Wednesday, August 13, 2025

How Many Times Do I Have To Say

Banning Pride is unconstitutional! The Supreme Courts has said it so many, many times including the current court.
Bartlesville Equality Board postpones Pride event, bans public drag performances. What this means for local drag performers and the future of Pride in the city.
News On 6
Eden Jones
August 1st 2025


A decision by the Bartlesville Equality Board to postpone this year's Pride event is raising questions. The board voted during a special meeting to ban public drag performances at the celebration.

[...]

Drag in Bartlesville has had its series of conflicts. At past events, there have been several protesters, and in response, the Bartlesville City Council passed a resolution in 2024 to ensure police presence for safety and the First Amendment rights of all those who attend and participate.
STOP RIGHT THERE!
"...police presence for safety and the First Amendment rights of all those who attend and participate."

From 2022...
Fox News 23
Sep 10, 2022 Updated Jul 25, 2023


The Price Tower in Bartlesville was lit up in rainbow colors as hundreds of people turned out for what organizers said was the biggest Pride event in Bartlesville. But despite the message of love, some people came out to express their dislike of the drag show.

The Price Tower in Bartlesville was lit up in rainbow colors as hundreds of people turned out for what organizers said was the biggest Pride event in Bartlesville. But despite the message of love, some people came out to express their dislike of the drag show.
Counter-protesters does not justify banning peaceful events or charging them for protection*.  

What do all of these court cases have in common?
  • NAACP v. City of Birmingham, 357 U.S. 449 (1958)
  • National Lawyers Guild v. City of Berkeley (N.D. Cal. 2019)
  • Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement, 505 U.S. 123 (1992)
  • People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran v. Department of State, 182 F.3d 17 (D.C. Cir. 1999)
  • Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan v. City of Gary, 334 F.3d 676 (7th Cir. 2003)
  • American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee v. City of Dearborn, 418 F.3d 600 (6th Cir. 2005)
  • Staley v. City of New York, 22 F.4th 68 (2d Cir. 2021)
They are all court cases where the protesters were being charged for counter-protesters! But somehow, cities and towns still think that they can stop Pride events by charging them exorbitant fee to protect them.



*They can charge for routine protection like at carnivals, St. Patrick's Day parade, etc. but not because of counter protesters.

Place Your Bets!

With the Republicans you can't trust them to keep their word! So I have to wonder...
The legislators say they feel like they accomplished their mission.
ABC News
By Brittany Shepherd and Oren Oppenheim
August 12, 2025


Texas House Democrats who left the state to prevent a vote on new congressional maps will return to Texas, feeling they have accomplished their mission of killing the first special session, raising awareness and sparking national backlash about the mid-decade redistricting, multiple sources confirmed to ABC station KTRK and ABC News on Tuesday.

A source told ABC News the House Democrats loosely plan on returning this weekend. Those plans could change, the source noted, if Republicans go back on their word to begin a second special session on Friday.

In a news release on Tuesday that did not share specific plans, House Democrats proclaimed victory, saying that they "have killed this corrupt special session on behalf of Texas families -- exactly what we said we'd do when we left the state."
No they will not have another special session Friday... they will do it Monday after the Democrats come back.
“Members are still assessing their strategies going forward and are in a private meeting to make decisions about future plans currently,” he wrote. “If and when Texas House Democrats breaking quorum decide to go home is squarely dependent on the actions the Governor, Speaker, and Texas Republicans in charge make with regard to prioritizing flood victims over redistricting that hurts Texans.”
The Gov. said,
Abbott has said he is committed to calling special sessions, which can last a maximum of 30 days, as long as needed to pass the maps.
Meanwhile Fox News has a different take on them coming back;
Texas Democrats also fled the state in 2021 to block GOP legislative efforts, ultimately returning weeks later
By Alec Schemmel
August 12, 2025 


Texas House Democrats have reportedly confirmed they intend to return to their state after fleeing in an attempt to halt legislative proceedings, which included GOP attempts to redraw congressional districts in the state.

