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Posted on 08/24/2024 11:20:08 AM PDT by xxqqzz
As Minnesota Governor Tim Walz vies for the U.S. vice presidency, new details are surfacing about his teaching career, including the impact he made as faculty advisor for a high school Gay-Straight Alliance club. However, sources say the Walz family were LGBTQ+ community boosters even before then, as especially evidenced by one extracurricular Indigo Girls concert where the Walzes taught in Nebraska.
,,, Jacob Reitan — a former student of both Walz and his wife Gwen Walz (nee Whipple), both teachers at Mankato West High School in the 1990s — described feeling stunned when Ms. Walz announced her husband would be leading the GSA. Reitan said he had been subjected to homophobic abuse by other students, but confiding in Ms. Walz that he was gay gave him enough confidence to also come out to his parents, and eventually the school. After coming out, and with Mr. Walz in charge of the GSA, the bullying generally came to a halt, he said.
“It was important to have a person who was so well-liked on campus, a football coach who had served in the military,” Reitan told the Times. “Having Tim Walz as the adviser of the Gay-Straight Alliance made me feel safe coming to school.”
While Walz certainly deserves credit for stepping up, it seems to have been Gwen Walz who understood the raw importance of LGBTQ+ allyship in the mid-90s. Before the Walzes became involved with the GSA, Reitan recalled, Ms. Walz told him she had offered support to another gay student while teaching in Nebraska at the school where she and her husband met. A spokesperson for Ms. Walz confirmed to the Times that the couple chaperoned the anonymous student at an Indigo Girls concert — truly, one of the decade’s strongest bastions of queer community and camaraderie.
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Good grief. 🙄
It is possible to socialize with people and not have sex with them.
Indigo Girls - Galileo (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI1keSSwdcI
Queer and kind of creepy if you care to look closely - it's official
I think a question no one seems to be asking, would be, does the school district have policies against fraternization with students after hours?
I’ve heard some school districts do have such policies.
Maybe their school district does not.
There are some legitimate questions to be asked about this.
Of course it is possible to not have sex with teenage kids when you are a teacher.
However—if you find opportunity after opportunity to get them away from their parents it is reasonable to ask why....especially if it is happening with a lot of kids over many years....
It is the Walz body language that gives him away—pay attention to how he reacts to men vs women—and especially young men.
As the real Tim Walz is being exposed on ‘This is Your Life’, I keep wondering why the folks in Minnesota have not already been talking about his history.
This is a plus for most democrats.
“All we need is one whistleblower.”
They are spinning this and any whistleblower that might come forward as great heroes of the alphabet people.
Who’s got that really gross gif of Walz baring his midriff and queer dancing at some country - western scene? It was posted on FR a week or two ago, but it’s nowhere to be found on the web (maybe it was fake, but it sure looked real).
“people”???
Teachers do NOT take students to concerts. That is NOT “socializing;” that is a firing offense. Doesn’t matter one iota whether it’s a gay or straight student. Fraternizing with students like that outside the school is off limits.
Lots of teachers here attest to that.
I’ve heard some school districts do have such policies.
Maybe their school district does not.
There are some legitimate questions to be asked about this.
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With all the good things assistant coach walz was contributing to the community, why did he pack up & move to Minnesota?
“pay attention to how he reacts to men vs women—and especially young men.”
Great...we go from VP Biden endlessly sniffing young girls to VP Walz doing Lord knows what to young boys.
It is possible to socialize with people and not have sex with them.
Yeah, it is possible.
Some very talented and caring teachers are very good at sharing their avid interests that they are passionate about with students and often sponsor school clubs for extra curricular activities with like minded individuals.
Things like the Future Farmers of America club
The Competitive Shooting Club
The Archery Club.
The Debate Club.
The Scuba Diving Club
The Ski Club
The Future Business Leaders of America Club.
The Flying Club
The Travel Club.
The Glee Club.
The Hiking Club.
Who are we to judge that starting in the 1990s Walz and his wife have an avid interest in Gay-Straight Alliance club and are passionate enough about the subject matter to sponsor the club and mentor students with gay themed extra curricular activities. Perfectly normal.
So was this a school sponsored event?
Educators should not be taking students (regardless of their sexual orientation )to social events. The exception would be school sponsored events.
Not appropriate.
This approach will not swing votes, I think the uneasy leaning-Democrat voters would be attracted only by economic or security issues. Getting high fives from already convinced Trump voters is good for early morale but otherwise meaningless white noise. Just saying we’re going to need more substantive issues than what Walz did thirty years ago.
Makes one wonder why he was a assistant coach for a little boys ball club.
Indigo Girls were kind of classy IMO. Saw them on a late night talk show. They were asked if REM was more famous because of sexism. They gave REM full credit, didn’t whine, said it was because REM were damned good.
More precisely put, he was a volunteer assistant coach.
My eldest son was in the GSA back in high school. Straight as an arrow. (Now married to a lovely young lady. Sadly, they lost their first child).
Why?
He is Christian. He knew the easiest way to witness to them was to know who they were as people and have them see him as a friend. Moreover, he has a shepherd’s spirit. He didn’t want to see them bullied.
He was the only straight in the entire group.
So what?
I can’t wait to dust off my posts suggesting the “October surprise” Will be from a student of his. He is a degenerate homo pervert. Only a degenerate homo pervert would sexualize boys by putting tampon machines in boys’ bathrooms.
You are making a common mistake I see in the corporate world—linear thinking.
“This issue works.”
“This issue does not work.”
Life is way more complicated than that.
Imho Walz was a pervert then and is a pervert now.
Understanding his past sheds light on his present.
It may be important to some voters—it may not.
It may cause the Democrats to dump him or it may not.
Don’t overthink it.
Let it roll—lets see where it goes.
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