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I suppose they can, but I won't invite them back.
I'm not Christian and I don't believe men ( in the US that means people with a penis - ask any 1st grader) should be able to use the Ladies Room. Are you saying I must be Christian? I don't feel Christian.
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Are you a "nanny government"? Did you "legislate against" the matter? If not, why do you think the line that explicitly calls out "the nanny government Christian morality police" who "legislate(d) against an action that wasn't a big deal" refers to you?
BZZT. Wrong! I never said 'legal'. I said ability to require. Matter of fact, it's happening right now.
I also find it interesting, in the case of the Illinois boy in the girls locker room, He is surrounded by a drop curtain. Wait til he or the next one decides they don't want the curtain.
And, some things don't require a written law because the 'law'. To prove why, go to a local popular sports bar and follow the biggest and meanest looking dudes wife into the ladies room.
Bent Sailor
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Well, if you want it to be illegal & punishable by the justice department, you do need it to be a law. If you only want it to be something society frowns upon, then feel free to leave it unwritten. It's not illegal to fuck another man's wife either, and I sure as hell don't condone it, but the government shouldn't (& doesn't) get involved when it happens.
Bent Sailor
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If that's how you want it, it is indeed possible for a government to illegally require you to do something through using the legislature & police force in an unconstitutional manner. Once also has the "ability to require" someone to pay you protection money cos they have guns and are willing to shoot your family. I put both of those "abilities" in the same moral basket.
Then you will see the issue of government requiring a minor to strip in front of other minors head to SCOTUS. Want to put some money down on whether the government's ability to enforce minors stripping in front of one another is upheld as legal by the SCOTUS bench?
Oddly enough, in some states adultery IS illegal. It's a strange country sometimes.
In most of those states, including New York, adultery is a misdemeanor. But in others — Massachusetts, Idaho, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin — it is a felony, though rarely prosecuted. In the armed forces, it can be punished severely, although usually in combination with greater wrongdoing.
Bent Sailor
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Reckon you'd find, outside perhaps the military where blackmail & national security are intertwined, that if one were charged with said crimes and challenged it - they'd get knocked down by SCOTUS too.
After all, if the government isn't allowed to make it criminal HOW you bang your partner and it can't make criminal which SEX your partner is, I don't see the justification in criminalising WHO your partner is either. Then again, some people like nanny government morality police and others like small government. Kind of funny watching which posters proclaims belief in one only to complain they aren't getting the other.
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ACLU LEADER QUITS AFTER DAUGHTERS ENCOUNTER MEN IN THE WOMEN’S RESTROOM
Maya Dillard Smith, interim director of the Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, has resigned over the ACLU’s position on who can use which public restrooms. The resignation occurred after her two daughters were traumatized by encountering men in the women’s restroom. Dillard Smith explained:
I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults, over six feet [tall] with deep voices, entered. My children were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of questions for which I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer.
Dillard Smith complained that the ACLU has become “a special interest organization that promotes not all, but certain progressive rights” and that the “hierarchy of rights” the ACLU chooses to defend or ignore is “based on who is funding the organization’s lobbying activities.” Further expressing her disillusionment, Dillard Smith stated:
I understood it to be the ACLU’s goal to delicately balance competing rights to ensure that any infringements are narrowly tailored, that they do not create a hierarchy of rights, and that we are mindful of unintended consequences. I believe there are solutions that can provide accommodations for transgender people and balance the need to ensure women and girls are safe from those who might have malicious intent.
Unfortunately, as she has learned, Dillard Smith’s view of the ACLU bears little relation to reality. The ACLU’s goal — like that of the LGBT movement — is to shove a radical agenda down the throats of the American people, not to balance rights and find reasonable accommodations.
A transgender activist — a biological male who goes by the name Cheryl Courtney-Evans — responded to Dillard Smith’s resignation by calling her “lazy,” “ill-educated,” and a “b–ch” who needs to sit down and “STFU.” No one who has seen LGBT activists in action will be surprised by this charming response.
Actually, Dillard Smith is well educated. She earned a degree in economics from Berkeley and a master’s degree at Harvard.
She’s also a liberal Democrat. And until she resigned, she was one of the youngest ACLU directors in the nation and one of only three African-Americans employed by the ACLU in that role.
These days, one hears intelligent people assert that the “culture war” is over. It isn’t, and won’t be soon, because the left will keep looking for new cultural battlegrounds. Today, public restrooms; tomorrow, the world.
Good for her.
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No, I quoted you exactly as I intended. The LGBT community is asking for special rights. The nigras were only asking for equal rights.
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Sorry, like the "dangling dick" question, you seem to like ignoring critical queries that undermine your position. Weren't you the one pointing out how there wasn't much in the way of laws about which bathroom people can use?
