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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Why is it so important to celebrate pride? I’ve never seen a similar focus for heterosexuality.

And last I checked, pride is not a virtue. In fact, it tops the list of the seven deadly sins. We should reject pride, not celebrate it.

Most excellent point

"Pride goeth before a fall."

flashgu

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Originally posted by flashguy:
"Pride goeth before a fall."

We can only hope.

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It occurs to me that these parents who intentionally expose their kids to the LGBTQ culture are displaying classic symptoms of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. They replace medical conditions for LGBTQ culture to satisfy out of control attention seeking. In both cases the well being of the child is sacrificed for the interests of the parent.

You make a good point. I hadn't thought of it that way.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
It occurs to me that these parents who intentionally expose their kids to the LGBTQ culture are displaying classic symptoms of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. They replace medical conditions for LGBTQ culture to satisfy out of control attention seeking. In both cases the well being of the child is sacrificed for the interests of the parent.

You make a good point. I hadn't thought of it that way.

The parents consenting to the butchering of their children's bodies with surgery, puberty blockers, and cross sex hormones are guilty child abuse and crimes against humanity.

20 years from now, a documentary titled something like "How could you let me?" will feature many "de-transitioners" asking why their parents and doctors allowed impressionable and fickle teens to make such permanent changes that turned them into sterile freaks, and how it was all a mistake and they want to return to their "sex assigned at birth".

And at this point anyone who says the words "sex assigned at birth" is automatically disregarded as a lunatic to me. Nothing they say after those words has any validity whatsoever.

The term “community narcissism” has come up during all this and to me that’s what all this is, community narcissism. Everything is about them and everything there is needs to be gay’d up. I have male and female gay acquaintances and they think it’s mindless bullshit. They like handicapped folks, just wanted to be treated as people, not special, not different, not the center of attention, just like everyone else and that’s how it should be.

Over $200K being spent on drag queen shows at NYC schools, records show

https://nypost.com/2022/06/11/...hows-at-nyc-schools/

New York is showering taxpayer funds on a group that sends drag queens into city schools — often without parental knowledge or consent — even as parents in other states protest increasingly aggressive efforts to expose kids to gender-bending performers.

Last month alone, Drag Story Hour NYC — a nonprofit whose outrageously cross-dressed performers interact with kids as young as 3 — earned $46,000 from city contracts for appearances at public schools, street festivals, and libraries, city records show.

Since January, the group has organized 49 drag programs in 34 public elementary, middle, and high schools, it boasted on its website, with appearances in all five boroughs.

“I can’t believe this. I am shocked,” said public school mom and state Assembly candidate Helen Qiu, whose 11-year-old son attends a Manhattan middle school. “I would be furious if he was exposed without my consent. This is not part of the curriculum.”

Since 2018, the group — previously known as Drag Queen Story Hour NYC, before changing its name early this year — has received a total of $207,000 in taxpayer cash.

The tally includes $50,000 from New York State through its Council on the Arts, along with $157,000 from the city’s Departments of Education, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Community Development, and even the Department of Transportation, city data shows.

“I am considering pulling funding to any school in my district that is implementing Drag Queen Story Hour,” said City Council member Vickie Paladino (R-Queens). “We are taking hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the pockets of hardworking New York taxpayers … to fund a program teaching little children about their gender fluidity? Not. On. My. Watch.”

Most of the money was allocated by city council members from their discretionary budgets, who set aside $80,000 for the group in the current fiscal year — more than tripling the $25,000 earmarked in 2020.

Drag queen story hours for children have been featured at public library branches throughout the city since 2017, with upcoming events scheduled at Manhattan’s Epiphany Library and the Woodside Public Library in Queens, among others.

Cross-dressed performers typically read aloud from a list of books that teach acceptance and inclusion, including children’s classics like “Where the Wild Things Are” and “The Rainbow Fish” — and some that overtly celebrate gender fluidity, like “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.”

But the expansion into city schools has brought new features to the program, its social media posts reveal.

In April, the elaborately coiffed Harmonica Sunbeam wore a slinky gown to meet with kindergarteners at STAR Academy in Manhattan and color pages from “The Dragtivity Book,” which encourages kids to choose their pronouns and invent drag names.

Bella Noche wore a scanty mermaid-like bra getup to travel with 2nd graders from Manhattan’s PS 34 on a May field trip, and Flame taught middle schoolers “of all genders” how to apply drag eye makeup at MS 88 in Park Slope.

Some of the school-related posts disappeared from the Internet Friday, less than an hour after The Post called Drag Story Hour NYC for comment.

