People Deserve Equal, Not Special Treatment
Dear Editor,
As the old adage goes, the inmates are taking over the asylum.
BLM, now the trans portion of the LGBTQ (I don’t have enough space to put the rest on here) has decided to get in on the action.
First off, do they have rights? Yes, of course they do, just like every other American citizen. Do they have the right to force their thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and acceptance on every other American citizen? No, they don’t. They do not deserve any different treatment than anyone else. If an employer opts to not hire them, that is the privilege and right of the employer. If someone were to disrupt one of their rallies or gatherings that person should be arrested and charged, yet when they decide to act the fool, or worse, attack people for no other reason than they don’t agree with their lifestyle, they are mollycoddled and treated like they’re special and allowed to disrupt those gatherings. And the worst part is the authorities defend their own spineless lack of action by claiming you have the right to do so.
Wrong!
They get away with it because nobody in authority wants to show some backbone and hold them responsible for their actions. And don’t even try to use the old “you’re doing this because I’m ______ (fill in the blank)” No they’re doing it, or at least should be doing it, because you’re acting like an idiot and disrupting other people’s right to assemble and hold meetings. Guess what, you’re no more special than anybody else. And if you can come to an employer and show them that you can do the job far better than anyone else, they’d be an idiot for not hiring you just because you’re trans.
You want to show you care and want to be taken seriously? Try condemning those in your “movement” that act the fool, try to indoctrinate children, or worst of all go out and kill people, to include innocent children, which have done them no wrong. Until you start doing that and quit attacking those in your own community that condemn those kinds of action, you do not deserve to be taken seriously.
Accept the fact you will not be widely accepted by society. Those that do you harm for who you are deserve to be punished, but contrary to what you might think, you’re not special.
Carpe diem,
Alan Marshall
Something Fishy In North Carolina
Dear Editor,
I need to share with my fellow North Carolinians a concern. Under HB 346 and SB 296, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is attempting to “restructure” so it can set up a parent “nonprofit holding company.”
Because this parent company isn’t an insurance company, it won’t be regulated. Any revenue above the three months of reserves that the underlying insurance company is required to have can then be funneled up to the unregulated parent company. Those funds can be paid as bonuses to executives, invested out of state, or anything else the unregulated parent company wishes, all while the insurance company underneath it can charge us higher premiums.
With over $10 billion in annual revenues, 80 percent of North Carolina’s market share, and its current legal authority to invest 40 percent of its assets for profit, BCBSNC’s claim that restructuring is necessary to be “competitive” doesn’t make sense.
Yet BCBSNC is so confident in the bill’s success that the bill only includes 2½ pages of language to restructure an entire multibillion-dollar company. Something’s fishy in North Carolina, and it isn’t the bass.
Kimberly Thornton Scholl
Republicans On School Board Excluded
Dear Editor,
For quite some time, especially since Alan Duncan stepped down as Guilford County school board chair, Republican members of the board have often been excluded from receiving information, documents, meeting agendas, etc. The meeting on April 4 was no exception, when all Democrats on the board and the board’s attorney were aware of the tyrannical move that was about to take place. Even if any had not known, to vote down Logan for the fifth time shows them all lacking in conscience and integrity.
And they are setting an example for our students? Shame on them, the administration and the “legal counsel.”
Susan Tysinger
Alan, you say that LFBTQ deserve the same rights as you and myself then you claim that it is wrong for them to ask for acceptance? Imagine living in a world that doesn’t want to accept your existence. Just more bigoted hate from a right-wing sheep.
Not at all surprised that Alan supports bigoted discrimination against others.
“Imagine living in a world that doesn’t want to accept your existence.”
Where did I say it was wrong to “ask for acceptance”? I did say it was wrong to DEMAND acceptance.
By your statement you are saying you support people like pedophiles “asking for acceptance” in the same manner and methods as the trans community. If you don’t, then by your “…bigoted discrimination against others.” comment you are being as two-faced as you accuse me and others of being.
Odd comparison. Pedophiles are criminals. Are you now making a comparison that LGBTQ people are same as criminals. Wow. You really are a hateful little man.
