{"id":3618,"date":"2020-10-23T20:51:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T03:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2020-10-23T20:51:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T03:51:48","slug":"who-could-object-to-the-equality-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2020\/10\/23\/who-could-object-to-the-equality-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Who could object to the Equality Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2020\/10\/22\/who-could-object-to-the-equality-act?utm_campaign=the-economist-today&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&amp;utm_term=2020-10-23&amp;utm_content=article-link-5&amp;etear=nl_today_5\">This article in &#8216;The Economist&#8217;\u00a0<\/a> would be more useful if it identified specific problematic wordings in the proposed US Equality Act (whose goal is allegedly to &#8220;ban \u201cdiscrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation\u201d&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>If the act really is intended to completely &#8220;ban&#8221; discrimination on the basis of sex, then the inclusion of gender identity and sexual orientation as additional forbidden grounds has little opportunity to undermine the legality of women&#8217;s sports and spaces.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to find an article anywhere which does not use weaselly mis- and\/or partial quotes to deniably misrepresent one side or another in an argument (or just to make a story more &#8220;interesting&#8221;). So Perhaps Donald Trump is right that all news is &#8220;fake&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course his own lies are more blatant. But perhaps that means that at least he is an honest liar (in a similar sense to how the dad of a friend of mine in England referred to the cow shit we fell into while playing rugger in a pasture as &#8220;good clean dirt&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article in &#8216;The Economist&#8217;\u00a0 would be more useful if it identified specific problematic wordings in the proposed US Equality Act (whose goal is allegedly to &#8220;ban \u201cdiscrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation\u201d&#8221;). If the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2020\/10\/23\/who-could-object-to-the-equality-act\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}