Top headline: New York Times, 2/26/2022
Bottom headline: The Hill, 5/26/2022
The calculation behind Republicans’ steadfast opposition to any new gun regulations — even in the face of the kind of unthinkable massacre that occurred Tuesday at an elementary school in Texas — is a fairly simple one for Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.
Asked Wednesday what the reaction would be from voters back home if he were to support any significant form of gun control, the first-term Republican had a straightforward answer: “Most would probably throw me out of office,” he said.
Original 5/7/2022 post, "For some disturbing GOP Senators, banning LGBTQ+ books isn't enough", starts here.
And Kevin Cramer is a pretty disturbing guy.
Headline: Deadline, 5/6/2022
GOP Senators Roger Marshall (Kan.), Mike Lee (Utah), Mike Braun (Ind.), Steve Daines (Mont.) and Kevin Cramer (N.D.) sent a letter to Charles Rivkin, Chairman of the TV Guidelines Ratings Board — the entity that manages and monitors the designations on programs such as TV-Y, TV-14, TV-MA, etc.
The missive begins, “In recent years, concerning topics of a sexual nature have become aggressively politicized and promoted in children’s programming, including irreversible and harmful experimental treatments for mental disorders like gender dysphoria.” [emphasis added]
From the American Psychiatric Association entry for gender dysphoria:
Diverse gender expressions, much like diverse gender identities, are not indications of a mental disorder.
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