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Now rightwing Christians don’t want girls to play sports at all

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/now-rightwing-christians-dont-want-girls-play-sports/

The Christian Taliban moves forward with their effort to control women.   The republican warn on abortion was about control of women’s bodies and their reproductive systems.    Think about it, women are the only people required by law to let another to organism use the resources of their body to keep alive.   Even babies that are fully delivered and breathing on their own don’t have that right.   No man can even be forced to give blood for their own child, nor any other part of their body.  Not even a sample of their bone marrow, nothing.  Yet woman must provide a zygote full use and priority of her body, at least until it is born, possibly causing her lifelong injury or even death.  It is about control, or the anti-abortion laws would have these provisions for every child applying to both sexes involved with creating it.    So what was the issue with trans women?  Control over the trans woman and their body?   Well let’s take it one step further and ask what girls really should be doing to get ready to be incubators of a man’s offspring?  Hugs

“Are they out there wearing dresses and skirts while they’re playing sports? Are they learning to be a feminine woman?”
 
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Valley Christian Academy, Coast Union High School, female football player, girl on the boys team, Title IX lawsuit
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It turns out that some far-right Christians aren’t just opposed to transgender girls playing on sports teams, they’re opposed to any girls playing sports at all… and that opposition may have landed one Christian school in legal trouble.

Valley Christian Academy (VCA) in Santa Maria, California recently forfeited its scheduled October 29 football game against nearby Coast Union High School (CUHS) after discovering that CUHS had two girls on its team.

While it might seem strange that females should be allowed to play on sports teams that are predominantly male, it’s actually required under Title IX, the 1972 federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in sports within any schools that receive federal government funding. Title IX states that, in sports where a girls’ team is not available, girls must be allowed to try out for the boys’ team and participate on the same basis as boys.

VCA hasn’t issued a public comment about its forfeit against CUHS. However, the school explained its similar decision to forfeit a football game last year against Cuyama Valley High School (CVHS) because it had a girl on its team.

At the time, VCA lead pastor and school superintendent Joel Mikkelson told The Santa Maria Times, “Football is a violent game and we understand the value of such in training our young men within the boundaries of an organized sport.”

CUHS’ Head Coach Andrew Crosby told The Tribune that he’s upset that VCA singled out the two girls on his team just because of their gender. The girls’ names are Emily Reed and Andrea Aguilar.

Crosby said that he would never force Reed or Aguilar to stay off the field to accommodate VCA, nor does he want the girls to feel like the cancellation of the game is their fault.

“It’s not fair,” he said, “and I hope that because of the support of their families, the team, and community, that they can have confidence that we support them…. They are part of our team and will suit up for every game.”

The forfeited game will count as a victory for CUHS. However, VCA’s decision to forfeit its games could’ve violated federal law and state rules for student-athletes.

When VCA canceled its game against CVHS last year, it sent a letter to the school stating that its female athlete wouldn’t be allowed to compete on the VCA campus. That letter may have violated Title IX. The letter may have also violated the California Interscholastic Federation’s (CIF) rules requiring schools to comply with Title IX.

The parent of the female CVHS player has since filed a lawsuit against VCA seeking a jury trial and “unspecified damages over loss of education and career opportunities, reputation, well-being, and attorney’s fees.” The suit seeks to stop VCA from committing such sex-based discrimination in the future.

Unsurprisingly, VCA isn’t the only group of Christians who are against girls playing sports, whether or not it’s with other boys.

Tanner Furrh of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, Texas — a man who has said that lesbians deserve violent deaths — recently said that he is against girls playing any organized sports because sports cause girls to be “more masculine.”

“Are they out there wearing dresses and skirts while they’re playing sports? Are they learning to be a feminine woman?” Furrh asked in a recent sermon. “No, that’s not what sports do for women…. . My daughters are not going to be in any organized sports team.”

For the record, female field hockey players do actually wear skirts, but that doesn’t matter because — as with Christian misogyny in general — fundamentalist opposition to female athletes isn’t really about preserving “femininity.” It’s about controlling girls’ bodies, freedoms, and life choices.

 

Texas Paul REACTS to POWERFUL new anti-Abbott ad made by Texas Moms

Mothers Against Greg Abbott, a political action committee founded by a group of mothers, created a powerful back-to-school television advertisement against Governor Greg Abbott showing a young child wearing body armor on his “first day of school.” Texas Paul reacts.

Progressive parent found a creative way to stand up to Texas’s “In God we trust” poster law

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/progressive-parent-found-creative-way-stand-texass-god-trust-poster-law/

Make no mistake this is about spreading Christianity and that religions doctrines into schools on everyone including those that have other religions or no religion at all.    The writer of the bill said that.   

“The national motto, In God We Trust, asserts our collective trust in a sovereign God,” Hughes said about the latest bill.

They have no care that the motto was introduced in the 1950’s in response to the red scare of the cold war.   That motto is drastically against what the founding fathers wanted for the motto and the way the nation handled religion.  The original motto of the country was this phrase that first appeared on U.S. coins in 1864.:

The original motto of the United States was “E Pluribus Unum” (Latin for “one from many” or “one from many parts”), referring to the welding of a single federal state from a group of individual political units (the original colonies, now states). “E Pluribus Unum” remains on the great seal of the United States.

