Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
I know that majority rule is quite popular with people who consider the US a Democracy rather than a Republic, mostly because they believe that a slight majority of citizens should be able to control the slight minority.

Constitutions, whether state or federal are the basis for all laws in their respective jurisdictions and should be preserved from the "tyranny of the majority" which our nation's founders (and common sense) warned us against. Or, at least make it hard enough to change to prevent people such as your "hater" neighbor and others like him to use it to your disadvantage or, conversely, for you to use it against him.

I recently saw a poll which revealed that somewhere near 50% of millennials believe citizens should be jailed for "mis-gendering" others. Throw into the mix some percentage of culture warriors of other generations and their dream could be realized in many states. Do you really want that?
https://www.them.us/story/canadian-c...ghts-violation

Millennials probably think this, because that kinder, gentler nation of Canada has put this into law. Misgender someone and you go to jail.

thank you for bringing up this topic. I was going to bring up this Canadian case on the thread here about first amendment, free-speech limitations, but I didn’t get around to it. I think there’s an Australian incident or two going on in the same vein.


Our United States Constitution is unique among western nations in having the First amendment so clearly articulated.

Even though our Biden government would prefer us to use biologically incorrect terms for humans, our government cannot —yet – compel our speech.