Category: MAGA / Republican

Idaho library board chair demands Sunday closures to “keep the Sabbath day holy”

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/idaho-library-board-chair-demands

Please see the intro to my last post.  I am going to simply copy and paste it here as it is the same thing.   Also there are videos in the article that I am unable to copy, so to see them please go to the link above.  Hugs

The Christian Taliban moral police strike again.  When are people in the US going to get tired of the Christian nationalist trying to take over the country and force everyone to live under the doctrines of their churches.  Think about it, this is not religious freedom, this is religious dictatorship.   Religious freedom is everyone gets to practice and live their life according to their religion as long as it doesn’t harm others.  By the Christians insisting everyone honor their idea of the holy day, they deny the religious freedom of others.  What about religious sects and religions that have Saturday as the holy day?  What about atheist that don’t have a holy day, and their ability to enjoy each day without the religious entanglements is also part of religious freedom.  I know that some fundamental religious leaders like to claim there is no right to not be religious, but that is stupid.  To be free to practice one’s personal beliefs, one must be free to have no set religious restrictions.  People this is a fringe fundamentalist group of very vocal, very driven people willing to rule over every aspect of other peoples lives.  They are the worst busybody nosey neighbors ever in existence.  Their goal in life is to make you follow their ways, their ideas of right and wrong no matter what you believe, no matter what you think, in fact you are not important as a person for them.  You need to comply so their god is happy, that is it.  They don’t care if you’re happy or if things are good for you.  They only care if their god is happy and they think they know the secret to making their god happy.   Fight back.   Hugs

The conservative majority on the Community Library Network board voted to close libraries on Sundays, despite threats of litigation

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SEP 13, 2023
 

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The Community Library Network in Post Falls, Idaho, on the western part of the panhandle, oversees seven buildings and a bookmobile. Its Board of Trustees, like any board, has to keep an eye on the budget.

On July 20, those Trustees held a discussion about whether it would be prudent to reduce or eliminate Sunday hours. On one hand, closing the library on Sunday would reduce one part-time position per location, saving a total of nearly $28,000. On the other hand, a lot of people use the library on Sunday. Trustees were told how often people accessed the internet, how many times the study rooms were booked, etc. They ended that discussion without taking action but requesting more information.

All of that is a perfectly routine conversation for the board of a library.

What’s unusual is that the Board’s Chair, Rachelle Ottosen, argued that the library should remain closed on Sunday because it’s the Sabbath.

 

Well, I know many others at these tables don’t subscribe to this, but the Lord blesses people [who] keep the Sabbath day holy. I think having people work on Sunday is actually to our detriment.

One board member politely chimed in to say (I’m paraphrasing) that was a batshit crazy idea. “I’m pretty sure not everybody in this community holds [to] that, so I think we need to look at the whole community concerning hours.”

Ottosen was thankfully on her own. But still, it was a ridiculous suggestion that never should have been offered from a Trustee.

Then, just five days later, Ottosen did it again. This time she came prepared with a Bible verse:


 

As far as closing on Sundays, most other government entities are closed on Sundays. This is not an emergency service. No one’s gonna [freak] out if they don’t get a book on Sunday.

Anyway, Exodus 20:8-10 says “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.”

So it sounds like we shouldn’t be causing other people to work, as well as not working ourselves.

Once again, another Trustee chimed in to shoot down that explanation: “I’m sorry, this is a government agency, and we need to be available for everyone.” Another Trustee later brought up the fact that some religions consider Sabbath day to be Saturday; Ottosen had no response to that.

She did, however, do her best David Barton impression, citing the Founding Fathers to pretend she wasn’t crossing some church/state separation barrier. She closed her comments by saying, “It’s in our best interests to not dishonor God.”

Last month, Americans United for Separation of Church and State stepped in to warn the Board that it was heading down a dangerous path by listening to Ottosen’s suggestion:

The board received a letter dated Aug. 9 from the nonprofit Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which asserts that closing libraries based on Ottosen’s religious beliefs violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“Ms. Ottosen is entitled to her religious beliefs, but she is not entitled to use the power of the government to enshrine those beliefs into law and to thereby force them on her constituents,” the letter said in part. “The board has a legal obligation to refuse to act on Ms. Ottosen’s religious grounds.”

