Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: A Surprising Ally

Tuesday, July 09, 2019

A Surprising Ally

We are numb by now of all the restaurant chains that their founders are right-wingers but one chain has stood up for us in the face of bigotry. Or sometimes we have to know when to quit especially when we are ahead.

Transgender woman charged in argument over using ladies’ restroom, NC police say
The Herald Sun
By Simone Jasper
July 3, 2019

A customer at a Denny’s restaurant in North Carolina wasn’t happy when a transgender woman entered the ladies’ restroom while his wife was in there, police say.

Police in Shelby responded to a call about a disturbance at the restaurant on Sunday, when tensions escalated between the customer and the 22-year-old woman, according to a police report.

The woman ended up being arrested after police say she spit at the customer who complained and cursed at him.

According to police, the customer said “he did not feel that was right” when the woman entered the ladies’ restroom while his wife was also using it.

Officers tried to “explain the law” to the customer, “who was not satisfied, but did proceed to calm down,” according to the police report.

There is no law in North Carolina that prohibits transgender people from using certain restrooms in private businesses.

Okay she won… the police told the bigot that she wasn’t breaking any laws but she didn’t shut up and let the police handle it and she was the one that ended up being arrested.

So what did Denny’s do?

Denny’s, which has restaurants across the United States and in other countries, says it doesn’t “tolerate discrimination” and expects its customers to treat people equally.

“Our bathrooms policies across the country allow guests to use the bathroom of their gender identity,” company spokesperson Hannah Rand wrote in an email to McClatchy.

Yeah Denny’s!

This afternoon I will be at the governor’s office for the signing of a couple of bills favorable to the LGBTQ+ community including the bill banning trans/gay panic defense and the first ever state advisory committee on LGBTQ+ healthcare and policy.

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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

Tuesday, July 09, 2019

A Surprising Ally

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