And what do you consider as acceptance? Let’s start by not making it a crime to exist. Let’s start by not making it a crime to communicate to others that you exist. Or even, let’s make it ok to have books about you in a public library about what it is like to be a LGBTQ member. (for the slow readers, ‘You’ represents a member of the LGBTQ community).
It really is pathetic that people who claim to be Christians find it perfectly ok to promote hate against people just because they are different.
But you be you Alan.
OK, I’ll give you that, pedophiles are a bad comparison.
“And what do you consider as acceptance? Let’s start by not making it a crime to exist. Let’s start by not making it a crime to communicate to others that you exist.”
Please show me where those laws exist in the United States. Oh, that’s right, they don’t
“Or even, let’s make it ok to have books about you in a public library about what it is like to be a LGBTQ member.”
So we need to allow ANYTHING into public libraries where ANYBODY can access it with NO restrictions. As you say, it’s a PUBLIC library and even children are members of the public. Interesting.
As for the rest, where did I “…promote hate against people just because they are different.” In fact here is what I DID say…
“And if you can come to an employer and show them that you can do the job far better than anyone else, they’d be an idiot for not hiring you just because you’re trans.”
Where did I “promote hate”…oh, that’s right I didn’t. You had to make that up to support your very weak argument.
Since your head is in the sand Alan, read this basic article….
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/01/20/lawmakers-us-unleash-barrage-anti-transgender-bills?gclid=CjwKCAjwov6hBhBsEiwAvrvN6OJ7gLnvEkBCIny6GB7u097YGm1dffe5rv0irABmfuFyHQS314iUWRoCAFoQAvD_BwE
Claiming you don’t have to ‘accept’ someone for who god made them is Hate. Plane and simple.
But you be you Alan.
Alan Marshall you must be a carpenter because you hit the nail on the head!
Thank you Archie.
Jesus was a carpenter also
If I were a carpenter,
and you were a lady,
can I nail you anyway,
will have have my baby?
You’re right, Alan. The militant perverts are odious, angry people.
I’m a libertarian and I don’t care what consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedrooms. But they have no more right to parade their sexuality publicly than the rest of us.
And they need to leave the kids alone.
Odd, last time this topic came up here, you wanted to check down the pants of people to know their gender to make sure it matches how they dressed, did their hair, and expressed themselves. How is that respecting privacy?
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No, I said that males have a penis and females have a vagina. YOU might want to peer down other people’s pants, but I don’t – and I never said anything like that.
You are a creep, and a lying one at that. Once again you have earned your moniker, Lying Chris.
You’re revolting.
Sunday school should be abolished. Stop the indoctrination.
I was not aware people were being forced to attend church or Sunday school at gunpoint.
I was also unaware you were organizing a movement to alter or abolish the First Amendment of the Constitution. Please send some literature.
While it does still exist I guess I get to express my opinion about your comment…moronic.
I was not aware people were forced to go to Gay bars, pride day parades, go watch movies with gay characters, or read books with story lines about living in the LGBTQ community.
Actually, I think the only ask is that you treat people from the LGBTQ community the same as you would any other person in your community, and you allow them to live as they choose openly and with respect. So yes. The ask is that you Accept them in your community the same as you Accept any other person.
Government Schools should be abolished. Stop the indoctrination.
Government CONTROL of schools should be abolished and control returned to local level, state level minimum, county on down preferred.
No, because control will invariably flow uphill again, as is the way in all command and control systems. When the federal government was created it was much weaker than the states. Now it is much more powerful.
The ability to exert control over the schools would be gradually taken over by the higher authority, and we’d be back to square one within a couple of decades.
The only answer is to privatize the system, using vouchers to empower the consumers (the parents ,in this case).
Any number of educational establishments would be competing – in excellence and results – for those valuable vouchers.
Simply re-arranging the deckchairs will accomplish nothing.
I’m for living in peace with everyone if possible. Don’t care about trans or lbg… one way or another except that they try to cram their filthy perversion down the 98% of the population that isn’t homo… Read the Bible and believe it or become reprobate. Those are your choices.