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Ray Anne's avatar

It is no small irony that a largely Catholic country like Hungary and a Catholic governor like DeSantis legislate against the LBGTQ community as a protection against grooming but are remarkably mum about the well-documented priest/sex/molestation/grooming scandal in the Catholic church.

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When I first read Rod Dreher tweet about the Hungarian prime minister, who will now serve a fourth term in office. “Groomers hardest hit."I had no idea what he meant by 'Groomers'. Now as explained by Ruth, I learn that it refers to sex traffickers and pedophiles. This is just the most hateful and despicable attack tool, nothing could be more unfair or cruel. But it should be no surprise because authoritarianism is brute force and inherently cruel and destructive in every way possible of basic rights of freedom and privacy.

The far right and Putin's obsession marks a trend that we've been seeing for at least a few years now in the US; as when Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring operation out of a pizza parlor to Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's being smeared and attacked by a brawling mob of Republican senators as being soft on child porn. Satin worshiping pedophiles, sex trafficking and homophobia is a potent core theme of right wing authoritarians world wide and domestically.

I think they're just getting started. After years of progress, the persecution of gays is just in the wind up phase. Look for legislation coming out of states with Republican dominated legislatures to begin challenging Obergefell v. Hodges,-- the gay marriage law that was decided in 2015. The 6-3 reactionaries on the very conservative Supreme court are chomping at the bit to hear a challenge so they can overturn it and say it should be left up to the each individual state to decide. This is the same reasoning used as their historic overturning of Roe v Wade. They fail to understand that there are certain unalienable rights to privacy and liberty that can not be infringed upon by the whims of state legislatures.

An authoritarian white male Christian nationalism is threatening to steamroll over popular majority opinion for abortion and gay rights through out the country as a way to acquiring power in the current day Republican party. How fascist and tyrannical will they all get?

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