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has now gotten involved too.

In a letter to Ottosen, attorney Chris Line wrote that she needs to stop using her elected position to “promote your personal religious beliefs.”

While Board members are certainly free to express their religious beliefs in their private capacity outside of their role on the Board, it is unconstitutional for public officials to push their personal religious beliefs during public meetings and to adopt policies based on those beliefs with no secular justification. We request that members of the Board refrain from discussing their religious beliefs during meetings in order to uphold the rights of conscience embodied in our First Amendment. Please inform us in writing at your earliest convenience with an assurance that this won’t happen again in the future.

It’s such a sensible request the two groups are making here. This isn’t about whether or not the library system should close on Sundays. That’s up to the Trustees to decide. But whatever the decision is, it needs to be secular in nature. Someone’s religious beliefs shouldn’t dictate the outcome.

Everyone else on the board seems to understand that. Just not Ottosen.

Incidentally, three of the five board members—Ottosen, Tom Hanley, and Tim Plass—voted to close the libraries on Sundays, but after the board’s attorney mentioned that this could open the door to litigation, the same board then voted 4-1 to table the Sunday closures… even though they had already voted to close them.

The same conservative trifecta took over the board earlier this summer after running on a campaign promoting censorship and keeping books they deemed explicit out of the hands of kids.

Hanley and Plass campaigned on keeping explicit books out of children and teen sections…

Ottosen has been vocal against LGBTQ programs and books for children. She also testified to the Idaho Legislature in support of recent obscenity bills targeting libraries and librarians.

Last month, the three of them also suggested disaffiliating from the American Library Association, calling it “ultra liberal” and criticizing it for opposing censorship. “The ALA has a clear animosity and resentment toward the family and traditional religious values,” Hanley said during an August meeting.

All of that’s to say the move to shut down the libraries on Sundays because some Christians take Sabbath day seriously isn’t just one crazy board member’s wacky suggestion. It’s part of a larger plan to inject Christian Nationalism into a public library system no matter how much that harms people in the community.

School fires teacher for assigning lesbian readings from “Diary of Anne Frank”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/09/school-fires-teacher-over-lesbian-passages-from-the-diary-of-anne-frank/

Remember these were 8th grade students. Children in 8th grade in the United States are 13 or 14 years old. They enter 8th grade at 13 years of age and leave at 14 years of age under normal circumstances.  These students should by then known parts of the human body, both male and female.  Yet one mother claimed the teacher was making a little girl talk about feeling each other’s breasts.   Also by then most people clearly know their sexual attractions and feelings.  Yes there are gay kids in those schools and in those classrooms.  Remember kids have computer, TV, Movies, they have books with LGBTQIA people in them … well in some states still, they know of same sex couples and families.  Some people think young people simply are blank slates with no desires or sexual feelings until either they’re married at 12 or they suddenly get them when they turn 18.  These are the same people that think little girls should be forced to carry to term a pregnancy, giving birth, but are too fragile to know that some girls like other girls?  How stupid has this country gotten?   The last paragraph of the article says: “The book has long been used to teach students about the Holocaust. Its sexual passages reflect similar experiences that teenagers undergo throughout puberty.”  Hugs

In the passage, Frank describes her genitals and wanting to see a female friend’s breasts.
 
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School fires teacher for assigning lesbian readings from “Diary of Anne Frank”
Anne FrankPhoto: Public domain, via Wikipedia

A Texas school district has fired an 8th-grade English teacher for having students read a passage from The Diary of Anne Frank in which the titular writer describes her genitals and lesbian attraction.

The Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District (HFISD) of Jefferson County, Texas — a near coastal region about 80 miles east of Houston — fired the unnamed teacher after she assigned students a reading from Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. The adaptation is an illustrated, comic book version of the diary that Frank, a German-born Jewish teen, wrote in the late 1940s while hiding from Nazis. Frank was 13 to 16 years old when writing the diary.

