House GOP introduces bill cutting federal funds for 'sexually oriented' events for kids

[Libertas]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-in ... 14338.html

Just the beginning of what these monsters will do to innocent children.

More than 30 House Republicans have signed on to a bill to prohibit federal dollars from being used to make “sexually-oriented” materials available to children under the age of 10.

The measure introduced Tuesday by Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) would prohibit the use of federal funds to develop and host programs or events for children younger than 10 that contain “sexually-oriented material,” such as drag queen story hours that have recently drawn the ire of conservative politicians and right-wing groups.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in July filed a federal complaint against a Miami restaurant after a video of a child attending a drag brunch there was circulated widely online. DeSantis in the lawsuit cited a 1947 state Supreme Court ruling that “men impersonating women” in a “suggestive and indecent” fashion constitutes a public nuisance.

I hope people FIGHT back.

[carmenjonze]

This is meant to be a legalized assault on all LGBTQ people, coming from the biggest groomers and perverts in the world.

It's also meant to establish open season for violent backlash against anyone perceived as LGBTQ, whether they are, or not.

[carmenjonze]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-in ... 14338.html

Just the beginning of what these monsters will do to innocent children.




I hope people FIGHT back.

Fight badk and protect yourselves. These people's history is lethal.

[Libertas]

Fight badk and protect yourselves. These people's history is lethal.

I predicted (very easy to do) the very first people they would go after would be kids.

But not just kids here in America but they are jonesing to help putin murder children in Ukraine, as their first act will be to pull ALL help to Ukraine.

[carmenjonze]

I predicted (very easy to do) the very first people they would go after would be kids.

They are the groomers. Ask any person forced into heterosexuality and cisgenderism by these people, which is basically everyone. They start as soon as people can walk.

:problem:

[Libertas]

They are the groomers.

And I cant help think about the approximately ONE HUNDRED million Americans who could vote next month and wont.

I know this is a separate conversation but jesus krist.

I sure hope that number is smaller but that is the usual number I think.

[Number6]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-in ... 14338.html

Just the beginning of what these monsters will do to innocent children.




I hope people FIGHT back.

This is a political stunt by extremist, bigoted republicans to get themselves attention with their like-minded voters. The problem with this bill is when Congress reconvenes after the election they'll be focused on legislation already pending and won't take it up. Once the Congress term expires all pending bills die and the new Congress begins with a clean slate.

This bill is going nowhere this Congressional session.

[carmenjonze]

This is a political stunt by extremist, bigoted republicans to get themselves attention with their like-minded voters. The problem with this bill is when Congress reconvenes after the election they'll be focused on legislation already pending and won't take it up. Once the Congress term expires all pending bills die and the new Congress begins with a clean slate.

This bill is going nowhere this Congressional session.

TBH I’m less worried about the bill than the intent to stoke political and vigilante violence against LGBTQs and those perceived.

That’s been the result of these anti-LGBTQ bills over this past year, many of which have passed and many of which have not.

It’s one thing that this is all conservatives have, because they can’t otherwise legislate or govern for si#t.

But anti-minority bills and policies encourage these neonazis, Proud Boys, Moms For Liberty, etc., that show up at drag shows, Pride events, raise sand at libraries, with “the children” as a pretext. They have real-world consequences for those of us who are LGBTQ and perceived as such.

I’d also encourage people to remember the extremist backlash that has accompanied every civil rights and specifically LGBTQ civil rights gain. We are in that cycle right now.

They are historically the predators and perverts pointing the finger at traditional social scapegoats to divert attention from their own dirty selves.

Significantly, Donald Trump has also gone full-bore QAnon a couple weeks before the election.

Conservative men and their enablers are currently the groomers, forcing their vile lifestyle choices on everyone using the government and vigilante violence. But when have they NOT been doing that.

[carmenjonze]

Alejandra Caraballo
@Esqueer_

It went from "we're just concerned about women's sports" to "we want to ban all drag shows" in less than a year. Depending on the wording of the legislation, it could effectively criminalize being trans and/or gender non-conforming in public.

