GOP House Candidate Vows To Ban “Evil” Pride Month

From the campaign Facebook page of Stewart Parks:

If you elect me, this month will be the last National Gay Pride month ever celebrated. We need to elect people into US congress that will stand up and say Homosexuality and Transgenderism are evil.

I will push to have the 2015 Obergefel vs Hodges ruling overturned which legalized same sex marriage. Two men and two women cannot come close to a unified man and woman married. I want to bring back DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) which safeguarded the institution of marriage.

Sexual Liberation is NOT western values. LGBQT+ movement is communist as they seek to destabilize our country with their divisive rhetoric and destroy families. Transgenderism and Pedophilia are now rampant in our society.

We have to ban it asap and safeguard our children against it. We have to get Transgenderism out of our schools. When I win this election everyone will know their gender again. The populace will know Men cannot get pregnant and can actively define a woman.

Tennessee’s Fifth Congressional District is currently held by ten-term Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper, who announced his retirement in January after redistricting turned the district significantly more red, bringing an avalanche of over a dozen eager cultists.

Three of them, including far-right filmmaker Robby Starbuck and Trump-endorsed former Fox host Morgan Ortagus were recently disqualified over residency requirements.

Yesterday, Starbuck, who has been endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn, sued to be reinstated to the ballot.

In his Ballotpedia candidate questionnaire, Stewart Parks vows to “ban transgenderism and same-sex marriage,” and names the bible as his favorite book.

The only Democratic candidate on the ballot is freshman state Sen. Heidi Campbell. The primary is August 4th.

 

Priya Lynn • an hour ago

“Two men and two women cannot come close to a unified man and woman married.”

That’s utter nonsense. There are same sex couples who get along better, are more compatible and happier with each other than many heterosexual couples. The gender of the individuals in a couple is in no way determinative in how unified they are.

ErnestMc • 5 hours ago

I hate to break it to Stewie but he has no control over Obergefell or Windsor/DOMA and no say over whether Pride is celebrated. Pride will be celebrated long after he’s gone, gay people will have sex and marry, trans people will transition, and there’s nothing this creepy Neanderthal can do about it.

Steverino ErnestMc • 5 hours ago

Funny how they campaign as if they will be emperor of the USA if elected.

biki Steverino • 3 hours ago

These GOp’ers who run for office remind me of the teens running for school president. They promise everything, and have no power to deliver anything.

Uncle Mark’s ugly face returns • 5 hours ago • edited

“These people are evil.” This is why this lil’ twerp is running for public office, because the corporate world will not hire someone who openly refuses to work with other employees or clients because of their open bigotry.

Florida Moves To Ban All Transgender Healthcare

Miami’s NBC News affiliate reports:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration Thursday asked the state board regulating doctors to essentially ban transition-related care for transgender minors, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.

The state Health Department made the request hours after another state agency issued a 46-page report to justify banning Medicaid coverage for transgender people of any age who want puberty blockers, hormone therapies or gender-assignment surgery.

The two-pronged effort, which ensures DeSantis can act quickly and without the need for legislative approval, drew instant opposition from activists and medical professionals.

Axios reports:

State surgeon general Joseph Ladapo asked the state board regulating doctors to essentially ban transition-related care for transgender minors.

Gender-affirming care is standard, accepted medical treatment and has been for years, endorsed by all the major medical organizations including the American Medical Association and American Psychiatric Association.

Last month, the Florida Department of Health advised doctors to ignore federal guidance and stop assisting children and teens with gender transitions. Ending care and coverage for trans people in Florida would likely violate the Affordable Care Act’s discrimination protections.

Ladapo, you will recall, is affiliated with loony tune QAnon anti-vax leader Dr. Demon Semen.

Truly horrific. Once the inappropriate hormones start acting on the body, there is no reversing it. The damage will be done. This is tantamount to torture for trans youth. It’s worse than being shot by an AR15, because it slowly robs you of your own body. Every day you look in the mirror and see a terrible transformation under way and there is no way short of death to stop it. So sometimes, death it is.

Jack Frost • 10 minutes ago

Last month, the Florida Department of Health advised doctors to ignore federal guidance and stop assisting children and teens with gender transitions.

Ending care and coverage for trans people in Florida would likely violate the Affordable Care Act’s discrimination protections.

