{"id":346884,"date":"2021-06-29T06:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=346884"},"modified":"2021-06-29T06:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:05:42","slug":"we-have-no-room-for-hate-here-in-the-cnmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/we-have-no-room-for-hate-here-in-the-cnmi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have no room for hate here in the CNMI\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking as a private citizen, Tyra Sablan is hopeful that House Bill 22-18, or the \u201cHate Crimes Act of 2021,\u201d will be passed by the Senate and enacted into law by Gov. Ralph DLG Torres. <\/p>\n<p>H.B. 22-18, which is authored by Rep. Donald Manglona (Ind-Rota), was unanimously passed by the House of Representatives on June 17 and is awaiting the Senate\u2019s decision on it as of press time Monday. If passed by the Senate, the bill then goes to Torres for signing. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with her last Friday, Sablan said that she sought community support for the bill and explained that while CNMI\u2019s incidences of hate crimes are much lower than what is seen in the U.S. mainland, having legislation like H.B. 22-18 is needed in the CNMI to maintain its \u201cclose-knit community\u201d and \u201cculture of love.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that everybody feels the same way where we have no room for hate here in the CNMI. It\u2019s all about love, we want to respect each other. The CNMI is very diverse,\u201d said Sablan. <\/p>\n<p>As for the bill\u2019s chances in the Senate, Sablan is hopeful and extends her gratitude to the House for unanimously passing the bill. If H.B. 22-18 does make its way to Torres, Sablan believes he would sign the bill. \u201c[Torres has] been very proactive and very progressive. He\u2019s a big supporter of the LGBTQ+ community and we love him for that,\u201d said Sablan.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan and others will be at the CNMI House of Representatives chamber on Wednesday, participating in the House Committee on Health and Welfare\u2019s first-ever \u201cCNMI Pride Talks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking as a private citizen, Tyra Sablan is hopeful that House Bill 22-18, or the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":330352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}