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2022/10/18/ ... e-session/





This is exactly what the Stonewall riots were about. The police raiding gay bars and arresting drag queens and trans people for not wearing clothes associated with their sex assigned at birth. That's effectively what the Idaho Family Policy Center wants.



This isn't the first time they've done it this year. DeSantis is attempting to use the Dept of Business and Regulation to shut down a drag bar using an old 1947 law that banned “men impersonating women.”



Not to be outdone by the Idaho legislature, Congressional Republicans introduced a national "Don't Say Gay" bill that would ban all mention of LGBTQ people in all federally funded entities.

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1582409331295019008

[ProfX]

And in our next episode of cancel culture ...

A high school artist was chosen to paint a mural. Then came the outrage
A student said she created the piece to make kids “feel welcome.” Some parents in Grant, Michigan, wanted the painting removed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna52715

[snip]

At a school board meeting on Oct. 10, parents accused the student artist of promoting witchcraft by including the Hamsa hand as well as the video game character that bears the likeness of a demon. Parents also objected to the use of LGBTQ colors.

[snip][end]

Yeah, there's Pride imagery in there. No denying.

"Promoting witchcraft"? Oh please. What QCrap. What if it was a Halloween themed mural. Freaking really?

Back to topic:
Drag queen performances are not sexual in nature. There's nothing wrong with holding a kid's hand and dancing with the child. MOST of these performances may be a bit bawdy and raunchy but do not involve stripping and definitely no sexual touching. Reading a story is not a sexual act.

A lot of clubs don't allow unaccompanied minors. Fine with that. But no, this is as always more: basically shutting down all performances, even those only for adults.

[bird]

Don’t these fucking people having anything better to do?

[carmenjonze]

Don’t these fucking people having anything better to do?

They don't.

This is all they have. Black kids in woke math books and pronouns. :problem:

[carmenjonze]

How Michael Flynn Goes Local to Spread Christian Nationalism - PBS

It was less than three weeks before the Sarasota County, Florida, school board election when the former White House national security adviser weighed in on the local political race.

“These ‘woke’ members need to be defeated in detail this upcoming election,” Michael Flynn posted on Telegram on Aug. 6. “Our children’s lives and futures are at risk when our school boards here in Florida and around the nation shove [critical race theory] and transgender nonsense down their throats.”

A few days later, the retired three-star Army general who spent decades enmeshed in international conflict weighed in again on the local election. “‘WOKE’ SOBs operating in many counties and on many school boards across the country” have to be voted out or censured “and some just need to be arrested.”

Cancel culture.

The lies these conservatives peddle...next to conservative religious institutions, schools are often THE most notoriously hostile places for LGBTQ young people. Anyone in doubt can just ask someone who has to attend them.

GLSEN 2021 National School Climate Survey Executive Summary - GLSEN (.pdf)

[bird]

How Michael Flynn Goes Local to Spread Christian Nationalism - PBS



Cancel culture.

The lies these conservatives peddle...next to conservative religious institutions, schools are often THE most notoriously hostile places for LGBTQ young people. Anyone in doubt can just ask someone who has to attend them.

GLSEN 2021 National School Climate Survey Executive Summary - GLSEN (.pdf)

Flynn needs to be recalled to active duty and court-martialed.

[Glennfs]

At what age do you think it is appropriate for a child to identify their sexual orientation

Personally 12 to 13 for girls 13 to 14 for boys.

[carmenjonze]

At what age do you think it is appropriate for a child to identify their sexual orientation

Personally 12 to 13 for girls 13 to 14 for boys.

You think it's appropriate for 18 year old guys to screw 15 year old girls, and call that "love".

Stop using the government to target our children and some of the most socially-vulnerable people in this country.

Every LGBTQ kid and adult in your family needs to protect themselves from predators like you.

