What’s all the fuss about Prop 1? Equal rights sounds like a fine idea, right? It’s something we all want. Equal rights and equal opportunity are fundamental to the American Way. If the proposed amendment to the New York State Constitution was about that, and only that, this battle might not have become so heated.
But, Prop. 1 is not about equal rights, it's about granting special rights to certain groups of people and actually harming other groups of people – women and girls in particular.
Prop. 1 must be defeated because it embeds radical, harmful ideology into the New York State Constitution - ideology that will codify harm to young girls and women into law.
Ideology that we have already seen at work when a female volleyball athlete had her facial bones broken by a male athlete spiking the ball into her face. Not to mention over 900 medals meant for female athletes that have been taken by males playing in female sports.
Prop. 1 started out to codify Roe v Wade into New York’s Constitution even though abortion is under no threat in this state. The abortion expansions under former Governor Cuomo already allow abortion at any time for any reason. Abortion is not under any fire in New York.
Abortion aside, advocates for different ideologies began working to use the amendment as a vehicle to add other categories of people and behaviors where existing law already protects New Yorkers against discrimination.
The amendment grew to include age, national origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity. This can/will require males who think they are female to play sports against female athletes, get dressed in female, locker rooms, and use female bathrooms.
Prop. 1 may also be used to prevent single-gendered education such as all-boys or all-girls high schools. It may even be used to eliminate over 55 housing communities since age is a protected class in a new way. It could even be used to require never-ending taxpayer-paid benefits for illegal aliens since “national origin” would now be a constitutionally protected class. Some say Prop. 1 could pave the way for non-citizens to vote.
The way the Prop. 1 is written leaves so many things wide open that the norms of society and protections for women and girls are lying over the tracks and the train is coming fast. VOTE NO on PROP. 1
Be assured this is not about abortion. Abortion is a ruse to knock down societal norms and break down basic protections and separations that women and girls have enjoyed for as long as any of us can remember.
Supporters of Prop 1 say these concerns are unreasonable. They say other sections of the Constitution prevent these things from happening. BUT, that begs the question of why they put these protected classes in the amendment in the first place. If they are not setting the stage for these harmful things to become required by law, then why write the Prop. 1 in this way?
The old adage, “If it looks like a duck, it's probably a duck” comes to mind and this sure looks like a duck. VOTE NO on PROP. 1.