The tech billionaire has been making major contributions to his former employee for his U.S. Senate bid. He might be surprised by Masters’ view on Thiel’s own wedding.
Roger Sollenberger
Political Reporter
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Republican senatorial candidate Blake Masters enjoys the financial and political support of his longtime friend, mentor, and billionaire business partner Peter Thiel, who is gay. But Masters, who attended Thiel’s wedding, also apparently believes Thiel’s marriage should be illegal.
“It’s not just Disney, you know—‘follow your heart,’” Masters said at a campaign event earlier this year. “It has a point.”
That “point,” he said, is making children. And since there’s no procreation within same-sex marriages, Masters reasoned, those unions don’t have a point—and therefore should be banned.
Masters, 34, shared this perspective in February with an audience at a Republican Women’s Club event in San Tan Valley, Arizona, where he’s running for Senate. The 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage, he told this group, amounted to “squinting and making up so-called rights in the Constitution.”
“The Supreme Court should not be deciding gay marriage. If this country wanted to legalize gay marriage or recognize it, what you would do is you would have a Constitutional amendment. It’s supposed to be hard. It’s supposed to be hard for a reason,” he said. “Frankly, the Supreme Court just squinting and making up so-called rights in the Constitution—the right to privacy that was for abortion, the right to gay marriage—I disagree with that.”
Masters then pivoted to Thiel’s wedding for a real-world example, saying “I wish him well,” while in the next breath declaring that Thiel’s marriage should be against the law.
“My, you know, former boss and mentor Peter Thiel is gay. I went to his wedding like, you know, I’m—it was great, I wish him well. I don’t think the Supreme Court should have decided that case that way,” Masters said. He added that while he doesn’t think gay marriage is “the live issue right now,” he believes “marriage is between a man and a woman.”
Although same-sex marriage may not have been a “live issue” at the time of that event, it certainly grew into one three months later, when the public got a preview of what last week became the momentous Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
That controversial ruling hung on a due process issue, and the court ultimately kicked the decision back to the individual states. But Roe isn’t the only precedent established on those grounds; other major decisions share a similar legal structure, including Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that secured the right for gay people to get married.
The implications were not lost on the court. The court’s three liberal justices—Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor—raised a warning in their dissent that Obergefell could be next, along with protections for contraceptives and sexual activity generally.
While the majority of the SCOTUS conservatives parried those concerns, Justice Clarence Thomas stated plainly in his opinion that the Court “should reconsider” all similar due process precedents, calling Obergefell out by name.
Masters also called the case out by name, saying that while he had “a lot of problems” with Chief Justice John Roberts, he aligned with Roberts’ “pretty good dissent.”
That’s because marriage, Masters said, “has a point.”
“Marriage is an institution that goes back thousands of years, and it has a point. The point is procreation and creating children,” Masters said.
Thiel’s marriage, in Masters’ view, would seem to have no point.
It’s unclear how this squares with the “great” wedding Masters attended between Thiel and his now husband, Matt Danzeisen.
Thiel, PayPal co-founder and an early Facebook investor, got hitched after Obergefell, though the longtime couple didn’t hold the ceremony in the United States. They instead invited guests to Vienna, Austria, under the aegis of the venture capitalist’s 50th birthday celebration, and surprised them with the wedding. (Location did not matter; there was no overseas loophole when it came to the federal rights extended in Obergefell.)
At the time, Masters was CFO of Thiel Capital Management, making him a colleague not just of Thiel, but also of Danzeisen, who worked there as a portfolio manager. Thiel had taken Masters under his wing a decade ago, and last year poured $10 million into backing the candidacy of his protege—who frequently plugged his then boss’ technology on the campaign trail.
Masters eventually resigned from Thiel Capital this spring amid ethical concerns. He scored former President Donald Trump’s endorsement earlier this month.
