I WON’T BE SILENCED: HJR 6 Isn’t Protecting English—It’s Silencing the Idaho That Already Exists
It is no secret: much of the world speaks two or three languages. Speaking more than one language opens doors—to community, commerce, education, culture and human understanding. In 2026, selling monolingualism as a virtue is not defending the future; it is romanticizing backwardness. But that is exactly what a group of Idaho lawmakers wants to do: turn their cultural narrow-mindedness into a constitutional mandate and force the state to march backward while the rest of the world moves ahead.