Will anyone in this admin at the appropriate department go after them tho?

charemor • 16 minutes ago

Florida is becoming like Nazi Germany in the 1930s. I find it difficult to believe that most of the residents are calmly sitting there while losing freedoms and rights to everything.

moisturize me • 2 hours ago

When are they going to ban treatment for people who got cancer from demon semen? I don’t like paying for people what lay with demons.

Teedofftaxpayer • 2 hours ago

As I keep saying, everything DeSantis does is to rile up his masses of idiots and bigots. He wants them to come out and vote for him this election.

jk105 • 3 hours ago

The Republican Party version of “freedom” is the Southern pre-Civil War version of freedom. Florida makes this clear. That is, it is freedom for white heterosexual men and enslavement of blacks, subjugation of women and driving homosexuals underground.

Joann Prinzivalli • 3 hours ago

What these states like Florida are doing, as to their state’s trans population, is an attempt to create such a hostile and oppressive environment so as to cause that population and families, to flee the state for states with more civilized laws, if they can.

The KKK and segregation laws once created an environment in which those African-Americans who could manage to pull up their roots, migrated to states in the North, where they were ‘welcomed’ by racial restrictive covenants, sundown towns, redlining, and zoning of the redlined neighborhoods to allow pollution and toxic businesses in their areas – the “Great Migration.”
See: https://www.archives.gov/re…

At least, for the trans people and families who are able to uproot and move, the more civilized states have laws that protect them.

If they weren’t so cheap about it, DeSantis, Abbott, Ivey, and all the others in states that are systematically doing this, would be offering one way bus tickets to the civilized states for their undesirable “subhuman” trans population. That would be better than herding us into reparative therapy camps to maximize the torture.

zhera • 3 hours ago

I’m amazed at how much DeSantis can get done to destroy people, while Biden, as PRESIDENT, has his hands tied. I’m not criticizing Biden or Dems, just the US system.

Flora DeMann • 4 hours ago

For $437,000 a year ($198,000 more than his predecessor) Ladapo will say anything Ron DeSantis wants him to say.

Nychta • 4 hours ago

Withholding of health care is being used a weapon to oppress and control others – women of child-bearing age and transgender people. I wonder if Republicans will try to find a way to withhold health care, including emergency services, from undocumented immigrants. Who’s next?

KarenAtFOH Nychta • 4 hours ago

And this will do nothing to stop trans people from being trans. It will only increase their suffering.

KarenAtFOH • 4 hours ago

Next will be a declaration like Texas that accuses trans parents of being child abusers.

TrollopeReader • 5 hours ago

..and notice how these states are doing all they can —without legislative approval —
and yet complain LOUDLY! about “government overreach” in blue / purple states

AyJayDee • 5 hours ago • edited

They’re going after trans people because they’re an easy target – a community that is small, barely visible and mostly powerless. It’s a step toward coming after the rest of us.

Ohio House Bans Transgender Students In Sports, Requires Genital Exams In Disputes

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/genitalia-inspection-transgender-girls-barred-from-high-school-college-sports_n_629982d3e4b016c4eef7afb4

This has two parts.   The story from the HuffPost then some more information from Joe my God about the woman pushing it.  Notice this is for all ages.   And it doesn’t matter that there was already a policy in place that went by the science and test results, the new one is driven by anti-trans hate and basically religion.    This legislator hates the LGBTQ+ and wants to outlaw them.   I have three other stories to post on LGBTQ+ bigotry today including on GOP candidate that wants to ban the evil pride month.     When are these people going to understand they cannot force all of us to live by their church rules?  There god is not my god.    But they sure will die trying to.   Hugs

“I struggle to understand why we keep discussing bills focusing on children’s genitals,” said one Democratic legislator.

Ohio House Republicans passed a bill late Tuesday that bans all transgender students from playing high school and college sports, and requires genital exams in any disputes.

Representatives voted on House Bill 151 on the first day of Pride Month. The measure next goes to the Senate after lawmakers return from summer recess. If the bill becomes law, it would take precedence over all current policies by high school and college sports associations.

The existing association policies, which aim to protect medical privacy and stress inclusion, take into account testosterone levels or the length of time an athlete has been transitioning, Cleveland.com reported. The new bill calls for an outright ban on transgender athletes.

Under the measure, if a player’s sex is disputed, he or she will have to present a physician’s statement about “internal and external reproductive anatomy” and testosterone levels. Students would also have to show an analysis of genetic makeup.

During a hearing on the bill, Rep. Beth Liston, a Columbus-area Democrat and physician, called the amendment “state-sanctioned bullying.”

