For decades, Americans have been told that political speech becomes dangerous when too many people hear it or when the wrong people can afford to amplify it. We have been asked to accept the strange premise that the government protects democracy by limiting how citizens, candidates, and political parties communicate with one another. That idea […]
The Supreme Court handed down the final decisions of its term on Tuesday and they reflected what we have seen all year: It is a very conservative court, and although it usually will rule in favor of President Trump, there are times when it will say no to unprecedented claims of presidential power.
The Supreme Court has come down on the side of common sense when it comes to boys infiltrating girls' sports.In a decision in which all nine justices concurred at least in part, the court ruled that laws in West Virginia and Idaho could limit sports teams to biological sex without violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.'The challenged laws do not classify based on gender identity or transgender status ... but instead on the basis of biological sex.'"The argument that the challenged laws unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender individuals is unavailing. Under this Court’s decision in Skrmetti, the challenged laws do not classify based on gender identity or transgender status, see 605 U. S., at 517, but instead on the basis of biological sex," Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in an opinion released Tuesday in which six total justices concurred on the core issues."The classification at issue readily satisfies rational basis review or intermediate scrutiny."Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito wrote separate concurring opinions. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a separate opinion, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, that concurred in part and dissented in part.Jackson also wrote a separate opinion that concurred in part and dissented in part.In his opinion, Thomas went further and affirmed that so-called transgender identity does not affect biological reality:Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary; and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne, Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to obscure reality — to show “indifference regarding the truth” — is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens “as equal[s].” This is a breaking story.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
This Tuesday, June 30 marks the conclusion of "Nuclear Family Month," which many MAGA Republicans have been promoting as a Christian fundamentalist alternative to Pride Month. Defenders of "Nuclear Family Month" often argue that they are merely defending religious values, not attacking LGBTQ Americans. But Salon's Amanda Marcotte argues that "Nuclear Family Month" is not only anti-gay — it also underscores the Religious Right's contempt for heterosexuals who don't embrace their severe version of Christianity."In recent years," Marcotte observes in Salon, "Republican propaganda has quietly moved away from loud condemnation of the gay community to focusing the most overt hate on trans people. Donald Trump even has a few token gay men in his closest circles, such as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has two children with his husband…. But while it hasn't attracted widespread media coverage, Republicans have not given up arguing that LGBTQ+ equality is a threat. This year, a slew of red state governors signed proclamations intended as blatant attacks on Pride Month."Marcotte continues, "Some states are even calling June 'Nuclear Family Month.' Others have dubbed it 'Strong Families Month' or 'Fidelity Month.' Whatever euphemism is used, they are all poking a thumb in the eye of LGBTQ+ people during Pride, as Arkansas' Republican governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, made clear when she tweeted a Daily Wire article headlined, 'Another Red State Is Counter-Programming Pride Month, Focusing On Family Instead' — as if queer people don't have families." Gay pride events have grown by leaps and bounds in the United States, where Pride Month is now a month-long celebration held in June. On Sunday, June 7, for example, Philadelphia's 2026 Philly Pride festival reported attracted around 147,000-150,000 attendees.Marcotte, in Salon, emphasizes that heterosexual Americans should also be worried about the motivations behind "Nuclear Family Month.""Straight people should definitely not feel safe with these Republicans in charge," Marcotte warns. "These documents don't only demonize LGBTQ+ people; they condemn the vast majority of straight people who don't adhere to the exceedingly narrow proscriptions of the Christian right. Divorced people, anyone who has ever needed government assistance, parents who put their kids in public school, non-Christians and women who don't see themselves as inferior to their husbands all get blasted as immoral — and queer people are implicitly blamed for what Republicans see as 'dysfunction' in the lives of everyday straight people…. 'Nuclear Family Month' and other such nonsense this year reflects a resurgence in the GOP of the view that most people, straight or not, are wicked, oversexed hooligans who need to be browbeaten into depressing marriages. Vice President JD Vance has been at the forefront of this pressure campaign that wants people to marry not out of love or joy, but out of grim duty to the patriarchy."
President Trump announced on Sunday that he will meet with the Democratic Nominee for DC Mayor and likely winner of the upcoming election, Janeese Lewis George, but put her and her Communist supporters on notice. "I will meet with Janeese Lewis George, but must forewarn everyone that Washington, D.C., is again a Safe and Prestigious Community," the President said.
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