Category: LGBTQ+ / Gay / Trans / Gender
THE GAYVANGELICAL
Texas AG Declares School District’s “Pride Week” Illegal
Are we closer to being Russia yet? Will they make LGBTQ+ people illegal next? Or just showing you are gay in public will be illegal? Will two guys holding hands be a jail sentence? The goal is to make the non-white non-straight people non-Christian people second class people with no rights. It is happening as we watch. Fascism is taking over in the red states as we watch, and they want to do it to the entire US. Scary
The Hill reports:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said in a letter to the Austin Independent School District (AISD) this week that its Pride Week was “breaking state law.”
Paxton wrote Tuesday that by hosting pride week, the district “has, at best undertaken a week-long instructional effort in human sexuality without parental consent. Or, worse [the] district is cynically pushing a week-long indoctrination of [students] that not only fails to obtain parental consent, but subtly cuts parents out of the loop.”
The Texas AG also wrote that the Austin ISD’s curriculum and lesson plans “deal head-on with sexual orientation and gender identity—topics that unmistakably constitute ‘human sexuality instruction’ governed by state law.”
The Washington Post reports:
About 45 minutes after Paxton’s office tweeted out the letter, the school district’s superintendent, Stephanie Elizalde, tweeted back: “I want all our LGBTQIA+ students to know that we are proud of them and that we will protect them against political attacks.”
District spokesman Jason Stanford told The Washington Post the celebration will continue as planned. “We’re going to react to this by doubling down on making sure our kids feel safe and celebrating Pride,” Stanford said.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The wealthy see the rest of us as things to be driven for their profit, not as humans worthy of decent lives and respect.
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Scottie’s world today
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Your surplus labor value is stolen. The system gives the thieves multiples of that stolen wealth via stock evaluations.
Ted Cruz is sad becuase tries to sound dumb to connect with his base. His Ivy League debate skills are used to protect the weak-minded and petty in his party.
These vile assholes were always there in the Republican Party.
Trump gave them oxygen.
Not only is there no test, it’s expressly forbidden.
If The US Senate followed Establishment Clause, the clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress, we would have almost no Republican Senators left.
Two of Russia’s biggest spies posing with their puppet in the Oval Office. Trump did not allow US media to cover this event.
But, sure, tell me how 2A conservatives will fight ‘tyranny’ while their Republican leaders give everything to our biggest enemy.
I do not think it is even that high. People in the US just don’t vote as they are disconnected from the government. They have been shown and told that government doesn’t work for them, the government only responds to the wishes of the wealthy. The government has been bought by the large donors. Often when people vote for something if Republicans are in charge the Republicans simply either ignore it or change what the voters wanted to suit right wing needs.
‘Desperate for the attention of other stupid people’ is the FOX model: the incurious moral blank.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
This is an attempt to both smear Germany with the past but to claim they are not helping now. In fact Germany is paying a steep price for enforcing the sanctions.
I post this drivel to ask even if all the salacious drug and sex stuff about Hunter was correct what would it matter? He is not an official advisor to his father such as the tRump children were. Hunter has no part of the government, draws no paycheck from the government, and is a private citizen. But things like this are an attempt to get their base to associate President Biden with sex and drugs through his son. They just can not find anything to attack Joe Biden with that sticks.
Again Rivers is far far hard right. He is in the cult of tRump. Why would we miss him due to high gas prices due to price gouging? So he can gouge more? His administration had high gas prices also before Covid by the right wing has forgotten that. Short memories they have.
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And now some for fun
Republican drops bomb with the most DANGEROUS announcement possible
Cornyn Attacks Same-Sex Marriage Ruling At SCOTUS Hearing: “Who Do These People Really Think They Are?”
Mother Jones reports:
During the second day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing Tuesday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) took the occasion to attack marriage equality. His line of questioning comes as conservatives have continued to use state legislatures and the courts to roll back rights for LGBTQ people. While a majority of Americans support marriage equality, it remains a target for repeal by many on the right.
Cornyn’s objections are, first, that granting equal rights to LGBTQ people conflicts with the religious beliefs of some people. To which Jackson responded, “Well, senator, that is the nature of a right. That when there is a right, it means that there are limitations on regulation, even if people are regulating pursuant to their sincerely held religious beliefs, even if people are regulating pursuant to their sincerely held religious beliefs.”
The Washington Blade reports:
The Texas Republican went on to describe the issue as not just an overriding the will of the states and the people, but also major religions, and asked Jackson if she agrees “marriage is not simply a governmental institution, it’s also a religious institution.”
When Jackson replied, “Well, senator, marriages are often performed in religious institutions,” Cornyn followed up with questioning on whether she agrees many major religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, have defined marriage as one man, one woman.
Jackson wouldn’t engage with Cornyn beyond what was directly necessary: “I am aware that there are various religious faiths that define marriage in a traditional way.”
Please read the news stories. I am tired so may not post both but I might. I am also discouraged. For those who say this issue is settled it is not. See all the attempts to roll it back and undo same sex marriage. In their minds their religious views trump all else. They feel entitled to have that view back. They are not content to just live by their religious doctrines, but they insist that everyone else does also. Notice his wording, it is the new Republican buss word term ” offended”. Cannot have books that offend Christians, cannot have history taught that offends white people, cannot have ideology taught that offends right wing maga cult members. I think I will go play Halo tonight, I feel very down.
