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Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023 – part 2

26 Wednesday Apr 2023

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“…I am a person. I think that’s what we’re down to here, an issue of people. And we’re forgetting that we are people…”

A group billing themselves as Johnson County Citizens for the Protection of Children is up in arms about the Warrensburg Pride Festival scheduled for June 3, 2023. There will be drag shows on the program. You know, fancy costumes, theatrical makeup, show tunes. This is nothing new. There were Pride Festivals in Warrensburg in 2021 and 2022.

These right wingnut busybodies organized on-line to present a petition to the Warrensburg City Council during the public comment portion of Monday night’s meeting to limit or cancel the Pride Festival. A loosely organized group of LGBTQIA+ allies organized on-line to speak in support of the Pride Festival.

Over 100 individuals crowded into the city council chamber.

The portion of the meeting for public comment was prefaced by an explanation of the ground rules. The city council was there to listen, but would not comment nor respond to questions. Individuals who signed up for public comment were allotted three minutes, with a city official acting as the timer. This worked well, with one glaring exception. Speakers were asked to state their name and address.

…I’ve been to drag shows before. I went to one last year. Been to Pride festivals, never saw any sort of child abuse going on.

I respect their rights to come and protest that if they want, that’s their choice. But that’s why we’re here.

Rather what I saw going on there and what my family saw going on there was messages of empowerment and joy…

…I just wanted to say I have attended one of these drag shows in Warrensburg with several of my family. I’m a thirty-three year resident of Warrensburg, I’m married, we have five children together, four who are adults.

The drag show was quite enjoyable. I did not see anything objectionable from my point of view. I did not see any potential for harm to anybody. There were some people who were wearing nice clothing. There were people wearing makeup. They lip-synched. Some of them did quite a good job, some of them did okay. [laughter] We all enjoyed it.

The additional point that I just wanted to bring up is that I believe it’s in the economic interest of Warrensburg to support a diversity of events to which people with different interests feel welcome to attend. And to the extent we don’t do that I think it contributes to an image problem that can only hurt the city economically.

So I support Warrensburg being open to holding a variety of events for people with a variety of preferences and interests.

Thank you.

…I’ve lived here in Warrensburg for eleven years I think now…I have never been this disappointed in our elected officials in this country as I am standing here today. I remember years ago it was common, it was a very common to hear the phrase it takes a village to raise a child. And there was a time that we knew as a country that we knew we were working as a united team. The parents, our extended families, our church family, and of course, our government supporting the traditional family and the ideas attached.

Sadly, our villages are broken. Families are divided. Our schools are busy trying to be politically correct. And all the while trying to convince our youth that America’s moral ground has shifted.

The saddest, most pathetic part of all of this is that our churches have forgotten their own role, in not just the family, but in our nation.

Then there’s the smaller government such as city boards, school boards that continually change the rules, that despite all the logic and moral facts that would negate their divisive changes and actions. So, I find myself in front of one of those smaller governments. And, let’s face it, you all need a gentle reminder every now and then that you do represent we the people.

And many of these people are too young and, and they have a voice that is just not heard so we have to be their voice. I do attend church and I am fully aware that [inaudible]. And even though my kids are grown I can tell you this, my job has not ended.

The majority who didn’t get out and vote who are represented here through myself and in people in this room today do not want this mislabeled immoral cabaret event in our county. Honestly, we don’t want it anywhere.

We can clearly see, this is the national consensus, all you have to do is look at the bills that are currently waiting for amending and vote [….] and Tennessee just passed anti-drag queen legislation, Ohio did as well.

Here we are relying on you to make a fair, sound, moral, ethical assessment and judgment based on the following facts, all the while remembering you are the voice of we the people. And that includes our children.

And do, I don’t know if any of you know the definition of pedophilia, but I’m gonna share it with you [inaudible] the dictionary. [voice: “So now I’m a pedophile?”] Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder [….] [timer: “Fifteen seconds.”] …So, they are attracted to these age groups. Now, knowing this, what part of a performance begins with a goal of a man dressing as a woman [timer: “Time.”], putting on makeup [voice: “Ma’am, that’s the expiration of your time.”] and strapping on body parts and dancing provocatively. And by the way, you all have a picture…[shouting][gavel]

Silent majority? That’s not how this all works.

Tennessee? Ohio? Uh, we’re in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Rules. How Ironic.

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Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…

Is this a great country, or what?

