Forget thoughts and prayers: Colorado Springs shooting is what comes from anti-LGBTQ hate
It doesn’t take much pondering to figure out cause and effect. You dehumanize people enough, someone will treat them as less than human. You make guns easy to get, unhinged people will get them and use them to kill. You respond to tragedies with thoughts and prayers and nothing else and nothing’s going to change. For months in America we’ve heard hideous anti-LGBTQ rhetoric coming from one side of the political aisle. Lawmakers, parents and pundits senselessly calling out drag queens, labeling teachers who dare speak of gender identity as “groomers,” passing or supporting legislation making the word "gay" seem taboo. After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through his now infamous "Don't Say Gay" bill, which prohibits teachers from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity with students in kindergarten through third grade or "in a manner that is not age appropriate," his press secretary, Christina Pushaw, tweeted that anyone who opposed the bill was a groomer: “The bill that libe
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### Response: It doesn’t take much pondering to figure out cause and effect. You dehumanize people enough, someone will treat them as less than human. You make guns easy to get, unhinged people will get them and use them to kill. You respond to tragedies with thoughts and prayers and nothing else and nothing’s going to change. For months in America we’ve heard hideous anti-LGBTQ rhetoric coming from one side of the political aisle. Lawmakers, parents and pundits senselessly calling out drag queens, labeling teachers who dare speak of gender identity as “groomers,” passing or supporting legislation making the word "gay" seem taboo. After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through his now infamous "Don't Say Gay" bill, which prohibits teachers from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity with students in kindergarten through third grade or "in a manner that is not age appropriate," his press secretary, Christina Pushaw, tweeted that anyone who opposed the bill was a groomer: “The bill that libe