And it's not just here. These laws are being drafted across the nation by the GOP.
And we don't have any adults amongst our conservatives on this board, either.
They all say they are for gay rights. They all say they're for freedom of speech. But they aren't for people to have the right to dress as they wish.
Hell, even the Governor dressed in drag, but he wants to demand that no one else does.
This isn't about the safety of children. Of course not. We all grew up watching men in drag in movies and on TV. Are they saying we were scarred because of what we saw? No, of course not. This is just them needing to find someone to "other" and to demonize in their hate-filled tactics. Pastor Martin Niemöller's poem comes to mind:
I want each of you to read this, because I know you will. But you won't comment on it, because you are all gutless.First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
You say you support gay rights, but none of you will stand up to this demonizing of good, decent human beings. For political reasons, you aren't willing to stand up even on a message board, just like the "Good Germans" weren't willing to stand up for the Jews. THIS is what's happening:
Here's what's sad: You just don't give a shit if anyone dies. It's all "for the greater good" of Republicans winning elections.Even before the performance started, protesters had gathered outside a drag show over the weekend in Southern Pines, N.C. The police deployed outside a small theater there, separating opponents of the show from those who had turned out to make sure it could go on. Weapons were barred from the street nearby.
But as the performance got underway, the theater — and much of the city — suddenly went dark, the result of what officials said was deliberate gunfire that targeted two electrical substations.
Investigators have not established any connection between the attack and the drag performance. But for many in the drag community and beyond, the coincidence of timing sparked immediate suspicion, in part because of online comments that speculated about a link. The suspicion resonated because drag shows, now a regular feature of weekend entertainment across a growing swath of America, have become an increasingly tense and armed frontline in recent months in the nation’s fraught struggle over gender and identity.
In San Lorenzo, Calif., in June, a group of men with the far-right Proud Boys entered a public library to stop a drag performer from reading a book to children. Outside a drag brunch in August in Roanoke, Texas, protesters confronted heavily armed counterprotesters who carried AR-15-style rifles and wore rainbow colors in addition to their mostly black attire. In Memphis, armed protesters forced the cancellation of a drag event in September at the Museum of Science and History in September. Early on Halloween, a man firebombed a doughnut shop in Tulsa, Okla., that had hosted a drag event.
But tell me: Did you EVER look back on the history of the Jews in Germany and think "I wouldn't have stood mute. I would have stood up".
If you did, you were lying to yourself. Because you are standing mute here. Hell, you are SUPPORTING demonizing these people. You are all gutless worms, and you have earned the contempt of good Americans, who DO stand up for human rights.