Multiple sources confirmed to ABC 13 Houston on Tuesday that the absent House Democrats will return to the Lone Star State after feeling like they accomplished their mission of killing the special legislative session called by Republicans to pass redistricting legislation. The special session expires next Tuesday.
The Democrats know they can't stop the Republicans steamroller.

Vengeance is mine saith the Republicans!
Ken Paxton asks judge to fine and jail ex-congressman for defying order to halt political fundraising
The Guardian
Sam Levine
12 Aug 2025 


The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has asked a local judge to consider jailing Beto O’Rourke, saying the former congressman was openly defying a judicial order blocking him and his political group from fundraising and paying the costs of Democrats who left the state to stop Republicans from passing a new congressional map.

Tarrant county district judge Megan Fahey granted a request from Paxton last week halting O’Rourke and a group aligned with him, Powered by People, from fundraising. The order bars the group from using funds to pay the costs of Texas lawmakers during the special session or paying the $500 daily fines the lawmakers face for each time they are absent.
So this is going to to the Supreme Court... somehow I don't think that the state Texas can stop political fundraising.
In a filing in response to Paxton’s, O’Rourke’s lawyers said Paxton was “knowingly taking a statement entirely out of context to intentionally misrepresent the statement to this Court” and said they would seek sanctions against him, according to the Texas Tribune. The court’s order, they said, barred the group from fundraising for non-political purposes, not from fundraising altogether.

“He’s lying about me to try to silence us,” O’Rourke said in a post on X on Tuesday.
So place your bets...

Mini-Post: Even In Connecticut!

A hate incident...


Stamford police are investigating an incident outside a mosque in which a man is accused of making derogatory comments directed at people at a local mosque.

They said they received a complaint on Sunday about a driver stopping in front of the Islamic Center at 1558 Washington Boulevard and making derogatory statements to several congregants on Saturday night.

Police said they have identified the man and the department’s Bureau of Investigation and the State’s Attorney’s Office are investigating.

The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations released a statement, calling for local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the incident as a possible hate crime and to increase patrols around local mosques.
Even in Blue Connecticut hate happens!

I don't know if it is a hate crime since no threats were made as far as I could tell... but the creatures from the swamp are crawling out.

The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CT), a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today expressed concern that the charges brought against Michael Slocum, 36, who allegedly engaged in a vile anti-Muslim tirade outside the Islamic Cultural Center of New York (ICCNY) in Stamford, may not fully reflect the severity and targeted nature of his actions.
I agree! But the First Amendment says otherwise. Incidents like these affect the whole community, it sends fear up and down the community. The crime isn't against one person but the whole community/



Mini-Post: What's The Message?

What is the message that this send to the world?

Has Washington DC become the new Gaza with occupying troops on their streets?

A place doesn't have to look like Gaza to be occupied in spirit. Sometimes, the uniforms and authority are domestic, but the loss of freedom feels the same.

Occupation isn't only about tanks, airstrikes, or rubble. It's about the loss of control, the imposition of force, and the silencing of local will. If a city’s people wake up to armed troops on their streets, their police force taken over, and no say in the matter — then it feels like an occupation, even without a single building destroyed.

Elect representatives who put the country before the party!

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Mini-Post: Mindset

This is their mindset, you can get an insight into their thought processes with...
Michah Beckwith's comments about due process for undocumented immigrants sparked backlash.
WTHR Ch13
By Alex Almanza
August 8, 2025


A nationwide debate over immigration law raises a question: Should undocumented immigrants be entitled to due process when taken into custody?

That question is gaining traction here in Indiana, not just because of planned ICE detention centers, but also because of comments made by Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith.

At a town hall in Terre Haute, Beckwith claimed that undocumented immigrants don't deserve due process. It's a claim that is sparking backlash from immigration advocates and attorneys who say the Constitution disagrees.

[...]

Those comments echo a broader policy push, one the Trump administration has supported, but currently hangs in limbo as a U.S. district judge paused an effort to expand fast-track deportations.
They have no understanding of the Constitution or the laws... it is all political ideology driven.

You All Know The Poem

I don't even have to say the name of the poem... just "The Poem."
Michah Beckwith's comments about due process for undocumented immigrants sparked backlash.
WTHR
Alex Almanza
August 8, 2025


A nationwide debate over immigration law raises a question: Should undocumented immigrants be entitled to due process when taken into custody?

