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Our first speaker for lunch
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events the president really were Policy
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policy work and supports Macs and
now. Their workers though his legal

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analysis of. Religious exemptions and
particular disparities disparities are

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basing my hope for the people there is

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a graduate of the University of New Hampshire
and their personal war on the one and

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the. Matches are they are
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a Bar Association for the
home of former brother

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Ronald Leadership Institute
and require or here today are

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carrying now under. A single G.T.T.

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. A ruble released by the wind

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a project and say this
is very important or.

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Thank you so today

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and the movement Advancement
Project are releasing

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a new report on the lives of algae
older adults a new chapter in

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a partnership that began seven
years ago with the release of

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a series of reports in titled including the
lives of algae BT older adults you can

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visit L.G.B.

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T.-Mac dot org Slax older adults to see
this report today and all of our reports

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older G.B.T.

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Adults today's report is meant to be

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a good introduction to obviously older
adults rather than capturing all of it and

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valuable stories it seeks to summarize
data about what we know about L.G.B.

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To older adults in

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a format that can be used for advocacy
for and for building bridges with new

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audiences and today I'd like to
stare some key findings with you.

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The three cornerstones to successful aging
are good health and competent health

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care economic stability and security
and strong social and family support

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unfortunately these are the
exact areas in which L.G.B.

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To older adults face disparities
when compared with non L.G.B. T.

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Peers. The cumulative the facts of

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a life time discrimination and stigma in
living with an equal and discriminatory

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laws and policies for most of their
lives is an elegy retailers face unique

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challenges as they age

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a lifetime of discrimination especially in
housing and employment and the long term

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lack of legal and social recognition
combine to create deep economic insecurity

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for L G B T elders the cumulative
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a life time is the L.G.B.

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To older adults are the increased
risk for poverty nearly

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a third of algae BT older adults age sixty
five and older lived at or below two

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hundred percent of the federal poverty
level this is compared to about

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a quarter of not eligible to
older adults which in itself is

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a tragedy this percentage rises to
forty percent of L G B T adults eighty

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and over. Bisexual older adults sixty five
and older have shocking poverty rates

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forty seven percent of by older men and
forty eight percent of by older women live

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or below two hundred percent of the
federal poverty level and trends of older

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adults have similar rates forty eight
percent of trans older adults live at or

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below two hundred percent of the
federal poverty level. A reliance on

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chosen family due to family rejection
then legalized to discrimination creates

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social isolation and vulnerability
for L.G.B. To elders L.G.B.

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To older adults who grew up in
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Or having

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a partner of the same gender were illegal
literally punishable with jail time if

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you have the rejection was rampant and
many I'll give it to people could not even

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consider raising children with a partner
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Elders build strong networks of friends and
chosen family but don't have the built

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in informal familial networks
of support that many non L.G.B.

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To elders rely on as they age comprise the
spouses and siblings and children and

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grandchildren and these networks are called
informal in contrast with the formal

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carried out works such as medical providers
and care facilities. This lack of legal

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recognition reliance on chosen family and
the lack of funding for allergy L.G.B.

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To specific age and
resources mean the L.G.B.

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To elders are susceptible to isolation
studies show that algae retailers are much

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more likely to live alone than non algae
retail there is and are also less likely

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to access unnecessary services than the
general aging population services like

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visiting nurses or meal programs despite
their reliance on external providers

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rather than informal networks of
care. Long term discrimination

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combined with

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a lack of competent and inclusive health
care leads to specific mental and physical

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health disparities. How do you reach the
older adults who have lived through

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a lifetime of discrimination social stigma
through family rejection and through the

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aging and deaths of their social support
networks experience minorities stress

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minorities stress can be defined as the
impact of exposure to interpersonal and

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structural discrimination that is
discrimination by individuals So for example

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employment discrimination or housing
discrimination and legal structures for

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example the say inability to marry the
person that you love and who takes care of

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you. Minorities stress has concrete
negative impacts on health and well being.

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And in addition to minorities stress L G B
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system and barriers to accessing competent
care older people living with HIV for

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example have particular health challenges
as do other transgender people and people

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who transition at an older age in all
people struggle to receive competent

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inclusive health care that meets their
needs and addresses their lifetime

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experiences at L G B T people
as people. And so older

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adults face specific disparities in
physical House specifically L G B two

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respondents of the National Health Interview
Survey were more likely than not Algy

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needs the respondents to be
told that they have cancer

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a study of older analogy between adults in
California found that gay and by men are

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more likely to report hypertension diabetes
physical disability and poor health

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status than heterosexual men and the same
study found that older lesbian and by

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women report higher rates of
physical disability as well.

