Legislating Lunacy

THE GOVERNOR OF fLORIDA yesterday signed into law the law prohibiting Florida public schools from giving instruction regarding sexual orientation or gender studies. Liberals contemptuously call this law the "don't say "gay" law", which is misleading, because the new law does not prohibit the use of the word "gay"; it prohibits instruction or studies in gender studies and sexual orientation. The complete uselessness of the law derives from the simple fact tht there are currently no public schools in America which provide instruction in gender studies or sexual orientation, nor are there any, as far as anyone knows which plans to offer it in the near or far future. What this new idiotic, useless law does is provide unlimited opportunties for lawsuits. Let the lawsuits roll. Lawsuits from paranoid evangelicals who panic that some teacher referred to "gay people" as if they not only do not choose to be gay, but are proud of so being, and want to encourage other children to so become. Nonsense such as that. The current conservative cultural avalanche, consistine mainly of hundreds of pieces of nonsensical, idiotic legislation i, republican states is a continuation of Trumpism, and bodes ill for the forthcoming midterm elections, and, for that matter, the presidential election of twenty twenty four. Purely as a political expedient, Trump decided to "embrace" the far right evangelical coservative Christian portion of the Republican party, which reciprocated with undying loyalty for and support of Trump. Strange bedfellows, to say the least. Argue all you want, but the simple fact is that for a long time, American cutlure and the American people has been and continues to move in the direction of acceptance of gay and transgender people as equals, anad that trend is going to remain. That's the way we the American people want it. We have decided. The decision has been made. It is entirely useless and counter productive for conservative America, demonstrablly off its proverbial rocker, to try to oppose gay and trans culture by wiping it out in public schools through legislation. As the say: It aint gonna happen. All these idiot laws, like the one signed into law yesterday in Florida, will never stand the test of time; they will eventually be repealed, as harmful to society. Similarly, trying to whitewash American history by making it illegal to tell the truth about slavery and racism in America, past and present, will never work: the truth is already out there, available to all; the cow, as we say, is out of the barn.