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Christian dad sued school to keep his son from knowing that LGBTQ+ people exist. He just won.
(www.lgbtqnation.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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You realize they don't really care? They just do it to exert control over public institutions. It's a way of threatening and eventually firing progressive teachers. Majority of those court cases are manufactured by right-wing think tanks and the parents are just some random people. In many cases the "victims" suing were not even real. It doesn't matter. The Supreme Court will eventually take the case and give Christians another win.
The politicians who confect the controversy may do it for that reason, but you're making a mistake if you think the ordinary believers are anything but sincere in their beliefs.
How do they square it then? Well, that's easy: they themselves weren't really exposed to gay people growing up and they turned out just fine - they hate gay people, just like God intended.
I honestly think that people following this line of people just really can't imagine that people are that prejudiced, but they do be like that.
They sure are homophobic but they don't normally sue schools to shield their children from LGBT books just like they don't normally go to court to let them discriminate gay couples in their bakery. Lawsuits like that cost money. If you appeal and appeal up to the Supreme Court it costs serious money. These lawsuits are politically motivated hit jobs sponsored but right wing donors and executed by right wing think tanks. People really need to realize this is how they operate now. Those are not some grassroots movements or random Christians trying to "protect" their kids. Those are all well prepared, targeted actions, sometimes planned and executed over many years. This is how they overturned Roe v. Wade, this is how they took control over public libraries and this is how they will take over education.
I don't think "most people don't have a billion dollars to use the US court system" says much about what they'd do if they did have a billion dollars.
Yeah, the money to fight it may be donated by people with ulterior motives - or it may be donated by a million true believers - but that doesn't change that there are true believers, and trying to pretend they don't exist will lead you to say stupid things and fight back in the wrong way.
I'm not saying no one rally believes this shit. I'm saying believers are not the real problem. How would you fight believers? Ban religion? The problem are the corrupt institutions and weak laws. The solution is to pass laws that actually protect people. Roe v. Wade wasn't abolished because people started believing harder. Support for abortion is actually fairly stable and grew in recent decade. What changed is that Republicans took over the Supreme Court and cooked a state level lawsuit that let them abolish it. All those cases are like that. Getting mad at "true believers" will lead you to nowhere. You should be mad at Democrats for failing to pass laws on federal level when they had the chance.