Bill Seeks to Make Pedophiles a Protected Class in Minnesota

https://slaynews.com/news/demo...s-a-protected-class/



Democrats in Minnesota have introduced a new bill that seeks to make pedophiles a protected legal class in the state.

State representatives introduced legislation this week that would end the exclusion of pedophilia from legal protections of sexual orientation in state law.

The bill was co-authored by Democrat legislator Leigh Finke, a biological man who claims to be a transgender “woman.”

Last month, Finke won USA Today’s “Women of the Year” award alongside Michelle Obama.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...-Michelle-Obama.html

The state’s existing anti-discrimination law excludes sexual attraction to children from legally protected sexual orientations.

However, the Democrats’ bill, HF 1655, would remove that exclusion.

The bill describes itself as “removing certain sections in the human rights act that allow for discrimination based on sexual orientation.”

The phrase “‘sexual orientation’ does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult” would be struck from the legal definition of sexual orientation if the bill passes.

In Minnesota, sexual orientation is a protected legal class in areas of employment, housing, public accommodations, public service, educational institutions, credit, and business discrimination.

The legislation also creates a legal definition for gender identity.

It inaccurately specifies that gender may not match one’s biological sex and may not be visible to others.

https://wdoc.house.leg.state.m...eg/LS93/HF1655.0.pdf


More at link

quote:

Originally posted by wcb6092:
Bill Seeks to Make Pedophiles a Protected Class in Minnesota

As mama and grandma would say, "Heavens to Betsy!" As I would say, "these people are fucking NUTS!" I've told my story about when I was in IT several times and pretty much predicted (as did tens of thousands) in 2000 that this would come to pass. These are some SICK. FUCKS!

Interesting article.

https://www.americanthinker.co..._dylan_mulvaney.html

How Ayn Rand Predicted Dylan Mulvaney

Most of her fans – and probably her detractors as well – know Ayn Rand primarily through her four great novels. She also wrote essays, philosophy books, screenplays, and Broadway dramas… but we remember her for her novels.

We fear that the dystopian world of Anthem will come true someday, but not soon. We fear that the totalitarian tyranny of We the Living is approaching, any day now. And we know full well that the mindless, vicious, destructive bureaucratic rule of Atlas Shrugged is in some ways upon us already.

But the shocker is realizing that her most specific, dead-on prediction, the one we never saw coming, was in The Fountainhead, and it is all around us today.

A few years ago, a confused teenaged actor, much like tens of thousands of other teenaged actors, was hoping for a career in the theatre, and meeting with the minor success so common in youth: a role in a local professional play, perhaps even a part in the chorus line of a musical’s touring company. Then in 2021, following the strange year known as “the pandemic,” this young person decided to become “trans,” and to report on his “transition” on the Chinese online platform TikTok.

Soon, Dylan Mulvaney was being represented by Creative Artists Agency – not for acting, dancing, or singing ability but for “being” a trans activist and online influencer. Soon, as he began wearing the hair, makeup, and wardrobe of a woman, he was getting promoted by the Trevor Project.

In the spring of 2023, an American public that had never heard of this young man was suddenly seeing him everywhere -- in dresses, hats and pearls -- in print ads, on television and online commercials, even on the packaging of America’s most popular brands.

Consider: how did people become spokesmen in the old days? A television or film actor or singer, already famous, would sign an endorsement deal. An Olympic or sports team star, already famous, would appear on a cereal box or television commercial. They were always famous first, and an advertising executive thought their image might be a good fit for their product.

There have also been unknown actors who directly became famous from a commercial, but that was always one specific, memorable commercial character in a very creative, well-written sketch. For such commercial appearances to strike gold and launch an actor’s broader endorsement career is rare indeed.

Dylan Mulvaney is a new case, and possibly a prototype for a new way: he is suddenly ubiquitous, simultaneously hired by Anheuser Busch and Kate Spade, Nike and Ulta Beauty, CeraVe and Crest, InstaCart and Haus Labs. What a client list for a fringe, unknown actor!

Note that key word: simultaneously. One producer, one manufacturer, one ad agency didn’t come up with an idea, launch it, see how it went, and then, on the strength of a year’s increased sales due to his ads, leverage that success into more and more bookings.

No. All these companies joined the bandwagon together, practically overnight, without waiting for any other campaign’s results.

