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.
I completely agree with your whole post regarding the morality issue here.
We the people need to push back. The problem is that not enough of “we the people” agree with you and me-new polling out of Reuters has “yes” and “no” on transgendered bathrooms within the margin of error. I don’t know how to fix that, other than to change hearts and minds, and I don’t know how to do that, either.
My argument on this issue has been a political one. This isn’t an issue for the president. Lauer asked a gotcha question and Trump, political neophyte that he is, fell right into it. Now Trump is being excoriated for having essentially the same positions on social issues as Cruz, and Cruz is one of the ones doing the excoriating. I’m just sick to death of double standards.
I don't believe Cruz took a States Rights position on this issue. He took a fundamental moral position. He said that it is morally wrong.
I agree it is fundamentally morally wrong to not only allow men into women's bathrooms and lockers, but it is an abomination when a city like Charlotte passes an ordinance that forces businesses to open up their women's restrooms to anyone who "identifies" as a member of s sex to which they were not born.
Trump took a stand denouncing North Carolina for trying to stop this madness. He can do that because he has no foundational moral compass. Cruz, to his credit, has taken the position that this insanity is wrong. Just wrong. Trump is ambivalent that the country is sinking into a moral sewer. Just build the wall. That's what we want to hear.
What the Left constantly does is try to force a reaction by the Right to make some new laws, in order to bring in the Federal Judges to make rules on the subject.
The States have laws in place against lewd behavior, just start enforcing those laws instead of reacting to these new attacks on decency, which are really attempts to bring the Federal government into local issues.