Back when Roe v. Wade was overturned, the SC announced that other judgements are to be reconsidered. Among them is the one that allowed interracial marriages.

They'll keep going till it's like the old days where a father owned his daughters and decided who they married.

Everyone gets that.

This slow walking isn't to trick people into supporting the current step, it's because they know if they jump to the final step, nonvoters will vote and stop it.

Religious extremism only works when a large amount of people don't vote

Same. Keep an eye on how they're going mifepristone and abortion rights at a federal level in regards to how they will subvert "protected" blue states.

I routinely see in and amongst the right wing protesters where I see gay men holding up signs that throw trans people under the bus. A lot of the attitudes in gay bars can be hostile and misogynistic towards trans men too.

They get to feel respectable so long as they are the ones participating in the oppression and the bigots get to use these people as shields - "look how reasonable we are, we have gay people who support us SEE ?!" but it's all disposable. Once they've successfully oppressed the people on the outside the Conservatives turn to the next layer of the circle in reverse order of acceptance. Suddenly the bigotry is at the door for the idiots who supported them and their friends who were using them as shields don't need them anymore.

The Nazis did this too. Gay men joined up with the brownshirts hoping to find safety and acceptance in the ranks. They participated in the dismantling of their own communities and then the minute they were judged to be no longer useful they were purged and executed in the Night of Long Knives.

It's more common than you'd think. There's a disappointingly high number of transphobic gays and lesbians, and there are definitely people who are pro-gay marriage who are anti-sex worker. I definitely think it's rarer for people to support gay rights and not support abortion rights though.

I am also confused by this. I'm sure there are a fair share of gay people voting Republican - there were Jewish people in the nazi party as well - but implying the Republicans got to power on a wave of gay votes is just beyond absurd.

Lots of TERFS are lesbians who hate trans people, trans women in particular, and want to make sex work illegal.

Yeah, who told whom what exactly? Seems to be implying that LG don't care about BTQ+, but this move is entirely consistent with Republican / right ideology, which LG hasn't never been a big part of.

It's never been a secret either. It has been an explicit and public position of Republicans (and part of SCOTUS) since forever.

Same sex marriage has only been legal in all 50 states since 2015. Does anyone really believe that Republican leaders and the new right-wing SCOTUS miraculously changed their minds after Obergefell v Hodges?

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