…I am a Silver-haired Representative for Pettis County, retired Air Force, and I’ve been to both of the previous Pride events. As a Silver-haired representative I’m a required reporter as well. And there was never any occurrence in which I felt a need to call Social Services.

What I did see was love and inclusion, which is sorely lacking in today’s society. Ones what I think we’re supposed to be trying and do better for our children, and by showing the good in everyone.

So, the pride is just that…

…I come to you tonight as a white woman, speaking from the Christian faith. And my concern goes back to pledging allegiance a little earlier tonight and the freedoms that we enjoy to congregate with those we want to. My faith tradition came in 1720 to Pennsylvania, persecuted in Germany. If you baptized an adult you were killed. And so they came here seeking religious freedom. Freedom we enjoy today. To choose what church we want to attend, what community event we want to be part of. And I believe, tonight we are here for a much larger issue. And that is the freedoms we enjoy which are being threatened by persons who want to pinpoint one group.

And I want to share the importance of that in a quote by Martin Niemoller, a Lutheran pastor, who spoke after Nazi Germany. And he said:

First they came for the Socialists. And I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade-unionists. And I didn’t speak out because I was not a Trade-unionist.

Then they came for the Jews. And I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me. And there was no one left to speak for me.

I think we need to take those words to heart tonight as we speak up for those who are on the margins of our society. I believe Jesus did that, as he gave me that example. I want us to love others and to lift up those on the margins in or community. And to celebrate the gift of God’s creation in each human being.

Thank you.

…I would just like to say, what exactly are we talking here? Kids like me? People who encourage them to be who they are? I don’t understand why a woman, pardon, a man in a dress is a problem if they want to wear a dress. I don’t understand. I, my rights are being threatened at the state level and yet we’re here worrying about this?…

…You’re not allowed to tell me what I can and cannot do just because, you, your religion or beliefs say it. I have my own beliefs. I am a person. I think that’s what we’re down to here, an issue of people. And we’re forgetting that we are people.

Thank you.

Previously:

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 26, 2021 (June 26, 2021)

Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 4, 2022 (June 4, 2022)

What gives you the mistaken impression that we give a fuck about what you think? Part the infinity… (November 21, 2022)

The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 19, 2023)

Always the other (April 21, 2023)

Meta – The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 22, 2023)

Unified Field Theory of Right Wingnut Pearl Clutching, Self-Righteousness, and Victimhood (April 22, 2023)

Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023 (April 25, 2023)

Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023

25 Tuesday Apr 2023

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A group billing themselves as Johnson County Citizens for the Protection of Children is up in arms about the Warrensburg Pride Festival scheduled for June 3, 2023. There will be drag shows on the program. You know, fancy costumes, theatrical makeup, show tunes. This is nothing new. There were Pride Festivals in Warrensburg in 2021 and 2022.

These right wingnut busybodies organized on-line to present a petition to the Warrensburg City Council during the public comment portion of last night’s meeting to limit or cancel the Pride Festival. A loosely organized group of LGBTQIA+ allies organized on-line to speak in support of the Pride Festival.

Standing room only.

Signing in.

Over 100 people crowded into the gallery of the city council chambers by the scheduled 7:00 p.m. start of the meeting. We asked a city council meeting regular if they recalled any other meetings with this large of a crowd. “No.”

After the city council convened and worked through the beginning of the agenda the portion of the meeting for public comment was prefaced by an explanation of the ground rules. The city council was there to listen, but would not comment nor respond to questions. Individuals who signed up for public comment were allotted three minutes, with a city official acting as the timer. This worked well, with one glaring exception. Speakers were asked to state their name and address.

…I’m the one that invited the folks to come to our community and have a Pride event. I tried to get one started in 2020, didn’t work out. 2021, we had our first one, I thought it went very well. We also had one last year, and evidently some folks not real happy about having that event. I’m not sure what to say.

I was thinking Carrie might be here, but I guess I don’t see her right now. I know she used to live right close here. But, I thought when we got rid of the Nineteenth and adopted the Twenty-First that we might have been a little closer to understanding that we should let people have their freedoms and do things. And if we don’t like it, don’t go. That would be the point of this Pride deal, is that if don’t want to go, you don’t have to go. If other people want to go to do a legal activity in a enclosed environment, they should be able to do that.

Now, I’ve heard about those other people in Columbia, those fearful people from a big city. But, again, they were invited to come to our community. Many speakers here today will tell you that they want to have that activity occur.

