"I'll TELL you what's fair and what's not!"
Posted on 02/23/2022 6:14:07 AM PST by rktman
A “fairness ordinance” in a Nebraska city has triggered a firestorm, with one state pro-family organization claiming it will trample on First Amendment rights.
The Lincoln City Council, located in the state capital, passed the ordinance on Feb. 14, according to a report by the Lincoln Journal Star.
“This 67-page ordinance affects everyone in the city from churches and schools to your gym and local swimming pool. It’s a nonpartisan issue,” Karen Bowling, executive director of the Nebraska Family Alliance said in a Feb. 18 statement. “The ordinance penalizes citizens for expressing a worldview different from those currently in positions of political power.”
The group claimed in a Feb. 15 release that the 67-page ordinance was an effort to circumvent a referendum on a version of the bill that passed in 2012 that was tied up by a signature campaign.
“This ordinance is anything but fair – it should be called the ‘unfairness ordinance.’ It puts girls at risk by allowing men into girls’ bathrooms. It applies to private schools and not to public schools,” Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It prevents parents from helping their kids who are experiencing gender dysphoria. And it threatens to bankrupt families who instill traditional values on their children — anyone who disagrees could get fined up to $50,000.”
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Outrageous!
The Lincoln Human Rights Commission, a nine-person panel, would be empowered to enforce the measure, according to the ordinance.
and not elected.
Lincoln Nebraska is a collage town, enough said. Unbelievable that anyone would want to go to these schools, but they are full. Does not speak well for our future.
Taking their cue from the totalitarians in Canada, eh?
Oh yea, University of Nebraska.
All college towns have been taken over by leftists.
Appointed for life?
I thought only one paragraph in one Amendment ( in the Constitution, ya know) was needed.
Up at the top, the First One as I recall.
Same problem we have in Texas, Leftists flock to the Capital because that’s where they can ‘get more done’ with their relatively small number of fanatics.
Yikes! How is this not actual censorship?
Canadistan
Who wrote it and then threatened those that passed it?
I assume that Sen. Ben Sasse supports this commission, right?
Apparently you forgot brandon declared NONE of them are absolute. Wonder how certain segments of the population would feel if anyone messed with the, oh, 13th or 19th amendments. After all, they’re NOT absolute. Right brandon. Or, was he revealing too much?
And well mixed in with some onions and garlic to try to make it palatable...and near impossible to parse.
the Constitution isn’t 67 pages....
Interesting pic. I did not know that Faber College was in Tennessee. I thought it was somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Most likely it was drafted by non-profits, city officials and the city attorney, then pawned off to council members for approval. I wonder if the city received a special grant?
Look at the mess in Texas. The republicans have the governor, lt. governor, attorney general, and majorities in both the house and senate.
Nothing gets done. The RINO rascals are off horse trading behind closed doors.
The last session only resulted in one item on the “to do” list from the Republican grassroots getting passed.
What a weak kneed bunch of self-serving rascals in Austin!
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