“This is truly bizarre medically and nonsensical, but looking at it practically, this bill means that if anyone decides to question a child’s true gender, that child must undergo a sensitive exam,” Liston said.

“I struggle to understand why we keep discussing bills focusing on children’s genitals,” Liston added.

According to Equality Ohio and the Ohio High School Athletic Association, there is only one transgender athlete in the entire state who is participating in high school sports, per ABC affiliate News 5 TV.

“Being able to play on the girl’s team is absolutely amazing, it’s a total dream,” said Ember, a softball player and high school junior. “I feel at home and I can be myself. I don’t have to put on the mask or pretend to be someone else to enjoy the sport that I love.”

The Meidas Touch political action committee tweeted a copy of the bill Thursday, and critics were incensed:

 

The Huffington Post reports:

Ohio House Republicans passed a bill late Tuesday that bans all transgender students from playing high school and college sports, and requires genital exams in any disputes.

Representatives voted on House Bill 151 on the first day of Pride Month. The measure next goes to the Senate after lawmakers return from summer recess. If the bill becomes law, it would take precedence over all current policies by high school and college sports associations.

According to Equality Ohio and the Ohio High School Athletic Association, there is only one transgender athlete in the entire state who is participating in high school sports.

Read the full article. The sponsor of the amendment, Rep. Jena Powell [photo], last appeared on JMG in November 2021 when she introduced a Texas-style ban on abortion that allows private citizens to sue anyone who performs or promotes the procedure.

Her anti-trans actions have earned her an appearance on hate group leader Tony Perkins’ podcast, where she was hailed as “courageous.”

Her first appearance here came in July last year when she sued to stop Ohio from promoting COVID vaccinations via a lottery contest.

Powell, who has appeared on clips for Liberty University’s far-right Falkirk Center and on multiple anti-vax webcasts, brandishes a shotgun in her campaign ads.

 

M • 15 minutes ago

Another Republican for government that’s small enough to inspect your child’s genitalia. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ • 20 minutes ago

How is this not sexual assault by the state?

Fake Fucking Jesus Christ!

Tazzari1 • 25 minutes ago

Every priest, pastor, and closet case will be volunteering to do the inspecting. Conservative legislators got hard even thinking about it!

LeeGP • an hour ago

What happens when they find an individual who is intersex (of the sort with ambiguous genitalia) but hasn’t declared anything publicly?

Smith_90125 • 2 hours ago

Correcting the headline:

Ohio makes it legal for the government to sexually violate Transgender kids

Michael Smith_90125 • 42 minutes ago • edited

Remove the word “transgender” to make your headline accurate. The legislation allows ANYONE to challenge ANY school athlete’s gender.

That’s why the first targets of this law should be the children and grandchildren of Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly.

MikeinVegas • 2 hours ago • edited

Hmmm… But what if there are athletes that are trans that don’t IDENTIFY as trans? Perhaps we should strip ALL elementary and middle school and high school athletes naked in a room together and photograph and document their genitalia, just to make sure we have only penises competing against penises and only vaginas competing against vaginas…

Cuz that’s the point of this bill, isn’t it? To give a bunch a pedos a reason to ogle naked children?

Ann Kah • 2 hours ago

I’ve lived in the Deep South. That’s why we decided to settle in Ohio, but now the Deep South has followed us here. 😦

Dan • 2 hours ago

Rep. Jena Powell seems obsessed with children’s genitalia. Doesn’t that make her a pedophile? Not that I’m saying she IS, but some people might think that… (With no apologies using using Trump’s “I don’t know personally but…” smear tactic.)

don • 2 hours ago

The wheels are coming off. No country can function with people like this making up 1/2 the population.

That_Anonymous_Coward • 3 hours ago

*rubs between his eyes*
They accuse the “libs’ of being groomers & they now can force children to strip and present their genitals on demand…

DaveMiller135 • 3 hours ago

A little math: [I made the assumption that no one is having a fit over pre-teen trans athletes.] The CDC estimates that 1.8% of the high school population is trans, giving them 270,000 trans high school students in the US. Don’t know if it’s correct, but let’s assume they are evenly divided male and female, giving 135,000 MTF high schoolers. Human Rights campaign estimates 12% of transgender girls play sports, 16,200. Twenty four thousand high schools in the US, so each high school has approximately 2/3 of an MTF athlete. This just doesn’t seem like a burning issue, as might be suggested by the hysteria to pass laws limiting sports participation.

