Category: LGBTQ+ / Gay / Trans / Gender
Trump Judge Temporarily Blocks LGBTQ Protections
The New York Times reports:
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from enforcing directives that extended civil rights protections to L.G.B.T.Q. students and workers. The ruling comes roughly one year after a group of 20 conservative state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against two federal agencies for their interpretation of the 1972 landmark civil rights statute known as Title IX.
The lawsuit filed by Herbert H. Slatery III, the attorney general of Tennessee, and joined by 19 other states contended that the government infringed on states’ powers to regulate their public workplaces and schools. The judge, Charles E. Atchley Jr. of Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, an appointee of former President Donald J. Trump, sided with the plaintiffs.
Because cruelty is the point
It is just the beginning…
Inconsistent with Bostock..
Kelly Lape Houndentenor • 16 minutes ago
step by step, inch by inch… a single domino falls and the topple begins.
Another white conservative pushing the agenda of the minority.
Harm: the GQP’s sole policy.
My hubby and I live in Central Florida and we have already begun talking about moving to a much bluer state where we will be protected and welcomed.
I will never forget the word of a Justice Department Attorney telling me on the phone, that he wasn’t going to WASTE Tax dollars on holding those accountable for taking down our US mailbox to harass us. He also told me I had not Civil Rights. This was in the late 80’s
When are these fucks going to realize that every aspect of being a good citizen is expected of us, including paying for admission to a private club we can never enter. Like paying for groceries we can’t eat.
As they do it with such ease.
Hate is not a victimless crime
The feds did it because you wouldn’t. Basic human rights should never depend upon which side of the state line you’re on.
It’s fascinating to me that the same red states which demand the authority to self-govern without having to follow federal directives are the same states which prevent county and local governments from self-governing in ways which deviate from how the state officials want them to behave.
Red governors issued directives prohibiting cities from enacting COVID mask requirements. Red governors issued bans on local restroom ordinances which supported gender identifies. Red governors prevented cities from enacting local bans on fracking and drilling. Etc, etc.
David Gervais Buford • an hour ago
Note also that they have no problem taking federal money but object to the federal laws and financial oversight that come with the money.
I fear we’re going back 30 years on LGBT protections and marriage equality. I see 1/2 the country banning all forms of abortions and contraception, books, gays, women in the work place while of breeding age.
Just the start of our rights being taken away. We will see how our families and friends actually support us. Are they really allies? Watch how they vote. Mine family voted for the orange turd because of Clinton’s pro choice position.
Imagine TWENTY AG’s, so filled with hatred toward their lgbt residents, that they sue the government so they can discriminate and harm those residents! That’s sick!
QAnon/GOP Senate Candidate Charged With Filing False Report Of Child Trafficking At Maryland Adult Bookstore
The republicans of today have no decency or sense of decorum. They don’t live in reality, they make stuff up and lie as well as they breath. They are gang thugs who think winning at any cost is the goal. If it harms those they don’t like that is a plus benefit for them. We can not let these people take over the government, we must vote Democrat in the midterm elections no matter what. We have to have a functioning government for the people, not an oligarchy that uses government to produce their profit at the expense of the public. Hugs
Baltimore’s CBS affiliate reports:
Ryan Dark White, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland under the name Jon McGreevey, has been arrested and charged with filing a false report after he allegedly told law enforcement an adult bookstore in Edgewood was forcing a young girl to perform sex acts on men, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office said.
The sheriff’s office now says the story was made up. “It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.
In April, a tipster provided information to detectives with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office that a man and a young girl between, 10-12 years old, entered an adult bookstore in the 3000 block of Pulaski Highway and the child was forced to perform sex acts on male customers, police said.
Law & Crime reports:
Sheriff Gahler added, “It is even more appalling that another individual, who is running for a law enforcement position, would embrace such an obviously false narrative in an effort to gain political traction – nothing more.” This swipe is apparently aimed at Andy Kuhl, who is running for Baltimore County sheriff as a Republican.
Kuhl told Law&Crime in an email that in his opinion, this was as political smear campaign against White–whom he called McGreevey–ahead of the upcoming primary.
