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• THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA
• RON DESANTIS SIGNALS HE’D BE OPEN TO MAKG FLORIDA AN ANTI-GAY HELLHOLETHE REPUBLIN ERNOR OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT OF WHAT’S BEEN DUBBED THE  “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS.BY BS LEVFEBARY 8, 2022FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SPEAKS AT THE OPENG OF THE CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN CONFERENCE AT THE HYATT REGENCY ON FEBARY 26, 2021 ORLANDO, FLORIDA. BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEA FUNNY THG ABOUT REPUBLINS IS THAT SPE CLAIMG TO BE THE PARTY OF “PERSONAL EEDOM,” THE LAST YEAR ALONE, THEY HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT AMERINS OM: READG CERTA BOOKS, TEACHG ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM, MAKG CISNS ABOUT THEIR OWN BODI, AND, THE SE OF SOME GROUPS, VOTG MOCRATIC ELECTNS. A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD LOOK AT THIS EVINCE AND NCLU THAT REPUBLINS ARE MASSIVE HYPOCR—AND THEY WOULD BE RIGHT! SO WHILE EPLY PRSG, ’S NO WAY SURPRISG THAT FLORIDA NSERVATIV WANT TO BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSROOMS, AND THAT FLORIDA’S ERNOR, WHO SEEMS TO HAVE HIS EYE ON THE WHE HOE 2024, HAS SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE IATIVE.ON MONDAY, RON DESANTIS OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT FOR THE PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN BILL, A.K.A. THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE IMPLEMENTATN OF “PROCR TO RERCE THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF PARENTS TO MAKE CISNS REGARDG THE UPBRGG AND NTROL OF THEIR CHILDREN,” BAN TEACHERS OM ENURAGG NVERSATNS ABOUT LGBTQ+ TOPICS THE CLASSROOM THAT ARE “NOT AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE FOR STUNTS,” AND ALLOW PARENTS TO TAKE LEGAL ACTN AGAST SCHOOL DISTRICTS IF THEY THK THEIR “FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT” AS PARENTS HAS BEEN VLATED. ASKED ABOUT THE BILL, DESANTIS SISTED IS “ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE” FOR TEACHERS TO TALK WH STUNTS ABOUT GENR INTY, CLAIMG TO HAVE HEARD EXAMPL OF CHILDREN BEG TOLD, “DON’T WORRY, DON’T PICK YOUR GENR YET,” AND WHERE TEACHERS ARE “HIDG” LSONS OM PARENTS.“SCHOOLS NEED TO BE TEACHG KIDS TO READ, TO WRE,” DESANTIS SAID, PLETELY IGNORG THE EMOTNAL VELOPMENT THAT ALSO OCCURS DURG KIDS’ FORMATIVE YEARS. “THEY NEED TO TEACH THEM SCIENCE, HISTORY. WE NEED MORE CIVICS AND UNRSTANDG OF THE U.S. CONSTUTN, WHAT MAK OUR UNTRY UNIQUE, ALL THOSE BASIC STUFF.… THE LARGER ISSUE WH ALL OF THIS IS PARENTS MT HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE WHEN TO WHAT’S GOG ON THEIR SCHOOLS.” WHILE HE DID NOT OUTRIGHT SAY HE WOULD SIGN THE BILL TO LAW, AS NBC NEWS NOT, “ WAS THE FIRST TIME THE REPUBLIN ERNOR SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE MEASURE SCE WAS PROPOSED BY THE STATE’S HOE OF REPRENTATIV LAST MONTH.” WHICH IS CREDIBLY WORRISOME.OPPONENTS OF THE BILL—WHICH CLU THE WHE HOE—HAVE WARNED WOULD BE EXTREMELY HARMFUL TO THE MENTAL HEALTH OF LGBTQ+ TEACHERS AND STUNTS. “MAKE NO