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Florida Advances Bill Forcing Public Schools To Set Aside Time For Student Recruiting By “Patriotic Organizations”

Florida Advances Bill Forcing Public Schools To Set Aside Time For Student Recruiting By “Patriotic Organizations”

This is known as the foot in the door bill / law.  Once this gets passed, then the next year a bill / law is introduced to add more right wing groups.  Notice parents are not to be notified and from what I read students can not opt out, which totally wipes out parents rights.  Think on it, any parent can keep an entire school from reading a book with LGBTQIA characters, but no parent can keep their child from right wing indoctrination in public schools.   Just mull over what groups the new approved list might include?  The local mega / hate church?  The RNC?  All military branches, which I think most schools allow but students need permission from parents, that permission no longer required.   However written into the law is not available to other groups, such as left leaning or science groups.  No Satanic Temple for science stuff, no equality groups, no pro abortion groups, no other religion but the “good” one Christianity, right?  By law, only right wing indoctrination 1950s society groups may have this right to brainwash kids without the parents being told.  Let the public reeducation camps begin with public schools.   They will wipe all that progressive modern acceptance and tolerance shit out for good, right?   Hugs.  Scottie

January 25, 2024 Politics, Republicans

 

Florida Politics reports:

The House Choice and Innovation Subcommittee is advancing a bill that would give some groups certain rights in K-12 schools.

Rep. Wyman Duggan’s bill (HB 1317) would allow representatives of so-called “patriotic organizations” time to meet with students and distribute recruitment materials, with schools providing designated time for these groups to pitch their attendees.

The bill also clarifies that certain groups can use school buildings even after the instructional day is over, and stipulates that other groups don’t have the legal right to “equal time.”

Read the full article. Duggan is a freshman.

kal61678 9 days ago

“Patriotic groups” is right wing speak for “terrorist militias”. He wants to use the school to let terrorist groups recruit kids.

clay  kal616789 days ago

That might be what he wants, but this bill won’t get him there.

Don_K  clay9 days ago

Foot in the door …

Brian Curtis 9 days ago

Attending children get complimentary brownshirts.

David Gervais  Brian Curtis9 days ago

I think that’s compulsory brownshirts.

ranchdad 9 days ago

Isn’t this how Hitler recruited the youth groups?

Rebecca Gardner 9 days ago
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Tim 🇺🇦9 days ago
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Ross9 days ago

G R O O M I N G

Paddycakes2001  Ross9 days ago
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Ninja09809 days ago

Where are the Cubans who scream about the dangers of Castro and forced government stuff at on this?
Oh wait, they’re fine if it’s people they like doing it.
Biggest bunch of hypocrites around.

TnCTampa  Ninja09809 days ago

Heney I live in the hood with them.. Its fuck biden flags and bumper stickers all over the place . The show their hatred for freedom and the constitution everytime they scream for trump

Darreth  TnCTampa9 days ago edited

Nations – and the citizens that come from them – who have never tasted a history of being a democratic republic really don’t understand how it’s done. I think we’ve got plenty of migration around the world now to recognize that.

Sadly, we’re witnessing how easy it is for even a nation like ours – WITH said history – to easily lose it once history is no longer considered an important topic in classrooms. No wonder MAGAts hate an educated population.

Ash  Ninja09809 days ago

Castro’s revolution was against the semi-fascist regime of Fulgencio Bautista (who eventually took refuge in exile with Franco!). The original people who fled Castro were allied with / members of / happy under a semi-fascist regime.

It is entirely on brand for them to support Trump.

Hubar  HZ819 days ago

Yep. Let’s see – Catholic Priest Altar Boy Appreciation Society – check!
Hitler youth – check, check!
Baptist Attractive Young Male Interns International Pimpery – check, check, checkity-check!

Hubar  clay9 days ago

They’ll find a way to lock out the Girl Scouts.

