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Re: Indiana Religious Freedom Bill

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Originally Posted by neshera View Post
In general, I would totally agree with "no politics" in FIRST, or on teams. But in this case, we can assume there are FRC students who are LGBT. Can a team, or indeed the entire FIRST community, ignore this situation? I am truly unsure.
I would also add that I would prefer NOT for this thread to discuss the merits of the bill itself, or of being LGBT; rather I am curious how an apolitical organization should respond to a political issue that could impact team members.
Also, I should state thatthis is just my question, and should not be taken to have anything to do with my associated team, which was unaware I would be starting this thread.
Fair enough, and I don't think there's anything wrong with starting this thread. Consider this. If we're talking about political activism, I can think of things far more heinous that are going on and affect FRC. Especially now that FRC encompasses multiple countries, should be also be arguing about the Israel / Palestine issue, Chinese human rights violations, censorship, and lack of respect for intellectual property laws, etc? I don't think so.