Crash Course: "Protect the kids" exposed as a lie after Tennessee's drag ban gets knocked down by a Trump judge

The Tennessee drag decision shows even a Trump judge can see through the "protect the kids" lie. [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYZa8P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdTM0ZWh1Yzk2ZS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXl6ZHIxd3RieWhXA3NwY0IKZHS9EX9k84q2slIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYZa8P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNjJ2ZGlob2JpbC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXl6ZHIxd3RieWgmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZHS9EX9k84q2slIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). "Protect the kids" exposed as a lie after Tennessee's drag ban gets knocked down by a Trump judge For a couple of years now, Republicans have been ramping up their increasingly unhinged attacks on LGBTQ people, usually with the same cover story: They don't hate queer people! It's just about protecting the children! This excuse has always been paper-thin, of course, and based on the risible premise that queer people, merely by existing, are "sexual" in some undefinable way that straight people are not. It's how, for instance, [Florida's Gov. 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