But even with Trump out of office, LGBTQ rights are under attack from conservatives across the country. With Democrats controlling the federal legislative and executive branches, the action has been confined at the state level—something Masters would like to change.
So far this year, more than 250 anti-LGBTQ bills have been put forward in 37 states, according to the legislation tracker kept by Freedom For All Americans and the Human Rights Campaign.
Anti-transgender extremism has escalated to the point where parents of transgender children fear for their safety, and the resurgence of archaic homophobic rhetoric around “groomers” and pedophiles—fueled by Republican leaders and conservative media—has stirred anxiety in the LGBTQ community about looming politically motivated violence.
In November, GOP leaders torched Republican National Committee chair Ronna Romney McDaniel for expressing support for gay Republicans at a Mar-a-Lago gala—even calling for her resignation.
Critics say that these developments, like Masters’ comments, show that the Republican Party is winding back the clock. However, when it comes to gay marriage, the GOP’s clock has been stuck in 2016, when the official party platform defined “natural marriage” as between “a man and a woman.”
Because the GOP declined to write a new platform in 2020, the current platform, which will carry through at least the 2024 election, is identical to the one from 2016—the year after Obergefell.
The libertarian Thiel actually spoke at the 2016 convention just a few minutes before Trump took the stage, declaring, “I am proud to be gay.”
“We are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom,” Thiel said, referencing a controversy over new anti-transgender laws brewing in conservative states.
“This is a distraction from our real problems,” he said. “Who cares?”
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+- Changes from Trafalgar's April Poll Blake Masters 28.9% (+9.5) Mark Brnovich 23.7% (-0.2) Jim Lamon 17.2% (-7.6) Michael McGuire 4.4% (-3.8) Justin Olson 4% (+0.9)@trafalgar_group / June 7-9 / 1,077 LV pic.twitter.com/RZ0ivo1qjW
Republican lawmakers and Utah politicos celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday, with one legislator saying she trusted Utah women “to control [their] intake of semen.” Rep. Karianne Lisonbee described a text message she said she received urging her to hold men accountable for unwanted pregnancies.
“I got a text message today saying I should seek to control men’s ejaculations and not women’s pregnancies. I do trust women enough to control when they allow a man to ejaculate inside of them and to control that intake of semen,” the Clearfield Republican told reporters at a news conference at the Utah Capitol on Friday.
ok look anyone who casually uses the phrase “control that intake of semen" is definitely writing boy band slash fanfic under a pseudonym like DoomieHere or ImaGoodlay or EileenOver https://t.co/Gc8HiF7kaW
The Republican Jesus delusion is strong in this one
Imagine blaming women for the devastating loss of bodily autonomy by saying it’s our fault we can’t stop an often much larger man from ejaculating inside of us
What I think you fail to understand is that they now control the means of electing those that would follow our wishes. The integrity of the upcoming elections, really for the first time in our history, will be in question. They now have the means in law to disregard the votes of those they don’t want and suppress the others to prevent them voting. This will feed false gains offices and further law making it far easier to control and add more GQP members to the seats of power and further surpress the voter will being done. As there have pointed out, historians will point to this time as the beginning of the end of our democracy.
“Sexual assault in Utah is common, though often goes unreported,” Sonya Martinez-Ortiz, executive director of Utah’s Rape Recovery Center, told the The Salt Lake Tribune.
A 2016 study conducted by Utah State University found that one in six Utah women have reported having been raped, higher than the national average.
Looks like Utahn women are having trouble controlling their intake of semen, and that those raped aren’t necessarily going to have the documentation her law requires for them to access abortion services.
The MR crew discuss Justice Clarence Thomas’ brief mentioning Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell and that abortion is not in the constitution. The Majority Report crew discuss the possibility of Republican judges from the circuit courts ruling in the attempt to reverse precedents established by Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. The MR crew discuss how there is no reason to believe that the marriage equality precedent is more robust than Roe. v Wade which had been established for fifty years.
