niteowl said:

Shroomism said:

who cares about healthcare I just want dental

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I have never understood why dental coverage wasn't a part of your regular health coverage

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Prisoner#1 said:

niteowl said:

asking the question in Spanish was pointless

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I saw it as making a point to exclude non-spanish speaking people

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meatcakeman said:

Why do Americans have such animosity towards Spanish?

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Prisoner#1 said:

meatcakeman said:

Why do Americans have such animosity towards Spanish?

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because we didnt migrate to mexico

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Ferris said:

Prisoner#1 said:

niteowl said:

asking the question in Spanish was pointless

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I saw it as making a point to exclude non-spanish speaking people

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Or possibly to exercise his right of free speech as he sees fit as well as those rights under the 14th amendment.

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Prisoner#1 said:

he was exercising it pretty well in english until he decided to exclude the non spanish speakers

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Green_T said:

My family came to the US in 1630, and my ancestors fought for independence, so I find it kind of funny seeing animosity towards immigrants from "other immigrants" in the present day. Every single group of immigrants was hated at some time (Irish, Italians, Germans...), and now its just the spanish-speakers. Eventually they learn to live and let live.

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The anger spawns from the US government pandering to spanish speaking people.

going out of their way to appease these tards that refuse to learn the local language

Prisoner#1 said:

well it appears the official language for Connecticut is in fact english

I'm glad those law abiding citizens decided to hold the preacher to the law

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Ferris said:

Prisoner#1 said:

well it appears the official language for Connecticut is in fact english

I'm glad those law abiding citizens decided to hold the preacher to the law

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The "law" is limited to the point of being non-existent and is pretty much purely symbolic.  If it applied in this circumstance, it would certainly be unconstitutional.  Even as is, it's still questionably constitutional.

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Prisoner#1 said:

the law is the law and until the supreme court rules it
unconstitutuional it's not, no one is preventing people from speaking
spanish but in handling political affairs, state business, etc it starts
excluding the majority to pander to the minority, should we start
writing all the laws in latin since latin is a large part of legal speak

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Ferris said:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-974.ZS.html

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Ferris said:

Prisoner#1 said:

the law is the law and until the supreme court rules it
unconstitutuional it's not, no one is preventing people from speaking
spanish but in handling political affairs, state business, etc it starts
excluding the majority to pander to the minority, should we start
writing all the laws in latin since latin is a large part of legal speak

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And you don't know the law then if you think that "official language" means what you seem to think it means, which it doesn't at all here.

I've shown where the SCOTUS ruled your interpretation unconstitutional already (last link).

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Prisoner#1 said:

you showed a case from 1997, in 2006 it was entered into the state
constitution that english is the official language of the state of
arizona

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Quote:

1. English as the official language; applicability

Section 1. (1) The English language is the official language of the state of Arizona.

(2) As the official language of this state, the English language is the language of the ballot, the public schools and all government functions and actions.

(3)(a) This article applies to:

(i) The legislative, executive and judicial branches of government.

(ii) All political subdivisions, departments, agencies, organizations, and instrumentalities of this state, including local governments and municipalities.

(iii) All statutes, ordinances, rules, orders, programs and policies.

(iv) All government officials and employees during the performance of government business.

(b) As used in this article, the phrase "this state and all political subdivisions of this state" shall include every entity, person, action or item described in this section, as appropriate to the circumstances.

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