Republican AGs Sue for Schools' Right to Deny Free Lunches to Gay and Trans Kids
jezebel.com
The lawsuit argues that the Biden administration went too far in asking schools with government-funded lunch programs not to discriminate against queer kids.
They want the money, but only to spend on their in-group. Dept of Ag needs to send them boxes with "thoughts and prayers" instead of money.
Or those bible verse 100 dollar bills lmao
So they're not even trying to pretend to hide it. They are the party of "Screw you if you don't fit my mold of what people ought to be"
I feel like it’s been a long while now since they tried to hide it.
They have upgraded to full on fascism. Starting up culture wars, blasting propaganda to convince the country that a small group of a protected class is the root of all US problems. I’m tired of history being made in my lifetime.
And the worst part is the only progress we may see for the rest of our lives is getting back to where we were before facism took over. America is shit.
By every metric the USA is a failed-state.
It's a global epidemic. That's why it's our responsibility to stomp out fascists and refuse their platform at every opportunity.
Dan Savage pointed out in his podcast yesterday that in interwar Berlin, lgbtq-whatever-else-we-add-now people were more free than any time since probably ancient Rome before the Christian period.
It took about 3 years of Hitler in power to start shipping those people off to the camps. They still haven't really recovered.
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” -Antonio Gramsci (who died in a literal Fascist prison)
I know who Gramsci was. I don't understand what you're getting at with that quote.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Good ol Christian values.
They've "gone too far" telling schools to feed all hungry children? It boggles my mind that these people can't see they're the bad guys.
If you’re not self-aware enough to ask “Are we the baddies?”, you’ll never know the answer.
Someone needs to flood their physical and digital mailboxes with the bible verse that says hurting children is a one way ticket to hell.
It sure would be great of we could get through to people without having to resort to quoting from The Goat Herder's Guide to the Galaxy, but maybe it's the only way.
This is absolutely disgusting. All kids no matter what should get free meals at school.
That’s so fucked up
They're going full retard with the bigotry thing, aren't they?
There's so many questions I have for how it'd work. But I can totally see some asshat using it as an excuse to deny some child who has no idea yet free lunch.
To qualify for the free lunch program money, they have to not discriminate against LGBTQ+ children in the context of the program. They want the right to prohibit all LGBTQ+ children, like punishing trans kids for wearing the clothes they want, or witholding diplomas from same sex couples who attempt to attend the prom. It's not that they want to slap the free cheese sandwiches from the hands of young LGBTQ+ kids. They want to prevent them from existing entirely, or at least tell their constituents they are trying in order to stir up votes and donations.
Everybody's outraged at those AGs and I'm out here dumbfounded as a non-American wondering.. your administration had to literally put a distinct rule in place that mandated schools to treat all kids equally? Like, such a thing had to be explicitly written down and wasn't already covered by constitutional human rights?? God damn
The worse part is there's already plenty of Republicans who think free lunch for kids who can't afford it is a bridge too far.
I thought that this was a law that they're trying to pass... not suing because they gave people basic rights!?
There's so many questions I have for how it'd work. But I can totally see some asshat using it as an excuse to deny some child who has no idea yet free lunch.
Misleading title. The Biden administration is trying to tie lunch funding to schools' gender policies and republicans are suing against that. There's no mention of "denying lunch" to anyone.
I don't think the article is misleading. If you take money from the federal government you have to follow their rules. This is how Medicare and other programs have always worked so there is precident. The republicans want to argue semantics on whether the funding agency or Congress have the right to make/change the rules as a stall tactic for positive change. Regardless of their disagreement, their behavior and beliefs in fascism are still abundantly clear.
The title is misleading because like you said, it is an argument over semantics. Not "Schools' right to deny free lunch to gay and trans kids."
Republicans are arguing it's semantics, decent folk are arguing that those kids exist no matter what and must be protected.
Yes, true, they're suing to be able to discriminate against queer kids in general, not just during lunch.
If you don't follow federal law you shouldn't get federal funds.