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Rep. Justin Amash Is Wrong on Transgender ‘Discrimination’ Policy
The Daily Signal ^ | 6/6/2016 | Ryan T. Anderson

Posted on 06/07/2016 9:17:11 AM PDT by milton23

Two weeks ago 42 Republicans voted to endorse President Barack Obama’s transgender agenda. They did it by voting for the Maloney amendment, which affirmed Obama’s 2014 executive order barring “discrimination” on the basis of “sexual orientation and gender identity” in the private employment policies of federal contractors.

Over the weekend, Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., posted a characteristically thoughtful Facebook post defending his vote for the Maloney amendment.

The overarching policy concern is whether the government should elevate “sexual orientation and gender identity” for special legal privileges, especially in terms of laws barring “discrimination.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailysign.al ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; US: Michigan; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 114th; amash; congress; discrimination; homosexualagenda; israel; justinamash; michigan; transgender; waronterror

1 posted on 06/07/2016 9:17:11 AM PDT by milton23
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To: milton23

This is where conservatives continually lose ground to liberals in discussions of everything from policy to social mores.

We ACCEPT their fundamental premise, no matter how flawed, and then argue the fine points of it, bashing our heads against the ramparts of the huge edifice they build on their fallacious foundations.

Instead of rejecting the flawed, fundamental premise outright that males should not be sharing bathrooms with females, we instead argue about how that should be done.

We will lose, lose, lose, every single time.


2 posted on 06/07/2016 9:23:30 AM PDT by rlmorel (Embrace your Curmudgeonlyness.)
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To: milton23

He’s also a NeverTrumper.


3 posted on 06/07/2016 9:27:11 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: milton23

“sexual orientation and gender identity”

Sexual orientation is a choice not a right
gender identity is a biological fact not determined by choice and is a right only in as much as it remains a biological fact and not a choice.


4 posted on 06/07/2016 10:06:28 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: milton23

Amash is a Liberaltarian moron!


5 posted on 06/07/2016 10:12:30 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Giggles the pig for POTUS - 2016)
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To: milton23

Obama can’t have it both ways.

If people can identify with any gender they please, then they can also identify with any race they please.

If liberal Massachusetts abolish biological sex, then they must also abolish the differences in race. (That would be bad for the race pimps.) No more labeling people whites, blacks, hispanic, etc on government forms. There is only one race, the human race.


6 posted on 06/07/2016 10:27:19 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: milton23; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy

Amash at it again.


7 posted on 06/07/2016 10:28:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: dragonblustar

Liberal conundrum.

If liberals keep racial differences but insist on eliminating gender then they are hypocrites. Black Lives Matter must change themselves into All Lives Matter, including fetuses.


8 posted on 06/07/2016 10:30:31 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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"My Boy! Death to America!"


9 posted on 06/07/2016 11:57:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; milton23; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; Clintonfatigued

It’s weird how many conservatives swear this lunatic traitor is some kind of principled conservative hero.

All he does is scream “TEA PARTY!!!” and “CONSTITUTION!!!” at the top of his lungs to explain away his leftist voting record (the founding fathers put some clauses in there that somehow FORCE Amash to vote with Nancy Pelosi for “constitutional” reasons) and a bunch of misguided radio hosts tout Amash as a Reaganesque figure.


10 posted on 06/07/2016 1:20:04 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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