As outlined masterfully by Rep. Olson on Thursday, the process chosen by Democrats for replacing our state flag effectively excluded Minnesotans.
He offered a motion to have the new design voted upon by the people, noting that a 13-member commission had made the decision for all.
The response from Democrats was on brand - mockery, misrepresentation, and arrogance.
Listen to the laughter and dismissal as Rep. Freiberg inaccurately claims there was no way to put the question before the people and misrepresents "interest" in process as approval of outcome.
This week, Public Safety heard HF 181. It creates a mechanism within the Department of Human Rights for reporting "incidents that may not be criminal" but may represent "actual or perceived" bias.
I asked the author whether a bible verse was a reportable incident.
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Follow-up from Commissioner Lucero sought to assuage my concern by noting her department is already "working on issues" around incidents "that are not necessarily crimes." She referred to issues of discrimination in the workplace or housing, for which we have civil law.
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She went on to explain that this bill would give them "data around what is outside the purview of the Human Rights Act, where there is 'speech and associated related action that is inappropriately used around bias motivated incidents.'"
1/15 As a kid growing up, whenever I heard about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., my heart would swell with gratitude.
2/15 When I considered his dream of a world where we would be judged by the content of our character rather than the color of our skin, I felt like his words had made my life possible – literally.
3/15 My dad was a black man who grew up in Detroit. My mom was white. Ten years before I was born, their marriage would have been illegal in several states. My existence, and that of my two younger sisters, was an act of defiance. But it didn’t feel that way to us.
1/ Hi there. Let's talk abortion. Whoa, whoa, don't run. I promise, it'll be fun.
2/ As I have gone about making a rhetorical defense of innocent unborn human lives, some pro-aborts have smugly offered a comparison which they believe settles the argument in their favor.
3/ The comparison is this:
Pregnancy is like an organ donation. Just as you may not morally force a person to donate an organ, you may not "force" a mother to birth her child.