberty-Allied Mayoral Candidate

White Supremacist ‘Active Club’ Provides Security for Moms for Liberty-Allied Mayoral Candidate
By Peter Montgomery | October 4, 2023 11:38 am
Franklin, Tennessee Alderman Gabrielle Hanson (Image from Hanson for Mayor campaign video)
 

Members of the white supremacist Tennessee Active Club provided security for Gabrielle Hanson, a Moms for Liberty-backed alderman in Franklin, Tennessee, and current candidate for mayor, at a recent candidate forum, according to local reporter Phil Williams of News Channel 5.

The Tennessee Active Club is one of the “prominent cells” in a rapidly growing network of groups that promote violent white supremacist ideology and provide training in combat sports, according to a recent report by The Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson. Like other far-right groups, Active Clubs “recruit with narratives of white victimhood” and see themselves as militias in training for future violent conflict.

Earlier this year, SPLC reported that the Tennessee Active Club has been training above the Lewis Country Store in Nashville, whose owner Brad Lewis responded to the report by declaring on Telegram, “I’m not a cuckservative, I’m an actual literal Nazi.” This week, Lewis told reporter Williams that he is a friend of Hanson’s and that the Active Club members were on hand at the forum because Hanson had received credible threats.

Alderman Hanson was cheered on by the Williamson County Moms for Liberty chapter this year when she led an unsuccessful effort to prevent the city’s annual Pride celebration from being held. Robin Steenland, head of Williamson County Moms for Liberty chapter, portrayed the campaign to stop Pride as a battle between good and evil, a struggle against a “social change agenda” that seeks the “destruction” of family, Christianity, and America itself. The county M4L chapter has also complained about curricular materials that teach students about the civil rights movement and seahorses.

M4L chapter president Steenland is also founder and chair of Williamson Families PAC, which claims to support candidates “that reflect our family values and demonstrate integrity, wisdom, and service to the community.” Whatever the PAC means by family values or integrity did not prevent it from endorsing Hanson, who has, to be generous, a checkered relationship with telling the truth.

A few weeks ago, Hanson was exposed for using women’s social media posts to falsely portray them as supporters of her campaign—and then repeatedly lying about it. News Channel 5 also caught her lying about her previous use of an alias. Hanson supporters tried to prevent from reporter Phil Williams from attending a Sept. 25 forum.

Back in April, Hanson claimed to have “full knowledge” from an inside source that a shooting at a Nashville Christian school involved a scandalous “love triangle,” and she stood by her claims even when she was called out for lying about the shooting. Her statements led to an ethics investigation, but the city’s ethics commission concluded that her comments were protected by the First Amendment and did not violate city ordinances.

The mayoral election will be held on Oct. 24; early voting begins Wednesday, Oct. 4.

White Supremacists Provide Security For Anti-LGBTQ Tennessee Moms For Liberty-Backed Mayoral Candidate
Read the full article. Hanson recently appeared on JMG for her attempts to ban Franklin Pride, for being exposed for her history of arrests for facilitating prostitution, for using the photos of minority woman who don’t know her and claiming that they are her supporters, and for encouraging her husband to march in Chicago Pride wearing nothing but a Speedo.

Nic Peterson17 hours ago

Behind every man in a klan robe is a woman that washed and ironed it, fed and cleaned up after him, put up with his shitty sexual skills and raised his miserable spawn. It’s no wonder they are filled with nothing but hate, rage and christianity.

Wintercat  JoeMyGod17 hours ago

Just worried that what just happened to Josh Kruger in Philly could happen to another like him. Report on anti-LGBTQ+ violence, police violence and corruption, get shot in the chest seven times in your home.

Uncle Mark back in IL 17 hours ago

I’m reminded how we’ve gotten here:

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Darreth17 hours ago

Openly and ‘actively’ working to end the republic as it exists today.

Now, combine this being spread across 50 states in an age of accelerating climate change.

Get ready, folks. It’s going to get really bad.

StarGmom  Darreth17 hours ago

I’d say it’s really bad already. It’s getting worse. More blatant

April Smith 17 hours ago edited

You would think the Realtor organization wouldn’t appreciate an openly anti-LGBTQ white supremacist as a member.

Lots of gays buy houses.

Harveyrabbit 🐱17 hours ago

Hope they show their appreciation and invite them to their next BBQ.

