The City Journal has an interesting article exploring California’s mandated preference for gay businesses in the energy industry. If the state hits its target, “LGBT-owned businesses” will receive $633 million in contracts. Putting aside the imposition of such agendas on companies at a time of rising energy costs, the certification process for being an LGBT business is astonishing.
This is only one of various categories of preferential treatment under state law. It began in 1986, under Governor George Deukmejian, requiring certain CPUC-regulated utilities to submit annual “plans” for buying goods and services from woman- and minority-owned companies.
The specific LGBT preference began under former Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014, but was expanded by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 to encourage energy companies to favor LGBT businesses.
The law is based on the protected class status under state law rather than proof that LGBT business people are discriminated against in the energy field or that LGBT owners make substantially less than straight owners.
The National LGBTQ+ & Allied Chamber of Commerce informs companies striving to come out of the corporate closet that “certification is a journey, not a destination.”
So here is how you prove that your company is LGBT.
Applicants can secure certification by providing a letter from an “LGBT organization” attesting to their sexual preferences; proof that a newspaper identified them as “LGBT”; or three letters from “personal contacts” written “on company letterhead” attesting to their homosexual orientation. Corporate officials who “falsely represent” their business as gay face up to a year in county jail.
Supplier Clearinghouse also accepts gay-certification letters from the National LGBTQ+ & Allied Chamber of Commerce. The chamber has its own list of accepted documents, including human resources complaints or police records claiming LGBT discrimination.
So a company can submit its own criminal complaint alleging discrimination as proof that it is LGBT, or you can submit letters on some company letterhead on your corporate gayness.
It is not clear if businesses can challenge such benchmarks on the basis of sexual orientation. A company would have to claim that it has a straight ownership and suffers from a real or cognizable injury from the loss of contracts. That is no easy task and would likely produce a consumer and political backlash in California for the company.
For Californians who gripe about having the highest fuel costs, they do not have to look far. California has created layers of taxes and regulations that drive costs for the industry. At the same time, Newsom and others continue to hamper efforts to pursue energy resources within the state.
These types of laws empower a network of activists and groups who tap into an effort worth hundreds of millions of dollars in offering “certification letters.” The website declares that “NGLCC’s exclusive LGBT Business Enterprise (LGBTBE) certification works hard for you, giving you a competitive advantage to succeed.”
What is fascinating about this effort is that it, first and foremost, benefits the owners rather than consumers and employees. Given the percentage of LGBT citizens overall, it is likely that any sizable company will have a majority of non-LGBT employees.
One can certainly argue that an LGBT owner is more likely to have a tolerant company, but there are already robust laws protecting LGBT individuals, particularly in California. This is about a preference going to companies based on the sexual orientation of their owners as opposed to the company as a whole.
The benefit to the consumer is far less obvious in encouraging companies to favor one company over another based on the sexual orientation of owners or management. Rather than encouraging price competition on contracts, Democrats have inserted an additional criterion that impacts as much as $633 million in energy contracts.
Two (or more) wrongs don’t equal the right outcome.
This action was the consequence of blatantly wrong U.S. Supreme Court rulings (in many people’s opinion).
In previous years, the U.S. Supreme Court likely blundered on the “corporate veil” ruling which weakened protections for every business owner.
For example: the company named “The Trump Organization” is not Donald Trump. Under the law, there are 2 separate persons. There is a human-person (Donald) and a corporate-person (The Trump Organization). Donald (human-person) is an officer/employee of the corporate-person (his company).
If someone was injured inside company’s building, the person injured could only sue the corporate-person. This protects Donald’s personal assets. Donald’s personal home, personal assets are protected from lawsuits and bankruptcy. If Donald’s company is the same person as him, Donald would have to switch the company to a sole proprietorship model but then lose all protections of his personal assets.
“Corporate-Persons” (most companies) have no religious beliefs, they have no opinions and they have no political leanings. The U.S. Supreme Court essentially and wrongly ruled that LLCs and corporations are “human-persons” with religious rights which weakens the corporate veil.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that LLCs and corporations do have religious beliefs and could discriminate against LGBT customers. A “corporate-person” that makes wedding cakes or creates websites could discriminate using religious beliefs.
