Rethugs barred from adopting child in MA. Good.
A Massachusetts couple filed a complaint this week against the state’s health secretary and multiple officials in the Department of Children and Families after their application to become foster parents was denied over their stance on LGBTQ people.
Michael and Catherine “Kitty” Burke began the monthslong application process with the DCF to foster or adopt a child in January 2022, according to the complaint. The process involved screenings to gauge the couple’s views on raising children from historically marginalized groups, including LGBTQ children.
A social worker’s report attached to the complaint said the couple was asked how they would feel if a child in their care identified as LGBTQ or struggled with their gender identity. Kitty Burke responded by saying “let’s take the T out of it” and called gender-affirming care “chemical castration,” according to the report. She also said, “I’m going to love you the same,” but that the child “would need to live a chaste life.” Both Kitty and Michael Burke expressed hesitation around using a transgender or nonbinary person’s preferred pronouns, the social worker’s report noted.
Good. Rethugs shouldn't be allowed anywhere near children, where they can fill the kids' minds with their poisonous beliefs.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/massachusetts-couple-denied-foster-care-application-lgbtq-views-compla-rcna99339
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is from Colorado and Maryland, was raised Catholic and converted to another conservative establishment religion, was educated at Georgetown Prep, Columbia, Harvard, and Oxford and then proceeded along the same elite white male NY/DC-SCOTUS path that most conservative justices took.
There are two southerners on the court. The newest is peculiarly from Louisiana, not NY, true, but the "evil" was in full bloom long before her arrival.
Now, Clarence Thomas, born and raised in coastal GA, a confederate state for 4 years, is the obvious current source of the evil you mention to point to, even if it also predated him by a couple of centuries. But of course, "there be dragons!," and I am NOT advocating anyone do that. To avoid being buried under criticism, one would have to hedge around claiming a black man infused the court with the "evils" of the Confederacy, adding so many caveats that one might run the risk of ending up sounding like an apologist for southern evil instead. 
And, of course someone (like me), might point out Thomas's well documented black nationalist extremism, toxic as it is, is not exactly typical of the mythical Confederate State ideology supposedly infusing the court.
Perhaps those looking for a geographic region to focus hostility on might consider the northeastern Ivy Leagues states instead. But if that doesn't appeal, geography hardly provides the only subgroup to assign blame for our situation. There are well established pseudointellectual arguments for almost any. Women, especially, have long been considered the source of evil in many cultures, for just one instance among many. Blaming "the bourgeousie" for anything always has a ready little constituency.
I'm afraid I do consider humans the source of all that's both good and bad, both found planetwide wherever people are, including those of us outside our south. I suppose an argument could be made for blaming male humans since they really are by far more culpable, notably during our short history. But I'm not inclined to that sort of thing.
It's of course a waste of time expecting any arguments, designed to exonerate and focus blame away from all culpable onto a subgroup, to be honest, given the flaws in the exercise itself. But, warning given that deviating from reality leaves arguments open to rebuttal.
(Just in case anyone comes away from this thinking we should nuke or eject NY state as the node of evil, btw, I should mention that is NOT what I intended to get across. Its outsized, seeming contributions to the extremist wing of the current high court notwithstanding.)
Although I couldn't follow the rationale of "the Supreme Court of the
Confederate States," maybe "the Supreme Court of the Federalist Society" would serve. So many of the toxic influences of these justices, also including RW political corruption and the previously slow-rolling attempt at RW authoritarian takeover of the United States, are encapsulated in that term. Religious dominionism also, though it's likely there more to pump the pedals than control the direction -- if it can be controlled of course.
On that alarming thought, have a nice day.
Prejudice by definition never makes sense and geographic prejudice by definition always includes bashing everyone there, including Democrats in whole states.
I think if we knew who was promoting it, that might make sense.
Democrats and school systems literally "groom" and "sexually traffic" abuse children either. It'd be a responsible contribution to the nation if they refused to tolerate talk that encourages societal divisions and toxic notions.
A couple of things that are literally true: Most SCOTUS justices were educated in elite institutions located in NE and MW states, none are Southern Baptists, and none have ever been evangelicals.
On how anyone looks.
No idea. 
