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Colorado GOP trying religious freedom |
Posted by: LynnInDenver - 03-23-2018, 06:16 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun
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Only they're calling it "Live and Let Live". http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/fi...206_01.pdf
Basically, license to discriminate if you can somehow justify that it's against your religion to NOT discriminate. It's going to be hard to prove that someone doesn't "sincerely" hold it as a religious belief. And, of course, such licensed discrimination makes it harder for anyone who doesn't hew strictly to the "white, straight, cisgendered" stereotypes to simply exist in public.
BTW, it's against my personal religious beliefs to do business with any company or individual who uses religion as their own personal shield for shitty, uncivilized behavior like discriminating against someone for a fact of their immutable makeup. Because I staunchly refuse to not show affection for my husband in public because someone doesn't think they can do business with me because it condones such behavior.
Yes, I'm venting. I'm old enough to remember Amendment 2, which attempted to prevent the State of Colorado from enacting anti-discrimination statutes to protect LGBT, under the guise of "it would grant LGBT special rights", and got us quite rightly labeled as The Hate State.
Plus, I view it as treating some religions differently than others to carve out this sort of exemption. After all, my husband, an atheist, doesn't have an easy piece of "reference material" to refer to so he could take advantage of the exemption, and that qualifies to some as a religion to be an atheist.
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And another board upgrade |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 03-21-2018, 08:13 PM - Forum: Forums
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Version 1.8.15 just came out a few days ago, and I only learned of it this afternoon. I did a board upgrade about an hour ago, so if anyone got an error or something strange, you might have run into me in the middle of the process. Everything should be just fine now, though.
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Spring forward... |
Posted by: robkelk - 03-21-2018, 11:38 AM - Forum: Forums
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I just noticed that the forum's default time zone is still Eastern Standard. Once I'm logged in, it displays as Eastern Daylight.
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Cynthia Nixon running for governor of New York |
Posted by: robkelk - 03-19-2018, 03:13 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun
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On the Democratic ticket, assuming she's chosen in the primaries.
Sex and the State House, anyone?
Quote:Her announcement sets up a race pitting an openly gay liberal activist against a two-term incumbent with a $30 million US war chest and possible presidential ambitions.
Which means she doesn't have much of a chance, unless she can raise a much larger war chest and get voters to ignore her sexual orientation - but that has happened elsewhere in North America. (Ontario's current Premier, to be specific, who has been Premier for about a decade now... and it usually takes about a decade for innovations in Canada to become possible in the USA.) Or unless Cuomo decides to go for the Oval Office, in which case all bets are off.
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