DO NOT BE SILENT Lobby the Senators https://www.facebook.com/HRCBermuda/ “The effect of the Human Rights Amendment Bill 2016 is to legally permit discrimination against individuals of a protected class, thereby enshrining discrimination in the very Act that was put in place to protect against it. http://bernews.com/2016/07/hrc-deeply-disturbed-legislation-passing/ The Human Rights Commission is calling on the community to lobby senators before they debate controversial legislation aimed at strengthening marriage between a man and a woman. Today, the Human Rights Commission added its voice to those concerned that the proposed law is an attack on the rights of the same-sex community. Describing itself as “deeply disturbed” by it passing in the House, the HRC stated: “Human rights are inherent, inalienable and universal entitlements of individual human beings, neither of state nor of ‘cultural norms’ or even the will of the majority. http://www.royalgazette.com/politics/article/20160712/public-urged-to-lobby-senators-on-human-rights