Mar 31, 2022·edited Mar 31, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso
I think one of the main reasons I find Dreher so endlessly amusing is every time he gnashes his teeth while pointing to some fresh civilizational “outrage” he claims is the height of decadence and will lead to civilizational collapse, I look at the same thing and think, “stop threatening me with a good time” lmao
More seriously, they are absolutely trying to equate a teacher acknowledging a student has two mommies or two daddies, or that the teacher themselves has a same-sex spouse, to child abuse and pornography. It is Anita Bryant 2.0, and anyone who hasn’t recognized by now that the Right starts with suppressing the most marginalized groups, and if they are successful works their way to literally everyone, needs to refresh their memories.
Thanks to Manchin and Sinema - and every Republican Senator - we’re on a trajectory that won’t stop until they reinstitute slavery. Now, that’s Originalism! I wonder if Just-us Amy will mind giving up her suffrage?
Gonna be interesting when Roe, Griswold, maybe Loving, et al, get reversed and the GOP ur-goal gets achieved: a federal state limited to national security/the MIC and enriching the sub-1% and all other rights relegated to state determination. It would or should follow that a state’s determination of a right should be absolute but I’ll bet that the GOP majority at SCOTUS will be able to transcend the rule of law and decide exactly what states can provide what rights.
Just last week my Rightwing employer was telling me about the outrage OUTRAGE that his kids were being groomed by the gay agenda in school. "This is how they recruit, how they turn the kids gay," he said.
So I asked him: "Tell me--at what age do you think you could have been 'talked into' being gay?"
He got a weird look on his face before blurting out "Never!"
I said, "That's right. Because you're not gay. And for kids who are not gay, learning that gay people exist is not going to turn them gay. But for kids who are gay, maybe learning that they're not some sort of nature's freak weirdo will keep them from harming themselves."
To my delight, my boss actually calmed down about the whole "indoctrination" thing.
Wow, I never thought I'd have to be warned not to get out of the boat at your twitter feed. There are a large number of assholes aren't there? Or as I like to put it Assholes Abound. Or to quote Zappa: People suck.
Griswold is going away soon, and the Democrats cannot bring themselves to do what is needed to deal with the SC, that is increase it in size, because that would be well, just tacky.
If Dreher's worried about people who "care so much about the sexuality of kids", wait till he meets Dreher.
"Gay Florida Kindergarten Teacher Worries On MSNBC He Won’t Be Able To Share His Love Life With Kids Anymore" As if straight kindergarten teachers talked about fucking all the time and that was fine with everybody.
I'll admit it, after Obergefell, i thought the gay marriage issue was settled, we had won, and "five years from now nobody's going to admit they were ever against gay marriage." You know, like what happened with interracial marriage.
Now I find out not even interracial marriage is settled.
I don't know if any studies have been done on the subject, but if they were, I'm willing to bet all kinds of money that they would repeatedly show that Reichwing Republicans spend more time thinking about gay sex than actual gay people do.
“[The Satanic Temple] like to pretend that they don't really mean it, that they're just trolling right-wing Christians, but I don't buy it. They do mean it. This philosophy is being mainstreamed now....” -- Dreher
That is, they only pretend that their real agenda is to advance a kind of Trekkie-type humanism/civil libertarianism, and they're just dressing up as worshippers of the goat-headed Dark Lord; but if you look at their *real* philosophy, as displayed in their manifesto, you can plainly see the ominous truth that they make no secret of their... Trekkie-type humanism/civil libertarianism.
I can just imagine a STTOS episode in which the alien civilization has fallen prey to a paranoid religious cult which regards any display of difference (they would have kept the sex stuff allegorical only, of course) as dangerous heresy, with caning to death as the punishment. The title would have been “To Kiss the Rod,” maybe.
My wife is watching a Thai miniseries running now, about a young closeted gay man who marries a wealthy woman to try to keep his family from ruin. We were talking about how if the series had been made in the old days, like when we were growing up, the gay man would have been rewritten as a straight guy whose heartbreak is leaving his true love (the girl next door) behind to marry for money. And to think that this will now become the Florida version of the story as well.