So the LGBT would simply be asking for a continuation of the right everyone already had . They didn't ask to block anyone from using the bathrooms they were already able to use. That was the Republicans.
It's pretty sad that you seek to blame the people who were simply looking to preserve their rights they've had for decades. Instead of, you know, putting the blame at the feet of those writing new laws to restrict people from doing what even you've found they were allowed to do all their lives until now. Nanny government is bad.... sometimes
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No, BS - what you're missing here is that while its true that there has been no law allowing or prohibiting the use of a bathroom to a specific gender up until recently - what WILL come before the courts sooner or later will be the right to privacy. Its just that no one has ever had to really test it before under this context. The right to privacy in bathrooms and lockers has been discussed, as Sol pointed out, but in the context of being surveilled. This is different. Its new territory. But it will be a fight in court and it will go on for years.
Bent Sailor
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I don't argue that. I argue your claim that the LGBT are asking for "special rights". They are not. They were not restricted from using the bathroom corresponding to the gender identity before. They simply want to maintain the same right everyone shared in the face of increasing pressure from those looking to get a win in the Puritan Police column. Remember, the NC Republicans had to change the law to be more restrictive in order to prevent LGBT people from using the bathroom matching their gender identity. It wasn't illegal before that or they wouldn't have had to write the law in the first place.
I don't disagree that the right-wingers will probably try the "right to privacy" angle when pushing for a SCOTUS decision. Like the failed attempt to use "states rights" to further discrimination when it comes to same sex marriage, it's the best legal cover for the right-wingers on the bench to give their side the win. However, as I stated from the beginning, the right to privacy, like your other rights, is not gender specific. Either you allow people in a public space/amenity to see you get changed or you do not.
That someone wants only to waive it for one gender does not give them the right to enforce that gender restriction in a public space/amenity.
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I believe what LenP predicted will come true. ALL public facilities will become gender neutral and there will have to be private spaces for all to use for changing, showering, shitting, pissing, etc. Its the only way forward that is fair and equal for all.
However, the downside is that it will cost the taxpayers shitloads of money to change everything to accommodate the .03% of people that need accommodating. But oh well, fair is fair.
I also predict that this issue will likely cost most of the good will the LGBT community built up during their battle for gay marriage rights. In that case I think they were right and just to fight for that as them gaining those rights didn't cost anyone else their rights to marriage. Just as blacks gaining the right to ride at the front of the bus didn't cost whites their right to ride the bus. However, this issue is different. A long accepted tradition and social customs an expectation to privacy to shower and be naked only around your own gender (regardless if it was the law or not) is being taken away because a tiny majority of people want to push a social agenda on the rest of us and their reasonable accommodations were not seen to be good enough, even though schools bent over backwards to accommodate them.
And yes, sol - I know your retort is that the long accepted tradition and social custom of a white's expectation to not sit next to a nigra at the same lunch counter was taken away too. So boo fucking hoo. That you continue to say its the same thing doesn't make it so.
I'm thinking the LGB's are regretting adding the T's and Q's to the group about right now.......
However, the downside is that it will cost the taxpayers shitloads of money to change everything to accommodate the .03% of people that need accommodating. But oh well, fair is fair.
I also predict that this issue will likely cost most of the good will the LGBT community built up during their battle for gay marriage rights. In that case I think they were right and just to fight for that as them gaining those rights didn't cost anyone else their rights to marriage. Just as blacks gaining the right to ride at the front of the bus didn't cost whites their right to ride the bus. However, this issue is different. A long accepted tradition and social customs an expectation to privacy to shower and be naked only around your own gender (regardless if it was the law or not) is being taken away because a tiny majority of people want to push a social agenda on the rest of us and their reasonable accommodations were not seen to be good enough, even though schools bent over backwards to accommodate them.
And yes, sol - I know your retort is that the long accepted tradition and social custom of a white's expectation to not sit next to a nigra at the same lunch counter was taken away too. So boo fucking hoo. That you continue to say its the same thing doesn't make it so.
I'm thinking the LGB's are regretting adding the T's and Q's to the group about right now.......
Bent Sailor
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Well, at least you got past the "special rights" bullshit. Thing to remember though is that, legally speaking, public facilities were gender neutral to start with. Until the Republicans started their recent nanny government drive, despite your expectations and as practiced by transgenders / transexuals for decades, people were (& in most places - still are) legally able to use the public facilities that suit them.
Soon you'll be able to concede that the people that actually blew this issue out of all proportion would be those that sought to take away people's rights through legislation. It'll take time but, then again, it did for those that blamed the "nigras" too.
Soon you'll be able to concede that the people that actually blew this issue out of all proportion would be those that sought to take away people's rights through legislation. It'll take time but, then again, it did for those that blamed the "nigras" too.