These businesses were sold on this young man as a concept, before there was any data available to objectively demonstrate that it would be a good marketing decision for them.

This just doesn’t happen. This never happens. While I am not an expert in the history of advertising, Gentle Reader, I am certain that this has not happened before.

All of a sudden, this skinny young man in a dress, looking like a Halloween party Audrey Hepburn impersonator, is popping up everywhere, like the Gallant Gallstone… and for exactly the same reason.

Ayn Rand’s fans will remember a character in The Fountainhead named Ellsworth Toohey, a newspaper columnist who spent years and years planting Marxists in every industry and association, spreading them throughout the country as sleeper cells, ready to be activated on his word.

One day, perhaps to test his approach, perhaps to gauge his influence, Ellsworth Toohey puts out the word to his army of plants that they should advertise a book by poet Lois Cook, a talentless hack who has written about a sentient gallstone making its courageous path through a human body. It’s outrageous, of course, sheer theatre of the absurd, but his plan works, as the character of the Gallant Gallstone is suddenly ubiquitous, seemingly overnight.

Only then are the eyes of other characters opened, and they begin to realize how dangerous, how powerful, this Ellsworth Toohey character has become.

By the same token, we Americans have watched for years as corporations big and small have added new jobs, even new board roles, and signed on to new corporate commitments, seemingly as a harmless sop to one interest group or another, unthinkingly, much like a political machine that creates a no-show patronage job for some party boss’s kid.

Our companies have appointed a “Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Officer” or an “Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Vice President.” Stockholders were happy to do it because Blackrock and other huge funds advocate it… and if you make them happy, it’ll count toward your Corporate Equality Index (CEI). These giant pool investing houses will buy your stock and push up your perceived market value.

What they didn’t know, what they never dreamed, was that these useless officers weren’t just no-show placeholders to satisfy a demand for a bribe. They would have actual power. They would sit at every board meeting; they would run a department. They would have a vote on company decisions, big and small, just like all the other board members.

We have seen this influence in recent years, as large companies, both publicly traded and privately held, have written checks, often for millions and millions of company dollars each, to hostile organizations like BLM. And now they are at the heart of the movement to put Dylan Mulvaney in front of every American’s face.

There are many imputed laws in the business world. Parkinson’s Law, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion. The Peter Principle, that in any hierarchy, each employee will eventually rise to his level of incompetence. O’Sullivan’s Law, that any organization not explicitly founded to be conservative will eventually become left-wing.

And perhaps we now need a law that we should always have thought would go without saying: If you give someone a seat at the table, he will take full advantage of it.

We – our modern American society – have thought that we were showing tolerance, open-mindedness, liberality, when we threw the left a bone and invited people clearly hostile to the principles of Western Civilization and capitalism onto the management hierarchy and the boards of directors of our business community. They have taken this opportunity and used it to their movement’s best advantage, undermining the profitability of the very companies that pay their salaries.

They have gotten oil refiners to insanely commit to wean themselves away from oil; they have convinced energy utilities to shut down their most efficient, most productive nuclear power plants; they have convinced advertiser after advertiser to produce commercials that insult and offend their customers.

And now, in perhaps the ultimate of such suicidal campaigns, they have convinced a beer company to put a guy in a dress on the front of their beer cans. They have convinced a makeup company to make this man the face of their cosmetics. They have convinced an athletic apparel company to have a skinny, non-athletic man model their sports bras.

These brands are bleeding customers daily as a result. Whether these specific companies will ever learn their lesson or not may be beside the point. The most striking lesson for us today is the fact that it happened at all.

An association of political activists, international in scope, has proven itself to have the ability to plant destructive people in the business community’s corporate boards, and to force businesses to willingly sabotage their own sales, undermining their own shareholder value, by advancing a countercultural political agenda at the expense of their own market share.

We can see this one. Dylan Mulvaney is in our face. What else are they doing, what else are these plants talking our struggling American business community into doing, that we haven’t heard about yet?

The real world’s Ellsworth Toohey may be a single person, or a group, or a movement, but what we now know for certain is that in some way, he is real, and just as powerful and malevolent as Ayn Rand imagined him.


John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation professional. A onetime Milwaukee County Republican Party chairman, he has been writing a regular column for Illinois Review since 2009.

USDOJ challenges Tennessee's ban on "gender-affirming care" as unconstitutional in lawsuit

A euphemism for mutilation.

quote:

Originally posted by egregore:
USDOJ challenges Tennessee's ban on "gender-affirming care" as unconstitutional in lawsuit

A euphemism for mutilation.

