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\"SF115<\/p>\n

“Be not the first by whom the new is tried…”<\/em>
\nAlexander Pope, Criticism<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems that the United States of America, and thus by default the state of Wyoming, is being swept along by a rip tide of activists seeking to redefine sexuality from being one of the inherent qualities of personhood, to being defined by pure choice. Departing from the Constitutional definition of gender as \u201cmale and female\u201d (Art. 6, Sect. 1), a new Senate bill redefines it unconstitutionally as what is \u201cperceived\u201d by the individual.<\/p>\n

What will be the end result of this grand social experiment? No one really knows. When sailing into uncharted waters, it would seem that a healthy dose of caution would be in order. As California has led the way into these uncharted seas, can anyone seriously propose that California is better off because of its radicalism?<\/p>\n

SF115, recently approved by the Wyoming Senate and soon to be assigned to the Wyoming House for consideration, is a bad bill that encumbers business, endangers women and children, produces difficulty in schools, and compromises religious freedom in the state of Wyoming. It should be voted down in the House.<\/p>\n

SF115 creates a protected class of citizens from a perceived condition, and it unduly burdens business by pushing them towards a quota system. It seeks to remedy a problem that does not exist. It muddies the waters for schools and other public entities as to who can use what bathroom or which locker room. And lastly, it divides people and mandates hiring or firing based on \u201csexual identity\u201d rather than \u201cskill or productivity.\u201d Market forces should determine hiring and firing, not governmental quotas.<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us in \u201cA Letter from a Birmingham Jail,\u201d his excellent defense of religious conscience, \u201cjust laws elevate and ennoble human beings because they are rooted in God\u2019s moral law. Unjust laws degrade human beings inasmuch as they claim no authority beyond sheer human will. Thus, they lack any power to bind the human conscience.\u201d SF115 is an unjust law- why are we even considering it?<\/p>\n

The Wyoming Pastor’s Network<\/strong><\/p>\n

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