Posted on 04/27/2016 9:34:43 AM PDT by jazusamo
The Census should be demanding more information about “gender identity,” leading liberal lawmakers said Wednesday, asking the agency to start including more probing questions to get at the increasingly complex family dynamics in America.
“Many federal data collection instruments gather respondents’ race, ethnicity, sex, marital status and other personal demographic information. However, most of these instruments do not include direct measures of respondents’ sexual orientation or gender identity,” Rep. Raul Grijalva and Sen. Tammy Baldwin said in a letter they led, and which was co-signed by dozens of their Democratic colleagues.
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They get number of residents at my address, and that’s about it. If there’s a right to privacy from an emanation from a penumbra that makes abortion a right, there is a right to privacy to not be forced into answering all the intrusive questions modern censuses ask.
I don’t understand it either. Maybe everybody should claim to be gay on the census, then gay will be considered the majority and we’ll all get civil rights.
That’s a hard choice to make.
I keep a baseball bat next to my front door for just those kind of occasions... I first use it to point out the shovel next to the garage and mention that since I got the bucket on the tractor I don’t use the shovel as much as I used to.
Everything else is none of their business.
I like my privacy.
My husband won't let me get the door mat that says, "Come back with a warrant". So I have to settle for one that says "Go Away".
Just like the Jedi religion move - from wiki -
Over 53,000 people listed themselves as Jedi in New Zealand’s 2001 census. New Zealand had the highest per capita population of reported Jedi in the world that year, with 1.5% marking “Jedi” as their religion
Good for you. What was the reaction of the census taker?
Tammy Baldwin....go figure.
I think you should work on him to get you that door mat as a gift for the 4th of July or a sooner occasion. :)
Yep, I wasn’t at all surprised to see either Baldwin or Grijalva behind this.
I don’t answer any personal questions with the truth....on anything. You should see my answers. lol
If they do, I’ll pick separate crazy “gender” designation for each family member, and tell them our sexual orientation is arborophile.
“Good for you. What was the reaction of the census taker?”
She reacted like the actress Margaret Dumont in the Marx Brothers movies. “Well...how dare you ask for a search warrant.”
At the federal level I want them to protect me from aggression from other countries (That includes unofficial invasions) and deliver the mail.
I want the local government to fix the darn roads and quit making those stupid bike lanes that took out five parking spots from in front of my shop.
I pay my taxes. Is this too much to ask?
The Republican response should be a simple one: that the US Constitution authorizes an “actual enumeration”, which means just that. The Census should have no authority to coerce *any* more information out of people.
1) Are you a citizen? yes/no (If you are not, you do not count.)
2) How many citizens live here with you?
And *that* is an actual enumeration.
“[...] They wanted to see all of my monthly bills, my bank records, records of my ATM withdrawals, and an accounting of how I spent every dollar. [...]”
Are you serious, or being sarcastic?
These legislators love spending other people’s money.
We sure are one sick country.
The Justice Department needs to be able to track the gender identity or sexual orientation of crime **victims** according to the story. What about the identity and orientation of CRIMINALS?
Aren’t serial killers more likely to be homosexuals? Meh.
This is about the American Community Survey, according to the story. Google and read up on it.
I was harassed and threatened with a $5000 fine for refusing to answer the unconstitutional and intrusive questions, on what was supposedly a “random” survey for statistical purposes.
I told the surveyor to “randomly select” somebody else, but she came back repeatedly.
I called the cops and threatened to have the fedgov employee arrested for stalking. They backed off, but then sent me a letter which essentially insinuated that my recalcitrance had been duly noted in my dossier.
Didn’t mean to hijack the thread, but this story is interesting. It suggests that perhaps fedgov may have rethought its strategy. Instead of locating and harassing constitutionalists who know what they’re up to and are likely to resist, they’ll instead focus on gathering data on the victim-class sheeple who make up the ranks of their own followers.
It’s all about knowing who’s where.
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