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Ray Bluth 17 hours ago

Moms for Liberty, a vile hive of scum and villainy. Bigots should not be tolerated, ever.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad17 hours ago edited

This week, Lewis told reporter Williams that he is a friend of Hanson’s and that the Active Club members were on hand at the forum because Hanson had received credible threats. Hanson is afraid of protestors who might tell supporters the truth about her.

NotMiguel17 hours ago

I’ve seen open Nazis since the 80s but mainstream politicians never associated with them this is a new thing. Its hardly a brain trust Tennesee has an economy less than half the size of major cities in the US.

JoeMyGod Mod18 hours ago
 

Wintercat  JoeMyGod17 hours ago edited

Once upon at time in America, they would leave carrying their teeth in a bag for that.

Now the white cops with high and tight haircuts protect them. Or are them.

JoeMyGod Mod18 hours ago

Ohbehr in Minnesota  JoeMyGod18 hours ago

I loathe how they hide themselves to intimate. It’s just the new Klan. Nothing transparent about these creatures.

William  Ohbehr in Minnesota17 hours ago

At least the brown shirts had the balls to show their faces, most of the time.

Name  JoeMyGod18 hours ago

How proud of being White can you be if you dress up with a mask, goggles, and hat like that?

Gregory In Seattle  Name17 hours ago

The point is intimidation, much like the Klan hide their identities when engaging in acts of terrorism.

Buford  Name17 hours ago

It’s just idiots wanting ‘cred’ for bravely sacrificing for their belief in white supremacy, but without actually risking losing their jobs or being excluded from polite society if they were doxxed.

Ohbehr in Minnesota18 hours ago

There’s another Dominionist racist loser. I didn’t know she was a prostitute (I actually don’t care if people are sex workers). Yet it’s rather hypocritical of her as the MAGAts will lap it up. Plus, she somehow will claim she’s being persecuted for being thought of poorly, just like Jesus and Trampy Trump.

JoeMyGod Mod Ohbehr in Minnesota18 hours ago

Technically, her arrests were for *booking* the hookers.

Gregory In Seattle  JoeMyGod17 hours ago

So a sex trafficker rather than a sex worker?

Ninja098017 hours ago

But these are just concerned parents right?

Alabama sent ‘woke’ pre-K books that cost thousands of dollars to a dump

https://www.al.com/educationlab/2023/10/alabama-sent-woke-pre-k-manuals-to-dump-at-loss-of-thousands-of-dollars.html

 A quote below is the reason.  We can not have anything not supporting racism and Christian nationalist 1950s strict gender roles in society / public view.   We really must stop this religious racist take over of the country.  Again a person born in the early part of the last century making decisions against modern society.  Governor Ivey was born October 15, 1944.  She is 79 years old.  She can not accept the changes in society, in medical science, in the understandings we have learned since she was in her prime.  She is extremely against the LGBTQIA and doesn’t support them having any rights.  She believes that the nation was a founded as a religious nation and that attempts to stop the push of Christianity on kids in public schools via government is “destroying our nation’s religious heritage.”  So, another Christian nationalist.  Hugs

Emails show that during the legislative session in April, the Governor’s office received a document, created by Rep. Jamie Kiel, R-Russellvillle, that highlighted passages from the book referencing systemic racism, white privilege and LGTBQ families.  

“I have been told by multiple education groups that ‘divisive concepts’ are not in our schools, yet the material I read was offensive to me and the majority of the people I represent,” Kiel said at the time.

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Dozens of teacher training textbooks are scattered across the cement floor of a junkyard warehouse.

AL.com received this photo of disposed teacher training manuals, which was taken at a Montgomery waste recycling plant on May 2, 2023. Gov. Kay Ivey disavowed a teaching manual from the National Association for the Education of Young Children in April 2023.

By Rebecca Griesbach | rgriesbach@al.com

After Alabama’s governor ousted a top state official over a “woke” pre-K training manual, officials dumped dozens of the books, totaling thousands of dollars, in the trash.

 

A photograph shows more than 100 manuals, newly bought from the National Association for the Education of Young Children, scattered across the floor of a Montgomery waste recycling plant about 5 miles from the offices of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education.

 
 

The photo was taken May 2, a day after ADECE Secretary Barbara Cooper left office amid legislative pressure.

 
 

The person who took the photograph requested to remain anonymous. AL.com has confirmed the date and location of the photo. The books and registrations cost $165 apiece, according to officials. AL.com estimates the materials in the photo initially cost the department at least $16,500.

 
 

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Just a year ago, officials spent $37,950 to buy 230 book registrations of the fourth edition of NAEYC’s Developmentally Appropriate Practices manual.