In one deleted photo, a performer known as Professor Lionel Longlegs wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the message “I Don’t Want to Look or Be Cis” before an audience of primary-grade kids in the library of PS 191 on the Upper West Side.

Some city parents welcomed the idea of drag-queen visits to school.

“I’m glad to see all types of people included in what students are exposed to and learn in class,” said Kristen Williams, 40, whose 11-year-old daughter attends an East Village middle school.

But Storm Neverson, 26, had reservations about her 9- and 6-year-old girls’ exposure to the program at STAR Academy.

“If they were in junior high school or middle school, I would be okay with that because I feel like they would have a little bit more understanding,” Neverson said. “At this time, the kids were just a little too young.”

STAR Academy parents were told of the in-school drag session ahead of time, Neverson said — but could not opt their kids out of it.

“It was mostly just like a heads up, you know, like, ’Hey, this event is coming up. We’re gonna have these people come in.’ And that was that,” she said.

But at other schools, parents had no idea.

“I didn’t get any notice,” complained Reese Harrington, a parent at PS 191. “My daughter actually came home and told me that a drag queen came to the school … I feel like it would have been better for that conversation to happen at home.”

The “Libs of TikTok” Twitter account was banned Thursday for posting a series of tweets spotlighting additional drag shows for kids.

Dr. Elana Fishbein, founder and president of the conservative group No Left Turn in Education, slammed the city’s in-school drag appearances as “a flagrant disregard for the real needs of the students.”

“Exposing children to drag queens in school is none other than an abuse of authority for the purpose of sexualizing children,” Fishbein said.

The DOE did not respond specifically to questions about parental notification, and refused to say whether the drag queens must pass background checks — but defended the program as “life saving.”

“Last year, 50 transgender or gender-nonconforming people were killed in the United States due to their identity,” spokeswoman Suzan Sumer said. “We believe our schools play a critical role in helping young people learn about and respect people who may be different from them.”

Gay pride event today in the park. Rained all day.

Pelosi says drag is 'what America is all about' on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars

https://www.washingtonexaminer...rica-midterms-rupaul

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made a special Pride Month appearance on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars in which she said drag is "what America is all about."

Toward the end of episode five of the seventh season, which aired May 30 and is available on Paramount Plus, RuPaul Charles told the drag queens, “There’s someone I want you to meet. Please give a warm drag race welcome to the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.”

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New York is showering taxpayer funds on a group that sends drag queens into city schools — often without parental knowledge or consent — even as parents in other states protest increasingly aggressive efforts to expose kids to gender-bending performers.

This may sound a bit silly or overly simplistic, but what is school for? What is the point of people sending children to organizations referred to as schools?

Watching The Golden Girls on TV Land (there was little else on at the time), I couldn't help but notice that three episodes in a row feature homosexuals or transsexuals. I don't think it a coincidence that this is happening during "pride month." The show is mildly amusing at times - especially Bea Arthur's character's sarcasm - but this is too much. I switched to something else.

Michigan Attorney General Wants a “Drag Queen in Every School”

https://summit.news/2022/06/16...een-in-every-school/

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has called for there to be a “drag queen in every school.”

Yes, really.

Nessel made the comments during a civil rights conference in Lansing after she has falsely claimed that critical race theory being taught in schools is a hoax.

“You know what’s not a problem for kids who are seeking a good education? Drag queens,” said Nessel.

"Drag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun," Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says at a civil rights conference in Lansing while speaking out against what she describes as efforts to divide people.

"A drag queen for every school," she adds.
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“Not only are they not hurting our kids, drag queens make everything better!” she added.

“Drag queens are fun! Drag queens are entertainment! And you know what else I’ll say that was totally not poll tested? A drag queen for every school!” Nessel said as the crowd cheered and applauded. “That is what would be fun for the kids and lift them up when they are having emotional issues!”

Nessel made the comments after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted that “drag is what America is all about.”

The connection between drag queen shows and sex offenders using them to get close to children is long established.

As we previously highlighted, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered an investigation into an allegation by a parent that a teacher took his son to a drag queen show which was attended by a convicted sex offender.

The former head of the Cream City Foundation, which sponsors Drag Queen Story Hour in Milwaukee, was arrested on charges of possessing child pornography.

In 2019, it was revealed that the Houston Public Library allowed a registered sex offender to read to children as part of Drag Queen Story Hour.

One of the program’s drag queens, 32-year-old Alberto Garza, was convicted of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy in 2008.

Yesterday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she would be introducing a bill that would make it illegal to take children to drag queen shows.

