They should be required to wear Pink Triangles on their outer garments
Posted on 06/30/2023 2:52:45 AM PDT by Libloather
Michigan's House of Representatives has passed a hate speech bill, known as HB 4474, which criminalizes causing someone to feel threatened by words, including the misusing of their pronouns, with the possibility of a hefty fine or even jail time.
The bill introduces hate crime penalties for causing someone to 'feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened,' with 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity or expression' included as protected classes.
Offenders could face up to five years in prison for such a felony offense or a $10,000 fine.
It is part of a continues effort by Democrats in the state to advance a pro-LGBTQ+ agenda in their first months in power.
The proposed legislation aims to replace the existing Ethnic Intimidation Act and extends protection against intimidation.
Critics argue that the bill poses a threat to First Amendment rights and lacks clarity in defining 'harassment', leaving it open to subjective interpretation.
The bill reads as follows: 'Intimidate' means a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable individual to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.'
If passed, penalties would be based on how the supposed victim and court 'feel' about a particular matter.
What constitutes as being deemed 'intimidation and harassment' would be up to the interpretation of the listener and a local prosecutor.
Critics argue that the legislation could infringe on free speech rights and undermine the principles of due process.
Michigan Democrats have made it a priority to further protect LGBTQ+ people since they took control of all levels of state government this year.
In March, lawmakers codified LGBTQ+ protections into the state's civil rights law, permanently outlawing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the state.
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Buy weapons and ammo, yes.
BUT PAY CASH!!!
Expect the thought police next.
They have entered 1984 territory.
I wonder if people in Michigan support this type of Constitutional destruction or if it’s all voter fraud all the time?
I just want to be the punch bowl stirrer at the DNC convention.
My right to free speech is NOT surpassed by someone’s erroneously perceived “right to not be offended”
It shouldn’t survive a challenge in a local circuit court.
Yes it still exists, but we have to keep fighting like he’ll to keep it as the left have waged a hostile takeover of the nation.
It’s ok to still refer to a female as “that Bitch” however
Whatever happened to “sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me”?
The co stitution is not there to protectpeoples fragile emotional states, ie feelings, it is there to AFFIRM that we have God given rights like freedom of speech that usurp a yone’s fickle ever changing precious feelings.
The Court has ruled that despicable groups like the kk and the old westborrow Baptist church are allowed to say the most vile things about others, even while standing outside their funerals.
There is a very high standard for what constitutes “harmful speech”,,and courts have time and time again always sided with th3 so called “hate speakers” because the 1st amendment affirms the right to speak which applies to nearly all speech (there is some speech apparently which the courts feel is a “bridge too far”, but again, even that is determined by a very high standard)
The concept of “protected class” is illegal, wrong and unconstitutional. Laws that reference the invalid concept are also invalid.
God will have the last word when it comes to these evil filthy demons.
Judgement is on its way.
Every LGBTQAIEIDIDHWH in Michigan should rally over to Dearborn and challenge everyone there with their pronouns. Let’s see what happens.
I can’t wait to go back home to test this law. Should be fun. And profitable.
This is where things stand today, and yes, our Lord and Savior will have the last word.
Wonderful!!!!!!
Public employees and elected officials in Michigan should be required to wear “Support Faggotry” buttons.
They should be required to wear Pink Triangles on their outer garments
That was back before the snowflake explosion.
This is getting downright scary!
And many other states are doing this and worse.
And we just quietly keep taking it!
“The point is to make life miserable for millions of normal people, destroy they livelihoods, and feed the irrational hate mongers on the left. It will take years and destroy thousands before this insanity reaches the SCOTUS. And…if the left succeeds in packing the court, it will stand.”
You clearly don’t understand how federal courts work. Jump in.
https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts
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