The voters of the United States signaled their readiness to move away from the radical left-wing policies of the Biden-Harris administration by electing the Trump-Vance ticket into the White House. But New York is not yet ready to let go of “woke.” In fact, with the support and passing of Prop 1, New York is doubling down on the harmful, even sadistic, policies of the Socio-Marxist left.
Whether voters didn’t understand how it would change the New York State Constitution and what the consequences to them and their families would be or because they really did support the radical elements of the proposal, now every New Yorker will suffer the ramifications.
Prop. 1 passed 61.8% to 38.2%. It required 50% of the votes to pass and change the state’s constitution.
Prop. 1 started as a relatively simple thing – to codify Roe v. Wade protections into the New York Constitution. This, even though abortion rights were never in jeopardy in New York even before Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court sending abortion decisions to the states. Under former Governor Cuomo, abortion rights had already been substantially expanded. Abortion at any time for any reason was never under any threat in New York.
However, advocates for a variety of ideologies beyond abortion began working to use the amendment as a vehicle to add other categories of people and behaviors to the protected status list where existing law already protects New Yorkers against discrimination.
The amendment grew to include age, national origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity. This can/will require males who think they are female to play sports against female athletes, get dressed in female locker rooms, and use female bathrooms.
Democrats created Prop. 1 hoping to boost voter turnout in New York by waving the false flag of a threat to abortion. Democrats hoped to flip some House seats to their side and the extra turnout created by an abortion issue, real or not, would help them – so goes the strategy. And it was successful in that the Democrats did wrestle two House seats from Republicans wiping out previous GOP gains.
The advocates that added protections for “country of origin” and “gender identity” muddied the waters and message for the amendment and many didn’t understand that voting “Yes” meant that there would be little schools and other organizations could do to keep male athletes out of women’s and girls’ sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms. And that adding “country of origin” could pave the way to financial benefits to illegal aliens paid for with taxpayer money that even taxpayers and citizens aren’t eligible to receive and might even make it so localities are required to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.
Gerry Kassar, New York State Conservative Party Chairman, said, “One thing is for sure, people were willing to jump around on the ballot.” Prop. 1 outperformed Harris-Walz by 6.3% meaning New York voters were choosing Trump and then crossing over and voting Yes on Prop. 1.
Maybe New Yorkers will realize what they have done when their town goes broke under the substantial burden of maintaining unending illegal immigrant benefits or maybe it will be when their daughter, sister, or niece gets her facial bones crushed when a male athlete smashes a volleyball into her head. Or maybe it will be when their wife is exposed to a man changing clothes next to her in the gym locker room.
One thing we know for sure is that the passing of Prop. 1 has set the stage for litigation long into the future and likely in the federal courts.
“Prop. 1 is the law now, but individual aspects of Prop. 1 likely still run the possibility as a cause of action in a federal court,” Kassar said. “If it appears that a particular action that's supposedly protected under Prop. 1 is upheld by a New York State court but potentially violates the U.S. constitution – off to federal court the issue will go.”
Kassar said, “So although Prop. 1 is in place, it is an ‘anything goes’ proposition. Lots of stuff could happen. We do believe that if things become too extreme, we can go to federal court to get a ruling on whether the action in New York State violates the U.S. Constitution. That will help further define what Prop. 1 can do and not do.”
Many of the arguments made against Prop. 1 by the New York State Conservative Party and others were about what is seen as intentional vagueness in the way it is written. Vagueness allows leakiness in the law, which is never good. Laws are meant to be defined, not left to clever advocates to find a back door to get what they want not withstanding what the law was intended to do.
New York has not heard the last of Prop. 1 and its controversies. Taxpayers will be paying in the courts long into the future as the state seeks to defend the rights of males to be in women’s spaces and illegal immigrants to have more rights and benefits than you.