FILE – Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., speaks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing May 19, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Before Lankford became a leading voice for conservative causes on Capitol Hill, he spent more than a decade as the director of youth programming at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, a sprawling campground about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City that attracts more than 50,000 campers in grades six through 12 each year. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
Before he became a leading voice for conservative causes on Capitol Hill, U.S. Senator James Lankford spent more than a decade as the director of youth programming at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, a sprawling campground about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City that attracts more than 50,000 campers in grades six through 12 each year.
The Republican lawmaker’s tenure at the camp is a prominent feature of his political profile, noted in the first paragraph of his official Senate biography. That experience is also coming under renewed scrutiny as the Southern Baptist Convention, which is affiliated with the group that owns the camp, faces a reckoning over its handling of sexual abuse cases.
In 2009, while Lankford worked at the camp, the family of a 13-year-old girl sued a 15-year-old boy who was alleged to have had sex with her at the camp. Lankford, who was not in Congress at the time, is not alleged to have had any direct knowledge of the alleged assault, has not been accused of any wrongdoing and was not a defendant in the lawsuit, which was settled for an undisclosed amount before it was scheduled to go to trial.
But in a 2010 deposition in the case, given a week after he was elected to his first term in the U.S. House, Lankford testified that he believed a 13-year-old could consent to sex.
“Yes, I think they can,” Lankford told Kenyatta Bethea, a lawyer for the girl’s family, according a 155-page transcript of the deposition obtained by The Associated Press.
The age of consent in Oklahoma is 16, and although there is an exception in the law for minors between the ages of 14 and 17 who have sexual contact, there is no provision under which a 13-year-old could consent to sex. When Bethea pressed if his answer was still the same “if I ask you that question in terms of your position as a father,” Lankford maintained his stance.
“Yes, they can,” he said.
Under additional questioning about whether he would allow his two daughters to consent to sex at the age of 13, Lankford gave a more expansive answer.
“No, I would not encourage that at all,” he said. “Could she make that choice? I hope she would not, but I would not encourage that in any way with my own daughter.”
It’s unclear whether Lankford, who has no formal legal training, was aware of the legal age of consent at the time of his deposition. It’s also uncertain whether any criminal charges were filed against the 15-year-old boy. Telephone messages left with Murray County District Attorney Craig Ladd were not returned.
The testimony is surfacing before Tuesday’s primary for the GOP Senate nomination that would allow Lankford to seek another term. After early concerns that he could be vulnerable to a challenge from the right, he enters the election in a strong position. The primary winner will head into the fall general election as the overwhelming favorite in this deeply Republican state.
Aly Beley, a spokeswoman for Lankford’s reelection campaign, declined to comment for this story.
The revelation of Lankford’s testimony comes at a difficult moment for the Southern Baptist Convention.
A scathing investigative report, conducted by an independent firm, found that top SBC leaders stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse while seeking to protect their own reputations. In response, the SBC voted overwhelmingly earlier this month to create a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse and launch a task force to oversee further reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
This is not the first case of alleged sexual assault at Falls Creek, a 400-acre campground nestled in the Arbuckle Mountains. The camp is owned by the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, which is now called Oklahoma Baptists and is part of the SBC.
Benjamin Lawrence Petty pleaded guilty in 2018 to raping a 13-year-old Texas girl at the camp. Petty, who was a cook at the camp, tied a rope around the girl’s wrists, raped her and threatened to hurt her if she told anyone, according to investigators. Petty was ultimately sentenced to probation in the case, and a civil case filed by the girl’s family against the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma was settled. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Lankford no longer worked at the camp when the attack occurred.
Court records show that Rev. Lori Walke, an attorney and senior minister at Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma City, served as a guardian ad litem for the Texas girl during the civil case. Walke declined to talk about details of the case, but said she attended Falls Creek as a young girl and has serious concerns about how the camp operates.
