Let Your Freak Flag Fly
Every time I read the news there is always an article about some kind of anti LGBT activism going on.
I have yet to understand the almost complete hatred some have surrounding anything that has to do with sexual orientation.
To be honest, I fail to see how someone's sexuality is political at all. We have people's very lives being used as an agenda to attack some perceived mortal sin that people need to be shielded from at all costs.
Why does it bother some Republicans to the point of them getting hysterical over something that is none of their business and has zero impact on them at all?
Why does it bother some people to the point they would attack someone.
Florida man faces hate crimes charges for brutal & intense harassment of gay family
Click Orlando reports that 57-year-old Frank Norviel had allegedly been harassing the couple who lived next door to him for months “primarily based on their sexual orientation,” according to a probable cause affidavit. Norviel is accused of shining lights and yelling slurs at the couple from the fence dividing their properties or while riding a bicycle past their home.
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Norviel is also accused of harassing one of the couple’s children, telling him that he would kill the family’s cat and eat it. He also allegedly told the boy to “shut up” and suggested that the juvenile perform sex acts on his parents “like they trained you to do.”
Here we have a sick bastard that can't keep his perverted thoughts to himself and is actually telling a child to perform sex acts.
It is almost like they themselves have a perverted mind and are projecting their own thoughts. They are showing themselves to be the true perverts.
Even South of the border people are not immune.
Church woman sprays gay couple with holy water: “Get out right now!” “They are not from here,” she said. “They come from other depraved countries to teach immorality to the youth here.”
Sounds familiar right? I won't get into the fact that the man sprayed was a Mexican resident, the same as the woman.
Now it is attacking schools and the school systems, all for some perceived threat against the youth.
Threats not grounded in reality.
Attacks on schools by hardline right wing fanatics, and the policies wanted to be put in place by republicans.
Ron DeSantis appoints anti-LGBTQ+ activist to college board to “reconquer” schools
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has appointed far-right anti-LGBTQ+ activist Christopher Rufo to the board of trustees of the New College of Florida – a school with a reputation for being progressive and queer-friendly.
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He added, “If we can take this high-risk, high-reward gambit and turn it into a victory, we’re going to see conservative state legislators starting to reconquer public institutions all over the United States.”
Rufo said the board is planning a “top-down restructuring” of the school that will involve designing “a new core curriculum from scratch.”
DeSantis brought in this man, who according to the article does not even live in Florida, to make changes to a school.
When they talk of 'reconquer' I can only think they mean restructure in their image.
We have the conservative attacks on school boards. The need for them to take over school boards and restructure schools to fit their narrative.
School board meeting descends into chaos during debate about rights for LGBTQ+ students
Trakel’s speech is immediately hostile. Video of the meeting shows him lambasting the board for allegedly violating Idaho state law based on other proposed curriculum policies and for violating the meeting attendees’ First Amendment rights by not allowing them to criticize school district employees.
“Now, to get on to the exciting part,” he said before attacking the proposed LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination policy and saying he was there under his official position as a state senator.
“You, under Idaho law, are required to maintain the morals and health of all the students… You are going to put all of their moral health and safety at risk, and like I told you before you will face litigation. You call that a threat, I’m telling you that is what will happen. It has already happened in several states and there’s already been rulings on it.”
“Before you waste taxpayer money, before you put a kid in harm’s way, you better throw this policy out and not even consider it.”
I am now thinking that they don't care about the kids at all, only their agenda. This is a republican state senator that is attacking these people.
Of course it doesn't stop there. There have been attacks on public libraries.
Attacking libraries and wanting to throw librarians in jail and or fine them just for having certain books on shelves.
GOP bill would throw librarians in prison if they don’t remove books about sexual or gender identity North Dakota lawmakers are considering legislation to ban books containing “sexually explicit” content from public libraries. Under the proposed law, librarians who refuse to remove books containing such content, which includes depictions of “sexual identity” and “gender identity” as well as “sexual preference,” “sexual intercourse,” and “sexual perversion,” would face 30 days in prison and a $1,500 fine.
So throw people in jail for having books on shelves? This is an actual bill in a state house.
For the life of me, I just cannot understand the complete meltdown some people are having, if not the outright hatred some have, about anything to do with sexuality that does not fit into their neatly packed box where they think everyone should and/or are capable of being exactly the same.
It is time for the culture warriors to understand the only culture war is the one they themselves are waging.
I have often thought people that are the most outspoken against anything other than what they consider traditional, to be guilty of actually having those kind of thoughts.
