Roger A. Shrubber
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i guess it's good that SOMETHING reaches them...
Examples of GOP Leadership
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Do it! But you gotta go Old Testament..you know The Church changed it because they were losing followers which meant they were losing money..they had to do something dramatic hence The New Testament. A kinder, gentler God.
Precisely, you've figured them out..this falls under 'goal post moving'.
This story is at least a month old..I posted it weeks ago..so where is he getting news that's one month old? This was kind of a big deal when it first came out. I had no takers to debate it. I even mentioned Mitch Romney and his dog Seamus..a member here never was aware of that old story too.
printer
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Arkansas House strikes drag shows from bill restricting ‘adult’ performances
The Arkansas House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill to add restrictions to “adult-oriented” performances and businesses but fell short of cracking down on drag shows specifically, as the measure’s proponents in the state Senate had initially set out to do.
Arkansas’s Republican-controlled House voted Monday to strike language referencing drag performances from Senate Bill 43 — legislation introduced in January by state Sen. Gary Stubblefield (R) to prohibit drag shows from taking place on public property or “where a minor can view” them.
Stubblefield’s original bill had defined a “drag performance” as one where an individual exhibits a gender identity inconsistent with their sex assigned at birth and “sings, lip-syncs, dances, or otherwise performs” for an audience of at least two people.
The Senator during a hearing in January argued his bill was intended to protect children from content considered obscene or sexually explicit, which he said includes family-friendly drag shows and drag queen story hours.
“I can’t think of anything good that can come from taking children and putting them in front of a bunch of grown men who are dressed like women,” Stubblefield said last month.
Arkansas House Republicans on Monday made similar arguments but said the legislation shouldn’t single out drag performances.
“This bill is not about whether drag is acceptable,” Republican Rep. Mary Bentley, the bill’s sponsor in the state House, said Monday before the vote. “It’s about whether we should be exposing our children to sexually explicit behavior.”
While the revised legislation no longer mentions drag shows outright, it does broaden the definition of an “adult-oriented performance” to mean a performance that features a person “who appears in a state of nudity” or is seminude and the “purposeful exposure” of a “specific anatomical area,” prosthetic genitalia or breasts or a specific sexual act.
The performance must also appeal to “prurient” interests, which the measure does not clearly define. “Adult-oriented” productions under the bill are unable to legally receive funding including grants and investments from federal, state and local governments.
Arkansas House lawmakers approved the revised legislation Monday in a 78-15 vote. The bill now heads back to the state Senate for consideration.
Stubblefield, the bill’s sponsor in the state Senate, did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment on the revisions or a question as to whether he will support the amended measure. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) has indicated she will sign the bill into law if it reaches her desk.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arkansas in a blog post on Tuesday said state lawmakers’ decision to amend the bill is a step in the right direction but added that the measure “still inherently invites abuse in enforcement, especially considering the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from sponsors and supporters of the bill.”
“Yesterday’s amendment to the bill no longer explicitly targets LGBTQ people. However, it does apply to every person in Arkansas in overly broad ways that clearly violate the First Amendment,” the group wrote. “SB43 still curbs free speech and expression so much that it could even prevent some mainstream artists from performing on public property, and make it illegal for Arkansans to attend those performances.”
More than two dozen bills to restrict or ban drag performances have been introduced in over a dozen states this year, according to the ACLU.
thehill.com
The Arkansas House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill to add restrictions to “adult-oriented” performances and businesses but fell short of cracking down on drag shows specifically, as the measure’s proponents in the state Senate had initially set out to do.
Arkansas’s Republican-controlled House voted Monday to strike language referencing drag performances from Senate Bill 43 — legislation introduced in January by state Sen. Gary Stubblefield (R) to prohibit drag shows from taking place on public property or “where a minor can view” them.
Stubblefield’s original bill had defined a “drag performance” as one where an individual exhibits a gender identity inconsistent with their sex assigned at birth and “sings, lip-syncs, dances, or otherwise performs” for an audience of at least two people.
The Senator during a hearing in January argued his bill was intended to protect children from content considered obscene or sexually explicit, which he said includes family-friendly drag shows and drag queen story hours.