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State law now requires schools to display donated “In God we trust” posters. So one parent tried donating rainbow and Arabic posters.
 
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Sravan Krishna tried to donate his posters to Carroll ISD
Sravan Krishna tried to donate his posters to Carroll ISDPhoto: Screenshot
 

After his school district started displaying posters that say “In God we trust” because a new Texas law requires schools to display those posters if they are donated, a Texas parent tried to donate more inclusive posters with rainbow colors. The school board rejected his donation, instead displaying posters from a conservative Christian organization.

Last week, Texas S.B. 797 drew attention as it went into effect, forcing schools across the state to display signs that say “In God we trust” in a “conspicuous place” as long as those signs are donated to the schools. Many criticized the law as bringing religious power dynamics into schools.

The Carroll ISD in Southlake, Texas was at the center of the controversy, as the anti-LGBTQ Christian conservative phone company Patriot Mobile donated such signs to the district last week and district trustees posed for photos with the signs during a board meeting. Patriot Mobile has donated a lot of money to get conservatives who agree with their political positions elected to school boards in Texas.

That’s when parent Sravan Krishna decided to push back in a creative way: he had posters made that said “In God we trust”… one in Arabic, and another with the word “God” in rainbow colors.

He presented the signs at a board meeting last night.

“We will have to look at what remedies we have so we don’t get excluded from our public schools,” Krishna said as he presented the posters to the board. “We deserve to be included in these efforts as well.”

Board president Cameron Bryan rejected them though, saying that Carroll ISD already had enough “In God we trust” signs. He claimed that the district didn’t have to display more than one poster per school, even though the new law doesn’t actually say anything about a limit.

According to journalist Steven Monacelli, Krishna tried to get on the agenda for last week’s meeting but couldn’t, so he came to the public comment this week to donate them.

“The state law was done by opportunists with a political agenda, however it is state law,” Krishna said after the meeting, explaining that people he knew were “concerned” about the involvement of Patriot Mobile in the district. “We wanted to celebrate this in a different way by including the other people as well.”

Monacelli noted on Twitter that another group – the Texas Bipartisan Alliance – is going to donate other “In God we trust” posters that have rainbow colors and trans pride flag colors.

The new law was co-authored by state Sen. Bryan Hughes (R), the same lawmaker behind Texas’s six-week abortion ban that allows people to collect a $10,000 bounty if they sue anyone who helps someone get an illegal abortion and the state’s “Save Chick-fil-A” bill that was a response to a city not giving the anti-LGBTQ fast food chain Chick-fil-A a contract with its airport.

“The national motto, In God We Trust, asserts our collective trust in a sovereign God,” Hughes said about the latest bill.

 

Carlson: Winters Proves Climate Change Isn’t Real – from JMG

Carlson: Winters Prove Climate Change Isn’t Real

Seems Fox is back to pushing that climate change is a hoax even as the signs of it are ever clearer.   Now Fox is the media arm for the Republican party and the Republican party is well paid (along with some democrats like Joe Manchin) by the fossil fuel companies to push the hoax line so those companies can make more money by lying to the public.   Hugs

“The Europeans have discovered that the real threat to human civilization is not global warming, it never was global warming. The real threat to people is global cooling, otherwise known as winter.

“Far more people freeze to death every year than die of heat. In 2019, for example, four times as many people died of cold as of heat. That’s according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

“So when temperatures in Europe begin to drop a few months from now, this is a huge problem and that will be obvious to everyone. It’s not global warming, it’s global cooling. That’s what’s going to kill your grandmother.” – Tucker Carlson, last night.

https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3993058/embed/embed

 

Ninja0980 • 22 minutes ago

The past five winters we’ve had temps last into the 40’s and 50’s well into December and January.
Any snowfall we get only lasts a week if that.
And when we do get cold, it’s of the extreme variety.
Not in the 30’s but in the single digits, which never used to be the norm but now is.
Where am I?
Syracuse, which used to be known for it’s snowy winters which are now a thing of the past.
My nieces and nephews are never going to know the snow piles where you could make snowmen that would last for weeks, sledding, tubing etc.
All they will know is temps going up and down with snowfall that will last a couple of days at most.
So yea Tucker, winter does prove climate change is real because we don’t have them anymore.

Gustav2 Ninja0980 • 17 minutes ago • edited

Because we figured out we would be in this home for the long term, about 10 years ago we bought a snow blower and used it several times a year. We would dig ourselves out and our neighbors. Now only once or twice a year.

We used to bemoan the huge “black snow” piles downtown weeks after a snowfall. Now even that is rarity. everything melts in the next day or two.

clay Ninja0980 • 19 minutes ago

When looking at plant growth in SE PA over the last 20 years (so it’s really climate, rather than just weather), our winter is measurably shorter, starting later and ending earlier by about a week on each end.

DevilDog • 39 minutes ago • edited

Tucker Carlson is paid well to spread disinformation and outright lies.

