Republican State Senator Phil Jensen has a new editorial on-line at the Rapid City Journal website, where he posts his views on several pieces of legislation that passed in the 2019 legislative session.. and takes a few moments to go after the people who voted against them:
As the senate sponsor, I was pleased to have the capable assistance of freshman legislator Rep. Chris Johnson carrying SB55 on the House side following passage in the Senate. Rapid City representatives voting in favor of the national motto posting: Michael Diedrich, Taffy Howard, Chris Johnson, Tina Mulally and Tony Randolph. Those voting against posting the national motto: Scyller Borghlum and David Johnson.
It passed the House 47-19. On the Senate side, local senators voting for the posting were: Lynne DiSanto, Phil Jensen and Jeff Partridge, while Alan Solano was a no vote. It passed the Senate 19-13.
Somehow, I ‘m guessing that Phil is going to be on the opposite side from many of the people who he’s named in his editorial in the 2020 Republican primary elections. (Again)
this is feel-good red meat for the conservative contrarians in pierre but the usual ineffective brow-beating of the republican party that these things are. hope it felt good. not detecting any growing sentiment for anyone to leap out of the party any time soon.
I encourage people to read the article. It provides names of legislators in Sen. Jensen’s region that supported or opposed several issues important to the Senator.
One paragraph I particularly agree with describes the committee vote of HB1205 as “a disturbing loss for parental rights.”
The bill lost on a 5-8 vote. I was one of the five in the minority.
The bill provided a parent the “right to refuse consent to health care treatment of a minor child if the parent believes that the treatment would induce, confirm or promote the child’s belief that the child’s sex or gender identity is different from the child’s sex presented at birth. No public authority or official of this state may take any adverse action against a parent for exercising this right.”
Next session I will bring a bill with the similar purpose of protecting Souh Dakota children from dangerous, unscientific and life-altering medical procedures pertaining to sex and so-called gender identity. I’ll take a different approach, and hope I can prove to the legislature, the governor, and the people that the bill is important and necessary.
I guarantee that if HB 1205 passed all the anti-vaxxers would start claiming that vaccines make kids queer.
Fred is right. It is shocking that legislators would vote against parental consent before a minor can get a sex change operation. This is one of the reasons Rep Borglum has a 100% score from SD Equality.
I would address and deal with real problems in SD such as sex trafficking, child poverty, low paying jobs, etc. Just elect school board members and legislators that focus on education and keep gender identity issues between the family and the schools. Government should stay out of personal issues when it comes to family issues.
Tara, Republicans are for small government unless and until minorities start doing things they consider immoral or ungodly, then they’re all about passing laws oppressing people who have no effect on the repub’s life.
Well, we are a flawed and sinful. I have a hard time with government picking and choosing which sin they are going to mark us with. How about leave that up to God. I can understand if it endangers society like driving under the influence If a child has feelings such as wanting to change sexes well I would steer clear of that one and put the responsibility on the parents. Again it goes back to local control. If you don’t want that taught in your schools, vote in different school board members. It’s kind of hard to do when only about 5% show up to vote.
If you don’t want that taught in your schools and your vote does not warrant the change you’d hoped for…. Homeschool! Then you don’t have to vaccinate, deal with LGBT agendas, extreme liberal teachers, bullies etc.
Tara, biology 101 – it’s impossible to change sex.
I agree Anon. Just wish you would use your name. Nothing to fear. Your fine.
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Keep your religion to your self Tara. It has nothing to do with LGBT or any other psychological problem. You can pray all you want for them. They need therapy.
I guess you misread my statement. How did I bring religion into it. Can you please explain. You said It has nothing to do with LGBT or any other psychological problem. You can pray all you want for them. They need therapy. So if you say they need therapy, wouldn’t it be the result of a psychological problem?
It sounds like a badly written bill.
“if the parent believes…”
Meaning the parent can refuse any and all medical procedures based on their “belief.”
“I believe that giving Jane the MMR vaccine will induce her to believe that she feels like a boy inside.” And that’s how you get a measles outbreak.
“I believe that fixing Timmy’s broken leg will promote him to believe he’s transgender.” And nobody can say “Nah that’s stupid, we’re putting a cast on that thing.”?
“New Hampshire public health officials have determined that a case of measles found in the city of Keene was likely the result of an adverse reaction to the vaccine itself.” – bigleaguepolitics. You’re not that familiar with vaccines are you?
My attempt to post link failed.
“About 5 percent of individuals vaccinated with the MMR vaccine develop a fever and rash reaction, health officials said. These reactions happen because the body is responding to the vaccine by making protective virus-fighting antibodies against the harmless vaccine virus.
More serious or extensive reactions that resemble a real (i.e. wild-type) measles virus infection, as was seen in this child, are very rare.”
From the source linked from bigleaguepolitics. Does not say anything about the actual outbreaks caused by idiots not vaccinating their kids.
The child contracted measles by having an adverse reaction to the MMR vaccine and then they infected others. I attempted to get you started, but I see you need a chalk board. This particular outbreak was not caused by an unvaccinated person.
I wonder, would you want to force Jews to have vaccines that include swine particles? Would that be anit-Semitic of you?
Articles about this incident dated May 23rd state that the child did NOT have measles, and did NOT infect anybody else.
And there you have it: I bet if the vaccination records of every LGBTQ person in the country were reviewed it would be discovered that nearly all of them got the polio vaccine in childhood, so that proves it, vaccines make kids queer.
The anti-Vaxxers’ beliefs that vaccines cause autism or cause the diseases they actually prevent, as described in this thread, illustrate the problem with the bill: some parents are quite willing to believe anything. Basing legislation on what a parent “believes” is just a bad idea. Everybody involved in health care is aware of the option to wake a judge up in the middle of the night when a parent refuses life-saving treatment for a child. It happens. I saw it once in a case where a child came in to the ED, unconscious, in a state of diabetic ketoacidosis. Some parents are just plain nuts. A law which prevents a judge from intervening in such a case is a bad piece of legislation.
Vaccines are what made me.
Jensen and some of his fellow crazies are starting to resemble sharia law. The way they tear apart and judge others just bc they aren’t exactly like them is far from exercising Christian values. They can’t event get along with those in their own party…no wonder the Republican party is getting such a negative rep.