The other thing I guess I was hearing is that there was abuse last year. I’m a father, a grandfather, I served twenty-one years in the Army, I was a required reporter for child abuse for more than twenty years in Missouri. Used to inspect day cares and home care providers. If I saw abuse I would have reported or stopped it. There was no abuse.

If you look on social media you’ll see some pictures. That’s not anything filmed in Johnson County. I don’t recognize any of those performers. They didn’t come to our town to perform. I don’t know where that was filmed at, but that didn’t happen here. Nor, would we allow that type of performance.

So, let’s be a little clear, you know [….]. Anyway, I guess I don’t see Carrie, but I think her spirit is here. If you want to know Carrie’s last name, it’s Nation. She’s the one with the Tomahawk. [“Time”] [laughter] Thank you.

…the advertisement for the Burg Pride Fest. And the thing that caught me on the invitation was there are seven and a half hours specifically allotted for children and/or their parents or their supervisor. And there’s one and a half hours allotted for adults. So that gives a message to me. It’s like why is there this inordinate desire for these people to be in front of kids? So, that was my first thought…

Never been to a movie theatre? Never watched television?

“Inordinate desire”? Don’t think of an elephant.

“These people”?

… [501(c)3 or 501(c)4] …I was super curious about the organization that brought this petition up, or will be bringing the petition up….I looked on our Secretary of State’s site and found that this organization, We the People of Missouri, was registered as a 501(c)4 which says they are non-partisan and educational…

…that in order to be considered educational it must present a sufficiently full and fair exposition of pertinent facts, to permit a formation of an independent opinion or conclusion.

Now, I do believe there will be items raised on both sides of this concern tonight, I do not believe they will be brought by the same people…

…I come before you tonight as one of many citizens standing up to protect our children from exposure to inappropriate performances that are commonplace at drag shows…

…Like many of my neighbors and friends I’m very concerned about what children see and learn. For instance, there’s an organization here tonight and I think it’s awful that kids learn hate and Fascism and things like that. So, what I’m gonna do about it is, I’m not gonna take my kids. And what I’m not gonna do about it is come to this, this, government and ask you to infringe on their First Amendment rights…

…Our LGBTQ community are not nuisances. They’re not. So, if you don’t like Pride, don’t go. And the last thing I have to say is, you know, don’t be, don’t be the council that signs on to Fascism…

I attended last year’s event. There was no abuse anywhere. There were a lot of adults there. There were a lot of kids there. It was publicized, no one was caught off guard, and it was a voluntary event. People could choose to attend or not attend.

I have a problem with the characterization of performers as being evil, or predatory, or whatever they want to call it. There is no evidence of that. And that is not a way that we address human beings. Out of such language come things like mass shootings. And we don’t need to do that.

This is a group within our community. It is not the entire community. There are other groups in the community that hold different views on how to raise their children. I do not tell them how to raise their children, and I respectfully ask that they not tell me how to raise mine. I will choose the events that they go to, I will choose the books that they read, and I expect that others will grant me the same respect.

This is not a necessary petition.

It was on private property. It was closed. The children did not get there by nefarious means, they did not magically transport there. Their parents brought them there.

And their parents have the right to emphasize the values that they consider important. You may not like that…but it is still their right to raise their children according to their values. Just as it is to raise your children according to your values.

So, I would suggest that we understand within a much larger community of other groups and that they do not speak for all of us. And they do not speak for me. Thank you.

Previously:

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 26, 2021 (June 26, 2021)

Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 4, 2022 (June 4, 2022)

What gives you the mistaken impression that we give a fuck about what you think? Part the infinity… (November 21, 2022)

The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 19, 2023)

Always the other (April 21, 2023)

Meta – The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 22, 2023)

Unified Field Theory of Right Wingnut Pearl Clutching, Self-Righteousness, and Victimhood (April 22, 2023)

Unified Field Theory of Right Wingnut Pearl Clutching, Self-Righteousness, and Victimhood

22 Saturday Apr 2023

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This is too easy.

As always, we don’t allow ignorant comments out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we will present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit.

We see fit.

An attempted trolling comment to a post about small town bigots in Warrensburg, Missouri wanting to shut down a Pride Festival – Meta – The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 22, 2023):

Love all the name calling, really punctuates how you are the adult in the room.

Because denying the humanity of another human being is always the adult thing to do?

Ignoranimus.

By the way, the IP address and email address of all comments are attached to the original comment in our blog operating system.

