https://v.redd.it/y6ulpnaa9ine1
created by atmosqueerz on 08/03/2025 at 18:00 UTC
2609 upvotes, 61 top-level comments (showing 25)
Another video highlighting the discriminatory (and evidently hypocritical) bills targeting LGBTQ+ kids that Kansas lawmakers are debating.
Here’s what loud light says about this bill:
About HB2311: Freedom to Discriminate in Adoption & Foster Care
Prohibits Policies that protect LGBTQIA+ kids from discrimination during foster care and adoption: The bill mandates that state agencies must consider foster and adoptive parents even if their beliefs could be harmful to an LGBTQ+ child, such if the prospective parent intends on engaging in practices such as conversion therapy. Includes Lawsuit Clause: Any person who is denied selection or placement of a child and feels as though it is because of their belief system is entitled to sue the agency and its employees over this perceived “discrimination”.
I got this from loudlightaction.org/trans-rights where they have a form to contact your lawmakers about this bill
Comment by porkUpine4 at 08/03/2025 at 18:07 UTC
349 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Sir Cindy Howerton isn't very introspective is he?
Comment by Limp_Dragonfly3868 at 08/03/2025 at 18:17 UTC*
193 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I honestly can’t believe anyone wants to put the views of foster parents over the needs of kids. Wow.
Codifying that adults come first and life should be just a little shittier for kids who’ve already been let down by adults over and over (or they wouldn’t be in foster care.)
If you can’t just be nice, maybe being a foster parent isn’t for you?
Comment by MalachiteTiger at 08/03/2025 at 18:28 UTC
138 upvotes, 1 direct replies
At least she slipped up and admitted it was offensive, which can now be quoted in the future.
Comment by kylop at 08/03/2025 at 18:06 UTC
70 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Can’t argue with dumb.
Comment by KirasCoffeeCup at 08/03/2025 at 18:28 UTC*
134 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Conversion "therapy" is just another form of torture and indoctrination by forcing your beliefs onto another by any means necessary.
The attack and erasure of lgbt+ and especially transgender **PEOPLE** is no different than censoring someone's freedom of speech because you disagree with their statement. These bills are un-American at their core, and proponents of them should be ashamed of their actions of support.
Comment by Mtfthrowaway112 at 08/03/2025 at 18:22 UTC
36 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Almost walked into the point... Almost
Comment by Atalung at 08/03/2025 at 18:45 UTC
57 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Tim Johnson was a teacher of mine in high school. He was my quizbowl coach and I worked as a teachers aid for him my senior year.
When he ran for state house I was kinda happy. We radically disagree on politics but this district is red and I was hopeful that, since I had a personal connection to him, I could maybe get him to lighten up on some of his harder stances.
He no longer responds to my emails. Fuck the right wing
Comment by Ilickedthecinnabar at 08/03/2025 at 18:33 UTC
24 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Sooooooo close to getting it... she's so close
Comment by cyberentomology at 08/03/2025 at 18:52 UTC
36 upvotes, 1 direct replies
If a family’s beliefs are inherently problematic to an LGBTQ+ child, then they are simply not qualified to foster that kid.
In what rational and sane scenario would you put an at-risk LGBTQ+ child into foster care with a family that would cause more harm to that child? If that kid is coming from an abusive or neglectful situation that was deemed egregious enough to remove the child, then there is no fucking way the state would be upholding its duty of care to the child by putting them into another abusive situation.
Sure, you can *consider* that family, for about two seconds, and then move on to the next.
Comment by luveveryone at 08/03/2025 at 19:14 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
He's such a snowflake
Comment by nice--marmot at 08/03/2025 at 18:54 UTC
22 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. - Frank Wilhoit
Comment by Upstairs_Tonight8405 at 08/03/2025 at 19:08 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
What a snowflake, it's just words so why is she offended? /s
Comment by DarkMelody42 at 08/03/2025 at 19:13 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
She is not being offensive. That is her moral beliefs. Why would it be offensive to misgender someone intentionally. It's almost like they are about to a an intelligent thought and then stop.
Comment by physicistdeluxe at 08/03/2025 at 18:32 UTC
21 upvotes, 1 direct replies
transphobia and anti lgbt bigotry, like racism, is just plain ole dumb.
Comment by Dreadkiaili at 08/03/2025 at 19:47 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You aren’t allowed to be offensive to us while we stomp on the most marginalized people. How very dare you?!?
Comment by Ok_Respond7928 at 08/03/2025 at 19:14 UTC
11 upvotes, 2 direct replies
It’s hilarious she can say that with a straight face without even understanding what she’s doing.
Comment by Jackaroni97 at 08/03/2025 at 19:04 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
"Person showing politicians their logic, while they victimize themselves under it"
Comment by femmemmah at 08/03/2025 at 23:25 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It’s already so fucking hard to be a queer kid in Kansas. I know because I was one. The cruelty I faced back then still affects me, even though I’m well into adulthood.
People used to tell me that homosexuality was a sin that cried out to heaven. I say the real sin that cries out to God and to humanity is making a child suffer so you can bask in your own sense of righteousness.
Comment by cyberentomology at 08/03/2025 at 18:36 UTC
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Then why is the legislature coming out of the gate being offensive? It is it only OK when they do it.
Comment by ksdanj at 08/03/2025 at 18:57 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
So think about is for just a second. What's to stop some certified pedo who was denied placement of a child from suing because their "belief system" involves assaulting children?
Comment by Puzzleheaded_Sky694 at 08/03/2025 at 18:27 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Geez he seems smart.
Comment by Exciting_Fact_3705 at 08/03/2025 at 20:05 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Fuck you Mr chairman! All you people do is be offensive.
Comment by AnxiousTrans at 08/03/2025 at 20:43 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Lol. "Being offensive is not a good way to start"
Okay how about shut the fuck up Mr. Cindy
Comment by ThatWasIntentional at 08/03/2025 at 20:50 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Oh this politician again. She (he? Idk) is like the worst of the neighborhood gossips that exist solely to make everyone's life around them worse
Comment by peeweezers at 08/03/2025 at 22:40 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Mr Howerton has awfully tender feelings for a hater.