It is June, and it is a month when many LGBTQ Americans are able to find some space within their community to stop, for at least a few hours, perhaps step out of not only a self-imposed closet, but a very imposed prison by many in power within their community, and actually discover that, in fact, they are not alone. For the Republican Party and their faux religious zealots, it is also perfect timing to identify yet one more minority demographic to confuse their cult of bigots and racists, and claim that when Jesus founded America, he definitely did not include the Gays!
Is he really a man? That’s the question the GOP has been focusing on in this race, with GOP state Attorney General Ken Paxton mocking Talarico for supporting LGBTQ+ rights, being vegan (he’s not), and calling him a “freak.” (LGBTQ NATION)
Several red states and their governors approved declarations calling June things like “Nuclear Family Month” or “Fidelity Month,” pointedly saying that LGBTQ+ families are not “God’s design.” (LGBTQ NATION)
The Republicans are always at their very best creating lists for their followers to “LOOK OVER THERE,” a way to keep any wrongdoing, criminal action, blatant transgressions against the Constitution from capturing the attention of the MAGA lemmings. Immigrants are anti-Christian, the Pope, and any Catholic American following the Pope are anti-Christ. Women who dare to vote, or work and not have a dozen babies are heretics, people of Color should just go back to Africa, or as Trump loves to say, “any shithole nation they came from, and of course it is time to scapegoat the LGBTQ community.
All this hate against others, yet not a peep, not a hue or cry from these same Republicans regarding the practice of pedophilia by heterosexual men, or the heterosexual women who helped these heterosexual men with their perversion. I write this, and I sigh, knowing that as long as the Trump Reich is committing crimes and felonies, the supporters and sycophants will always find someone else to blame for whatever is wrong in their lives!
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