And So It Begins!

We knew this was going to happen and it didn’t take long.

Owner bans some LGBTQ customers from Michigan hair salon over pronouns. ‘Not welcome’ 

Kansas City Star

By Mile Stunson

July 11, 2023

The owner of a Michigan hair salon said she is refusing service to some members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Christine Geiger, who owns Studio 8 Hair Lab in Traverse City, said in a Facebook post she is exercising her free speech by only allowing certain customers.

“If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman, please seek services at a local pet groomer,” the hair salon owner said. “You are not welcome at this salon. Period.”

The Facebook page was later deleted, and the salon’s Instagram was set to private. In the biography for the business on Instagram, the owner says it “does not cater to woke ideologies.”

The post came days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that, under the First Amendment, a web designer could refuse to make a website for same-sex marriages based on her religious beliefs. In March, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

And so the discrimination begins, she is only the first many more bigots will come out of the woodwork where it ends no one knows.

And I predict we will shortly see some white supremacist refuse to serve a Black person claiming “First Amendment” rights. Then the Supreme Court will have a Morton's Fork; declare that the refusal to serve a Black person is covered by the First Amendment or rule that we are the only one that can be discriminated against would be discriminatory in itself.

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You know how Republicans are always saying that they are pro-business?

Anti-business GOP: Missouri AG’s attack on Target Pride is big government at its worst | Opinion

Kansas City Star

By The Editorial Board

July 11, 2023 

The job of Missouri attorney general has many legal responsibilities. Until recently, though, we didn’t realize those duties include supervising the inventory and marketing at big box retail stores like Target to make sure they conform to right-wing sensibilities.

Now we know.

That’s thanks to Andrew Bailey, the current Missouri AG, who last week signed onto a letter with six other Republican attorneys general, ominously suggesting the retailer might have run afoul of child protection laws this summer because it sold “LGBT-themed onesies, bibs, and overalls” as well as “swimsuits with ‘tuck-friendly construction’” as part of a Pride month campaign in June.

“As the chief legal officers of our States, we are charged with enforcing state laws protecting children and safeguarding parental rights,” wrote the attorneys, also from Indiana, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi and South Carolina. “State child-protection laws penalize the ‘sale or distribution … of obscene matter.’” They also noted that some states “have passed laws to protect children from harmful content meant to sexualize them and prohibit gender transitions of children.”

They lie through their teeth as they are smiling.

Small government… Ha!

Get the government off the backs of the citizens… Ha!

Parental Rights… Ha!

And they’re using the power of the state — threatened or otherwise — to carry out this terrible mission. “This playbook of lying about LGBTQ+ people, of depicting us as some kind of danger, is a very old line of attack and it does nothing to move us toward a more just and equal society,” the Human Rights Campaign’s Jay Brown said in a statement provided to CNN.

That’s correct. It’s wrong and despicable that — once again — Bailey is at the forefront of such smears.

We also note that the letter by Bailey and his colleagues marks another milestone in the GOP’s pivot away from its longtime stance as the party of free enterprise and limited government.

I wouldn’t trust a Republican, he’ll be shaking you hand while they stab you in the back.

Legal action was probably not the point. Instead, Bailey and the other GOP attorneys general probably saw an opportunity to capitalize on an issue that fired up the Republican base and acted accordingly.

They’re getting the attention they sought. And LGBT Missourians are poorer for it.

Yup we are the scapegoats, jut like the Armenian genocide in the 1900s, the Jews in the 20s and 30s, the Bosnian War in the 90s.