Posts made by hubrys

@raphjd As an attorney that has practiced Constitutional Law, I appreciate @raphjd explaining it to me. I will inform Professor Erwin Chemerinsky that he needs to consult with you on the next edition of his Treatise.

Tinker v. Des Moines - Students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

More specifically:

In our system, state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism. School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students… are possessed of fundamental rights which the State must respect, just as they themselves must respect their obligations to the State. In our system, students may not be regarded as closed-circuit recipients of only that which the State chooses to communicate. They may not be confined to the expression of those sentiments that are officially approved. In the absence of a specific showing of constitutionally valid reasons to regulate their speech, students are entitled to freedom of expression of their views.

Let people be Cake gendered if they want.

It's just applying Deconstructionism to the word/concept of "gender," which is an artifact. Artifact in its correct usage, meaning something created by human beings.

@raphjd This is how your side's logic looks:

You've been diagnosed with terminal cancer. In response, you've Googled a bunch of stories about people impersonating doctors or practicing medicine without a license. And you've concluded that because some doctors aren't real, you don't have cancer. And not only don't you have cancer, but you're now immortal.

Biden was declared the President. In response, you've proven some amount of voting irregularities (which have always been present in all American elections). Conclusion, Biden didn't actually win the Presidency. Not only that, but also now we must declare Trump the President.

TLDR; is this post just @raphjd, again, being ironically trans-supportive, to highlight what a transphobic ass he really is?

@raphjd said in Fairfax County VA public schools to suspend students who misgender:

It forbids discussing sexual matters with kids below the 4th grade and requires schools/teachers not to keep secrets about what is being taught in class.

As an attorney that has read the entire piece of legislation as enacted, I can tell you with certainty that if you sincerely believe that your quote above adequately summarizes this law, then you have been bamboozled. Even the section you're trying to reference goes way beyond how you've tried to summarize it, and that section isn't even the major section of the piece of legislation.

Leftists suspend students for misgendering ---- "They're trying to control how we think!!!"

Florida's legislature forbidding teachers from saying "Gay" or discussing gender ------- "Nope, nothing to see here folks."

For equalities sake, I think it only fair for @raphjd to go thru Twitter right now and see some of the things that conservatives are saying about Nancy Pelosi and how they hope she dies after her COVID test came up positive.

Liberalism doesn't have a monopoly on stupid assholes.

[https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/04/trump-social-media-staff-exodus-00022706](link url)

Looks like former President and current comb-over floor model Donald Trump is having a bit of trouble getting his new social media empire off the ground. After an explosive debut (consisting mostly of people trying to join the site to mock the Circus Peanut), Truth Social has seen a 93% drop off in web traffic. Even the would-be American Fuhrer has only managed to make a single post on the supposed Twitter-killer app.

From what I've heard from folks that managed to get onto the app (there's a waitlist because the system cannot handle even a modest amount of users), the whole app is just troll bots and regurgitated content automatically reposted into the app by an RSS feed.

Looks like Truth Social might join Trump Airlines, Trump Beverages, Trump: The Game, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Trump Style magazine, Trump World magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks, GoTrump.com the travel site similar to Travelocity, Trumpnet telecommunications, Trump University, Trump Vodka, Trump Ice bottled water, etc. in the heap of failures for this sad, sorry excuse of a businessman.

I agree it's kinda douchey for him to wish Clarence Thomas death.

However, to your second point, that's an oversimplification of what happened at UVA. In all likelihood, Perkins was pressured by the FBI to recant his story (during an interrogation that they allowed the accused police officers to participate in) and threatened to continue to contact his friends, family, and his employer law firm after he graduated. Basically, they presented him with two options: (1) recant and it all goes away, or (2) we will open a civil rights violation investigation and pester everyone around you, including your employer, until we turn you into a pariah.

And the UVA intimated that it would oppose his Bar Fitness (the investigation done on all lawyers prior to them being allowed to practice after graduation) if he didn't recant.

He was tried by the school's Honor Committee in closed session, and they determined that he hadn't done anything wrong, which tells me that there was a lot of evidence that the public didn't get to see.

I don't understand why so many gays here on this site have such hatred toward trans people. It's just silly.

