Dear
Tipsycatlover JakeStarkey and other skeptics
I think I found a way to approach this without necessarily a formal lawsuit.
I am appealing to Asian business and legal professionals in the Vietnamese community
to consider this issue, of conflicting political beliefs that cannot be separated from govt as readily as religious beliefs, and am asking support to write a resolution, petition or plea to the President and party leaders to refrain from any more infringements on the political beliefs of fellow Americans who all deserve equal protection instead of being threatened with bullying, exclusion, discrimination and penalties due to these differences.
I think this issue is too big to be addressed in courts, and needs to be addressed directly among people so we have freedom to speak for ourselves outside of political or govt positions that already bias and limit our response.
So
Tipsycatlover it is not because this argument is moot that no legal help can be found.
It's that the legal system itself is already too biased and limited to take this on.
It does not FIT there, but maybe belongs on the level of Constitutional conventions that are contested
also as to how to conduct these to avoid threats of hijacking and pushing political agenda and beliefs.
I met an Asian business woman and political analyst, and shared my concerns that our country and govt has never addressed or defined how to handle Political Beliefs under the Constitution. Unlike religious beliefs that can be argued to "separate from govt" this cannot be done so readily with Political beliefs that by their nature, mix people's inherent personal beliefs with what they require or believe govt should or should not do. As a writer and business developer with Vietnamese Radio, she understood and was interested in taking on this challenge.
I said I couldn't find lawyers to sue, or govt officials/politicians willing to be honest and address this as the root issue, because they were too biased and thus embroiled in too much conflict and couldn't handle the responsibility of being so neutral as to mediate and actually agree how to write laws so well that they neither establish one belief or deny another, so both sides of each issue keep fighting to shut the other out of the process to protect their own beliefs. She understood; since she is a political analyst and writer, I think it might have appealed to her to look into this challenge of communicating and writing up better agreements.
I told her that this could be the Asian community's chance to contribute something to the US political history, by resolving this issue once and for all: how to handle political beliefs, such as agreeing to either write and pass laws, reforms and rulings by consensus where all sides are satisfied that there are no unfair biases excluding them or promoting a conflicting ideology, or writing up ways to separate policies and funding, such as by party, state or local business/nonprofit/school/civic organization and keep these conflicts of belief "out of govt" in ways that still allow people equal freedom to exercise them without imposing on others who don't share that belief. I told her at this moment, the beliefs about health care, marriage and orientation, and other reforms are dividing the country by belief.
But it is not the govt's role to force anyone to change their beliefs, and that is what both parties keep pushing on each other. We need to address and solve this problem openly, so I want to appeal to the Asian legal and professional community to take this on, and see if we can help write up an appeal and solution to present to party and govt leaders that will compel the right steps of reform and refining how political beliefs are treated with respect to the First, Fourteenth Tenth Amendments and Civil Rights laws against discrimination by creed.
From her response, as a top respected business woman, writer and media professional in the Vietnamese community, I felt she understood how important this was, to US history of where we go from here, but was calm and thoughtful enough to work out solutions without all the emotional and political hype and upset that has disrupted relations and ability to discuss and really address and resolve these problems fully and consistently.
Most people who are that neutral and calm, don't care at all and that's why they don't react.
it's rare to find someone who grasps the historical importance, but doesn't go overboard to extremes with it either. Most of the groups and people I've found who understand the implication, go onto fundamentalist
rants or crusades against the offending group(s). it's hard to find people who care enough to get involved, but don't go overboard either and lose their centrality and equal respect for all sides, without bias for or against.
I felt such a connection, I really felt it could be the calling of the Vietnamese community to bring out this point, where nobody would argue with them. When black or white leaders, liberals or conservatives, Christian pastors or Constitutionalists speak out, people strike them down. But what if the Asian community leaders wrote out a resolution asking for wisdom and compassion in stopping this trend of bullying Christians and prolife, either progay or antigay, or progun and anti-gun for their beliefs about the marriage laws, Second Amendment, policies on right to life and right to health care, and recognized these as equal beliefs without fear that any of them is going to be either deprived, denied or forced on anyone through govt, but that we could work together to write better laws and legislation that doesn't require anyone to compromise their beliefs. I can't explain it well here, without introducing a bias, but she got the idea. And I think she can run with it, and help organize business, legal and professional leaders to address this in a way that will not make it go off onto onesided agenda the way people fear a Constitutional convention would get hijacked politically. I am hoping that by bringing together the right people, it will stay centered; being focused on agreeing on solely what is the right answers by God that will unite the nation, and not on any manmade political agenda.
So finally I think I found the angle that is going to be the pivotal break in this trend, like the decision by Rosa Parks not to sit in the back of the bus. I think we can start this in Houston, and make it happen nationally.
I will keep working to build a team and address this without swaying for or against any one agenda, but staying so central that all people of all groups, beliefs and political views feel included, welcome and motivated to participate in contributing to writing better laws, reforms and rulings that meet Constitutional standards of equal inclusion, representation, and protection for all people without fear of discrimination by creed.
I would like to address fellow Democrats directly, and ask Republicans to address leaders and members of their own party as well, so it is clear this isn't about dominance or attacking anyone by party, but reforming things from within so all groups achieve their goals and principles without infringing on the equal Constitutional rights of others -- if we want to invoke those same protections and respect for our beliefs.
Thank you very much!
Yours truly, Emily
P.S. I also have similar ideas of asking the Black leadership to address the issues of Islam and Constitutional principles, to unite liberals and conservatives on sustainable business and educational plans to set up microlending to replace welfare and medical education and public health internships to replace the abusive policies in mental institutions, prisons and death row.
And asking support of friends in the Latino communities to take on the drug and human trafficking issues, assessing restitution owed for organized crimes and investing restitution into developing business, schools and military facilities along the border to provide sustainable support to oppressed populations to end the cycles of poverty, crime and abuses.
