 So proponents of Florida's don't say gay law Allege that really this is about protecting children and it's an anti grooming law And if you're against this then I guess you support grooming now Their logic was that really if kids know that gay people or trans people exist Then that is kind of grooming them into this particular Lifestyle you could teach them to be gay or trans and therefore if you stop teachers from acknowledging the existence of Gay and trans people then you kind of prevent grooming you kind of prevent teaching children How to be gay now it doesn't work that way, but that's their argument and they claim that people who are opposed to this bigoted law Must be pro grooming, but it turns out all of this talk about grooming was nothing more than projection because Tennessee Republicans are proving that they're actually the ones who want to groom children So as Brian Teller Cohen reports Tennessee Republicans are advancing a bill that creates a separate privileged class of marriage for heterosexual couples Acting as a loophole to the Supreme Court's legalization of gay marriage The bill would also legalize child marriage by eliminating age Requirements it's basically a get out of jail free card for people who are committing statutory rape Set a lawmaker on the committee the bill passed out of it would establish a common law marriage between one man and one woman Including for children. Yeah, don't even know how to respond to this one But I think that Hassan piker put it best the same people who foolishly think watching Disney grooms your child into being gay are Openly legalizing child brides Wonderful. Yeah, they're the ones who want to groom children They're proving this here now for more details on this particular piece of legislation a local news affiliate WKRN further explains The bill's sponsor Tom Leatherwood said the law being considered would add a new marriage option for Tennesseans So all this bill does is give an alternative form of marriage for those pastors and other individuals who have a Conscientious objection to the current pathway to marriage in our law But missing from the bill are age requirements opening the door for possible child marriages Something the bill sponsor acknowledged during a children and family affairs subcommittee. There is not an explicit age limit Leatherwood said Now why is that Mr. Leatherwood? This is him right here Why did you not include this in your bill? I mean I can't Think that this was something you just kind of forgot because if you're really trying to redraw the lines of marriage You're trying to create these parameters and say it's between one man and one woman and you remember that but you somehow forget The age requirement. I don't know to me. That's a little bit sus Now the current age where you can legally marry in Tennessee is 17 if you get parental consent So we don't even know with this particular bill if this were to pass it passed out of a committee But if this were to pass say Somebody wanted to marry a 14 year old well, they even need to get consent. Is that drawn out? This is just sick I'm sorry. This is sick. This is disgusting This is quite literally grooming and I just I want to know the excuse so far We haven't heard the excuse is it oh we forgot or You know all marriages are good as long as they're between a man and a woman age Not really the issue here. We're just trying to limit between a man and a woman These people are just gross They're sick and again every single claim that they've made about gay people we You know igniting this trope this Idea that gays are pedophiles and we have to protect them from children No, the people who we need to protect children from our Republicans like Tom Leatherwood Because this is just honestly sick now if you think that this is the only barbaric thing that the GOP is trying to do It's not because in Oklahoma as Vice News reports They passed a straight-up ban on abortion making it a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and Their anti-abortion governor will almost certainly sign it into law now Even though this is a bill coming from Oklahoma It doesn't just affect people in Oklahoma because once Texas's six-week abortion ban went into effect a lot of women in Texas who sought out an abortion went to Oklahoma, but now when or if this governor signs this into law This is no longer an option for women in Texas So I mean this is what the GOP is trying to do. There's a health care crisis in the United States Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. We have a climate apocalypse that we're facing and this is what they're focused on Bringing us back to The morality of I don't know the stone ages the caveman days. What the fuck is this? This is Insane they are insane. They're gross and they want to subjugate women to second-class citizen status again That's what they want and you'd think that there'd be objections from Republican women But right wing women are right there. She's cheerleading them on in fact Marjorie Taylor Greene just said that she Believes that women are actually the weaker sex. This is something that she actually said This is an easy answer we are creation of God Yeah, that's a really shitty definition of a woman and I think that most reasonable women would object to that But I mean this just goes to show you how fucking insane they are they are Extreme and if you think that you know, this is as extreme as they could possibly be It's not just last week a GOP senator accidentally came out against interracial marriage Do you think that all of this is a coincidence? I mean, they are so reactionary, you know Remember when everyone was asking well, you know when you say you want to make America great again What era do you want to go back to I think it's clear now It's not just that they want to go back to the leave it to be for days where racism was socially permissible They want to take us back to the days where human beings were barbarians I mean, what's next stoning people a South Dakota? I believe is the state that just legalize Executions by firing squads. So what the fuck is next? We're gonna bring back beheadings in the public square What's the limit and the answer is that there's no limit? The GOP is so unhinged and extreme that they've become a black hole sucking America into it they are literally ruining this country and This is what they're focusing on culture war issues, but not just a particular wedge issue They're bringing it straight back to the 1950s the 1940s When will it end it won't so the only thing that we can do we being normal people with morals and Who are reasonable is to push back as forcefully as we possibly can because they will not stop until they take us back to the dark ages, that's their goal and It's horrifying it should horrify everyone when we see Republicans out in the open coming out against interracial marriage passing laws that effectively legalize child marriage in the United States That's your signal that something is wrong if you weren't seeing it before Now is the time to acknowledge that this party is as extreme as a political party can possibly be You have some of them explicitly calling for a military style dictatorship in the United States Mike Flynn who worked for the White House came out and endorsed this So this party is conspiratorial their anti-vax their truthers about the 2020 election and socially speaking I mean who knows how far they want to take us back. It's truly insane and Normal people should be repulsed when they see this, but they're not gonna stop here. Trust me It's going to keep going and next week We're gonna see some other story about how one of them is actually unironically in favor of you know banning Interracial marriages again There's no limit to their insanity and their moral depravity. Trust me Do yourself a favor and click the join button on YouTube to become a member Cuz Mike's doing a great job getting to watch his videos before everyone else is Tremendous many people are saying this Join today folks. You won't regret it