# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018 "2022-02-07T00:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 421
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8407 "2023-03-07T22:19:45Z")
Not, exactly, a rainbow . . . but the OUTRAGE!!!1111!!! is stupid none the same, > **[Kansas state representative calls rainbow drawings proof of indoctrination at...](https://kansasreflector.com/2023/03/07/kansas-state-representative-calls-rainbow-drawings-proof-of-indoctrination-at-leavenworth-school/)** > > A parent was outraged when she found out her representative published her daughter’s drawing as an example of indoctrination.  ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8408 "2023-03-07T22:23:01Z")
I’m no theologian, but isn’t the rainbow supposed to be a sign of the continuing covenant with God? Soooo, why not interpret rainbows that way, not froth at the mouth about ‘groomers’ and ‘woke?’ I know, I know. Perpetual outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8409 "2023-03-07T22:27:21Z")
> Proctor said this couldn’t have greatly influenced the drawings without teachers promoting a “radical, woke agenda.” Or, maybe it’s because people won’t shut the fuck up about it. Even if you’re just screaming about how bad they are, it just means these kids you’re trying to ‘protect’ are hearing about it that much more. It’s like DARE, but about gay people instead of drugs. > [@tripthicket](#): > > but isn’t the rainbow supposed to be a sign of the continuing covenant with God I don’t think there’s much room for interpretation WRT what it’s representing. It says “gay lesbian pan trans everyone is welcome” and Every student can be “in the LGBTQ+/Trans-gender” [![](https://kansasreflector.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/0.jpg) ](https://kansasreflector.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/0.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8410 "2023-03-07T22:39:44Z")
These fuckers can’t imagine a 4th grader with two mothers or two fathers. They _only_ way a 4th grader would learn about the issue of LGBTQ is if they’re being groomed? This is really starting to piss me off. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8411 "2023-03-07T22:43:27Z")
It helps if one remembers that the word “groom”, in all it’s variations, no longer means what it used to when certain folks use it. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8412 "2023-03-07T22:58:52Z")
And that’s very much on purpose. The GOP has said, outloud, that it purposely expands word definitions to the point that they’re meaningless, then they use it to get their base worked up. We’ve seen it with grooming, we’ve seen it with CRT, we’ve seen it with woke. It’s what they do. Also, IIRC, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has asked them to stop using it incorrectly because it’s making their job, of educating people about _actual_ groomers/grooming, a lot more difficult. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8413 "2023-03-07T23:42:57Z")
As an owner of a dog grooming salon, it actually worries me a little. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8414 "2023-03-07T23:49:50Z")
And just how, precisely, are you “bfriending” them? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8415 "2023-03-07T23:51:30Z")
What a beastially intriguing question. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8416 "2023-03-07T23:56:28Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > I’m no theologian, but isn’t the rainbow supposed to be a sign of the continuing covenant with God? They hate being reminded of the commandment “love your neighbor”. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8417 "2023-03-08T00:48:37Z")
Of course the Qliban doesn’t care about anything that shows the deity they purportedly adore displaying anything other than violence. Putting a positive spin on the rainbow just doesn’t parse with them. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8418 "2023-03-08T10:53:27Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > They hate being reminded of the commandment “love your neighbor”. ![](https://media.tenor.com/rkxDzPQuLCkAAAAd/simpsons-alien.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8419 "2023-03-08T14:54:23Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Racist GOP bastards in Tennessee want to rename a section of John Lewis Way in Nashville after Pussy Ass Bitch. > > [Nashville Councilwoman Faces Down GOP Lawmakers Who Want To Rename John Lewis Way After Trump](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nashville-councilwoman-faces-down-gop-lawmakers-who-want-to-rename-john-lewis-way-after-trump) UPDATE: Apparently there has been sufficient backlash against these troglodytes that they have withdrawn their proposal. Too bad _all_ Republicans can’t be shamed as easily. [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where-things-stand-republican-lawmakers-withdraw-bill-to-rename-john-lewis-way-after-trump#more-1450283](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where-things-stand-republican-lawmakers-withdraw-bill-to-rename-john-lewis-way-after-trump#more-1450283) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8420 "2023-03-08T22:05:13Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Of course the Qliban doesn’t care about anything that shows the deity they purportedly adore displaying anything other than violence. Putting a positive spin on the rainbow just doesn’t parse with them. Are you old enough to remember the '70s? People were putting these little arched-rainbow stickers on their car windows. It was a symbol primarily used by Christians, to represent “jehovallah’s covenant” as expressed by the rainbow that Noah’s family saw after the flood. IOW, the Christian types are furious that those filthy LGBT perverts stole their thingy. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8421 "2023-03-08T22:46:29Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EasaTDBXgAMwwW8.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EasaTDBXgAMwwW8.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8422 "2023-03-09T01:06:47Z")
“Have his lawyers call our lawyers.” ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8423 "2023-03-09T02:15:07Z")
Now that sounds Iike a heist film! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8424 "2023-03-09T06:18:30Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > “Have his lawyers call our lawyers.” Where’s He gonna find one? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8425 "2023-03-09T06:22:33Z")
Sounds like a default judgement to me. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8426 "2023-03-09T06:23:40Z")
The Tennessee House has passed a bill allowing clerks to refuse marriage licenses to interracial or interfaith couples. > **[The Tennessee House Just Passed a Bill Completely Gutting Marriage Equality](https://newrepublic.com/post/171025/tennessee-house-bill-gutting-marriage-equality)** > > The bill could allow county clerks to deny marriage licenses to same-sex, interfaith, or interracial couples in Tennessee. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=420) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=422)