Venn Diagram of Right Wingnut Orthodoxy

Not a complete list, but you get the picture.

Previously:

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 26, 2021 (June 26, 2021)

Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 4, 2022 (June 4, 2022)

What gives you the mistaken impression that we give a fuck about what you think? Part the infinity… (November 21, 2022)

The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 19, 2023)

Always the other (April 21, 2023)

Meta – The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 22, 2023)

Meta – The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us

22 Saturday Apr 2023

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“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented” – Elie Wiesel

Meta.

A right wingnut group of pearl clutching busybodies in our community is organizing to prevail upon the Warrensburg City Council at its meeting on Monday, April 24th to restrict and/or cancel the Pride Festival to be held at a private event center in Warrensburg on June 3rd. There will be vendors, food, drag shows [fancy costumes, theatrical makeup, and show tunes]. Go figure. They are using a web site to organize and collect signatures for a petition to the Warrensburg City Council to stop or limit the Pride Festival. Their site relates their proposed tactic of flooding the gallery with their presence during the council meeting. Apparently, they are all supposed to clap loudly when one of their number spews their bigotry during the public comment portion of the meeting.

They’ve also been instructed that since they are doing so out of an abundance of “love”, or something, that they should remain polite.

The profession of “love” from a position of overt bigotry, hate, and fear is not convincing to the targets of that “love”. It’s not neighborly. It’s not polite. It’s not civilized.

Since we’ll be covering the meeting on Monday evening we thought it advisable to check with the City Clerk’s office about the various agendas (there are three meetings – one at 5:00 p.m. which is closed, one at 6:00 p.m. which is a work session, and the regular meeting after that). I drove to the city building and asked to see the City Clerk. The City Clerk wasn’t in, but their assistant took my contact information and promised to get answers to my questions. There’s not a lot of space in the council chambers public seating area. Sadly, most of the time, very few people bother to attend meetings. We also asked about media access and tripod placement (for still images).

I was called by the City Clerk’s office that afternoon and was given schedule and logistics information for Monday’s meeting. The assistant then asked me [paraphrased], “I’ve seen something on the Internet somewhere about this. What’s the name of the group?” I replied, “Johnson County Citizens for the Protection of Children.” There was a long pause on the other end of the line. “Hello, are you still there?” “Yes.” “You should be able to find their web site by [Internet search engine] it?”

Another loosely organized local group is advocating a counter to this bigotry at the April 24th public meeting. One individual posted a request that we all listen to the viewpoints of these bigots and show respect for them as our neighbors and acquaintances [paraphrase].

I responded:

From the “Johnson County Citizens for the Protection of Children” web site:

“[…] The last two years, “Drag Shows for Children” were held right here in Johnson County, and on June 3rd, a group plans to hold another at the Elks Lodge/Meadows Rental Venue in Warrensburg. Our community was caught off guard before, but after seeing 40+ children exposed to this abuse last year, we, as concerned citizens, have organized to demand that this year’s event be restricted to adults 18 and older or canceled. [….]”

There were a number of individuals who were/are mandated reporters who attended the Pride Festival last year. Some/many with their families. One of the alleged instigators of this new attempt at pearl clutching (see previous discussion) is, by appearance a possible mandated reporter.

The accusation of “seeing 40+ children exposed to this abuse last year” is a serious one. It might appear to be hyperbole – if so, that’s a really bad choice of words. If we’re talking about civilized discourse one does not just toss around terms that have serious legal implications. Mandated reporters have an affirmative duty to report child abuse. Immediately.

The monsters in this conversation are the ones who tossed an inflammatory accusation into the mix, apparently for the purpose of dehumanizing other human beings. That’s not from a place of love, that’s at the very least a cynical manipulation for the acquisition of power of some sort. History shows us what it really is at its worst.

Who is keeping a civil tongue?

All opposing view are equal? Even if one of those views is dehumanizing and based on grotesque bigotry? No.

Silence means consent. If you’re not willing to stand with the marginalized and take the cast stones with them, then you’re not an ally.

Targeting the marginalized for their failure to cease to exist is not a valid nor civilized cultural or political viewpoint. It’s sure as hell not “love”.

Previously:

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 26, 2021 (June 26, 2021)

Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 4, 2022 (June 4, 2022)

The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 19, 2023)

Always the other (April 21, 2023)

The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us

19 Wednesday Apr 2023

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Warrensburg, Missouri.

