Glorious! Just effing glorious!

"you may win this today, but you are going to lose".
Amen

Borscht.

Just think, 20 years ago that speech would not have been possible in that chamber, in that state.

Yes. Maybe 10 years (or less) ago.

Maybe even 2 or 3 years from now…

Basye is a homophobe and his brother knew it then and knows it now...

Never trust a self-avowed... homo... phobe.

And they want us to have that fear again.

That's the point. The man in Florida who introduced the "Don't Say Gay" bill admitted it out loud.

This was amazing.

Thom Hartmann played the recording on his show today. It is epic!

I saw that too

Our side and allies need to ask these politicians pointed questions. Like.

When it comes to school athletics what about Trans boys and men? Doubtful they will have a response and when they don't hammer them about their creepy obsession with Trans girls and women.

Ask them where Trans girls and women athletes are supposed to play. If they say the team that matches their birth certificate put them on notice if their sons do anything against a trans girl in the showers or locker rooms they and the school district will be sued into bankruptcy.

Strategywise, just bear in mind the Right uses sports as a wedge cause it *works,* so if the Right brings it up, take the opportunity to attack their general dehumanization and dishonesty and defamation.

I realize that it's a way to pander to their base and score easy political points but we need to put these politicians on the spot and make them own their bigotry out in the open.

Make them squirm for a change!

They won't squirm. They will cite it as a badge of honor.

And as for suing the school district, that gets heard before a jury in the same area. That jury will likely be hostile to a trans girl.

I am not saying I approve of the reality, just that it is the way things are.

We really need to be a bit more to the point. There are daily examples of religious leaders and/or institutions committing horrible crimes against children or covering them up. The minute they begin with their rants about the threat presented by trans children or 'groomers' in public schools, we need to start naming the names. Why is Josh Duggar a free man awaiting appeal? Just for starters. We need to be OBNOXIOUS to the point that religious people become VERY uncomfortable and we need to be able to finish by saying CLEANSE YOUR OWN HOME! before coming after us.

"It wasn't ever going to happen"... (rejecting his brother).
Yet, he's engaging in it today. Another LIA(R).

Wasn't that nice of him to show us how unbiased he is or WAS? I wished he would have been asked about now and this legislation aimed at appealing to the bigoted base and, like any good Repig pol, getting their money and votes on election day. Whatever gets those two things from that non-thinking and hateful base, is worth saying and using.

I hope this plays on TV during this weekend. Holiday gatherings, TV on , news comes on and many will see it.

Great job Ian Mackey! WE need more lawmakers like you.

We have all of 2 (out) gay MO lawmakers. St Louis and Kansas City, 1 ea.

Better than none

Yep!

A bit OT, but the UK House of Commons is getting more and more non-straights in, of all parties. So at least our varying voices are heard.

Representation matters!

if only for ensuring that information and experience is passed on

That's great to hear

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This is who we need in the halls of Congress, not the current crop of wilting daisies.

It takes people like him to pushback against cowards, small minded bigots and mob mentality.

That hit me hard

Same, right in the gut. So much shared pain behind those words.

It did the same to me. I remember all my growing up years and into my early twenties living with that fear that generated such shame within me. I still hear, especially from religious bigots and know-nothings, that we are all born heterosexual like God wants us to be. However, some of us turn away from God and follow Satan into choosing to be homosexual. The fact that I would hear repeatedly that God hated me along with the world around me, was a horrible fear inducing and shame producing thing. I carried that around for so many years until I grew up to the point that I told myself to fuck it all. To this day, I still feel a bit of that well entrenched fear when I decide to tell some friend that I'm gay. Funny thing, at least to me, is that most have already figured that out and remained my friends.

The people that really love you always will.
But, I actually felt better about it 20 years ago than I do now in terms of family.

A hero in America.

Let's not lose track, peeps.

There are still heroes in America.

Whew! That was powerful! I could feel my blood pressure go up and my anger grow while listening. I am so angry at the slide back of our gains as LGBTQ people going on. They are winning these battle right now but THEY WILL LOSE THE WAR! NO MORE CLOSETS!

It's that obvious societal slide backwards that upsets me. "Upsets" hardly describes it. For all these years I actually started believing that people were learning that we aren't the great Satan of the world. Now, again, we are being used to get votes, political support, and money from the dopes out there and those bigoted dummies are legion.

Get a microphone over to the brother’s house to hear his opinion about how he’s treated by his straight GOP brother now that he has come out to him. And what does he think of his own brother passing such bigoted legislation?

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Kudos to you sir For saying it like it is will it change things? As he said you may win today but you are going to lose

Wow, just wow.

i second that emotion

Sent chills up and down my transgender spine and soul.
Bless this man. Right from the heart. Bravo.

I live in Baltimore and am never likely to visit Missouri, but Ian Mackey is my hero today.

Go, Ian, go!

I liked how that fucker who presented this legislation admitted that his brother was afraid to tell him he was gay because he felt afraid that he would shun him. The fucking bigot said "that would never have happened and that his children love their uncle". That's his tribute to how loving and unbiased he is. I get the sense that his defense is to hide the fact that he bears some shame and blame that his own brother felt that way - "Because that never would have happened." He never even thinks about how and where his own brother got that fear. He can't ever admit that it was from people like him that have ruled our society for countless generations with their church-backed hatred. People like that tie my stomach in knots.

It proves also that they don't "believe" this is right - but they do it cause they think voters and the church want it. I will be happy when all religions pass away from this planet.

I will never understand a gay person that is Christian...never as long as I live.

I've long said that 'religion' is the most criminal thing that man ever created to dominate his fellow men.

I have a friend who is gay and a Christian and assures me that his church isn't like that and doesn't agree with all those others who condemn gay people for being gay. I don't argue with him over that, but can't understand how any church can ignore the Bible quotes that are used to support their animosity toward us. He's comfortable with his church and I really hope it is as welcoming as he says. I just don't understand it.