And this fellow viewers is what we are up against. This passes as smart and witty for the radical right wing. This is the result of the hate spewing from elected republicans. They are driving this. This must not be acceptable to do. Thank you DeathSantis and other republican governors driving don’t say gay bills. I don’t know how to stop him and those like him who are so sure they are in the right and can force everyone to do as they demand. They have a right to make others act like they want them to, it is their freedom to tell you what to do and your freedom is to obey them. After Putin pushed a law making any positive mention of gays in public illegal, thugs rounded up gay men or men thought to be gay and tortured them in horrible ways and dump them on the streets. Now it is happening in the USA. I am really fed up the last few days with this shit. Hugs
A total loser known for filming himself harassing retail employees was back on his bullshit by hectoring workers at a PetSmart.
The total loser filmed his encounter, in which he asks an employee – who is likely making the minimum wage or slightly above – about a pride flag decal displayed near a register.
“I’m just curious – what is that flag right there?” the demented dirtbag asks a cashier, knowing full well what it is. The talking pustule then claims the flag stands for “pedophilia” and demands, “Respect your customers.”
That’s all the setup you need. Just watch the first clip.
Schmidt, who has said he’s “hunting” LGBTQ rights supporters, recently said he’s also “bringing back Jew hunting” to celebrate “white history.”
Ethan Schmidt last appeared on JMG last month when he was arrested after menacing abortion rights protesters with an assault weapon.
Schmidt previously appeared on JMG when he harassed cancer patients at a wig store for wearing masks.
In January, he was banned from the Arizona Capitol after harassing a black lawmaker, saying that his mask was a “slave muzzle.”
In February, he earned national headlines when he berated store employees for selling Black History Month items.
Earlier this month he was detained after his group harassed abortion rights protesters and his accomplice was arrested for assault.
According to the Tucson Sentinel, Schmidt is currently awaiting trial for DUI. In a video posted to Reddit, Schmidt can be seen flaunting his ankle monitor.
QAnon Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has approvingly appeared in an earlier video by Schmidt.
PetSmart manager stands up to Kari Lake supporter Ethan Schmidt, kicks him out of the store for harassing employees over a pride flag. pic.twitter.com/YGvFMG4cU9
Kari Lake appeared in a video promoting Ethan Schmidt’s account.
Kari Lake refuses to publicly denounce Ethan who is now stating he will “hunt LGBT supporters” at Target and across Phoenix. pic.twitter.com/FB9Ue831G9
Religious people really have proven themselves to be child molesters and rapists and it is independently verified by centuries of testimony, lawsuits and settlements.
Ask any law enforecment person or prosecuter what gay organization, event or subculture is behind the most child molestation arrests and 100% of the time theyll tell you that the #1 place children are groomed and molested is in churches!
This bigoted dolt can film himself harassing employees inside a store, but people can’t peacefully demonstrate outside a restaurant where Brett Kavanaugh munches on his dinner.
I wish the manager would have said that if he wants to protest child rape and grooming, take it to a Christian church. But, the manager would have been fired. And, the Christian superpower of always claiming constant victimhood and persecution would have been sent into overdrive. Imagine the screams on the right and religious.
The first guy should have been more assertive and the policy should just be to automatically call the police.
I wrote on the last thread when a tweet was posted, that if the right claims companies are people, then companies can stand their ground. This, employees are able to stand their ground. Yes, it is a joke. They have garbage dumpsters. That is a ready made disposal.
What the heck is eating these people. What have people like Ron and I ever done to them? Why do they think they are so much better than we are? Why do they think they should have the right to marry who they love while denying that right to us? I have known straight people who have gotten married and then divorced within a week yet the relationship of life long gay people or straight people who have more than two people in the relationship is unthinkable to them. I am tired of it. I did not sign on to their religious views, why do they think they get to force me to live by their church dictates? Being straight is not a badge of honor, the rest of us don’t care. Hugs
This week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the deceptively named “Respect for Marriage Act” in a 267-157 vote.
If this bill becomes law, it would formally repeal the Defense of Marriage Act—a law that was passed in 1996 defining marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman.
While I’m not surprised that all of the House Democrats voted in favor of this bill, I was confused by the 47 Republicans who followed suit.
God says that marriage is to be between one man and one woman—not two men, not two women. The GOP used to believe that too.
Will you pray for God’s intervention as this bill moves on to the Senate? Only He can save us from our evil and rebellious ways.
Make sure you know how your representatives vote because it reveals where they stand on these and other important Biblical and moral issues.
Remember, elections are our opportunity to vote for men and women who support Biblical values and morality.
Will you pray for God’s intervention as this moves to the Senate? Make sure you know how your representatives vote bc it reveals where they stand on important Biblical & moral issues. Elections are our opportunity to vote for men & women who support Biblical values & morality.
God says that marriage is to be between one man and one woman—not two men, not two women. The GOP used to believe that too.