Prior to that, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in “Citizens United” that the Founding Fathers essentially created the 1st Amendment and Bill of Rights primarily to protect the East India Company (company). So now companies have more constitutional rights than humans. Don’t remember reading that part in the 85 Federalist Papers explains the American system of government, maybe the “Originalist” can tell us where to find that?
What’s happening today is a consequence of some really bad court rulings by the so-called “Originalists” on the U.S. Supreme Court. Maybe this full context should have been included?
Government preferences violate the 14th amendment.
re: John Say
Up until a few years ago, the government favored and financially rewarded straight heterosexual married couples through the tax system.
For several decades, LGBT-Americans and unmarried Americans paid a higher tax rate for things like public schools. So it only did straight heterosexual married couples pay less in taxes but they received more government benefits.
The LGBT-Americans and unmarried Americans paid higher taxes to fund public schools but were denied the same benefits.
What created this mess originally was that religious-conservatives (in violation of the 1st Amendment’s Establishment Clause) created “social-engineering” with the tax code.
This social-engineering discriminated against LGBT-Americans and unmarried Americans. None of this was based on the U.S. Constitution or the 14th Amendment.
When the very Conservative U.S. Supreme Court stop favoring straight heterosexual married couples and had equal justice under law, many Republicans opposed a more constitutional system fairer to all couples. Single Americans are still penalized by the tax code for not getting married.
“. . . California’s mandated preference for gay businesses in the energy industry.”
According to the Left, “whites only need apply” is racist and unjust. But somehow, “gays only need apply” is perfectly civilized.
You have to be really skilled at pretzel logic to concoct that phony distinction.
Idea: Let’s Make Abnormal Normal And Normal Abnormal.
Oops! That’s What We Did.
Obama did that
Flu Strikes Unvaccinated Boys
A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.
The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables.
A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release. It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak.
In the weeks since Mr. Hegseth’s vaccine policy took effect on April 21, only about 40 percent of Air Force trainees have opted to take the vaccine, which had previously been mandatory, an Air Force official said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/flu-outbreak-air-force-base.html?smid
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For stupid, ideological reasons, Pete Hegseth decided that manly men don’t need vaccines. And this is what happened! The article notes that that particular base now requires the flu vaccine.
As usual. You failed to post this part.
It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak.
But it is the NY slime and “known” for it’s lies. All the way back to Stalin treating his farmers so well.
You sick F.
Why do you think there is something wrong with Dustoffs’ remarks ?
Actual flue deaths in healthy adults are incredibly uncommon.
The Flu Vaccine is notoriously unreliable. It is on average only about 30% effective in preventing or moderating the flu.
It is generally recommend for seniors where the can be more serious and even fatal and a 30% reduction is worthwhile.
It is generally not a good idea for otherwise healthy people.
a significant study from Japan recently found that there is a factor of 5 increase in deaths in the 120 days following receiving a covid booster – and this increases with the number of boosters you get.
All vaccines are NOT alike. Many many diseases can not be vaccinated against,
For others vaccines work incredibly well and immunity from a single vaccine lasts a very long time – often decades.
Frequent vaccines are a bad idea – they actually weaken your immune system and put unnatural stress on the body.
Generally people should get vaccines that have very low adverse effects, and provide years or decades of immunity.
Conversely vaccines that require frequent boosters are only a good idea in rare circumstances.
If the flu killed you – you should not be in the military.
In people over 80 who are vaccinated – there is a 21% mortality rate from the flu.
In people over 80 for are unvaccinated there is a 24% mortaility rate from the flu.
90% of flu deaths world wide are in people over 80.
Love how that reflecting pool is looking. Hard to see the algae for the $14 million blue lining peeling off and floating to the top. 🙂 Trump and the GOP are buffoooooons !!!!
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In the spring of 2026, the federal government awarded Virginia-based Atlantic Industrial Coatings a no-bid contract to fix leaks, waterproof, and paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Ohio-based Greenwater Services was simultaneously hired to install an upgraded water purification system.
Well, no sense worrying about MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF FRESH WATER LEAKED EVERY YEAR, is there? Nope. That was under Obama. So everything is fine. Nothing to see here. Move along.