I think one of the main reasons I find Dreher so endlessly amusing is every time he gnashes his teeth while pointing to some fresh civilizational “outrage” he claims is the height of decadence and will lead to civilizational collapse, I look at the same thing and think, “stop threatening me with a good time” lmao
More seriously, they are absolutely trying to equate a teacher acknowledging a student has two mommies or two daddies, or that the teacher themselves has a same-sex spouse, to child abuse and pornography. It is Anita Bryant 2.0, and anyone who hasn’t recognized by now that the Right starts with suppressing the most marginalized groups, and if they are successful works their way to literally everyone, needs to refresh their memories.
Thanks to Manchin and Sinema - and every Republican Senator - we’re on a trajectory that won’t stop until they reinstitute slavery. Now, that’s Originalism! I wonder if Just-us Amy will mind giving up her suffrage?
"Worse still is Rod Dreher"
No marks. Too obvious.
Gonna be interesting when Roe, Griswold, maybe Loving, et al, get reversed and the GOP ur-goal gets achieved: a federal state limited to national security/the MIC and enriching the sub-1% and all other rights relegated to state determination. It would or should follow that a state’s determination of a right should be absolute but I’ll bet that the GOP majority at SCOTUS will be able to transcend the rule of law and decide exactly what states can provide what rights.
Just last week my Rightwing employer was telling me about the outrage OUTRAGE that his kids were being groomed by the gay agenda in school. "This is how they recruit, how they turn the kids gay," he said.
So I asked him: "Tell me--at what age do you think you could have been 'talked into' being gay?"
He got a weird look on his face before blurting out "Never!"
I said, "That's right. Because you're not gay. And for kids who are not gay, learning that gay people exist is not going to turn them gay. But for kids who are gay, maybe learning that they're not some sort of nature's freak weirdo will keep them from harming themselves."
To my delight, my boss actually calmed down about the whole "indoctrination" thing.
Wow, I never thought I'd have to be warned not to get out of the boat at your twitter feed. There are a large number of assholes aren't there? Or as I like to put it Assholes Abound. Or to quote Zappa: People suck.
Griswold is going away soon, and the Democrats cannot bring themselves to do what is needed to deal with the SC, that is increase it in size, because that would be well, just tacky.
Dreher's incessant hysteria is exhausting.
Grooming. Seriously? We all know what team the Youth Pastors play for...
"They have slipped the surly bounds of reality."
I'll be honest, I've paid for that privilege.
I used my hard earned money.
If Dreher's worried about people who "care so much about the sexuality of kids", wait till he meets Dreher.
"Gay Florida Kindergarten Teacher Worries On MSNBC He Won’t Be Able To Share His Love Life With Kids Anymore" As if straight kindergarten teachers talked about fucking all the time and that was fine with everybody.
I usually have lots to say. Today I'm just too sad about this all...
I'll admit it, after Obergefell, i thought the gay marriage issue was settled, we had won, and "five years from now nobody's going to admit they were ever against gay marriage." You know, like what happened with interracial marriage.
Now I find out not even interracial marriage is settled.
I don't know if any studies have been done on the subject, but if they were, I'm willing to bet all kinds of money that they would repeatedly show that Reichwing Republicans spend more time thinking about gay sex than actual gay people do.
“[The Satanic Temple] like to pretend that they don't really mean it, that they're just trolling right-wing Christians, but I don't buy it. They do mean it. This philosophy is being mainstreamed now....” -- Dreher
That is, they only pretend that their real agenda is to advance a kind of Trekkie-type humanism/civil libertarianism, and they're just dressing up as worshippers of the goat-headed Dark Lord; but if you look at their *real* philosophy, as displayed in their manifesto, you can plainly see the ominous truth that they make no secret of their... Trekkie-type humanism/civil libertarianism.
I can just imagine a STTOS episode in which the alien civilization has fallen prey to a paranoid religious cult which regards any display of difference (they would have kept the sex stuff allegorical only, of course) as dangerous heresy, with caning to death as the punishment. The title would have been “To Kiss the Rod,” maybe.
My wife is watching a Thai miniseries running now, about a young closeted gay man who marries a wealthy woman to try to keep his family from ruin. We were talking about how if the series had been made in the old days, like when we were growing up, the gay man would have been rewritten as a straight guy whose heartbreak is leaving his true love (the girl next door) behind to marry for money. And to think that this will now become the Florida version of the story as well.
I bet if Dreher and Son of Erick hooked up, they’d go good together.