Last night Trump partially walked back his earlier statement and said it’s a states rights issue. Cruz has also said that on these social issues, specifically gay marriage, he supports states’ rights. 19 states have laws allowing trangendered people to choose their bathroom.
I know that Trump said basically that he was talking about states’ rights, and that’s what the North Carolina trouble was all about. His original comments were a gobbledy gook of words that might well have meant that, so that he was talking about states’ rights might actually be the case.
Since Cruz also comes down on states’ rights on this and other sexuality issues, it is again a bit of a wash in terms of those two candidates.
For me, though, those are inadequate answers. I don’t think my state government has any more authority to shove that down my throat than does my federal government.
I am NOT a states’ rights conservative. I am not a federal power conservative. I am an advocate of ‘first branch conservatism’.
The first branch of government is “We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union.’
The first branch is the people. The second the states. Then there’s congress, executive, and judicial.
The huge tryranny of our age has been when the 5th branch of government over-ruled the iniative/issue votes of the people of the various states.
The doctrine of federal supremacy is tyranny.
Back to transgender bathrooms. They are wrong for America because they are an invasion of privacy and a gross violation of security. Any support for such a thing is wrong because of dire consequences.
Also, they are a violation of nature and of nature’s God. Acts 15 extends all the sexual immorality issues of the Old Testament into the New TEstament era. Not only does that include transsexualism, but it is specifically called an abomination in the eyes of God.
No real Christian can support this and continue to have God’s blessing in his or her life.
Trump's position still appears to be "They use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate" even though he designates it as a states rights issue.
And when it comes to those states who’ve allowed Cruz to steal delegates in voter-less “elections”, he really, really LOVES states’ rights. It’s a situational ethics kind of thing for him.