Posted on 05/12/2016 12:04:43 PM PDT by yoe
Some of us care little about the debate over public bathrooms. We do, however, care about the ongoing destruction of federalism, individual choice, and good-faith debate.
One reliable way to quash dissent and force moral codes on others is to liken your cause to that of the civil rights fight. Every liberal issue is situated somewhere on the great historical arc of “equality” and “justice.” If a person stands against even one of these causes—which were once great but are increasingly trivial—they have, according to the cultural imperialists of the Obama administration, aligned themselves with the Klan. Literally.
After U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch (announced) that the Department of Justice had filed a federal lawsuit to stop North Carolina from passing a “controversial law”—this is the go-to characterization of conservative bills that pass with (healthy majorities)—requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms matching their birth certificate, she had this to say:
This is not the first time that we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress for our nation. We saw it in the Jim Crow laws that followed the Emancipation Proclamation; we saw it in the fierce and widespread resistance to Brown v. Board of Education; and we saw it in the proliferation of state bans on same-sex unions that were intended to stifle any hope that gay and lesbian Americans might one day be afforded the right to marry.
Likening a spat over biologically segregated boy/girl bathrooms to the genuine, violent, systematic, state-sponsored, society-wide bigotry that took place in this country for a century is both intellectually and morally corrupt. It’s not all a continuum. Yet this administration peddles these kinds of risible comparisons in the cause of self-aggrandizement all the time. Hans Fiene (has coined it Selma envy).
For starters, the scale of these events are no sense comparable. Jim Crow laws passed by states and localities that enforced racial segregation stripped millions of African-Americans not only of their liberty but their dignity. The state punished for their skin color, kept them uneducated and poor. They could not escape their situation without more government interference.
The present situation is significantly different, and in every possible sense less dire. It is the sort of social problem generally worked out amongst people in this country without unelected civil rights commissions ( punishing business owners for thought crimes.) Under North Carolina’s law no one was stopping a private company or coffee shop or big box store from having any kind of bathroom set-up they desire. I’m pretty sure most voters don’t comprehend this fact when they hear the distorted coverage of these laws in the news.
North Carolina and other states have preemptively moved forward with these kinds to bills to head off the state redefining gender. Too late. The fact is that the federal government can simply announce that a man can be a woman and vice versa if they choose. It then compels everyone in country to accept this reality. Yet there is no government definition of what transgendered means, other self-identification, which can mean anything. “Civil Rights” Division Chief Vanita Gupta says: “Transgender men are men. … Transgender women are women.” So sayeth Vanita Gupta, so sayeth we all. Or else. And now 300 million people have adhere to the Obama administration’s relativistic notions about nature and gender.
Under North Carolina’s law no one was stopping a private company or coffee shop or big box store from having any kind of bathroom set-up they desire.
Now, from what I can gather the central anxiety of many people is not that the transgendered will take advantage of their children, but that any man can simply declare himself a woman, put on a wig, and go into a public bathroom. Maybe it’s an irrational fear, maybe it’s not. As a father who’s had to send young daughters into busy public bathrooms, I know one thing for sure: I could not care less what Vanita Gupta has to say on the topic.
In a broader sense, the suit is symbolic of the federal government’s eight-year crusade to decimate any semblance of federalism and streamline progressive morality. The administration ignores state laws that conflict with federal policy when it approves and it sues states when it does not. States that pass law enforcement bills President Obama finds unsatisfactory will see (the full force of the Justice Department) come down on them. Those with drug legalization laws and immigration laws (he does like), even if they conflict with federal law, have nothing to worry about. Whether one agrees in theory with these moves—and I am liberal on drug legalization and immigration—allowing Washington to selectively enforce law conflicts with the kind of republicanism that allows us to be diverse and deal with unique problems locally.
Finally, it takes a special kind of audacity for someone working for Barack Obama, a pretend opponent of same-sex marriage for years, to accuse anyone who stood against “the right to marry” of being modern-day George Wallaces. Not to mention that this woman was first appointed by Bill Clinton, the man who not only ( signed The Defense of Marriage Act) but ( admired and learned his politics from real-life segregationists.) Such an indictment just adds a level of absurdity to these scurrilous attacks onpeople who are making good-faith arguments.
Thank You GOPe. Obama “thrives” because you do not give a damn about your electorate and this country. Bastards.
Does one even need to go in a bathroom anymore? Seems to me that is discrimination.
