Hate doesn’t bother with research (Kansas politics)

"Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4) 02/19/2019 at 15:23 • Filed to: Politics

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I don’t typically make political posts, but I don’t think any of y’all will disagree on this one. Brace for crazy.

Long story short, two rather ridiculous bills were introduced by a Republican House member here in Kansas. Rep. Randy Garber introduced a bill that would label same sex  marriages as “parody marriages” and another bill attempting to create a State owned firewall that would block internet porn unless you paid a $20 fee.

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All of which is hateful and crazy and has no place in modern society. But ladies and gents, the crazy train hasn’t even gotten rolling yet.

It turns out that he didn’t actually write the bills himself:

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In what has to be the craziest goddamn article I’ve read in a long time, it turns out that these bills were written and lobbied for solely by a mentally ill man from Tennessee.

An actual passage from the article:

“ The Iraqi war veteran’s law license was placed on “disability status” in 2011 after the Supreme Court of Tennessee declared him “incapacitated...by reason of mental infirmity or illness.”

Garber said he wasn’t aware that Sevier had lost the ability to practice law in Tennessee.

Two years later he filed his suit against Apple, asserting that easy access to porn through his laptop constituted “unfair competition and interference of the marital contract.”

“The Plaintiff became totally out of synch in his romantic relationship with his wife, which was a consequence of his use of his Apple product,” Sevier wrote. “The Plaintiff could no longer tell the difference between internet pornography and tangible intercourse due to the content he accessed through the Apple products.”

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So yeah, this Kansas Republican sponsored a bill a bill he didn’t write... written by and lobbied for by someone who not only wasn’t one of his constituents, but is also clearly very mentally ill... and didn’t look into it any deeper because that’s how shallow his hate towards his actual constituents is.

It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so hateful.

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sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 15:32

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WilliamsSW > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 15:33

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Well, porn has a huge negative impact on society today, so we must stop it charge for it.

For Sweden > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 15:34

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Firewall?  Is he British?

Textured Soy Protein > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 15:34

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What’s worse is lots of states already have “religious freedom” laws on the books that allow all sorts of discrimination against LGBT and other groups in the name of “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

Which is why you you have situations like this where an accountant is legally within her rights to only do taxes for non-married gay people, and turning them away when they get married, and says the following:

“The LGBT want respect for their beliefs, which I give them . I did not say anything about their lifestyle. That is their choice. It is not my choice. Where is their respect for my beliefs?”

3point8isgreat > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 15:36

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This state is weird.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > WilliamsSW 02/19/2019 at 15:36

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...and keep a list of those who want it... for legitimate reasons and definitely not so that we can attempt to blackmail them over it.

WilliamsSW > Textured Soy Protein 02/19/2019 at 15:37

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What someone is >>>>> what someone believes.

The right can’t really wrap their minds around that.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > 3point8isgreat 02/19/2019 at 15:38

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At least our new Governor is cool and is trying to undo all the anti-LGBTQ things that the Brownback admin did.

WilliamsSW > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 15:38

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Yeah, only a matter of time before they share that info - whether it’s intentional or unintentional (hackers).

JeepJeremy > WilliamsSW 02/19/2019 at 15:45

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Right? It isn’t like the people supporting that bill are “against” porn...they just wanna make a buck off of it.  

3point8isgreat > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 15:46

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That’s true! And I think undoing the Brownback admin’s work extends beyond just the LGBTQ stuff too.  I recall school funding being a big issue as well.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 15:46

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You missed the part where he tried to legally marry his laptop.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 02/19/2019 at 15:51

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I mean he’s just  doing that as an anti-gay stunt.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > 3point8isgreat 02/19/2019 at 16:03

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The school funding changes should be a huge benefit 

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > WilliamsSW 02/19/2019 at 16:07

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Also there are so many ways to get around that firewall it is laughable. I mean doesn’t he know it’s a series of tubes out there. 

BigBlock440 > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 16:12

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Why is the government even involved in marriage?  

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > BigBlock440 02/19/2019 at 16:27

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since the dawn of man people have been sticking their noses where they dont belong

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 16:31

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I say fuck that guy.

With a cactus.

Textured Soy Protein > WilliamsSW 02/19/2019 at 16:53

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Some of my in-laws are super pro-life Catholics and other right wing types. It’s been...illuminating. At least in understanding where they’re coming from.

Without spilling all the tea about them, l et’s just say that people who we re willing to look past all of Trump’s failings because of his promise to stack the Supreme Court with pro-life justices are very real.

TysMagic > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 17:01

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dammit Tennessee guy, why must you make us look Floridian 

MattHurting > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 17:28

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Drive by Truckers latest album has a song called “Kinky Hypocrite” that is written from the South’s point of view, but is applicable here:

Mercedes Streeter > Textured Soy Protein 02/19/2019 at 17:47

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“The LGBT want respect for their beliefs, which I give them. I did not say anything about their lifestyle. That is their choice. It is not my choice. Where is their respect for my beliefs?”

Ah yes, because your beliefs apply to everything you do.

If I whined about every transphobe customer I had to work with at work I would be jobless and homeless. If I can deal with it, you can.

Mercedes Streeter > BigBlock440 02/19/2019 at 17:50

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^^
Heck, let’s expand on that. Why is the government involved in religion at all? The government should just say “feel free to believe in whatever you want, we don’t care” and butt out of it.

Instead, we seem to have government officials who only want the government to cater to a singular system of beliefs and how that system views things the government shouldn’t have a hand in anyway?

Future next gen S2000 owner > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/19/2019 at 18:35

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Rainbow Warriors, nice touch.

Textured Soy Protein > Mercedes Streeter 02/19/2019 at 23:41

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I’m not a religious guy, but my religion (Judaism) is for the most part not into that whole idea of going around enforcing its version of what’s supposedly a sin on others. There are some ultra-Orthodox types who do but they’re a small subset.

So to me, it’s baffling when religious types get so hung up on making rules for others who aren’t in their religion. It’d still be bad if they were only enforcing that discrimination on themselves, but to me, it all comes down to, I’m not in your club so don’t act like your rules apply to everyone.

Oh, and I have a trans nephew. So when people are anti-LGBT in any way, fuck them. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/20/2019 at 05:07

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that’s not crazy, that’s batshit crazy!