Here Comes The Judge… Let’s Hope Not

Another of Trump appointees is a stanch hater of us. No surprise there, all his nominees hate us.

Anti-LGBT+ judge who backed ‘most homophobic bill in US history’ moves one step closer to lifetime seat on court of appeals
Republicans have moved a step closer to the lifetime appointment of judicial nominee Cory Wilson, a man who could potentially set LGBT+ rights back decades.
Pink News UK
By Emma Powys Maurice
May 21, 2020

Wilson is Donald Trump’s latest nominee to the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, and appears to have been nominated in part for his fierce hostility to LGBT+ rights, abortion rights and voting rights.

On Wednesday the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to question the Mississippi state judge on his past partisan remarks, and they certainly had a lot to work with.

In 2012 he strongly opposed same-sex marriage, describing it as “a pander to liberal interest groups and an attempt to cast Republicans as intolerant, uncaring and even bigoted.”

Later in 2016, he voted for what has been dubbed the “most homophobic bill in US history” – bill 1523, which allows businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples, people who have sex outside of marriage and transgender people on the basis of religious freedom.

And rubber stamp McConnell will probably ram through his nomination just like he did for all the nominees.

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Then the ultra right wing news program is blaming us for the lack of resource to fight the virus…

Breitbart host says American citizens don’t deserve emergency coronavirus aid because trans people exist
A guest on Breitbart News Tonight used the existence of trans people to reject the idea of financial aid for those impacted by coronavirus.
Pink News UK
By Emma Powys Maurice
March 19, 2020

On Tuesday, the right-wing radio show was discussing the implementation of proposed federal emergency aid programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ed Martin, president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles was acting as guest and co-host along with Republican congressman Larry Bucshon of Indiana.

Martin urged Buschon to oppose any proposed relief efforts for those in need on the basis that “transgenders” might also ask for money.

“Here’s what I told somebody today: If the answer is, ‘We’ll send you $1,000 because times are tough,’ every Democrat in America will tell you times are tough for every hyphenated American,” he said.
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Martin presumably used the term “hyphenated American” to refer to any minorities, of which he considers “transgenders” to be the least deserving of aid.

Don’t forget that Steve Bannon, a founding member of the board of Breitbart News was appointed Chief Strategist in the Trump administration.

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Then the final Pink News UK article is about the anti-LGBTQ furor coming out of the former Soviet countries.

This is the heartbreaking reality of being queer and living inside one of Poland’s ‘LGBT-free zones’
A 19-year-old queer woman from Poland has revealed the heartbreaking reality of living in the heart of one of the country’s ‘LGBT-free zones’.
By Lilly Wakefield
March 6, 2020

A third of Poland has declared itself to be an official LGBT-free zone as local municipalities sign a pledge adopting resolutions against “LGBT+ propaganda”.

Nearly 100 Polish municipal or local governments have now proclaimed themselves to be “free from LGBT+ ideology”. Local authorities in these areas pledge to refrain from acts that encourage tolerance and must avoid providing financial assistance to NGOs working to promote equal rights.
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Alicia, 19, is a queer woman and one of the only openly LGBT+ people in her village. She told Channel 4 News that she was born and raised there.

She said that she is “scared” every day living in the so-called LGBT-free zone, and added: “My neighbours are scared to tell me to my face that they don’t like me, they don’t accept me.”

I worry that the hate spreading.

People are afraid to speak up for us for fear of reprisals from right-wing goon squads or from the government.

You think that it cannot happen here but it has and it is.

Who do you think is behind the armed right-wing terrorist and the White nationalists Tiki torch marchers that descended on the University of Virginia campus. They are the new “Brown shirts.”