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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I always wondered about that.
“Keep Austin Weird”
Mission accomplished.
Weird huh?
All? How about Hillsdale, MI? Lynchburg, VA? Provo, Utah? Cedarville, OH? Greenville, SC? Pensacola, FL? Colorado Springs, CO?
From the U.S Department of Justice web page
https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law:
“Section 242 of Title 18 [U.S.C] makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States...The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.”
File Federal criminal charges as soon as this becomes effective
I'm in Lynchburg, and the majority of the city council are radical Leftists. In fact, shockingly, Lynchburg went for Joe Biden, and I can't recall the last time a Democrat took a Presidential election in Lynchburg.
There were shenanigans here, though -- they were counting votes without a Republican poll watcher present, twice, even though they were ordered to follow the rules. Also, IIRC, the Gubernatorial candidate took Lynchburg (though lost the election), which makes it even more unusual in my opinioin...
Little did George Orwell realize that his concept of NEW SPEAK would find a home in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Austin (and I bet any other state capital) has always been that way.
My freshman year at UT was an enormous culture shock on and off campus.
I was just in Hillsdale a few days ago as we live right by there, it’s a pretty small town. Leftists wouldn’t even bother there as the area counties are pretty much farm driven.
To be sure it is what America used to be in bigger cities and is a parallel to what small towns still are across America.
Fortunately these countless small towns collectively represent what America can be without leftists running things.
“””Austin (and I bet any other state capital) has always been that way.”””
Yup. Tallahassee, Florida is a Democrat Stronghold.
It is no secret that pigs feed at the government trough.
“Nothing gets done.”
I live here and quite a bit got done. But it was mostly recently, and ONLY under Abbott (not under Bush or Perry), but yes, still more to do.
Most likely it was drafted
Nuts.
Although Faber College is supposed to be "somewhere in Pennsylvania", all filming was done at the University of Oregon.
Unfortunately, the Oregon flag has "State of Oregon" across the upper part, so it wouldn't work in that scene.
Unable to quickly find a Pennsylvania flag the set decorator, Hal Gausman, apparently used the first "generic" looking flag he could find - which happened to be a Tennessee flag.
Animal House was filmed at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Movie was set in Pennsylvania but apparently the crew couldn’t find a big enough penn flag for the scene. BTW the “making of” documentary is almost as funny as the movie.
How is this not a violation of the First Amendment?
Anything east of grand island along the I-80 corridor should be written off as lost.
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