Once known, even branded, for its dynamism and progress, Texas has entered into a spiral of animus and legislative contempt toward LGBTQ+ Texans reminiscent of Mississippi in the Sixties, in its final throes of opposition to integration and civil rights
Mississippi helped clear the way for its “massive resistance” to integration by harnessing the fear of what legislators called “racial perverts” and outside agitator “deviants.” U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves wrote in his 2014 opinion striking down Mississippi’s ban on same-sex marriage, “…segregationists called their opponents ‘racial perverts’; Klan propaganda tied together Communists, homosexuals, Jews, fornicators and angry blacks—infidels all.’”
Today, this seems to be the new Texas blueprint – from posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms (for the “infidels”) to enacting book bans, drag bans, a new ban on LGBTQ+ clubs in schools, school speech bans (“Don’t say gay”), and an obsessive number of anti-transgender proposals and laws.
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Charles Francis 