“Even as a kid, you recognize some things that feel off,” Walke said. “This real obsession with the purity culture is overwhelming. The rules around clothing, particularly for girls, were just obsessed over.”
“And then, the real lack of oversight, generally speaking, in all other matters,” she added. “It was absolutely due to the fact that there’s just not enough adults around.”
Oklahoma Baptists did not respond to questions about how many cases involving sexual misconduct at Falls Creek have been settled. In a statement, Executive Director-Treasurer Todd Fisher said the recent vote to approve recommendations from the SBC’s task force will bring about needed national reforms.
“I am thankful Oklahoma Baptists already made significant steps toward preventing abuse in Oklahoma, implementing a number of best practices in all areas of our ministries, including at our encampments,” Fisher said.
Oklahoma Baptists spokesman Brian Hobbs said some of those best practices for Falls Creek include mandatory background checks for anyone 18 and older, increased security, professionally developed safety training for all camp staff and church leaders bringing groups to the camp and protocols for reporting abuse or suspected abuse.
During his deposition, Lankford said he had no problem sending his daughters to the camp, including in instances when he was not present, though he acknowledged that supervision wasn’t perfect.
“I know that our adults are watching out for our kids, but the process of that, obviously I can’t guess for every adult how they’re going to handle it,” Lankford said.
Fucking dogs that love gravy it is already started! The war on even a same sex kiss on screen. For Fuck sake what is the harm of a same sex kiss between cartoon characters? Have they never watched Bugs Bunny, he kissed everyone including Elmer Fudd. This is the Russian model of making the LGBTQ+ disappear, never to be seen. I am so tired of this fight. My existence is now seen as a threat to the well being to the evangelical religious / right wing class. This shit is a serious threat that belongs back in the 1970 / 1980s. It is now 2022, and we still face this shit. it the US a fucking democracy or a theocracy? The people better come out and overwhelmingly vote Democrat and hope that the rigging of the election offices don’t stop the voter’s choice from winning the election. Hugs
The 89er Theatre in Kingfisher, Oklahoma has come under fire after posting a warning about a brief gay kiss featured in Pixar’s “Lightyear.” A sign was posted on the window of the theater during the movie’s opening weekend warning moviegoers about the gay kiss and claiming the theater would “do all we can to fast-forward” through the scene. Kingfisher is located about 50 miles from Oklahoma City.
As reported by NBC News, the warning post included the following message: “Attention Parents: The management of this theatre discovered after booking ‘Lightyear’ that there is a same-sex kissing scene within the first 30 minutes of the Pixar movie. We will do all we can to fast-forward through that scene, but it might not be exact.”
Oklahoma City’s NBC affiliate KFOR reported the sign was posted over the weekend and was removed by Monday afternoon. One local resident, Patricia Kasbek, told NBC News she first thought the warning was a joke. Kasbek then left a complaint with the theater after discovering the warning was real.
“I told them that it was completely insulting for them to censor a same-gender kiss when they’ve never done this to an opposite-gender kiss,” Kasbek said, calling the sign “cruel” and “bigoted.” “I will never see a movie at this theater while under this ownership.”
Alex Wade, the deputy director of the LGBTQ advocacy organization Oklahomans for Equality, also slammed the theater in a statement to NBC News, saying, “I am not shocked to see something like this happening in my state, but it does break my heart that young LGBTQ+ Oklahomans are made to feel like something is wrong with them. This is why we develop chapters in rural Oklahoma to show everyone that there are people in their corner.”
“When same-sex couples show affection, even the most chaste of kisses, it is sexualized and treated as if it were explicit,” Wade added. “If this were a heterosexual couple, the theater would never even think of skipping it, because heterosexual couples are given the grace to be intimate without being shamed.”