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L.G.B. Two adults who comprise today's
elders hold much of the L.G.B.

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To communities history and memories the
contemporary movement is young enough that

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many of the elders present at the founding
moments of our movement are alive today

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it is crucial that others receive competent
comprehensive care and support not

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simply because those services are basic
human rights but also to support the

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dignity and the well being of the
change makers who paved the way for the

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incredible advancements
of our community. In many

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respects. Others still remarkable rule

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a remarkable resilience given that many
of their experiences as young people were

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in

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a time when people were less accepted or worse
criminalized they've experienced family

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rejection and employment discrimination
and violence and more and yet BT adults

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sixty five and older responding to

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a twenty thirteenth survey from Pew were
far less likely to say they weren't happy

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compared to those under fifty to be older
adults have been in the forefront of the

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fight for equality and fairness and they
have the right to empowerment and support

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as they age. Elders and their advocates
are working on the federal and state and

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local level and government in agencies and
communities to remove the structural and

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societal barriers to successful aging
this report is a resource for L.G.B.

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Older adults and their advocates an
illustration of the disparities and

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a roadmap for Change thank you to Sage for
partnering on the report for production

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Thanks for having us and the A.P.

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For hosting us today and now it is my
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speaker. Barbara Staten

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a transgender activist who's been deeply
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nationally particularly around the issues
of aging and face she serves as assistant

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face work director for the National L.G.B.

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To cure task force where her responsibilities
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inclusion of trance persons in communities
of faith Barbara was heavily involved in

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the development of an L.G. B. And C.

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A senior housing project in Minneapolis
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a unit an affordable rental facility opened
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and twenty sixteen Barbara was appointed
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neighborhood partnerships advisory council
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City Harvest is on the boards of a number
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Community in the areas of philanthropy
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AIDS services she is an active member of
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nominations Executive Council and she was
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three decision to affirm the evolution
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ministry of the U.C.C.

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Friends and colleagues please give

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a warm welcome to Barbara stop to thank

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The real Now can you hear me here
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a wonderful morning. The conversations and
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really excited I don't. I was tempted
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address some of the issues and came up and
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when I started working on this presentation
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of concerns truly bringing the message
heavy with foreboding Heaven knows there's

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enough happening just like
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a lighter touch maybe we can all use

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a break from the newly gloom that seems
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those who do a variety show.
A little bit of levity and

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a little piece of reality or a
larger piece of reality. So there's

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a take out of the dream cities of Minneapolis
and St Paul just up the road. Let me

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call on the recently departed I come on the
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presentation I'm not talking about Christmas
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conversation if you want me to. Rather are
talking about very rigorous Mary Tyler

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Moore. Who's famous series gave
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particularly Minneapolis. How many
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truffles the clown. If you haven't.

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Seen opt out I would suggest
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a. It's worded crew the station
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tragic and your magic death of Chuckles the
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well dressed as Peter the interim. Now
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a priceless piece of comedy and tragedy
that's highlighted by Charles' favorite

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line. A little song a little dance

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a little softer it's.
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a little later on I'm going to start
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a mixture of comedy and tragedy
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The tragedy is what I'm
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a snippet of the song from.
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Tommy can you hear me. Tommy
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changes to maybe more of this is
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a I don't. We are there's rows of

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attire on. The federal
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decided that it's going to take older
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back to Florida and the senators who are
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a little worked up when I talk about
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a. Story here every happened
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we were or they told us. And
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So I don't want us to be a
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a portion of the rest of my time
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My friend the author of Eighteen

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a private doctor caring for others and
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generations of She'll be T L G B T older
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court born in the in the teens in the
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invisible core. Group of the thirties
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The silence generation. And then the those
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the prior generation. Well
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. And its decision to welcome you to the
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my contention is that the idea of all that
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decades. Most of the people in their
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active and productive times of their
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G B T V people is quite different from
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ninety's Michael Moore. I.V.