MISTAKE—THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED ACTN. ACROSS THE UNTRY, WE’RE SEEG REPUBLIN LEARS TAKE ACTNS TO REGULATE WHAT STUNTS N OR NNOT READ, WHAT THEY N OR NNOT LEARN, AND MOST TROUBLG, WHO THEY N OR NNOT BE,” A SPOKPERSON FOR THE WHE HOE SAID A STATEMENT. “THIS IS POLICS AT S WORSE, CYNILLY G OUR STUNTS AS PAWNS POLIL WARFARE.”SEIZG ON THE “PARENTAL RIGHTS” LE TROTTED OUT BY DESANTIS AND OTHER REPUBLINS, SOUTH FLORIDA RINT JENNIFER SOLOMAN, WHO HAS LGBTQ+ CHILDREN, MENTED TO NBC NEWS: “PARENTAL RIGHTS? WHOSE PARENTAL RIGHTS? ONLY PARENTAL RIGHTS IF YOU’RE RAISG A CHILD ACRDG TO DESANTIS? DESANTIS TRI TO PAT THIS PICTURE THAT EVERY FAY IS THIS 1950S MOM AND DAD WH TWO KIDS AND A T AND DOG. THAT IS NOT WHAT FLORIDA LOOKS LIKE; THAT IS NOT WHAT THE UNTRY LOOKS LIKE.” WHILE SOLOMAN TOLD NBC THAT SHE IS NOT PERSONALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE BILL ON HER CHILDREN, BEE THEY LIVE A PART OF THE STATE THAT IS “RELATIVELY ACCEPTG OF LGBTQ PEOPLE,” SHE FEARS FOR THOSE LIVG OTHER MUNI. “THERE ULD BE A FAY JT LIKE ME THAT IS GOG TO HAVE TO GO BACK THE CLOSET,” SHE SAID. “THEY’RE GOG TO HAVE TO TELL THEIR CHILD, ‘I’M SORRY, YOU N DRS THE WAY YOU WANT TO AT HOME, BUT YOU HAVE NO PROTECTNS AT SCHOOL, AND SO YOU N’T BE YOUR THENTIC SELF ALL OF THE TIME.’ THAT’S VERY DAMAGG TO A CHILD.”IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THE LEV REPORT YOUR BOX DAILY, CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE.WANT TO HEAR THE 10 SRIT WORDS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?OKAY, THEY ARE: “THE BABYSTER NCELED, BUT STEPHEN MILLER IS WATCHG OUR KIDS.” THE NEXT 10 SRIT? “PETER THIEL TO LEAVE META BOARD TO PURSUE TMP AGENDA.” PER BLOOMBERG:PETER THIEL, THE TECH VTOR AND NSERVATIVE PROVOTR WHO HAS ADVISED MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR NEARLY TWO S AT FACEBOOK PARENT META PLATFORMS INC., WILL STEP DOWN OM THE PANY’S BOARD AFTER META’S ANNUAL SHAREHOLR MEETG MAY. THIEL, 54, WHO BEME A DIRECTOR 2005 AFTER AN EARLY VTMENT FACEBOOK, PLANS TO CREASE HIS POLIL SUPPORT OF FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP’S AGENDA DURG THE 2022 ELECTN AND DON’T WANT HIS POLIL ACTIVI TO BE A DISTRACTN FOR FACEBOOK, ACRDG TO A PERSON CLOSE TO THIEL. THIEL HELPED ELECT TMP PRINT 2016 BY DONATG MONEY AND SPEAKG ON HIS BEHALF AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN. WHEN TMP BEME PRINT, THIEL WORKED ON HIS TRANSN TEAM WHILE NOMATG LLEAGU TO FILL ERNMENT POSNS…. THIEL HAS NTUED TO SUPPORT TMP WHILE MEETG WH MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY AND MEMBERS OF THE FAR-RIGHT RECENT YEARS.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHIEL APPARENTLY MIXED TWO PASSNS BY ADVISG ZUCKERBERG “ON POLIL ISSU,” WHICH REPORTEDLY CLUD “ENURAGG THE CEO NOT TO FACT-CHECK POLIL ADVERTISEMENTS THE N-UP TO THE 2020 PRINTIAL ELECTN, A MOVE THAT MANY BELIEVE BENEFED TMP,” BLOOMBERG NOTED. WHILE MANY FACEBOOK EMPLOYE WERE EPLY UNHAPPY ABOUT THIEL’S 2016 SUPPORT OF TMP, ZUCKERBERG FEND HIS LONGTIME PAL, SAYG AN TERNAL MSAGE: “WE N’T CREATE A CULTURE THAT SAYS R ABOUT DIVERSY AND THEN EXCLUS ALMOST HALF THE UNTRY BEE THEY BACK A POLIL NDIDATE.