Kansas....horrible

[Charlize]

I am fortunate to live in a less reactionary state.

 

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/02/23/kansas-republicans-declare-war-on-transgender-people/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1519404082

 

all the proposals seem unconstitutional to me but unfortunately our courts are getting more "conservative".

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize

[BrandiBri]

That's terrible, but now I fear that my state (Nebraska) will be next in line for this type of discrimination. 

[Guest Rachel Gia]

Boneheads I would say and by trying to isolate us they are isolating themselves.

I told a retired Anglican Bishop in my 3 year of recovery that "my idea of Hell was a place where everyone thinks the same.".

He laughed and replied that his was "to be in a place where you are alone.".

We became friends after that.

 

[TessaOKC]

We have state law makers in Oklahoma constantly trying to pass anti-lgbt legislation here. An lgbt protective group called Freedom Oklahoma is relentless in thwarting the attacks by republicans.

 

I am so disheartened by this news in Kansas. The present political environment is breeding such legislation. I am so angry I'm just beside myself. Write letters, demonstrate and support local lgbt protective groups. Is there any other recourse we have???

[Carolyn Marie]

Republicans at the state level are trying to roll back the clock all over the country.  In Georgia, the legislature on Friday passed a law forbidding gays and lesbians to adopt.  They don't want to accept that they've lost the "culture war."  I know of no Federal court that has upheld these noxious laws.. We can only hope that the trend continues.  They are our last line of defense.

 

Carolyn Marie

[BrandiBri]

Psalm 139:13 says: "You have formed my inward parts, You covered my in my mother's womb". I believe that if that is true, which it is, then I am in no way made wrong or somehow flawed. I actually read that in a Catholic news letter earlier today. I think that is a clear statement that we all are made perfect in the eyes of God.

[Timber Wolf]

 My first reaction was anger and frustration. That any group in government should act with such hatred  and malice, especially in the name of religion is shameful. But then I remembered what these people are. They're loosers! They know they face ultimate defeat, and they are lashing out in there final battle shrieks before their defeat. They say it's always darkest before the dawn. Things will get better with time!

 

Lots of love,

Tiimber Wolf?

[Guest]

If you read far enough into articles such as this, more often than not you'll find mention of an anti-LGBT organization that has appropriated "family" as part of its name.

 

It's what I've come to think of as the "Cheshire cat" syndrome:  a smiling face in "support" of something is merely a facade to mask the actual agenda, which is unrelenting bigotry.  Pat Robertson is a classic example.

 

The concept that affirming the rights of LGBT individuals is somehow having a negative effect upon "family values" is a false balance created by religious zealots.   It assumes a dichotomy that doesn't exist, and their well-honed technique fosters an "us versus them" mentality among those who are most comfortable seeing things as either A or B and are much too easily led in that direction..

 

[Cyndee]

Listen to Kenna above, it's quite the narrow vision of what a family truly is. The problem we all face is these people that hide behind the word "family" want to impose a belief system on all others, they don't keep to themselves.

 

Not my family values, and I value my family...

[Jani]

Yes this is so true.  Not the way I was raised either.  

 

Jani