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things here from. The look of it is that

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how many people get distracted when they
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something. There was one of how long
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go to huck radio in the
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really be sufficient televisual A
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I'm. Doing really route and
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expectancy if he really felt. So your

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feet will be infinitely better then
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was the fact that however if you follow
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the system you can live you can live to
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a system because I think my
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a big distinction between their current
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the article or Asian young
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thousand nine hundred three really have
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and it flew for the first
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mine last twenty three for you where
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so the younger. The mold
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if you're the sort of worst
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the age to essentially you're. Calling

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a. Real answer real fear. You were just

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here and you hear her as you just
know. Because they're fearful

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of what's right something
silver really was better

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it is also reflected in the
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It's just your view this is really.
We have to get interested really.

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Now probably fifty years ago. We
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this is the big players who
are the people with we.

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Want her you were your. Wife.

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Or you could never be well Beata. Under.

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Your new school. We Seed
the rules it is if you who

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are just not of the experience.
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good I hear you're pretty good order me.

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I think if we speed it up would remove
the user hold on up but as I see.

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One of those little girls for

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a recording edified. For service providers
in the Twin Cities Minnesota area kippot

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Twin Cities with the fact that we have

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a significant cohort of elderly people
who are. Of sixty five and older.

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Thirty eight but twenty seven to thirty
thousand within the metropolitan area fall

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into that current category as old G B D
people and although some of the lights go

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on as a senior care provider saying oh
lots of our heritage. You know that's

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a reason for us to really rethink what
we've talked about and that has had

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a significant change in out
what we're getting from there's

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a senior care providers is how do you how
do we respond to that how do we protect

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how do we get it placed in

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a port where we can go right
responsible are respectful services.

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By the way. I use the word old a lot. And

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a lot of people get really sort of
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a program. It's

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a word that my friends and associates
from all the good sort of things for

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a change would stand up
and say yes roll. Is

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a word that in other cultures is
really respected. And we talked

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a little bit about that and you know one
of the conversations here about. How

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little the whole community doesn't get
the respect and understanding that it

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deserves and is not able to share the
wisdom that it has. For the rest of the

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rest of our community.

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So why can't we say old and feel same
pride in the wisdom passion and live

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experience that only people cared or

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a lot of the progress that's been

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made in recent years until the BT issues
of equality and race seem to be fading

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fast. For the rules of executive orders
that offer protection are being dismantled

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as we speak even proposed to the president's
proposal by the presence of the safety

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and security of our most vulnerable
children BT populations on the state level

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give me understand that Will we see

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a period of bills again that making healthier
meet community communities going to

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handle. Making them the other. Bathroom
bills aimed at the humanity the trans

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community or just

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a sample of the laws that are being
proposed across the country. I just

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read those few moments ago
the Texas. Is considering

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a special session of the legislature
because they didn't get their battery bill

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passed. So we're going to call

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a special session of the Texas legislature
back to try to enact about it

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now they did and they had to build on earth
their earliest push back against the

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purpose of the bill the paper called. It

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where

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a pro-life are persecuted
usual this reduces the. Irony

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that are. Occurring. In southwest.

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Many members of the old L.G.

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BT covertly living in the world who resents
that were the start reminders of their

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past lived experiences. Remember this is

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a community that lives are really difficult
time. Where their sexual orientation is

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or their gender identity for actually

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a threat to their lives or their abilities
to live safely and productively in the

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world. They were called criminals by
law enforcement. Purpose by society.

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Sickos by the medical community. And
centers by their faith communities.

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They were socially shunned physically
assaulted for being their real self so they

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did the only thing they could to protect
themselves. They hid their related

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entities. They were truly the invisible
generation and for many that experience has

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shaped their lives even today. A number
of years ago during the station but.

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I don't for

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a man own you'll be very.
Rich are all of you you

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know you eat meat. Her
group not just good city

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mayor will do everything to talk to the
crowd to do good for the priorities of the

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year or so. And really just three
are thought thoughts against it he

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just took

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a few Look at that. And we decided
let's have rights. And the

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first year you have the fifty people show
up is it here on this is why are you you

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. Know they're just really we're

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a nation on the issues that are going to
be faced and yet last the current We're

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out of the stream right you have.
So many people. And we're.

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Off to get a solution that

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a lot of people who've told you before
he could no longer read the Big or write

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reviews they're looking to the user and
they don't seem. To be Peter but the most

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of her that. I just talked
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A man who said he saw you do it
just just did indeed do this as.

