Republican states are fuming — and legislating — over drag performances

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Republican state lawmakers want to shield children by closing the curtains on drag performances

Sanders appeared eager to sign the original measure into law.

North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum’s office declined to comment on the proposal moving through his state’s legislature, but one of its top Democrats is livid.“There aren’t parents coming forward to say there are all these drag performances happening on Main Street and we need to be protected from them,” Boschee, who is gay, said in an interview. “These are all concepts and ideas that are being taken from the dark sides of the internet.

“There is a clear path to victory for the bill,” Prichard said in an interview. “The Senate is more conservative than it has ever been in North Dakota. And I think that there is a natural tendency in North Dakota to agree with this bill.” “I don’t know when drag shows became the devil,” said Sherry East, president of the South Carolina Education Association, in an interview. “To my knowledge, I don’t know that schools are doing this. I’ve never known of a school to do this. The homophobic attitude from some of our elected officials is quite concerning and disappointing.”

 

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Of course you support grooming kids

Good. Kids don’t need sexual grooming.

Sanity is not a bad thing.

No more drag shows.

The drag queens obsession with performing sexual dancing for children is disgusting. We need laws against these groomers and their disgusting appeasers.

Politico? What are y’all doing? You guys really think taking your 6 year old little girls & boys to drag shows is OK? Yikes! Quick question: Why do grown men & women want to discuss or act out or teach kids about sex anyway? Teaching other folks kids this is not your business.

Sexual deviants do not belong in the presence of children. Period

Why do you continue to defend the indefensible? What do you gain by this? Children do not belong a drag shows. That’s just basic. If we can’t agree on that — it’s time to consider next steps. Bc you are absurd.

WHITEY PROTECT WHITEY EVEN IF THEY'RE MOTHERS ARE MURDERED BY WHITEY!! ALLOWED LENIENCY WHERE THEY CAN GO OUT AND COMMIT MORE RAPES & MURDERER'S BLACKS ARE MURDERED BY THE HAND OF WHITEY DAILY!! JUSTICE DOESN'T EXIST FUTURE WHITE VIOLENCE YOU CAN SMELL IT!!

Banning strip clubs? That's a sin. MATT 5:28 But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart

Say hi to the O'bidens if you happen to see them in the audience.

No, just drag performances for children. If it's for adults then go for it.

Republicans want to protect child molesters by making them congressmen

Good

Republican politicians are only interested in looting our coffers and creating faux culture wars, but not interested in improving Americans’ lives.

The question is why does anyone not want to close the curtain on this?

Give me an f’n break, homophobes!

What the?

99% of the people don't want to see this shit.

An important step against the sexualization of children and against gay-damaging queer ideology. That such a law is needed at all should make everyone think.

It’s all about the outrage and made up scandals - just the latest in a series of attacks driven by right wing media against marginalized groups

Who puts more children at risk? Drag show or Dr. Nassar? Drag show or Jerry Sandusky? Drag show or the Boy Scouts? I could go on, but you get the idea.

Nooooooo - love them!!!

Yet they are fine with having drag queens sex offenders & traffickers in their party in congress

good

George Santos could respond with experience.

Nothing to shield them from lunatic gun men in their schools but OMG the drag queens

What the hell are parents for?

so who thinks exposing young - impressionable- children to perverts is a good idea? who else but pedophile GROOMERS so everyone pushing this insanity is a pedophile groomer

How about you leave the individual to choose what they can and cannot bring their children to? While thought. So much for part of less government. Stay out of our personal business

Shielding queer kids from positive interactions with queer role models is genocidal. End hetero-fascism now.

Political floats in parades should restricted in the presence of children then. If you apply these laws to one thing you need to apply it to every decisive and mind altering social event!! hypocrite

Good for them. The state has an obligation to protect the young from these vile displays of depravity

While unfair to the innocent minds of a child, let the democrats take their children to drag shows. That’s their lifestyle choice.

Lol who would have foreseen Democrats dying on the hill of kiddie drag queen shows? One would think that could have been a commonality to oppose.

Open Pedophilia. Freaks are lucky our Fathers are to old to do anything.

Um- Republicans? How about every decent parent in this country does!

Talking about stupid…

Please. Republicans don’t give 2 sh*ts about “shielding children”…or really even drag queens. This is all about getting a Hell Yeah!! out of that hateful backwards-ass MAGA crowd. As with everything else the GOPers do these days…it’s all they’ve got.

Trump approves.

As far as I can tell, the only thing they’re protecting children from is the disgust they feel for drag queens in general.

Idiots

The issue relates to drag performances on government/public property. How often does that happen?

It seems to me that drag queens are just an offensive caricature of women and very degrading. I don’t understand why male chauvinism is ok all of a sudden?

Drag Queens aren't a threat.. guns on the other hand are killing our kids..

They will not rest, until everyone lives a redneck hillbilly life, as they envision, without books, except the bible and a weapons arsenal

Better ban Mrs. doubtfire too. 🙄

Oh for Christ’s sake!!!!

As a Democrat, I'm good with this.

30,000 of us die every year from the guns we are awash in but our politicians are going after drive-by drag-ings. :-(

On their way to the strip clubs and adult book stores? As they drive by billboards promoting these establishments?

Another example of the government getting into areas it should not be involved in…

I hope any state that passes these laws gets sued. Discrimination is illegal in this country.

Sex traffickers and rapists are celebrated by the same people who ban this. The hypocrisy is off the charts.

Small govt, no overreach, to be sure!

Should be illegal because that isn’t “family friendly” entertainment. Looks like you and the democrats are pedophiles.

If folks want to take their kids to drag performances, that is their right. I'm not down with drag performances, and that is my right.

Shouldn’t be banned but you’re a bad parent if you bring your child to one.

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