Ron DeSantis signs the so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' bill : NPR

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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 POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINTHIEL 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 POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINIF 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
• FACT CHECK: EMAILS SHOW ONE OF DESANTIS’ STORI BACKG THE RATNALE FOR SO-LLED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW DIDN’T HAPPEN AS THE ERNOR SAYS
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• OPN: REPUBLINS ONCE WENT AFTER GAY UPL. NOW THEY’RE TARGETG LGBTQ KIDS

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 POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINTHIEL 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 POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINIF 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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Gay marriage don’t offend me nearly as much as offendg feralism do through this legislatn. In his first year as Florida ernor 2019, Ron DeSantis paid a somber vis to the memorial for the 49 people who lost their liv when a man opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando.

Many were gay.

Carlos Guillermo Smh, an Orlando Democrat and the state’s first openly gay Lato lawmaker. Gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Floridians are creasgly on edge and on fense agast DeSantis and the state’s Republin-ntrolled legislature. Called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by opponents, has igned wispread stunt walkouts, fierce and emotnal bate Florida’s halls of power and nmnatn om the Whe Hoe.

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DeSantis on Monday nonted a reporter who lled the legislatn the “Don’t Say Gay” bill when askg a qutn.

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Dennis Baxley, seemed to acknowledge on Monday that he was motivated to addrs what he scribed as a growg trend of children g out as gay and transgenr. Anna Eskamani, an Orlando Democrat, lled Baxley’s ments “homophobic garbage” on Twter that validated ncerns about the tentn of the bill.

In his first race for US Hoe of Reprentativ 2012, DeSantis won the endorsement of the late Phyllis Schlafly, a notable Christian activist and opponent of gay rights. In Florida, the majory-Republin legislature had often stymied attempts by the state’s most nservative lawmakers to pass bills wadg to the transgenr bathroom bate and nyg film centiv for movi featurg gay characters.

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Then, days before the five-year anniversary of the Pulse shootg, DeSantis vetoed $150, 000 state funds that would have provid unselg for Pulse survivors and nixed another $750, 000 to create hog programs for homels gay and transgenr youths. In June 2019, DeSantis issued a proclamatn markg the three-year remembrance of the tragedy, but failed to mentn that nearly all of the victims were gay and Lato. (The employee, who nied beg at flt, is gay.

Meanwhile, some stat, cludg Florida, schools have removed books wh gay characters and them om librari. Charl Moran, the print of Log Cab Republins, a group reprentg gay nservativ wh several Florida chapters, noted that DeSantis has not attempted to religate past LGBTQ victori, such as same-sex marriage. Moran said he worked wh the bill sponsor to remove language that would have forced teachers to out gay and transgenr stunts to their parents.

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. 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.

Ron DeSantis (R) if he supported “more mastream human rights, like gay marriage and sexual orientatn of adults” and DeSantis refed to give a y or no answer. Asked about the growg “anti-gay” nservative sentiment, Gov. The survey found that LGBTQ+ fai feel ls safe after the Don’t Say Gay law’s passage and DeSantis’ numero attacks.

DeSantis has been wily cricized for his obssn wh punishg Disney for speakg out agast his Don’t Say Gay Law. Ron DeSantis signed a slate of legislatn Wednday targetg the LGBTQ muny, cludg rtrictns on transgenr health re, ntent on LGBTQ inti schools, transgenr bathroom e and drag performanc the news on the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, May the new laws sayFlorida state bill DB 254 will rtrict genr-affirmg healthre for transgenr people unr the age of 18, allowg the state to take temporary ctody over any child who receiv such treatment.

Stephen Maturen/Getty Imag, FILEHoe Bill 1069 will expand the Parental Rights Edutn law, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law by crics. “I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” she said. Gay Marriage:For years, you have hailed Supreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas as your mol for judicial appotments and promised to appot more judg like him.