Where all sides (will) meet
November is when we observe Transgender Awareness Week. But Election Day also brought a huge week for LGBTQ candidates. While many might have thought the Presidential election was the only thing happening (not unusual), this November down-ballot races made a substantial bit of history: LGBTQ history.
Most Americans are in agreement: 2020 is nobody’s favorite year. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only sickened 11 million Americans and killed a quarter of a million. Its wreaked financial havoc and ruined livelihoods across the country, as we’ve shut down schools and much of our economy trying to stem deaths and illness.
Sex, gender, same thing, whatever. But are they? Here’s the difference, and why it’s important to know.
Everyone is tired of political correctness, and still no one feels heard. What is our alternative to giving up?
One question of what comes next for America has been answered. Based on the late progression of close-call vote counts in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia, it was officially projected yesterday that the 46th President of the United States will take office in January.
And literally how not to! But feel free to take it figuratively as well.
Nobody ever expected what happened to America’s schools in March of 2020.
“Age old wisdom” asserts that the young grow more conservative as they get older. In many ways for many people, that is true, sometimes drastically so. But it’s also sometimes true, and often advised, that as adults grow even older, they lose their need to conserve a world they will some day leave behind, instead entrusting that world to the young.
Prior to our last Presidential election, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were already cracking down on undocumented immigrants with deportation orders. In 2016, churches across the country, the most honored of American sanctuaries, re-employed the disobediently civil practice of hiding undocumented immigrants.
With talk of COVID-19, absentee, and mail-in ballots dominating so much of the 2020 Election narrative, it’s probably escaped the attention of most that some people deal with impediments to voting every single time they cast a ballot. And worse, some may not vote at all. A Forbes article shines light on voters with disabilities, who often have to push just for access to the most important of American rights: their vote.
