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To them, being gay or trans is inherently sexual. They see it as a fetish. They see it as perversion. And so showing that “fetish” or “perversion” to kids (or even worse to them, implying that kids have that “fetish” or “perversion”) is vile.
Classic start with goal and work backwards >

Wasn’t the Virgin Mary 12? So New Testament? >

The right wing keeps wanting to change everything and destabilize the country because the stuff that has been stable is getting in their way.
The GOP and right wing are a danger to the future. >

I think that they have already tried this, and by the new definitions, a bunch of smaller stories in the Bible would mean that it would also need to be banned. So a bunch of Dems brought this to their attention and they got really upset about it. But it did violate their new definition of what was to be deemed unacceptable for schools and children. 🤣
I can’t remember if it was Florida or Texas, but they tried this recently. Like since the pandemic sort of recent. >


Republican Rep.-elect Jeanette Ward has introduced House Bill 87, which expands the definition of “child pornography” to mean “any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, cartoon, drawing, computer or computer generated image or picture, whether or not made or produced by electronic, mechanical or other means, or any other form of depiction of explicit sexual conduct.” 
Based on this definition, many books that provide sexual health information to youth would be banned, along with several books that help LGBTQ+ youth learn about their identities.  
Ward also helped members of the anti-LGBTQ+ group Moms for Liberty get elected to the Natrona County school board. Moms for Liberty members have been running for school board positions across the country as part of the right-wing effort to shift schools toward a more conservative ideology.

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This sort of rigamarole is sexual repression in action.
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If you only think of LGBTQIA+ people as inherently sexual, you have an all-around weird fascination with sex. Their position is laughably stupid when considering the A is for asexual people like me.
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Sexual repression and prudery is still an obsession with sex. Purity culture is still an obsession with sex. It's just obsessed with declaring everyone and everything wicked because they refuse to understand or learn anything past what the Bible says.
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Republicans claim we are all sex-obsessed crazies, but I've found no one thinks more about sex than Republicans do. >


“any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, cartoon, drawing, computer or computer generated image or picture, whether or not made or produced by electronic, mechanical or other means, or any other form of depiction of explicit sexual conduct.”

That sounds like all pornography. So milfs and gilfs are now child porn? >

because it's an empty threat, porn is covered by the 1st amendment, full stop, no getting around that, no matter how loud the right wing yells about it. >

What is and isn't covered by anything in our constitution is the sole discretion of the Supreme Court of the United States, which right now leans very heavily Conservative/Republican. >


"Reasonable people everywhere recognize these books as obscene . . . “

Religious fundamentalists are not “reasonable people.” >

Religious fundamentalism is a form of child abuse >

Just in case anyone forgets, here's a list of over 600 verified Republican sex offending politicians.
Just a reminder:
Gaslight
Obstruct
Project <---this one >

thanks for the list. it's now a bookmark. i'll be sharing this every chance i get >

So nothing to do with actual child pornography... >

Nope none >

I guess they ran "grooming" into the ground and need to ruin another word. This is disturbing. >

Children's books with mommy and daddy = wholesome
Children's books with mommy and mommy = child porn >

Biology books with depiction of nudity = abnormal.
Biology books with fairy tales and creationist lies = godly science… >

I really wish we weren't so stupidly puritanical about the naked body in this country. It causes so many unnecessary problems. >

I was at a spa in berlin today. I saw at least 20 dongs and 20 pairs of boobs. I go there twice a week and I barely realize that I’m surrounded by nudity anymore. It’s just normal people being normal people. 
Making nudity taboo seems quite abnormal to me. >

Yup - same happened to me. You just get over it. >

Funny that but they don’t want to extend it to the age of Matt Gaetz or Andrew Tait victims. >

Or with subjecting their kids to child breeding advocate Matt Walsh videos. >

They're the same party that deemed "the left going too far" as the left teaching what is and isn't consent. >

