Gay Louisiana doctor says he’s leaving the state over its ‘discriminatory’ legislation
Gay Louisiana doctor says he’s leaving the state over its ‘discriminatory’ legislation
So, anyone else wonder if the plan for Republican controlled states here is to chase all of the left leaning people out, bolstering their majority stranglehold in certain states and sacrificing things like talented doctors/nurses/teachers/etc. for an electoral college advantage? Literal tyranny of the minority? Hmm?
No, you need to think bigger. They want to change the constitution. I'm being completely serious.
I know exactly what you're talking about, and you're right (shit, that article is from a whole year ago?!), I should have thought of that! This is some serious shit, like I was just kind of being "tin-foil-hat-y" with my comment, but they're way ahead of me.
Jesus Herbert Walker CHRIST, this is a huge fucking problem!!
ETA: "The power to call for a convention belongs solely to state legislatures, who would pass and ratify amendments without a governor's signature, Congress' intervention, or any input from the president."
FUUUUUUUCK
There are lots of dystopian futures where the healthy and technologically advanced separated themselves from the unwashed, uneducated, and violent masses. Elysium is a popular film that uses this trope. We always assumed that the healthy and technologically advanced people created their utopia and pushed out the masses. In these fictional stories, I never considered the possibility that the masses would push out the healthy and technologically advanced people to their utopia and the masses were left to wallow in their own filth by their own choice.
That's exactly what they want.
It all boils down to resource management and selectorate theory. They don't care that the overall quality of life will be reduced for most people, because they themselves will personally benefit. They are willing to accept a reduced pie if it means they don't have to share it.
And to the point of the other person responding to you - the constitutional changes they want are real, and that factors in. If they can get even a few light red states more solidly so, they have a stronger position for an eventually constitutional convention, at which point they will rewrite the whole thing.
It's like the Cultural Revolution or the Khmer Rouge. They'll be rounding up anyone wearing eyeglasses soon enough. Republicans uber alles.
It's that, plus dismantling education so the general populous isn't smart enough to catch onto the conservative grift.
Hey not to worry you'll get a voucher for a private christian school, so they can further force their ideology down your throat all while funneling tax dollars back to the church.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
One of Louisiana’s few doctors specializing in pediatric heart conditions is leaving the state after the Legislature passed a variety of bills aimed at restricting rights for LGBTQ people.
Kleinmahon, who is gay, told WDSU that he and his husband had planned to retire in New Orleans, but he now feels like the anti-LGBTQ legislation passed by the Legislature has made the state a hostile place for families like his.
Kleinmahon wrote in a post on Instagram that he moved back to Louisiana five years ago with the goal of building one of the best pediatric heart transplant programs in the country.
He doesn’t want to leave that behind, but he wrote that he and his husband, Tom, “have discussed at length the benefits of continuing to live in the South, as well as the toll that it takes on our family.”
“This is a wonderful new opportunity, but it is incredibly sad to leave our home, our friends, colleagues, and patients and their families,” he wrote on Instagram.
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I hope the two other heart surgery specialists in the state are non-gay, god loving patriots (/s).
“Before the surgery is to commence, we’d like to have our chaplin come and bless the proceedure, and say a few words in case God decides to change his plan. Just one thing before we begin, have you ever voted socialist anarchist communist democrat, believe there are more than 2 genders or tried to push the gay agenda on anyone? Good, now that it’s settled, let’s begin with a prayer.. Lord Jesus in heaven please help guide my hands to do the work we know only you know how to do. Please lord jesus teach me what I need to know to operate on this man today and give me the forgiveness and immunity if anything wrong happens”
What took him so long to figure it out?
Bow ties are so 2005.
Lies. Hot af
More like 1855 tbh
So what? There are tons of doctors waiting in line.
No there aren't actually, there's a huge shortage of medical personnel nationwide.
just one of three pediatric heart doctors with his specialty in Louisiana
Are they? It was in the summary, no need to click the link dude...
Tons? There are only two
Not experienced pediatric congenital heart doctors.
You wouldnt know the first thing about them, and neither do many of the other types of doctors.
Running away never solves anything, what a coward
It’s not his job to fix the idiots in this state.
Nah, that's the fault of Republicans. He has to protect his family.
That's ok. They have Dr. Cletus, who got his MD at the school of Common Sense and did his residency at the hospital of Traditional American Values.
Red states don't care about having physicians trained from filthy leftist academia, propagandizing them with "facts" from scientists trying to sell books. Cletus is more competent to perform surgery than any blue state "Doctor," because he knows the south will rise again, and he has gumption and a can do attitude. Checkmate, stuff in books!
The most important thing for me is whether my doctor is Proud to be an American.
Now wait- there's a far more important thing: Does he accept Jesus as his personal savior?
Thanks for the laugh! :D
I wonder if Dr. Cletus would give me a prostate exam
Honey, If you got some meth on you, Dr. Cletus will examine anything you like 😉
With a gun barrel for even thinking he'd do liberal shit maybe