Apparently, a bill that would create a much stiffer penalty for child sex trafficking is being challenged by LGBTQ activists who claim the bill would unduly target and harm that community. The bill is being proposed in California
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One would think that legislation aimed at protecting children from being sex trafficked would be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, this is not the case for some in California who opposed a law that would increase penalties for those who solicit minors for sex.
Currently, this offense is classified as a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of up to one year in jail or a minimum of two days with a $10,000 fine. The new law would upgrade the offense to a felony that would impose a sentence of up to four years in prison with a $25,000 fine.
At a hearing, several LGBTQ activists voiced their opposition to the measure, arguing that it would somehow target members of the LGBTQ community and racial minorities.
The bipartisan measure, SB1414, would make it a felony offense for an adult to solicit or pay for sex with a minor. Amendments to the measure require that those accused of soliciting sex with minors aged 16 or 17 can only be charged with the increased penalty if the minor has been a victim of sex trafficking.
Several activists in attendance at the hearing asked committee members to oppose the bill due to the way it allegedly harms “marginalized communities.”
“I’d like to acknowledge the survivors [of sex trafficking] here today and name that we all have the shared goal of protecting children from harm,” Isabella Borgeson from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights said. “We are concerned that the harsher penalties contained in this bill will disproportionately impact marginalized communities, particularly Black and brown individuals who already bear the brunt of systemic biases within our criminal justice system.”
Arlene Quaratiello was fired by the Dudley-Tucker Library in the town of Raymond, New Hampshire for being conservative. The librarian sued the library, who then issued an apology acknowledging their violation of her first amendment rights. She did not require a rehire as she had already found a better paying job, according to her.
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A conservative New Hampshire librarian secured a legal victory in a First Amendment dispute with her employer. The Town of Raymond and its Dudley-Tucker Library admitted that they wrongfully terminated librarian Arlene Quaratiello for endorsing, in her private capacity, conservative library trustee candidates opposed to “inappropriate” children’s books.
Quaratiello sued after the library terminated her on April 4, 2023, for endorsing the candidates for library trustee positions at another library, according to Quaratiello’s complaint, filed on October 27, 2023.
Quaratiello, the town, and the library entered into the consent order on June 10, 2024, outlining the town and library’s wrongdoing. The parties agreed that Quaratiello’s termination, despite her reinstatement with backpay on April 25, 2023, violated her constitutional rights.
Four days before the consent order, Quaratiello left her position at the library to pursue teaching at a charter school.
The spirit of abortion is only rising after the Supreme Court decision that overthrew Roe v Wade was rendered. Since then, general support for abortion rose 10 points from 50 percent to 60 percent. Support for abortion after the 24th week is at 30 percent. Support for abortion after the 15th week is at 54 percent.
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TUESDAY, July 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more Americans think their state should allow a woman to get a legal abortion for any reason, a new poll finds.
Just over 6 in 10 of those questioned say women should have that right, compared to just under 50% of Americans who held the same belief in 2021, the new survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found.
Not just content to murder, maim, and sell the organs of Uyghurs, the DNC’s frenemy, the CCP, is busy brutally colonizing the now Chinese province of Xinjiang in an effort to wipe the memory of the Uighurs off the face of the planet.
The DNC frenemy is changing the place names of province that happen to be Uighur names and replacing them with Han Supremacist place names. Maya Wang, acting China director at Human Rights Watch, claimed “The Chinese authorities have been changing hundreds of village names in Xinjiang from those rich in meaning for Uyghurs to those that reflect government propaganda. These name changes appear part of Chinese government efforts to erase the cultural and religious expressions of Uyghurs.”
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Rights groups’ analysis of official data from 2009-2023 shows some 630 villages in Xinjiang had their names changed in this way.
China has “systematically” changed the names of hundreds of villages with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uighurs to names that resonate with the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.
The rights group, working in partnership with Norwegian advocacy organisation Uyghur Hjelp, said it identified 630 villages in the far western region of Xinjiang whose names had been changed in this way by scraping data from 2009 to 2023 on the website of the National Bureau. of Statistics of China. The most common replacements were Happiness, Unity, and Harmony
The Delaware Legislature has rejected a bill that would have legalized so-called physician-assisted suicide. The bill was defeated on June 20 in the Senate after passing the House in April.
The turning point for the bill came from an investigative report that shows physician-assisted suicide laws always start with limited scope but are continuously increased to include more and more exceptions and include more and more groups that could be eligible for “legalized suicide.”
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On Wednesday, June 12, the Delaware State Senate debated assisted suicide Bill HB 140. The last online presenter was Kim Callinan, the President of the assisted suicide group, Compassion & Choices. In her presentation Callinan lied three times about key issues.
The first lie was that there have been no abuses of the law.
An article by Jennifer Brown that was published in the Colorado Sun on March 14 reported that Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, an internal medicine doctor who specializes in eating disorders published a paper on how she prescribed assisted suicide for three people with anorexia nervosa in Colorado. Gaudiani approves assisted suicide for Anorexia Nervosa by falsely defining the condition as terminal.
