A proposed bill in the Alaska Legislature looks to establish new “rights” for those who claim to have an LGBTQ+ identity.
Hard left Democrat Representatives Alyse Galvin (Anchorage) and Sara Hannan (Juneau) are sponsoring House Bill 301, which would add “sexual orientation or gender identity/expression” as protected legal classifications, akin to race, sex, age and religion.
Critics have long argued that LGBTQ identities are radically different from race and other protected categories and thus should not be included among those classifications.
“First, race manifests itself readily, whereas sexual orientation and gender identity are ambiguous, subjective, and variable traits,” the Heritage Foundation has argued. “Second, sexual orientation and gender identity are linked to actions, which are a proper subject matter for moral evaluation. Race is not.”
If passed, the proposed Alaska bill would modify statutes related to public accommodations, rental facilities, employment and housing.
Similar bills across the nation have forced business owners to create art, cakes and engage in photo shoots that violate their deeply held religious and moral convictions. Other such laws have forced faith-based groups and churches to provide services, such as renting venues for homosexual weddings or adhering to so-called “gender-identity” policies related to dress, pronouns, bathroom usage and other practices which contradict traditional morality.
In 2023, similar legislation was introduced in the Alaska Legislature, which drew sharp criticism when the sponsor refused to say whether the bill would permit biological males to enter women’s shower rooms and allow them to undress in front of girls
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The latest bill would make it unlawful to treat people differently based on their sexual identities, meaning bathroom policies, wedding venue rentals, youth camps and many other entities could be forced to affirm and facilitate gender confusion.
With regard to churches that rent their facilities for weddings or other functions, House Bill 301 could force them to host same-sex weddings and other gender-confused events. That’s because Alaska’s public accommodations law does not currently provide specific exemptions for religious organizations or churches in this context.
House Bill 301 has already picked up the endorsement of Planned Parenthood, which is currently urging its allies to write and call legislators in support of the bill.
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— HB 301 is currently in the House State Affairs committee. Click here to email these committee members.
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There is no such thing as ‘traditional morality’. Well…unless you mean the old days when morality considered it OK to own Black humans, beat them, own women, rape them, deny voting rights to poor people, prohibit interracial marriage etc…thats what morality meant in America’s tradition. All you are really doing is sounding a dog-whistle. What you mean is ‘people like me that think gay/trans people are nothing but icky pedos’. You only have yourself to blame for the push to codify non-discrimination legislation. You’ve made it your life’s goal spread hate and lies about the LGBT community so that you can marginalize their existence and control their lives.
Don’t push you immoral ineptitude on us. Keep your thoughts to yourself I will never acknowledge your belief. If you don’t like my talk then you best just walk away.
Sorry, Adam, but if you believe your sexual perversion deserves extra rights, you are sadly mistaken. I am sorry you feel that others’ opinions of your perversion are not to you liking. Oddly, 5,000 years of Judeo-Christian morality tell us that your choice of perversion is anathema to the good of society. Luckily, you were born during an era when your perversion is tolerated, but if that is not enough for you, you will probably just have to get over it. Nobody is forcing you to give up your perversion, nobody is preventing you from living your fullest life due to your perversion. Just quit pushing us to believe it isn’t a perversion and you will get along just fine, I expect. Your “rights” do not include telling others what to believe, as has always been the case.
well said!
AMEN! Tell it like it is! Perversions have no right to a moral legal ground. Period.
Amen
Amen, said as if it came from the mouth of Jesus!
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 1 Corinthians 3:1-3
i hope you can find your way to love, i fear for your soul, god cries as you spew fear and hatred
Loving someone includes correcting their errors. Your use of Scripture is incomplete, it omits the teaching that homosexual acts are gravely sinful.
And men have no place in women’s bathrooms.
And women have no place in men’s bathrooms. And females have no right to participate in male sports, most especially on the scholastic level. Let’s not paint a one-sided picture. Just as most females do not welcome males in their sporting events, neither do males welcome females in their sporting events and private spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms.
Love for your neighbors includes admonishing them when they embrace foolishness and ensuring these culturally and personally destructive behaviors are not allowed.
Love the sinner, not the sins (do not condone sin)! Jesus said you must be born again to enter into the kingdom of heaven ( eternal life through him) but many would reject him and would die in their sins (hell destiny). He is the way, truth and life and no one can come to the Father but through Him. It requires repentance of sins and turning away from your old life. Dying to self (fleshly desires of sin)
Look to the bible and find what you want to support any view – 1 Corinthians 6:9-10: Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
Leviticus 18:22 “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”
Romans 1:26-28 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Just the text as found in the bilble, no hatred or fear in reiterating what is there right in front of you if you care to read it. House bill 301 is one more step towards making the 10% minority (LGBTQ) actions more normal and accepted. In the end it doesn’t matter since we’ll all have to walk into the forest for the last time and the rest after that is out of our hands, no matter what you believe or don’t believe.