NPSTL  Hubar9 days ago

The Girl Scouts are on the conservative S-list. They don’t kick out lesbians and trans girls. They teach girls skills that help them become successful as independent women holding good jobs. They may teach health that includes accurate information about their genitalia and those of men.

WitlessProtection  clay 9 days ago

Wait – I thought they hated the Scouts now since the girls promote lesbianism and feminism, and the boys allowed the icky gays in.

Flora DeMann  clay9 days ago

I will not be surprised to see the FL legislature and governor coming up with a State of Florida designation of “patriotic and national organizations” to include many favored groups.

danolgb9 days ago
The bill also clarifies that certain groups can use school buildings even after the instructional day is over, and stipulates that other groups don’t have the legal right to “equal time.”

 

I like when they include clearly unconstitutional poisoned pills into their legislation.

NPSTL  danolgb9 days ago

They anticipate taking it up to the high court (state and federal Supreme Courts) and castrating the First Amendment.

Anastasia Beaverhousen9 days ago

Children can’t read or do arithmetic, don’t understand civics, but let’s take time out of the day and do this and sing the National Anthem. What fucking morons.

Tomcat9 days ago

Grooming is alive and well in Florida.

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊9 days ago

The bill also clarifies that certain groups can use school buildings even after the instructional day is over, and stipulates that other groups don’t have the legal right to “equal time.”

I don’t think that’s allowed.

Todd20036  Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊9 days ago

It’s allowed if SQOTUS says it’s allowed

Todd20036 9 days ago

Hey kids! Don’t be stupid, be a smarty! Come and join the Nazi Party!!!

Duh-David 9 days ago

GLSEN and Gay-Straight Alliances are “patriotic organizations,” right?

Kruhn  Duh-David9 days ago

BZZZZT!!!! Wrong. GLSEN would be one of the organizations specifically excluded.

JackFknTwist – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ 9 days ago

“………… other groups don’t have the legal right to “equal time.” “

Yeah, that’s the new Patriotic American way !

Tomcat9 days ago

The GOP has hijacked the word Patriot and made it a foul word.

liondon#traitortrash9 days ago

Conservatism has become a cancer on our society.

Jaffe Podberesky 9 days ago

The way Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) won the right to meet in schools is through the federal Equal Access Act (EAA) of 1984. Any school that permits non-curriculum related student groups must provide equal access to all student groups, and that includes equal access for GSAs. I’m no lawyer, but I wonder if this law can be used in this way.

DmR  Jaffe Podberesky9 days ago

I’m thinking that if they allow access to the John Belch Society, for example, a strong case could be made for, say, the local LGBT+ Outreach Center.

 

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Oklahoma Bill Would Make Viewing Porn A Felony

Oklahoma Bill Would Make Viewing Porn A Felony

You will live by the doctrines of state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R-Elgin) church.  It matters not if you like seeing nude humans, or if you enjoy touching yourself and having sex with others, it doesn’t even matter what religion you may or many not have, you will like a strict all ideas of sex is bad because state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R-Elgin) does.   You know, because republicans are not public servants but they are your rulers.   The moral police have spoken, the Christian Taliban will be around soon to check your computer.  Hugs.  Scottie

January 23, 2024 Christianists, Extremists

The New York Post reports:

An Oklahoma state senator has proposed a law that would make watching pornography a felony and ban sexting among people who are not married. The bill, set to be introduced next month by state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R-Elgin), would prohibit consuming or producing sexual content that “lacks serious literary, artistic, educational, political, or scientific purposes or value” in any medium.

The measure defines “obscene material” as the depiction or description of any “acts of sexual intercourse,” including those that are “normal or perverted, actual or simulated.” Content depicting sodomy and masturbation would also be off the table, in addition to videos, movies, video games and text messages that involve “sadomasochistic abuse” and “acts of excretion in a sexual context.”

