Before we get started with this comparison between the current Vice Presidential nominee for the Democrats, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, and Walz’ recently put-to-pasture colleague John Bel Edwards, a few words on the proper posture an elected official should take as regards the LGBTQ community.

And we’ll preface those by saying that people shouldn’t be treated as members of a “community.” One of the worst abuses of the cultural Left is its insistence on breaking us down into little tribes based on identities, and then demanding that each tribe act as though any insult or even non-pandering mention of said identities constitutes a civil rights violation.

It’s exhausting, and it’s illegitimate. You are not the sum of your identities, but rather of your abilities and choices. And those are personal to you, not general to some group somebody insists you’re a member of.

And where it comes to the sexual identities, this is perhaps more true than elsewhere.

After all, while it does seem true that we’re either born with, or develop in childhood by means which aren’t fully understood, certain predilections for various sexual tastes and lifestyles, the fact is that sexual identity is a function of behavior rather than something immutable like race or sex.

In saying that, we don’t allege homosexuality is a choice that you can turn on and off. It might be for some people; for others it might be so hard-wired that you’re just gay, for example, and there is no getting around it.

But at the end of the day, regardless of those tastes/predilections/urges/preferences/whatever, you can certainly choose how sex relates to the way you present yourself to the world.

It’s always been my contention, based on lots of interactions with gay people, that most share the basic traditional/bourgeois view that who you sleep with is your business and it isn’t something that has to be advertised to the world. That doesn’t mean you have to be “in the closet;” in 2024 nobody really cares if you’re obviously gay. But not putting your sexual preference forward, for most, is a sign of adulthood, professionalism and respect.

Then there are the “queers.” Whether gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans or whatever, these are the folks who give you the in-your-face Out And Proud presentation, the ones who insist that any criticism of sexually exotic lifestyles is an unquestionable sign of repressed homosexuality or kink and who insist on shocking and degrading the public with Drag Queen Story Hours and lewd displays at Pride parades. They’re now calling themselves “queers,” so you can relax with the “McKay’s a homophobe who’s using slurs!” stuff. This is a self-descriptive term I’m using in an attempt to get clarity on the subject.

I don’t have polling on this, but my sense based on having had the conversations I’ve had is that the majority of people in the LGBTQ spectrum are pretty embarrassed by the “queers.”

What’s more, they’re also somewhat resentful of the fact that the “queers” are the active ingredient among the LGBTQ people, much in the way that La Raza gets preference in representing Latinos or the various race-hustler organizations get to speak for blacks. People are generally people, and the squeaky-wheel-gets-the-grease rule in politics tends to make for far more division along identity lines than actually exists.

Which is, of course, greatly beneficial to the cultural Left.

And that brings us to Tim Walz and John Bel Edwards, both of whom have a record of being grossly and disgracefully solicitous to the “queers” at the expense of ordinary people who happen to have heterodox sexual preferences.

You have to grade this on a curve, of course, because where it comes to these issues Louisiana tends to be fairly buttoned-up – with the exception of New Orleans, of course – while Minnesota has long been something of a Midwestern haven for the LGBTQ crowd.

Nevertheless, these two have pushed the envelope in fairly shocking ways.

It was often remarked that Edwards’ Fourth Floor offices at the state capitol were populated with a large core of LGBTQ individuals in high places, including some hyper-open and outspoken “queer” individuals. One, a trans man named Dylan Waguespack who didn’t have an official position in the administration (Waguespack was on an Edwards task force about homelessness) but served as a lobbyist for left-wing causes and was regarded as a member of Edwards’ intermediate, if not inner, circle, made news in 2019 for having been sexually harassed by Edwards’ deputy chief of staff Johnny Anderson.

Waguespack wasn’t special in that regard. Anderson demanded sex from pretty much everything that moved in the Capitol before Edwards finally got rid of him.

But because Louisiana is a rather culturally conservative state it wasn’t that noticeable, at least most of the time, that Edwards’ was a gay-supremacist administration. In Walz’ Minnesota, where there is a lot more political leverage to push things, it’s different.

There’s a Queer Caucus in the legislature in Minnesota, which gives you an indication of how different it is. And the chair of the Queer Caucus is a legislator named Leigh Finke, who is this person…

Finke and Walz have struck up a friendship and alliance, which has led to a raft of policies which are breathtakingly pro-queer.

Among them…

Walz signed a bill authored by Finke that turned Minnesota into a “trans-sanctuary” state, meaning that if you want to sexually transition your child and you live somewhere else where it’s illegal to do so, or if one parent is attempting to trans a child and the other disagrees, Minnesota supports the pro-trans side.