“ AND NOW, HERE WE ARE!NOTHG TO SEE HERE, JT THE SUPREME COURT’S ULTRANSERVATIV DOG THEIR PART TO ANNIHILATE VOTG RIGHTSBY 2024, THE ONLY PEOPLE THEY’LL LET VOTE WILL BE HALF A DOZEN WHE GUYS WHO TRAVEL TO MCH MCCONNELL’S OFFICE AND SIGN A NTRACT PLEDGG TO VOTE FOR REPUBLINS. PER NBC NEWS:IN A 5–4 VOTE, THE SUPREME COURT CLEARED THE WAY MONDAY FOR ALABAMA TO E S NEW NGRSNAL DISTRICT MAP EVEN THOUGH A LOWER URT SAID  VLATED THE VOTG RIGHTS ACT BY NYG BLACK VOTERS A NEW DISTRICT. THE URT GRANTED A REQUT OM ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO PUT A HOLD ON THE LOWER URT LG. THE SE—THE FIRST TO REACH THE SUPREME COURT VOLVG THE REDRAWG OF POLIL BOUNDARI WH 2020 CENS RULTS—ULD AFFECT REDISTRICTG  OTHER STAT THAT GAED MORY POPULATNS. THE SUPREME COURT ALSO SAID WOULD HEAR ALABAMA’S CHALLENGE TO THE LOWER URT LG THAT CLARED THE MAPS VOID. THAT APPEAL IS NOT LIKELY TO BE HEARD UNTIL THE URT’S NEW TERM BEGS THE FALL. AS A PRACTIL MATTER, THE URT’S ACTN ALLOWS ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO E THEIR MAP FOR THIS YEAR’S ELECTNS.AS SLATE’S MARK JOSEPH STERN NOT, YOU N TELL THE LG IS REALLY, REALLY BAD BY THE FACT THAT CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS, “AN ARCHECT OF THE JUDICIAL ATTACK ON VOTG RIGHTS,” CHOSE TO DISSENT ALONG WH THE URT’S THREE LIBERALS, WHICH WAS SADLY NOT ENOUGH TO STOP THE FIVE OTHER JTIC OM UPHOLDG ALABAMA’S “EGREG RACIAL GERRYMANR.” AS STERN WR:OVER THE LAST , THE SUPREME COURT HAS BULLDOZED SEVERAL KEY PROVISNS OF THE VRA. BUT UNTIL NOW, HAD NOT YET REPEALED THE LAW’S PROTECTNS AGAST THE DILUTN OF VOT ST BY RACIAL MORI. THIS SHIELD, NTAED SECTN 2 AND CLARIFIED BY 1986’S THORNBURG V. GGL, REQUIR A THREE-JUDGE DISTRICT URT TO TERME WHETHER A REDISTRICTG PLAN RV UP MORY MUNI TO PREVENT THEM OM ELECTG THE NDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE. ALTHOUGH THE GGL TT N BE DIFFICULT TO APPLY, THE RELEVANT FACTORS HERE ARE STRAIGHTFORWARD: DUE TO RACIALLY POLARIZED VOTG THE STATE, BLACK ALABAMIANS NNOT ELECT THEIR PREFERRED REPRENTATIV UNLS THEY NSTUTE A MAJORY OF THEIR DISTRICT. ALABAMA REPUBLINS UNRSTAND THIS FACT, AND IS WHY THEIR NEW NGRSNAL MAP THLSLY DILUT BLACK VOT. THE PLAN PACKS A HUGE NUMBER OF BLACK VOTERS TO A SGLE, SPRAWLG DISTRICT THAT STRETCH OM BIRMGHAM TO MONTGOMERY, CLUDG AS MANY NONWHE RINTS AS POSSIBLE. THE FEW REMAG VOTERS OF LOR ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGH SIX MAJORY-WHE DISTRICTS, WHERE THEY STAND NO CHANCE OF ELECTG THEIR FAVORED NDIDATE. AS A RULT, WHILE BLACK AMERINS MAKE UP 27% OF THE STATE’S POPULATN, THEY NTROL JT 14% OF S NGRSNAL LEGATN.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHIF THAT STRIK YOU AS WILDLY MSED UP AND HUGELY EGREG, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. IN HIS DISSENT, ROBERTS WROTE THAT THE LOWER URT, WHICH LLED BULLSH ON THE NEW MAP, HAD “PROPERLY APPLIED EXISTG LAW AN EXTENSIVE OPN WH NO APPARENT ERRORS FOR OUR RRECTN,” WHILE JTICE ELENA KAGAN HAD THIS TO SAY: “TODAY’S CISN IS ONE MORE A DISNCERTGLY LONG LE OF S WHICH THIS COURT S SHADOW DOCKET TO SIGNAL OR MAKE CHANG THE LAW, WHOUT ANYTHG APPROACHG FULL BRIEFG AND ARGUMENT.