I think there’s a reasonable question to be asked about bone growth and addition of muscle mass, before transitioning M to F. But this is not how that question is going to be determined. And it’s not going to be answered, or even asked, by hysterical or simply publicity hungry lawmakers.

Tor • 3 hours ago • edited

To be fair, they must check the genitals of all athletes. See how long parents let that stand.

zhera • 3 hours ago

They sure can find ways to protect children against imaginary threats. Against guns, not so much.

fuow • 3 hours ago

As long as there is a large bloc of voters who will tolerate any level of crazy in ‘their’ Republican candidate because the best Democrat is worse than the worst Republican…..
And, transgender children are the most vulnerable. Of course they attack them, first.

What, me worry? • 3 hours ago

Will they be doing hymen checks on the pom-pom girls?

Susan Montgomery • 4 hours ago

Why does Trans hate work so well? That’s the really heartbreaking part of this.

Freak NRA Member REFUSES To Condemn Slavery In Accordance With His Heritage

The Good Liars comedy duo is back at it again interviewing unsuspecting conservatives at the NRA Convention in Houston, and this time host Jason Selvig asked a man in a Confederate flag shirt if he was pro or anti-slavery. In a shocking turn for some, the man replied with “no comment”, which just means that he is in fact pro-slavery.

Read more HERE: https://twitter.com/thegoodliars/stat…//twitter.com/thegoodliars/status/1532159557677600774?s=10&t=dU-P7YslNb5GSJX3VvXc6Q

“At the NRA Conference, we asked a guy in confederate flag shirt if he was pro or anti-slavery.”

Republicans Are Scheming to RIG Future Elections As Democrats Do Nothing To Stop Them

Newly released video evidence seemingly shows how far the Republican Party is willing to go to overturn historically Democratic voting districts as we approach the 2022 midterm elections. Basically, the Party wants to use GOP-friendly poll workers to challenge voters at majority-Democrat polling locations, connecting the challenging poll workers with GOP-friendly local lawyers and district attorneys to then block vote counts and legally challenge election results. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.

“Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts: Install trained recruits as regular poll workers and put them in direct contact with party attorneys.

The plan, as outlined by a Republican National Committee staffer in Michigan, includes utilizing rules designed to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at Democratic-majority polling places, developing a website to connect those workers to local lawyers and establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who could intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts.

“Being a poll worker, you just have so many more rights and things you can do to stop something than [as] a poll challenger,” said Matthew Seifried, the RNC’s election integrity director for Michigan, stressing the importance of obtaining official designations as poll workers in a meeting with GOP activists in Wayne County last Nov. 6. It is one of a series of recordings of GOP meetings between summer of 2021 and May of this year obtained by POLITICO.

Backing up those front-line workers, “it’s going to be an army,” Seifried promised at an Oct. 5 training session. “We’re going to have more lawyers than we’ve ever recruited, because let’s be honest, that’s where it’s going to be fought, right?””

Texas Paul REACTS to Louie Gohmert’s Humiliating Meltdown

What Texas Pual missed is that it is not true that the cities with the most gun violence are democratic party run.  Most are Republican run cities in Republican run states.   I have posted this before, that is a talking point started by a Fox opinion host that is a lie.   Flat out proven lie.   I won’t bother to list them here but Google it, damn it people stop taking what these Republicans are saying as truth because they lie with no problems, and then they blame everyone else for lacking morals.   I am sick of it.   Hugs

Let’s talk about 12 of your questions….

The later part of the video takes on the idea of toxic masculinity and the idea pushed by gun advertisements that without a gun a man is not a man but a girl. Hugs

‘A lot of people missing’: Ukrainians find gruesome signs of Russian occupation

Yes the CC works well on this one.  Maybe because the reporters seem British.   But it makes it even more clear the tragedy of what the Ukrainian people are suffering.   Yes the world is helping, but not fast enough, not doing what would really help.   Every civilian who dies, every massacre, every shelter destroyed is on the hands of those countries that have the ability to stop it and yet are putting politics before lives.    Have we as a people become so use to the death of people just trying to live their lives that we accept this?   Hugs

Ukrainians are returning to villages liberated from Russian occupation. CNN’s Matthew Chance reports on the disturbing things they’re finding as they return home to their towns.

OMG: Republican gives JAW-DROPPING excuse for latest shooting

Texas Paul REACTS to HUMILIATING Verdict in Trump-Durham Trial