Sexual orientation and identity is indeed very subjective. Just look at the ever increasing acronym list. We already have civil rights protection and ones sex life really should be personal and private hence why a law? To make a law protecting one’s sexual proclivities does not make sense. I would suggest behave in a respectful manner and likely you will be respected. No law needed.
Excellent, Elizabeth!
Why do people who choose to misuse their God-given body parts need extra rights? If you are human, which they claim to be, and I don’t dispute that, then human rights should suffice. What they want is to force normal people to accept their sexual perversions as perfectly acceptable, which they are not.
Should the alphabet people not have access to children, they would no longer exist after a few years. Spreading perversion through contact is the issue, and it really should be illegal.
Of all the lurid, ridiculous graphics and illustrations you’ve come up with up with to accompany your commentaries, THIS ONE really takes the cake, so to speak.
How did that white cake get in there?.
Predictably Dunleavy will do nothing! Oh right, he’s busy walking in that right to life march! Stupid naive Christian’s being duped again!
Dave Maxwell you better hope you are right, eternity is a long time.
Only if you are right and don’t believe in God and his righteousness. If I am right in my belief, you will spend your eternity in Hell. If you are right, I have lost a little time in prayer. Sounds great to me.
The statement from this article “Similar bills across the nation have forced business owners to create art, cakes and engage in photo shoots that violate their deeply held religious and moral convictions” is very misleading. For starters, artists and cake makers who create their own art are not forced to do anything. If you are an independent baker and don’t want to make a cake for the gay couple….don’t. If you are a baker that works for a company or a photographer employed by a company, yes you may have to make a cake or take a picture that you don’t agree with but it’s not up to you, you are just an employee.
That is not the way it turned out for several bakers and florists across the country. It cost them dearly to say, “No, I won’t.”.
Probably because they work for someone. If you are a baker at Carrs Safeway and disagree with a cake design you still have to make it. And yes, you can get fired for not doing what your job description is.
And for those independent bakers who said “No I won’t”, yeah, it’s absolutely their right to say no to a design that the paying customer would like. It’s just their loss at the end.
Probably not Liz. Go back and look it up and you’ll see they owned their own businesses.
Well that’s their choice. Ahhh, choice, what a great concept.
Adam you’re a complete nut job. You are the reason our country is in the shape it’s in.
And you Doug Glenn are the product of public education! You would look smarter if you stayed silent!
THis bill HB 301 “sexual Marxism”is being pushed by the NEA and is illegal. The plan was made during the NEA resolution convention as reported by Joel. Our MAGA PATRIOT president’s term had started. A speaker of Prager U. defined this type of Marxism. Trump’s executive order stated that there is only one female and one male gender, HB 301 is breaking the law our president made with his Executive Order. Gender confusion exists because curriculum and culture decided that we evolved from apes. This puts humans in the same category as other animals. FALSE! God created us special and after His image. We love our neighbor by making things for the “common good.” in our system. Men in women’s locker rooms is not for the “common good.” God sets our standard of morality in the Bible and through Church. Government has no business in the church’s business. Government will try to take over but the church expresses God’s standards of morality. The legislators and the Governor need to move to the mainland as we voted on two times. They must obey the law and set aside the money needed. There needs to be a consequence if the legislators and governor’s branch won’t move. The governor is the sheriff and needs to have state troopers back him up when the judicial branch is in insubordination to the governor, and the legislators are insubordinate. The US Constitution specified equality not equity for all. The LGBTQ+ aims to give extra favoritism and preferential treatment to a lifestyle group. They are trying to change the Constitution which addresses individual rights to group rights which are not written in the Rule of Law. This LGBTQ ideology comes from Karl Marx and uses a binary model which means that we are either oppressors of oppressed. This way the LGBTQ can cry “victim” while moving us into this Marxism.. Please pray for all of us and that the legislators and governor set aside the money to move to the mainland so that faimilies can participate in this election process.
It’s applauding how liberal interest groups try to force their LGBTQ on us. This type of lifestyle and behavior is foreign to Village Alaska. Alaska doesn’t need this confusion slapped upon us!
There can be no law of this type, LGBTQ agenda is a CIA physop. Chipping away at our freedoms, the majority of Americans don’t want this. Be whatever you choose, it’s free will but do not push this on the rest of us. Interesting enough that the demon Epstein loving pedos bow to is a hermaphrodite, this is no coincidence.
Peace!
FREAK SHOW at its finest
Go to some other state and wave your dingle berry politics.
I don’t believe someone’s perversion should be protected by law. Keep it in your own house behind closed doors please. I don’t discuss my sex life in public. Neither should you.
Excellent, Elizabeth!
Question. Are “extra rights “ only for you and nobody else? What are “extra rights?” What does that even mean?
Hannan and Galvin can go pound sand. I want none of the likes of this in government policy. It is evil and anyone who is aware of what they are trying to do should be made aware of that!