An age verification bill in Kansas that is the most extreme in the country has passed both House and Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. The bill will make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to heavy fines if they don’t verify that visitors are over the age of 18. It also calls being gay “sexual conduct,” which critics say could set up the state for more censorship of LGBT+ citizens.
Because they have never been the party of small government. You don’t need to be the party of small government if you’re the party of credulous rubes.
“small government” was an euphemism for “defend rather than desegregate public services”