The Mary Sue reports:

Under the bill, Oklahoma would ban the distribution of virtually any material that displays explicit sexual content if it lacks “serious literary, artistic, educational, political, or scientific purposes or value.” Additionally, Oklahoma would empower any citizen to open a lawsuit against an individual who “produces or distributes unlawful pornography” and/or “knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the production or distribution of unlawful pornography.”

A Twitter user could face significant legal risk just for retweeting adult material on Twitter. The Oklahoma state government could allege that Twitter knowingly allowed the distribution of “unlawful pornography” on the site. And theoretically, Oklahoma citizens could try to take Twitter to court in a civil suit, seeking damages. While it’s unlikely that Twitter would outright pull out of Oklahoma, the site could take multiple steps to try to find itself in the state’s good graces.

Deevers, of course, is a Baptist pastor who won a special election last month to represent some hillbilly rural district where the largest town has a population of 2100.

Per the Oklahoman newspaper, Deevers’ campaign was centered around Christian nationalism, banning COVID vaccines, banning abortion, and banning divorce.

Last year he ran a failed campaign for vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, getting 20% of the vote.

As you can see below, his bill has the enthusiastic support of Ella Maulding, who is an ardent fan of self-proclaimed Nazi Nick Fuentes and who runs social media for the Nazi-adjacent Texas Republican group, Defend Texas Liberty.

 

 

 

Sav_Dav_1234 8 days ago

Sounds like SOMEONE has a personal computer filled with terabytes of hardcore porn from the deepest, darkest corners of the internet.

Tim 🇺🇦8 days ago
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Melissia 8 days ago

In a normal court, I’d be like “Yeah, that won’t pass constitutional muster.” but this court has lost its fucking mind.

NPSTL  Reality.Bites8 days ago

I am convinced that rural Christians consume more porn than average Americans.

ECarpenter  NPSTL8 days ago

The statistics from online porn sites say exactly that.

ECarpenter  Melissia8 days ago

Statistics show that the more fundy and christian an area is, the more porn they watch. So no, this isn’t going anywhere, his fellow legislators love their porn – for many of them, their real life is so restricted that porn is their only healthy outlet.

Mark Austin9 days ago edited

Iran. Sharia law.

 

Let’s talk about Pennsylvania, rhetoric, and believing it….

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Ohio elections board refuses to allow trans woman to run for office because of old law

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/ohio-elections-board-refuses-to-allow-trans-woman-to-run-for-office-because-of-old-law/

It is one thing for a person who commits a crime to be off the ballot, like starting an insurrection against the US.  But this is the real weaponizing of the laws to harm political opponents.   What are these republicans scared of?  They can not fight idea to idea.  They can not promote their own ideas because they unpopular, the people don’t want what the republicans are pushing.   So republicans resort to dirty tricks. Even the governor said, let her on the ballot.   Hugs.  Scottie

Vanessa Joy was booted off the ballot because she did not include her deadname on official documents.
 
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The county elections board that disqualified a transgender candidate for Ohio state office because she did not include her deadname on petitions circulated to potential voters is refusing to reverse its decision, even after pressure from the state’s governor and other trans candidates being to run for office without disclosing their deadnames in Ohio.

Despite collecting enough signatures to run as a Democrat for Ohio’s firmly Republican House District 50, real estate photographer Vanessa Joy learned earlier this month that she had been disqualified from the race by the Stark County Board of Elections due to an obscure state law requiring candidates to disclose any name changes that have taken place within the last five years.

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People who get married don’t have to disclose their previous names to run for office in Ohio, but apparently trans people do.

Notably, the 1995 law was not mentioned in the Ohio secretary of state’s 2024 candidate guide and has not been included in previous candidate guides in recent years. Nor did the candidacy petition form Joy filled out include any mention of the law or space to list any name changes.

Joy requested a reconsideration of the decision, according to a January 19 statement from the Stark County Board of Elections. The board denied her request, citing an Ohio Supreme Court case that found that the law is “unambiguous,” that the “intent behind the candidate’s use of a different name is not relevant,” and that it could not “add an exception that does not appear in the statutory language.”

