Uganda and Nine American States Join Forces to Cancel Drag Queens

Idaho, Kentucky, North Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Florida have formed an unarticulated strategic alliance with Uganda in a multi-lateral effort to protect us all from men dressing up in exaggerated women’s clothing and strutting around on stage as in a Shakespearean play.  Each of those American states has passed, or is in the process of passing a ban on drag queen shows, ostensibly to protect children from “sexually suggestive” performances.  Here in Orlando last weekend, the Dr. Phillips Center cancelled a family friendly show by Rose Dynasty, an exempt organization that works to make trans children feel comfortable in their skin.  The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts — itself an exempt organization devoted to bringing the arts to all people — is the premier fine arts venue in Orlando, but it worried that allowing children to attend the performance, featuring performances by men in drag, would draw DeSantis’ ire. They’re just dancing like woman and girls, what is the gol-durn prollum!?

My take is that states are wanting see how far backwards the Supremes will bend to uphold the laws against First Amendment challenge.  I’d say they gotta keep bending until their backs brake but I am no expert.  Tennessee became the first state to pass a law and now other states are rushing to prove their own “anti-woke” bona fides.  It really is almost as if the old white men pushing this “anti-LGBTQ as woke” agenda are taking their orders from a distant planet or something.  Uganda, where homosexual acts are punishable by life in prison, is not of a different planet.  But its Ministry of the Interior — comprising old black men, no doubt — released an astonishing report last month, the first page of which is reprinted below.  Astonishing because it implicitly talks about exterminating a people with the banality appropriate to the weather report.  The report warns that some NGOs are “promoting” LGBTIQ-ism.  If you think Uganda is just a third world country nobody will ever listen to, and “this can’t happen here,” you might want to read Justice Thomas’ concurrence in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where he said “we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is “demonstrably erroneous,” we have a duty to “correct the error” established in those precedents. After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.”  I wonder what his clerk was thinking when debating whether to include Loving in the list of cases that should be revisited. And I wonder if Thomas’s ancestors might hail from Uganda.  

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