based magazine welcomes you with open arms. On the other hand, if tipping the demographic balance is whats at stake, why not consider a move to blue-shifting Georgia or Arizona? Massachusetts is already blue enough! Mr. and Mr. Nobody We need to talk about the U.S. Supreme Courts 63 ruling in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, which held that the state of Colorado could not compel a website designer to create a wedding site for a gay couple. It was a blow to LGBT rights and followed a similar (but narrower) ruling on wedding cakes in 2018. But then a strange thing happened: it was discovered that the gay couple in the case didnt exist! The lawsuit had been brought by a hate group called Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of one Lorie Smith, who claimed that making a gay website violated her religious beliefs. Critics of the ruling argued that the gay couples nonexistence de-legitimized the ruling. And yet, is it possible that the plaintiffs did us a favor by this ruse? What it underscores is that the case was not about the people requesting the website (or cake, etc.), but instead about the creation of a product with explicitly LGBT content. Presumably the ruling also protects someone from having to make a website or cake promoting, say, a neo-Nazi organization. It could be a slippery slope to a more sinister kind of discrimination in which the people arent hypotheticalSamuel Alito may be licking his chopsbut for now theres no actual gay couple being barred at the door. Ribbit KarlMarxdictum about history repeating itself, first as tragedy and then as farce, is playing itself out yet again. If ever there was a tragedy on the political stage, it was the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the great hope of antiwar Democrats, in 1968. And now we have presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr., who popped up during the Covid crisis as a strident antivaxxer and soon began to promote zany conspiracy theories to rival those of Alex Jones (often the same ones). Of late hesbeen talking a lot about frogs, many of which, he claims, are transitioning from male to female due to the presence of the chemical atrazine in their pondswhich also explains a purported rise in transgenderism in humans and a general feminization of American men. Frogs, of course have a longstanding connection with the LGBT community and especially with bisexuals (for whom there are frog pins, frog banners, etc.). The main reason is that frogs are amphibious, which is probably why Kennedy went after them as well. Frogs (like bisexuals) often get a bum rap. In any case, every study has shown that atrazine is not in our water and doesnt have this effect on humans. Robert Kennedy Sr. is famous for saying: Some men see things as they are and ask, Why? I dream things that never were and ask, Why not?And then there are the men who see things that never were. SeptemberOctober 2023 9 /0DE/FGDF DHIGJFDIG JGDH/IK ILDIM1 2LDI K34MHH 5/F6 LGJG7 2LGJG89OQDS"$QO& LQO()69+-:I;<(Q9S& EQ<(=QG><$& HQ<I<>"$<)&G?->)6@A-O"<O& G??9H9B9(S"&3"@9(2->:Q&09(@Q> C(<S"$& N<>Q$$Q& P(=O92<<>R&9O:5(9OB!9RA9 9>> >-+Q:><O=Q(>-+Q"& #<OQ<R%;@;@;9O=Q: ;"$<()#9O:>+Q:;9''->) Q+Q(9R$Q(%$;"<?Q<OQ<R $;Q"9?Q=QO:Q(! %(<$Q$;Q'<Q?"&"$<(Q"& .013573.953*@<? 9O:,<<A"%Q(Q9:-O"@;<<> ;<;)+;-+/ ;2 7468.01:!"#$%#"9 &""$:'"6%"3( .9.*"0%#"9
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