Hm, your God had a much different definition of marriage in your Old Testament, where certain God-favored dudes not only had multiple wives, but also concubines, handmaids, and slaves that they could fuck at their pleasure. Guess that your God must have changed his mind for some reason.
So wait, God didn’t stop gay marriage the last time, right? Does that mean it is his will? Or if he stops this bill, is that his will? Or is he just a bully, giving gay people marriage, then taking it away? Or maybe, just maybe, He exists only in your imagination.
So the republican “freedom caucus” wants to end my freedom to be married to my husband. See what freedom they really mean? The freedom to harass and control other people even to what sexual pleasures consenting adults may have. Really, that is freedom, their controlling your bedroom. I fought when the republicans came for the trans people. I fought when they came for women body autonomy, I will fight now that they are coming for everyone else not following ridged rules of accepted behavior based on the rules of a book written 2,500 years ago. Scary times in the former land of the free. Hugs
The House Freedom Caucus is urging Senate Republicans to oppose the Respect for Marriage Act that would codify federal protections for same-sex marriage, even though its chair, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), voted in favor of the legislation.
“The ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ was rushed through the House as yet another weapon to distract, confuse, and deceive American Citizens. It allowed no hearings or markups, and less than a day to review,” the Freedom Caucus said in its official position statement.
“The radical Left has launched an all-out campaign on America’s traditional values and sacred institutions. It has weakened the nuclear family, attacked the norms of masculinity and femininity, and now it wants to further erode the sacred institution of marriage,” the caucus said.
The radical Left has launched an all-out campaign on America’s traditional values and sacred institutions. It has weakened the nuclear family, attacked the norms of masculinity and femininity, and now it wants to further erode the sacred institution of marriage,” the caucus said.
My god, drama queening much? – Its already law. It doesn’t do anything new. It merely protects what has already happened.
The nuclear family has been weakened by heterosexuals. It has nothing to do with radical left or radical right. You need to only look at three Trump marriages, three Gingrich marriages, and God knows how many marriages by Larry King.
The norms of masculinity and femininity are culture specific. In fact, they aren’t really norms. and no one is attacking them.
As for weakening the sacred institution of marriage, it’s not a sacred institution, it’s a civil contract which may have religion attached to it. If anything has weakened it— an assertion, not a proof — it is the heterosexual majority refusing to get married, preferring to shack up, or getting married multiple times. See Trump and Gingrich above. Not to mention, religious people who wine on and on about the sanctity of marriage, but seem to be divorced more often than anyone else
Why would there need to be discussions? It is about maintaining rights or taking away rights from people. Yes or no. We don’t need to hear you incessant sniveling bullshit about jeebus and the buybull.
Rejecting the textbooks puts Miami in a precarious situation by leaving the school district without an approved sex ed curriculum for middle and high school students.
LGBTQ supporters and Democrats rallied against the legislation, branded as “Don’t Say Gay,” disputing that those lessons are being taught in Florida schools and maintaining that the policies would further marginalize LGBTQ students and their families. | Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Miami-Dade County students could go months without sex education books after school board members this week rejected two proposed textbooks over concerns they violate the state’s “Parental Rights in Education” bill, known by opponents as “Don’t Say Gay.”
The decision, which came down to a tight 5-4 vote on Wednesday, marks one of the first major instances of the contentious measure shaping local school policies, an action that came amid parents opposing the books for broaching topics like abortion and contraceptives.
Rejecting the textbooks puts Miami in a precarious situation by leaving the school district without an approved sex ed curriculum for middle and high school students with the fall semester less than a month away. Miami-Dade is the fourth largest school district in the country.
“Some of the chapters are extremely troublesome,” said board member Mari Tere Rojas, who voted against the books. “I do not consider them to be age appropriate. In my opinion, they go beyond what the state standards are.”
Wednesday’s vote came after three hours of public comment and debate over the two “Comprehensive Health Skills” books for students in middle and high school, texts that have been under scrutiny in Miami for months now.
Miami-Dade school officials recommended approving the textbooks following a public hearing on June 8 to field some 278 petitions against the materials, which the district denied.
Some parents argued the lessons extend beyond what schools should be educating students on sex education while others contested that rejecting the books would allow a vocal group to drive the decision for a school district serving some 340,000 students. The outcry in Miami against the sex education books included the local chapter of County Citizens Defending Freedom, a conservative group that aims to “defend their freedoms and liberties at the local level.”
Under Florida law, any parent can opt their child out of sex education lessons.
“Our current … process defends parents and their children who do not want to be exposed to this,” said Steve Gallon III, the board’s vice chair who supported the sex education textbooks. “But we cannot deny parents who want to have access for their children to this critically important information.”
The move by the school board shows how Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, passed earlier this year and championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is shaping school curriculum in the wake of its passage. The law prohibits teachers from leading classroom lessons on gender identity or sexual orientation for students in kindergarten through third grade. It also prohibits these lessons for older students unless they are “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate.”
