Back when Roe v. Wade was overturned, the SC announced that other judgements are to be reconsidered. Among them is the one that allowed interracial marriages.
They'll keep going till it's like the old days where a father owned his daughters and decided who they married.
Everyone gets that.
This slow walking isn't to trick people into supporting the current step, it's because they know if they jump to the final step, nonvoters will vote and stop it.
Religious extremism only works when a large amount of people don't vote
Reminder that this is why the right wing calls everything a slippery slope. Because that's what they want to do, so they project that everyone else wants to do it too.
I am lucky enough to live in New England which is pretty left-leaning but I'm scared that my rights will just slowly be stripped away just because I'm bi. Fuck the SCOTUS and fuck Republicans.
Same. Keep an eye on how they're going mifepristone and abortion rights at a federal level in regards to how they will subvert "protected" blue states.
Things my state has added in the past year, which I am so, so happy about.
Made it a crime for librarians and bookstores to provide minors with materials deemed “harmful” to them. (Temporarily blocked by a judge.)
Made Delta marijuana variants illegal
Adding cameras to interstates to catch drivers speeding in work zones.
Forced sign-ins to porn sites.
Rolled back requirements that the state verify the ages of workers under 16 and provide them with work certificates permitting them to work.
We could have had a governor who has a PhD from MIT, but no. He was blue, and also black. Didn't matter that he was an ordained minister in the Bible belt either.
It's more common than you'd think. There's a disappointingly high number of transphobic gays and lesbians, and there are definitely people who are pro-gay marriage who are anti-sex worker. I definitely think it's rarer for people to support gay rights and not support abortion rights though.
I routinely see in and amongst the right wing protesters where I see gay men holding up signs that throw trans people under the bus. A lot of the attitudes in gay bars can be hostile and misogynistic towards trans men too.
They get to feel respectable so long as they are the ones participating in the oppression and the bigots get to use these people as shields - "look how reasonable we are, we have gay people who support us SEE ?!" but it's all disposable. Once they've successfully oppressed the people on the outside the Conservatives turn to the next layer of the circle in reverse order of acceptance. Suddenly the bigotry is at the door for the idiots who supported them and their friends who were using them as shields don't need them anymore.
The Nazis did this too. Gay men joined up with the brownshirts hoping to find safety and acceptance in the ranks. They participated in the dismantling of their own communities and then the minute they were judged to be no longer useful they were purged and executed in the Night of Long Knives.
I am also confused by this. I'm sure there are a fair share of gay people voting Republican - there were Jewish people in the nazi party as well - but implying the Republicans got to power on a wave of gay votes is just beyond absurd.
It's not implying that republicans got to power because of gay votes, but rather that organisations such as the LGB Alliance and the multitude of TERFS that have helped this happen through advocating against Trans folk. They're not the sole reason, but they're still a big part especially when they've attempted to fracture progressive movements.
The people being admonished for inaction aren’t bigots, they’re average folks who simply didn’t believe that society would slide into the 1940s again. A fair proportion of voters saw undoing roe v wade as the final piece to the republican master plan, and an existential threat to all Americans used only to spur voters on both sides to vote. It’s chiding naivety.
Yeah, who told whom what exactly? Seems to be implying that LG don't care about BTQ+, but this move is entirely consistent with Republican / right ideology, which LG hasn't never been a big part of.
It's never been a secret either. It has been an explicit and public position of Republicans (and part of SCOTUS) since forever.
Same sex marriage has only been legal in all 50 states since 2015. Does anyone really believe that Republican leaders and the new right-wing SCOTUS miraculously changed their minds after Obergefell v Hodges?