@bi4smooth said in US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hospitalized:

I agree @hubrys was a little hyperbolic in his depiction of Justice Thomas believing that the US should have a religion (after all, he is an originalist) - but he certainly DOES think religion (and specifically christian beliefs) should play a larger role in US law and policy.

Justice Thomas notoriously does not believe in the Incorporation Doctrine, i.e., the judicially created legal framework that interprets the 5th and 14th Amendments as having incorporated the Bill of Rights against the states. In Thomas's judicial philosophy, the First Amendment applies only and exclusively to the Federal Government, not state governments. If Georgia wants to make Baptist its official religion, then it can do so under Thomas's interpretation of the Constitution. If Utah wants to make Mormonism its official religion, then it can do so. You can Google and read for yourself his dissent in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.

As an attorney that has both studied Constitutional law as well as practiced it, I have no doubts about what Thomas's judicial philosophy is. You can Google it yourself. It shouldn't be hard to find explanations. His perspective is unique amongst his fellow justices. It is why he so often concurs with the results reached by the Conservative majority, but does not agree with their reasoning.

As for believing gay should be illegal, he dissented in Lawrence v. Texas which struck down anti-gay sodomy laws (previously upheld by the SCOTUS in Bowers v. Hardwick).

I don't like him because of his stances against right to privacy, gay marriage, abortion, freedom of the press, and the separation of church and state. If Thomas had his way, then a state could not only adopt an official religion, but also make being gay a crime.

I don't wish upon him calamity, but I also don't wish good health to him.

@raphjd said in Levin Calls For Schiff To Be Disbarred Over Doctored J6 Committee Text Messages:

Clearly, you have a pathological need to defend the DNC/CCP at every turn.

Actually, it seems he's just interested in pointing out blatant falsehoods, particularly when they come from you, a verified and proven liar on this Forum.

While I applaud the decision, I have no illusions that the Conservative super-majority on the SCOTUS will overturn it if they take up the case.

@bi4smooth said in Trans serial killer strikes again in NYC:

I assumed that the earlier convictions had also been for murder.. and my own personal belief is that 1st-degree murder convicts should not - ever - be eligible for parole.

Even those "liberals" down in Texas allow parole for murder. For example, if she'd been given the maximum sentence (non-capital and non-"without parole" that is) according to TX guidelines for murder, she'd have only spend another decade in prison compared to New York. I don't think NY's criminal justice system was as "liberal" here as you think it was.

@2127493739 said in Florida to Enact "Don't Say Gay" Bill:

What, and at what age, should we tell children about sexual orientation?

I reject your conflating or confounding talking about sexual orientation and sexual education/reproduction. They are NOT the same thing. Orientation is a set of sexual, emotional, romantic, or cultural patterns. Hetero-normative behavior is taught to children just as much as homo-normative behavior. Again, I reference you back to the Berenstain Bears book for 4-year olds I linked earlier. It teaches them how heterosexual households and family dynamics work.

Children start learning about sexual orientation long before they start learning about sexual reproduction. Toddlers begin being able to identify things as male/masculine vs. female/feminine as early as 18 months old. In university studies questioning 9-year olds (which would be Grade 3-4), 75%+ of them understood questions about sexual orientation, with approximately 1% of them already self-identifying as LGBT.

The moment children start being exposed to hetero-normative imagery, ideas, mores, norms, etc., that's when they start learning about sexual orientation. There is no way you can create a school curriculum to teach children without some form of sexual orientation material creeping in. How can kindergarteners learn about George and Martha Washington without them picking up on the husband/wife element of that narrative? The level of abstraction that would be required to remove all references to sexual orientation would render the material incomprehensible to children.

@bi4smooth said in Trans serial killer strikes again in NYC:

why are Liberals letting serial killers out of jail? Permanent probation?

How is this Liberals letting her out? She was in jail for 34 years for the second manslaughter charge (1985-2019). She wasn't let out of prison early because of being trans.

@hubrys said in Why people need to lead by example:

Then please delineate the specific, discrete, and distinct liberals that you were referring to. If you truly were not casting aspersions about all liberals, then you should easily tell me explicitly and in detail which specific liberals you were directing your comments.
If you can't do the above, then you were obviously making generalized statements about a category of peoples and the quoted language from you above is a pitiful defense.

I'm still waiting, @raphjd