Well, if anyone wants to know the reason that I was asked to boycott the Super Bowl: Dateline: Montana...

It may take me several iterations to get this post just right -- and it may be very important for me to do so.

For I think I have seen something, today, which makes me about as angry as anything I've ever put on this blog -- and people know I've put some doozies here...

But it's the latest salvo in the war against transgenders which has me irate, because this one declares open season -- first with words, and, very soon thereafter, with far more...

The Montana House today voted on the first major step to killing every transgender in the state.  No less than that, and don't lie to me and tell me that's not the eventual intent here.

What the Montana House black-letter did is passed, 66-34, with only two Republicans joining the 32 Democrats in the supermajority-Republican House, a proposed law making it legal to bully transgenders, on the grounds that preventing them from doing so prohibits the Constitutional rights of the other students in schools.

Not even as a function of sports...

Not even as a function of anything but the full-scale elimination of transgenders from Montana schools, one way or the other.

I hope that is the answer people are looking for if some readers were actually wondering why I was asked (and accepted) not to watch the Super Bowl after the ADF ads.

I want to walk you down a very dangerous path here...

First, James White, Arizona pastor -- who has actually argued that since sinful acts are to be rejected at all levels, empathy -- as a function to have empathy, you must accept their sin, is a sin of it's own merit.

Does this motherfucker not get that empathy is the only thing which separates many people from murdering others?  Myself being on both sides of that equation, thank you very little?

Pastor White, if you have that belief on empathy, you have but two options:  One, you shake the dust off your shoes and LEAVE THEIR PRESENCE, going as far away as necessary -- or two, you reject the concept of God as Absolute Creator and since God "doesn't know" those he sends to Hell in the Judgement and God knew you before you were born, you would then logically have to conclude that God is not the exclusive Creator -- which has all sorts of moral and religious ramifications, and that's beyond my pay grade and the scope of this blog, and had damned well not be correct!

Don't get me wrong -- I think, on an intrinsic level, many of these Christofascists actually believe that -- that the Devil actually created LGBTQ's (especially the T's, who are the first targets to be eliminated), mentally ill people, people who are disagreeable with society to sufficient extent, I could go on...

Second, two families in the state of Pennsylvania are suing their school district on the grounds that showing empathy and being taught empathy is a violation of their children's Constitutional rights otherwise -- and they state openly that not all human beings should be afforded same.

Do these people not get that the enforcement (and, yes, I will go "enforcement" here, just as I believe the Constitution is an imposition of the rights of the minority against the majority -- and decisions like this are WHY!!!!) of some degree of empathy for your fellow man/woman/non-binary/whichever is chosen is the only way you don't end up in Free Fire!!!

Because when I am presented with something like this, a part of the debate today in the Montana House:

Still can't believe this dude stood on the Montana House Floor and said "We are under no obligation to be kind to one another and students are under no obligation either" while arguing in favor of a right to bully trans students.

Which then PASSED!

This is what the GOP wants. pic.twitter.com/WEdSO0Kmu7

— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) February 16, 2023

Are YOU FUCKING MAD, House Member Hopkins??!?!?!!??

And I'm not talking "angry mad" here.  I'm talking downright fucking NUTS!!!

If this is the Montana GOP, they need to lock the lot of you up.  NOW.

Or I guess there's one other option, since you have supermajority in the state...

Mr. Hopkins:  I hope the first bullet which flies because of this is a transgender student and it's your son or daughter who has to eat it because you find it a stain on your soul that you want cleansed through Purging that people other than your sorry ass exist in your state and your schools.

HO-LY FUCK-ING HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!