… [THIS] DO A DISSERVICE TO THE DISTRICT COURT, WHICH METICULOLY APPLIED THIS COURT’S LONGSTANDG VOTG-RIGHTS PRECENT. AND MOST OF ALL, DO A DISSERVICE TO BLACK ALABAMIANS WHO UNR THAT PRECENT HAVE HAD THEIR ELECTORAL POWER DIMISHED— VLATN OF A LAW THIS COURT ONCE KNEW TO BUTTRS ALL OF AMERIN MOCRACY.”KEV MCCARTHY WOULD RATHER NOT DISCS HIS PARTY’S REBRAND OF JANUARY 6 AS A BETIFUL DAY HISTORY THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED EVERY YEAR WH PARTY HATS AND RG DGSTWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ELSEWHERE!FBI ARRTS TMP SUPPORTER WHO STORMED CAPOL WHILE ON BAIL FOR ATTEMPTED MURR (NBC NEWS)EUROPE RAMPS UP UKRAE DIPLOMACY AMID “EXTREME TENSN” (WASHGTON POST)AS PELOTON FIR OVER 2,800 EMPLOYE, ’S GIVG THEM A EE ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTN ON THE WAY OUT (INSIR)HOW JOE MANCH ED POLICS TO PROTECT HIS FAY AL PANY (POLI)TOP WHE HOE SCIENTIST RIGNS AFTER REVIEW FDS HE MEANED STAFF (WASHGTON POST)GOLDMAN SACHS’S WORK-FROM-OFFICE POLICY IS THE ABERRATN NOW (BLOOMBERG)FEDS ARRT MARRIED UPLE, SEIZE $3.6 BILLN HACKED B FUNDS (WASHGTON POST)FLORIDA HOME TO BE SOLD NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN AL (AP)NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT MAFIA ACUNTANTS ARE REALLY GOOD AT THEIR JOBS (BOG BOG)ZOO HIR MARV GAYE IMPERSONATOR TO GET MONKEYS THE MOOD (UPI)MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — INSI JERRY FALWELL JR.’S UNLIKELY RISE AND PRECIPO FALL AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY— ERIC ADAMS PULLS CRYPTO-PAYCHECK STUNT HOURS BEFORE B CRASH— DAVE CHAPPELLE AND “THE BLACK ASS LIE” THAT KEEPS US DOWN— TMP’S JANUARY 6 COVER-UP IS UNRAVELG FAST— FLORIDA MAN HAS GROWG GOD COMPLEX— IN 2024, MIKE PENCE IS GEARG UP TO GO ROGUE— NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL TO TMP, IVANKA, AND DON JR.: DON’T F--K WH US— INSI THIS CABLE NEWS GIANT’S STREAMG DREAMS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: IT CAME FROM WASILLA— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? 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THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA

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RON DESANTIS SIGNALS HE’D BE OPEN TO MAKG FLORIDA AN ANTI-GAY HELLHOLETHE REPUBLIN ERNOR OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT OF WHAT’S BEEN DUBBED THE  “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOLS.BY BS LEVFEBARY 8, 2022FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SPEAKS AT THE OPENG OF THE CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN CONFERENCE AT THE HYATT REGENCY ON FEBARY 26, 2021 ORLANDO, FLORIDA. BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEA FUNNY THG ABOUT REPUBLINS IS THAT SPE CLAIMG TO BE THE PARTY OF “PERSONAL EEDOM,” THE LAST YEAR ALONE, THEY HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT AMERINS OM: READG CERTA BOOKS, TEACHG ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM, MAKG CISNS ABOUT THEIR OWN BODI, AND, THE SE OF SOME GROUPS, VOTG MOCRATIC ELECTNS. A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD LOOK AT THIS EVINCE AND NCLU THAT REPUBLINS ARE MASSIVE HYPOCR—AND THEY WOULD BE RIGHT! SO WHILE EPLY PRSG, ’S NO WAY SURPRISG THAT FLORIDA NSERVATIV WANT TO BAN TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN THE STATE’S PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSROOMS, AND THAT FLORIDA’S ERNOR, WHO SEEMS TO HAVE HIS EYE ON THE WHE HOE 2024, HAS SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE IATIVE.ON MONDAY, RON DESANTIS OFFERED TAC ENDORSEMENT FOR THE PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN BILL, A.K.A. THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE IMPLEMENTATN OF “PROCR TO RERCE THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF PARENTS TO MAKE CISNS REGARDG THE UPBRGG AND NTROL OF THEIR CHILDREN,” BAN TEACHERS OM ENURAGG NVERSATNS ABOUT LGBTQ+ TOPICS THE CLASSROOM THAT ARE “NOT AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE FOR STUNTS,” AND ALLOW PARENTS TO TAKE LEGAL ACTN AGAST SCHOOL DISTRICTS IF THEY THK THEIR “FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT” AS PARENTS HAS BEEN VLATED. ASKED ABOUT THE BILL, DESANTIS SISTED IS “ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE” FOR TEACHERS TO TALK WH STUNTS ABOUT GENR INTY, CLAIMG TO HAVE HEARD EXAMPL OF CHILDREN BEG TOLD, “DON’T WORRY, DON’T PICK YOUR GENR YET,” AND WHERE TEACHERS ARE “HIDG” LSONS OM PARENTS.“SCHOOLS NEED TO BE TEACHG KIDS TO READ, TO WRE,” DESANTIS SAID, PLETELY IGNORG THE EMOTNAL VELOPMENT THAT ALSO OCCURS DURG KIDS’ FORMATIVE YEARS. “THEY NEED TO TEACH THEM SCIENCE, HISTORY. WE NEED MORE CIVICS AND UNRSTANDG OF THE U.S. CONSTUTN, WHAT MAK OUR UNTRY UNIQUE, ALL THOSE BASIC STUFF.… THE LARGER ISSUE WH ALL OF THIS IS PARENTS MT HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE WHEN TO WHAT’S GOG ON THEIR SCHOOLS.” WHILE HE DID NOT OUTRIGHT SAY HE WOULD SIGN THE BILL TO LAW, AS NBC NEWS NOT, “ WAS THE FIRST TIME THE REPUBLIN ERNOR SIGNALED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE MEASURE SCE WAS PROPOSED BY THE STATE’S HOE OF REPRENTATIV LAST MONTH.” WHICH IS CREDIBLY WORRISOME.OPPONENTS OF THE BILL—WHICH CLU THE WHE HOE—HAVE WARNED WOULD BE EXTREMELY HARMFUL TO THE MENTAL HEALTH OF LGBTQ+ TEACHERS AND STUNTS. “MAKE NO MISTAKE—THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED ACTN. ACROSS THE UNTRY, WE’RE SEEG REPUBLIN LEARS TAKE ACTNS TO REGULATE WHAT STUNTS N OR NNOT READ, WHAT THEY N OR NNOT LEARN, AND MOST TROUBLG, WHO THEY N OR NNOT BE,” A SPOKPERSON FOR THE WHE HOE SAID A STATEMENT. “THIS IS POLICS AT S WORSE, CYNILLY G OUR STUNTS AS PAWNS POLIL WARFARE.”SEIZG ON THE “PARENTAL RIGHTS” LE TROTTED OUT BY DESANTIS AND OTHER REPUBLINS, SOUTH FLORIDA RINT JENNIFER SOLOMAN, WHO HAS LGBTQ+ CHILDREN, MENTED TO NBC NEWS: “PARENTAL RIGHTS? WHOSE PARENTAL RIGHTS? ONLY PARENTAL RIGHTS IF YOU’RE RAISG A CHILD ACRDG TO DESANTIS? DESANTIS TRI TO PAT THIS PICTURE THAT EVERY FAY IS THIS 1950S MOM AND DAD WH TWO KIDS AND A T AND DOG. THAT IS NOT WHAT FLORIDA LOOKS LIKE; THAT IS NOT WHAT THE UNTRY LOOKS LIKE.” WHILE SOLOMAN TOLD NBC THAT SHE IS NOT PERSONALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE BILL ON HER CHILDREN, BEE THEY LIVE A PART OF THE STATE THAT IS “RELATIVELY ACCEPTG OF LGBTQ PEOPLE,” SHE FEARS FOR THOSE LIVG OTHER MUNI. “THERE ULD BE A FAY JT LIKE ME THAT IS GOG TO HAVE TO GO BACK THE CLOSET,” SHE SAID. “THEY’RE GOG TO HAVE TO TELL THEIR CHILD, ‘I’M SORRY, YOU N DRS THE WAY YOU WANT TO AT HOME, BUT YOU HAVE NO PROTECTNS AT SCHOOL, AND SO YOU N’T BE YOUR THENTIC SELF ALL OF THE TIME.’ THAT’S VERY DAMAGG TO A CHILD.”IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THE LEV REPORT YOUR BOX DAILY, CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE.WANT TO HEAR THE 10 SRIT WORDS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?OKAY, THEY ARE: “THE BABYSTER NCELED, BUT STEPHEN MILLER IS WATCHG OUR KIDS.” THE NEXT 10 SRIT? “PETER THIEL TO LEAVE META BOARD TO PURSUE TMP AGENDA.” PER BLOOMBERG:PETER THIEL, THE TECH VTOR AND NSERVATIVE PROVOTR WHO HAS ADVISED MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR NEARLY TWO S AT FACEBOOK PARENT META PLATFORMS INC., WILL STEP DOWN OM THE PANY’S BOARD AFTER META’S ANNUAL SHAREHOLR MEETG MAY. THIEL, 54, WHO BEME A DIRECTOR 2005 AFTER AN EARLY VTMENT FACEBOOK, PLANS TO CREASE HIS POLIL SUPPORT OF FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP’S AGENDA DURG THE 2022 ELECTN AND DON’T WANT HIS POLIL ACTIVI TO BE A DISTRACTN FOR FACEBOOK, ACRDG TO A PERSON CLOSE TO THIEL. THIEL HELPED ELECT TMP PRINT 2016 BY DONATG MONEY AND SPEAKG ON HIS BEHALF AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL CONVENTN. WHEN TMP BEME PRINT, THIEL WORKED ON HIS TRANSN TEAM WHILE NOMATG LLEAGU TO FILL ERNMENT POSNS…. THIEL HAS NTUED TO SUPPORT TMP WHILE MEETG WH MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY AND MEMBERS OF THE FAR-RIGHT RECENT YEARS.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHIEL APPARENTLY MIXED TWO PASSNS BY ADVISG ZUCKERBERG “ON POLIL ISSU,” WHICH REPORTEDLY CLUD “ENURAGG THE CEO NOT TO FACT-CHECK POLIL ADVERTISEMENTS THE N-UP TO THE 2020 PRINTIAL ELECTN, A MOVE THAT MANY BELIEVE BENEFED TMP,” BLOOMBERG NOTED. WHILE MANY FACEBOOK EMPLOYE WERE EPLY UNHAPPY ABOUT THIEL’S 2016 SUPPORT OF TMP, ZUCKERBERG FEND HIS LONGTIME PAL, SAYG AN TERNAL MSAGE: “WE N’T CREATE A CULTURE THAT SAYS R ABOUT DIVERSY AND THEN EXCLUS ALMOST HALF THE UNTRY BEE THEY BACK A POLIL NDIDATE.“ AND NOW, HERE WE ARE!NOTHG TO SEE HERE, JT THE SUPREME COURT’S ULTRANSERVATIV DOG THEIR PART TO ANNIHILATE VOTG RIGHTSBY 2024, THE ONLY PEOPLE THEY’LL LET VOTE WILL BE HALF A DOZEN WHE GUYS WHO TRAVEL TO MCH MCCONNELL’S OFFICE AND SIGN A NTRACT PLEDGG TO VOTE FOR REPUBLINS. PER NBC NEWS:IN A 5–4 VOTE, THE SUPREME COURT CLEARED THE WAY MONDAY FOR ALABAMA TO E S NEW NGRSNAL DISTRICT MAP EVEN THOUGH A LOWER URT SAID  VLATED THE VOTG RIGHTS ACT BY NYG BLACK VOTERS A NEW DISTRICT. THE URT GRANTED A REQUT OM ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO PUT A HOLD ON THE LOWER URT LG. THE SE—THE FIRST TO REACH THE SUPREME COURT VOLVG THE REDRAWG OF POLIL BOUNDARI WH 2020 CENS RULTS—ULD AFFECT REDISTRICTG  OTHER STAT THAT GAED MORY POPULATNS. THE SUPREME COURT ALSO SAID WOULD HEAR ALABAMA’S CHALLENGE TO THE LOWER URT LG THAT CLARED THE MAPS VOID. THAT APPEAL IS NOT LIKELY TO BE HEARD UNTIL THE URT’S NEW TERM BEGS THE FALL. AS A PRACTIL MATTER, THE URT’S ACTN ALLOWS ALABAMA REPUBLINS TO E THEIR MAP FOR THIS YEAR’S ELECTNS.AS SLATE’S MARK JOSEPH STERN NOT, YOU N TELL THE LG IS REALLY, REALLY BAD BY THE FACT THAT CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS, “AN ARCHECT OF THE JUDICIAL ATTACK ON VOTG RIGHTS,” CHOSE TO DISSENT ALONG WH THE URT’S THREE LIBERALS, WHICH WAS SADLY NOT ENOUGH TO STOP THE FIVE OTHER JTIC OM UPHOLDG ALABAMA’S “EGREG RACIAL GERRYMANR.” AS STERN WR:OVER THE LAST , THE SUPREME COURT HAS BULLDOZED SEVERAL KEY PROVISNS OF THE VRA. BUT UNTIL NOW, HAD NOT YET REPEALED THE LAW’S PROTECTNS AGAST THE DILUTN OF VOT ST BY RACIAL MORI. THIS SHIELD, NTAED SECTN 2 AND CLARIFIED BY 1986’S THORNBURG V. GGL, REQUIR A THREE-JUDGE DISTRICT URT TO TERME WHETHER A REDISTRICTG PLAN RV UP MORY MUNI TO PREVENT THEM OM ELECTG THE NDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE. ALTHOUGH THE GGL TT N BE DIFFICULT TO APPLY, THE RELEVANT FACTORS HERE ARE STRAIGHTFORWARD: DUE TO RACIALLY POLARIZED VOTG THE STATE, BLACK ALABAMIANS NNOT ELECT THEIR PREFERRED REPRENTATIV UNLS THEY NSTUTE A MAJORY OF THEIR DISTRICT. ALABAMA REPUBLINS UNRSTAND THIS FACT, AND IS WHY THEIR NEW NGRSNAL MAP THLSLY DILUT BLACK VOT. THE PLAN PACKS A HUGE NUMBER OF BLACK VOTERS TO A SGLE, SPRAWLG DISTRICT THAT STRETCH OM BIRMGHAM TO MONTGOMERY, CLUDG AS MANY NONWHE RINTS AS POSSIBLE. THE FEW REMAG VOTERS OF LOR ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGH SIX MAJORY-WHE DISTRICTS, WHERE THEY STAND NO CHANCE OF ELECTG THEIR FAVORED NDIDATE. AS A RULT, WHILE BLACK AMERINS MAKE UP 27% OF THE STATE’S POPULATN, THEY NTROL JT 14% OF S NGRSNAL LEGATN.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHIF THAT STRIK YOU AS WILDLY MSED UP AND HUGELY EGREG, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. IN HIS DISSENT, ROBERTS WROTE THAT THE LOWER URT, WHICH LLED BULLSH ON THE NEW MAP, HAD “PROPERLY APPLIED EXISTG LAW AN EXTENSIVE OPN WH NO APPARENT ERRORS FOR OUR RRECTN,” WHILE JTICE ELENA KAGAN HAD THIS TO SAY: “TODAY’S CISN IS ONE MORE A DISNCERTGLY LONG LE OF S WHICH THIS COURT S SHADOW DOCKET TO SIGNAL OR MAKE CHANG THE LAW, WHOUT ANYTHG APPROACHG FULL BRIEFG AND ARGUMENT.… [THIS] DO A DISSERVICE TO THE DISTRICT COURT, WHICH METICULOLY APPLIED THIS COURT’S LONGSTANDG VOTG-RIGHTS PRECENT. 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Among those exampl are a parison of same-sex marriage to a marriage between “a man and his horse”; llg the “It Gets Better” project, an iative signed to help LGBTQ young people pe wh bullyg and margalizatn, “disgtg” and a “ncerted effort” to rec kids to the gay “liftyle”; and claimg that the “blood” of “young Mar” would be on the hands of lawmakers who voted to repeal the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” Fay Rearch Council did not rpond to a requt for ment. Another “anti-LGBTQ hate group” named the report is the Alliance Defendg Freedom, a nservative Christian legal group wh attorneys across the untry and a long track rerd of ligatg agast LGBTQ a lawsu that ma natnal headl last year, ADF reprented Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to make a ke for a gay weddg, a narrow victory at the Supreme Court.

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DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet. It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag. Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai.