“Lightyear” underwhelmed at the box office in its debut, grossing only $51 million. For Pixar, “Lightyear” ranks as one of the studio’s lower starts, behind 2017’s “Cars 3” ($53 million) and ahead of 2015’s “The Good Dinosaur” ($39 million) and 2020’s “Onward” ($39 million). It’s also one of the rare Pixar films to not take the top spot at the domestic box office, landing in second place.
The 89er Theatre in Kingfisher, Oklahoma has come under fire after posting a warning about a brief gay kiss featured in Pixar’s #Lightyearhttps://t.co/gUM1wZ1irJ
A movie theater in Kingfisher put up this sign warning customers about a same-sex kiss in the new Pixar movie ‘Lightyear’. It also says they will fast-forward through the scene.
The owner tells me they took the sign down and have not altered any showing.
I’d say Iran ca. 1978 is a good comparison. On the surface, when the year began, everything seemed fairly normal for women until the instant the Shah was deposed. In that instant the religious fundies took over and everything changed, literally overnight. If it can happen there it can happen anywhere.
America is becoming everything they criticize in foreign countries. Unholy shit. Mind your mental health, American friends. I’m sure today has been A LOT. Like, just the most.
And it starts. We knew this was coming. Doesn’t he realize his own marriage is also going to be illegal if we return to the 1950’s? These wealthy or religious people on the court don’t think the police are bad because they won’t be affected by bad cops, like congress they won’t be affected by the rulings they make. These people have the idea that they are the elite and are above the laws the laws the rest of us must follow Why would they worry about guns flooding the country, the first-time people peacefully protested near their homes they got congress to immediately pass a law against it enforced by the very police they constantly protect from any civilian threats, even though congress cannot pass laws that protect school kids from mass shootings. 9 court justices got a law passed right away no delay; many kids killed so what. This is no longer a country governed by the people for the people, it is corporations ruling over government to support profit at all costs. Ron and I have made sure our passports are up to date and we will be using our funds to move as soon as sex between consenting same sex couples are illegal and our marriage becomes a joke in Florida, the home of the desperate to president maga “Don’t say gay” attack Disney for being too tolerant DeathSantis makes us gays illegal. Oh yes that is the same DeathSantis that recently tried to say with a straight face that Florida wouldn’t tolerate attacks on gay people as he celebrated the Pulse night club massacre. This is on every tRump voter. This is on every Republican voter. This is on every religious person who voted for the Republican over the Democrat. Thank you to each and every one of you for rolling the country back to the 1950s to enjoy your superiority. Now give up your cell phones, smart TV’s, internet, GPS, and all the science advances, give up all the medical advances, just go back to live in that regressive world you assholes because you don’t deserve to live with the rest of us. Thanks for putting the rights of others on the chopping block so you could have your god in everyone’s life and your fucking tax breaks so corporations and wealthy people pay nothing while the public work 3 or 4 jobs 60 to 80 hours a week to pay the corporate rent and buy food to eat. Fuck this country. By the way think you are a citizen because you were born in the US, that is also on the chopping block that many hard right conservatives want to get rid of. Hugs
From Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion:
The Court’s abortion cases are unique, see ante, at 31–32, 66, 71–72, and no party has asked us to decide “whether our entire Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence must be preserved or revised,” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 813 (opinion of THOMAS, J.).
Thus, I agree that “[n]othing in [the Court’s] opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” Ante, at 66.
For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.
Clarence Thomas writes, in a concurring opinion, that the Supreme Court should reconsider Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell — the rulings that now protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.
Justice Thomas calls on SCOUS to overrule Griswold (right to contraception); Lawrence (invalidating anti-sodomy laws); Obergefell (marriage equality) pic.twitter.com/xOXEwbfL24
Honestly, I don’t think he cares. Republicans are so blinded by their hate that they never think through how their actions might somehow affect themselves.
Women, we fought hard for our liberation. We will have to do it again. LGBTQI+ brothers, sisters, and allies, we fought hard to safeguard our rights and lives during the AIDS epidemic. We will have to do it again.
