Posted on 03/12/2023 10:07:02 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
When LGBTQ Floridians, their families and their supporters arrive in the state capital Monday to start two days of what organizers are calling pride, passion and resistance, they’re more likely to encounter a brick wall of opposition than a welcome mat and an open door.
In the last two years, the rhetoric and policies flowing from Gov. Ron DeSantis, his administration, and the Republican-controlled state Legislature have left the LGBTQ community, along with family members, friends and employers anxious as they adjust to a new reality and wait to see what comes next from Tallahassee.
“They have just decided to demonize our community. They’re doing it with great success, and no one is stopping them,” said Rand Hoch, founder and president of the LGBTQ rights group Palm Beach County Human Rights Council, which for much of its 35-year existence has worked with — and endorsed — both Democrats and Republicans.
Stephen Gaskill, who in February wrapped up four years as president of the Florida LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus, said much of the change is caused by DeSantis’ desire to cater to primary voters in other states for his still-unofficial candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
“He’s gone after the LGBTQ community in very personal terms. He’s denying our existence in schools. He’s denying LGBTQ+ kids. He’s denying our existence in books and other media. He’s denying us control over our own bodies and health decisions. He’s denying us life-saving medical care,” Gaskill said.
And warned Todd Delmay, a husband and father who is the new president of the Dolphin Democrats LGBTQ political club, “This toxicity, it’s now leaking. It’s not being contained in Florida. It’s now showing up everywhere.”
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Well, here’s a headline for an article someone should write:
“Normal California’s heading to the state capitol where they face increasingly an increasingly hostile political climate”
10-4 on the gator food ...
It’s not just kids. I’ve seen two families where the children announced they were homosexuals, and the Christian parents embraced it fully. They started preaching about how God loves homosexuals (of course), but then went off the deep end waving rainbow flags to support their kids.
Insanity.
I hope they keep the passion behind closed doors.
Sure sound like they have their panties in a wad.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I don't know about Florida's public schools, but given the problems with public schools, why don't LGBT people homeschool, or start their own schools like Catholics did?
On the other hand, LGBT agenda is probably a politically correct front-end for liberal agenda to try to destroy traditional family unit imo.
Hey. Maybe if they just stuck to doing their thing in the privacy of their homes the rest of us wouldn’t give a hairy rat’s patoot.
“they face increasingly hostile political climate”
Good! It is time for normal people to fight back.
When a very small unelected minority runs a government it is the opposite of a democracy and very far from a republic.
Hold your ground!!
Call it a resurrection and treat them like it’s J6 all over again.
The pickup, burn-out and drifting crowd appear to be heavily young and from South of the Rio Bravo.
The LBGTQ is the true scum of a moral society.... This group of people is so insecure and evil , they can’t wait to do the dark ones bidding .
At least Florida has the God given will to stand up against these evil group of deviants ...
God Bless Gov. Desantis.
Oh the poor, precious dears. What a turmoil it must be to their delicate psyches to hear the word “no” without a safe word at hand.
You’re the ones demonizing your own community.
Leave the children alone and keep your deviant sexual obsessions out of the schools.
Like racism, the demand has far outstripped the supply.
To say nothing of ‘life-saving medical care’.
"He's denying our attempts to groom and sexually molest in schools".
There. Corrected it to what they REALLY meant.
Going back to the days of the Vikings and before, there was a unwritten rule/law that if you don’t like the rules/laws of the village you live in, you are free to leave.
Take a hint, you and your leather thong that you like to wear on public streets are not wanted here nor do we want your brothers that try to groom our children.
PS: There are a lot of empty houses in New York and California.
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