Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: It Is Not Only In The U.S.

Monday, October 16, 2017

It Is Not Only In The U.S.

But it is happening in other countries around the world, this time in England where a printer refused to print business cards for a trans woman.

Christian printer refuses to produce business cards for transgender diversity consultant because they might 'marginalise' fellow believers

Christian printer Nigel Williams refused to produce pro-LGBTQ+ business cards

In a letter Mr Williams said he didn't want to encourage Christian discrimination

Transgender rights activist Mrs Joanne Lockwood was left reeling after refusal

The clash is reminiscent of the Ashers Bakery saga in Northern Ireland in 2014

Daily Mail
By Rod Ardehali
15 October 2017

A devout Christian printer refused to produce business cards for a transgender diversity consultant because he didn't want to promote a cause potentially harmful to fellow believers.

Nigel Williams turned down the chance to work for Joanne Lockwood's consultancy, SEE Change Happen, which promotes diversity, equality and inclusion.

Following Mrs Lockwood's approach to use his business, Mr Williams sent the diversity coach a letter explaining why he was refusing the business deal.

And of course a Christian legal organization to help the printer.

Mr Williams has been offered support by the Christian Institute - a pressure group which previously backed a family bakery in Northern Ireland accused of discriminating against a gay customer.

I do not believe that England has any “Religious Freedom” laws to complicate the case like we have here in the U.S.

I made it up here to P’town yesterday with no problems, I pulled over at a rest area to have a sandwich and take a cat nap for about twenty minutes. It is a four hour drive from home up to Provincetown, only an hour more than driving up to where we had a cottage in New Hampshire, but that extra weighs heavily on me.

At night there was welcoming reception at Tin Pan Alley which was well attended for an opening night at the Fair. They also had an event at the Pilgrim Monument but I didn’t go to earlier in the evening.

Today I’m at the opening brunch and this evening is the Virginia Prince Transgender Pioneer Award Banquet where they will honor Gwen Smith and Martine Rothblatt.

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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

Monday, October 16, 2017

It Is Not Only In The U.S.

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