“The Stark County Board of Elections is sympathetic to Vanessa Joy’s argument that the campaign election guide put out by the Ohio Secretary of State was not specific enough,” the statement read.

The board added that its “decision must be based on the law and cannot be arbitrarily applied.” However, Joy was one of four transgender candidates running for Ohio office this year. Two others, Bobbie Arnold and Arienne Childrey, had their candidacies for Ohio state House seats challenged under the law. Both have since been cleared to have their names appear on the November ballot. Still, according to the Associated Press, both Arnold and Childrey could technically be removed from office if Joy does not succeed in challenging the law.

A fourth trans candidate, Ari Faber, has not had his candidacy for Ohio’s state Senate challenged. Faber has not legally changed his name and is running with his birth name on the ballot, NBC News reports.

While Joy told the AP that, for now, her campaign is over, she is working with an attorney to get the law changed. “I’m out of the race, but I’m not out of the fight,” she said.

Last week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) said that trans candidates should not be disqualified for not listing their deadnames and argued for changes to ensure that future candidates will be aware of the little-known law.

According to the AP, Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said that his team will include the law in future candidate guides but opposed changing the law itself.

Utah Senate revises bathroom bill that threatened to throw trans people in jail

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/utah-senate-revises-bathroom-bill-that-threatened-to-throw-trans-people-in-jail/

This is the most critical thing in Utah for the elected officials to get to.  What are there, 10 or 15 trans people in the state?   So rather than fix kids going hungry in the summer when school is out, rather than fix medical care for poor people, rather than tackle homelessness, they are worried about who is peeing in what bathroom.  Something that doesn’t matter.  When you go into a public restroom it is not for a social gathering!  If you are trying to see or determine what is someone else’s pants, you are a pervert and you are wrong.   If you buy into the garbage that a trans person in a bathroom is just there to attack a cis female, weird they never seem concerned about trans boys attacking cis boys in bathrooms, but if that is your worry, don’t.  It doesn’t happen!  Facts are pesky things, the people being assaulted in bathrooms are trans people and cis women accused of being trans people.  The ones doing the attacking … yes bigots, vigilante cis people thinking they have a right to police who gets to use the bathroom.  This is a created panic issue by right wing religious haters who can not stand that trans people, people who are different, exist.  This is all about enforcing homogeneous, forcing people to fit the right mold, to have only the correct people in society / public.  About rejecting the modern age to force everyone to return to what was acceptable in the distant past.  It is no different than the Amish demanding that everyone act just like them.   Hugs.  Scottie   

The Senate spent days deciding just how anti-trans they wanted the law to be.
 
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Utah’s Republican-dominated Senate approved a revised version of an anti-trans bathroom bill Thursday, following days of flip-flopping over just how anti-trans they wanted it to be. The state House must now sign the revised version before heading to the governor’s desk to become law.

The initial version of H.B. 257, passed by the Utah State House last week, included a provision banning transgender people from entering bathrooms and other “sex-designated privacy spaces” that align with their gender identity in “publicly funded and publicly owned” buildings unless they have updated their birth certificates and can prove that they have undergone gender confirmation surgery. Violations of the law would have been punishable by up to six months in jail.

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The dangerous measure fits with the state’s long history of policing private matters.

As journalist Erin Reed noted, that version of the law would have applied to airports, convention centers, park buildings, recreational centers, public administration buildings, colleges, universities, and public schools.

On Wednesday, Utah state Sen. Dan McCay (R) introduced an amended version of the bill in the state Senate. As KUER reported, that version only applied to “government-owned and operated” buildings, like public schools, universities, and government buildings.

McCay’s version retained the original bill’s ban on transgender locker and changing room access as well as the ban on bathroom access in K–12 schools, but did away with restrictions on who can enter sex-designated bathrooms in other government buildings. McCay said the amended bill focused instead on “the actions of those who commit lewd and offensive behavior in a privacy space” and was “no longer related to gender or identity.”