In a statement, he called him a credible informant, told Law&Crime he showed up to the July 7 interview unannounced on White’s behalf, and accused detectives of strange behavior, such as messages about there being good news in the case. He told Law&Crime on the phone that he did not respond to those messages.
White/McGreevey reportedly told police that he was working at the bookstore as part of an undercover drug sting. That’s him with Kuhl in the video below.
“It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.
Welcome to the New Republican Party.
Todd20036 K Elmquist • 12 hours ago
It’s not new, just the hoods are off
teeveedub K Elmquist • 11 hours ago
Making up stories to further their political agenda is all the Republicon party has. It’s their brand. This scumbag is just aligning himself with the party’s core values.
Soooo, he was caught at the bookstore and made up this crazy story to make himself look like a kristjun?
“White/McGreevey reportedly told police that he was working at the bookstore as part of an undercover drug sting.”
Cops and politicians are always hassling that bookstore. (Or so I’ve been told)
It is okay for Republicans to go around with two names, the one they have on official records and one they chose for themselves, a nickname or whatever they’re more comfortable using.
A trans person choosing a name for themselves?
Oh, no that can’t be allowed. It would be “confusing”. It goes against someone else’s religious beliefs. I’ve even seen it said that trans people changing their names snarls up the legal system, somehow making it impossible to conduct a complete criminal background check if or when necessary to do so..
Ted Cruz: SCOTUS Was “Clearly Wrong” On Obergefell
In the newsweek article Cruz argues that the right to same gender marriage was not a long held right historically. That thinking means that that no rights not established in the founding of the country or specifically written as an amendment are not rights nor should the people be able to do that thing. You know what that means right, only white straight Christian males who own land will have any say in the government or have rights in the country. It is so stupid, and they know it because they champion the idea that unrestricted gun ownership is a right yet it only happened in 2008 by Antonin Scalia. So why should that be a right it was not something the founders wanted as a right for the people?
The idea that some rights like marriage should be left to states is nonsense. Think about having a marriage that means nothing if you travel or are forced to live in a Republican controlled state. There are about 1,100 legal benefit that will be turned on and off as you cross state borders. What about medical rights? What about children, will you suddenly not be their parent as you cross from state to state. It simply is unworkable. Almost all the same arguments should and had been made about a woman’s right to control her body and get an abortion. But the religious dictatorship is not willing to reason or think this out, they want the right to control / force others to live by their religious dictates. Ted Cruz wanted to make dildos illegal in Texas. Ever wonder about people that want that kind of control over other people?
The fact is that the constitution was designed to be a living document that changed as the public’s needs change and understand grew. It was not meant to be a religious tome of never changing commandments, as the US was never meant to be a theocracy. I just don’t understand the drive people like Cruz have to restrict things other people do that do not involve or effect them in anyway. How consenting adults have sex or don’t have sex is nothing anyones should even be thinking about much less have a say over. Anyway welcome to the United States of Jesusland, a theocratic country divided and forced to follow the outdated writing of people 2,500 years ago who some people think were the pinnacle of enlightenment, science, morality, and ways of governance. Will those people give up their phones and modern medications / treatments? Hugs
Newsweek reports:
Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, said Saturday that he believes the Supreme Court was “clearly wrong” when it decided in a historic 2015 ruling that same-sex marriage was legal under the Constitution.
In a video uploaded to YouTube from his Verdict+ podcast, Cruz discussed what was described as the “vulnerability” of the Obergefell ruling. He argued that the ruling was not correctly decided, making a similar argument to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his concurring opinion when the top judicial body formally overturned Roe v. Wade.
“Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history,” the senator argued in the clip from his podcast. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”
Read the full article.
Cruz, you will recall, made opposition to same-sex marriage a centerpiece of his 2016 presidential campaign.
His father, Rafael Cruz, a part-time pastor, served as his surrogate on the issue, regularly issuing frothing Nazi comparisons, predictions of God destroying the nation, and claims that gays would force the legalization of pedophilia.
