SJR8 proposes an “equality of rights” amendment to the Nevada Constitution to prohibit discrimination, including on the basis of “sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.”
The Senate passed SJR8 on March 23, 2021, by a vote of 18 to 3. We have assigned pluses to the nays because individual rights are natural, absolute, and unalienable endowments given to each person equally by God, not positive grants from the government subject to redefinition, particularly as result of impossible self-declarations such as “sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.” This “equal rights” amendment exchanges the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence — and thereby abandons the principles of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights — for a contradictory, indeterminate, and unstable alternative that makes a mockery of civil liberties.