Positive note about institutions

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 In the olden days (and in American in the new den days), bigotry infested public institutions. The people who didn't like the bigotryand wanted to, for example marry homos, had to leave government or suck it up. Then public institutions were lobbied for decades by people representing race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or other bases of discrimination. The government... Or institution considered the arguments, consulted, read the studies, made committees and write Constitutions and bills based on creating an equitable environment for all (aka government mandate) to thrive was manifested. Now people in the instution who don't want to enact government not-bigotries want to be able to not enact the rules, for example, not marry homos, don't want to leave government t and don't want to suck it up. And they feel descriminated against. 


Government is not secular, government is calling us to provide safe space for everyone. You know who else did that?

Sure, no institution is flawless, but the institutions are the entities to whom we direct the lobbying. Directing lobbying to churches, or other institutions with agendas, excludes those the agenda excludes. Directing lobbying to Baptists, excludes Islam. We need government and laws to express the general agenda. And the general agenda is NO EXCLUSION. Not old-book principles that are exclusionary. NO EXCLUSION. Our laws and Constitutions are where we situate our broad beliefs as a community, as a global community. I suggest that NO EXCLUSIONS is the fundamental value of the larger majority of people on the planet. Government is the repository of our protest against the excluders. 

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