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I heard passed away forty
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because I knew that there was

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a new twist that I could
go all right people. Think

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oh. You talk about My Space.

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Another example of the.
Invisible becoming visible is

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a member of my church. Who
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age. Gale was

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a trans woman who came to secure
Lakes church church Ari. Along to.

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Another Sunday evening Schaffel suffered

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a stroke. In order her to get
the service you will learn.

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And it was her third on her own. Through
the hospital there was do the egg

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or you have the lemon and
then we have the one.

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We realize that there's.
No Who fucking This is.

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You're probably years ago none of this
talking about eat issues like this you know

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that it was you know OK B.P.

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To do was talking about it
and we realized it was first

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a big gap that needed to be filled and
that was really where we began working to

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form you'll be generations of all across
generations or eighty years of it. And

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then we got into this whole idea of the
right place safe places for people to live

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and which are then surely

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a price too seriously the house or project
who's recruited might indeed be your

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introduction.

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Going survived all of that Gail was back.
Still living while out of but really

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disconnected from the community did have

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a real impact on her life. And

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one of the other side stories. I
thought your whole life and lead

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was your life here the podium where
the hatred for your ego issues

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and we were just through the time you all
are yeah it was just it was so good.

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And she always said you know the
more you do this. You should.

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Know I think he's ruthless
although you be the last services

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leader or he may be. He's

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a suit your shoes what are you sure
there's good reason why you three years.

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Old. And uses. OK for

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us this is this is the real. Place son

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who. And you really want to believe
your hair because it was like he would

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do that or. Walk Oh you're going to access

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those interests and I was all. You see

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a leader who. Are good with who
does that and his response was you

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know. That lets you face.

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Up OK so we were her be
true to her first it waste

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until you're fixes it
just ignore it. And I do

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those who do that I just have

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a reason hell you are.
Someone who you know spent

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a great deal of time and energy doing
something she really didn't want to do for

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a purpose that never
came before. And finally

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in this conversation
about. Making live in this

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is all this is so. I will
read an excerpt from.

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An amazing high opening story Bennett
Marshall County sixteen example to school

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chronicled in title last man
standing. If you have read it.

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Who to read it is. It's heartbreaking
but it's really important.

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More than thirty years ago
when he learned he was

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a factor the virus that causes AIDS
Peter was certain his life or so since

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that is lost the trust his lover and
Israel. But his livelihood his duty

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his all. But on Christmas Eve
on the cusp of another here.

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He was still here. Sixty one is
periods like the great. His eyes to

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the sparkling youthful of. A survivor of

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a plague that killed tens
of thousands just like.

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I'm the luckiest

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a lucky person in the world
y'all said. No one speed last

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chance. And we have many of

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those who are truly. And you add to
that the isolation that many of them

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feel every have

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a real sharing crisis here among those
who edited and survived when they.

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Finally. I want to talk

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a little bit about. Religious exemption
religious refusal religious freedom.

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To the way we live in an environment
where race based organizations provide

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a significant proportion of the senior
care I thought the citation in New York

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Times that stated there were two thousand
continuing care retirement communities in

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the US. With eighty percent of their own
and operated by nonprofit organizations.

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And seventy five percent of those.
Are run by faith based entities.

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The idea of allowing religious organizations
the right to deny services to

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individuals or groups based on deeply
held religious convictions. Has morphed

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into now allowing individuals to
claim that right to refuse service.

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And not even requiring

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a deeply held convictions but rather
allowing personal opinion to be an adequate

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record. We.

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I quaked in fear of what this means for.
Older children BT brothers and sisters

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as they seek places to call that will
provide them with the services of care they

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need in an environment that respects who
they are rather than to means their

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identities in the orientation

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these are challenging times. You're
many is in the old Community

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Stage in isolation simply because they
were fearful that there was going to be

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pushback. That they were going to be followed
find itself back in this environment

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or were they were. Vilified. And to me

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Guess what folks we are having to that.

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And we have to just stand
firm against him this is

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a league. Against the duty and

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as care riders of whatever
will be maybe as allies. As L

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G B T V Will your son.
I ask you be billeted.

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Strong compassionate. And loving.

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Because we needed more
than out of every thing.

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From.