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Disagreement is not an attack. In a free society one can disagree without the Chihuahua losing its mind. Nobody wants to see children hurt. However, gay and trans kids exist. Your rhetoric hurts them. Your participation whipping up the mob hurts them. Actual kids. Kids you don't care about, but kids all the same.You're a bully CT. I don't like bullies.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 9:33 am By: Big Bob

I agree there needs to be more transparency for public to see prior to making it a rule or a law!! This country is supposed to be governed by the people, the citizens, this has been misplaced slowly but needs to be put back up front where it belongs!!

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 9:21 am By: Donna

Grooming is sexualizing young children to prepare them for underage sexual activity. Grroming is exactly what radical gender ideology that you support does. Conservatives oppose sexualization of young children.

Bagdad Bob, you claim to be a white, straight, male but your posts here constantly attack all of those groups, usually unfairly. If you want to see self loathing, look in a mirror.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 8:49 am By: Conservative Voter

This is making a mountain our of a molehill, and was a dirty trick by John Bell in his campaign to be the next House Speaker. Bell is a squishy establishment RINO who does the bidding of the special interests and who colludes with the Democrats, in the mold of current Speaker Moore and former Speaker Thom Tillis. Moore is expected to draw himself a congressional seat to run for next election and Bell wants to follow him as Speaker. Bell sees Kidwell as his major potential challenger on the right. He wants to damage Kidwell's prospects and that is what this massive overkill of a response is all about, a political dirty trick by Bell. McNeely is just collateral damage to try to obscure that the target was Kidwell.

This is very much a move that Lix Cheney used to be known for in the US Congress. She liked to make a mountain out of a molehill in response to Democrat whining to damage conservatives from her position as House Conference Chair. John Bell has now made himself North Carolina's Liz Cheney, but he did it for a very self-serving reason.

While Moore undoubtedly would have given his okay to this, the main actor in it was Bell., who is trying to damage a potential rival for the Speakership. In doing so, however, he has just encouraged the Demcorats to keep playing the victim card on Republicans, and they will probably do so. There was nothing wrong with anything either of these legislators said and they should NOT have been punished for it. This is all about John Bell and his personal ambitions.

I emailed a couple of people who follow the General Assembly closer than I do and their take on this dog and pony show was the same as mine. And, of course the extreme left WRAL piled on as they would rather see a squishy RINO like Bell as Speaker than a conservative like Kidwell.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 7:59 am By: Rino Hunter

I point out. If such legislative reaction to this was to ultimately make it taboo to utter the mention of Satan during a legislative session, then they must realize that the mention of God would be tabòo also. Because there must be two sides for there to be a decision. So, allowance of mention of one but not the other makes slaves of the user to themselves because they preclude themselves the right of changing their mind. With that said. LET FREEDOM RING!!

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 10:45 pm By: Browny Douglas

Good lord , stop clutching your pearls. Most Christians are good people but there are extremists in the Christian faith who openly express hate and violence towards gays and many others. Oath keeps, proud boys, Arian Nations, 3%ers...hell Congress woman Madge Green and her buddy Boober from Colorado. Why are you so shocked? As a general rule, I think Christians are more enlighten and forgiving.

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By: Big Bob

To make an absurd charge like that you really are an anti-Christian bigot, Bigot Bob. I have never known anyone who had any animosity toward the Jewish religion, and I have lived my entire life in the South. Heck, that was even true in antebellum times. The first person of the Jewish faith to serve in a national cabinet position was Judah P. Benja;min of Louisiana, who served succesively as Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Secretary of War in the cabinet of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 9:24 pm By: John Steed

A red herring is eye catching and Georgia like North Carolina has a variety of nuts, but that doesn't change the well-established fact that "woke" is a radical left neo-Marxist dogma.

Concerning the article, I agree that voting should be contingent on passing a civics/history test. Unfortunately, our population has reached a level of ignorance making that necessary if we are to continue as a healthy constitutional republic. Also, I believe we should be way more wary of the next greatest curriculum fads. Publishing companies push these curriculum fads as ongoing profit makers. Many times, they are used as ideological tools too.

We should not forget tried and true teaching methods. In order to see how much we have digressed educationally in this country, take a look at a 19th century eighth grade exam. I'll bet most present-day college graduates would have to study in order to do well on it.

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 8:24 pm By: Charles Hickman

So long as your "changes" don't include some sort of "final solution" ...knock yourself out.

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 11:45 am By: Big Bob

Conservative Christians are no different. The only reason it doesn't happen here is that most US citizens are not that conservative tor that Christian. Moderateds out number the extremes on both sides.

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 11:50 am By: Big Bob

Please, Please, Google; get rid of Sundar Pichai before I flush them for good.

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 4:55 pm By: George Edward Danz