At least we can be sure Trump’s pool contract would never go to a DEI or LGBT company.
Nope, it will go to a company that hires the best people and come in under budget. They need to repair the “fixes” done under Obama first.
Hey DB, who let it deteriorate to the point od disrepair and handed it off to Trump? Seems reflective of everything that the Democrats touch, drive it into disrepair, steal the funding and then blame the people that have to fix it.
Do we still have to deal with this nonsense ? The prior color of the reflecting pool was Grey – there is zero consequential difference in heat absorbtion between dark blue and grey. Nor does it matter as even a consequential thermal difference would only shift the part of the year in which algae was an issue. IT would not change the fact that during some parts of the year the reflective pool tems would be conducive to algae and in others it would be detrimental.
But the big deal is Algae must have nutrients – and the paint color has no effect on that.
If as you claim the reflecting pol coating is failing – that is on the contractor. Therte is with absolute certanty a bond that will cover improper construiction.
Turley Writes:
At the same time, Newsom and others continue to hamper efforts to pursue energy resources within the state.
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The Interior Department said on Wednesday that it would pay the energy developer Invenergy hundreds of millions of dollars to abandon plans to build wind farms in the Atlantic and Pacific, in the third such deal struck by the Trump administration to cancel offshore wind leases.
Under the agreement Invenergy will voluntarily surrender four leases in federal waters for wind farms that would have been located in the New York Bight, off the Central Coast of California and in the Gulf of Maine.
The government will then reimburse Invenergy $765 million, or somewhat less than what the company had paid for the leases under the Biden administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/climate/trump-wind-farms-cancel-millions.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Excuse me, Professor Turley, ‘who’ is hampering efforts to develop energy..??
It looks like the Trump administration is mindlessly canceling wind farms only because Trump thinks they’re ‘for gays’.
Get the gays and the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) out of electricity.
Leave electricity to the electricity professionals at the electric utilities.
It’s what they do, Einstein.
Some of Trump’s bigger bribes come from oil and gas companies. It is worth it to those companies to use American tax dollars to cripple their competitors.
Yet you never post any proof.
DB
Ever heard of Solyndra?
Wind farms on the sea. Jezzz have you seen what wind and corrosion can do to metal.
Prez Trump did the right thing. This is just was waste of our money.
JT is so quick to report on some left leaning person assaulting a right wing protester. Will JT report this?
“Wife of GOP commissioner busted for pulling a gun on someone — at a kid’s game”
https://www.alternet.org/gop-republican-guns/
Maybe the wife is a Dem, dingbat.
Plus, does it have any free-speech or other interesting legal implications?
Oh, how does that compare with Pennsylvania Democrat Commissioner Zachary Cole-Borghi, “now facing more than 100 charges tied to a years-long drug probe spanning Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, and Wisconsin”?
Or Pennsylvania Chief Mylenea “Toni” White, who was sentenced for multiple theft charges involving stealing $43,666.88 from two Greater Johnstown School District booster clubs.?
Or Cook County (IL) Commissioner Democrat Samantha Steele arrested for DUI, or Cook COunty Board of Ethics fines against Steele for disclosing confidential information about the Chicago Bears’ Arlington Park tax appeals on three separate occasions, or the Cook County Office of the Independent Inspector General (OIIG) finding that Steele failed to disclose economic/financial interests?
Or Georgia County Commissioner Hartwell Cooper Cliatt arrested and charged with child molestation?
or, or. or
so what was your point?
Well, well, well.
The paint on the DC Reflecting Pool is peeling off in huge strips and floating among the algae.
The used an epoxy paint.
They tried treating the algal bloom with hydrogen peroxide.
Guess what !!!
Hydrogen peroxide is the primary ingredient of agents used to strip epoxy paint. It is the main ingredient in strippers such as Sea To Sky SPC-909N and Cee-Bee E-3000, which are generally considered the best epoxy strippers.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
^ Posted from an insane asylum ^
So you admit. These government employees have NO idea what they are doing.