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In one section of the graphic adaptation, Frank asks a female friend if she’d feel comfortable exposing their breasts to each other. In the three-panel scene, Frank’s friend refuses and they both remain clothed. In another section, Frank walks amongst nude female statues and admits, “I must admit, every time I see a female nude, I go into ecstasy. If only I had a girlfriend!”

In yet another section, Frank writes about her own genitals, describing their changing physical appearance as she experiences puberty. This section was omitted from the book’s 1952 English edition but eventually restored in its 1980s republication.

HFISD notified parents on Tuesday via email, “It was brought to the administration’s attention tonight that 8th-grade students were reading content that was not appropriate. The reading of that content will cease immediately. Your student’s teacher will communicate her apologies to you and your students soon, as she has expressed those apologies to us.”

By Wednesday, the district fired the teacher. While district officials said the book had never been approved, “it was on a reading list sent to parents at the start of the school year,” KFDM reported, and the middle school’s principal reportedly approved the syllabus that mentioned the book.

Nevertheless, one parent told the aforementioned news station, “It’s bad enough, [the teacher is] having them read this for an assignment, but then she also is making them read it aloud and making a little girl talk about feeling each other’s breasts and when she sees a female she goes into ecstasy — that’s not ok.”

The fired teacher has reportedly hired an attorney, but this isn’t the first time that the book’s lesbian content has angered parents.

A Florida principal removed the book from the Vero Beach High School library for being “not age appropriate” after a local chapter of the anti-LGBTQ+ group Moms for Liberty complained the book was “not a true adaptation of the Holocaust” and contained “graphic” and “sexually explicit” illustrations.

In August 2022, the Keller Independent School District of Texas also banned it, along with 41 books mostly focused on LGBTQ+ and Black characters that it called “pornographic.” After a public outcry, the district returned the Anne Frank book to school libraries.

The book has long been used to teach students about the Holocaust. Its sexual passages reflect similar experiences that teenagers undergo throughout puberty.

Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrates school freaking out over possible trans girl in bathroom

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/09/marjorie-taylor-greene-celebrates-school-freaking-out-over-possible-trans-girl-in-bathroom/

Notice that the girl who made the claim that a trans girl used the bathroom admits she’s not sure of the identity of the person she saw.  So just how did she know the person was trans?  She went on looks, the girl did not look girly enough for her.  I wonder where she got that criteria that who is female should go on how feminine they look?  Who drummed that mistaken misogynistic idea into her head.  All girls must look beautiful for men?  But stop and ask why it is important that a trans girl not be in a bathroom with sinks and stalls?  She is going to do what every other girl does, go into a stall, do what they are there to do, and after she makes sure she is dressed goes to the sink where she washes her hands, maybe checks her looks / does a makeup check.  Unless girls in the bathroom are walking around / hanging out nude, then no genitals are seen or should be seen.  To have this much hate over an issue that makes no sense is anger and hate for no reason other to attack a minority group.  It is the same as whites trying to prevent blacks for using the same bathrooms as whites.  It is the very same issue. The father of the girl demanded that trans girls use the single person bathrooms, but he was reminded after he claimed his daughter was traumatized and too upset to use the bathrooms at school despite the fact the father admitted they did not know if the person was trans or another cis girl.  He was then reminded his daughter could also be using those bathrooms.  Also it is important to know that the school district has been allowing all students to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with for years, for a very long time with no complaint.  So why was one faked and drummed up now on social media.  For the simple reason of targeting a small minority of students.  For the fleeting joy of hating and ganging up on LGBTQIA kids. That a congress troll is trying to cause rage and hostility towards a few students in the community is horrifying.  They simply don’t want trans people, gay people, anyone not straight and cis in public.  Hugs

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrates school freaking out over possible trans girl in bathroom

A girl possibly saw a trans girl in the bathroom, leading to a walkout. Greene was elated that students were protesting against equal rights.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor GreenePhoto: Screenshot

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) commended students for organizing a walkout following weeks of panic in the district after a cisgender girl saw another person who was possibly transgender in the bathroom. The cis girl has since said that she’s not sure of the identity of the person she saw.

“This is the way!!!” Greene tweeted with a video of several hundred students walking out of Perkiomen Valley High School in eastern Pennsylvania.

