Proposed CA Law Would Imprison Those Who Use Wrong Transgender Pronoun
If you don���t think America is rapidly becoming a bizarre, groupthink police state, well, you���re just not paying attention.
As reported by a variety of outlets, including CBN News, there���s a bill actually under consideration by the California State Senate that would make it a crime for those who work in long-term care facilities to ���willfully and repeatedly fail to use a resident���s preferred name or pronouns after being clearly informed of the preferred name or pronouns.��� The legislation is known officially as SB 219, or the ���Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Resident���s Bill of Rights.���
The upshot of the bill is that those employees of long-term care facilities who don���t play ball on the matter of using transgender pronouns could face fines of up to $1,000, and jail time for as long as a year.
While the bill was being vetted by the California Assembly Judiciary Committee, Greg Burt of the California Family Council passionately spoke against it.
���How can you believe in free speech, but think the government can compel people to use certain pronouns when talking to others?" he asked.
���Compelled speech is not free speech,��� Burt went on to say. ���Can the government compel a newspaper to use certain pronouns that aren���t even in the dictionary? Of course not, or is that coming next?���
Probably.
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