“I can’t think of anything good that can come from taking children and putting them in front of a bunch of grown men who are dressed like women,” Stubblefield said last month.
Arkansas House Republicans on Monday made similar arguments but said the legislation shouldn’t single out drag performances.
“This bill is not about whether drag is acceptable,” Republican Rep. Mary Bentley, the bill’s sponsor in the state House, said Monday before the vote. “It’s about whether we should be exposing our children to sexually explicit behavior.”
While the revised legislation no longer mentions drag shows outright, it does broaden the definition of an “adult-oriented performance” to mean a performance that features a person “who appears in a state of nudity” or is seminude and the “purposeful exposure” of a “specific anatomical area,” prosthetic genitalia or breasts or a specific sexual act.
The performance must also appeal to “prurient” interests, which the measure does not clearly define. “Adult-oriented” productions under the bill are unable to legally receive funding including grants and investments from federal, state and local governments.
Arkansas House lawmakers approved the revised legislation Monday in a 78-15 vote. The bill now heads back to the state Senate for consideration.
Stubblefield, the bill’s sponsor in the state Senate, did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment on the revisions or a question as to whether he will support the amended measure. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) has indicated she will sign the bill into law if it reaches her desk.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arkansas in a blog post on Tuesday said state lawmakers’ decision to amend the bill is a step in the right direction but added that the measure “still inherently invites abuse in enforcement, especially considering the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from sponsors and supporters of the bill.”
“Yesterday’s amendment to the bill no longer explicitly targets LGBTQ people. However, it does apply to every person in Arkansas in overly broad ways that clearly violate the First Amendment,” the group wrote. “SB43 still curbs free speech and expression so much that it could even prevent some mainstream artists from performing on public property, and make it illegal for Arkansans to attend those performances.”
More than two dozen bills to restrict or ban drag performances have been introduced in over a dozen states this year, according to the ACLU.
Arkansas House strikes drag shows from bill restricting ‘adult’ performances
The Arkansas House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill to add restrictions to “adult-oriented” performances and businesses but fell short of cracking down on drag shows specifically, as th…
thehill.com
Roger A. Shrubber
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because we all know that drag queens can't resist dropping to their knees in the middle of the street and sucking the nearest cock...
wearing drag isn't sexually explicit behavior...guess these guys are never going to Scotland...
Budzbuddha
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Guess the Orange Orangutan is mudslinging on DeSatan ( another piece of shit )
Budzbuddha
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Roger A. Shrubber
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Mccarthy couldn't make it as a used car salesman...he's got the lie down, but his patter sucks ass
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/debt-ceiling-fight-mccarthy-cant-shake-arithmetic-problem-rcna69460
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/debt-ceiling-fight-mccarthy-cant-shake-arithmetic-problem-rcna69460
Budzbuddha
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Budzbuddha
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Here is Ugly McSheBitch acting like a child with her white balloon …..
Lame China jab
Lame China jab
Roger A. Shrubber
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looks like the peak murder rate came in 2019, under trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-cities/18/
"Biden caused the worst inflation in half a century.".....no, trump republicans caused it, and then they sit on their fucking asses blaming Biden for it.
i just had to turn it off when trump said Biden was the most corrupt president in American history...hypocrisy of that scale invites lightening bolts from Karma.
when will this sad, pathetic, dirty lying old piece of shit sink to the bottom of the septic tank?
CunningCanuk
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All the fuckin guns and wackos you guys have down there and no one can put a bullet in that empty noggin?
Roger A. Shrubber
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where were the three balloons for trump? wow she is just a miserable bitch...people in Georgia are a very special kind of fucking stupid.
Roger A. Shrubber
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deal with poilivier, then you can criticize our homicidal maniacs...
CunningCanuk
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We will deal with him if we have to but he hasn’t been elected PM yet.
HGCC
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I'm honestly kind of shocked more terminally I'll people don't just say fuck it and do the thing.
CunningCanuk
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In 20 years they’ll make the assassin’s birthday a national holiday.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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i'd start celebrating the day trump is gone...