Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been A Homosexual?

I have here a list of homosexuals in our government claimed Senator Joseph McCarthy.

More Republican leaders try to ban books on race, LGBTQ issues
WGBH
By Deepa Shivaram
November 13, 2021


In the latest call from Republican leaders to ban certain books in schools, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is telling his state's department of education to investigate a graphic novel on queer identity being available at a school's library. He says the content in the book is "sexually explicit" and "pornographic."

The book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, is recommended for grades 10 and up by its publisher and tells an autobiographical story of a person who is grappling with their gender and sexual identity.

"I call on the Department of Education or the State Board of Education, as appropriate, to promulgate statewide standards and directives to prevent pornography and other obscene content from entering our State's public schools and libraries," the governor said in a letter sent Wednesday to the superintendent of education.

McMaster's call is the latest instance of Republican elected leaders and local school board members lashing out at books in school libraries that address topics such as queer identity, racism and sex education.

In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to the state's school board association saying public schools shouldn't have "pornographic or obscene material." He did not provide any specific examples of content.

This paranoid is spreading across the country including here in Connecticut school boards are questioning what books are in our schools and in Virginia,

Two school board members, Rabih Abuismail and Kirk Twigg, went on to say they would like to see the banned books burned.

"I think we should throw those books in a fire," Abuismail said, according to NBC Washington. "I guess we live in a world now that our public schools would rather have kids read about gay pornography than Christ."

Twigg said he wants to "see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff."

Book burning was a practice perpetuated in Nazi Germany in order to oppress authors and ideas that were in opposition to Nazi ideology.

In Ohio a mayor made unsubstantiated charges of pornography, 

An Ohio mayor's threats to criminally charge school district employees was 'reckless' and 'irresponsible', prosecutor finds

The mayor of Hudson, Ohio, accused the local school board of "distributing essentially child pornography" at a September meeting.

Insider

By Kenneth Niemeye

November 16, 2021

A local prosecutor released a report on Tuesday condemning the mayor of Hudson, Ohio, for threatening to criminally charge school board members over a writing assignment.

Some parents in the Hudson School District were upset about a book, "642 things to Write About," that was given to high school students through a college-level class, according to Fox 8. The news outlet reported that parents criticized the book for having "inappropriate themes." 

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During a Hudson School Board meeting in September, Mayor Craig Shubert threatened officials with criminal charges if they allowed the book to stay in the school's curriculum.

During a Hudson School Board meeting in September, Mayor Craig Shubert threatened officials with criminal charges if they allowed the book to stay in the school's curriculum.

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The chief of the Hudson Police Department requested that Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh investigate the curriculum and the mayor's comments, according to Fox 8.

Walsh released her report on Tuesday and announced that she would not be filing charges against Shubert, but did condemn his comments as "irresponsible." Walsh also found that "642 things to Write About" does not contain child pornography and is not graphic.

Other states Attorney Generals have looked into the charges and found them false and the people are starting to pushback. In Kansas where the school board banned the books the people said enough!

‘Make a stand’: Liberty parents push back against suggested school book bans
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News
By Bill Lukitsch, Sarah Ritter
November 16, 2021


Parents of students in the Liberty School District pushed back Tuesday night against a recent tide of alarmed rhetoric raised by people seeking to have some books banned from its libraries.

A group of roughly 50 parents showed up to the district’s regular school board meeting with the purpose of countering recent calls for books centered on LGBTQ issues and race to be removed from shelves. Among those speaking were a former history teacher, a school librarian, a high school senior and several parents united behind the concept that such books generally should be available to students at the high school level.

Matt Sameck, father of one student, told district leaders the books have been targeted by social media groups “notable for their anti-public school rhetoric and far-right bent.”
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But after receiving national backlash, including from authors and free speech advocates, the Goddard school district reversed the decision to remove the books from circulation in its libraries.

I am old enough to remember red and lavender scares brought about by Sen. McCarthy which became know as McCarthyism.

LGBT History: The Lavender Scare
National LGBT Chamber of Commerce
By James Gleason
October 3, 2017


Interrogations of one’s sexuality became commonplace in the 1950s and 1960s’ federal workplace. Questions like “Do you identify as a homosexual or have you ever had same-sex sexual relations?” were commonplace as employers attempted to root out LGBT employees. This period of time is often known as the Lavender Scare—the interrogation and firing of LGBT-identifying civil servants.

Before the Lavender Scare and post-World War II, LGBT individuals from rural towns began congregating to cities where they could keep anonymity. This newfound peace and community, however, was disturbed in 1947 when the United States Park Police created a Sex Perversion Elimination Act. Primarily targeting these communities in parks, at least five hundred people were arrested and 76 were charged.

Do you want to guess which party Sen. McCarthy was a member of?

If you guested Republican you would be right.

The hero of the Lavender Scare was…

Several LGBT people later stepped up to challenge federal government’s “sexual perversion” components, including civil servant Frank Kameny who took his case to the Supreme Court. Although Kameny lost, a few federal courts began ruling in his favor by 1969. More gay rights organizations also developed such as the Mattachine Society (1950) as well as the Daughters of Bilitis (1955). The Lavender Scare’s effects, however, were still lasting.

Out History reports that,

In 1953, the pressure to strengthen security procedures became codified when newly elected President Eisenhower signed executive order 10450, which expanded Truman’s loyalty program to include issues of character and suitability. For the first time, “sexual perversion” was included in the list of behaviors that would exclude one from holding a job with the federal government or receiving a security clearance from a federal contractor. Agencies set up new policies and procedures for detecting and removing men and women suspected of being gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Applicants were personally interviewed to look for subtle signs of homosexuality, such as gender non-conformity. Invoking the notion of “guilt by association,” investigators checked whether an employee’s friends or roommates were gay. Some were placed under surveillance to determine whether they frequented gay bars or associated with “known homosexuals.” Local police agencies were encouraged to clamp down on local gay meeting places and then share their arrest records. Investigators vigorously interrogated civil servants about their private sex lives and offered a “lie-detector” test as one of the only means of establishing their innocence. Thousands lost their jobs or resigned under pressure. A small number were driven to suicide.

This what will take… parents speaking out against this madness. You cannot keep silence, silence will only empower those who want to force us back into the closets.

Have You No Sense of Decency?

Edward R. Murrow ended the pogrom by Senator Joe McCarthy.

Tell me does this sound familiar?