Meanwhile, you have Matt "I violate my children's consent all the time" Walsh. >

Oh, Matt "It's not that underage pregnancy is a problem, it's that they aren't married" Walsh? >

I just had to swallow back down a bit of puke. He’s disgusting. >

It felt awful to type Matt Walsh's beliefs >

Books a child reads should be regulated by his or her parents/caregivers, not big government.  You'd think that be a conservative principle. >

I would not think that would be a conservative principle.  Conservative principles are for the government to regulate anything relating to sexuality. >

I was being snarky.  
Who knows what conservative principles are?  Just take your comment for example: conservatives are "supposed" to not be in favor of regulating anything and yet your experience with them involves the GOP heavily invested in regulating sexuality. >

Pretty simple.  GOP does not want to regulate guns or businesses.
They do want to regulate sex and drugs. >

Taxes, schools, higher education, imports, exports, religion, guns (yes, they do), business (yes, they do), wardrobe, privacy . . . generally every aspect of society which is the ultimate irony. 
I said who knows what conservative "principles" are, but you can define it: they want to win.  There's no substance to the victory, nothing really tangible.  Just ego, boredom, and insecurity. >

Wow, look behaving exactly like nazis. I’d say don’t they know nazis went after queer people and sent them to the camps during the holocaust but then I remembered Americans schools purposely erase queer history down to rewriting the holocaust and how it unfolded. 
An ignorant country breeds hateful people >

It’s almost like the Nazis ideas of eugenics were wildly popular here in the US to the point that Ivy League papers were written on its benefits including the possible benefits of gas chambers. >

You got that backwards. American eugenics ideas were popular with the Nazis. Eugenics then lost popularity after Hitler showed us where eugenics inevitably leads. >

Clearly republicans never learned the concept of "ban thingy make people want thingy more"
Just a stupid act of bigotry all around >

Yup. Republicans are the town from Footloose. >

The town in Footloose is based on Elmore City, here in Oklahoma. It's just west of Wynnewood on Highway 29.
Voted for Trump by a 74-point margin in 2020, naturally. >

Yup. I know. They still have a sign bragging about it, as if it's something to brag about. >

Can we redefine money laundering to include his mortgage payments? >

Republicans are so threatened by gays! They are insane >

Protect the kids from books but not bullets. Got it. >

With all of the projection, I don't want to know what's in her search history. >

So tell me again how they can claim with a straight face that they're not Nazis? >

Disgusting. This would diminish the gravity of the punishment for possessing or distributing ACTUAL child porn, dealing a horrible insult to the victims of that sick industry, which many Republicans patronize themselves. >

Banning books is for smooth-domed cowards >

Guaranteed, every one of them has a trove of CP on their devices. It's ALWAYs projection. >

fnord >

Why is this a priority and not finding who were Epstein's clients? >

Republicans have always weirdly connected LGBTQ to pornography and pedophiles.  The obsession is weird and creepy.  For a party that yells about their freedoms and freedom of speech, they sure know how to crush the freedom of others. >

is this that intrusive government they're always railing against? >

They want to use CP law to out disfavored reading material but not actual sex offenders >

Fucking scum
Make no mistake, this is book burning, just with less smoke >

Wouldn’t the Bible be right at the top of that list? >

47 years in and the Bible is still the most obscene book I've ever read. >

Conservative logic is wild.   
We must SERIOUSLY curtail free speech rights and the 1st amendment FOR THE CHILDREN.  
But also  
Even if people are using their 2nd amendment rights to blow away classrooms full of a elementary school students we cannot regulate anything about it because 2nd amendment rights. >

Because those "logic" is just a cover to veil their desire for power. 
The 2nd amendment is only valid as long as it's in the hand of the "desired" >

Genuinely curious of what Herculean leap in logic that us mere mortals can never hope to understand that it would take for the Republicans to somehow place LGBTQ+ under the same umbrella as child pornograhy