They are groomers and conspirators. Parents who willingly cooperate are engaged in Münchausen syndrome by proxy. The poor kids don’t stand a chance.

"Drag Queens are fun! Drag Queens are entertainment!" Fooey! School is not supposed to be "fun" or "entertaining"--it's supposed to be work, to learn useful skills and how our country was formed and intended to work. Kids have fun playing at home (or at recess) and get entertained by TV at home. They're supposed to study and learn when at school. (And they don't have to like it--they just have to do it, and parents should insist on it.)

flashguy

Our A.G. has a track record of poor judgement:
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It was the second bloody mary that sealed the fate of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.

The state's leading law enforcement officer needed to be helped home midway through the recent Michigan-Michigan State football game after drinking too much, Nessel acknowledged in a Facebook post that was both playful and apologetic.

"I laid low for a while, but my friends recommended that I leave so as to prevent me from vomiting on any of my constituents (polling consistently shows 'Roman showers' to be unpopular among most demographics)," said Nessel, a Democrat.

"I had a few folks help me up the stairs and someone grabbed a wheelchair so as to prevent me from stumbling in the parking lot."

And for St.Patrick’s Day this year in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, from WXYZ TV:

What she did was place a micro-aggression in a tweet," Dr. Deirdre Pitts a professor of Diversity Equity and Inclusion at Oakland University's Medical School said.

She needs to recognize what she put in the tweet was harmful and hurtful and apologize immediately because the comments were offensive," she said.

When Nessel reposted her tweet she made sure to single people out. In her tweet, she wrote:

"If you aren't willing to have at least 1 shot of Jameson at the Detroit St. Patrick's Day Parade, you are:

1) Under age
2) Driving
3) A recovering alcoholic
4) Muslim or Mormon
4) Doing it totally wrong

Come at me, people.

For everyone else, happy st. Patrick's day!"

This isn't Nessel's first social media post where she showcased her drinking habits.

According to the latest statistic, 95 percent of the American population is not gay. I do not think there are enough drag queens for every school.

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"If you aren't willing to have at least 1 shot of Jameson at the Detroit St. Patrick's Day Parade, you are:

1) Under age
2) Driving
3) A recovering alcoholic
4) Muslim or Mormon
4) Doing it totally wrong

Come at me, people.

For everyone else, happy st. Patrick's day!"

I don't understand the relevance?

^^^^^

Attorney General Duties

The Attorney General is the state's top lawyer and law enforcement official, protecting and serving the people and interests of Michigan through a broad range of duties.

The Attorney General's responsibilities include safeguarding the public from violent criminals, helping victims of crimes, leading the fight against human trafficking and opioid abuse, preserving Michigan's spectacular natural resources, protecting consumers and addressing illegal business practices.

By law, the Attorney General cannot provide legal advice to private citizens.

The above is from the official site Michigan.gov

And the report from WWMT, a Kalamazoo tv station:

LANSING, Mich. (TND) — "Drag queens make everything better" and there should be a "drag queen for every school," according to reported comments from Michigan's Attorney General Dana Nessel.

Nessel made the comments during a speech at a civil rights conference in Lansing, according to Craig Mauger of The Detroit News. Nessel is the first openly gay person to be elected to a statewide office in Michigan.

'Drag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,' Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says at a civil rights conference in Lansing while speaking out against what she describes as efforts to divide people," Mauger writes in his tweet. "'A drag queen for every school,' she adds.
In a follow-up tweet, Mauger says Nessel admitted the "drag queen for every school" suggestion had not been "poll tested."

Nessel's speech reportedly concerned what she believes to be "fake issues" that are being used to divide people. She was mostly likely referring to the national controversy about allowing children at drag shows, which has been a hot topic recently.

While some claim allowing children to attend drag shows is harmless and promotes inclusive thinking, critics decry the drag shows as sexually explicit and inappropriate for kids.

Personally I don’t care what she does in her personal life, that is up to her. But many here are of the opinion that she is more interested in making a name for herself and the Progressive side of the Democratic Party than the residents of this state. And her actions, well silly me, I feel that our elected officials should hold themselves to a higher standard but what do I know?



And look into her handling of the Flint water crisis and the dismissal of all charges and sentences that were in process once she took office. All were dismissed with promises of more sweeping prosecutions. Her charges that were going to be sweeping? Sure, she charged the ex-Governor. Misdemeanors. Not too impressive to me.

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Class, which is grammatically correct?:

"This morning, we hung a couple of commie teachers who were harassing children."

"This morning, we hanged a couple of commie teachers who were harassing children."

Well, if they hanged a dude from the crank mechanism over a water well, he would be well hung.