[carmenjonze]

This is grooming this little boy into heterosexuality and cisgenderism. And it is the social norm. I feel so bad for this baby.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9tNhq63VYo8 - Steve Harvey Show

[carmenjonze]

More grooming of little kids, asking if they have boyfriends/girlfriends/crushes. Gay and trans people don't do this. Gay and trans kids are targets of this...everybody is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23se8M6-muk - Tiffany show

[carmenjonze]

This is supposed to be cute and funny. But it's forced and compelled behavior, and actually quite nauseating to watch these little kids have to endure this sh#t. As they get older, these gender/sexuality norms will be imposed with increasing personal and physical violence if they do not comply.

In the present day, it's both physical, political, and legal violence in the form of these dirty conservative WS/forced-breeding laws. It's in conjunction with their anti-contraception and anti-abort laws.

Somebody wake me when conservative heteros complain about parents doing this to their own children, starting before they can even talk. :problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndezs5aM0tQ - This girl wants a boyfriend //I need A Boyfriend! As says by the cute and little girls

[carmenjonze]

There are cubic metric tons of these types of videos on Youtube.

LGBTQ people don't do this to our children or anyone else's.

Lol imagine Glennfs's and some of these other people's responses if LGBTQ parents ran around putting up videos asking their 3 year old son if he has a boyfriend yet or their 6 year old daughter what girls she has crushes on. :problem:

[ProfX]

It was controversial at the time, but Sigmund Freud showed children DO have sexual feelings even before puberty. Even toward mommy and daddy! It had all the Austrians clutching their pearls! Now ... he was wrong about a lot of that stuff, but not THAT.

I've had gay and trans students. No, they have not felt that way only since puberty. They have felt that way since they can remember, which is usually around age 5 or 6.

So no, I think those discussions don't have to wait. Especially the ones about protecting themselves from people who touch them in inappropriate ways, because those creeps are out there. Denial is not a good defense. That said, I agree comprehensive sex education should wait till middle school. 3rd graders aren't ready. But you can have age appropriate discussions, and that can mean it IS Ok to talk about Heather having two mommies or Bobby the teacher and his husband Jack. You don't have to show the Kama Sutra. Some stuff can wait, but not in total silence. Educating is not indoctrinating and it's not grooming - in fact, it helps kids to protect themselves. If a parent doesn't want his kid being exposed to reality, take him or her out of the class. Don't prevent the others from learning.

I also think it's a parental right if a parent WANTS to take THEIR kid to a drag queen story hour, and it's nobody else's freaking business, just like they can take them to a R-rated movie.

[carmenjonze]

It was controversial at the time, but Sigmund Freud showed children DO have sexual feelings even before puberty. Even toward mommy and daddy! It had all the Austrians clutching their pearls! Now ... he was wrong about a lot of that stuff, but not THAT.

I've had gay and trans students. No, they have not felt that way only since puberty. They have felt that way since they can remember, which is usually around age 5 or 6.

So no, I think those discussions don't have to wait. Especially the ones about protecting themselves from people who touch them in inappropriate ways, because those creeps are out there. Denial is not a good defense. That said, I agree comprehensive sex education should wait till middle school. 3rd graders aren't ready. But you can have age appropriate discussions, and that can mean it IS Ok to talk about Heather having two mommies or Bobby the teacher and his husband Jack. You don't have to show the Kama Sutra. Some stuff can wait, but not in total silence. Educating is not indoctrinating and it's not grooming - in fact, it helps kids to protect themselves. If a parent doesn't want his kid being exposed to reality, take him or her out of the class. Don't prevent the others from learning.

I also think it's a parental right if a parent WANTS to take THEIR kid to a drag queen story hour, and it's nobody else's freaking business, just like they can take them to a R-rated movie.

Gay, bi, and trans kids may or may not start to show signs of gender/sexuality nonconformity really early on, as early as age 3-4. I did. They, particularly boys, may have it beaten out of them. (Or the beatings might make them stronger in their identity.) Every so often, parents and families are also supportive. Seen that happen, too.

