Michael Ramirez: On the Docket 4-29-25
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Teach your children well. -Michael
Editor’s Note: This latest SCOTUS case is absolutely boggling my mind, and it’s not because I disagree with parents having some say about what their kids learn in school and when. It’s because I think the premise is backwards. This should not be a freedom of religion case, it should be a freedom FROM religion case. While I’ve never had a problem with same-sex attracted people, or letting my curious children know that some couples love this way, the gay rights movement has long ceased to be about same-sex attracted people. It was tackled, strangled, and completely hijacked by a subculture that is based on erasing and destroying the self, along with aggressive tactics and social amputation from anyone who disagrees about the nature of reality.
I actually think it’s generous to call the gender people a subculture. They’re more like a cult. There’s a very distinctive “queer” aesthetic- I hate that word, but I’ve been told it’s been “reclaimed” by mostly straight suburban kids who would have just been goths a generation ago. There’s an emphasis on right and wrong-think and following the directives and agenda of the group at the expense of common sense, and of isolating from anyone who has some questions about this new lifestyle. Parroting nonsensical phrases and slogans ad nauseum is encouraged and rewarded (“trans women are women! No debate!”). More stringent research into the phenomenon of gender dysphoria and whether transitioning improves outcomes or has a social contagion element has been throttled by captured academics. Celebrities, many of whom have “trans kids” that seem to be the new status symbol in Hollywood, enthusiastically bandwagon the cause. This week, Pedro Pascal and Tilda Swinton, among others, proudly sported $75 T-shirts with the slogan "Protect the Dolls" (“dolls” referring to trans-identified men.)
Check out the currently trending #protectthedolls hashtag on X. Afterward, please let me know if that ideologically motivated material (lovingly documented by the “dolls” themselves) has any place in a school curriculum, and if certain judges are being entirely honest about these books merely depicting “people holding hands.”
-Bree
Editor’s Choice Links:
The Supreme Court appears to side with parents in religious liberty dispute over storybooks- Shannon Bream, David Spunt, Bill Mears, Fox News
Democrats Are Crazier Than We Thought- John Hinderaker, Power Line
'Growing heat': Sotomayor spars with Alito during LGBTQ classroom books case- Haley Chi-Sing, Fox News
Mark Carney’s house of cards- Michael Cuenco, Unherd
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