Kansas GOP votes to ‘oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity’

[Sarah_P]

http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article200798114.html

Just when I was thinking this state might be getting better.... 

The Wichata eagle/by Johnathan Shorman , Hunter Woodall      02/18/2018

[Gertrude]

So they voted as a matter of party platform. Cool. It's out in the open and they have to own it.


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[Sarah_P]

I know it's just a party platform and not a law or anything, but it still really makes me angry, especially them trying to claim it's 'out of love'. All we have to do is not vote any of them in, but unfortunately the western half of the state almost always votes republican. Then again, after the sheer incompetence of Brownback maybe there's a chance.

[TonyaW]

Got to keep the evangelicals voting against their economic interest.  Keep them more worried about where we pee.

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[kaitylynn]

With the Kansas economy fairing so well, they can afford to alienate people...seriously, I lived there for work for a few years and once I was done with that position, I never looked back upon leaving.  There are some states that openly welcome us and what is amazing, many of them rank well above the states that do not on standard of living.

We have room here for you in California!

[Gertrude]

I know it's just a party platform and not a law or anything, but it still really makes me angry, especially them trying to claim it's 'out of love'. All we have to do is not vote any of them in, but unfortunately the western half of the state almost always votes republican. Then again, after the sheer incompetence of Brownback maybe there's a chance.

My point is that it's good that they declare this as it creates a lightning rod for any gop candidates. They will have own it or deny it and the opposition should hang it on them like an albatross.


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[Sarah_P]

With the Kansas economy fairing so well, they can afford to alienate people...seriously, I lived there for work for a few years and once I was done with that position, I never looked back upon leaving.  There are some states that openly welcome us and what is amazing, many of them rank well above the states that do not on standard of living.

We have room here for you in California!

Were it possible, I would move elsewhere instantly. I'm finding that no one wants to hire me anywhere, so I'm stuck at my current job until I can obtain marketable skills or some sort of degree / certification.

[Gertrude]

The anachronistic tribal undertow in some parts of the country never ceases to amaze me. It's 2018 already. Isn't Kansas the state where John brown the abolitionist came from?


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[itsApril]

It's 2018 already. Isn't Kansas the state where John brown the abolitionist came from?

John Brown was born in Connecticut, but lived most of his life in Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio.  His sons settled in Kansas (just a territory at the time) and alerted him that southern slaveholders had formed a violent militia and were agitating to bring Kansas into the Union as a slave state.  John Brown traveled to Kansas and organized and led resistance by the "free staters."  The struggle continued for several very bloody years in the late 1850s, but ultimately Kansas was admitted to the Union in 1861 as a free state and fought for the Union in the Civil War.

One can only wonder which side the modern Kansas Republicans would have taken in the 1850s . . .

[Gertrude]

John Brown was born in Connecticut, but lived most of his life in Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio.  His sons settled in Kansas (just a territory at the time) and alerted him that southern slaveholders had formed a violent militia and were agitating to bring Kansas into the Union as a slave state.  John Brown traveled to Kansas and organized and led resistance by the "free staters."  The struggle continued for several very bloody years in the late 1850s, but ultimately Kansas was admitted to the Union in 1861 as a free state and fought for the Union in the Civil War.

One can only wonder which side the modern Kansas Republicans would have taken in the 1850s . . .

And that was my thought...What side today's Kansans would fight for?