The Democrats are losing ground in the midterms.
They need something to get voters to the polls.
And the New York Times is attempting to scare Democrats to the polls with one threat after the Supreme’s landmark decision.
Ever since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, Democrats have been in panic mode.
The abortion issue was kicked back to the individual states, but the Left is still pretending as if we just teleported back to 1637.
And they’re attempting to broaden their arguments over the abortion issue in order to rally voters to the polls.
That’s why The New York Times is now suggesting that gay marriage, and even interracial marriage, are on the chopping block.
The Times also tried to tie same-sex marriage to drag shows aimed at children.
“In Arizona, Kari Lake, a candidate for Governor endorsed by Donald J. Trump, affirmed in a June 29 debate her support for a bill barring children from drag shows — the latest target of supercharged rhetoric on the right,” The New York Times claimed.
The Left’s defense of stripteases aimed at children is despicable.
Their paranoia around marriage arose from Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in the Dobbs decision, in which he said that the Court should look at the faulty substantive due process reasoning in Obergefell v. Hodges, which enshrined gay marriage as a nationwide institution.
First, Justice Samuel Alito said that the Dobbs decision only affected abortion, and there is no political will to undo Obergefell, even though the legal reasoning was shaky, which was Thomas’s point.
And there is no basis for interracial marriage to be undone, yet Democrats are pushing that narrative.
“The dominoes have started to fall, and they won’t just stop at one,” Michigan Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel said, before adding, “People should see the connection between reproductive rights, L.G.B.T.Q. rights, women’s rights, interracial marriage — these things are all connected legally.”
However, Loving v. Virginia, the case that struck down anti-miscegenation laws, was an equal protection case under civil rights legislation, not substantive due process.
But Democrats need something to strike fear in the hearts of voters.
Unfortunately for them, they don’t even realize how unreasonable they sound.
For instance, The Times piece tried to fearmonger about actions Republican legislatures were taking, and none of it sounded ghastly in the way that the Left intended.
“Louisiana became the 18th state, all with G.O.P.-led legislatures, to ban transgender students from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity,” The Times bemoaned. “Laws to prohibit transitioning medical treatments to people under 18, such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries — which advocates call gender-affirming care — have been enacted by four states.”
“And after Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a law in March banning classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades, more than a dozen other states moved to imitate it,” they continued in horror.
Even a majority of Florida Democrats agreed with Governor DeSantis on the Parental Rights in Education bill, which is a clear sign that the leftist radicals are out of touch.
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