Different city and state (Lafayette Louisiana last time, Houston Texas this time).
Exact same breed of asshole, though.
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Do any of these people actually take their children to the readings at their local library?
which they say violates their freedom of religion.
What are the mental gymnastics here? That the library, in not preemptively balancing their children’s story time readers across all belief and orientation and interest spectrums, is suppressing their rights?
I’m sure the library would love more volunteer readers at other times and locations. You can both read. Just stop trying to keep others who have their own civil rights from doing it.
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You just don’t get it, do you?
When normal people do things we can just talk about the things they do without specific mention of their normalcy unless it happens to be in need of praise.
When deviants do things everything they do is a deviant thing, with the deviance being the more salient aspect regardless of how overt(just propagandizing for their sick filth) or covert(sinister conspiracy against the purity of the children and plot to rot our local foundations by stealth).
If we don’t approve of you; nothing you do is orthogonal to what you are. If we do; everything is, except the bits we pick out as particularly flattering.
It’s similar to how risk assessment works: the risks of things we approve of, like war and childbearing, are either minimized or treated as evidence of heroism. The risks of things we dislike, like abortions and homo-sex are to be treated as solid evidence that even natural law is against such hideous excesses.
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The founders of Drag Queen Story Hour are running a GoFundMe to raise money to fight back against lawsuits like this.
https://www.gofundme.com/support-drag-queen-story-hour
Funds raised will go to our New York City-based nonprofit organization, where we are working to provide a stronger support network for our sister DQSH chapters around the world. This fundraiser will specifically help us build infrastructure to “level up” as an organization, including applying for grants, coordinating between local chapters, hosting more events, and developing resources for our sister chapters, particularly in places where acceptance of LGBTQ people and culture isn’t a given.
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I’m actively trying with my own offspring, that’s for certain; so far, so good.
I saw, after I went back and skimmed the other post again.
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THANK YOU! I hope that @pesco edits the article to include this link!
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If we’re going with the capability of performing logic, then Mr. Sevier’s marriageable equivalent would be a box of rocks, not a computer.
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There is only one cowboy Paladin.
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Oscillation is generally pretty amusing.
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I wan’t a fan of Drag Queen Story Hour until I saw Alex Jones go into one of the more hilarious rages I have ever seen. The irony came later when a screenshot of his computer showed some trans porn.
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But shoot, that’s true beyond “deviants” to everyone non-standard - with “standard” being cis het, white Christian males. (A story with women is a “women’s story” - a story with men is “universal.” It’s “identity politics” when it involves non-white people, but when white people do it, it’s just “politics.”) But I guess if one isn’t a cis het, white Christian male, one is a deviant from the standard.
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I sense a business opportunity. Be right back, making a handheld “sensor unit” with little flashing lights that does absolutely nothing, selling it to bigots, taking all their money.
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Pfft, statistics, semantics… let’s call the whole thing off.
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Apparently it’s not just conservatives who get their undergarments in a twist about this:
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/07/20/pride-event-bans-drag-queens-in-case-they-are-offensive/
it seems like the more religious a person is, the more intolerant they are. fundamentalists of all stripes are a cancer on society.
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There are plenty of very religious people who are tolerant, and there are also plenty of intolerant atheists. I don’t believe in any god, but I would rather meet and talk to Desmond Tutu than antireligion atheists who seem to be too similar to the religious dogmatism that I wanted to get away from in the first place.
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I recall the argument being trotted out by conservatives:
If we allow gay people to marry, we’ll have to allow plural marriages.
Turns out, nope. Super dumb thing to say. Not that they could be convinced at the time.
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A number of our children I think.
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Projection: it’s not just for movie theaters.
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