Three's a crowd
The chairman of Florida's state Republican Party and his wife, herself the co-founder of a conservative political organisation and a school board member, have been exposed as having a long-standing ménage à trois with another woman. All of this came to light only when the woman brought charges of rape and battery against the husband. They've gotta be Christians.
…the revelation that Ms Ziegler had a relationship with a woman is deeply troubling to some in the state. Ms Ziegler has backed Mr DeSantis' controversial "Don't Say Gay" law.
Nadine Yousif, BBC News
There's an interesting juxtaposition presented here: it seems to imply that Ms Ziegler's alleged girl-on-girl action is somehow at odds with her support for Florida House Bill 1557. If that's Ms Yousif's intent, then it's utter nonsense because it conflates two different issues.
Even Ms Ziegler's conservative educational activism isn't completely at odds with what she gets up to with consenting adults behind closed doors. After all, simply because an adult enjoys a liberated sexual lifestyle
doesn't mean that they endorse aspects of same being presented to elementary school children.
None of which means she isn't dallying with hypocrisy though.
Democrat critics say the allegations are at odds with the emphasis the couple placed politically on "family values".
Nadine Yousif, BBC News
And therein lies the rub. I guess she could argue that neither she nor her husband were going behind the other's back; different families have different values, and theirs values a three-way; and what's good for the gander is good for the goose. But it's a bit of a stretch all the same.
Nevertheless, the point of this post was to pick on the inability of the BBC, or its lackeys, to move on from Don't Say Gay
, and separate reality from a sensationalist activist sound bite. I guess we shouldn't expect too much from the world's most trusted international news broadcaster
™ as it reports on stories from around the world fairly, impartially and without fear or favour.
Although it would be nice.
Although smooth-brained mouth-breathers within mainstream and social media dubbed the bill Don't Say Gay
, it actually forbade classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to children under the age of ten years; children who, incidentally, won't start any kind of sex education until they're around two years older. The fact that such a bill had to be introduced to rein in queer activists among the teaching profession in the first place says more about them than anything.