Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Their Hatred Knows No Bounds

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Their Hatred Knows No Bounds

There doesn't seem like the Republicans have any limits when it comes to us... they keep coming up with more vile and draconian laws...

House GOP advances bill to remove civil rights protections for transgender Iowans
Iowa Public Radio
By Katarina Sostaric
February 25, 2025

Republicans on the Iowa House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill Monday that would remove civil rights protections for transgender Iowans from state law, as a few hundred people protested the bill at the Statehouse.

The committee vote came just a few hours after Iowans testified at a subcommittee hearing for and against the bill, with protesters chanting, “Trans rights are human rights” and “F*** you, fascists” outside the room. State troopers arrested two protesters.

The bill, introduced last Thursday, would remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, which currently provides transgender Iowans with protection from discrimination in housing, education, employment, public accommodations and credit practices.

It would also bar transgender women from places like women’s public bathrooms, prisons and domestic violence shelters while stating “Separate accommodations are not inherently unequal.” The bill would define “sex” in state law as “the state of being either male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth.”

How infantile and vindictive is that! Of course they don't care that in their persecution they just eliminated all intersex people!

Evelyn Nikkel with conservative group PELLA PAC said the bill would fix that “grievous error” and protect women by keeping transgender women who were assigned male at birth out of women’s bathrooms and prisons. She said having gender identity in the Iowa Civil Rights Act elevates the rights of transgender Iowans over others.

Just more lies coming from another Republican to create fear and animosity against us!

Then the biggest lie of them all...

House GOP leaders say those laws are at risk of being struck down by the courts if they don’t remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

The courts have been upholding non-discrimination laws!

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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

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"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

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Their Hatred Knows No Bounds

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