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Networks Endorse Taylor Swift's 'Equality' Lobbying
Townhall.com ^ | August 30, 2019 | Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

Posted on 08/30/2019 3:11:48 AM PDT by Kaslin

At the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 26, Taylor Swift won the video of the year award for her latest song "You Need to Calm Down." It's a song that trashes anyone still dissenting from the LGBTQ agenda and begs them to "control your urges to scream about all the people you hate / 'Cause shade never made anybody less gay."

The network news shows gushed over her leftist activism and the "Taylor Effect" they expect it to provide. ABC's George Stephanopoulos said, "she's doing it the way she does her music ... with intent and with intelligence." What is Swift's political agenda here? She's pushing a bill called the Equality Act, sponsored by gay Congressman David Cicilline and Sen. Jeff Merkley. As she sang her song about the haters, MTV put the words "EQUALITY ACT" in huge bold letters above her.

Swift lobbied her MTV fans in her acceptance speech. "You voting for this video means that you want a world where we are all treated equally under the law, regardless of who we love, regardless of how we identify," she assured, and they fawned all over her.

In her Change.org petition, which she boasted has more than half a million signatures, Swift argued: "Our country's lack of protection for its own citizens ensures that LGBTQ people must live in fear that their lives could be turned upside down by an employer or landlord who is homophobic or transphobic. The fact that, legally, some people are completely at the mercy of the hatred and bigotry of others is disgusting and unacceptable."

That's flat-out wrong. The so-called "Equality Act" enables anti-religious hatred and bigotry. The law would insert "sexual orientation and gender identity" into the Civil Rights Act and expand the definition of "public accommodations." The bill amends "stadium" and inserts "stadium or other place of or establishment that provides exhibition, entertainment, recreation, exercise, amusement, public gathering, or public display."

Then the laundry list unfolds, as they add "any establishment that provides a good, service, or program, including a store, shopping center, online retailer or service provider, salon, bank, gas station, food bank, service or care center, shelter, travel agency, or funeral parlor, or establishment that provides health care, accounting, or legal services." There's even more, including, "any train service, bus service, car service, taxi service, airline service, station, depot, or other place of or establishment that provides transportation service."

The Family Research Council warns that you can expect that over-broad definition of "a good, service, or program" to apply to churches, religious private schools, and nonprofit social-service groups. It also warns that "attorneys will likely be required to represent homosexuals in dissolving their same-sex 'marriages,' Christian schools will likely be required to offer transgendered students the bathroom of their choice, and Christian homeless shelters will likely be required to accommodate same-sex couples."

The bill explicitly sets out to guarantee that religion cannot be used as a defense: "The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 ... shall not provide a claim concerning, or a defense to a claim under, a covered title, or provide a basis for challenging the application or enforcement of a covered title."

The LGBTQ orthodoxy shreds dissent. There is no debate allowed. There are "allies" like Taylor Swift, and there are "hateful" people who must be punished. This oppressive regime started in Hollywood and aspires to end in every corner where people still cling to their Bibles and their guns -- their other cause.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: antichristian; borisjohnson; brexit; homofascism; homosexualagenda; killyourtvset; mtv; music; pariament; queenelizabeth; sexpositiveagenda
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1 posted on 08/30/2019 3:11:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“The LGBTQ orthodoxy shreds dissent. There is no debate allowed.”

When they condemn Martina Navratilova for her remarks about transgender athletes, you know that they do indeed shred dissent and not allow debate.


2 posted on 08/30/2019 3:26:05 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Kaslin

This nonsense is absurd; the website for our largest newspaper in NJ just featured a story about the horrors of a “transgender woman” kept in mens’ prisons for a year - but he IS a man (biologically). Just like the bathroom situation, “playing girl” doesn’t make you one (even if you whack off the weenie) - and putting you with them just violates the rights of real females.


3 posted on 08/30/2019 3:28:27 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Kaslin
I WANT MY ALPHABET BACK!


4 posted on 08/30/2019 3:32:13 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob
MY RAINBOW, TOO!


5 posted on 08/30/2019 3:33:55 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Kaslin

Mocking Christians in the western world does not take any courage or commitment at all.

Her video should have included clips of gay men being thrown off buildings in Iran, and lyrics that overtly mock Muslims.

LOL - no chance of that happening, right Taylor?


6 posted on 08/30/2019 3:34:07 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Kaslin
The rumors in the entertainment industry is that Swift is a lesbian. She may have been "bi-sexual", but that means she is a homosexual who might occasionally dabble in heterosexuality.

Whatever the case, she seems to have gone off the deep and and is now a 100% homo, who is using her fame and celebrity platform to be "LOUD and PROUD!"


7 posted on 08/30/2019 3:38:32 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Kaslin
The LGBTQ orthodoxy is diametrically opposed to our Constitution.

The best solution, to any real or imagined discrimination, is to scrap all the equal protections and “special people” rules and get back to our Constitution.

The reason these protections were put into place is because the government cough *racist democrats* cough was enforcing discriminatory laws, not the People.

8 posted on 08/30/2019 3:48:30 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: Kaslin

homofascists don’t want equality any more than feminazis did. It’s about supremacy, subservience, and thumbing down “normalcy”.


9 posted on 08/30/2019 3:54:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: SkyPilot

a 30 year old playing a teenager.


10 posted on 08/30/2019 3:57:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Kaslin

Has she done the crotch shots for the paparazzi yet?


11 posted on 08/30/2019 3:57:37 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: Kaslin

Oldie but a goodie...”shut up and sing”


12 posted on 08/30/2019 3:58:17 AM PDT by albie
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To: NativeSon

the gay mafia wants political power to destroy anyone who won’t submit.


13 posted on 08/30/2019 3:58:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Taylor Swift’s career is dead. I’ve never forgiven her for killing Carrie Underwood’s career by smothering her.

Taylor is a loser and she should be looking for an alternative career.


14 posted on 08/30/2019 3:59:04 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Kaslin

She’s moving her career in the same direction as Kathy Griffin... just not as radically fast as Griffin.


15 posted on 08/30/2019 4:01:07 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Kaslin

Homofascism needs to die.


16 posted on 08/30/2019 4:04:45 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: NativeSon
A good experiment would be to lock about 100 reps of each letter of "LGBTQ" in a self contained venue (food,drink & restroom) for a week.

After one week, unlock doors and see if anyone is still alive.

17 posted on 08/30/2019 4:08:52 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: SkyPilot

A less talented, rehash of Lady Gaga.


18 posted on 08/30/2019 4:11:56 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Maris Crane

Is getting humped & dumped by guys a job?


19 posted on 08/30/2019 4:13:10 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: OttawaFreeper

The TERFs are fun to watch in all of this. Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists.

I haven’t watched much on the U.S. Open, which is happening now. Has Martina been on much providing color commentary? When she made noises about trans women in women’s sports being unfair, I expected she would lose her TV gig.


20 posted on 08/30/2019 4:15:30 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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