I had the very unpleasant experience of listening to the Miami-Dade school board monthly meeting.

[Marcus IM]

The agenda was voting on LGBTQ+ History recognition month in October.

The Christo-fascists turned out en masse in the audience.

The newly elected Christo-fascists on the M-D school board were lapping it up. Denouncing the imagined "gay agenda" was the standard. The public speakers granted 2 minutes each were overwhelmingly slandering the entire LGBTQ+ community as groomers and pedophiles. No one called them out of order from the board. Several of the school board members are Cuban "exiles" from the Mariel boat lift espousing their love and devotion to Jesus Christ, and claiming that a child cannot be raised with morals without the parents imbuing their children with the holy spirit of Jesus. And that the LGBTQ+ "agenda" is antithetical to good morals and a good upbringing.

All to the loudest applause from the unruly and rude audience.

I have listened to M-D school board meetings for decades on WLRN public radio in Miami - the M-D school board owns the license for the station - (yes, I'm the one who does that).

I have NEVER been so disgusted at what I heard. I pity the kids in Miami-Dade's school system. Especially the LGBTQ+ and non-Christian kids.

smh in sorrow and disgust.

Rant over. Thanks for listening.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. This would not be tolerated to this level but for donald rump the traitor and the NEW

repub party which officially hates LGBTQ, POC etc.

America is broken and if you are not one of them, you are in danger.

[Marcus IM]

2. Yes. They are like termites and have worked their way into the very foundations on this nation.

The hateful ignorance and utter hypocrisy of some evangelical christians is beyond belief.
I am truly saddened tonight. It's not like I'm not aware of this takeover, but to listen for 6+ hours of pure white hot hate and bigotry was a gut punch and a half.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. The RW propaganda machine has radicalized many into thinking we're already a theocracy.

This is our country, not their "church".

[gratuitous]

4. Vote that bigot out of the governor's office

Does this kind of prejudice and oppression play with a majority of Floridians? DeSantis was not elected with a huge majority back in 2018. Can he really be re-elected? Has he accrued more support somehow?

[Initech]

7. There are some dark forces at work getting these MAGA cretins elected. Time to find out who.

[Marcus IM]

8. Yep. But, it was the repug Fl. legislature that passed the "Parents Bill Of Rights"

Taking the course curricula out of the hands of the educators and educated professionals... Except for the new mandatory Anti Communism course. Because ... what is the core politics of S Florida ... wait for it ... Castro. ffs

The absolute prejudice coming from the "freedom loving" book banning Christo-gopers was a horror.

The audience and public speakers were beyond deplorable. Constantly shouting down any hint of reason, and cheering the mentions of DeSantis, Trump, Jesus.

I am mortified that these people are running anything, let alone one of the largest public school system in America.

The horror. The horror.

[Initech]

5. These people aren't Christians. They're soulless fucking ghouls.

Fuck these fascists, fuck Fox News and fuck their pastors. This isn't right.

[atreides1]

9. You are correct

Anyone there that espoused hatred...is not now, nor have they ever been a Christian.

[tavernier]

6. I live 50 miles south in the Keys.

I avoid Miami like the plague.

[Marcus IM]

10. Looks like this story is getting airplay. n/t