Posted on 08/16/2016 12:37:08 PM PDT by PROCON
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is holding summits to promote the role of lesbian farmers as a part of its “Rural Pride” campaign.
The agency is working with singer and LGBT activist Cyndi Lauper for a “day of conversation” about the struggles of gay and transgender individuals in rural America. The agency says its wants to change the perception of what it means to be a farmer in America away from the “white, rich male.”
The latest summit, first reported by the College Fix, will be held on August 18 at Drake University in Iowa.
“The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights, in collaboration with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and The True Colors Fund, will engage with LGBT rural communities across the country to host the LGBT Rural Summit Series,” the USDA said. “Each series will offer a unique opportunity for USDA and other federal agencies to share information relating to policies, programs, and services that exist to protect, promote and strengthen LGBT rural communities.”
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Seriously, these workshops will teach “lesbian and transgender hillbillies” how to sign up for farm subsidies, the main purpose of course being to funnel more of our tax dollars to dozens of newly-created LGBT “non-profits.”
Common sense question here: what’s preventing lesbian and transgender hillbillies from going online, or going down to their county Ag center, and filling out the forms like anyone else?
Answer: Nothing. If they need help, they can ask for it like anybody else.
It’s waaaay past time for taxpayers to scream about this kind of crap.
They have to be reminded not to get gonorrhea from a tractor.
I know quite a few farmers, both black and white. Not one of them is LGBTQ and NONE of them is rich....
Of course it is, for most people it seems nowadays.
These are important questions only your gubmint can answer.
FWIW.
I suspect the next step in this insanity will be for the Federal Government to Grant the LGBT*** community “Special Status” when it comes to Federal Government Contracts.
They already have the “Set-Aside” program with 7 major categories and I’m certain they are working to add another.
The LGBT** designation.
1. Small Business
2. Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)
3. Woman-Owned Business
4. Veteran-Owned Business
5. Disabled Veteran-Owned Business
6. Small/Disadvantaged Business SBA 8(a) Program
7. Historically Under-Utilized Business (HUB) Zone Located
Understand that there is a certain percentage of all Government contracts that MUST be awarded to these “Set-Asides”.
Every fiscal year dozens of Federal agencies scramble to find “Qualified Set-asides” to balance out their awards. By adding the LGBT** whatever, to their choices makes their job easier and given the current political correctness of our Federal Government there is nobody that will stop them.
Also, do lesbian vegtables have no seeds?
Only one boob?
And a guy?
Sheesh...
I’m a male lesbian, where do I get help buying a farm?
Who here has an impression that farmers are “rich white males?”
For decades farmers have been lampooned as stupid hayseed hicks by progressives.
Now we have to move our “Gluten Free” stickers aside for “Gender Neutral” potatoes and transgendered onions.
“I’m a male lesbian, where do I get help buying a farm?”
Depends on the date of filing the application for assistance and how you feel, whether, you are female, male, other, or whatever on that same day.
ROFLMAO!!!!
I was just about to ask, under which of the 18 enumerated powers does this outreach fall? Bravo to you.
I fail to see what struggles people that are a protected class must endure. Poor, poor whatever they’re calling themselves this month.
I know quite a few farmers, both black and white. Not one of them is LGBTQ and NONE of them is rich....
The other subscribers to farmersonly.com.
As evidenced by Clause 14 in Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, the feds do have the constitutional authority to take care of veterans imo.
But regarding INTRAstate commerce, regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the following. The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936
Note that the only race and sex-related rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect, expressly giving Congress the specific power to strengthen such rights, are voting rights as evidenced by the 15th and 19th Amendment. And since many of the federal support programs that you mentioned are clearly out of the scope of voting rights, Congress actually has no constitutional authority to regulate, tax and spend for such issues.
Congress is essentially stealing state revenues in the form of unconstitutional taxes, using those stolen revenues to win votes from special interest groups who benefit from such federal spending imo.
Also note that there is nothing stopping the states from taxing and spending for such programs, state programs ultimately depending on what the legal majority voters of a given state want.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional, but vote-winning inteference in state affairs.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
The Secretary of Civil Rights.
Two more entities that need to be Trumped.
Re : Post #66
http://www.thehulltruth.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=558950&stc=1&d=1439408688
http://www.farmersonly.com/index
Dropdown in search box includes the selection: “I am a woman looking for a woman”
:^)
What about Transfarmers?
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