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The kind of people who can't see two gay men together without their minds being immediately consumed with thoughts of anal sex. That's on YOU, buddy.

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I hate the likes of Abbott and I hate them all the more for making it necessary to hate them.

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But Parker, have you considered that they're all demons in human skin who want you dead?

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"...comments are meant to frame the very idea of a teacher changing their name as some sort of wild imposition to be foisted onto students. This conveniently ignores that I’m sure there have been teachers who have gone from “Miss” to “Mrs” (or vice versa) and possibly even changed their last names as the result of marriage."

This is why children should only be taught by nuns.

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Also, I remember the shock I felt as a child to see one of my teachers in the grocery store, to realize they are normal humans who eat just like the rest of us. Children are fragile and should be spared this horrible experience, I propose that we establish special hours when teachers may buy their groceries.

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I wish I could have some mitigating impact on people's irrational hate for an entire broad group of humans.

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God (or someone like her) help us if the "America is a Christian Nation" folks get in power. Shall we ban Jews, Muslims, Hindus from teaching because it would soil the innocence of Christian children to discover that some people believe different things from what they are taught at home?

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The thing that makes all of this so galling is the temerity of transphobes to couch their beliefs in professed concern for children. They're not pro-child. Their policies have demonstrated that time and again. All they are is anti-trans.

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Nothing wrong with Greg Abbott or Ken Paxton that hanging them by their heels and having them beaten like piñatas by LGBTQIA+ and Hispanic people wouldn't cure.

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