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LGBT Issues as Sovereignty Issues
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On Feb. 14, The Huffington Post ran an article about North Dakota’s legislature failing to pass an LGBT anti-discrimination bill. And so, for our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender brothers and sisters to the north, employment can be terminated on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, perceived or otherwise.
One might ask how an injustice like this can be permitted to happen in this day and age. If the comments on the story – from whom I’m assuming are liberals – are any indication, this injustice happens because we get complacent about political landscapes or because we’re reactive and lazy as politically-inclined people. Either prospect is alarming because it means we’ve accepted that progress comes slowly or not at all for certain states in the union…
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