That question is gaining traction here in Indiana, not just because of planned ICE detention centers, but also because of comments made by Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith.

At a town hall in Terre Haute, Beckwith claimed that undocumented immigrants don't deserve due process. It's a claim that is sparking backlash from immigration advocates and attorneys who say the Constitution disagrees.
Then we have... the homeless.
Reuters
By Bo Erickson, Nandita Bose and Idrees Ali
August 11, 2025


President Donald Trump pledged on Sunday to evict homeless people from the nation's capital and jail criminals, despite Washington's mayor arguing there is no current spike in crime.
While details of the plan were unclear, the administration is preparing to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, a U.S. official told Reuters, a controversial tactic Trump used recently in Los Angeles to tackle immigration protests over the objections of local officials.
Does any of this sound familiar... maybe you learned it in the 11 or 12 grade?

Back in the 1930s & 1940s the Nazi regime targeted the “asocial” population: homeless people, beggars, alcoholics, sex workers, Roma, LGBT people, and others deemed “undesirable.” The way they treated the Roma has troubling parallels with the way undocumented immigrants are today.

From history we have learned that the early stages of authoritarianism often begin with:
  • Targeting vulnerable groups,
  • Using dehumanizing language,
  • Normalizing state overreach,
  • And shifting public tolerance for civil rights violations.
Where are we today?

Mini-Post: So You Think Marriage Is Scared

So you marriage equality is a done deal? Well you are talking about Trump's courts where judges are picked for their religious beliefs not their knowledge of the Constitution.
Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling


Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.

Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorneys fees.
Is this a backdoor in to killing marriage equality?
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed last month, Davis argues First Amendment protection for free exercise of religion immunizes her from personal liability for the denial of marriage licenses.

More fundamentally, she claims the high court's decision in Obergefell v Hodges -- extending marriage rights for same-sex couples under the 14th Amendment's due process protections -- was "egregiously wrong."

"The mistake must be corrected," wrote Davis' attorney Mathew Staver in the petition. He calls Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion in Obergefell "legal fiction."
I want you to remember just one thing... this is Trump's court system! Everything is on the table.

Monday, August 11, 2025

Editorial: Crazy As A Fox!

[Editorial]

Trump seized power on August 11, 2025 mark that day down on you calendar. Add thirty days to the day and circle Wednesday September 10, 2025. Why that date? Because the law allows Trump to seize power only for 30 days!

Why now? Why not in some other month? Simple… Congress is not in session! Congress could order him to stop but if they are not in session well they can’t order him to stop, can they?

The emergency? Since Trump’s first term, homicide levels in D.C. are about the same. Violent crime is also roughly on par with where it was then. The main difference is property crime, which is higher now — mostly due to a spike in car thefts. So I want to know: what exactly is the emergency?

It is a simple as that… he’s cagey alright!

The mayor of Washington DC said according to PBS,
Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, questioned the effectiveness of using the Guard to enforce city laws and said the federal government could be far more helpful by funding more prosecutors or filling the 15 vacancies on the D.C. Superior Court, some of which have been open for years.
See you in thirty days. For the rest of the story.

[/Editorial]



Just after I clicked on "Publish" this pops up in my feeds!

So I asked to ChatGPT to analyze it and this is what it reported back...
Yes, the FBI has released its 2024 crime statistics, and the data reveals a significant nationwide decline in both violent and property crimes.

📉 Key Findings from the 2024 FBI Crime Report
Violent Crime: Decreased by 4.5%, marking the second consecutive annual drop. Notably, murders and nonnegligent manslaughters fell by 14.9%, reaching their lowest level in nine years. 

Property Crime: Declined by 8.1%, with significant reductions in burglaries (8.6%) and motor vehicle thefts (18.6%). 

Hate Crimes: Decreased by 1.5%, though they remain among the highest levels recorded in over 30 years.

Law Enforcement Assaults: Despite the overall crime decline, assaults on law enforcement officers reached a 10-year high, with 85,730 officers assaulted and 64 feloniously killed. 


