In Anyway Possible

The Trump administration has done everything in their power to demonize and marginalized. They stripped protection for us; they gave special rights to discriminate against us.

'Not just about a cake shop': LGBT people battle bias in everyday routines
USA Today
By Susan Miller
January 16, 2018

For the LGBT community, it is those everyday activities that can leave people feeling the barbs of bias, a new study shows — and many are being forced to rethink routines.

Only 19 states and the District of Columbia have laws that protect people from discrimination in public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to the report released Tuesday by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), a think tank that researches and analyzes state and federal laws with LGBT implications.

And 54 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act and 28 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act, there is no federal law that offers similar protections for LGBT people.

And the administration has even gutted those laws.

 “People don’t understand the breadth of what public accommodations are and what they cover,” said Ineke Mushovic, MAP executive director. “It’s all our activities and daily lives when not at home, at work, at school.”

That’s why if you live in Massachusetts you need to get out and fight to pass the ballot initiative,

Do you approve of a law summarized below, which was approved by the House of Representatives by a vote of 117-36 on July 7, 2016, and approved by the Senate by a voice vote on July 7, 2016

The article goes on to say that the opposition thinks,

“Religious bakers, florists, photographers and others whose stories we are familiar with have not denied services to LGBT people because of their status as LGBT,” said Bruce Hausknecht, judicial spokesperson at Focus on the Family, “but because the services being asked of them forced them to violate their conscience by promoting or participating in something contrary to their religious beliefs.”

The conflict comes from “the message, not the person,” he said. “In most of those stories, those religious business owners had a long history of serving, and in some cases even employing, LGBT persons.”

Substitute “Black” for “LGBT”

“Religious bakers, florists, photographers and others whose stories we are familiar with have not denied services to “Black” people because of their status as “Black”,” said Bruce Hausknecht, judicial spokesperson at Focus on the Family, “but because the services being asked of them forced them to violate their conscience by promoting or participating in something contrary to their religious beliefs.”

That was the same argument that was used to justify segregation.

Aryah Lester summed it up best…

Said Lester, the Florida transgender activist: “People think we want to be treated as special. We only want to be treated as equal.”  

I don’t usually quote comments but…

Even years ago, people did not have a problem with LGBT doing what they want in the privacy of their bedrooms. We had a problem when they started trying to make it the norm, and started to recruit kids into their ranks.

In other words they want to force us back in the closet as second class citizens. Once again substitute another marginalized people and how does it read?

Even years ago, people did not have a problem with women doing what they want in the privacy of their bedrooms. We had a problem when they started trying to make it the norm, and started to recruit kids into their ranks.

It sounds misogynous, if not misoneism.

Then this comment from a man…

Millions of gays, lesbians and bisexuals could have had job protection for nearly a decade now if the trans mafia hadn't killed ENDA because they couldn't be included.

To me he sounds like a member of “GAY INC.” Hmm... maybe we can coin the phrase,  Trans-Exclusionary Radical Gays (TERG).