But McCay reversed course on Thursday, introducing a new draft of the bill minutes before the Senate began its final discussion of HB 257, KSL.com reported.

The latest version restores the original’s prohibition on trans people entering bathrooms that align with their gender identity in government-owned buildings, while also narrowly defining “male” and “female” in state code according to biological sex assigned at birth.

While the bill does not include any enforcement mechanism or criminal penalties for violations of the bathroom ban, it does include enhanced criminal penalties for anyone who commits multiple crimes in a restroom as well as additional criminal penalties for anyone who commits crimes in a bathroom that does not align with their biological sex.

“Instead of making this about enforcement, we define what bathrooms are and we define who belongs in what bathroom and how to, I guess, qualify to be in one bathroom or another,” McCay said. “And I think that definition makes it very clear.”

The Senate approved H.B. 257 Thursday by a 21–8 vote, with only two Republicans joining Democrats in voting against it.

As the Senate voted, around 100 people gathered on the Utah Capitol steps to voice their opposition to the bill, urging Gov. Spencer Cox (R) to veto it.

H.B. 257 will return to the House for approval before reaching Cox’s desk. But as KSL.com noted, both critics and supporters expect the bill to face legal challenges.

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Florida paper dreads three more years under a “wounded” & “grudge-bearing” Ron DeSantis

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/florida-paper-dreads-three-more-years-under-a-wounded-grudge-bearing-ron-desantis/

 

The Miami Herald Editorial board fears “three interminable years” of revenge politics.
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Lynchburg, Virginia USA - April 14, 2023 - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaking at Liberty University on April 14, 2023.
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The Miami Herald Editorial Board has published a haunting op-ed about what the next three years in Florida could be like under Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) now that he has dropped out of the Republican presidential race.

After what many consider an embarrassingly poor campaign performance, DeSantis still has three years left to govern Florida – and he has already made it clear that his insecurities will manifest in his intense desire for revenge and power.

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The Editorial Board was particularly disturbed by a muscle-flexing post from DeSantis on X in which he responded to Politico headline stating that some Republicans in Florida want taxpayers to cover Donald Trump’s legal bills – referring to a bill that would have allocated taxpayer money to do just that.

“But not the Florida Republican who wields the veto pen…” DeSantis wrote.

The editorial board pointed out that killing the “ludicrous bill” was the right decision, but that DeSantis did it for the wrong reasons: “revenge politics.”

“His response on social media seemed designed to snap back Florida legislators who might be disinclined to listen to a governor who once had an iron grip on lawmakers but is now a lame duck — though he has three more years to serve,” the board wrote, also pointing out that his threat worked. The sponsor of the bill withdrew it after the post on X – “a signal that legislators know they have to work with DeSantis for a long while still,” the board surmised.

DeSantis’s power play also came against Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, who publicly supported the bill and also publicly supported Trump over DeSantis in the presidential race.

“It’s no secret that DeSantis can bear a grudge,” the Board noted. “His penchant for paybacks and vindictiveness is well known in Florida, with Disney as an example.”

The editorial concluded by lamenting that Florida is now stuck with “a wounded, grudge-bearing governor who is out to prove he still can exert power” and remains the home state of “an insurrectionist ex-president intent on revenge for losing the seat four years ago.”

“In other words, it leaves Floridians right in the cross-hairs, for three interminable years,” the board wrote.

DeSantis ended his bid for president after coming in second place at the Iowa Caucuses. He did endorse Trump despite the pair’s longstanding rivalry.

“DeSantis ran a campaign that was a disaster from start to finish,” wrote LGBTQ Nation commentator John Gallagher. “His announcement on Twitter was a glitch-filled flop. Staffing changes and stories of infighting dogged the campaign. DeSantis’ strategy of capitalizing on a strong showing in Iowa began to erode almost from day one.”

But Gallagher also pointed out that “the biggest problem [with DeSantis’s campaign] was the candidate himself.”