Washington State’s Hotline to Report “Hate”: Guest Column
Late last month, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill to create a state-run hotline so that residents can report “hate crimes” and “bias incidents.” Such “crimes” and “incidents” include noncriminal activity like refusing to use someone’s pronouns or accidentally misgendering a person. No evidence is required to report someone.
Proponents of the bill say that the hotline is necessary for members of marginalized communities who “might be afraid to contact police.” In reality, it will pit members of the community and, potentially, families against one another and could mobilize police and Child and Family Services to violate families and enforce radical and dangerous ideas about sex and gender.
Tragically, Washington is the state most impacted by retail theft, among other crimes. What residents there really need is legal and police reform to protect their safety and uphold their freedoms.
Copyright 2024 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.
Leading Christian Legal Advocacy Group Tells Biden Administration, “We’ll See You In Court.”
Last Friday our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom released a short video telling the Biden Administration, “we’ll see you in court” over new federal rules reinterpreting Title IX.
Alliance Defending Freedom is one of the nation’s premier Christian legal advocacy groups, and has successfully argued multiple cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Title IX is a decades-old federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education. But the Biden Administration recently released more than 1,500 pages of new rules drastically reinterpreting “sex” under Title IX.
The new rules use phrases like “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” more than 400 times, making it clear the Biden Administration believes they are somehow the same thing as biological sex.
The problem is that gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same thing as biological sex. Men who claim to be women are erasing women’s sports in America and robbing women of educational opportunities. That is why states like Arkansas have taken steps to protect, for example, fairness in women’s sports at school.
You can watch the video from ADF below.
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