Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Editorial: "E pluribus unum,"

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Editorial: "E pluribus unum,"

[Editorial]

Do you remember from you history classes, the battle over federal and states' rights when they were writing the Constitution? Well the battle is still going on today!

Look at the recent Supreme Court rulings:

Abortion... states rights!
Trans healthcare... states rights!
Marriage equality... states rights?

We are being balkanized!"

4 out of 10 LGBTQ+ Youth Are Considering Moving Out of Their Home State
The Trevor Project’s new survey shows worrying trends about LGBTQ+ youth's well-being and perception of safety.
Parent
By Taylor Grothe
January 22, 2025

LGBTQ+ youth are incredibly connected and aware of the political landscape.1 As state policies continue to endanger laws around access to gender-affirming healthcare, a new Trevor Project Survey shows these young people are far more likely to consider moving from state to state.2 The Trevor Project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to suicide prevention and crisis intervention for LGBTQ+ young people.

The report analyzed data showing the overlap between LGBTQ+ youth’s perceived safety and mental well-being, and state policies. It then used information from the Movement Advancement Project to assess the social and political landscapes that led these youth to leave the state where they live.

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Houston CEO: I love Texas. But I’m moving my company because of the abortion ban.
Houston Chronicle
By Amanda Ducach
June 24, 2025

I know this firsthand. As the CEO of Ema, an AI-powered women’s health startup, I founded and built my company in Houston (Full disclosure: Hearst Labs invested in Ema). I also had a high-risk pregnancy when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. After that, I no longer felt safe raising a family or scaling a health care company in Texas.

I love Texas, and moving was a heartbreaking and difficult decision. But I ultimately relocated my family to Massachusetts and gave my employees the freedom to work from any location. Now I’m moving Ema’s headquarters, too.

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When Texas legislators criminalized abortion, they sent a clear message that they were willing to put ideology above individual health and agency. For those of us creating the future of health care, that was a dealbreaker.

Back in the 40s, 50s, 60s, the Jim Crow era, Blacks had a little book called "The Green Book" that list where it was safe for Blacks to travel, now the trans community has "Peeing in Peace" and it is only going to get worst... now they have set their sights marriage equality!

The battle over states' rights isn't just a legal skirmish; it is a direct assault on the principle of 'E pluribus unum'—out of many, one. When our rights depend on our zip code, we are no longer one people.

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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

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"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, August 20, 2025

Editorial: "E pluribus unum,"

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