Mercy and kindness might be a personal ideal, but in government, mercy should be unmotivated by sentimentality or emotion. One shouldn’t be excessive in kindness or in cruelty. In a democratic society, wisdom and respect for the needs of the people are what is paramount. Not satiating one’s personal emotions.
I say this after being confronted by the article, “So tired of being scared’: Utah’s only openly LGBTQ lawmaker tearfully argues against transgender dorm bill.” The article begins, “Utah’s only openly LGBTQ lawmaker choked back tears…,” etc.
Utahns and Americans voted to end the regime of rule by sob story. DEI programs and their NGO and nonprofit counterparts are being shuttered. Grievance grifters have been given their pink slips, and typical narratives of shame and latent and irreversible bigoted intent have been rejected.
I feel as though the kindness of Utahns has been taken advantage of in the past. Some of the people who have done so have used nefarious and manipulative techniques rather than rely on sound arguments.
The Utah Legislature is taking reasonable steps to end this unfortunate era. Why? Because the cruelty is the point? No: It is because the people have demanded it of them. Not motivated by malice as Rep. Hayes suggests, but by the desire for peace.
That is called being reasonable. The sooner that my liberal friends realize that our cultural norms are shifting, and accept this new reality, the sooner we can heal as a society that has been torn about by this insidious ideology.
Sean-Michael Robinson, Daybreak
