GOP seeks to end ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’

Kevin and Melody are like the old general store from Petticoat Junction and Little House on the Prairie.

You could literally spend hours in there and never get bored. Thank you, Kevin and Melody I love shopping with you!

Leslie Feldman Great Neck

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Not to be undone, Gov. DeSantis, who also wants the power to inflict his bigotry on the rest of the country, in May signed SB 1580, a “License to Discriminate in Healthcare” bill. It allows healthcare providers and insurers to deny a patient care on the basis of religious, moral, or ethical beliefs, healthcare employers to discriminate in hiring while barring medical boards from disciplining doctors for spreading misinformation. (https://www.

You would think such laws would be adjudicated as unconstitutional in America. But think again.

Indeed, that is the essence of making it illegal – threatening prison and loss of license — regardless of their own religious or moral objection, but the government in power has the force of law and the ability to abuse it. They are using legalized intimidation to make sure these vastly unpopular policies become normalized.

The radical MAGA Republicans define respect and empathy for diversity, equity and inclusion as “wokeness” and are campaigning (crusading) to send “wokeness” to the ash heap of history. What they are really saying is they want to reverse the brief episodes of humanism in our national governance when we actually moved closer to realizing the ideals of our founding fathers.