LGBTQ supporters and Democrats rallied against the legislation, branded as “Don’t Say Gay,” disputing that those lessons are being taught in Florida schools and maintaining that the policies would further marginalize LGBTQ students and their families, leading to drastic outcomes like bullying and even suicide. The bill also sparked a fight between Florida conservatives and Walt Disney Co. after the entertainment giant said it would work to repeal the parental rights measure.
County Citizens Defending Freedom’s local executive director, Alex Serrano, claimed Wednesday that “significant portions” of the materials proposed in Miami-Dade “may violate Florida state law” and “much of the content is not age appropriate, usurps parental rights, and is scientifically inaccurate and not factual.”
In snippets of the textbooks circulated by the group, they highlighted lessons surrounding unplanned pregnancies that include definitions of abortion and emergency contraceptives like the Plan B pill.
One speaker at the board meeting claimed the books teach students there are “nine genders,” a likely reference to a page that describes a list of gender identities such as androgenous, cisgender, nonbinary and transgender. The Miami Herald reported that the school board removed the “Understanding Sexuality” chapter from the books for middle and high school students.
“Teachers that will be providing this material to children, which is illegal in the state of Florida, and the board that votes to adopt this, in the end — the country, the state and your community, will consider all of you groomers,” speaker Lourdes Galban, told the board during public comment.
The majority of speakers at Wednesday’s meeting, including parents and students, supported the sex education textbooks and pushed for their adoption. They said that the lessons were crucial for students, pointing to sexual activity rates among teens and that they “want kids to be prepared when the time comes.”
“Parents who wish to limit their children’s information about reproductive health have always had the option to opt out,” speaker Gina Vinueza told the board Wednesday.
“The proposed approval of the textbooks today would not take that choice away from them. However, if the board does not approve the textbooks, they will be taking away the rights of everyone to public ed that is based on facts and science.”
The board’s move to reject the sex education textbooks could trigger school officials to restart the adoption process for the classroom materials. School staffers at Wednesday’s meeting estimated it could take between four and eight months for different books to be approved, a timeline posing an issue for high school students on tap to learn those lessons in the fall.
Miami-Dade’s sex education curriculum is embedded in science and personal fitness classes, school officials said.
So for this week Ron has been trying to run a new exhaust fan in the hallway bathroom. When he built the bathroom, he added an extra switch for such a fan and ran the electrical wiring for it and placed it somewhere in the wall. Deactivated of course. He has not been able to remember where it was. So we went back and forth and I found a tool for finding wires in the walls this morning but he got a stubborn streak. Over the last two days he has torn all the ceiling down and insulation in our bathroom next to the wall that is next to the hallway bathroom hoping the wires would magically appear. And it did not. Now all this time I have been at my computers finding the device to find wires, but Ron has resisted going and getting it.
Then I had a thought, he has just insulated and put up the green board on our bathroom side of that wall. I suggested to him he install the exhaust fan in the wall between the bathrooms and run the flexible hose up to the vent to the roof inside the wall and that would let him work on the entire thing including putting in a new switch from our side of the wall. He thought for a minute, then looked at me and in all seriousness said, “Go back to your office I don’t want to talk to you right now”! Because he realized everything I said made sense. He would have had to tear down the entire ceiling in that bathroom which was grand looking, if he did not do as I suggested. He has gone off to Home Depot to buy everything needed to do just what I said. I asked him why he did not have the electrical parts already and his response was “I used them all, I need to buy more, why are you not in your office doing what you do, and by the way what do you want for lunch”! I think I have rubbed a sore spot. 😀😁😄😂😋😎😍 Hugs
Not even married women are safe from a religious extremist imposing their beliefs on them. Walgreens backs up Christian Zealot Employee who refused to sell condoms to a married woman and her husband.
The battle for reproductive rights moves to the front register |
At a Family Dollar store in Connecticut, a man held a door open for two women, then pulled a gun on them when no one said ‘thank you’. Cenk Uygur and Francesca Fiorentini discuss on The Young Turks.
“Police arrested a New Haven man after they say he was reported to have drawn a gun Saturday over two women not thanking him for holding a door open for them.
Hamden police said 25-year-old Joshua Murray was charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, a felony; along with misdemeanor charges of interfering with an officer and two counts of second-degree breach of peace.
Hamden police officers were called to the Family Dollar store on Dixwell Avenue around 3:15 p.m. on Saturday after Murray was reported to have pointed a gun at customers in front of the business, police said.”
Right wing Anti-Gay Pundit is being accused of being secretly gay, it must be a day that ends in Y. Hate pastor and professional homophobe Jesse Lee Peterson was recently accused of being a homosexual groomer and predator and the incels are having a snit. Apparently the first rule after No Girls Allowed is We Only Love Men But Not Like That. This week we found out about and discussed the sad group of self-hating losers called the Manosphere, to which Jesse Peterson is no longer invited. We also discuss how their lives would be a lot easier if they stopped making up rules that require them to hate themselves and everyone else.
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