The issue started several weeks ago when Tim Jagger, the father of a student at the school, posted on Facebook that his daughter saw a boy in the girls’ restroom, leading to outrage on social media.

The Perkiomen Valley school board discussed its bathroom policy at its meeting last week on Monday, September 11, following the attention the incident got. The board considered a policy to ban transgender students from using the restroom that corresponds to their gender.

At the meeting, Jagger admitted that “we aren’t sure” if the person his daughter saw was a trans girl, a cis girl, or a boy, but that didn’t matter because his daughter, he claimed, is “too upset and emotionally disturbed” to use the restroom at all. He told the board that “there is zero reason for someone with male genitalia to be in the girls’ facilities” and that transgender students should be forced to use single-person bathrooms.

This echoed the response he got from principal Cynthia Moss that his daughter can use “a number of single-stall restrooms throughout the building” if she doesn’t want to share a restroom with girls who are different from her.

The anti-trans policy was not passed by the school board in a vote at the September 11 meeting, despite getting support from the president of the board.

Superintendent Barbara Russell told The Philadelphia Inquirer that there have been no incidents in the school related to transgender students using the restroom. Students don’t change for gym class and no trans student is playing on a sports team in the school, so there haven’t been any issues with locker rooms either. She told WPVI that the policy aligns with state and federal protections for transgender students and said there’s no need to change it.

“It did not have to come to this social media, ‘Let’s further divide the community and hurt more kids,’ as opposed to support,” Russell said of Jagger posting to Facebook.

That division over allowing transgender students access to an equal education was amplified when student John Ott organized a walkout last Friday.

“Kids were upset. Girls… we wanted to protect them,” he told Fox News. “They were upset. They didn’t want men in their bathroom.”

Fox found some confusion among students, including one, Brandon Emery, who said that he didn’t know how the school district was going to enact the policy of allowing trans students to use the bathroom, even though that is already the current policy and has been for some time.

Fox & Friends, the far-right network’s morning news show, did a segment on the school district and Emery’s mother, Melanie Marren, told the show that the school didn’t take “into consideration how they affect the students and how uncomfortable it is to just be a teenager in general,” as if transgender students at the school aren’t students or aren’t going through awkward teen years themselves.

One trans former student at the school spoke at the September 11 school board meeting. Tarren McDonnell, who is now 21, said that she got harassed when she used the boys’ restroom, so she would use the single-person nurse’s bathroom. She said that it was far from her classes, adding about five to ten minutes to each restroom trip. It also set her up for harassment; she said that she was followed by a boy once who taunted her as she went to the nurse’s bathroom.

She said that she eventually just started using the girls’ room and “nobody ever gave me issues.”

“I’m praying that something does get done that protects us,” she said at the meeting, adding that she was “saddened to see the hatred and the ignorance” of trans people on display at the meeting.

 

Rightwingers tried to stir outrage over trans teen winning homecoming queen. They failed miserably.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/09/rightwingers-tried-to-stir-up-parental-outrage-over-trans-teen-winning-homecoming-queen-they-failed-miserably/

Beau of the Fifth Column often says the younger generations won’t tolerate the hate and bigotry of the ones pushing anti-LGBTQIA / racist ideas.  Yes the right wants to remove all mention and safety for kids that are different and return to an assumed superiority of white people.  But they are missing the point.  It was like that in the past.  In the 1950s our society was just like they are trying hard to return to.  Yet we progressed.  Social acceptance of people being different from each other and the right to live openly as themselves happened.  The right thinks it is because they did not push back hard enough to stop it.  The right thinks they should have used violence from the start. 