I’ve seen the same setup for women owned businesses, black owned businesses and native American owned businesses. It’s discriminatory on its face. Most businesses interested in the government contracts take on a member of the favored class as an equity owner to get a piece of the government’s pie. Another angle is to take on a subcontractor owned by a member of the favored class. Either way the taxpayer loses as usual with Dem run governments.
There’s always next time.
Aliens are always walking around without any pants.
A gay designer could make a killing by designing pants for aliens.
The market for alien pants is out of this world.
Now that is funny.
Can God destroy all humans if he/she becomes very disappointed in them?
Trump fancies himself to be like a Roman emperor, and he abuses his power to that end.
^ Mindless liberal tears are delicious. Keep crying ^
The opening ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center was a huge disappointment.
Why weren’t there any UFC cage match fights ???
We all know that any true celebration of American values is not complete without the spectacle of two steroid enraged men beating each other to a bloody pulp.
I know for a fact that this was the favorite celebration of the Founding Fathers.
The most anti-American president in US history, Barak Hussein Obama, opened the center with a speech insulting the Founding Fathers.
So celebrating the 250th anniversary of what the Founding Fathers did for us by staging spectacle of two steroid enraged men beating each other to a bloody pulp is just hunky dory and AOK with you ?????
Your view of of what constitutes American values is repugnant.
The current president has grossly insulted the Founding Fathers’ achievements and gift to us by staging a sordid event of violence from which he made a lot of money.
Apparently these are the values you approve.
Unfortunately they are not true American values.
Awww, poor baby. Mental illness got you? Lack of nookie got you? I’m enjoying life to it’s fullest. I’m loving my America-first president. Yeah, he’s alpha male, but that just means that you beta male weakling incels living in your mom’s basement pee your pants every time you think of him, because you’re weak dweebs who never did anybody any good. WINNING!!
Let’s see: energy independence; inflation way down from Biden; borders closed; child rapists and murderers being deported; men being kept out of women’s locker rooms and showers; Maduro gone; Ayatollay gone; Cuba at our heel; China contained; no more climate cultism; government-social-media censorship complex dismantled; ministry of truth shut down; lawfare contained; no more defund the police; and on and on. WINNING!!
Fascinating!!!
Typical MAGA denial, deflection and obfuscation.
Anything but address the obvious issue that men stoked in a steroid rage beating each other to a pulp is in no way an appropriate celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary.
Obviously the brainwashing by the MAGA cult is remarkably effective.
Hey dummy. Check on the history of boxing at the W/H.
That way way won’t look so stupid.
“men being kept out of women’s locker rooms and showers”
In fact, they are not. Heterosexual rapists are still going into locker rooms and showers.
You think China is contained?
Did you see the cop who stepped in front of a car driven by a woman he wanted to stop for stealing diapers? The one who killed an infant over, again, diapers? Could have taken the license plate and found where she lived and arrested her there, but wanted to kill her for, again, diapers.
That’s what funding the police gets. A dead child. So much for the pro-life side of the political spectrum.
FBO and his husband
Of course Obama is not anti-American.
Buttrack Obongo’s father was a foreign citizen and Obongo will never be a “natural born citizen,” the only genuine definition by Vatttel, the Law of Nations, 1758, consulted frequently by the members, then sitting, at the Constitutional Convention, and he/she/it/her will never be eligible to be president.
Ahh do some history of boxing at the W/H.
Sure. And all sunlight lands on them, and the give it to the energy companies.
They are just one more scam group sucking up tax money.
Just like Trump and his friends and family.
Proof…?????
But hey ask the crack head from the Biden family. He might have some pointers.
Then there will be much awkwardness at the Pearly Gates.
Gays improve and enhance the lives of straight people by their art and music.
Nonsense
Then in a free market with no discrimination they will do quite well, right? Why does the government need to discriminate against heterosexuals? It’s just a way of officially hating on people because of their sexual orientation.
Recall when gays got together, grabbed a heterosexual, and tied them with rope and dragged them until the skin was mostly off and then left them to die?
That’s never happened.
But, swapping the places, it has. And that’s a great reason to discriminate against heterosexuals.
What if God is a lesbian?
What if God is a trans-gender lesbian?
She could be, she’s God and she. Can be anything she/he wants.
And what if god simply isn’t?
What if you actually had a brain?
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