This means romance authors. This means poets. This means screenwriters and playwrights and actors of anything remotely risqué. And eventually, anything secular. They have no point of satisfaction until they’ve erased all of non-Christian expression.
Which is ironic, because they themselves are as far from actual Christianity as possible. I'm no major scholar, but I could've sworn that one of the Bible's major rules was "don't be a judgmental piece of garbage."
If my fellow poets think we’ll get passed over because of our sparse readership, let me promise you that they’ll find us too. Especially those of us they consider apostates.
Can we highlight the fact the first "example" is just anything pro-trans, which to them probably means anything including a trans, trans-coded, or gender-non-conforming character whatsoever? Probably anything queer whatsoever? Including existing childrens' media most likely.
Larry Flynn died for our sins. Or, well. Sort of. Ew. But still.
We overcame the Hayes Code and the Hollywood blacklist and the frigging Meese report. we're here, we're a beautiful goddamned plurality who have a right to live authentically and well in this world, and we're not going back. Fuck you.
Ironically, this would backfire on their faces amusingly. You might as well consider all of Christian Renaissance art gone, and, if you really wanted to take it to extremes...doesn't the Bible itself also have descriptions of nakedness in like, as early as the first chapter? 😂
It will QUICKLY devolve into all consumable media must be Christian. All of everything around you. And you better show your ass in church or they’re coming to your house to “retrieve” you for re-education.
Be scared. It’s closer than you realize. If you’re a damn wimp & won’t fight back, you’re f’d
They explicitly say this is going to be used against transgender people at the beginning of the paragraph. Yes, it’ll be used against everyone else they don’t like, too. But let’s not ignore who they plan to erase from public existence altogether first.
"....until they’ve erased all of non-Christian expression."
And of course, it's THEIR version of Christianity that they're fine with. They would ban the novels of Andrew Greeley and I'm sure they'd go after Blatty's THE EXORCIST (and maybe even the film version too).
This means musicians, this means artists, this means photographers, this means drag queens and kings, this means dancers.
Also, Christianity is the facade they are hiding behind, it is all about control.
Yes, AND a tonne of *Christian* expression that doesn't happen to fit their fascist and misogynist version of "Christianity." They're coming for everyone but the rich white men who run their movement.
It's great to be an American, but you only get to be one for so many years. It behooves us to not leave behind a dictatorship for the Americans that come after us.
I would suggest that attention also be focused on any local elections (including for school boards) as well as federal and state elections.
They're moving and they're attacking democracy from every possible angle they can.
In my book on Einstein I had a couple of photos of naked people (German youth during Weimar) and I talked a bit about Einstein’s affairs. I’m a science writer/popular historian, and I could easily see that kind of work running afoul of this.
I've seen certain parties go so far as to define even nominally Christian fiction as "lying" and thus dangerous. A fringe position now, but as they get into a downward spiral of everyone needing to be more pious than the next guy...
It's important to note:
IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW RIDICULOUS THIS SOUNDS.
When someone tells you who they are, listen to them. It might sound far fetched, but that doesn't mean they won't try. They got Roe and are outlawing abortion, which people said wouldnt happen. They kept trying!