"DeSantis, Shapiro & Co. Want To Put My Kid in the Closet"

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Will Saletan
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A GOP lawmaker says FL's new antigay bill would target any school handout in which “Johnny has two dads.”

"My daughter’s family couldn’t be mentioned in a word problem without the school risking trouble," writes @Timodc. "Enjoy the state-mandated closet."

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DeSantis, Shapiro & Co. Want To Put My Kid in the Closet
Bringing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to schools? The fear is the point.
10:39 AM · Feb 15, 2022

https://www.thebulwark.com/desantis-shapiro-co-want-to-put-my-kid-in-the-closet/

Nineties fever is upon us. Wide-legged jeans and bucket hats are everywhere. Pam & Tommy’s sextape is on the tube. Death Row Records has schoolmarms squirming. And in Florida, Ron Desantis’s Republicans are plotting to revive another grody artifact of my childhood, with an assist from Ben Shapiro and the conservative media set:

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Part Deux: Scholastic Boogaloo.

Critics have termed the proposal “Don’t Say Gay” legislation and I have to be honest, when this first hit my radar I thought it was too ridiculous to be something that could actually become law.

Maybe this was one of those cases where a freakazoid state legislator proposes some hopeless nonsense for media attention? Or activists overstate the particulars of what’s being proposed for attention? Or maybe it’s one of those scenarios where a president attempts a multifaceted putsch to stay in power and New York Times columnists tell us we shouldn’t take it that seriously because he’s just a big joke and nothing will come of it?

But as it happened: No.

I talked with some people involved in Florida state politics and Don’t Say Gay is not at all DOA.

*snip*