Gay Marriage: Theologil and Moral Arguments - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

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• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• 8 REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE ...
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• WHY MORE AMERINS ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE THAN EVER
• THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE THK GAY SEX IS IMMORAL
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
• 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 POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLETHIEL 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 POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEIF 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? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.BS LEV

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

Here are 10 reasons to support gay marriage, and for other lears and cizens to follow Obama's lead:. Homosexualy is a normal part of adult sexualy; gay men and lbians posss the same potential and sire for staed lovg and lastg relatnships as heterosexuals, cludg lovg and parentg children. Some of the reasons are taken om the posn statement of the Amerin Psychoanalytic Associatn on gay marriage approved 1997 and revised 2008.

To read the entire statement and other Amerin psychoanalytic Associatn posn statements on gay rights and other social issu, click here.

A small mory of Amerins (27%) supported legal regnn of gay and lbian marriag 1996, when Gallup first asked the qutn. Adults, who were once holdouts support for gay marriage, now e down on the same si of the issue as young adults.

8 REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE ...

Hodg cisn, public support for legalizg gay marriage cracked the 60% level, and last year reached the 70% mark for the first time.

Risg natnal support for legal same-sex marriage reflects steady creas among most subgroups of the populatn, even those who have tradnally been the most ristant to gay marriage. Amerins who report that they attend church weekly rema the primary mographic holdout agast gay marriage, wh 40% favor and 58% opposed. “There was once tth to when nservative Christians said people of fah oppose gay marriage, ” he said.

In her rearch, Twenge said she’s found that as the US beme more dividualistic and Amerins stopped viewg gay and lbian people as a monolh, their attus toward same-sex marriage beme more posive. Here are some of the reasons why I support gay of ntents:EqualyLoveLongevyAcceptanceLegal RightsStabilyHarmlsWe Are Who We Are1 EqualyI firmly believe that we are all equal, and that everyone should be treated the same. Many gay upl have been together for years, so why should they not have that relatnship officially regnised if they so wish?

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

Supportg gay marriage is to me a sign of te acceptance of people all their varieti5 Legal RightsIt n’t be right that a person a long-standg gay relatnship has no herance rights and no say if their partner be ill or di. Gay upl have the right to get married bee they are who they are, and there is nothg wrong wh that at all. On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court led that gay marriage is a right protected by the US Constutn all 50 stat.

US public opn had shifted signifintly over the years, om 27% approval of gay marriage 1996 to 55% 2015, the year beme legal throughout the Uned Stat, to 61% 2019.

Proponents of legal gay marriage ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, and that same-sex upl should have accs to all the benefs enjoyed by different-sex upl. On July 25, 2014 Miami-Da County Circu Court Judge Sarah Zabel led Florida’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal and stated that the ban “serv only to hurt, to discrimate, to prive same-sex upl and their fai of equal digny, to label and treat them as send-class cizens, and to em them unworthy of participatn one of the fundamental stutns of our society.

WHY MORE AMERINS ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE THAN EVER

The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and others nclud that legal gay marriage giv upl “accs to the social support that already facilat and strengthens heterosexual marriag, wh all of the psychologil and physil health benefs associated wh that support.

THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW

A study found that same-sex married upl were “signifintly ls distrsed than lbian, gay, and bisexual persons not a legally regnized relatnship. A 2010 analysis found that after their stat had banned gay marriage, gay, lbian and bisexual people suffered a 37% crease mood disorrs, a 42% crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248% crease generalized anxiety disorrs. The Congrsnal Budget Office timated 2004 that ferally-regnized gay marriage would cut the budget fic by around $450 ln a year.

In July 2012 New York Cy Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that gay marriage had ntributed $259 ln to the cy’s enomy jt a year sce the practice beme legal there July 2011.

In 2012, the Williams Instute at the Universy of California at Los Angel (UCLA) found that the first five years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage 2004, same-sex weddg expendur (such as venue rental, weddg k, etc.

LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE THK GAY SEX IS IMMORAL

Relig stutns n cle to marry gay and lbian upl if they wish, but they should not dictate marriage laws for society at large.

Gay marriage is a civil right protected by the US Constutn’s mments to liberty and equaly, and is an ternatnally regnized human right for all people.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

Civil unns and domtic partnerships uld provi the protectns and benefs gay upl need whout changg the fn of marriage. 2016 printial ndidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fra stated that civil unns are aquate as an equivalent to marriage: “Benefs are beg btowed to gay upl [ civil unns]… I believe we need to rpect those who believe that the word marriage has a spirual foundatn… Why n’t we rpect and tolerate that while at the same time sayg ernment nnot btow benefs unequally. Court papers filed July 2014 by attorneys fendg Arizona’s gay marriage ban stated that “the State regulat marriage for the primary purpose of channelg potentially procreative sexual relatnships to endurg unns for the sake of jog children to both their mother and their father… Same-sex upl n never provi a child wh both her blogil mother and her blogil father.

Contrary to the pro gay marriage argument that some different-sex upl nnot have children or don’t want them, even those s there is still the potential to produce children.

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 POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLETHIEL 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 POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEIF 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? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.BS LEV

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