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https://www.npr.org/2023/03/16/1163815547/tennessee-drag-law-queen-bella-duballe
https://twitter.com/i/status/1628115877101961217
RedBosephus
they are so busy regulating drag queens - yet there were three mass shootings in Memphis last month. Real warped priorities. Glad I moved.
Vermonstrous
April 1st In Nashville! Get your dresses boys!!! It’s gonna be wild!
FrizBFerret
szepasszony
Sourced list of Republican leaders that are convicted/confessed child sex predators. /a/Qb7c6He
ErniesWidow
I grew up watching men in drag, and my parents encouraged it. "Some Like it Hot" was a favorite at our house
EroticZombiePants
Since they are an ordained minister, they can just say they are doing it for Jesus. I'm sure they have religious exemptions in this law.
penzick
Honest question, does she/will she give sermons in a dress? Would that be obscene or religious freedom? I'd attend a church to support it.
FGnevermore
So this law is in clear violation of the first amendment right?
Zange0
#3 It's the intended use to target trans people, that might not be what the word of the law is, but it was certainly their intent.
khun2
I like the sheep one.
Semiflaccid
Sorry Bella, you lost the reps at succinctly.
CausticCake
Could this law technically be applied to cosplay, even if you're doing a character of the same gender?
sailorjurai108
Absolutely will be.
munchman495
Rep-Cons don't care what 'Drag' really is, it's their 'Distraction Du Jour' used to cloud the issue of Pedo Rep-Cons getting caught daily.
FallingStar7669
Surely this is a 1st Amendment issue... hasn't 'freedom of speech' been extended to style of dress?
crossingdynasty
Wow, a minister you can actually trust to be around your children
Willowknowsall
That means she can marry people! hells yeah! Fabulous officiant
CPTBRUMBL3Z
I so sincerely hope we see schools with cheerleader squads and Hooters get sued for being sexually explicit, then. Make good trouble.
BurntMaggie
S.O. To the TN Shakespeare Co.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Of course the lawmakers don't know shit. Law's not supposed to protect kids, but to keep pressure on lgbtq people and make bigots happy.
TeflonTrout
I've been to war three times. This person is way more of a hero than I'll ever be
TresusIbor
So any dude that cosplays a female character at some comic/game/anime convention, could be put in prison?
MarioBoon
Unless a person is fully transitioned to the preferred sex, it's radical cosplay in a way
MyCatIsMissingAnEar
Halloween is gonn be intense. Gonna arrest ...... everyone who dresses scantily or just "cross dressers"?
randomwalrus
Not any dude, no. If you are white, "straight," Christian, and vote Republican, you are above the law. Everybody else? Prisons need slaves.
Xenarion
Yup
TheFastpaws
America used to put Nazis in the dirt.
RayneOfSalt
Eh, they also had a pretty big and open Nazi contingent, complete with an American Fuhrer.
necrojoe
"Ordained minister" doesn't mean that much.
AlexVanPutten
Well it does increase the chances of them being a pedophile from 0% to a non-zero number
Madalchemist2018
I was going to say this is a minister you could trust around kids.
AlexVanPutten
Yours is the better joke
skapanda616
Listen to the whole interview
mytruepersonality
I don't know fashion lingo well but that cobra one is fire.
robingal1
Then no more Passion plays in churches? Will networks have to change their programming to exclude MASH/drag shows? Lawsuits approaching
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I want to be really clear here, when they say “drag performances” they mean transsexuals. The “fear” expressed here is the intent. They 1/
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WANT someone to call the cops on trans people in the grocery store. They’re BETTING on lawsuits so they can hopefully get it to the 2/
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SCOTUS to have it shot down and codify the ability for states to legalize discrimination.
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And lest you think this only impacts the LGBTQ+ community: A woman wearing pants could violate this law.
eadanke
This way they can legalize discrimination based solely on attire opening the gates to criminalizing poverty and ethnic groups.
KentuckyFriedForeskin
So, wouldn't the first amendment supersede that? But here I am thinking that conservatives use anything close to logic.
ScyntSkunk
The 1st, and all other amendments (except the 2nd, for now), are meaningless as long as u have at least 5 conservatives on the Supreme Court
Chemie99
who rule based on religion and not law and are happy to contradict their own rulings as needed for their agenda
KentuckyFriedForeskin
I really hate that's how it works. Especially since those asshats aren't even elected.
frischcode
It would be a fucking shame if people were to publicly exhibit this performance for children.
LompHoofd
NZSheeps
Let's be honest - they both should be locked up (just not for the drag)
frischcode
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1morebanforafreeshake
The worst part is that they know. They’re just using to attack people and the longer we focus on being pedantic the worse it’ll be.
giganticroboticpenguin
South Pacific in 1958. Part of it is about men in drag performing for each other.
CornChunks
To play devil’s advocate, ‘Song of the South’ was 1946. The past is not a reflection of what America should be today.
iExplainTheJoke
I made this point (less eloquently) in another post and got down votes. Military was segregated when they made that video too
LordBaneoftheSith
Don't make me tap the sign
chromed
Exactly. The appropriate response is a sock full of quarters, not trying to persuade someone obviously malicious.
LordBaneoftheSith
The pearl clutching after Jane Fonda's murder comment the other day really shows how far we have to go to get through to people
LordBaneoftheSith
If you're going to scoff at the idea of fighting back, you're fucking worthless
inkasep1
Is that a sock full of quarters or are you just happy to see me?
NZSheeps
Better start banning movies, then
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