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The Washington Post Occasionally Gets It Right
It is not often that I find myself in agreement with the editorial board of the Washington Post, but in the case of the nuns of the Rosary Hill Home hospice in Hawthorne New York, the Post’s editorial board is right on the money in protesting the state of New York’s thuggish bullying of the good sisters who have run the establishment for 126 years; they have apparently transgressed by not using the properly correct woke pronouns in describing their patients. This is in violation of a state law.
The Post editorial explains that: “The sisters have received three letters from the state’s health department, in effect, explaining that they’re not complying with provisions of a ‘Bill of Rights for LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers’ that Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed in 2023.”
The sisters take no money from the state or federal governments, nor have any patients complained, but that has not stopped the woke Gestapo from the administration of Governor Hochul’s health department — which killed thousands of nursing home patients during the COVID pandemic — from trying to enforce this idiotic statute.
The federal Justice Department has sued the state over the issue and will eventually win, even if the case has to go to the Supreme Court. Not only are the civil rights of the nuns being violated, but the issue represents an unwarranted attack on a religious institution whose only crime is violating the sensitivities of the woke crowd in Albany.
The Constitution gives great power to the states in areas that it does not claim to be in the federal purview. But states such as New York and California have abused the privilege with impunity for a number of years; they need to be reigned in. The Trump Justice Department is now doing that, and it should be congratulated for doing so, as the Post editorial noted. The “no kings” movement is nonsense, but perhaps a “no tyrants” campaign should arise against state governments that abuse their authority.
In actuality, the editorial board of the Washington Post has recently expressed some remarkably common-sense views on subjects such as radical race-baiting politics and LGBTQIA+ — and whatever nonsense this ever-increasing acronym represents — perhaps this means that traditional liberals are beginning to realize that their movement is being hijacked by leftist radicals much in the manner that the Russian Revolution was stolen from the Bolsheviks in 1917. We’ll see.
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Gary Anderson is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator.