• Berwick Hospital Center has publicized its Nondiscrimination Policies and Statement of Compliance with the Civil Rights Act and Sections as Amended • The Bloomsburg Zoning Hearing Board will hold a
together. nadine, let s talk about where we are as a country. does it make a difference that the president and the first lady had 1000 people on the south lawn celebrating the signing of the same-sex marriage protection law yesterday? does that help? does that change the climate at all? i think it helps in this way, it underscores that the majority of americans actually do support marriage equality for the lgbtq community. they actually support nondiscrimination policies. the challenge is this, it s not simply a question of whether the majority is with us. it is now the danger of this weaponized growing domestic terrorists. who wish to push back on that progress. i think everyone is noting the perfect symbolism of one day of celebration, of marriage equality, and aspects of that being codified by congress and signed into law by the
people out for what they are saying, for what they are seething. and hold them responsible for what they re causing in our communities across the country. kelly, what will it take? you are both talking about the rhetoric, the inflammatory rhetoric that republican politicians and right-wing folks in media have been engaged in. what will it take to make them stop? i want to be clear about what this crisis is about. one in five we cannot look away from the reality of what our community is experiencing. we have to address it in a multi-pronged way. we need social media platforms to enforce their own nondiscrimination policies, and stop this proliferation of hate speech online. we need the department of and
continue or begin, in some cases, to put pressure on their electives. when i say that, i don t just mean the congressional numbers, or mean our electives in congress. frankly, in our school boards, and city councils. we cannot underestimate our own power, and there s a lot of power at the local and state level. we have got to be engaged around nondiscrimination policies. we see it on the federal level, far too many policies and bills that have been introduced, that are laying dormant. the george floyd justice and policing act. there is no reason that that s not moving. i was in colorado when columbine happened. it was surreal to me to be in 2022, watching this happen all over again.
politicians and right-wing folks in media have been engaged in. what will it take to make them stop? i want to be clear about what this crisis is about. one in five we cannot look away from the reality of what our community is experiencing. we have to address it in a multi-pronged way. we need social media platforms to enforce their own nondiscrimination policies, and stop this proliferation of hate speech online. we need the department of and the fbi, local law enforcement agencies articulate a plan, to not only prevent, but these violent hate crimes that are occurring. we are calling on everybody to take a role in fighting back against the hateful attacks were seeing from politicians at the state level. and also do everything that we can to address this epidemic of