But that is not true, there was always hard push back and violence by those in authority and by churches.  Ask any gay kid growing up during those times.  I grew up understanding I was gay in the time of Anita Bryant, who was the early version of the hate group started by Chaya Raichik’s Libs of TikTok.  Think of the abuse the police dished out even into the late 1990s.  I remember when Ron had the bar, we had to have an unbreakable material used for the windows because they were being broken as soon as they were repaired.  We had to have a bunch of the bigger better fighters assisting people leaving to make sure no one was assaulted and beaten up by groups of haters.  I well tell you, the most awesome thing I have ever seen was a lesbian kicking the ass of 3 redneck assholes who attacked a small gay guy leaving the bar.  She taught them a lesson they did not soon forget.   We fought back then and I honestly thought we were beyond that hate and society was a safe space for the LGBTQIA.  Where LGBTQIA kids could be happy in schools knowing they were safe and accepted.  But the haters are bringing it all back.   We must not let them indoctrinate future generations into hate and bigotry.  We must not let them drive kids back into the closet in fear and shame of who they are.  We must not let them remove the LGBTQIA from society and public view.  We are here and should be equal, we have our rights and they should be enforced for us.  Hugs

Angry parents were left sputtering as students rallied in support of the trans teen.
 
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A homecoming queen
Photo: Shutterstock

At Oak Park High School in Kansas City over the weekend, students elected a trans homecoming queen. Tristan Young bested four other nominees to take the crown.

And Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik managed to find the only two parents who are mad about it.

“I’m appalled by NKC Schools’ continued support of the LGBT agenda,” whines one parent for Raichik in an email, referring to the North Kansas City School District.

“They not only indoctrinate children, but they are placing certain student populations over others.”

In another stilted statement from a second aggrieved parent, she writes: “As a woman, it breaks my heart to see these girls get passed over and a man stealing what is rightfully theirs.”

Then she adds, also as a woman, “I’m broken-hearted because I know the students voted for him.”

Raichik was clearly desperate to gin up the usual outrage over the student-led vote and failed miserably.

The queer-addled activist, who’s lately tried to refashion herself as an “independent journalist,” posted the “story” with a headline declaring, “Male crowned homecoming queen, beating out four other girls,” which clarified for trans supporters everywhere that Young is just one of the girls.

“Not the point but Chaya is writing at a sub-middle school level, lol” posted one amused commenter.

NKC Schools shared their congratulations for Young in a tweet with photos from the event.

In one, last year’s winner passes the sash to the new homecoming queen. In another, Young’s parents stand by beaming; her dad sports a Kansas City Chiefs Pride hat.

Young’s election in the revered high school ritual was met with a sense of betrayal by online hacks dismayed that a reliably red state like Missouri could harbor open-minded kids.

“Who’s to blame here?” whined transphobic 5th place finisher Riley Gaines, who tied with trans swimmer Lia Thomas in a collegiate meet last year.

Gaines tried sarcasm to make her poorly conceived point in on X: “So stunning & brave🤴🏻✨ Another reminder to all girls that men make the best women. I wonder if a female will win homecoming king or if it’s understood that both of these spots are reserved for males.”

The best reactions to the news of Young’s election were reserved for her supporters.

“Trans women have a biological advantage in being popular with their high school classmates now,” posted Media Matters’ Ari Drennen.

“Isn’t the Homecoming Queen usually elected by the students? Why does Chaya Raichik hate democracy?” @nikicaga asked.

And said Interpretive Dan @StanChips: “BREAKING: Kids are cool now.”

This was on twitter, it is what the supporters of DeathSantis, tRump, and other fundmentlist republican racist bigots.

Need I say more about where they want to take the US society? Hugs

Make America Decent Again – from Randy

“Family Values” | Armageddon Update | Christopher Titus

Forest Hills superintendent stands by decision to paint over student-created diversity mural

https://www.wvxu.org/education/2023-09-20/forest-hills-superintendent-decision-paint-diversity-mural

The start of the article doesn’t mention it, but this school is in Ohio.  I followed a link in the article and this school also stopped celebrating diversity day and the students protested.  Seems the right is again desperately trying to push a primarily white cis straight Christian society.  And while they claim that others are not civil enough, these same people use threats, violence, and they mock and insult others.  Notice how the anti-diversity anti-LGBTQIA maga republicans act when others are testifying.  No respect whatsoever.  Fundamentalist Christian racist bigot maga are the most self entitled people ever.  Hugs.

Zack Carreon
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Parents and students attend the Forest Hills school board meeting on Sept. 20, 2023.
 

