No not the rock group but rather between the pro- and the anti- LGBTQ+ groups.
Protestors angrily called him a “power-hungry fascist,” and said that a deceased LGBTQ+ student's blood was on his hands.LGBTQ NationBy Daniel VillarrealApril 18, 2024Ryan Walters, the right-wing superintendent of the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), only spoke for about 12 minutes before ending his talk at Oklahoma State University (OSU) yesterday. During his on-campus appearance, pro-LGBTQ+ protestors angrily shouted him down, calling him a “fascist” and saying that the blood of a recently deceased nonbinary student was on his hands.Walters had been invited to speak by a campus chapter of Turning Point USA. The organization’s founder, Charlie Kirk, has attacked transgender people and described opposition to religious exemptions as “fascism.” About 100 people attended Walters’ talk in the campus engineering building. Walters spoke without a mic and barely got a word out before protestors began shouting.“You’re a power-hungry fascist,” one protestor in particular yelled, adding, “Nex’s blood is on your hands!”
Once again the right-wing conservatives tend to ignore the First Amendment and other laws in their onslaught of anti-LGBTQ legislation!
Walters, who wants to ban LGBTQ+ books but teach the Bible in public school history classes, has previously pushed the transphobic lie about schools providing litterboxes to students who identify as cats. He also referred to teachers’ unions as “terrorist organizations” and illegally tried to make rules banning LGBTQ+ books and transgender bathroom access in schools. He has appeared at events hosted by Moms for Liberty, a right-wing anti-LGBTQ+ “parent’s rights” group that has been called an extremist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.Walters also appointed Chaya Raichik, an anti-LGBTQ+ activist who goes by Libs of Tik Tok online, as a Library Media Advisor for the state (even though she has no educational experience, doesn’t reside in Oklahoma, and has made posts that have led to bomb threats against students).
They believe that they ar eon a mission and anything that gets in their way if fair game… full speed ahead and damn the Constitution!
My stand on the issue of protests is that we have to allow both for and against us, we cannot not demand our rights when we deny the right to protest by others.
If all went as planned I should be home from my cousin's funeral in New Hampshire. I hate attending funerals, I went up on Friday and came home this morning after the burial. I just go to pieces, I carried a pocketbook full of tissues.
Every year my wife and I buy hundreds of books for our local elementary school. Many times the students make special requests. Although, none of the students has asked, if one were to ask for a Bible for the school library we would not fulfill that request. Imagine the uproar there would be for buying a book with such violence as nailing a man to a cross at this hands and feet and then jabbing him with a spear. We'll stay with books like those two male penguins raising a chick in the zoo.
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