The progressive left wants to fundamentally change America. socially, morally, financially, defense-wise, internationally, Constitutionally, demographically, and with all matters regarding to traditional faith in GOd.
Barack Hussein Obama is their champion of that, but make no mistake, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton are both also committed to that.
In doing so, these people want to amass all power to themselves so they can enforce the edicts necessary to make and then maintain these chang3es.
North Carolina rose in opposition to one of these changes. A change that is being instituted for the sake of less than 1% of the population, and a demented or mentally challenged 1% at that. Those so called transgenders who want to deny their own sexuality, despite the plumbing and physical characteristics th3ey were born with, and call themselves something they are demonstrably not.
The left supports this because it helps them achieve ta part of their fundamental change.
North Carolina opposes it and took strong measures against it because of common sense, morality,, and in an effort to protect their young against those perverts who infiltrate the transgender community to use what the progressives want to prey upon children and members of the other sex.
Now we have the Obama administration using the Justice department to make the ridiculous statement that North Carolina is violating the human rights of demented and mentally ill people who want to say that they are something they are not.
That’s like saying it is violating the civil rights of a murderer caught in the act because he insists he is not a murder.
But the issue here from the progressive left is not right or wrong, not common sense or lunacy, not good or bad, not mentally demented or sane. it is about using the power of government to enforce these changes they want to implement at every chance they can.
Good on North Carolina!
May many more states join them...and may righteousness, justice, sanity, and sanity prevail.
you may appreciate listening to Kris Ann Hall:
http://krisannehall.com/nc-v-doj-loretta-lynch-lies/
The only reason that the lawless Obama Administration is able to harrass a state concerning a 10th Amendment-protected state power issue is because the corrupt, state sovereignty-ignoring Congress is letting him get away with doing so.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to not only support Trump, but also put a stop to unconstitutional federal interference in state affairs, the Obama Administration promoting constitutionally unprotected LGBT agenda issues in this example.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
This!
You better learn that new dance craze called the Goosestep! It is taking over this Country! While the world burns we stoke the coals!
bkmk
“Obama’s Lawsuit Against North Carolina Isn’t About Civil Rights. It’s About Crushing Dissent”
Exactly.
easy peasy
There is, in fact, a mental illness called “body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).” So it seems to me that the first legal hurdle for the government is somehow establishing the legal difference between this mental illness and what they are insisting is the “civil right” of supposedly sane “transgenderism.” And quite frankly, I don’t believe they can do that.
It’s Fascism. Let’s not kid ourselves anymore
To paraphrase Gandhi;
‘Obama’s government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality . . . the government must be moved to repentance. I therefore suggest non-cooperation.’
Ephesians 5:11
“Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.”
It’s about shaking the Gay Money Tree for the election...
The first order of business is desensitization of the American public concerning gays and gay rights. To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion. Ideally, we would have straights register differences in sexual preference the way they register different tastes for ice cream or sports games: she likes strawberry and I like vanilla; he follows baseball and I follow football. No big deal.Have you shrugged your shoulders lately?At least in the beginning, we are seeking public desensitization and nothing more. We do not need and cannot expect a full "appreciation" or "understanding" of homosexuality from the average American. You can forget about trying to persuade the masses that homosexuality is a good thing. But if only you can get them to think that it is just another thing, with a shrug of their shoulders, then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won.
The queers and fagots actively and willingly encourage a lifestyle that is twisted and perverted. They cleverly promote behavior that is diametrically opposed to the Judeo-Christian principles upon which our nation was founded. Their promiscuous behavior spreads incurable diseases and causes agonizing death. Let's not lend credence to a bunch of perverts seeking to hijack this country's moral foundation.
Make no mistake about this... although they comprise, at most, just 3% of our population, they are one of Satan's most powerful and influential forces.
The DOJ is a RICO enterprise. It no longer represents either the American People or the Constitution and hardly even pretends to do so any more. Instead, it represents the extension of tyranny via the personal preferences of a small governing minority who rule from Washington.
Yep, the democrats and Obama are not the enemies, it is definitely the GOP. Go Hillary and Bernie for VP.
Someone should open a public restroom across from a Target with these on a billboard sign.
Well, I think the government spends more on curing HIV than cancer. Every time I research it, the articles say they’ve almost got a cure. The last “almost” turned out to be worse than they thought, almost like G-d is against them.
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