A Republican aide has claimed that LGBTQ+ organisations are training eight-year-old children how to use butt plugs and dildos.

In a recently resurfaced speech, Erin Mazzoni, who reportedly works for the campaign of Franklin, Tennessee Republican mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson, alleged that children are being given sex toys by LGBTQ+ activists.

Mazzoni told a meeting of the Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen earlier this that she’d moved to Tennessee from Bucks County, in Pennsylvania, after apparently discovering that an LGBTQ+ organisation was teaching children how to use sex toys, which, she claimed, caused the community to “fall apart”.

Between sobs, she said: “It started out as Pride coming in, and I thought everything would be OK. It ended with a Rainbow Room where eight to 12-year-old kids were given butt plugs and dildos and trained.

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Republicans live in a completely different reality.

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The problem is they project it onto others.

Like Christians who don’t rape and murder because they’re scared of hell, assume people who don’t believe do it all the time. They’re just telling on themselves that if they didn’t think Sky Daddy was watching them, then why wouldn’t they do horrible shit.

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They don’t live in any REALITY. They live in a Fox News fever dream.

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The one they describe is usually so much nicer, too. Kids getting sex education that isn’t abstinence only or the STD shock image hour? I wish.

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These fundamentalists gutted sex ed and now we wonder why STI rates are up. Fuck them and everything they stand for

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Fuck them and everything they stand for

Make sure to use protection though

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Had a chance to look at Fox news lately? My family turned to it last night and it was ridiculous lol. Look at this

It was all about a parent who was blaming weed for her sons suicide.

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Wouldn’t this stuff have to be real in order for it to be a reality?

Butt plug training, stolen elections, no climate change, Hillary Clinton harvesting children in pizza restaurants, etc. The GOP platform reads like fiction self-published on Amazon.

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I wish someone had trained me how to use a buttplug. Could have saved myself a huge pain in the ass.

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53 points

Ah, a fellow chess enthusiast I see

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How do I delete someone else’s comment?

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We don’t take kindly to cheaters around here.

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Holy hell!

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Bishop to Rook uhfhfffbfbfbfbfbbf

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Bravo!

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Alright take my updoot, you earned it

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I came here specifically to find this comment.

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We have actual victims speaking up to let us know that the Catholic Church and other Christian communities are abusing children. If LGBT groups are allegedly doing the same, where are the victims’ testimonies? Where are the hundreds, if not thousands of victims coming forward with their own stories that can be investigated so we can bring these alleged gay pedophiles to justice?

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Because organized religion is so powerful they can get away with mass sexual assault of children among other crimes. Conservatives don’t oppose child abuse, they’re afraid the “wrong” people Are doing it

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IMHO that’s the big picture: Conservatism doesn’t want people focusing on the overwhelmingly factual and documented abuses by the church and GOP.

This is a list of confirmed GOP sex offenders and their crimes. It’s past 1,100 now.

I don’t think I need to point out the well documented history of sex offenses in the church, but here’s a quick list of recent travesties:

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102621352/how-the-southern-baptist-convention-covered-up-its-widespread-sexual-abuse-scand https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/investigation-reveals-widespread-sexual-abuse-and-cover-ups-by-archdiocese-of-baltimorehttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/us/catholic-church-sex-abuse-investigations.html

So please, FOCUS ON THE GAYS! LITTERBOXES! TRANS TRAINERS! Think about anything but the crimes conservatives and religious pedos please please please.

Projection writ large, across our entire society.

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I’m on your side of the argument, but I don’t think this is a fair take. We know from history that it’s very difficult for victims to come forward in these cases. Your Catholic Church example is a good case of this; the adults we’re hearing from were children when the abuse took place. Look at the Me Too incident. Hundreds if not thousands of victims all coming forward years after the fact because they feared the backlash. I genuinely doubt there are groups like the woman described in existence, but if there were, it’s understandable that we wouldn’t be hearing about it right away.

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The Catholic Church has the power and influence to cover those things up and pressure victims into silence. Hollywood has a huge power imbalance as well. Where in the world does the LGBTQ+ community have such power? The only answer these fascists can give is “the Jews”.

If there was large scale abuse going on in the LGBTQ+ community, it would have been found out for sure; especially considering how many hateful zealots spend their retirement actively hunting the imaginary abuse. (I’m also not saying there’s no abuse because well, humans suck. just that it isn’t large scale, organized, and actively defended like churches and corporate hierarchies)

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I mean this is assuming that children are rationally considering the amount of power an abuser has over their lives, which is clearly not the case. To a kid, simply being an adult makes them seem powerful.

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If a lone person with political motives to damage the Catholic Church’s reputation alleged they were abusing children, I’d be demanding the same evidence of victims’ testimonies. No one should be believing allegations of sexual assault without evidence, of which victim testimonies are key. Same with the Me Too movement. I’m a therapist and not at all unsympathetic to how difficult it is for victims of sexual assault to go public with their stories, but from a societal perspective, we should all be skeptical of allegations made without evidence. Is it possible these LGBT groups are abusing kids and we won’t find out until 15-20+ years from now, when those kids decide to come forward with their stories? Sure. But until then, accusations with clear political motivation should be disregarded, and that’s true whether you’re talking about LGBT groups or the LDS Church.

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Sorry to hear. :(

FWIW gay people have been around longer than the Catholic church.

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Right? Gay people have likely been around since the dawn of time. If it was a systemic thing among the LGBTQ, we would know.

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I already responded to this point from another user. Check further down the thread.

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“Lady sobs because she imagined things that don’t happen”

This kind of performative rhetoric, invented to assign wicked or demonic qualities to your scapegoat, is not a new thing. It’s just a retread of the blood libel, the red scare, the lavender panic, reefer madness, and today’s bathroom panics. All of them were lies told to justify violence and the criminalization of things that could be used to persecute their targets.

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*things she made up

I’m about 90% sure she’s just acting and doesn’t believe a word of her testimony.

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She’s literally that character from The Simpsons that says “won’t somebody please think of the children!”

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She was probably rubbing one out as she imagined them

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> lady

This harlot is very likely an ethusiastic user of buttplugs and dildos.

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She’s a horrible person, but let’s not kink shame.

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I’m willing to get she’s just projecting

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She has a rich fantasy life, doesn’t she?

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Yes, and oddly specific.

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In her defense, saying things like “LGBTQ+ people don’t do butt-stuff on children,” doesn’t get you on public access tv.

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In reality she’s fantasizing about genocide

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Let’s just say Freud would have some concerns!

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