 
 

The books, a common teacher development tool, are not meant to be read as curriculum, but are supposed to help early childhood educators hone their skills in the classroom. Some passages of the manual’s fourth edition encouraged educators to consider their own biases and the social and cultural backgrounds of their students.

 
 

NAEYC is a leading national preschool group that accredits hundreds of high-quality early childcare facilities. Cooper, who was also a member of the group’s governing board, praised the new manual in a review, stating that it “fully supports our practice in the field of early learning and care.”

 
 

But months later, a complaint from a lawmaker forced a complete cleanout of the books – and Cooper’s sudden departure.

 
 

Emails show that during the legislative session in April, the Governor’s office received a document, created by Rep. Jamie Kiel, R-Russellvillle, that highlighted passages from the book referencing systemic racism, white privilege and LGTBQ families.

 
 

Kiel said he created the document after receiving a complaint from an educator.

 
 

“I have been told by multiple education groups that ‘divisive concepts’ are not in our schools, yet the material I read was offensive to me and the majority of the people I represent,” Kiel said at the time.

 
 

On April 13, Liz Filmore, the governor’s chief of staff, shared a copy of the document with Cooper, asking her to review the materials. Filmore called the complaint “obviously concerning!”

 
 

In a memo released a day later, Cooper disavowed the books, calling them “unacceptable” and asking staffers to promptly return the materials to their supervisors.

 
 

Then on April 21, a week later, Ivey abruptly announced Cooper’s resignation.

 
 

“The education of Alabama’s children is my top priority as governor, and there is absolutely no room to distract or take away from this mission,” the governor wrote. “Let me be crystal clear: Woke concepts that have zero to do with a proper education and that are divisive at the core have no place in Alabama classrooms at any age level, let alone with our youngest learners. We want our children to be focused on the fundamentals, such as reading and math.”

 
 

Ivey later told reporters that the two had “mutually agreed” to part ways after a conversation about the “direction” the department was going in.

 
 

But the extent of the fallout from Cooper’s ousting – including what actually happened to all of the tens of thousands of dollars worth of manuals and other NAEYC products – is unclear.

 
 

Neither Gina Maiola, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office, nor Samuel Adams, a spokesman for ADECE, initially responded to questions about where the books were stored, or whether officials had taken any steps to resell or donate them.

 
 

After AL.com presented officials with the photo of the books at the scrap yard, Maiola issued the following response:

 
 

“The governor immediately directed the department to disavow and discontinue the book,” she said. “That was done.”

North Dakota Republican Calls for Total Criminalization of Adult Content

https://www.xbiz.com/news/277046/north-dakota-republican-calls-for-total-criminalization-of-adult-content

Another Christian nationalist who is desperately driven to push his religion, his faith, his church doctrines on everyone.  Mandatory worship of only his god, and everyone must live according to the views of his church.   What is happening in the US?  No freedoms and everyone go back to living in the times when the church was the highest authority in all things.  Hugs

A quote from the article.  “Every conservative state should put into code that Jesus Christ is King and dedicate their state to Him,” he added. “Force RINOs to say no to Jesus and then brutalize them in elections. We need a government of Christians, not fakers.”

North Dakota Republican Calls for Total Criminalization of Adult Content

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota Republican lawmaker took to Twitter over the weekend to call for the total criminalization of adult content and for all politicians to submit to “the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

State Rep. Brandon Prichard began his social media tirade, which continued into Monday, by stating his belief that “pornography should be illegal. Conservative legislatures should wield their power and ban porn for both children and adults. It serves no positive benefit in society, destroys men, and treats women as objects. It’s not enough to stop at banning porn for children…

“Remember Christ spent his time on earth with the prostitutes and sinners,” he added. “You deserve better.”

Prichard added on Saturday that “conservative states should start banning Only Fans, for everyone.”

He continued by proposing that “conservatives states that want to tackle mental and behavioral health problems need to invest in programs to combat pornography addictions. This can include an anonymous hotline to call, cheap state services to block inappropriate content on personal devices, etc.”

Prichard also called for every member of the House and U.S. Senate to be subjected to a test to verify that they “submit to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

“Every conservative state should put into code that Jesus Christ is King and dedicate their state to Him,” he added. “Force RINOs to say no to Jesus and then brutalize them in elections. We need a government of Christians, not fakers.”

Prichard was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives in 2022 and represents a district in the state capital, Bismarck. A 2019 high school graduate, Prichard is fully aligned with former President Trump’s MAGA movement and is sometimes at odds with older local GOP leaders.