This was reported as a heartwarming story – of a six-year-old boy whose parents are turning into a girl…

Minnesota parents have socially transitioned their 6 year old son and are convinced he is a girl. They celebrate the Governor's signing of an executive order protecting their ability to abuse their child. pic.twitter.com/xwkZ48P3kG

— Expose Them (@ExposeDarkDeeds) March 9, 2023

LGBTQ transitions only go one way in Walz’ Minnesota, of course. He signed an executive order banning conversion therapy. We don’t have a position on that practice one way or the other, but we do find it somewhat strange that you’d ban it outright rather than just take the position that nobody should have it forced on them. What if somebody is gay and wants to get some help to live a different way, for religious reasons or otherwise? Why wouldn’t that be their business?

Somebody might want to ask Tim “Mind Your Own Damn Business” Walz about that.

Walz also signed a bill that would allow the state of Minnesota to seize the custody of a child whose parents are objecting to “gender-affirming care,” meaning that if you live in Minnesota and some groomer supposedly teaching your second-grader is instead filling her head with thoughts that maybe she ought to become a boy, and you try to do something about it, the state might just take that kid away from you.

We can’t think of anything more obnoxious than this.

On the other hand, Walz signed legislation which removed a specific exclusion of pedophilia from protected sexual lifestyles in the state’s human rights code. That doesn’t make pedophilia legal or encouraged in Minnesota – yet – but it also signals the ground is being prepared there for normalization.

Walz was the faculty advisor for the Gay-Straight Alliance club at Mankato West High School when he was a teacher there. That doesn’t prove he’s a groomer – but it doesn’t not prove it, either, and given the aggressive promotion of the queer agenda since he’s been governor, you might find yourself wondering what’s going on behind closed doors.

And of course there’s the Tampon Tim controversy. The Left would have you believe that nickname was given to Walz because he was sensitive enough to sign a bill mandating that public schools in Minnesota contain tampon dispensers in the bathroom, and conservative guffawing at him for it is based in misogyny.

Except there’s a problem with that. You can argue all day about whether you need a state law so girls can have access to tampons in schools, but that isn’t why he’s Tampon Tim. He’s Tampon Tim because the law he signed also put tampon dispensers in the boys’ bathrooms.

And Walz is also a supporter of gay porn books in school libraries. So much so that he signed a law that prevents public and school libraries from removing books “based solely on the viewpoint, content, message, idea, or opinion conveyed.” This was in response to local efforts around the state by parents and others who wanted to get sexually explicit books away from their children, which leftists like Walz have likened to Nazi book-burnings.

We’ve written about this before. The upshot of this is that gay porn is magic porn. There is no argument that straight porn needs to be kept away from kids because we don’t want to encourage sexual delinquency. Ahhh, but if the porn is gay, then that’s different – it can’t be treated as porn because that would violate the law protecting the “viewpoint.”

Edwards is obviously less guilty than Walz of these rather shocking positions, but that’s due to the fact that even Democrat legislators in Louisiana are mostly grossed out by the aggressively queer (it isn’t readily available, but if you can find video of state representative Kenny Cox, a black Democrat from Natchitoches, questioning LGBTQ witnesses on various bills over the past couple of years you’re in for some high comedy).

Nevertheless, there was Edwards’ attempt to enforce “civil rights” protections for LGBTQ individuals through state contracts, a totally undemocratic practice that then-Attorney General Jeff Landry took him to court for and beat him. Edwards

More prominently, Edwards vetoed the bill banning men from competing in girls’ sports in Louisiana in 2021. The girls’ sports bill is a pretty good standard for acceptance of the queer aggression, and the fact that Edwards dropped two vetoes in one of the reddest states in America should tell you plenty about where he stands.

But here was Edwards when the bill passed with a veto-proof majority…

And here was Edwards last year after legislators in Louisiana, seeing the aggressive agenda being pushed in places like Minnesota, passed a raft of legislation going the opposite way…

The legislature overrode his veto and passed a ban on pediatric sex changes. And when it happened, he said this, apparently not much impressed with the fact that post-op transsexuals have a shocking 40 percent attempted suicide rate…

“Today, I was overridden … on my veto of a bill that needlessly harms a very small population of vulnerable children, their families, and their health care professionals,” Edwards said in a statement, adding that he expects the “courts to throw out this unconstitutional bill.”

If that doesn’t come off just like Walz, with his sanctimonious promotion of the queer agenda, to you, then we’re going to say you’re not paying attention.

Edwards was hemmed in by the electorate in Louisiana. Walz has not been in Minnesota. But they’re the same in every other respect when it comes to the promotion of the queer agenda.