Why Republicans are obsessed with pedophilia, gender identity, gay people, and abortion From Ron DeSantis to Josh Hawley to Greg Abbott, they're fixated on sex. Here's why.
When Republicans talk about sexual orientation or gender identity, they refer to it as "grooming" accusing opponents of wanting to groom young children for sexual exploitation.
If you think a boy and girl kissing is wholesome, but two boy's kissing is indoctrination, then you are not about protecting children, you are just a homophobe and likely a Christian too.
These days only a Christian or someone ignorant of the facts, would see being transgender or part of the LGBTQ community as a choice. Republicans know this, and use it to gain power.
The Republican Party, once a proud proponent of limited government, now intruding into the most intimate aspects of our personal life. Protecting children from predators is a worthy aim, but the GOP is now denying medical care to children and calling it protection. Why?
Republicans want a culture war, because culture wars sell with voters eager for conflict. A culture war over sex sells even better. Then, Republicans can court both the evangelical right and the rightwing extreme conspiracy loons.
Now Republicans will imply that Democrats are somehow on the side of sexual “deviants” who endanger the “natural order.” That Natural Order and the meaning of deviants as laid out in Christian Dogma.
Democrats need to change the national conversation to focus on abuses of economic power by corporations and the ultra-rich. To make Americans understand how these economic abuses all relate to record amounts of income and wealth at the top. Monopolies need to be broke up, a windfall profits tax, higher corporate taxes and the super wealthy, reform campaign finance, and so on, not the science of our genetic makeup vs Chirstian morals.