Posted on 09/08/2016 6:57:16 PM PDT by marshmallow
Under a Massachusetts civil rights agency’s interpretation of new anti-discrimination law, churches can be forced to let biological males who identify as transgender women use the women’s bathroom.
Recently passed legislation amending the state’s anti-discrimination law to include protections for “gender identity” will take effect Oct. 1.
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, which enforces the state’s anti-discrimination laws, recently published a “Gender identity guidance” that lays out what will be legally required of employers and “agents of places of public accommodation.”
The guidance was published Sept. 1 but has gone unreported by the media until now. The commission confirmed that the version of the guidance online is the “final edition.”
Beginning Oct. 1, the guidance notes, “All persons, regardless of gender identity, shall have the right to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any place of public accommodation.”
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Not long until we will be going back to “house churches.”
If this isn’t tyranny, then what is?
Won’t be long now........
Enforce this rigorously against mosques.
I wonder where the creeps who work for this state agency park at night
They can try. I see a guy going into the ladies room, I’m putting him on the ground. Anyone asks, he started it.
They will in time have to install single-user toilets to avoid this tyranny, which so many American citizens actually support.
The only reason a transgender would visit a Christian church’s is to find grounds to file a lawsuit.
I think it’s time a male peed in the women’s room at mosque.
Land of the free?
Sad state of affairs for the place Winthrop wanted to be as a shining city on a hill...
“for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us;
soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world,
(snip)
till wee be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going:
I see nothing there that says that churches (or any other facility) must allow men into the women's restrooms. Perhaps that statement is somewhere else?
A church is not a “public accommodation.”
“I think it’s time a male peed in the women’s room at mosque”
That may be what it takes to get this law overturned.
Here you go:
“Even a church could be seen as a place of public accommodation if it holds a secular event, such as a spaghetti supper, that is open to the general public,” the guidance notes.
where are the shouts of ‘separation of church and state’?
oh, that only comes into play for free speech when the left doesn’t like what the church says about the left’s actions
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