Kevin Dias, the Chief Legal Advocacy Officer for Compassion & Choices responded to the Colorado Sun article by stating that:
Medical aid-in-dying laws apply only to mentally capable, terminally ill patients with six months or less to live who are able to self-ingest the medication. Any deviation from these requirements violates the law and places physicians, family members and others in regulatory, civil and criminal jeopardy. This law does not and was never intended to apply to a person whose only diagnosis is anorexia nervosa.
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California moves to ban schools from notifying parents of child pronoun changes
The California Senate has approved a bill that bans schools from telling parents if their children want to change their pronouns unless the children give consent or other law requires it.
AB-1955 passed along party lines, with all 29 Democrats voting in favor and their eight Republican colleagues voting against. It now moves to the state Assembly, where it must be passed by committees and on the floor before it can be sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.
The bill seeks to prohibit school districts and governing bodies of other educational institutions from “enacting or enforcing any policy, rule, or administrative regulation that requires an employee or a contractor to disclose any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the pupil’s consent unless otherwise required by law, as provided.”
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Pritzker could sign mandate prioritizing diversity in nonprofit leadership
The governor could soon sign a law mandating nonprofits disclose the demographic data of their board members.
The measure, according to the bill’s sponsor State Sen. Adriane Johnson, would only apply to larger nonprofits, those that provide $1 million or more in grants. Johnson said the goal is to give nonprofits an opportunity to have more diverse leadership.
“[With this bill] we will build upon the General Assembly’s previous efforts to highlight and elevate leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion in Illinois,” said Johnson. “This bill requires non profit organizations that provide $1 million in grants each year to report the demographic data on their public-facing website.”
State Sen Jil Tracy opposed Senate Bill 2930 on the floor and said this would be a burden on nonprofit organizations especially considering most board members are volunteers.
Biological cheater William Thomas, who declared he was a woman so he could go from the bottom 100 in college swimming to the top in college swimming, was informed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland that his petition to cheat against women in the Olympics was not going to happen.
Thomas was hoping to have a court overturn a policy from World Aquatics banning men from participating against women in swimming even if the man is now larping as a woman. The organization said. “A biological female athlete cannot overcome that advantage through training or nutrition. Nor can they take additional testosterone to obtain the same advantage, because testosterone is a prohibited substance under the World Anti-Doping Code… World Aquatics should remain committed to the separation of athletes in sport into men’s and women’s categories based on biological sex.”
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The Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected a challenge on Wednesday brought by Lia Thomas against World Aquatics’ ban on transgender athletes participating in the women’s category at elite swimming competitions, thus barring him from participating in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The court’s rejection is a massive win for women’s sports and a major defeat for transgender athletes’ attempts to subvert biological reality.
World Aquatics’ transgender policy prohibits male athletes from competing against women, stating male-to-female transgender athletes are only granted permission to compete in the women’s category “if they can establish to World Aquatics’ comfortable satisfaction that they have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 or before age 12, whichever is later.”
The financial company Fearless Fund Management decided to announce a contest for business funding that would not be open to anyone but black women. They were sued by The American Alliance for Equal Rights on behalf of three people who were not black women.
The 11th Circuit panel struck down the racist policy 2-1, with the far-left judge on the panel dissenting based on the claim these potential candidates were “flopping,” and they never intended on applying in the first place. That judge was Robin Rosenbaum, who made it clear in the dissent this she has no business being in any government office. She was nominated by the far-left anti-American president, Barack Hussein Obama.
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A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently threw a wrench into the blatantly discriminatory practices of big money corporate interests. In American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund Management, over a bizarre dissent by Judge Robin Rosenbaum, Judges Kevin Newsom and Robert Luck upheld an injunction against a venture capital fund with tens of millions of dollars in assets that gives money only to businesses owned by black women. Nobody else is eligible to even apply.
The plaintiff, The American Alliance for Equal Rights, sued on behalf of three of its members—business owners who are not black women and who are, therefore, not allowed to compete in Fearless Fund Management’s funding process. Fearless Fund was apparently fearless about violating anti-discrimination laws.
The threshold question was whether the Alliance had standing to sue on behalf of its members. Each member provided an affidavit showing that they are “able and ready” to participate in Fearless Fund’s competition, meet all prerequisites but the racial one, and have concrete plans to use the funds they would get to build up their businesses if they weren’t racially excluded.
That is all that is required to establish standing according to Judges Newsom and Luck, and they are correct – these business owners have an obvious claim since they are explicitly excluded from even applying for the $20,000 in venture capital offered by Fearless in its grant contest.
Yes, Fearless Fund discriminates against Alliance members because of their race, but that isn’t enough to establish standing, according to Judge Rosenbaum, an Obama appointee. In her dissent, Rosenbaum accused the Alliance of “flopping”—that is, faking an injury the way soccer players do by flopping on the field– “to manipulate the referee into inappropriately exercising his power to award a penalty kick in the box.”
That’s a strange position to take in the 21st century because, by Rosenbaum’s illogic, members of the NAACP who during Jim Crow avoided hotels, restaurants, and buses where they knew they’d be turned away would be “flopping” because they didn’t go in and get turned away. This retrograde view of civil rights ignores that, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh put it recently, “discrimination is harm.” It would also force victims of discrimination into humiliating and even potentially dangerous situations before letting them seek justice.