Rafael Cruz, now 83, made his living selling dietary supplements for Mannatech, a multi-level marketing outfit that has been repeatedly sued for claims that their products were effective treatments for cancer, autism, and diabetes.
Trump repeatedly accused Rafael Cruz of having a role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
“Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”
Except for the more than 1000 federal benefits and other recognitions.
Houndentenor clay • 20 minutes ago
RWNJs are only for things being left to the states when it’s a RWNJ item. If it’s gun control or something else (see the recent decision on NY gun laws) they want the federal government to override the states. This has nothing to do with states’ rights and everything to do with whatever talking point promotes their agenda in that moment.
Left to the states, Clarence and Ginni would not be married.
Boreal Ed B • 2 hours ago • edited
Cons want it both ways, “left to the states” when bigotry is state supported and left to the Federal govt when it is not. They will be coming for abortion rights with federal law to make sure no state allows abortions. It’s why they worked so hard for this court.
Rehnquist, who Cruz clerked for, wanted it both ways– 1) the courts weren’t allowed to “ratchet up” civil rights, that was the legislature’s domain. 2) the legislatures weren’t allowed to create any “special rights” not identified in the (original) Constitution (Rehnquist wanted to limit the 14th to Civil War issues, which meant its recognition on Native Americans as humans with human rights was irrelevant to him).
Rehnquist was the red flag the ACLU tried to warn everyone about as proof of what conservatives were trying to do to the courts.
Too bad no one listened.
“Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history,” the senator argued in the clip from his podcast. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”….
Kind of like Loving vs Virginia…..
And slavery. That was left to the states too and look how that turned out.
IamSmartypants Brian • 30 minutes ago
Except for the federal Fugitive Slave Act which forced free states to return escaped slaves to their former masters.
What, me worry? • 2 hours ago • edited
While we’re overturning what used to be considered settled law, let’s overturn Citizens United. Corporations are NOT people, and money is NOT speech, and neither one of them is our friend.
Rights aren’t rights if they can be taken away. They’re privileges.
Aren’t marriages licences just legal contracts between two parties? And doest the full faith and credit clause require a contract signed in one state to be valid in all states?
Normally yes. But they’ll invent some bullshit 🥨 logic to support their position.
And yet divorce, something banned by Christ Almighty, is still OK, and indulged in by adulterous Rethugs.
Do Something Nice ⵓ🐠ⵓ🐠 🏴☠️ • 2 hours ago
1967 Loving v Virginia was not “left to the states” to decide.
David in Palm Springs • 2 hours ago
“Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”
Not true. The Supreme Court FORCED states to allow interracial marriage. If they hadn’t, it would have taken another 20 years until the public approved of it. Unlike same-sex marriage. Which already has a 70% approval.
He, and the theocratic assholes on the SC, are in the vast minority when it comes to marriage equality.
Drop the charade. They don’t care about state rights, legal theory, or any principles. They care about power and money and their theocratic supremacy. Everything else is pretext in service of those outcomes.
Drop the charade. They don’t care about state rights, legal theory, or any principles. They care about power and money and their theocratic supremacy. Everything else is pretext in service of those outcomes.
April Smith Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • 2 hours ago • edited
Before you know it only white male land owners will have the vote.
On a resent post
On a recent post reposting the Sam Seder video Sam said at one point.
Just don’t be an asshole!
Can we just make that the country motto? Just don’t be an asshole. Hugs
Republican Cries To Fox News After Getting Publicly Humiliated For Making Transphobic Comments
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Right-Winger Monsters FAIL To Discredit Story Of 10-YO Abortion Patient
Read more HERE: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/…
“A 27-year-old man has been charged in the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl who reportedly traveled from Ohio to Indiana for an abortion in a case that drew international attention — and scrutiny — in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Gershon Fuentes, who was arrested Tuesday, confessed to raping the child, according to documents filed in Franklin County, Ohio, Municipal Court.
He was charged with the rape of a minor and faces a life sentence and deportation, the documents state. Bond was set at $2 million, and an initial hearing is scheduled for next week.
An attorney who represented Fuentes at Wednesday’s hearing did not immediately reply to a request for comment Wednesday evening.”
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