The debate over whether discussions about race, inclusion, and LGBTQ+ issues belong in Forest Hills Schools was reignited after Superintendent Larry Hook made the decision to paint over a student-created mural at the start of the school year.

The mural depicted the hands of people of different races signaling love and solidarity surrounded by symbols of equality and acceptance of various sexual orientations.

Mural inside Nagal Middle School before it was covered and painted over
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The mural inside Nagel Middle School before it was covered and painted over.

Students at Nagel Middle School created the mural years ago, but when students returned to the building this year, some were surprised to see it covered by a banner promoting Forest Hills’s new “Culture Blueprint.” That banner was torn down. Shortly after, the mural was completely painted over, sparking outrage from some students and parents.

On the Forest Hills Schools’ website, the Culture Blueprint is described as a reminder to students to do their best and be mindful of others. But some say the superintendent’s actions send a different message.

RELATED: Forest Hills School District will not enforce controversial resolution, for now

Dozens showed up to Wednesday’s school board meeting holding signs of the mural. Parents and students spoke during public comment in opposition to the superintendent’s decision.

Forest Hills parent Jeff Nye addressed Hook directly, calling his response to the initial backlash childish.

“A 7th or 8th grade kid — 12- or 13-years-old — damaged that banner and that’s unacceptable and should be punished,” Nye said. “But before that happened, you had an opportunity to reflect and take action, value the feedback you received, to lead by example, to lead with humility, and say ‘I made a mistake, I shouldn’t have put it there,’ but you didn’t. You doubled down. You didn’t act like leader. You acted like a kid. You took your ball and you went home and I’m incredibly disappointed.”

High school student Norah Zellen also had strong words for Hook, saying that permanently covering the mural will have a more negative impact on students than district leaders thought.

“The mural exhibited a safe and inclusive learning environment, yet it was painted over. This action shows thoughtlessness, a lack of authenticity, and calls into question if the school board and superintendent want some students erased,” Zellen told Hook.

Hook was noticeably silent on the issue during the meeting. Each time the superintendent spoke about school matters, audience members held up signs of the mural.

During the meeting, board member Leslie Rasmussen called out the superintendent for his unwillingness to address the elephant in the room.

“Larry, you made a lot of wonderful comments about the awesome work our students are doing. I don’t want that to be overshadowed tonight or any time, but I want to take a moment to make sure you see all these students in the audience. They deserve acknowledgment,” Rasmussen said.

Hook responded, “I see them,” but made no further comments on the matter until questioned by reporters after the meeting.

Hook’s response

The superintendent defended the mural’s removal, saying despite the overwhelming opposition, most people in the Forest Hills community wanted to see it gone.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people who were very upset that it was there,” he said. “So, it’s kind of created this battle that shouldn’t even be in schools. We need to focus on our education. We need to focus on what’s important. That doesn’t mean we marginalize anybody.”

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A small collection of adults also spoke during public comment defending Hook’s decision. One attendee, who took offense to parents and students supporting the mural, was removed by law enforcement after getting into a physical interaction with another audience member.

Zack Carreon

Zack Carreon is Education reporter for WVXU, covering local school districts and higher education in the Tri-State area.

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Mother Of Right Wing School Board Member Smacks Woman’s Phone During Debate On Pro-LGBTQ Mural
Read the full article. According to posts on social media today, the woman who snatched an audience member’s phone is the mother of Christianist school board member Katie Stewart, whose own children reportedly attend private Catholic school. At last night’s meeting Stewart wore a Gadsden flag t-shirt. The TikTok video below has gone viral.

 

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad19 hours ago edited

She also laughed when a parent discussed her child’s suicide attempt and mocked students and other speakers

To me that’s even worse than the assault.

I wonder if it’s time to ressurect ACT UP! techniques? If this woman goes to church, perhaps go to the same church as disrupt the service: “WHAT DOES GOD THINK OF LAUGHING ABOUT SUICIDE ATTEMPTS?’

BeccaM  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad19 hours ago

I think you could be right. These fascist goons need to be openly resisted.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad  BeccaM 19 hours ago

Shaming on Twitter is considered a badge of honor and they have no shame. But to so in churches or in grocery stores or at their hairdressers, that will perhaps do more?