Before long, a parent somewhere is going to take matters into their own hands upon discovering a school or doctor has hidden from them their child's dysphoria and enabled it. Dysphoria is by definition a mental disorder. A child is by definition not competent to make enormous decisions.

Way back when, my very much now ex-wife purposely hid from me putting our teen son on a medication she knew I was firmly opposed to. There were many other treatments to try first before going to this one. I was as angry as I've ever been, and it ended the marriage.

So I can see how a parent would be enraged when their child is encouraged to continue with gender dysphoria. I cannot imagine the reaction to discovering the child has been given puberty blockers, hormone treatments, or even surgical procedures.

I do not advocate violence, but I honestly can understand it, and it will happen.

quote:

Originally posted by Fly-Sig:

quote:

Originally posted by egregore:
USDOJ challenges Tennessee's ban on "gender-affirming care" as unconstitutional in lawsuit

A euphemism for mutilation.

Dysphoria is by definition a mental disorder. A child is by definition not competent to make enormous decisions.

Over time, those with real mental disorders became prevalent within the community of mental health providers. They changed the definition of "disorders" to normalize their own previously diagnosed mental health conditions. Now they want to normalize culture into accepting the victimization of children by those who want to abuse them for sexual gratification. How long will responsible adults let this continue???

quote:

Originally posted by wcb6092:
Democrats in Minnesota have introduced a new bill that seeks to make pedophiles a protected legal class in the state.

State representatives introduced legislation this week that would end the exclusion of pedophilia from legal protections of sexual orientation in state law.

Is that a hill that MT Dems really want to die on?
MT is fairly conservative, it's not AL or, OK but, it's red, however those Dems who are backing this....are they really in favor of this or, are they just aligning themselves behind the most vocal of their representatives?

Slouching Toward Gomorrah.

quote:

Is that a hill that MT Dems really want to die on?
MT is fairly conservative

Minnesota is MN
Montana is MT
Mississippi is MS

Alissa Heinerscheid must be consulting for the Navy while taking her leave of absence from Bud light.

Navy seeks to attract 'diverse talent' amid recruitment crisis with drag queen influencer

https://www.washingtonexaminer...rag-queen-influencer

I know we have for the most part superior weapon systems and for the time being a highly trained, motivated, professional armed forces, but I wonder how long that will last with these “accommodations”.

quote:

Originally posted by gearhounds:
I know we have for the most part superior weapon systems and for the time being a highly trained, motivated, professional armed forces, but I wonder how long that will last with these “accommodations”.

Until the next real war that threatens our shores. When real men are so outraged by the threat that they line up to sign up to fight.

quote:

Originally posted by chellim1:
Alissa Heinerscheid must be consulting for the Navy while taking her leave of absence from Bud light.

Navy seeks to attract 'diverse talent' amid recruitment crisis with drag queen influencer

https://www.washingtonexaminer...rag-queen-influencer

I thought the idea was to keep firearms out of the hands of crazies. I must have been mistaken.

:facepalm:

What's with the "gender assigned at birth" crap? To the extent that the sex of a baby is "assigned," it begins at the moment Mr. Sperm fertilizes Ms. Egg.

quote:

Originally posted by pulicords:
Over time, those with real mental disorders became prevalent within the community of mental health providers. They changed the definition of "disorders" to normalize their own previously diagnosed mental health conditions. Now they want to normalize culture into accepting the victimization of children by those who want to abuse them for sexual gratification. How long will responsible adults let this continue???

I think much of it comes from most people's combination of empathy for the "challenged" and an inability to take the long view. That they actually believe they are helping the ill, and reduced afforts to "cure" them, so as to focus on palliative care. Not surprising that the "movement" gained traction most strongly among medical practitioners in that those attracted to this profession often ascribe this to empathy for the afflicted. This fostered a culture of acceptance, and attracted those who felt uncomfortable in other roles in society which compounded the effect until the prevalence of "alternative life styles" is far greater in medicine than among practically every other mainstream group.

