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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See my post # 40.
No, it’s not too much to ask, it’s what they’re for. They seem to forget that though, they’re more concerned about getting more taxes and fees to support their little kingdoms.
THAT’s MY thought....gee what shall we list THIS time as our gender/sex/race....
Male
Female
Frosted Flake
I have not answered either of the last two censuses, nor any of the surveys they put out in between, in contravention of the once-per-decade requirement in the Constitution.
If gender identity answers are required, the public will see that an incredibly small and delusional minority is holding the rest of us hostage.
” Are they wanting to do affirmative action for homosexuals?”
Yes. Employers will now be expected to inquire about a job applicant’s sex life. Just yesterday that would have been sexual harassment.
A sci-fi novel by Anthony Burgess published in 1961 called The Wanting Seed is about a dystopian future society in which only gays can achieve high positions; heterosexuals are essentially serfs.
The protagonist is a government official pretending gayness, who is revealed to be having an affair with (gasp!) a woman, after she has a forced abortion, and he must run for his life.
The novel was considered too far out when it was published. Huh.
Burgess is famous for A Clockwork Orange.
I am proud that I was the very last person in my area to respond to the census. I never mailed it in, and the census guy haunted my front door for WEEKS. I’d come home and see him camped out and just keep on driving.
When he finally cornered me (with the help of his supervisor), I gave the most outlandish answers possible.
I claimed Hispanic ancestry just for fun. He did not bat an eye.
He wanted to know what I paid for my house. I said it was a gift, and when he pressed further I admitted I stole the house from the rightful owner, forced them to sign it over to me, and then I killed them. He did not bat an eye.
For my ancestry, I claimed to be “East Atlantean”, because my ancestors came from England and Scotland, and those places are on an island in the East Atlantic. He said he’d never heard of East Atlanteans, and I said that’s because of the genocide; not many of us left.
He did not bat an eye.
I felt bad for him because he was a neighbor from down the street trying to augment his income; otherwise I would have forced him off my property physically.
Would there be choices like Hetero, Homo, Bi, Beast or Celibate?
... or gender identity ...
And the choices are male, female or DK.
They hired a bunch of unemployed losers with no background checks and expect people to just hand over their personal financial information to them.
I was gonna say that!
So any sex-related issue outside the scope of voting rights is a 10th Amendment-protected state power issue imo, not the business of the feds.
In fact, pro-LGBT lawmakers in both federal and state governments are arguably crossing the line in trying to make LGBT people a privileged / protected class which the states have expressly prohibited in broad terms in the Constitution.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States [emphasis added]: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility [emphasis added].
Lawmakers demanding that census collects data about PC sexual orientation is also arguably a good example of corrupt lawmakers trying to unconstitutionally expand the federal government’s limited powers in small steps. Both James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had warned about this.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
How about both, just to be sure!
Will they have a box to check stating, ‘confused broken monkey’?
I agree. I want America to see just how few these people are for all the noise and special rights they get.
My bride donates blood about 6 times each year and she has done this for about 44 years. She recently told me about one of the standard questions they ask before drawing blood now: “Were you female at birth?” We live in a crazy world. My bride just turn 65, but she remains hardbody and beautiful.....and flat can’t be mistaken for anything but a REAL woman.
As for the Census, I ducked the last one and will the next. ANYTHING they need to know is on public record and I’ll be damned if I am going to do their work.
I tell them I have my own unique gender identity. I call it "myofb".
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