I’m thinking of the beardy guy that is in DC and always behind (the latest) republican politician accused of wrongdoing.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad  Peanuts mom 18 hours ago

Thank you, but I’m thinking of a different guy. Older, white beard.

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Peanuts mom  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad 17 hours ago edited

Bill christeson, democracy and climate change activist, retired Director of Research at Council for a Strong America.

“I’m not trying to reach the Whole Foods activist crowd,” Christeson says. “I’m trying to reach out to Republicans.”

https://www.nextavenue.org/…

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Sister_Bertrille  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad19 hours ago

I wish we had more of ACT UP!’s spirit (and rage)!

Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ  Sister_Bertrille 19 hours ago

Preach. I’ve been saying that for years now. Enough with the “talk alone will work” nonsense. ACT-UP and FIGHT BACK, not just pretty words.

Sister_Bertrille  Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ 19 hours ago

Right? ACT UP wasn’t afraid to take on the churches. You do that when people are dying. We’ve already had a few killings (RIP, O’Shae Sibley). How many more will it take?

Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ  Sister_Bertrille 17 hours ago

Very true. Back in the 80’s, we stormed Toronto’s St. Micheal’s Cathedral and dumped condoms on the altar because of the Church’s stance regarding their use, especially in preventing HIV/AIDS. We barricaded Conservative Pols Offices and, on more than one occasion, stood toe to toe with cops who wanted to fuck with us during marches…it didn’t end well for them. It was nothing for us to dump pink Jello by the bucket loads onto cop cars, Church steps, etc. We made a ruckus and did so until we were heard.

Long past time to teach society that lesson again. Direct Action Now.

ConnieHinesDorothyProvine  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad 12 hours ago

I bet that this monster won’t even acknowledge the widespread pedophilia in churches, instead alleging that the “hoe-moes” are doing it.

NotMiguel  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad13 hours ago

We need to act up for sure and run for school board seats or get allies to run because imagine the lgbtq kids in that school seeing this how humiliating and hurtful. We need to stand up so they know to do the same when it’s their turn.

wmforr  BeccaM19 hours ago

My Gawd! Hands of three different colors! Don’t they know Adam and Eve were White?

David Gervais  wmforr14 hours ago

And Eve was transgender. She was a clone of a genetic male but expressed as female.

Halou 19 hours ago

“Christianist school board member Katie Stewart, whose own children reportedly attend private Catholic school”

So it is none of her business what it happening at the school in question, but still finds herself in a position to dictate terms there. Just waiting for the cries of “I’m being silenced!”

Gustav2  Halou19 hours ago edited

This is happening all over the nation. Parents with kids in private schools are getting elected to public school boards.

They are stealth candidates, and few voters really pay attention to school board elections.

Peanuts mom  Gustav218 hours ago

Where i live its practically impossible to find the backstory on school board candidates unless you know somebody who knows somebody who knows them. School board seats are classified as non-partisan, so you cant even go by party affiliation. Their websites & mailers are useless – so generic as to convey no useful info.

Paddycakes2001  Halou18 hours ago

And don’t you love all the Gadsden Flag people? They are the ones who want to tread all over everyone else.

 

Liberal Redneck – Conservatives Trash the Military for Being “Woke”

REPORT: Family Values South Dakota Gov And Cultist Corey Lewandowski In Years-Long Extramarital Affair

REPORT: Family Values South Dakota Gov And Cultist Corey Lewandowski In Years-Long Extramarital Affair

 Yet these same people claim that same sex marriage and gay families is destroying the value of marriage.  These people demand to tell others how to live, claiming to have the moral high ground.  That their godly living as Christian nationals gives them the right to insist you live according to their churches’ dictates and their public moral view of sexuality and sexual practices.  Below I will post what I think is one of the most important quotes / ideas about the sexual morals of the right. Hugs

Related: these sorts of authoritarian right-wingers are fine with having affairs, but they’re horrified at the prospect of open, honest swinging or polyamory or other forms of ethical nonmonogamy.

Maybe because those destroy the Dominator Culture pretense that a woman “belongs” to her husband or boyfriend?

