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Sara Idleman's avatar

This is grief!!! I've walked among trees where I find peace and strength. I deleted fb from my phone. I continue to read HCR, The Front Page, Lucien Truscott, and a few others. I do not watch the news, rather I read books and depend on newspapers. Someone offered me leftover Halloween candy, I took it and ate way too much. I've discovered the Paradox of Tolerance, written in 1945. I've suggested to others they read Vicktor Frankel's, Mans Search for Meaning and Elie Weisel's Night. I watched Will and Hunter on Neflix. I highly recommend it. I've returned to my sewing and sorting. I sleep well. However, when I sit down to read, the gut punch and pit in my stomach returns. But, I am, in no way, giving up. We women have work to do, again!!! January 20th would be a good day to rise up and let the world know we women of all races, sexual orientation and culture will not tolerate the intolerable.

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mike parwana's avatar

The scare tactics around Prop 1 worked in the region.

The irony is that many of our neighbors were worked into a lather at a Queensbury town board meeting about Prop 1 supposedly opening the door to transgender boys or boys pretending to be transgender raping girls in school bathrooms, dominating girls on sports teams, and kids getting gender reassignment at school. I am convinced these people really believed these were real possibilities, but about 2 weeks before that meeting there was some sort of sexual assault on a Lake George/Warrensburg/Bolton school bus for which an 18 year old boy has been charged.

Very little news has been released about this incident despite, or because, numerous young athletes apparently watched and even video recorded the assault against what can only be assumed was a teammate.

These sorts of incidents happen regularly and assaults on young women and LGBTQ youth happen far more often and in fact are a daily occurrence across America. Our neighbors in Queensbury fought against putting positive language into our state constitution protecting the rights of those abused groups of people while the opposition ignores the very real problems that women, men, and trans individuals, and children face.

In this nation we have come to accept that in some states a 10 or 11 year old girl must carry the child of her own father to term despite the lifetime of psychological damage he inflicted on her and the very likely chance she could die because of what my neighbors insist are parental rights.

Thank you to the majority of N.Y. voters who chose to insist that children are endowed with unalienable rights apart from the “parental rights” of abusive elders and put that language into our constitution.

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