Letter: North Dakota lawmakers sending unwelcoming message

I learn with curiosity Gov. Burgum’s assertion concerning North Dakota’s new tourism and advertising and marketing marketing campaign. Burgum mentioned, “Growing consciousness of all ND has to supply not solely attracts guests but in addition elevates our state as a possible new dwelling for employees, companies and households.” Nice, till these potential employees get phrase that our ND legislators don’t need anybody who’s homosexual or transgender. The Legislature is doing every part it may to ensure that LGBTQ+ folks know they don’t seem to be welcome right here. Regardless of Gov. Burgum’s rosy phrases, the truth of pending laws is that this will probably be a hostile state for any household coming in, whether or not army or civilian (to not point out those that already stay right here) who’ve youngsters or different family members who identification as LGBTQ+. We have already got a scarcity of docs, nurses, veterinarians, academics, counselors, and repair business employees as it’s. Who needs to come back stay and work in a state that facilitates the censoring of public library books, that dictates what academics and counselors can and might’t speak to their college students about, that prohibits docs from offering life-saving medical care to their sufferers. Of their zeal to stamp out folks they disapprove of, our legislators have forgotten Jesus’s phrases to the ultra-religious: “Why do you are concerned concerning the speck in another person’s eye, when you have got a log in your individual?”