Some people don't come out until they're in their 60s. Some people are what we call "gay till graduation." Others may be closeted their entire lives.

What upsets conservatives is that they are powerless to control any of this, regardless of all their authoritarian, punitive laws, and targeting of our children.

I'm still fine with sex ed starting in grade 5, as it did when I was in grade 5. It should incorporate all the findings, histories, and understandings of sexualities that have occurred in the (ahem-cough) years since then. This is conservatives' and particularly conservative whites' worst nightmare.

Children are safer with drag queens than conservative men and the people who enable them. It's likely that the drag artist knows a LOT better how to treat regular, everyday people than the con does.

[carmenjonze]

And in our next episode of cancel culture ...

A high school artist was chosen to paint a mural. Then came the outrage
A student said she created the piece to make kids “feel welcome.” Some parents in Grant, Michigan, wanted the painting removed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna52715

[snip]

At a school board meeting on Oct. 10, parents accused the student artist of promoting witchcraft by including the Hamsa hand as well as the video game character that bears the likeness of a demon. Parents also objected to the use of LGBTQ colors.

[snip][end]

Yeah, there's Pride imagery in there. No denying.

"Promoting witchcraft"? Oh please. What QCrap. What if it was a Halloween themed mural. Freaking really?

Back to topic:
Drag queen performances are not sexual in nature. There's nothing wrong with holding a kid's hand and dancing with the child. MOST of these performances may be a bit bawdy and raunchy but do not involve stripping and definitely no sexual touching. Reading a story is not a sexual act.

A lot of clubs don't allow unaccompanied minors. Fine with that. But no, this is as always more: basically shutting down all performances, even those only for adults.

These same people will literally kill people for taking down a slavery statue. They'll also kill Mike Pence for doing his job. Put a trans flag or a video game character in a mural, tho, and watch them get out the hemp rope.

In my own public school district, I had a LOT to say directly to and about the school board members who wanted to destroy a 1930s era mural that depicted enslavement of Native Americans and other elements of US history (I was vehemently against them destroying it. This took a lot of work on the part of community members and normal people on the schoolboard who realize that the district has much bigger fish to fry than a mural from the 30s In a Reversal, the San Francisco School Board Has Opted Not to Remove a Controversial George Washington Mural From a High School - Artnet)

Plus, she's Latina. Social-conservative Latinos will jump on the bandwagon against her, but the conservative whites? OMG a Latina girl?? in a school???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4QYM-vJGSE&t=162s - Mural at Grant Middle School leaves parents outraged over transgender flag, other symbols, ABC 13

This news report says the Hamsa is a "Hispanic sign of protection." But as you and I both know the Hamza/Hand of Fatima/Hand of Mary goes WAY beyond Hispanic/Latin-American uses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qa5tt3l8q4&t=12s - "What is Hamsa?", My Jewish Learning

JFC these idiot parents had a chance to learn something from this young person and instead they label it "anti-Christian hate material" and play victim as they victimize another child.

I think these parents are the generation of "No Child Left Behind." Not trying to make a joke or be funny -- this is the result of Bush-era education, and this level of hate-based ignorance was the goal.

[carmenjonze]

Chris Murphy
@ChrisMurphyCT

Secret pedophile rings in pizza restaurants.

Litter boxes in schools.

Now, this mural, drawn by a 16 year old to celebrate healthy living, is being called "hate material" and "anti-Christian" (spoiler: you won't find it).

The right wing has gone full loony toons.



https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/statu ... 5228270592
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Kids in the bottom-right hand corner. They don't have the nads to say that's what also makes them lose their marbles completely. :problem:

[Glennfs]

You think it's appropriate for 18 year old guys to screw 15 year old girls, and call that "love".

Stop using the government to target our children and some of the most socially-vulnerable people in this country.

Every LGBTQ kid and adult in your family needs to protect themselves from predators like you.

I knew you wouldn't answer