America’s major political party that claims to be the party of “science” asserts that men can give birth, that babies are not babies until they actually appear outside the womb, that eating insects is a way to stop world hunger, and that your gas stove and cow farts are feeding a cataclysmic environmental disaster.
Against such claims, the party on the other side apparently believes it needs sanity to have the weight of law so more such thinking won’t take root.
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Republican lawmakers in Utah are pushing a bill that declares only mankind — as in both men and women — actually qualify as people.
The “Utah Legal Personhood Amendments” mandate that only mankind may enjoy the legal rights and obligations of personhood.
Republican State Rep. Walt Brooks introduced the bill.
Brooks’ bill prohibits the state from granting legal personhood to any of the following: artificial intelligence, inanimate objects, bodies of water, land, real property, atmospheric gasses, astronomical objects, the weather, plants, nonhuman animals, and “any other member of a taxonomic domain that is not a human being.”
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During the House floor debate on the bill last Tuesday, Brooks told his colleagues that a constituent advised him that left-wing environmental activists sought to manipulate federal law to grant legal personhood to the Great Salt Lake.
Brooks added that he thought it was a joke until he conducted his own research.
Brooks called his bill “common sense,” yet he had to explain the liberal mindset it was trying to overcome.
“I had to explain to my kids that, you go to a dairy farm, those cows are pregnant because they need to be if they’re going to give milk. But, did anybody get the permission of a cow to get them pregnant?” said Brooks. “So, if they were a person, that would be sexual harassment.”
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“What I do know is this: a person is a person, and a tree is not, neither is an animal, neither is a stream, neither is the air,” Brooks added. “I bet you if you went back ten years ago, no one had a question about what a woman was and what a man was, but we do get confused.”
He continued, “We value animals. We value our rivers and streams, wetlands, whatever it may be, our lakes, and there’s ways that we can preserve them and go forward. But trying to mix the idea that it’s actually a human person is not appropriate.”
Most of us see that as obvious.
Still, 11 lawmakers voted against Brooks’ bill. Utah legislative records indicate all 11 were Democrats.
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