Yesterday Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, who also served as President Donald Trump’s Press Secretary before stepping down to raise her newborn child, signed an executive order that restricts the speech of state offices. The new law is designed to ban the use of verbiage that is viewed as “woke” and/or disparaging to women.
In a media release before the order was signed, the Governor attacked the Left for trying to continuously shove these terms that teardown womanhood, and warned those people that “conservatives are starting to fight back” and that “they better get ready because we’re just getting started.”
The executive order is as follows:
WHEREAS: Women are women;
WHEREAS: An XX chromosome is an XX chromosome. The science is clear and real;
WHEREAS: There are things only women can do, like perform the miracle of birth;
WHEREAS: Government should reject language that ignores, undermines, and erases women;
WHEREAS: Government should celebrate gender distinctions between men and women—not erase them; and
WHEREAS: It is the policy of this administration to prohibit the use of woke, anti-women words for official state government business.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, acting under the authority vested in me as the Governor of the State of Arkansas, do hereby order:
(1) All state offices, departments, boards, and commissions are prohibited from using exclusionary, sexist language in official state government business, effective immediately.
(2) In official government documents, the following exclusionary and sexist terms shall be replaced with accurate, female-affirming alternatives:
a. Rather than “pregnant people” or “pregnant person,” use “pregnant women” or “pregnant mom.”
b. Rather than “chestfeeding,” use “breastfeeding.”
c. Rather than “body fed” or “person fed,” use “breast fed.”
d. Rather than “human milk,” use “breast milk.”
e. Rather than “birthing person,” use “birth mom.”
f. Rather than “laboring person,” use “birth mom.”
g. Rather than “menstruating person” or “menstruating people,” use “woman” or “women.”
h. Rather than “birth-giver,” use “woman.”
i. Rather than “womxn” or “womyn,” use “woman.”
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and cause the Great Seal of the State of Arkansas to be affixed this 19th day of October, in the year of our Lord 2023.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
All these gender neutral terms have gotten out of control and there is no question about ridiculous they are to anyone that has sense.
However, and I know there are going to be plenty that disagree with me here, but signing a bill like this is no better than Leftists who are doing the same thing, and sets a precedent for a further slippery slope.
For starters, the government of course was never supposed to be in the business of regulating speech; but beyond just that, in a legal sense, please define me “woke.” Woke is a loaded word that can mean all sorts of things relative to the speaker and to the beholder. Now, I realize Huckabee-Sanders specified what terms she’s banning, but as I said, this sets a precedent for more words and phrases to be included at some point under the guise of eliminating “woke” and “Leftist” vocabulary. The definitions and parameters can change very easily.
Again, I agree with the sentiment, but signing a law like this is only creating a slippery slope that ultimately results in Americans losing more freedoms. It may not seem like it now, but it never does at first when these types of things show up, and then quickly cascades and people get buried alive before they have time to react.
For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
Proverbs 28:2
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I can understand your apprehension, but the ridiculousness of this “woke” language and the pronoun controversies that in some instances have cost people their livelihood, was really getting out of hand, and it makes Americans look stupid and extremely mean-spirited. At least she did not say the users of this “woke” language would be tarred and feathered and driven out of town, which a lot of less charitable people might enjoy, considering how vindictive leftists can be when someone is merely speaking plainly. She was addressing annoying behavior and took care of it. If this turns her into a major psycho, we’ll know about it soon enough. Politics is the merry-go-round from Hell anyway.
You know if she want’s real distinction between a man and a woman, then she should follow what God says in his true word the KJV, which clearly stats that women are supposed to be keepers at home wearing modest long dresses or skirts not doing men’s jobs (if you can even call politics a job) or wearing men’s pants 1 Timothy5:14 and there’s plenty of verses in the KJV bible on those subjects, but I do agree with her on the stupidity of the woke culture, but she didn’t needed to sign peoples freedom away ether.
Isa_3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
This is Old Testiment, but still applies to day.
God created male and female; shouldn’t even be a thing, but here we are; wacko-world
Don’t know what happened but this is David Aarons here (me) where do I change to my name instead of anonymous?
I found it and changed it Thanks