A North Dakota journalist reported on Monday that several Republican lawmakers have expressed concern about Prichard’s posts, which are also blatantly and proudly anti-LGBTQ+ rights. The reporter noted, however, that “at least one of his colleagues, Republican Rep. Matthew Heilman of Bismarck’s District 7 and another recent high school graduate, was endorsing Prichard’s messages.”

As of the 2020 census, Prichard represented an average of 8,295 residents of District 8. He received 4,910 votes, only 124 more than his more mainstream Republican colleague, who was also elected to the State House

Some People Need To CALM DOWN

Guess who wins.

South Park v Moms For Liberty

I have rebloged from this site before. I was temped to simply repost where the link goes, as I hope people will follow the link and read it. But that wouldn’t be fair to personnelente. So please follow the link above and enjoy the short page. I followed the link on the page and was laughing as Ali said I would. Hugs

‘Batman’ expert has the perfect explanation for saying ‘gay’ at a Georgia school assembly

https://www.upworthy.com/batman-expert-has-the-perfect-explanation-for-saying-gay-at-a-georgia-school-assembly

Remember the people behind these bills deny they ban the word gay.  Well here is the proof of how these laws are being used.  The object is to wipe the entire LGBTQIA from society, remove us from the public view.  Here is how these people view just saying a person is gay.  

Caracciolo likened saying “gay” in front of third graders to talking to kindergartners about one of the greatest atrocities in world history. “It would be almost like if someone was doing a speech to kindergartners and they talked about the Holocaust and the horrors of the Holocaust,” the district’s chief spokeswoman, Jennifer Caracciolo, said, according to The New York Times.

Here is what the presenter told the school person above.

That’s a huge point missed in much of the debate surrounding LGBTQ visibility in education. There is a big difference between discussing sexual acts—whether heterosexual or otherwise—and someone’s orientation, especially when there’s a good chance that there are children of LGBTQ parents in the audience.

Further, in a world where same-sex marriage and heterosexual marriage are treated equally, why is mentioning one orientation any different than the other?

“If a child asks me if I am married, can I say I have a wife? This is discrimination. It is also extremely insulting and dangerous to our children,” Nobleman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We have so much LGBTQ teen suicide because they are not welcome to speak up about their own lives in their own community.”’

“I asked her not to compare a kind of love to mass murder,” Nobleman wrote in Newsweek.

We have to fight back on these attempts to drive the LGBTQIA back into hiding ashamed of who they are, how they were born.  The LGBTQIA kids are not broken, they are not diseased, they don’t need fixing or cured.   They need acceptance and allowed to be themselves openly like their peers.   Hugs

 

 

After being censored by the school’s principle, he quit.

batman, don't say gay, lgbtq georgia
Harper Collins and Jack Burnley/DC Comics

Author Mark Tyler Nobleman and Batman and Robin.

 

Over the past few years, “Don’t Say Gay” bills have been introduced across the U.S., sparking widespread controversy about how LGBTQ issues should be addressed in schools. Supporters argue they protect children from inappropriate content by restricting discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in educational settings.

Opponents believe these bills marginalize LGBTQ individuals by fostering stigma and potentially infringing on teachers’ ability to openly address students’ questions or experiences.

Currently, 11 states have banned LGBTQ discussion in public schools, and 5 require parental consent.

Author and comic book expert Marc Tyler Nobleman recently found himself at the center of the controversy, and his simple rationale for using the word “gay” in his school presentations presents an age-appropriate and inclusive way to approach at the issue.

 

Nobleman has spoken in schools in “about 30 states and almost 20 countries” to inspire children to write and do research. He’s the author of the book “Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-creator of Batman” about the fabled superhero’s unsung co-creator.

Artist Bob Kane is known as the creator of Batman; however, Bill Finger is believed to have refined the costume and given the character his secret identity as Bruce Wayne, amongst other contributions.

Nobleman notes in his speeches that one of the significant reasons why Finger lives in obscurity is that he died in 1974, and his son, Fred Finger, was gay and died of AIDS complications at 43 in 1992. Without an heir, the movement to get Finger the proper credit lost any hope.

However, the twist in Nobleman’s presentation is when he reveals that through his research, he discovered that Fred Finger had a daughter, Athena. This led to DC Comics officially recognizing her grandfather as Batman’s co-creator in 2015.

“It’s the biggest twist of the story, and it’s usually when I get the most gasps,” Nobleman told the Associated Press. “It’s just a totally record-scratch moment.”