🗓️ Implications for Washington, D.C.
These national trends suggest that Washington, D.C. is experiencing a reduction in crime, aligning with the broader national decline. However, specific data for D.C. would provide a clearer picture. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program compiles official data on crime in the United States, published annually in the "Crime in the United States" series. 

A Tale Of Two States

They border on each other... one's true Blue and the other is schizoid, those who live closest to Boston are the liberals and those who living in the deep woods are solid MAGA.
The New Hampshire Bulletin
By: Ethan DeWitt
August 8, 2025


In a series of decisions on transgender legislation this year, Gov. Kelly Ayotte has taken a page from her predecessor’s playbook.

Like former Gov. Chris Sununu, Ayotte signed two bills, House Bill 377 and House Bill 712, that ban gender-affirming care for minors, meaning the state will soon bar all forms of such care for people under 18, including medication and surgeries. But also like Sununu, Ayotte vetoed a bill, House Bill 148, that would have allowed businesses and organizations to separate bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams by biological sex. 

The result is a combination of decisions that has frustrated people on both sides of the debate. Conservatives and other Republicans sharply criticized Ayotte for vetoing HB 148, with one, Rep. Erica Layon of Derry, arguing she had “broken her promise to protect women.”

[...]

LGBTQ+ support organizations in New Hampshire, meanwhile, say that while they appreciate the veto on HB 148, the ban on gender-affirming care for minors will set back transgender youth and curtail parents’ rights to decide their children’s health care.  
But there is one thing to consider, unlike Texas to travel to another state is only an hour away!
“We’re lucky to be surrounded by states that provide gender-affirming health care to young people,” said Linds Jakows, the founder of 603 Equality, an advocacy group.
And one of those states...
Shield Act 2.0 further strengthens protections for patients and providers of reproductive healthcare.
The Advocate
By Ryan Adamczeski
August 08 2025


Massachusetts has enacted an even stronger shield law for abortion and gender-affirming care.

Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, the first out lesbian governor in the U.S., signed the Shield Act 2.0 into law Thursday. The bill further strengthens protections for patients and providers of reproductive healthcare, while explicitly mandating that abortions be performed when deemed medically necessary.

“Massachusetts will always be a state where patients can access high-quality health care and providers are able to do their jobs without government interference,” Healey said in a statement. “From the moment Roe was overturned, we stepped up to pass strong protections for patients and providers, and with President Trump and his allies continuing their assaults on health care, we’re taking those protections to the next level. No one is going to prevent the people of Massachusetts from getting the health care they need.”

[...]

The new law further prevents the disclosure of sensitive data, such as a physician’s name, and prohibits local law enforcement from cooperating with other jurisdictions in their investigations. It also directs the Department of Public Health to create an advisory group to help guide businesses as they implement privacy protections for storing or managing electronic medical records.
Just a reminder, Connecticut has a law preventing reproductive healthcare data from being sent out of state without the patient's consent. 

Mini-Post: We Are Everywhere!

Wherever you look around the world there are LGBTQ+ people at work!
Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has opened up about her sexuality in a new memoir and related ITV interview.
Pink News
by Sophie Perry
August 11, 2025


Nicola Sturgeon was first minister from 2014 until her resignation in March 2023, when she also said she would not be seeking re-election as an MSP in 2026.

During her time in the role, Sturgeon was considered a strong friend of the LGBTQ+ community. She was first minister when Holyrood voted to legalise same-sex marriage in 2014 – which, she told PinkNews, was one of the proudest moments of her career – and later sought to update gender recognition laws for trans people in the devolved nation with the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. However, the plans were blocked by the then Conservative government at Westminster.
And just like here across the pond... the conservatives spread the animosity against us! The Tories 
However, she still believes that “the rights of women and the interests of trans people are not irreconcilable”, she added.

Mini-Post: Sorry Charlie

Sorry Charlie, those arrest warrants just don't work out of Texas!


Texas GOP officials on Saturday upped their calls for Democrats who fled the state for California to be arrested, unseated and brought back to the Lone Star State amid a redistricting battle.

Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) filed a legal complaint in California urging local law enforcement to act on arrest warrants issued by the Texas statehouse for their colleagues who left the state ahead of a controversial redistricting vote.

