The Left Coast Lunatics are setting a new standard for bureaucratic red tape. Rainbow colored tape, actually. The State has a program that awards energy “supplier-diversity benefits,” which has been expanded to encourage the energy sector to award contracts to gay businesses.
By 2022, CPUC had fully implemented the expansion. In practice, this meant establishing a “goal” for utility companies with annual revenues exceeding $25 million to buy things from state-certified LGBT businesses: 0.5 percent of procurement in 2022; 1 percent in 2023; and 1.5 percent in 2024 and beyond. If “large” CPUC-regulated utilities met these “goals” in 2024, they would have sent roughly $633 million to LGBT-owned firms.
As with all things Left, you’d be right to ask what that means or, more critically, how California decides such a thing.
This scheme raises an obvious question: How does a business qualify as officially gay? Paperwork. Supplier Clearinghouse, a group that certifies firms for the CPUC program, features a list of qualifications linked on its website. Applicants can secure certification by providing a letter from an “LGBT organization” attesting to their sexual preferences; proof that a newspaper identified them as “LGBT”; or three letters from “personal contacts” written “on company letterhead” attesting to their homosexual orientation. Corporate officials who “falsely represent” their business as gay face up to a year in county jail.
Someone ought to sue the state for Discrimination.
You can claim to be a woman for five minutes to pee standing up in the ladies’ room. You can claim to be a woman to get relocated from the men’s prison to the women’s prison, even if you are incarcerated for raping women. In other words, the trannies can swing at will, but if you claim to be a gay business and you’re not, you could become the bell of the ball in the country jail.
That’s so gay.
This is sex and gender discrimination. How is this not a civil rights violation? The state has taken a very specific, defined demographic and offered it special treatment, complete with a process for ensuring that others’ civil rights are violated.
The state can’t provide preferential treatment in contracting based on a demographic characteristic. I mean, it can. They do it all the time, but recent court decisions have made it clear that it is illegal for state schools to base admissions on race. Other decisions have been dismantling the discrimination cult that arose from the so-called civil rights era. Instead of putting everyone on the same field, where previously that had not been the case, special dispensations were granted, presumably to assuage liberal white guilt.
What you do with your genitals should not determine if you get preferential access to government anything, though, with the advent of AI, I can imagine some amusing ways in which one might presume to prove they are gay. Don’t be a prude. They show that crap to school-age kids, and if I’m not mistaken, at least in California, it is a violation of their civil rights if you don’t.