We have it in us. Everyone else, join us or get the fuck out of our way.
2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year Willie Carver Provided by Willie Carver Jr.
Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year, who is gay, says he is leaving the K-12 classroom “to make the most difference, and the discrimination and lack of support prevent me from making that difference.”
After 17 years being a public school teacher, Willie Carver Jr. said he decided to leave the classroom and take a position at the University of Kentucky in student support services.
Carver told the Herald-Leader – and UK officials confirmed – that he will be an academic advisor at the Gatton College for Business and Economics.
“I am very excited about this opportunity to continue helping young people in their quest for education, Carver said in a Facebook post. “This was not an easy decision; I have cried quite a few times trying to make it over the past few months. But, ultimately, I have always wanted to be in the place where I can most make a difference in the lives of the next generation. I believe that UK is where I can do this.”
“I also increasingly find that, as a queer person in K-12 education, I have been unable to do that work without facing discrimination, heartache, and being a part of systems that cause harm, though I am immensely proud of my brilliant, hardworking, and fierce colleagues who have and continue to change that system in defense of students.”
In May, Carver told a Congressional subcommittee that he faced discrimination as a gay teacher and that hatred was the norm in schools. The panel was examining the wave of race and LGBTQ censorship engulfing America’s K-12 classrooms.
Carver, who had been teaching high school in Montgomery County, told the Herald-Leader that “vocal anti-LGBTQ extremists at school board meetings (and on social media) have been personally attacking me and my former students.”
“The national rhetoric is turned up, and LGBTQ teachers bear the weight of a lot of hatred that catalyzes the vitriol. It’s tiring,” he said.
Carver said he had been unable to find support from his school administration. “Mr. Carver is a wonderful English and French teacher. We wish him well in his new endeavor,” Montgomery County Superintendent Matthew Thompson said.
Carter said he had been proud to be a teacher and had worked tirelessly for students and their families.
He said he found the resources they needed. He said his goal had always been to strengthen his community and teach young people to believe in themselves.
“I also know that I symbolize potential for some students. I symbolize potential for students who come from poverty, for Appalachian students, and for LGBTQ students,” said Carver. “Of late, I feel beaten down. I’ve withstood it, but it’s hard to find peace or happiness when you’re under attack. This is all the more problematic when a person is a symbol. I can’t risk breaking.”
Some schools are doing incredible work for their students and teachers who are racial or ethnic minorities, or are LGBTQ, he said. Some are not, he said.
“Some are doing harm, are rendering people invisible, are illegalizing discussions about queerness or blackness, are afraid to be allies for fear of political retribution,” Carver said.
“A question that anyone in a system has to ask is whether they are capable of changing that system or whether they are perpetuating it. I believe that I am able best to work with a system that helps students by moving forward.”
Carver mentioned Tyler Clay Morgan, a former music teacher at Kentucky’s West Irvine Intermediate School who resigned after he wrote a message to students on his classroom board that later became controversial.
Morgan in April confirmed to the Herald-Leader that he wrote a message on his classroom board that said, “You Are Free to Be Yourself With Me. You Matter.” The message included a rainbow flag and rainbow colors.
“This is a message I always tried to teach every student too,” said Carver. “I know Tyler and I aren’t alone in this. Thank you to each and every person who has made me, their own colleagues, and their students feel that they mattered.”
Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year, who is gay, says he is leaving the K-12 classroom “to make the most difference, and the discrimination and lack of support prevent me from making that difference.”
After 17 years being a public school teacher, Willie Carver Jr. said he decided to leave the classroom and take a position at the University of Kentucky in student support services.
Carver, who had been teaching high school in Montgomery County, told the Herald-Leader that “vocal anti-LGBTQ extremists at school board meetings (and on social media) have been personally attacking me and my former students.” Carver said he had been unable to find support from his school administration.
Last month Carver testified before a House subcommittee about accusations that he was “grooming students.” Watch the clip.
Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year said he is leaving the K-12 classroom in part because of discrimination. Willie Carver Jr. has been a public school teacher for 17 years. https://t.co/NYyltUpwtJ
— Lexington Herald-Leader (@heraldleader) June 23, 2022
For 17 years, teacher Willie Carver has been fighting for students to feel human, to be safe, and stop fear by changing hearts and minds.
This story makes me sad. Willie Carver could be any of us here – ordinary people who happen to be gay and are just trying to do their jobs and get through life as best we can with some shred of integrity. His story is our story.
When I was perceived as a straight white male I was on the fast track at the company I worked for, when I transitioned I became unpromotable and was stuck in a corner and told to shut the fuck up. I created my own path after that, I’m much happier now. Good luck to those that face adversity because of who they are, keep your chin up and don’t be afraid to bushwhack your way to a better future.
Anyone who thinks that the bigots are not currently winning is not paying attention.
Where are the calls to give Biden a House and Senate that will pass his agenda? Where is the national drive explicitly laying out what the Democrats will pass if they’re given a sufficient majority? Where is the PR campaign pointing out the bills that Republicans have stopped, and their record of obstruction? I don’t get it – where are the Democrats?
Goodbye to a sort-of functioning, somewhat democratic country – we’re pretty much doomed.
While the real-world channels were covering the attack on Democracy today, the BREAKING NEWS on Fux was Nancy Pelosi ‘s father-in-law ‘s traffic accident.
Good teachers are being forced out every year. Dealing with inept superiors, parents who are overwhelmed or just don’t give a fuck about their children and their education and being the political football for dipshits like DeSantis and right-wingers brings teachers to their breaking points. Kudos to Mr. Carver and I wish him luck with his new job.
Mattel recently announced its launch of the first transgender Barbie doll as part of its #TRANSISBEAUTIFUL Tribute Collection, modeled after the Orange Is the New Black actor and LGBTQ activist Laverne Cox.
Mattel created a Barbie in his likeness, wearing a red, sheer evening gown with a faux leather strapless top, a tulle skirt, and a sparkly silver bodysuit underneath.
The Laverne Cox doll promotes cross-dressing and glorifies the transgender lifestyle. Mattel has created a toy glorifying gender inclusivity while ignoring one’s biological sex.
Barbie is also donating in Cox’s name to TransFamilySOS, an organization that describes its mission as a service “that saves lives by shaping a gender affirming and accepting community.”
It is outrageous that a toy company is marketing and normalizing gender dysphoria to young children.
Parents who are not already aware of the company’s agenda, please be forewarned: Children are being “groomed” by Mattel trans Barbie dolls under the disguise of playtime.
Now, parents will have to deal with the confusion experienced by their children when these inappropriate dolls are seen on store shelves such as Walmart, Target, and other stores that sell Barbie dolls.
This new product makes it clear that Mattel has an LGBTQ agenda that it is forcing on extremely young audiences.
Obviously, Mattel is attempting to “groom” the next generation. This company should be enhancing learning during play, but instead, Mattel is brainwashing our preschoolers and elementary-age children.
Mattel is hoping to have this doll placed in playrooms solely to indoctrinate children into transgenderism and homosexuality.
The company’s goal is to have everyone, even toddlers, accept the LGBTQ lifestyle, but a toy company should never even consider taking part in this abomination.
Mattel is purposely confusing our innocent children by attempting to destroy very definitive gender lines. Why can’t the toy manufacturer let kids be who God created them to be instead of glamorizing a sinful lifestyle?
Mattel is choosing to push an agenda of sexual confusion instead of promoting its actual product.
This PC-inclusive toy blurs the biological distinctions between males and females. Introducing children to this lifestyle choice is contrary to what conservative, Christian parents are teaching their children about God’s design.
Take Action now and demand that Mattel remove the controversial doll from shelves immediately!
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