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What an insane thing, don't they hate that gays are indoctrinating kids? Why would they give up an opportunity to rebrainwash a kid?
The goal here is to make discrimination against LGBT people legal and government sanctioned
I'm sorry, I won't let your kids enroll here/hire you/rent you an apartment/give you medical treatment because of muh religious freedums
Also I assume there weren't a ton of rainbow families trying to get their kids into the daycares run by the Catholic parishes that began this lawsuit in the first place. Some right-wing think tank operatives just decided to use this law to attack LGBT rights
This.
The goal is to strike down the Civil Rights Act. They'll probably overturn Obergefell v. Hodges first, and then they'll go for the Civil Rights Act.
The Democrats probably will respond by just making the status quo ante continue in the states they control. If it happens before the midterms, they'll have no hope of contesting it in Congress, and even after the midterms, no matter what they will be some number of Sinemas or Manchins or Fettermans short of 261 votes (60%).
And in the more immediate term, this is about government funding, and the free rein of reactionaries to sap state and federal money/contracts without oversight or requirements.
Yeah I just think it's interesting how easily the rhetoric falls apart
it makes sense if you contort your brain into rightwing mode: children are the property of their parents and this is a restriction of lgbt parents' property rights
From your lips to Comey-Barett's ears. It's absurd how far they're going in efforts that are self-defeating and show of their own kool-aid they're drinking.