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David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
December 3, 2024
6:53AM ET
Republican state lawmaker Josh Schriver, who calls himself "Michigan's most conservative state representative" and a "White rapper," said Monday he wants to "Make gay marriage illegal again."
Rep. Schriver insists ripping apart the families of millions of Americans and stripping them of their civil and constitutional rights is "not remotely controversial, nor extreme." Nearly seven out of ten Americans (69%) say same-sex marriage should be legalwhich it has been nationwide in the United States for nearly a decade.
He followed that up just hours later by declaring, "20 years ago, Barack Obama was more conservative on marriage than many Republicans today. America only 'accepted' gay marriage after it was thrusted into her by a perverted Supreme Court ruling. America 2124 doesnt have to be as dysfunctional as America 2024. ORDER! ORDER!"
(In 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have the same constitutional rights and responsibilities to marriage as different-sex couples, the majority of the country was already in support of marriage equality.)
In addition to calling for a ban on same-sex marriage, Schriver has suggested the "endgame" for Republicans should be banning transgender medical care for everyone, as The Advocate reported in January. He also says not allowing conscience exemptions for DMV employees to discriminate against transgender Michiganders "is going to lead to (more) Christian persecution."
Michigan Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel on Monday responded to Rep. Schriver, asking: "Please explain how dissolving my marriage, or that of the hundreds of thousands of other same-sex couples living in America, provides a benefit to your constituents or anyone else. Youre not interested in helping Michiganders. You want only to hurt those you hate. Shame on you."
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Oh, Christians are soooooo persecuted here in the US!
Walleye
(36,395 posts)Irish_Dem
(59,694 posts)Doesn't take Freud to figure this one out.
johnnyplankton
(457 posts)How long before he gets busted in a leather bar?
SpankMe
(3,314 posts)I'd like to see his Internet browser cache. Probably lots of pix of a "model" named "Rex the human tripod". But, I'm sure it's just for artistic purposes.
johnnyplankton
(457 posts)wcmagumba
(3,247 posts)Dennis Donovan
(27,403 posts)He has a punchable face.
niyad
(120,663 posts)Chipper Chat
(10,092 posts)Why not just make all marriage illegal.
Historic NY
(38,045 posts)niyad
(120,663 posts)Prairie Gates
(3,568 posts)I don't know why people are confused or in denial about this. We'll be damn lucky to get to 2030 without Loving being overturned.
Takket
(22,659 posts)not sure anything can be done to stop it.
it would be great to live in a country where things accepted by over 60% of the population were guaranteed rights we could not lose.
Takket
(22,659 posts)superpatriotman
(6,575 posts)There is an anti-White agenda, Schriver has also said, according to The Daily Beast. He said there is also a racist plan to replace Whites with non-Whites through illegal immigration to irreversibly warp Americas demographics, voting citizens, and national identity to keep power in the hands of a godless regime.
canuckledragger
(1,992 posts)along with the completely expected projection of his own actions on others?
bluesbassman
(19,902 posts)These people are drunk with a mandate that doesnt exist.
Passages
(1,430 posts)I'm glad to see she worded it that way because that is exactly his intention.
Takket
(22,659 posts)Calls things out exactly as they are.
Passages
(1,430 posts)dalton99a
(84,881 posts)Joinfortmill
(16,621 posts)AverageOldGuy
(2,169 posts). . . Someone reveals his history with little girls, little boys, and maybe even farm animals?
I give him a week.
Norbert
(6,612 posts)I expect a lot of this shit in the next 4 years.
NEOH
(97 posts)lonely bird
(1,971 posts)The guy has some weird eyes.
In other words, a Republican.
Upthevibe
(9,249 posts)As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, my gaydar is way up on this p.o.s. WTF?!
AntiFascist
(12,976 posts)WestMichRad
(1,884 posts)Rep. Josh Schriver was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in November 2022. He represents Michigans 66th House District, which contains Bruce and Washington townships in Macomb County and Addison, Brandon, Oakland, and Oxford townships in Oakland County. Lives in Oxford MI.
He is a graduate of Michigan State U (2015) and further got an MS in psychology. Has worked as a kindergarten teacher and as a board certified behavior analyst to develop client-specific programs to support children with autism and their families in home, school, and clinic.
All of which suggests that a person can do good while being a POS in other aspects of life.
Dem4life1234
(1,981 posts)He's not some backwoods ignorant uneducated hillbilly.
He's well educated, maybe he's closeted and hates himself? Perhaps a pedo?
WestMichRad
(1,884 posts)a Christian nationalist prick.
Dem4life1234
(1,981 posts)How does it affect his life?
I'm sick of these evil people.
keep_left
(2,525 posts)There's a lot of it, although it tends to be found primarily in Ann Arbor, because that's where radtrad Catholic billionaire Tom Monaghan set up his idiotic "think" tanks and foundations years ago. Monaghan owns a huge chunk of real estate called Domino's Farms where he's set up all sorts of phony nonprofits, many of which exist to persecute liberal and progressive movements inside the Church. The fact that Schriver is on the record favoring the banning of contraception and marriage equality suggests that he is at least of the same mind as Monaghan and the radtrads, even if he's not part of them.
The article also mentions that Schriver got into hot water with his colleagues for his support of Jack "Prilosec"...er...Posobiec, an alt-right activist and professional troll. Posobiec's neo-Nazi activities got him cashiered from what would have been a cushy career in Naval intelligence.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219354338#post3
NameAlreadyTaken
(1,645 posts)to be leaked soon...