Twin Falls or Twilight Zone? It's the Twilight Zone!! (theatre, minimum wage)

[LostInID]

Do yourself a favor, if you are thinking of moving to Twin Falls....get over it. It's like living in the Twilight Zone. You will be judged for your gender, political affiliations, religion, lifestyle and sexual prefernce. Commericials on the local tv station are censored, movies are banned from the local theatre, wrong faith...please don't apply for the job.

A gentleman wrote a letter to the local newspaper stating that he was proud to be a Democrat and got hateful responses from the citizens of this town.

The gay pride assoscaition wanted to put a float in the Western Days parade. They were allowed in, if they agreed not to display a rainbow on the float or identify themselves in anyway. The list goes on and on in this town.

Last time I checked this was a free country.....maybe Twin Falls should consider joining.......

[boi2socal]

Well...right or wrong I don't think this is uncommon for socially conservative areas. Not to mention Twin Falls is still a small town. Sort of goes with the territory.

[norcalmom101]

I think IF is more tolerant/liberal, but then there is probably a higher level of education in IF.

[Sage of Sagle]

Originally Posted by LostInID

Last time I checked this was a free country.....maybe Twin Falls should consider joining.......

You may want to brush up on your PoliSci....the local goverment can make decisions that they believe to be in the best interest of their electorate, and unless challenged in state or federal court, it stands. If you don't like it, don't live there.

I don't understand this thinking...if a Mormon went to the city of San Francisco and tried to enter a "Marriage is ordained by God to be man and woman" float in any one of their parades, the city of SF wouldn't approve it. How is this any different?

Different municipal and regional governments will exercise the general will of the populace...this is America...and a BIG reason part of the "states rights" issue where powerful/large blue states shouldn't be dictating rules to smaller/rural red states...

[Trace_Rinaldi]

Originally Posted by Sage of Sagle

You may want to brush up on your PoliSci....the local goverment can make decisions that they believe to be in the best interest of their electorate, and unless challenged in state or federal court, it stands. If you don't like it, don't live there.

I don't understand this thinking...if a Mormon went to the city of San Francisco and tried to enter a "Marriage is ordained by God to be man and woman" float in any one of their parades, the city of SF wouldn't approve it. How is this any different?

Different municipal and regional governments will exercise the general will of the populace...this is America...and a BIG reason part of the "states rights" issue where powerful/large blue states shouldn't be dictating rules to smaller/rural red states...

+1 Sage! Great post.

[DESERTRYDER]

I don't think Twin Falls has the corner on judgement of people.
The trick is to pick a place to live and not worry about who is judging you.
As long as you are true to yourself and your personal beliefs what others think of you is irrelevant.

[stingraynm]

Originally Posted by Sage of Sagle

You may want to brush up on your PoliSci....the local goverment can make decisions that they believe to be in the best interest of their electorate, and unless challenged in state or federal court, it stands. If you don't like it, don't live there.

I don't understand this thinking...if a Mormon went to the city of San Francisco and tried to enter a "Marriage is ordained by God to be man and woman" float in any one of their parades, the city of SF wouldn't approve it. How is this any different?

Different municipal and regional governments will exercise the general will of the populace...this is America...and a BIG reason part of the "states rights" issue where powerful/large blue states shouldn't be dictating rules to smaller/rural red states...

Great post, Sage. Might I add that states rights are a fundamental aspect of social, political, and economic experimentation. One of the things I love about this country is that Federalism doesn't hold much sway until a certain way of doing things really does prove to be better and gains an essentially unanimous social approval. Now if we could just clean up all these out-dated, agenda-pushing bureaucracies in Washington, nobody could "tread on" Idaho or California in their choices for legislation and voter initiatives.

[norcalmom101]

Yikes, politics in the Idaho forum. Having lived in Calif. in a somewhat renegade jurisdiction, I for one really appreciate federal law when it's needed. VAWA for example.

[Sage of Sagle]

Yes, but it's local politics germane to Idaho, which we can discuss to some safe extent...

[stingraynm]

Originally Posted by norcalmom101

Yikes, politics in the Idaho forum. Having lived in Calif. in a somewhat renegade jurisdiction, I for one really appreciate federal law when it's needed. VAWA for example.

Must admit I'm ignorant on this VAWA issue. I know what it is, but don't really know anything about how Cali and the feds interacted on the issue.

I appreciate federal law and intervention as well on certain counts, so long as it's not the result of agendas in Washington just making a statement to "insubordinate" states who tend to get shafted in funding allocation and policy considerations. I'm far from a secessionist, but feel that the population centers definitely do fall into ethnocentric political fads of sorts that are unjustly over-applied to areas that do just fine or better without those fads. Sometimes, it results in the Inland Northwest and rural Midwest being treated like unruly children being denied their usual allowance. More times, we just have to put up with regulations that we'd prefer to neither fund nor abide, and those regulations are really just a result of problems that are specific to the population centers.

Most Idahoans can be grateful for the federal minimum wage, though. Just ask any service employee whose tips have put them through the state right-to-work loophole.