You think I’m kidding. I’m not kidding.
“We call on President Trump and his Administration to begin collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data on the American Community Survey as soon as possible,” [National Gay and Lesbian Rights Task Force- Criminal and Economic Justice Project Director Meghan Maury was quoted as saying, “and urge Congress to conduct oversight hearings to reveal why the Administration made the last-minute decision not to collect data on LGBTQ people.” The decision not to compile a government database of gay people was “another step to deny LGBTQ people freedom, justice, and equity,” she went on to say.
do the majority of gay people agree with Meghan maury?
It is to laugh.
Excuse me? What are the specific markers for identifying people as:
• Lesbian
• Gay
• Bisexual
• Transgender
* Queer (or) • Questioning ??????
It would be necessary to be able to conclusively identify people by which letter they represent and exclude all those who do not “qualify” for the data collection. Otherwise, this is just another government program to pound sand down a rat hole.
They have already started something like this. Took my dad to his doc appointment yesterday. He had to answer 3 questions about his gender and sexual preference. He’s 79.
Seriously, it should be a law that the census does one thing, and one thing only: counts American citizens.
Counts them. It does not classify them, subdivide them (except by location, nothing more), or ask any other questions other than, 1) Are you a citizen, and, 2) What is your address.
This means, as well, you do NOT count non-citizens, legal residents, illegal aliens, etc.
Replace “LGBTQ” in her statement with “Muslim” and see how that flies with her leftist buddies.
@6 Hey, replace LGBTQ with Gunowner, and they would be all over it!!
I agree with Craig. All I’ve ever answered on the Census was how many people lived in my home. I had one Census taker come back four times to try and force me to complete the “long form” with all the intrusive questions. Why does the government need to know many bathrooms I have? When I had my business I’d regularly get a form that wanted to know the gender and race of all my employees. I never sent that back either. I just told them I didn’t need to have that information so I never collected it. One time the person from the government (EEOC it think) told me to use the employees first and last names to determine gender and race. I loved that!
7 & 8 beat me to it but this is why gun registration is such a big deal.
Marriage used to be “just a piece of paper”; now it’s a civil right for anything to marry anything(s) central to civilization.
It used to be that government had no business in the bedroom (and, by extension and IMHO) the house’ now we’re demanding that government be in the bedroom.
Do you trust the Census Bureau?
Ask the Issei, Nesei and Sansei Japanese-Americans…
The US Census provided detailed information, names and addresses from the 1940 Census to US officials to enforce the Internment, and then openly and publicly LIED for 70-years about it.
This actually makes a good case for having various human identity traits that are fluid and always changing. Or maybe the end is finally near.
I think I’m gonna go listen to Morrissey’s Every Day is Like Sunday now.
I keep telling you (plural) … once the leftists get all the use out of Teh Ghey that they can, and once they think they own the levers of state violence, they’ll round up and send “gays” to the same death camps they plan for us Christians.
#13. I am not sure that is the Leftists plan but everything they touches goes FUBAR. I can see them getting their Islamic POC utopia with all the Christians and Independent-Conservative Whites gone->dead. Now they are ready to rule when (snap French revolution) they are now on the chopping block with their census information used by Imams to eliminate those Islam does not like.
How many times have we seen this played out where the Leftists do all they can to get in power via fraud/corruption/lies/etc and just as they manage to remove their opposition, the Leftists underlings turn on them and it is a total bloodbath with the the Leftist elites dead too.
* they touches – sure it was unintentional via a quick cell phone response but it fits the Leftists
Mike M Replace “LGBTQ” in her statement with “Muslim” and see how that flies with her leftist buddies.
Speaking of Islam, some left-leaning gay voters in France are embracing the Right:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/261989/
On another site, some young Jews, out of cultural pride, wanted the US census to specifically count Jews. Many people on the site were for it, but I pointed out government lists of Jews never turned out well in the past… The Census Bureau asks for too much personal and private information already. And some how all of that so-called private information always seems to become public.
IIRC, this is part of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. It’s part of compiling all sorts of demographic information so that the gub’mint statisticians can determine the health background and services utilization of all Americans. If ever I’m asked any of these questions I will refuse to answer, and if forced to provide some answer in order to receive services I’ll make something up (like being “botanosexual”).