For the last year, the Department of Health and Human Services has privately argued that the term “sex” was never meant to include gender identity or even homosexuality, and that the lack of clarity allowed the Obama administration to wrongfully extend civil rights protections to people who should not have them.
Roger Severino, the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the department, declined to answer detailed questions about the memo or his role in interagency discussions about how to revise the definition of sex under Title IX.
But officials at the department confirmed that their push to limit the definition of sex for the purpose of federal civil rights laws resulted from their own reading of the laws and from a court decision.
Mr. Severino, while serving as the head of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation, was among the conservatives who blanched at the Obama administration’s expansion of sex to include gender identity, which he called “radical gender ideology.”
In one commentary piece, he called the policies a “culmination of a series of unilateral, and frequently lawless, administration attempts to impose a new definition of what it means to be a man or a woman on the entire nation.”
Roger Severino, the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the department, declined to answer detailed questions about the memo or his role in interagency discussions about how to revise the definition of sex under Title IX.
But officials at the department confirmed that their push to limit the definition of sex for the purpose of federal civil rights laws resulted from their own reading of the laws and from a court decision.
Mr. Severino, while serving as the head of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation, was among the conservatives who blanched at the Obama administration’s expansion of sex to include gender identity, which he called “radical gender ideology.”
In one commentary piece, he called the policies a “culmination of a series of unilateral, and frequently lawless, administration attempts to impose a new definition of what it means to be a man or a woman on the entire nation.”
The article explains that it was the arguments over bathroom use, etc., related to transgender persons that is the current focus.
Sure. The DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation....
While trying to explain in this blog that Neoliberal ideologues are taking, or rather have taken, over the United States, the Heritage Foundation has been mentioned in eight of those posts. In one of those posts, the size of the Neoliberal organization in the United States is explained in detail.
In the post here More is at risk than abortion and gay marriage - California must protect itself from the rise of "A Handmaid's Tale" theonomist judiciary the following quote was offered: "Theonomists use Biblical moral pronouncements as the standard by which the laws of governments may be measured."
In that post it was noted:
In the map below, the dark grey states are those that adopted certain theonomist laws in the years between 2011-2016, the years leading up to the 2016 elections in which the Republicans won the majority of U.S. House of Representatives, the majority of the U.S. Senate, and the office of U.S. President, which will lead to a solid Republican majority on the U.S. Supreme Court:
The issue these maps present isn't whether anyone has the right to believe in words in the Bible or rules of personal behavior pronounced by men based on those words. Rather it is what determines the proper role of a state in regulating the personal lives of its people, most particularly when large numbers of people disagree.
Per Wikipedia: "Theonomists hold that divine law, including the judicial laws of the Old Testament, should be observed by modern societies."
Now that the federal judicial system has been packed with theonomy-leaning judges, the theonomists placed in the Trump Administration by the theonomy-leaning elements of those Neoliberal organizations will try to implement theonomy at the federal level.
In case nobody's noticed, Progressive ideology lost the non-violent civil war in the United States that began in 1947, reached its peak in 1981, and ended in January 2017. The only question is whether California and any of the other light gray states on that map above actually decide to secede.
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