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Ragnar Lothbrok • 42 minutes ago

Ah the snowball reference.
What a god dammed idiot.

clay • 31 minutes ago • edited

“In 2019, for example, four times as many people died of cold as of heat. That’s according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.”

He’s misinterpreting the article in the Lancet. It was 1) about weather, not climate; 2) about weather related effects on overall cause of death, such as heart disease, not about hypothermia and heat injuries; 3) clearly stating that their model (NOT observed reality) differs by climate region (as well as the health issues otherwise present in the population).

lymis • 27 minutes ago • edited

Global warming can and does, among other things, cause more severe winters, especially in specific areas. Didn’t you notice the frozen tundra of Texas the last couple years?

It’s about throwing the whole system out of whack, nimrod, not about it being warm outside.

clay lymis • 26 minutes ago

But if he can confuse weather for climate . . . he’s got his audience half way to immobility.

Eli Bradley • 33 minutes ago

2,000 people died this July in Spain and Portugal.

The FIRST named heatwave happened this year.

Get bent Tuckums.

Hryflex • 36 minutes ago

“It’s raining here in New York, so there’s no drought in the Southwest”. Same line of reasoning.

Ragnar Lothbrok • 26 minutes ago

1000 people drowned in Pakistan a couple days ago, you idiotic nut.

harve • 30 minutes ago

small message from europe to the moron tucker – our winters have become much milder over the last decade – I live where we once had good measurable snow and temps @ -10C. Now, no snow and low temps of -5C. why do you people give ant recognition to this con?

TampaZeke • 35 minutes ago

Stupid is dangerous but not nearly as dangerous as well paid willful ignorance!

I’m tired of explaining the difference between weather and climate.

Makoto • 26 minutes ago

Do any of his viewers know that ‘global’ means.. the globe.. and that winter in the north means summer in the south? So literally exactly not global cooling during winter in the US and Europe?

Let’s talk about access to higher education….

Texas Releases A Christian Conservative Cellphone Company, “Patriot Mobile”

A Christian conservative cellphone company is breaching into school boards to spread their ideas and policies onto school districts. Jayar Jackson and Yasmin Khan break it down on The Watchlist. Watch LIVE weekdays at noon ET.

http://youtube.com/watchlisttyt/live

Read more HERE: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/…

“A little more than a year after former Trump adviser Steve Bannon declared that conservatives needed to win seats on local school boards to “save the nation,” he used his conspiracy theory-fueled TV program to spotlight Patriot Mobile, a Texas-based cellphone company that had answered his call to action.

“The school boards are the key that picks the lock,” Bannon said during an interview with Patriot Mobile’s president, Glenn Story, from the floor of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Dallas on Aug. 6. “Tell us about what you did.”

How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles

Despite the profound changes we’ve made here in recent history, the epic saga of Los Angeles’ natural history is still visible – and even striking – if you know where and how to look for it.

Christopher Titus – Arm the Children

We Asked Nice | Christopher Titus | Armageddon Update

Gavin Newsom slams Ron DeSantis as a “bully” while donating $100k to his opponent

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/363297/

“Who the hell raised these guys?” he said of DeSantis. “Growing up… folks would have their mouths washed out with soap if they talked like this.”
 
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Gov. Gavin Newsom
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) donated $100,000 to the campaign of the opponent of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), the latest volley in the war between these two governors.

Newsom pledged the money to Rep. Charlie Crist’s (D) campaign, telling reporters that he doesn’t “like bullies.”

“I like Charlie Crist and I don’t like bullies,” Newsom said. “I don’t like people that demean people. I don’t like when people talk down to people.”

Newsom specifically brought up DeSantis’s call for violence against Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci, when DeSantis said earlier this week at a rally that “Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.” DeSantis, like other conservatives, has been railing against Dr. Fauci for years because the medical advisor advocated masking, social distancing, and vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“To call someone pejorative terms because they’re short – who the hell raised these guys?” Newsom said of DeSantis. “What kind of people are they? I know all of us had to sit there and suck it up and take Trump’s demonization but not everybody has to act like him.”

“I mean, literally, I remember growing up and folks would have their mouths washed out with soap if they talked like this. I got four kids; I don’t want these guys being models.”

“You’re attacking the LGBT community, you’re attacking women, I mean, this guy is so extreme, rape and incest… Ron DeSantis? Talks about freedom? And a young girl who is raped by her father doesn’t have a right to her own body to make her own decision? Spare me, freedom. There’s no freedom, there’s no choice.”

This isn’t the first time Newsom has attacked DeSantis. Newsom attacked DeSantis’s Don’t Say Gay law, comparing it to California’s Brigg’s Initiative from 1978.

“Teachers were under assault, because, God forbid, teachers were homosexual,” Newsom recounted at an Education Commission of the States event in July. “Somehow, people were presupposing they were ‘grooming’ our kids. That was in the 1970s.”

Also in July, Newsom ran an ad trolling the state of Florida, telling them to stand up for their freedom.

“Your Republican leaders: they’re banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors,” Newsom said in the ad.