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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“they’re more likely to encounter a brick wall of opposition than a welcome mat”
They should not have gone after the kids. FAFO!
Why, with all the other miserable crap we have to put up with, are we tolerating one squeak out of these miserable freaks?
It is their right to express but not to force us to listen or see them.
Who is denying what? You can never change your gender.
And stay away from the kids you degenerate pedos.
And furthermore, look at how few of them there are.
Why should they get one second of consideration?
If there’s anything we should be resisting, it’s the agenda of the alphabet mafia!
They shouldn’t!
What a bunch of freaks and crybabies!
Keep it at home. These people are disturbed and disturbing. Close the blinds too. I’ve never wished them or any odd individual any harm. Why must they flaunt their perversions and try to foist it on children. Sick
Amen!!!!
Well, they shouldn’t have pushed their sick lifestyle on others, esp. babies.
They’re taking it way too far to ignore.
You leave me alone, I’ll leave you alone.
Another way to delete GOD. If God doesn’t exist, pervs be like saints.
Like many protected groups they push the ticket to the point that those who never even bothered to notice them or have a view on them hate them now.
“They’re trying to demonize our community.”
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No. It was demonic from the beginning.
Once they reach NY, keep driving until they go over the Rainbow Bridge right into Canada, and never come back!
These freaks are freaks. Get out of America and see who accepts you punks.
1000% agree.
The flag ain’t a rainbow. That’s what the groomer filth call it, but it ain’t. They are just trying to replace Hashem’s rainbow (Hashem is Hebrew for G-d).
Excellent post!
YES!!!
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