Texas attorney general says Austin school Pride Week celebration breaks state law

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Source: NPR

March 25, 2022 10:54 AM ET
DEEPA SHIVARAM

An annual Pride Week celebration in Austin schools is breaking state law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said this week, marking the state's latest move to confront LGBTQ rights. Austin's school district said the events will nevertheless continue.

Every year, the Austin Independent School District plans a series of events to celebrate LGBTQIA+ students, highlighting "the district's commitment to creating a safe, supportive and inclusive environment."

The events this year started Monday and culminate Saturday with a "PRIDE OUT!" party. Each day of the week is assigned a theme, including knowing your rights, creative expression and Pride history. Pride and ally stickers and flags are handed out as well. The events line up with National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week.

But on Tuesday, Paxton sent a letter to Stephanie Elizalde, the superintendent of the Austin Independent School District.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1088743717/texas-pride-week-paxton-lgbtq-rights

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I know he doesn't give a shit, but I hate him more than he hates...

trans students.

[Comfortably_Numb]

7. Damned if you didn't put it perfectly Treasonous. I struggle for words to express how much I hate

Paxton snd you nailed it. How about doing one for A- but and Patrick?

[Kittycatkat]

2. These rogue AG's and Judges MUST.BE.STOPPED. They despise the rule of law and democracy.

[bahboo]

3. these evil fucks will end up overreaching as usual....

payback will be a bitch....

[walkingman]

4. Once again the hillbillies running this state make an ass of themselves.

[JesterCS]

5. but i bet "Bible Groups" are totally ok, right? n/t

[sakabatou]

6. Paxton must be shut down.

[mountain grammy]

8. the point is the cruelty...

what a dispicable man..

[Lovie777]

9. GQP's Freedumb.......

[ShazzieB]

10. Ken Paxton, doing his best, as always, to turn Texas into the shittiest of shithole states. 😡

[vlyons]

11. I don't hate him, because hatred is poison

I refuse to contaminate my mind with hatred for someone, who is so obviously bigoted and fearful of "the other." ,
That does not mean that he gets a free pass for his own hatred and stupidity.

"All experience is preceded by mind.
Led by mind. Created by mind.
Speak or act with a contaminated mind, and suffering follows.
As the wheel of the wagon follows the hoof of the ox.

Speak or act with a peaceful mind, and happiness follows.
Like a never departing shadow."

--- The Dhammapada

What we need to do is get organized and vote him and his ilk out.

[Ford_Prefect]

12. More anti-diversity paranoia turned into state law and promoted by the Council for National Policy.

The CNP has been leaning hard on GOP Legislatures and Governors to pass their conservative dogma into law. It has provided model legislation, leadership and coordination along with campaign money to get this vile bilge turned into enforceable statute. The same CNP is at the heart of the recent anti-book ideology.

The GOP did not suddenly discover these issues, among others, nor did they craft the statutes or write the dogma so widely slung and media repeated. They were coached and fed each talking point by CNP. It is well past time for the DOJ to look at CNP with an eye towards RICO-act prosecution similar to that applied to the KKK some years ago.

[sanatanadharma]

13. Will the 21st century see fire hoses and dogs used again against people of peace?

How much anti-humanity sickness can society ignore without collapsing?

[twodogsbarking]

14. It breaks the law. Thanks for the first laugh of the day.

Many of my best times involved breaking a law or two.

[OldBaldy1701E]

15. Well, I will tell you what, Ken...

Why don't you run down there and arrest every single one of the people at the school. Just grab some law enforcement and get you ass down there and enforce that law you love so much. I cannot wait to see an entire student body and faculty marched out of the building and into vans to be hauled down to the station and booked. All of them.

(Of course, this is sarcasm. I would love to see what happens once some of the more prominent families in Austin have to go bail out their children over this. I would love to see his dumb ass impeached and removed because he dared to arrest an entire school over his bigotry. This is why I say make him do it! Force him to back up that threat. Make him look even more like a racist asshat who cannot handle anything other than fake people like himself. Then, make sure to connect him to Abbott and drag his racist ass down as well!)

[Paladin]

18. Don't leave out Dan Patrick.

If any state official is animating and strengthening these hateful, destructive state laws, it's Lt. Gov. Patrick. All those years as a 3rd-rate Limbaugh wannabe on AM hate radio sharpened Patrick's sick skills.

And here's hoping the AISD goes full-force with their demonstrations. There's no point in obeying the edicts of a brain-dead scofflaw like our pathetic excuse for an attorney general.

[paleotn]

16. Thou shalt not interfere...

with hateful parents gawd given right to instill their hatreds into their children. There, Greg. Fixed it for you.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. The TX State Bar supposedly has him under investigation

AP Exclusive: State bar investigating Texas attorney general

By JAKE BLEIBERG June 9, 2021



DALLAS (AP) — The Texas bar association is investigating whether state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct. The State Bar of Texas initially declined to take up a Democratic Party activist’s complaint that Paxton’s petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block Joe Biden’s victory was frivolous and unethical.

But a tribunal that oversees grievances against lawyers overturned that decision late last month and ordered the bar to look into the accusations against the Republican official. The investigation is yet another liability for the embattled attorney general, who is facing a years-old criminal case, a separate, newer FBI investigation, and a Republican primary opponent who is seeking to make electoral hay of the various controversies.

It also makes Paxton one of the highest profile lawyers to face professional blowback over their roles in Donald Trump’s effort to delegitimize his defeat. A spokesman for the attorney general’s office did not respond to requests for comment. Paxton’s defense lawyer, Philip Hilder, declined to comment. Kevin Moran, the 71-year-old president of the Galveston Island Democrats, shared his complaint with The Associated Press along with letters from the State Bar of Texas and the Board of Disciplinary Appeals that confirm the investigation.

He said Paxton’s efforts to dismiss other states’ election results was a wasteful embarrassment for which the attorney general should lose his law license. “He wanted to disenfranchise the voters in four other states,” said Moran. “It’s just crazy.” Texas’ top appeals lawyer, who would usually argue the state’s cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, notably did not join Paxton in bringing the election suit. The high court threw it out.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-us-supreme-court-texas-election-2020-071cd81a1447f17bfd115edffc4ff456

And when looking for an update, apparently the panel was selected some time this past September since he was whining about it then - https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/paxton-pushes-back-against-partisan-texas-state-bar-weaponized-against-ags-office-defending-texas

[Jetheels]

19. First of all Pride is not anything about sex education. Secondly, if we're eliminating any and all

references to sex in schools, then Texas must eliminate any and all books that have in it a heterosexual couple. Or a family, since that had to have involve sex at one point or another.
Or any book with a child in it since that started with sex. Or better yet, burn every book with a human in it, just to be safe. And they can begin with the Bible, with all its violence, adulatory, animal sacrifice, etc.

[NullTuples]

20. "The school district says the Pride events will continue as scheduled through the rest of the week."

"Here at Austin ISD, we celebrate Pride during every school year so our LGBTQIA+ students know how much they are valued and loved. This year, it's important to me personally that they know they are respected and safe, too, and lest anyone have any doubt, that absolutely goes for our trans kids. We are ALL Austin ISD. We embrace diversity."
- Stephanie Elizalde, Superintendent of the Austin Independent School District