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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 01:05 PM Apr 2022

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert Wants an Age Minimum Before People Come Out

Colorado Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a supporter of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, has now proposed that queer and trans people should remain closeted until reaching a designated level of "maturity."
“We require people to be 21 to purchase alcohol beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products,” the Colorado congresswoman wrote in a tweet posted on April 1. “Why is it so unreasonable to require people to reach a certain level of maturity before making life-altering decisions about their sexuality and identity?”

This is just the latest in what has become a pattern of anti-LGBTQ+ comments made by Boebert. In February, she was outspoken in her opposition to the Equality Act because it would extend civil rights protections to LGBTQ+ individuals.
“We all know that that’s just the Democrats using a play on words.
There’s nothing about equality in that act. If anything, it’s supremacy of gays and lesbians and transvestites,” Boebert said in an interview on Real America’s Voice.

One of the Democrats looking to face Boebert in November's election is a gay man who went viral with his campaign video calling out Boebert's extreme views. Alex Walker's video shows fecal matter falling from the skies and ends with him declaring, “Colorado needs a bull, not a bullshitter.”



https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/04/gop-rep-lauren-boebert-wants-age-minimum-people-come-out
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GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert Wants an Age Minimum Before People Come Out (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Apr 2022 OP
So will heterosexuals also be required to be 21 before they date, have sex, or otherwise come out? Sanity Claws Apr 2022 #1
She dropped out of high school bottomofthehill Apr 2022 #2
fuck that nazi woodchuck Celerity Apr 2022 #3
The howler monkey pictures are better jmowreader Apr 2022 #11
Lil Gunny's full rapsheet Celerity Apr 2022 #12
16 year old's can marry in her state. In MA if you are a boy it's 14, 12 for girls. Runningdawg Apr 2022 #4
Her logic is indecipherable. Duncan Grant Apr 2022 #5
Shut the fuck up, Bang Bang Barbie... IngridsLittleAngel Apr 2022 #6
Goddammit. There's that "choice" narrative vomited up again. lambchopp59 Apr 2022 #7
No.. We did not choose this.. IngridsLittleAngel Apr 2022 #8
Do Girls Have To Be 21 Before Getting Your Hubby's Schlong Waved At Them? nt smb Apr 2022 #9
Here's the best part jmowreader Apr 2022 #10

Sanity Claws

(21,839 posts)
1. So will heterosexuals also be required to be 21 before they date, have sex, or otherwise come out?
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 01:08 PM
Apr 2022

After all, she implies that one needs some level of emotional maturity in order to choose their sexual orientation or sexual identity.

bottomofthehill

(8,317 posts)
2. She dropped out of high school
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 01:18 PM
Apr 2022

To give birth to her first child. Unless she was a 21 year old high school student, she was violating her own life plan.

Runningdawg

(4,509 posts)
4. 16 year old's can marry in her state. In MA if you are a boy it's 14, 12 for girls.
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 02:15 PM
Apr 2022

Maybe 2 - 12 year old girls in MA could announce their engagement just so her head would explode.

Duncan Grant

(8,259 posts)
5. Her logic is indecipherable.
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 02:34 PM
Apr 2022

London is 3,473 miles from New York. If a train leaves London at 8:00 a.m., traveling at 100mph, when will it arrive in NYC (show your work).

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
6. Shut the fuck up, Bang Bang Barbie...
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 06:30 PM
Apr 2022

How about a minimum IQ or maturity level to run for office? Because you fail to qualify by either measuring stick

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
7. Goddammit. There's that "choice" narrative vomited up again.
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 07:37 PM
Apr 2022

The only choice I made in my early teens was to be honest with myself and others. A life risking choice a half century ago where I was: a tiny "Don't Say Gay" community.
Driven nearly to suicide prior to finding out I wasn't the only person in the whole world like this...
Hoping all this anti-LGBTQ bullshit backfires magnanimity.

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
8. No.. We did not choose this..
Tue Apr 5, 2022, 04:42 AM
Apr 2022

We only chose whether to be honest with ourselves.

Meanwhile, Boebert chose to be this stupid - by not reading in school, by snorting OxyClean, by watching Fox News nonstop, by donating her brain to science before she died... Whatever the hell she did, she made this choice. She chose to be this fucking stupid. And we all get to live with the consequences.

jmowreader

(50,528 posts)
10. Here's the best part
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 12:24 PM
Apr 2022

Boebert, herself, made a “life-altering decision about her sexuality” at the age of 16 when she decided to fuck a guy without a rubber. This life-altering decision caused her to drop out of school, which…really shows.

On the other hand, there are many, many LGBT people with successful and fulfilling careers. There are even LGBT Nobelists - Jane Addams won the Peace Prize, and there are five Literature laureates. Being LGBT is totally compatible with having a normal and fulfilling life in ways being a single mother will never be.

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