Shannon Barber

[Shannon Barber]

I am a member of the LGBTQ community, and while yes, a lot of folks see marriage equality as the holy grail, it really isn’t. We can still be fired, evicted from/denied housing, denied basic public services in 29 states, all for being LGBTQ. Up that number to 34 states if you happen to be transgender or gender non conforming. Also, there are no hate crimes laws that protect us, even though we are the most likely group to be victims of crimes motivated by anti-LGBTQ hate. So…yeah, glad we can get married now and all of that, but that might not even be safe. All it will take is for Trump to appoint one more SCOTUS justice for that to be in jeopardy.

So, please don’t imply that our fight is done on a legal level. It isn’t – not be a long shot.

[Shannon Barber]

In the meantime, though, immigrant families are being ripped apart, rights for women and LGBTQ people are being decimated, he’s stacking the courts with right-wing theocrats – and those are lifetime appointments. He has done damage to our standing in the world that will last a generation. Neo-Nazis and racists are running amok. People are actually getting killed (see the men killed in Portland for protecting two teen girls from an anti-Muslim abuser on a train).

Also, if his voter suppression commission succeeds, we’ll never have another free and fair election.

This so-called “presidency” could very well ruin this nation forever, and taking basic rights away from millions could become a permanent thing.

 

 

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