[...]

“[California Gov.] Gavin Newsom [(D)] may be comfortable with lawlessness and the protection of corrupt legislators, but Texas will not tolerate elected officials who defy the Constitution for political theater,” he added. 
Maybe it is not lawlessness and the protection of corrupt legislators that they are objecting to but rather your attempt to rig the elections that they object to?

More Lie, And More Lies, And More Lies

All hail King Trump!

All he does is issue royal edicts and tell lies!

What state of emergency? As I write this Sunday afternoon there is growing worries that Trump is going to issue a state of emergency in Washington DC, call in the National Guard and round up the homeless and ship them off to concentration camps.

Wow, that is some heavy sh*t! What do you have to prove it? Well for one, Trump's own statements!
A Trump administration staffer was assaulted over the weekend but crime in the district is at a 30-year low.
Politico
By Gregory Svirnovskiy
08/06/2025


President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he may take control of the police force in Washington and dispatch National Guard troops to the city after a young staff member of his administration was assaulted over the weekend.

Trump told reporters that the city is unsafe, though violent crime last year fell 35 percent from 2023 and is at a 30-year-low, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia reported in January.

The president said his administration was on a mission to “make it the best run place in the country” and said White House lawyers were studying the possibility of ending home rule, which enables district residents to elect their local officials

“We want to have a great, safe capital,” he told reporters. “And we’re gonna have it. And that includes cleanliness and it includes other things.”
So he lies about crime in order to justify declaring a state of emergency so he can bring in the troops?


Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C. broke her silence Sunday in response to President Trump's threats to take federal control of the nation's capital. Bowser defended the District's control of its police department, expressed concern over the deployment of the D.C. National Guard, and celebrated a two-year drop in violent crime countering White House claims of out-of-control violence.

Last week, Trump directed federal law enforcement agencies — including the U.S. Park Police, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Marshals Service, among others — to increase their presence in D.C. after a former White House staffer was assaulted in an attempted carjacking. A White House official, not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, confirmed nearly 450 federal officers were deployed in the District Saturday night.
Why?

That is a simple question but a very important one especially in light of Trump saying he may send in federal troops! The British newspaper Independent reports that,
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday morning to announce a press conference on Monday that he claimed would end violent crime in the nation’s capital.

“On Monday a Press Conference will be held at the White House which will, essentially, stop violent crime in Washington, D.C.” said Trump. “It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World. It will soon be one of the safest!!!”

This comes after a Thursday announcement from the White House that it will utilize federal law enforcement on the streets of Washington. Trump said the ramp-up of security would last for seven days, “with the option to extend as needed.” On Wednesday, Trump threatened to take charge of the city’s police force following an attempted hijacking in which an administration staffer was injured.
He is using that attack to claim that crime is out of hand in Washington DC, which will he then use to claim marshal law?

That all ties in with his crack down on homelessness... he sees homeless people on his way to the golf course... how horrible to see "those" people!
President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests
The Guardian
By Robert Mackey
Sun 10 Aug 2025 


In a social media post on Sunday, Donald Trump demands homeless residents of Washington DC leave the country’s capital or face eviction, and again promised to use federal officers to jail criminals, even though violent crime in the city was at a 30-year low when he took office in January.

“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Sunday morning, shortly after being driven from the White House to his golf club in Virginia. “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”
From what I could gather Trump plays one or two rounds of golf during the week at his golf club in Sterling, Virginia. The article also says,
The post was illustrated with four photographs, all apparently taken from the president’s motorcade along the route from the White House to his golf course. Two of the images showed a total of 10 tents pitched on the grass along a highway on-ramp just over a mile from the White House. The third image showed a single person sleeping on the steps of the American Institute of Pharmacy Building on Constitution Avenue. The fourth image showed the line of vehicles that whisk Trump to his golf course passing a small amount of roadside litter on the E Street Expressway, near the Kennedy Center.
You have to wonder how much time does Trump actually work? Trump also keeps his golf trips off of his official White House schedule to hide how much time he spends golfing! And in between golfing trip he is working on a power grab for Washington DC...
Trump told reporters on Wednesday that White House lawyers were “already studying” the possibility of legislation to overturn the law granting the Washington DC self-rule and imposing direct federal control of the capital.
Long live the King! Long live King Donald!

