Posted on 07/09/2016 5:39:18 AM PDT by Petrosius
BOSTON, July 8, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The Republican governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, has signed a law that would allow members of one biological sex to use the showers, restrooms, and other private facilities of the opposite sex.
The law, which goes into effect on October 1, adds the phrase “gender identity” to state anti-discrimination laws, placing sexual identity on par with immutable characteristics such as race and sex.
It would require “any public accommodation...without limitation” to open formerly sex-segregated facilities to members of the opposite biological sex.
In June, lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have barred sex offenders from entering the opposite sex's showers and private facilities. The current version of the bill allows the state to take action against anyone who exploits the law for “an improper purpose.”
That's not enough, said Andrew Beckwith of the Massachusetts Family Institute. “The definition of gender identity used by the bill, is extremely broad and ripe for abuse. It would even allow a registered sex offender to use the law to gain access to the locker room or showers of the opposite sex. The people of Massachusetts deserve better from their government,” he said. “What is equally disturbing is that, under this new law, parents will face criminal prosecution for trying to protect their children, and business owners could be fined or even jailed just for putting up a sign deemed offensive to transgender activists.”
The state House of Representatives approved the final language of the bill on Thursday, 117-36, while the state Senate backed the bill by voice vote.
The signature makes Massachusetts the 19th state to enact state civil rights or non-discrimination laws that include “gender identity.”
After the signing on Friday, Gov. Baker tweeted:
No one should be discriminated against b/c of their gender identity; this compromise extends add'l protections to our transgender residents.No one should be discriminated against b/c of their gender identity; this compromise extends add'l protections to our transgender residents.— Charlie Baker (@MassGovernor) July 8, 2016
“Governor Baker has joined the growing list of fair-minded Republicans who are standing up for equality,” said Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT activist group. He also thanked a series of Democrats by name, including U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Joe Kennedy III, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.
But the bill's opponents said the bil harms the vast majority of state residents. “This bill would take away the rights for more than 99 percent of the population – the basic right to privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms,” said state Rep. Marc Lombardo, a Republican.
Beckwith added on Friday afternoon that he was “extremely disappointed that Gov. Baker has broken his original campaign promise to veto this bill.” Baker, a supporter of abortion-on-demand, “gave in to a radical and aggressive agenda of sexual expression and a denial of basic biological truth,” according to Beckwith
“Anatomy matters,” Beckwith said. “Requiring girls to share a locker room with anatomical boys is a bad idea, regardless of how those boys sexually identify or express themselves.”
When will it stop? It doesn’t.
Evil is like fire - it HAS to keep consuming, otherwise it will burn out.
Unless the good puts the hammer down once and for all. But so far I don’t see it.
vote him out!
better to let the DEM win in 2018 than to support Baker.
Looks like baker will be reelected however
Your reply, and all the "how come only 2% of the population...." replies just don't get it.
The reason that the LGBTQ political movement is sweeping everything before it is because it represents unlimited, or unbound, sexuality.
Therefore, it stands in the public mind for "F*** who you want, when, where, and how you want, prior commitments or arrangements nonwithstanding, kill any "accidents", and socialize the consequences".
It's the popularity of this underlying principle that is so popular among heterosexuals that accounts for these legislative and judicial actions. It has little or nothing to do with what happens to gays, a topic of interest to only a tiny minority.
The very cradle of freedom is now insanity’s headquarters. They should be kicked out of the Union.
Or maybe some fags installed it on his computer so they could extort political favors.
So tell me this? Why do so-called anti-discrimination laws ALWAYS discriminate against ‘normal’ non-confused gender Americans?
Thee liberal lawmakers are complete idiots
Why the hell would a male homosexual want to use the womem’s rest rooms or locker rooms
They don’t like women
They prefer the men’s facilities so they can ogle the men
Just waiting for the first day to pound some guy into next week when he goes into the same restroom as his daughter. He’ll just tell the guy that he identifies with the tooth fairy and winds up handing him a few.
I used to belong to an all women’s gym, and the amount of nakedness in the locker room area was astounding. It was like a nudist colony. I suspect there were a lot of lesbians. How will the lesbians mix with the transgenders I wonder? I stopped going. I’m embarrassed by massachusetts, as Baker is acing like they just cured cancer. I saw an ad for a “Travel John.” WTF, it’s a diposable urinal. Unisex, odorless, leak proof, and of course, environmentally safe!
Republicans don’t live in Massachusetts, New Jersey or NYC.
What else would ou expect from the Northeast quadrant of the U.S.?
Other than California probably more political pervs than any other part if the nation.
Eventually people will wake up to see that their are no differences between the Republicans the the Demorats. The invasion happened a long time ago. Now, they don’t care anymore in hiding who they are.
Any man who promotes this crap should be castrated.
Not a conservative, whatever else he is.
The governor and every legislator who vote for this should be prosecuted for endangering a minor, and as accessories when the inevitable rape occurs.
No. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA is “bound and determined” to make
America a kingdom of perversion, depravity and evil.
Be not overcome by evil; but overcome evil with GOOD.
Smother the “fire of evil” with the blanket of GOOD.
“Hammer” won’t smother evil.
Someone needs to print some signs and pass them out to the ladies to post in the restrooms.
ANY MALE ENTERING HERE MIGHT LEAVE AS A STEER.
What a creepy law. Why are they passing laws like that? What kind of creeps are running Mass? Rhetorical question.
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