A Florida Republican lawmaker’s bill declares showing support for LGBTQ people is a “political viewpoint,” despite the existence of LGBTQ Democrats, Republicans, independents, and entirely unaffiliated and non-political LGBTQ people.The goal of GOP State Rep. David Borrero’s legislation is to ban al…

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    The goal of GOP State Rep. David Borrero’s legislation is to ban all versions of the LGBTQ pride flag from any and all local government buildings, including schools and universities.

    The problem isn’t banning political symbols from government buildings, it’s that he’s calling pride “political”.

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      It is political.

      Civil rights ARE political. Anything that relates to governance is political.

      The issue isn’t that it is political. The issue is that there’s a ‘side’ on this political issue that is wrong. It’s not a gotcha to say it is or is not political. The gotcha is “the right wants the violent and total destruction of queer people.”

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      It’s not one or the other though, we’re both right. It’s a problem they they’re trying to make pride political, along with banning of speech that causes no harm to anyone. B

      ut at least this is so blatantly unconstitutional and subject to be turned around and used against them if it stands that there’s no way it will survive a constitutional review.

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        It’s not intended to stick around. It’s red meat for the base. “Look, see, we’re TRYING to fight the WOKE agenda, but the DEEP STATE is just too powerful! The only way to SAVE YOUR CHILDREN is to help us remove all potential checks and balances to our complete authority.”