The Meidas Touch reports:

According to a new report from the Daily Mail, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski have been having “a years-long clandestine affair.” The Republican governor has been married to her spouse Byron Noem for more than 30 years. Lewandowski has been married to his wife Alison for more than 15 years.

Kristi Noem has made family values central to her identity. She has received awards in the past for championing family values and attended the Iowa Family Values summit in 2021. Noem has also frequently railed against same-sex marriage, stating, “I am a strong supporter of protecting traditional marriage and family.”

From the original Daily Mail report:

 


Neither denied the affair when asked by DailyMail.com. The Governor issued a statement attacking us for the timing of the article, while Lewandowski did not respond to a request for comment. The two met up on Friday last week when Lewandowski traveled with Trump to Rapid City, South Dakota, for a campaign rally. But the pair – who were made aware of a pending story about their relationship – were careful to have no public interaction in contrast to previous occasions, as DailyMail.com’s exclusive photos show.

Noem – who served four terms as her state’s only member of the US House of Representatives – won the governorship in 2018 promising to uphold the wholesome family values that she said South Dakotans have ‘long embraced’. Defending ‘traditional marriage’, which she defined as ‘a special, God-given union between one man and one woman’, was particularly important to her.

 

 

 

 

 

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad5 days ago

Maybe Senator Kennedy can read details of their affair aloud in Congress?

Amber LeMay  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad5 days ago

Only the butt stuff.

jimbo65 5 days ago

Hypocrites the whole lot of them. I suppose if she got knocked up, she would simply fly out of the country for an abortion.

moisturize me  jimbo655 days ago

Like Elaine Benis and her sponges, Noem probably has a large stash of Plan B medication.

Thorn Spike  moisturize me5 days ago edited

She probably also has a huge stock of penicillin. Or should.

Uncle Mark back in IL  Thorn Spike 5 days ago

She keeps it with her daily doses of Imbecillin.

Dick Steele  Uncle Mark back in IL 5 days ago

Imbecillin. Lots of people overdosing.

perversatile  Uncle Mark back in IL 5 days ago

And a bag handful of hypocritimins every morning.

moisturize me  Thorn Spike5 days ago

She would if she knew what’s good for her. Lewandowski has been known to get around.

Rambie  jimbo655 days ago

She’s probably gone through “the change”.

Greg  jimbo655 days ago

At her age I don’t think getting knocked up is a possibility.

BensNewLogin 5 days ago edited

So yet another lying, fornicating, adulterous family values type, loudly proclaiming their morality, with the special asterisk that it only applies to other people.

another_steve  BensNewLogin5 days ago

Lauren Boebert, another one of those. But the footage Joe posted earlier today — showing her vaping in that theater — complete with her giving someone the fuck-finger on the way out — sort of creates an “issue” for her vis-à-vis her “family values” scam.

The good news for her, though: Boebert’s low-IQ MAGAt base won’t pick up on the irony.

Uncle Mark back in IL  another_steve 5 days ago

They’re more focused upon her boobs falling out of her dress and her “owning all those musical-loving libtards in the audience.”

Guest  another_steve5 days ago

All her fans want to give the proverbial finger to the world; they love her more for causing that scene.

JoeMyGod Mod5 days ago

Remember when Kristi flipped out over Lil Nas X’s Satan shoes?

 
letinstar5 days ago

These two family value adulterers will naturally ask that their privacy be respected. My answer to that is no.

Gunga_Dean 5 days ago

I’m not into sex shaming but what hypocritical trash.

Steverino  Gunga_Dean5 days ago

I don’t see it as sex shaming, but hypocrite shaming, and well deserved.

(((GC))) – End the filibuster!  Steverino 5 days ago

Related: these sorts of authoritarian right-wingers are fine with having affairs, but they’re horrified at the prospect of open, honest swinging or polyamory or other forms of ethical nonmonogamy.

Maybe because those destroy the Dominator Culture pretense that a woman “belongs” to her husband or boyfriend?

Ninja09805 days ago

And yet the same crowd that keeps going after us saying we destroy family values will simply shrug at this because she hates and is willing to hurt all the people they do.