Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: There Is A Difference

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

There Is A Difference

One party wants to criminalize us and one party wants to embrace diversity.

Desert Stonewall Dems' forum talks transgender issues
The Desert Sun
By Mauricio Pena
January 20, 2016

Transgender issues -- everything from health care to unisex restrooms -- were discussed Tuesday night during a forum hosted by Desert Stonewall Democrats in Palm Springs.

“We’ve had victories in the LGBT community in the last year, but the trans- and gender non-confirming people across the country are still struggling to survive on a daily basis and continue to face ongoing discrimination,” said Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center, a San Francisco-based civil rights organization,

Hayashi was joined by local community activists Lisa Middleton and Paulina Angel. The trio formed a panel that led Tuesday night's discussion, which took place at the Mizell Senior Center in Palm Springs.
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James Williamson, vice chair of Desert Stonewall Democrats, said the panel discussion was prompted by a survey conducted 16 months ago where members expressed an interest in learning more about transgender issues.

Meanwhile, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee have agreed to support the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) which would expand the religious exemption from discrimination laws to make the non-discrimination laws worthless.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

There Is A Difference

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