Posted on 07/19/2017 2:45:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
California is on its way to passing a new law that makes it illegal to call transgender senior citizens a pronoun they don't like. For example, if an elderly person who was born male and lives in a long-term care facility wishes to be called "her" or "she," the workers there had better do it or face the consequences. The proposed law would even apply to Christian facilities.
SB 219, titled the "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Resident's Bill of Rights," states, "It shall be unlawful for a long-term care facility or facility staff to.... willfully and repeatedly fail to use a resident's preferred name or pronouns after being clearly informed of the preferred name or pronouns." It imposes fines and jail time on any long-term care employee who refuses to use transgender pronouns. Fines for repeat offenders could be as high as $1,000 and a jail term of up to a year.
The bill will also mandate bathrooms and rooming situations be designated by gender identity and not biological sex. There are no exemptions for long term care facilities run by religious institutions who integrate their beliefs about gender into their policies and practices.
Critics of the law fought against it. California Family Council's Greg Burt testified before the California Assembly Judiciary Committee saying, "How can you believe in free speech, but think the government can compel people to use certain pronouns when talking to others?" He added, "Compelled speech is not free speech. Can the government compel a newspaper to use certain pronouns that aren't even in the dictionary? Of course not, or is that coming next?"
Burt continued, "Those proposing this bill are saying, 'If you disagree with me about my view of gender, you are discriminating against me,'" saying, "This is not tolerance. This is not love. This is not mutual respect. True tolerance tolerates people with different views. We need to treat each other with respect, but respect is a two-way street. It is not respectful to threaten people with punishment for having sincerely held beliefs that differ from your own."
Despite Burt's objections, the measure, which is sponsored by the group Equality California and authored by San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener, sailed through committee without even one vote against it.
If this bill sounds familiar, perhaps it's because Canada's Senate overwhelmingly passed similar legislation last month. The Canadian transgender right bill adds "gender expression" and "gender identity" to Canada's Human Rights Code and to the Criminal Code's hate crime section. This, despite objections from critics who argued it is a threat to freedom of expressions and legalizes false ideas about gender. Critics further worried that people who denied this gender theory could be charged with hate crimes, fined, jailed, and compelled to undergo anti-bias training.
I don’t understand. If a man wants to be called or addressed as a woman, but the intelligent individual addresses “him” as a Him because he is a him and appears as a him, that person can go to jail for offending the him who wants to be a her? What?
verbs and nouns
F...ing queer
protected speech
Seems like a pretty heavy handed assault on the First Amendment. If this flies, blasphemy laws will be shortly to follow. This is a tremendous test case if enacted.
The articles might as well be composed of "summa umma gigga tumtumtum...." etc., for all the interest they hold for me. So I would just as soon not waste my time reading anything about California politics or policies.
The Cali libs have heard of the First Amendment and believe it to be anathema to the Utopian State and therefore must be eliminated. This measure if passed and not shot down in the courts quickly will do that.
Yuck. This thing looks like it was dragged out of a dumpster, in high summer.
Surely you made up most of that chart. Please tell me that you made up most of that chart.
Will the cops also be forced to satisfy the social and sexual feelings of the pedo gangs? Quit already
Probably looks pretty normal to Obama - given his membership in Man’s Country in Chicago.
:-)
See why some of us posters “jocularly” mention nuking certain places?
Henceforth known as Senator It.
It rubs the lotion on its skin.
We need to put more people in jail for doing nothing. There just aren’t enough actual criminals out there.
They can’t keep our eyes from seeing the truth; and they can’t prevent us from knowing the truth when we see the truth; but they can demand we lie and they can threaten us with injustice and vengeance, if we don’t comply with their need to hear us speak the lies they want to hear, even though our speaking these lies will not make these lies true. They know not justice and goodness of truth, but power of lies to destroy that which is just, good and true.
Jail time for bad grammar?
There is a difference between being polite and being accurate. Being accurate may be unsettling to some, but is not necessarily rude. Demanding another to lie to satisfy ones imagination is rude.
There is a difference between being polite and being accurate. Being accurate may be unsettling to some, but is not necessarily rude. Demanding another to lie to satisfy ones imagination is rude.
You mean that is not like the “N” word yet. I am surprised. I was sure “faggot” would be treated like the N word in California by now.
DEFENDANT: Yer honor, it's Mrs. Genderphobe. Maybe we can share the same cell.
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