So they repress them and lash out.
trump emboldened the fucking thumpers. they won't stop until something biblical happens to them.
Right. Anyone who objects to normalizing incest has incestous feelings.
Typical. Bring out the old trope that gay people are pedophiles.
“Anyone who objects to normalizing incest has incestous feelings.”
Unless, of course, there is a fetus involved.
What an asinine comment.
funny how thumpers always conveniently forget about adam and eve, and every generation beyond them...
That fits right in with the comment you replied to.
Where the hell did you see pedophiles in that? He said incest which has very little to do specifically with gay people OR pedophiles.
My point being incest and pedophilia both have nothing to do with it except in the mind of the guy from Florida in the article.
And maybe some here....
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Says the person that has not said one thing about what was written.
Lol. No rational reading of what I wrote can be interpreted that way. I guess you definitely think gay people are pedophiles given your outspokenness.
Apparently yours.
As you conveniently demonstrate, some are open about their desire to normalize incest as well..
You have nothing but projection. Be gone.
adam and eve didn't exist
not even close to the catholic clergy, statistically...
Are you including gay clergymen? What are the stats?
wrong, I'm not catholic, I married one. for my family's combined efforts to help dilute their DNA and to deprogram the religious based sexual deviance indoctrination for the betterment of mankind.
wrong, I'm not catholic,
No shit, you are pushing for incest to be normalized. Keep it to yourself.
Is that how DNA works?
Biden supports incest, are you surprised his supporters do?
“Biden supports incest…”
That level of ignorance may require a cite, if only to exonerate the idiocy.
You will just blame the shower, and not Biden for taking them with his teenage daughter.
nope, I don't belong to the trumpster confederacy or go to their family reunions.
lol
yeah...incest is horrible until some dad knocks up his daughter....Abortion for her? Fuck no! She's carrying that thing to term and then raising it
Look who made the comment. Enough said.
ditto...
I'm proud to be an out straight guy....
but I don't go around displaying it for all to see.
So people can't tell your straight by looking at you?
No, and I feel no need to tell them because it's none of their business.
the leather chaps are a dead give away...
that might get you a reach around in a bar around 32nd and lowell...
I don’t particularly take “pride” in being a straight guy, its just who I am. Frankly I think it’s kinda weird to take pride in something like that, it isn’t really an achievement/accomplishment or something you had to work towards.
But hey, to each their own I guess.
You may have a cookie.
Little known fact: Jesus was a [Deleted]
Wasn’t he banging Mary though?
Mary Magdalene, yes. He even fathered a child with her
Oh my, apparently I was being hateful and discriminatory by not spelling out the entire word. Let me rephrase then: Jesus was a homosexual.
The English language is so fickle.
I thought maybe you called him the word that the British use as slang for a cigarette
What did you say????
Apparently spelling the word “homosexual” with only the first four letters is hateful and discriminatory … unless you are a homosexual, in which case it’s like the N word for African Americans. Like I said, the English language is very fickle.
Some people are waaaaay too concerned about other people’s sex lives. Long as it is between consenting adults I couldn’t give less of a shit. You do you.
IMO the more prejudice and anger one displays in regards to someone else’s sexuality is directly correlated to their own self loathing for participating or the desire to participate in that same lifestyle.
They're trying to pass a law here in Arkansas that would force drag shows to be treated as adult entertainment like strip clubs.
Would someone please tell me what kind of sexual stuff goes on at drag shows? I thought they just danced and sing.
They were out in full force yesterday protesting at the State Capitol
Nothing sexual at all. My point being earlier that most of these bigots have these weird thoughts in their own minds.
I feel for you with another Huckster in charge.
The guy that wrote the bill looks like he has some secrets in his closet, He's sketchy
The Florida politician that authored the ''don't say gay'' bill was just indicted on fraud charges and resigned. The righties are so morally upright ya know...Nothing but a bunch of immoral hypocrites.
Some libs seem to "get it". Seems to be no hope for the core hard left.
I thought we were beyond this type of shit
Oh, yeah. That's right. It is politics that keeps these types of arguments going. Way back when I wrote an article about traction as applied to ideas and especially politicians. The politicians, from my observation, generally do not even care what they are using as a wedge-de-jur to separate the people into neat little blocks, so long as they get their votes.
Just read an article on a related topic. Here is the link .
Makes me sick to think of the lengths that some people will go to deny other peoples' very existence.
In Toronto my dentist was gay. I guess it was his business to shove his tools in my mouth, but it never converted me from being straight.
I'm beginning to get the feeling that the article about the decline of the IQ in America is not satire or science fiction.