You are and we’ll leave it at that. It was specifically mentioned in Alitos writings. If someone tells you “Im gonna fucking stab you” the time is right damn now to start believing them
GOP Senators went after Loving (Braun), Griswold (Blackburn), and Obergefell (Cornyn) just last month. Very few civil rights are off limits these days. Except maybe money = speech and corporate personhood. Those are sacred.
It was also on the public school system. Desantis pet project has been to fully defund that system and have nothing but charter and private schools in Florida
same people that laugh off the warnings of how fragile American Democracy is even after a coup attempt DeSantis ‘don’t say gay’ was step 1
Mediocre white dudes glamorizing like 5 total years in the 50s is sending us directly into authoritarianism
We gotta stop using the culture war word. These are human rights violations. We gotta stop that shit right now and call a spade a spade
When it becomes illegal to criticize the theocratic government that has been ordained by God, we should probably purge the board
They're banning books where a child has 2 same-sex parents and gay teachers aren't allowed to say "my husband" you dumb fuck
You’ve got to admit though, aside from the avalanche of laws passed recently and the current written GOP platform of legislative goals, there’s not a lot of evidence. Checkmate!
I'll be the first to admit I was wrong in that I never thought they'd actually overturn it outright. I thought that there was enough of a firewall between the "it's all a game" corporatists and the true believers. Now it's clear that this is only the beginning. It's going to get far, far worse before it gets better.
So? Parents can buy those books for their kids if they want. How often will a teacher refer to their spouse when talking to K-3 students?
Tennessee just passed a law that codified common law marriage but made it available only to heterosexual couples. They will 100% emboldened to go further
you should respond to people engaging you very substantively instead of ignoring those posts to continue being an aggrieved moron
Prioritizing "state's rights" over the individual liberty of every person living in those states is just telling everyone else you're a fucking asshole
My kids’ teachers totally never talk about their personal lives which is why I hear about their spouses and children from my kids offhand
At least have the courage to say you agree with book banning and firing gay teachers for being gay. Being a huge pussy on top of a bigot is just sad
its very fun that people unironically cite "states rights" when this was an intentionally crafted rhetorical tic to advocate for slavery in a more acceptable manor its written down, they did it on purpose, but people still talk about it all the time that it isn't why it was created as an idea
my wife talks about me and our weekend events every Monday to her 1st grade class, during their sharing time to get kids to be able to talk about what they do outside of school.
I personally know a former head of the Florida DOE, they’re not real fond of what’s happening currently is the nice way I’ll say that.
You keep focusing on K-3, but is the law not applicable for k-12? And it's a step to disregard LGBT individuals as people. The law's intent isn't to avoid calling cisgender students by their pronouns or discourage straight teachers from ever acknowledging their significant others. It's clearly targeting a certain group that the GOP finds personally gross.
Not if they can't have kids. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/tennessee-governor-signs-anti-gay-adoption-bill-n1122436
The state has the right to deny rights to these people. Sorry but federalism is just more important than human beings
All of this applies to classrooms for Kindergarten through 3rd grade. That's 5-8 year old children. They're trying to learn basic reading comprehension and math skills that age not sexual orientation or gender identity.
A 5-4 vote is about to overrule the will of 70% of this country. Also, the majority overrules the minority. That's the way it works. Although I wouldn't expect you to understand this. Tennessee fans staged a riot when the refs unfairly and illegally overruled their 26 points with Ole Miss's 31 points. "They only scored 54% of the points! That's not above the filibuster threshold!"
So they shouldn't have books with married straight couples in them and teachers can never reference their spouse?
Oh buddy, let me educate you about the state of Arkansas and the backwards general population who live here.
So a straight teacher can't mention their spouse and if they do they should be fired, in your opinion? And books shouldn't have any couples
this is an insane policing of just regular small talk "what'd everybody do this weekend? reminder kids you can't use gendered language when talking about this!"
kid with gay parents is telling a story about their parents, the teacher is now required by law to stop that child from speaking about their parents. Glad you believe in small government
Continue to ignore the fact that the law was purposely written broadly enough to apply to k-12, dipshit. You should probably just fuck off for a while.