After a presentation at Sharon Elementary in Forsyth County, Georgia, on Monday, August 21, where he mentioned Fred FInger’s orientation, the principal handed Nobleman a note saying, “Please only share the appropriate parts of the story for our elementary students.” So, he removed any reference to Fred Finger’s sexuality over his next two days of presentations.

The school’s principal, Brian Nelson, sent a letter to parents after the initial presentation that read: “This is not subject matter that we were aware that he was including nor content that we have approved for our students,” Nelson wrote. “I apologize that this took place. Action was taken to ensure that this was not included in Mr. Nobleman’s subsequent speeches and further measures will be taken to prevent situations like this in the future.”

But after some soul-searching, in a presentation two days later, Nobleman said the word “gay” once again. After discussing the situation with the school, the remaining assemblies were canceled.

Nobleman shared his reasoning for using “gay” on X, formally known as Twitter, and his rationale makes a lot of sense. “And as I’ve told Jennifer [Caracciolo, the school’s chief communications officer] and her colleagues, mentioning a sexual orientation is NOT the same as discussing sexuality.”

That’s a huge point missed in much of the debate surrounding LGBTQ visibility in education. There is a big difference between discussing sexual acts—whether heterosexual or otherwise—and someone’s orientation, especially when there’s a good chance that there are children of LGBTQ parents in the audience.

Further, in a world where same-sex marriage and heterosexual marriage are treated equally, why is mentioning one orientation any different than the other?

“If a child asks me if I am married, can I say I have a wife? This is discrimination. It is also extremely insulting and dangerous to our children,” Nobleman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We have so much LGBTQ teen suicide because they are not welcome to speak up about their own lives in their own community.”’

Caracciolo likened saying “gay” in front of third graders to talking to kindergartners about one of the greatest atrocities in world history. “It would be almost like if someone was doing a speech to kindergartners and they talked about the Holocaust and the horrors of the Holocaust,” the district’s chief spokeswoman, Jennifer Caracciolo, said, according to The New York Times.

“I asked her not to compare a kind of love to mass murder,” Nobleman wrote in Newsweek.

After his remaining presentations were canceled, Nobleman emailed administrators involved in the controversy and asked them to take three specific actions:

-Apologize to their community for the principal’s apology.

-Apologize to their community for censoring an established author who did what he was hired to do: Pump up their kids about reading, writing, and research.

-Challenge the standards that stigmatize any mention of LGBTQ people.

 

 
 
 

Brooklyn Library’s Drag Story Hour Gets Bomb Threat

Brooklyn Library’s Drag Story Hour Gets Bomb Threat

So they are protecting children by … blowing them up with a bomb?   See why the claim they are only saving children fails.  This is not about children, but instead about their own bigotry and hates.  They hate drag because they think it is the same as being transgender.   They refused to accept that people can dress in any way they like to as long as the sexual organs are covered.  But those people can’t allow people to live as they wish, instead they insist they must be allowed to dictate how everyone lives.  They don’t like you wearing that, so you can not wear it.  Think it will stop with just drag queens or trans people?  Did they stop with abortion after their SCOTUS win?  These people hated the idea of short skirts, short dresses, bikinis, or women outside the assigned gender roles these people have mandated.   But in the case of the drag queen story hour, parents rights to raise children how you wish is limited only to maga / right wing parents.  Tolerant and accepting parents don’t get a choice to raise their children this way because … well again the fundamentalist Christian moral police Taliban demand the right to control you and your children.   Hugs

The Messenger reports:

A planned “Drag Story Hour” at a Brooklyn library was forced to move on Saturday morning after bomb threat were called into 911. Police officers, the bomb squad, a K-9 unit and emergency medical services responded to the threat phoned in by a male caller against the Cortelyou branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

The library was evacuated, and a thorough search conducted, but no bomb was found, police said. The story hour, featuring a group of drag performers reading books to children, was moved to Connecticut Muffin, a nearby dessert and coffee shop.

The New York Post reports:

 

NYPD later confirmed that an email threat was sent to the branch from an unknown source in Buffalo alleging an explosive device was supposed to go off inside the site at 11:30 a.m. A male caller also phoned 911 about the threat, authorities added.

“It’s a shame, and it’s something that’s extremely dangerous,” fumed a parent of a 2-year-old girl who sat in on the reading. “These are children, and children just want to hear stories … It’s a shame how somebody just ruined it and threatened violence.”