Vanity Fair: Common decency dictates that one should never kick a person when they’re down—but it’s perfectly acceptable to do so when the person in question is a wannabe tyrant who’s made it his professional goal to make life hell for anyone who disagrees with him about anything. This is what we assume the Supreme Court was thinking when it told Florida governor Ron DeSantis that he could f--k off with his ridiculous drag show law.
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YESSS! This article is music to my ears! As someone from Florida, and from the capital to be exact, I have rode the waves of all of his terrible legislation. I went to a public high school in Tallahassee Florida just down the street from the Governor's Mansion and the Florida capital. All of his blows that he threw at the LGBTQ+ community, I felt, and I felt hard! Fortunately I had incredible teachers who didn’t take his shit and would consistently stand up for us. But I know many that were unable to do so. I am both incredibly surprised and excited that the Supreme Court shut him down. Especially with the large turnover in the Supreme Court that happened during Trump’s presidency, I, and I am sure Ron, thought that this would be an easy win for him and that they would side with him no matter what. But it greatly relieves me and excites me that they shot him down.
Thank you so much, Supreme Court, for this one. Any law created to exclude people (aka to discriminate) should immediately be thrown out the window, and the people who proposed them should follow. It infuriates me that this man and his following are attempting to disguise their discrimination by claiming to want to protect the children. It baffles me the lengths many GOP members will go to in order to spread their bigoted ideologies around the country. It takes a specific kind of horrible person to look at another human who has done them no wrong and say, “I don’t think you should exist.” It’s an odd, intense kind of denial. I am just continuously baffled by how much hate and ignorance (those two often go hand-in-hand) this party and the people who are a part of it have. I hope this SCOTUS ruling is a precursor to a continuation of smacking down ridiculous discrimination laws.
It’s not enforcing “parental rights” to ban children’s attendance at drag shows. It’s actually a loss of parental rights for the state to intervene and make this sort of unilateral decision. And based on what? Is there research showing that it actually harms children to see drag shows that would support the use of criminal penalties to the parents and to establishments? The so-called “Protection of Children Act'' is another of the many anti-LGBTQ+ laws DeSantis has signed in recent years, including the “Don’t Say Gay”law banning discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation with minors. I believe that DeSantis’ actions are based on pure homophobia and bigotry which has no place in our culture. And these laws are politically stupid. How is it good politics to be feuding with Disney, who employs 75,000 people directly and accounts for 263,000 jobs/voters around Disney World.
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