Note that this change in approach is also evident in the standard practices of "treating" many physical diagnoses such as diabetes, heart disease, depression, etc. No longer are medical providers focused primarily on curing afflictions, but on symptom remediation, even to include pharmaceutical research. The influence of the profit motive is obvious, it is far more lucrative to sell a drug that your patient will continue for 20 years than just a few doses, or bill a patient every six months rather than only when they are feeling sick enough to resort to a doctor. But the cultural imperative to help seems to go only so far as "if they aren't feeling bad, there's nothing to worry about."

Just a few minutes of contemplation should reveal that the long-term consequences of this way of thinking are detrimental to society at large, and to the sick themselves. So in answer to the explicit question posed in the quoted post, probably not until the cultural and economic forces so profoundly arranged to promote it are altered to do so.

quote:

Originally posted by chellim1:
Alissa Heinerscheid must be consulting for the Navy while taking her leave of absence from Bud light.

Navy seeks to attract 'diverse talent' amid recruitment crisis with drag queen influencer

https://www.washingtonexaminer...rag-queen-influencer

Why is this such a surprise move for the Navy?

I keed.. I keed...

quote:

Originally posted by architect:

quote:

Originally posted by pulicords:
Over time, those with real mental disorders became prevalent within the community of mental health providers. They changed the definition of "disorders" to normalize their own previously diagnosed mental health conditions. Now they want to normalize culture into accepting the victimization of children by those who want to abuse them for sexual gratification. How long will responsible adults let this continue???

I think much of it comes from most people's combination of empathy for the "challenged" and an inability to take the long view. That they actually believe they are helping the ill, and reduced afforts to "cure" them, so as to focus on palliative care. Not surprising that the "movement" gained traction most strongly among medical practitioners in that those attracted to this profession often ascribe this to empathy for the afflicted. This fostered a culture of acceptance, and attracted those who felt uncomfortable in other roles in society which compounded the effect until the prevalence of "alternative life styles" is far greater in medicine than among practically every other mainstream group.

Note that this change in approach is also evident in the standard practices of "treating" many physical diagnoses such as diabetes, heart disease, depression, etc. No longer are medical providers focused primarily on curing afflictions, but on symptom remediation, even to include pharmaceutical research. The influence of the profit motive is obvious, it is far more lucrative to sell a drug that your patient will continue for 20 years than just a few doses, or bill a patient every six months rather than only when they are feeling sick enough to resort to a doctor. But the cultural imperative to help seems to go only so far as "if they aren't feeling bad, there's nothing to worry about."

Just a few minutes of contemplation should reveal that the long-term consequences of this way of thinking are detrimental to society at large, and to the sick themselves. So in answer to the explicit question posed in the quoted post, probably not until the cultural and economic forces so profoundly arranged to promote it are altered to do so.

This post is spot-on, and I agree that it generally speaks to the medical profession as a whole. Until a couple of years ago, I had very little need for healthcare...a physical every few years and a couple of ER visits for minor injuries was about it. Then in 2021 I contracted type 1 Daibetes out of the blue.

I've been really frustrated that they don't seem at all interested in fixing the underlying problem, just managing the symptoms, especially when it comes to selling you stuff. Every time I go into my Endo's office they offer to sell me an insulin pump, despite the fact that so far I've been very successfully managing my sugar myself through a single daily shot of basal-insulin in conjunction with diet and exercise. They even told me, "You can eat whatever you want...we'll manage it with insulin."

It comes across as very affirming, but IMO it's the worst thing you can do to a patient. It reinforces an unhealthy lifestyle for someone who's body is already working against them, instead of using their condition as motivation to make difficult but positive changes.

quote:

Navy seeks to attract 'diverse talent' amid recruitment crisis with drag queen influencer

Young people live on smart phones, they all watch TikTok, one of the most dangerous platforms in SM since it's full of "influencers" ie popular people, who make a lot of money.

Which means it's ripe for data mining, creating false content, and a platform for creating dangerous videos encouraging people to do stupid, dangerous or life threatening acts, like eating tide pods.

All the marketing savvy out of NYC ad companies are pushing these "influencer" driven marketing programs.

It's proof positive that Trump was correct, TikTok is da debil....

Retired Navy SEAL Chris Beck who transitioned to being woman is detransitioning back to a man and is speaking out about the ideology and what it is doing to kids.

Women's bike racers speaking out after transgender wins $35,000 first prize in New Mexico bike race.

I have been wondering when more ladies would speak up. It's one thing to take a medal for college kids, take cash away from adult professionals and the UCI (bike racing organization) is suddenly having to defend itself.