Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill is unnstutnal - Vox

Contents:

• THE NSTUTNAL PROBLEM WH FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
• A FAR-RIGHT PARTY TURNED THIS LIL’ GAY GHOST INTO AN LGBT IN
• LIL NAS X’S EVIL GAY SATANIC AGENDA, EXPLAED

THE NSTUTNAL PROBLEM WH FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

In the likely event that Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn bill — the legislatn wily known as the “Don’t Say Gay” proposal — be law, no one actually knows the full extent of the behavrs forbids. ” If Keyishian remas good law — and there is no guarantee that the US Supreme Court’s Republin supermajory will apply Keyishian fairly to an anti-LGBTQ law — then Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill do not clear this bar. The Don’t Say Gay bill, by ntrast, would take effect on July 1 if signed — one year before requir the Edutn Department to update s standards to provi guidance on how to ply wh the bill.

The Don’t Say Gay bill also an enforcement scheme remiscent of Texas’s SB 8 abortn ban: Unr the bill, parents n brg private lawsus agast school districts that vlate the ban. Settg asi the qutn of whether any Florida teacher has actually told a stunt to wa to “pick your genr, ” the Don’t Say Gay bill do a whole lot more than simply require teachers to provi more rmatn to parents. Fally, and most signifintly for the future of the Don’t Say Gay bill, an unnstutnally vague statute may be rcued if urts or other bodi wh the power to terpret a statute narrow s meang and offer addnal clary about what sort of behavr forbids.

Florida’s urts, other words, might rcue the Don’t Say Gay bill om a lawsu claimg is unnstutnally vague by providg clear fns for terms like “classroom stctn” and “age appropriate” that would allow a person “of mon telligence” to terme what sort of stctn is allowed and what kd of stctn is forbidn.

A FAR-RIGHT PARTY TURNED THIS LIL’ GAY GHOST INTO AN LGBT IN

The state Edutn Department uld potentially do so as well, when gets around to updatg s standards to expla how teachers n ply wh the Don’t Say Gay bill — although, aga, is possible that state urt judg will reject the standards and substute their own terpretatn of the Don’t Say Gay bill’s language. In the meantime, any parent uld potentially sue their kid’s school district if a teacher even allus to the ncept of homosexualy a classroom discsn.

So even if the Florida Supreme Court effectively rewr the Don’t Say Gay bill to make nstutnal, the rewrten law uld still be que awful for LGBTQ stunts and teachers. One other worrisome thg about the Don’t Say Gay bill is that there is no guarantee that the Supreme Court will enforce cisns like Keyishian that rtrict excsively vague laws, at least when enforcg those cisns would go agast many of the nservative jtic’ sense of moraly.

LIL NAS X’S EVIL GAY SATANIC AGENDA, EXPLAED

It’s unclear whether the void-for-vaguens doctre will receive the same selective treatment if LGBTQ rights groups voke to challenge Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill. A full month before the World Health Organizatn clared monkeypox a global health emergency, my gay iends my group texts had already figured out how to get vacce appotments, what to do if we were exposed, and where to fd the bt rearch on risk and vacce efficy. I spoke wh Osmundson aga recently about the outbreak, the seemgly lacklter feral rponse, the stigma of labelg monkeypox a gay disease, and the parallels to the fumbled rponse to the HIV/AIDS epimic.

Do you thk that’s graed to gay male culture, based on our experience wh HIV/AIDS, where ’s this mentaly that if the ernment n’t take re of , we have to take re of ourselv? And wh that, there’s often a muny urgency or a muny sense of need, of like, “Hey, I need to fd a gay doctor that tak my surance, ” or, “Hey, I need to fd a gay doctor that tak Mediid, ” and as a muny, we’re always talkg to each other about accs to high-qualy re.

MADRID (Rters) - Attacks by the far-right Vox party on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights are ttg years of polil nsens on the issue Spa, which 2005 beme only the third untry the world to allow same-sex PHOTO: Santiago Abasl, lear of far-right party VOX, attends the first ssn of parliament followg a general electn Madrid, Spa, May 21, 2019.

Bernat Armangue/File PhotoIn the mpaign for this Sunday’s lol, regnal and EU electns, Vox has pledged to curtail gay pri paras, heaped ridicule on diversy lsons wants to scrap schools and has even drawn parallels between homosexualy and natnalist, anti-immigratn Vox won about 10 percent of the vot a natnal electn last month to bee the first far-right party wh a signifint number of lawmakers sce the ath of dictator Francis Fran now hop to enhance s clout Sunday’s new batch of electns, and s hunt for vot has shifted the foc of s attacks away om Catalonia’s pennce drive and on to the LGBT the 2005 approval of the same-sex marriage bill by the parti of the left, center-left and center-right, even the ma nservative People’s Party (PP) which vehemently opposed has changed tack, approvg var bills fense of LGBT rights. ”Vox lear Santiago Abasl has said supports same-sex civil unns but not marriage, and is agast LGBT activism even though he said has “many gays and lbians” s ranks.