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” Last year, CWA acced the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), a group that works to stop anti-gay bullyg schools, of g that missn as a ver to promote homosexualy schools, addg that “teachg stunts om a young age that the homosexual liftyle is perfectly natural … will [e them to] velop to adults who are sensized to the harmful, immoral realy of sexual viance. Both Dailey and Sprigg have phed false accatns lkg gay men to pedophilia: Sprigg has wrten that most men who engage same-sex child moltatn “intify themselv as homosexual or bisexual, ” and Dailey and Sprigg voted an entire chapter of their 2004 book Gettg It Straight to siar material.

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In a 1999 publitn (Homosexual Behavr and Pedophilia) that has sce disappeared om s webse, the FRC claimed that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of nsent laws and to eventually regnize pedophil as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual orr, ” acrdg to unrefuted rearch by AMERICAblog.

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30, 2010, bate on MSNBC’s “Hardball wh Chris Matthews” between Perks and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok, Perks fend FRC’s associatn of gay men wh pedophilia, sayg: “If you look at the Amerin College of Pediatricians, they say the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a danger to children. In 1985, the Amerin Soclogil Associatn adopted a rolutn sayg Cameron “has nsistently misterpreted and misreprented soclogil rearch on sexualy” and “repeatedly mpaigned for the abrogatn of the civil rights of lbians and gay men”; the followg year, the same group formally nmned Cameron for that misreprentatn of rearch. ” Wh regard to LGBT teen suicis, TVC, unr the headle “Homosexual Urban Legends, ” claims that “[t]he ld, hard fact is that teens who are stgglg wh homosexual feelgs are more likely to be sexually molted by a homosexual school unselor or teacher than to m suici over their feelgs of spair.

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The TVC also mak assertns on s webse about disproportnate homosexual pedophilia and attacks the ia that people are born gay and the claim that gays want the right to marry for the same reasons that heterosexuals do — the TVC suggts the real purpose of marriage equaly is to stroy the ncept of marriage and ultimately replace altogether wh group sex and polygamy. Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society.

But addn to hawkg that myth, the legns of anti-gay activists who followed have add a panoply of others, rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia.

Depictg gay men as a threat to children may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy — and for wng electns and referenda, as Ana Bryant found out durg her succsful 1977 mpaign to overturn a Da County, Fla., ordance barrg discrimatn agast gay people.

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The Amerin Amy of Child & Adolcent Psychiatry affirmed 2013 that “[c]urrent rearch shows that children wh gay and lbian parents do not differ om children wh heterosexual parents their emotnal velopment or their relatnships wh peers and adults” and they are “not more likely than children of heterosexual parents to velop emotnal or behavral problems.

The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics (AAP) a 2002 policy statement clared: "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn noted a 2000 fact sheet available on the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists, that alg wh gay, lbian and bisexual issu, that sexual abe do not appear to be any more prevalent among children who grow up and intify as gay, lbian or bisexual than children who grow up and intify as heterosexual. Siarly, the Natnal Organizatn on Male Sexual Victimizatn not on s webse that "experts the human sexualy field do not believe that premature sexual experienc play a signifint role late adolcent or adult sexual orientatn" and add that 's unlikely that anyone n make another person gay or heterosexual.

Anti-gay activists, who have long opposed addg LGBT people to those protected by hate crime legislatn, have repeatedly claimed that such laws would lead to the jailg of relig figur who preach agast homosexualy — part of a bid to ga the backg of the broar relig muny for their posn.

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Anti-gay groups have been adamantly opposed to allowg gay men and lbians to serve openly the armed forc, not only bee of their purported fear that bat reads will be unrmed, but bee the ary has long been nsired the purt merocracy Ameri (the armed forc were succsfully racially tegrated long before Amerin civil society, for example).

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Though is te that LGBT people tend to suffer higher rat of anxiety, prsn, and prsn-related illns and behavrs like alhol and dg abe than the general populatn, that is due to the historil social stigmatizatn of homosexualy and vlence directed at LGBT people, not bee of homosexualy self.

A report prented by the Council on Scientific Affairs to the AMA Hoe of Delegat Interim Meetg wh regard to reparative (“ex-gay”) therapy noted that most of the emotnal disturbance gay men and lbians experience around their sexual inty is not based on physlogil , but rather on “a sense of alienatn an unacceptg environment. Qazi Rahman, study -thor and a leadg scientist on human sexual orientatn, said: "This study puts ld water on any ncerns that we are lookg for a sgle 'gay gene' or a sgle environmental variable which uld be ed to 'select out' homosexualy — the factors which fluence sexual orientatn are plex.