Posted on 02/11/2015 7:36:18 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
CHARLOTTE, NC (Steve Harrison/The Charlotte Observer) - Allowing transgender residents to use the bathroom of their choice in restaurants, stores and other places of public accommodation divided the Charlotte City Council on Monday night.
The city is considering expanding its existing nondiscrimination ordinance to include protections for people based on their sexual orientation, sexual identity or sexual expression, and familial or marital status.
Much of the ordinance such as adding gay and lesbian residents to a group of protected classes wasn't controversial. But the bathroom question provoked a sharp exchange between council members.
At-large member Michael Barnes, a Democrat, said he was concerned about sending his children into public restrooms.
If I send one of my daughters into a public bathroom, and I see (a man) going into that bathroom, I am going to have some concern, Barnes said.
His comment drew a rebuke from Al Austin, a fellow Democrat. Austin said it was deplorable that the city and nation was still debating civil rights, 50 years after the federal Civil Rights Act was passed.
Mr. Barnes, if you want to know about people being discriminated against because they are LGBT, it's a bad feeling going into a restaurant and being asked to turn around, Austin said.
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In every community, this is being treated as a “local news item” but it’s a national agenda item. WHO is funding it?
And why does the IRS only want to get involved when (black) pastors speak out against it?
“How is this not discriminatory to everyone else? “
Political correctness seems to dictate that the majority may be discriminated against, but the minority may not. That’s what it amounts to: political correctness, and the powers that be, from business leaders, to city council, and up will not stand ground against it out of fear of being called names on twitter.
True.
Out of 2% of the population (self-identified homosexuals), how many:
...WANT to get married? (not everyone does this days, shacking up doesn't carry the same 'shame' anymore and many employers will put your live in (same sex) partner on your insurance.
...identify AS being in the 'wrong' body and WANT to enter the restroom of the opposite sex?
Those who are pushing for this "easy access" provision need to be made to go on record why they insist on keeping the restrooms segregated at all!
At some colleges (Penn for example) the men and women share facilities (they say at Penn it is 'by choice').
Either the advocates will reveal their 'end game' strategy of forever combining the bathrooms or else they will have to go on record stating that for personal privacy (and protection) men and women (and girls) use different facilities...
And if you believe you are a German Shepherd, you can use the fire hydrant.
So if they really, honestly believe that on the inside they are a Labrador retriever do they get to just go outside and pee on the grass?
Heh... Beat me to it. :-)
The only way around this spreading madness will be that all bathrooms must be single use. Then, some lefty will find a way that the very act of exclusion of communal bathrooms is a violation of the right of assembly.
Life according to junk.
This is insanity.
They argue the removal or addition of sex organs changes the sex of a person.
What does the DNA say? Just because I say I am a kitty cat and wear a set of ears and pin a tail to my skirt doesn’t make it so.
And let’s see all the council members go into public restrooms of the opposite sex to use the facilities before they vote. Preferably at a rest stop where the gays looking for indiscriminate sex troll.
I do believe that if someone has their penis removed and a vagina put in its place that, gender-wise, the are a female.
However, if they’ve done everything EXCEPT change the genitalia, then the genitalia is king (or queen) and determines what sex they are. e.g. a guy that has had the hormone shots, dresses like a woman, has boobs, etc., but has kept his penis, is a male.
It’s so simple when you are black and white in your thinking and make sure it is based on foundational truths.
What ever happened to common sense? If you have a dick, use the bathroom with a urinal in it. If you don’t, use the other one.
FMCDH(BITS)
And if I stand inside my garage long enough, I will become a car.
;^)
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