Posted on 05/26/2016 4:27:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
Debates over the U.S. government's foreign and economic policies have recently taken a backseat to the debate over what bathroom transgender individuals should use. The two sides of the debate both believe that government has the legitimate authority to tell private businesses who they should allow to use their facilities. Few on either side of this debate defend the right of private property owners to decide for themselves who may and may not use their bathrooms.
Some say government must be involved in this issue in order to ensure that private businesses do not violate individual rights. Those who make this claim are accepting the idea that rights are no more than a gift from the government that can be revoked at the will and whim of legislators and bureaucrats. This argument turns rights from a shield protecting our liberties into a sword that can and will be used to increase government control of our lives.
Two weeks ago, the Department of Education waded into this debate by threatening to withhold federal funds from schools that do not allow transgender students to use the restroom of their choice. State and local officials around the country have promised to resist the Education Department's new bathroom rules. However, given how addicted most state and local governments and school boards are to federal funds, it is likely that even most conservative state governments and school boards will eventually adopt the bathroom policies desired by federal bureaucrats.
Many of the conservatives who (correctly) denounce the Obama administration for trying to blackmail local schools either supported or were silent when a so-called conservative administration expanded the federal role in education via No Child Left Behind. These conservatives fail to realize that No Child Left Behind's testing and other mandates are no different in principle from President Barack Obama's bathroom mandates. Both use money stolen from the people and sent back to the states to force states to change their policies according to federal commands. Both are equally unconstitutional. Conservatives who want to defend local schools from federal bureaucrats must work to repeal, not reform, the Department of Education.
One positive result from this latest controversy is that it may encourage more parents to homeschool. Homeschooling is a means for parents to provide their children a quality education that meets the children's needs. Homeschooling allows parents to ensure that their child's education reflects their values and beliefs, not the values and beliefs of federal bureaucrats.
Working with a team of top scholars, I have created my own homeschooling curriculum. My homeschooling curriculum provides students with a rigorous education in history, math, English, and other subjects. The curriculum is designed to benefit both college-bound students and those interested in pursuing other educational or career opportunities.
The curriculum features three tracks: natural sciences/math, social sciences/humanities, and business. Students may also take courses in personal finance and public speaking. The government and history sections of the curriculum emphasize Austrian economics, libertarian political theory, and the history of liberty. Unlike government school, my curriculum never puts ideological indoctrination ahead of education.
That’s what I’m saying, just restore/re-affirm the right of private businesses everywhere in the state to choose. Maybe something to cut off state funds, if any, that go to publically owned sex-exclusive facilities if they let men use the women’s.
Freegards
That's what the state law did, as well as requiring government facilities to keep men out of the ladies'.
I know, maybe they should have let part of Charlotte’s ordinance stand, but only the part about Charlotte’s own publically owned sex-exclusive areas, not the part about forcing private businesses to do it.
Freegards
I think the state government had to apply something evenly across the state.
Anyway, this sure is bringing the rabid squirrels out of everyone’s attics, isn’t it?
“I think the state government had to apply something evenly across the state.”
For private businesses, I agree. But for a bunch of voters who are happy about men in the women’s areas? I’m not sure. Why not a law that says state money for publicly owned facilities will be pulled if a jurisdiction within the state goes nuts and mandate’s men in the women’s within publically owned facilities in their jurisdiction? Seems like that would apply evenly across the state.
Freegards
Yeah, maybe ... probably too complex for the great minds in Raleigh, though.
The Charlotte voters elected those City Council members to keep the handouts coming, not to get men into the girls’ bathroom. They turned out some strong opposition, but the molesters’ lobby up there is pretty powerful.
At some point you have to throw your hands up in the air. That’s why I don’t think their should be laws that mandate who a business allows in their private facilities. If we are at the point where we have to have laws to protect those women who freely choose to use these places, we are done anyhow I figure. Like I said, I’m not sure either.
The dem voters of Charlotte can stew in it as far as I’m concerned. As long as they let private business alone and are themselves responsible for any lawsuits, and don’t get state tax money for these facilities. Maybe.
Freegards
Well, it’s like saying, “I don’t care if people (fill in the blank) as long as I’m not paying for it.” You are ... in the sense that some entity supported by your taxes is paying for it.
I tell myself that all my taxes support functions I like, such as state parks and my daughter’s CG salary.
Yeah, it’s pretty crazy to think things we hate like planned parenthood have been getting fed tax money for decades. At least you have some things you like getting funding too.
Freegards
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