“Have you stopped beating your wife?” is known as a trap question.

If you buy into the biased assumption, you’re easily fooled. The fool’s trap of protection in Proposal 1 is similar. “Aren’t you for protections?” intends to box you in a corner, trying to make you look like a fool if you answer “No.” But what if Proposal 1 is fools gold, who then is the fool?

Protections for “identity politics” in Proposal 1 is fools gold. The fools gold of cultural Marxism makes up rights and protections to fit a political agenda at the expense of others. For example, girls have to give up their rights to their own sports to accommodate the “right” of males pretending to be female athletes. A woman will have to give up her right to privacy in a bathroom to men faking female identities. His right to his imagined identity overrides whatever rights and protections real women have left. Sorority sisters better watch out because Proposal 1 would allow fake sisters in. In short, the rising force of identity politics will force females to submit their rights to males pretending to be one of them.

We’re told that it won’t change the laws already in the books, but don’t amendments have more “say” than laws? Can’t you see the dollar signs light up in law offices ready to pounce with litigation as the provisions in the amendment conflict with current laws? Litigious hands will dip deep into taxpayer pockets to make sure the state’s side of a case is amply funded.

The combination of banning discrimination against age and sexual orientation greases the skids for pedophiles. Who can’t see how the passing of Proposal 1 swings the door open to legally legitimize sexual advances of pedophiles on children? Without objective absolute truth, anyone operating on the pathetic “my truth – your truth” premise will have a hard time pushing back on pedophiles who find legal leverage for their lifestyle with the potential passing of Proposal 1.

If you want to put a smile on the face of pedophile, then vote “YES” on Proposal 1.

If you want to threaten the safety, as well as scholarships and championships, for girls in their sports, then vote “YES.”

If you want parents to be kept in the dark about their children in “gender-affirming” care with puberty blocking drugs, then vote “YES.”

If you want to give lawyers a lawsuit bonanza, then vote “YES.”

If you want to empower government to discriminate against you, your family and your business, then vote “YES.”

Craftily-worded Proposal 1 looking so attractive at first glance turns into what Senator George Borrello calls “an idiot magnet.” Isn’t there enough idiocy already in New York without Proposal 1?

The ballot on November 5 will likely read: “A ‘YES’ vote puts these protections against discrimination in the New York State Constitution. A ‘NO’ vote leaves these protections out of the State Constitution.” Don’t be fooled; these protections are fools gold. Like Pastor Ron Lemon of Koinonia Christian Fellowship said quoting Proverbs 14: 12 in relation to Proposal 1, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” Like Ron also said, “Turn your ballot over and vote NO!”