He has sent in tons of federal agents that have been pulled in from other jobs!


Hundreds of federal officers took to the streets of Washington D.C. on Saturday night, the second day of President Donald Trump's plan to drive down violent crime in the country's capital.
These are the agencies involved according to Fox 5
The deployments included officers from nearly 20 departments:
  • Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD)
  • Amtrak Police Department (APD)
  • United States Capitol Police (USCP)
  • Metro Police Department (MPD)
  • Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
  • Federal Protective Service (FPS)
  • Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO)
  • Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)
  • United States Marshals Service (USMS)
  • United States Attorney’s Office - District of Columbia (DDC)
  • Department of Interior (DOI)
  • Pre-Trial Services Agency (PSA)
  • Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA)
  • United States Secret Service (USSS)
  • United States Secret Service Uniform Division (USSS UD)
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation Police
  • United States Marshal Service
I would like to point out that many of ICE related like ERO which is part of ICE and all those agents are either on OT or have been pulled off of important investigations that they have been doing so they could be at Trump's beck and call.


He is holding a press conference at 10:00 AM

UPDATE:  11:30AM
Trump places DC police under federal control, deploys National Guard
The president called it “liberation day” for the nation’s capital.
Politico
By Irie Sentner
08/11/2025 10:53


President Donald Trump said Monday he would place the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploy the National Guard, an escalation of federal power in his campaign to tighten control over the nation’s deep-blue capital city.

“This is liberation day in D.C. and we’re going to take our capital back,” Trump said.

Although crime in Washington hit a 30-year low last year, the president in recent days has seized on violence against a Trump administration staffer to cast the city as dangerous, pledging earlier Monday that “Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum will DISAPPEAR.”
All hail the lord and king! The Courthouse News Service says,
Under the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act, the federal law that allows the capital city some self-governance, the president has the authority to take control of the municipal police department if “special conditions of an emergency nature exist.” Under the law, the White House can only take over MPD for a maximum of 30 days if it notifies Congress.

Meanwhile, the D.C. National Guard and its roughly 3,400 members are under the president’s direct control, unlike other branches of the military reserve force, which are commanded by state governors.
The question remains... what emergency? Once again...
Though the Trump administration and Republicans have slammed D.C.’s government for its approach to crime, statistics published in January by the U.S. attorney’s office in the capital show that violent crime rates in D.C. were down 35% from 2023 figures — the lowest rate in more than 30 years.

Mini-Post: It Is More Than Skin Deep

1971: OMG!
2025: OMG

Ever since it first came out off Broadway, Jesus Christ Superstar has been a lighting rod for the evangelical Christian. But despite being a Broadway smash hit, it never won a Tony... possibly because of politics.
Secretary of State tells EWTN that Christianity has been 'mocked' and 'attacked from its very inception'
By Rachel del Guidice
Fox News
August 10, 2025


Secretary of State Marco Rubio decried a recent performance of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and said that attacks on Christianity are nothing new. 

During an interview on EWTN’s "The World Over" published on Thursday, host Raymond Arroyo asked Rubio if he would ever support bringing "Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo’s performance of the show to the Kennedy Center, as Rubio is a member due to his ex-officio status. 

"I don't follow any of that stuff, but just how you've described it to me, no, I mean, obviously, look, that stuff's done to be provocative and to insinuate, but I think for people of faith, none of this should be new," Rubio told Arroyo. 
KYCR AM 1440 writes,
Bisexual black actress Cynthia Erivo sparked backlash from Christians following her portrayal of Jesus Christ in a three-night performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Hollywood Bowl. Erivo, who previously portrayed Mary Magdalene in an all-female version of "Superstar" and recently starred in the film version of the musical "Wicked," starred as Jesus in the recent play which also featured openly gay singer Adam Lambert as Judas Iscariot, The Christian Post reported.
You got that? A Black Bi woman plays Jesus and that got the evangelicals up in a tizzy again! Blasphemy! Heresy!