The Haters Are Rake In The Dough.

All that hate that the Republicans are generating a lot of donations!

Groups opposed to gay rights rake in millions as states debate anti-LGBTQ bills
Organizations identified as anti-LGBTQ hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center have seen revenue soar as the battle over gay and trans rights rages nationwide.
NBC News
By Stuart Richardson
March 23, 2022


In today’s heightened culture war, the coffers of the anti-gay movement are overflowing. According to publicly available annual returns, 11 nonprofit groups identified as anti-LGBTQ hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center took in over $110 million in contributions during the financial year ending in 2020.

The dollar amount represents a recent high-water mark for the organizations, whose take of donations, grants and other noncash contributions has increased steadily since 2016, when the same 11 groups reported more than $87 million in such contributions. 

In just four years, their total revenue swelled by over 25 percent, with some indication that the positive trend continued into 2021. The multimillion-dollar war chest has bolstered a movement that just a few years ago appeared to be losing ground in America’s decadeslong culture war around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights. Far from retreating, the groups have won significant battles at all levels of American government and society — from local school boards to the federal courts.

This is the real reason the Republicans are drumming up hate for us… money!

They rally their base with hate and it gets then out to vote and donate. They don’t care if it harms trans children, they don’t care if their hate generate self-harming in our children and all they about is money!

So where is all this cash used for?

When the SPLC began tracking anti-LGBTQ hate in the early 2010s, the organization noted that “a small coterie of groups now comprise the hard core of the anti-gay movement.” The same groups — many now flush with financial resources — continue to shape the anti-LGBTQ agenda.

“As of today, there probably are five or six key players,” McCoy said, highlighting the Family Research Council, the Alliance Defending Freedom, Liberty Counsel and the American College of Pediatricians as parts of the core.

We have seen many of these players here in Connecticut, Alliance Defending Freedom  is the organization that is leading the trans athletes case.

“Alliance Defending Freedom is among the largest and most effective legal advocacy organizations dedicated to protecting the religious freedom and free speech rights of all Americans. Our record since 2011 includes 13 Supreme Court victories, including two wins last year and one upcoming case next term,” Tedesco said. “Our track record of success is due in large part to those who generously support our work, and increased giving demonstrates the growing movement to protect Americans’ First Amendment freedoms.”

In another NBC News article “Trump's newly confirmed federal judge has ties to anti-gay 'hate group,'”

The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Allison Jones Rushing to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, handing the 36-year-old judge a lifetime seat on one of the nation’s top courts. While Rushing made headlines for becoming one of the youngest and least experienced members of the federal judiciary, she also garnered attention because of her decadelong association with one of the most well-known anti-gay groups.

“Throughout her brief legal career, Allison Rushing has supported and closely associated herself with one of the most extreme anti-LGBT organizations operating in this country today, the Alliance Defending Freedom,” Ian Wilhite, a spokesperson for LGBTQ legal group Lambda Legal, said in a statement shared with NBC News. “Rather than disqualifying her from consideration, this aspect of her record seems to have made up for all of the other deficiencies in her record.”

And now these organizations are rolling in the cash thanks to all the hate and fear that the Republicans have stirred up in the conservative community.

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Update to yesterday's post: Please Tell Me, What is the difference?

It is not just the Pride event that got Texas's Attorney General all in a tizzy but the whole idea of LGBTQ+ people he finds offensive.

Texas AG says the quiet part loud and calls LGBT+ people ‘sexual propagandists and predators’

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has declared a school’s Pride event “illegal” and referred to LGBT+ people as “predators”

Pink News UK

By Maggie Baska

March 24, 2022

“By hosting ‘Pride Week’, your district has, at best, undertaken a week-long instructional effort in human sexuality without parental consent,” Paxton wrote. 

“Or, worse, your district is cynically pushing a week-long indoctrination of your students that not only fails to obtain parental consent, but subtly cuts parents out of the loop. Either way, you are breaking state law.”

The attorney general shared pictures of the letter on Twitter and declared the “liberal” school district is “aggressively pushing LGBTQ+ views on Texas kids”. He called the inclusive event “immoral and illegal”.

Paxton then described LGBT+ people as “sexual propagandists and predators”, demanding they be held “accountable”. 

Many lesbians and gays think that this is only a “trans” problem in Texas… it is a LGBTQ+ issue. The Republicans hate all of our guts. Trans people are only the low hang fruit.