Some Like it Hot (1959) – Academy Award for Best Costume Design. “…In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant’…”

Tootsie (1982) – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. “…In 1998, the Library of Congress deemed the film ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant’ and selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry…”

Victor/Victoria (1982) – Academy Award for Best Original score.

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 26, 2021 [file photo].

A group billing themselves as Johnson County Citizens for the Protection of Children [and the Lone Defenders of the One True Faith and Local PTA] is up in arms about the Warrensburg Pride Festival scheduled for June 3, 2023. There will be drag shows on the program. You know, fancy costumes, theatrical makeup, show tunes. This is nothing new.

From their big government, self-righteous manifesto:

[….] The last two years, “Drag Shows for Children” were held right here in Johnson County, and on June 3rd, a group plans to hold another at the Elks Lodge/Meadows Rental Venue in Warrensburg. Our community was caught off guard before, but after seeing 40+ children exposed to this abuse last year, we, as concerned citizens, have organized to demand that this year’s event be restricted to adults 18 and older or canceled. [….]

Says who?

Pearl clutching maroons.

There’s a Warrensburg City Council meeting on Monday, April 24, 2023. They plan on asking the city council to subscribe to their bigotry, or something. There’s even a petition:

For the purposes of the health and safety of our children. NClusionPlus plans on holding a Drag Queen Event hosted by the Elks Lodge/Meadows Rental Venue. We must stop this! We, the undersigned, are concerned citizens urging our elected officials to support the protection of our children. STOP this event!

%%Your Signature%%

Concern Citizen for the protection of our children

They have a countdown clock. Seriously. Drama queens.

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri [2022 file photo].

Previously:

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 26, 2021 (June 26, 2021)

Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 4, 2022 (June 4, 2023)

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.”

04 Saturday Jun 2022

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“…One of them told [us] we were going to Hell if we walked in here. [….] replied that was probably so, but you’ll be there serving me coffee when I arrive…”

This morning a group of right wingnuts took it upon themselves to protest outside a scheduled Pride event in Warrensburg.

Name the band:

“…And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men…”

Was anyone forcing people off the street into the event? Just asking.

It’s a G-rated drag show. You know, pop tunes and Broadway musical songs with fancy costumes and stage makeup.

1982. Victor, Victoria. A film about a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. You know, drag shows. Julie Andrews, James Garner, etc. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning for best musical score.

What’s the difference?

You don’t want to see it? Don’t go.

Otherwise, continue wearing your self-righteous public bigotry with pride.

Previously:

Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)

Why here? Why now?

01 Sunday Jul 2018

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We just love this photo. Apparently a lot of other people do, too.

The badass on the right. #resist

Over the past ten days or so we’ve covered a variety of events. A town hall on gun violence in Kansas City, Kansas which included students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, and several demonstrations against Donald Trump’s (r) policy of separating immigrant children from their parents and placing them in concentration camps – in downtown Overland Park, Kansas; downtown and on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri; and in Columbia, Missouri. In the meantime the right wingnut controlled U.S. Supreme Court upheld the latest iteration of Donald Trump’s (r) Muslim travel ban.

On Friday evening we covered a demonstration near the entrance of the Plaza in Kansas City organized by a coalition of Muslim community groups and allies. About 150 people showed up – modest, yet still effective by Kansas City standards. There was the usual Kansas City Police presence.

About an hour into the demonstration a lone Trump supporter, by his flag, showed up. And then later still, a half dozen or so other right wingnuts showed up in matching t-shirts, bearing matching flags and signs, who strutted past the Muslim demonstration.

Checking it out.

A minister engages.

Walking through.

It’s quite simple, really, if you single out a religious minority you’re a bigot. That’s it.

His editor would cut the first line and the fourth line, then call it truth in advertising.

Uh, about that lack of civility…

Diversity fail.

They have Congress, the have the executive branch, and they have the Supreme Court. What makes them so aggrieved that they’d show up to a modest and harmless demonstration like this? That they’re so insecure that they demand absolute fealty to their supreme leader?

Fist bump.

That’s just like Barack and Michelle Obama! Oh, wait….

Sartorial splendor.

Wait, is that guy wearing American flag underpants out in public? Go figure.

Why here? Why now? Why this demonstration and not the others? What was the difference?

Oh, wait…

Previously:

No, we cannot (June 29, 2018)

Children understand (June 29, 2018)

As we are all (June 29, 2018)

Be the badass on the right (June 29, 2018)

KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees – Kansas City – June 29, 2018 (June 30, 2018)

It’s hard out there

13 Tuesday Mar 2018

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Yesterday a group from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas picketed in Warrensburg on a corner next to the campus of the University of Central Missouri.

It’s not like the good old days when thousands would gather in opposition.

So, there they stood for around thirty minutes under the watchful eyes of University of Central Missouri and Warrensburg Police. And a handful of counter protesters, curious passersby, and some more forward performance artists. It’s not like the good old days.

It has been said that today in America one third of the population would gladly kill another third of the population while still another third would stand by and do nothing.

The problem for old school bigots is that now they get lost in the noise. Professionals have taken over in America and they’ve been left behind.

It must gall them to no end.

All that experience and refined sign making skills. The lessons learned in dressing for the weather, the practice and dexterity involved in holding up four signs. All for naught.

Previously:

A hate group, the First Amendment, and a funeral in a small town (November 23, 2010)

At noon today in Warrensburg (March 12, 2018)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): let them not eat cake

05 Tuesday Dec 2017

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Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].

Today, from Representative Vicky Hartzler (r), via Twitter:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler‏ @RepHartzler
It was an honor to speak on behalf of religious freedom and Masterpiece Cake Shop’s Jack Phillips this morning at the #SCOTUS #JusticeforJack rally.
[….]
8:39 AM – 5 Dec 2017

Nice touch there, using an image of Martin Luther King, Jr. to promote bigotry.

And, of course, some of the responses do not disappoint:

I love her thoughtful, heartfelt canned auto replys…makes me feel so special & I know my voice is being heard! #sarcasm

You’re the worst Vicky Hartzler.

In which Rep Hartzler spends more time trying to legalize discrimination than she does having face-to-face meetings with her constituents.

You are a comically terrible representative for Missouri.

It would be great if you spent half as much time championing the Missourians you theoretically work for as you do a baker in Colorado.

How sad that you feel honored to defend hate! Your hate is not based on the teachings of Jesus. Sad.

You must not be a biblical scholar. It’s all there in the book of Republicanonican

I am. However, I thought this hate is found in the book of Midas. You know the one that says “blessed are the rich for they are rich and job givers and have paid their way into heaven.”

omg they’re using mlk to support discrimination i am screaming

Are you kidding me???

Yeah, we noticed that, too.

Don’t you dare use MLK’s photo in this bullshit.

A bigot surrounded by bigots. This is unamerican.

You’re Free to practice your religion but NOT to impose your religion on society [….]

1) your constituents are in MO-4
2) why do you support bigotry?

We get it, you’re a bigot.

Your bio says ‘serve the hardworking Missourians’. But just the straight ones, right?

It was an honor to be a bigot? Because that’s exactly what you are.

Vile woman.

I’ve got a new campaign slogan for you– Homophobic Hater Hartzler from Harrisonville! Why don’t you spend your time helping fellow Missourians instead of a gay hater in Colorado? I really resent you spending my tax dollars this way. You truly sicken me!!! NO Vicky in 2018

And Jesus wept! Do you support all religious freedoms or only those of Christianity? America is not just a Christian nation. Freedom of Religion is for all religions or those that choose not to believe.

Bigot!

It would be even better if you learned how to give a shit about America being destroyed from within by a Kremlin Puppet. But nooooo, gotta keep those fake Christian values front & center.

My other question is why are you out there with a homophobe when you should be at your job trying to help fix the tax bill?

Good question, but you didn’t really need to ask to get an answer.

“I’ll take ‘I’m running for state senate in a district that doesn’t like to vote for bigots’ for $500,000.00, Alex.”

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There’s some explaining to do today for some republicans in the Missouri General Assembly:

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Jason Rosenbaum‏@jrosenbaum
. @calebrowden on why he voted against #SJR39:

Rep. Rowden Issues Statement on SJR 39

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – “I have spent most of my adult life in ministry; first as a full time Christian recording artist and second as the Worship Pastor at my church in Columbia. I did not believe SJR 39 was the right way to move our state forward at a time when people in Missouri are looking for leadership on how to fix our roads, grow our economy, and keep our families safe.”

4:18 PM – 27 Apr 2016

Gee, if only the same philosophy applied to Medicaid expansion.

And to think, Stephen Webber (D) is running for the same seat. Go figure.

Previously:

Ed Emery might go on the attack to defend SJR39 – but only if brave Torry revolutionaries get his back (April 13, 2016)