Posted on 05/10/2016 4:24:34 PM PDT by massmike
The latest salvos in the struggle over whether a law passed during March in North Carolina forces transgender people to use public restrooms that don't correspond with their “gender identity” came on Monday, when Dan Savage tweeted that those who disagree with House Bill 2 should leave jars filled with their urine at Republican Governor Pat McCrory's office.
The strategy promoted by the gay activist and columnist drew the immediate attention of Noah Michelson, an editorial director on the liberal Huffington Post website, who called Savage's idea a “brilliantly gross” method of protesting the state's “Anti-LGBT Law.”
“If Dan Savage gets his way, Pat McCrory’s office will soon be filled with urine,” Michelson began before noting that people responding to Savage's idea would leave the bodily waste there “so his staff can oversee its safe disposal.”
According to Michelson's article, “Savage's tweet came just hours after” the governor announced that he and the state’s secretary of public safety would sue the U.S. Justice Department over its “radical reinterpretation” of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the department's order to abandon the state's law by Monday.
In an interesting twist, this isn't the first time Savage has attempted to use this strategy against states that have passed similar “bathroom bills.”
During mid-February, South Dakota became the first state to pass a law stating “every restroom, locker room and shower room located in a public elementary or secondary school that is designated for student use and is accessible by multiple students at the same time shall be designated for and used only by students of the same biological sex.”
In response, Savage tweeted: “Trans people should mail bottles of their urine -- no return addresses -- to lawmakers in South Dakota for safe disposal.”
Later that month, Texas Representative Debbie Riddle filed a bill in the state House that indicated “anyone over the age of 13 in a public facility of 'a gender that is not the same gender as the individual’s gender' should be convicted of a class-A misdemeanor.”
Riddle’s proposed law included exemptions for custodians, those helping children or those responding to a medical emergency.
Nevertheless, Savage still came out swinging: “Maybe trans folks should mail their urine to state reps like Debbie Riddle -- you know, so she can dispose of it safely.”
But also on Monday, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch asserted that North Carolina's law restricting restroom access for transgender people amounts to "state-sponsored discrimination."
The suit, filed in the Middle District of North Carolina, names McCrory, the N.C. Department of Public Safety and the University of North Carolina as defendants and charges that the law constitutes “a pattern or practice of employment discrimination on the basis of sex” in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
“This action is about a great deal more than just bathrooms,” Lynch told reporters Monday afternoon. “This is about the dignity and respect we accord our fellow citizens and the laws that we, as a people and as a country, have enacted to protect them.”
She said that while the department is seeking a court order to block the legislation, the government reserves the option of withholding federal funding from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and UNC.
Mr. “Good Pedophiles” is back in the news?
Liberal media delenda est.
And undoubtedly, Andy Sullivan, that wonderful edition to American immigration, agrees!
Gay men are PIGS.
This proves that the purpose of the left’s conduct is to be gross. There is no connection between keeping perverts away from little girls and storing their body fluids in jars, unless all liberals are perverts.
See this is the problem.
Perverts do not deserve dignity and respect for being perverts. We do not honor adulterers. We dont honor cheaters. We dont have adultery,pride month. We dont have cheat on your spouse week. We dont have take your mistress to work day.
Perverts want dignity and hoor for being perverts. Perversion is not civil rights anything.
Jars of urine at abortion clinics, did he say?
I don’t think even faggots are stupid enough to mail urine from their own home. That’s what this iron maily things are for.
I don’t see this campaign being feasible.
One that would be feasible is for people to urinate outside of the restrooms in other parts of the building/store/school/restaurant etc.
If you don’t want to go in the restroom because it may not be safe or just for privacy issues, you wouldn’t go in there. Where are you going to go?
Liberalism and Homosexuality are MENTAL DISORDERS!!!
I guess I’m weird. I go before I leave the house and never need to use bathrooms in stores.
Forcing men into women’s spaces is the beginning of Sharia Law in the USA.
Men now have the power to control all female behavior in public.
Sharia Law just enslaved American women.
Perhaps all the bottles of urine should be delivered to the savage. Since he has a ‘thing’ for urine, oblige him for once.
If he has an outdoor pool, that is as good a place as any for delivery.
Or a row of porta-potties outside the Justice Dept Bldg.
When you get down to it, that is the quick fix.
If you were a woman whose gone through a few pregnancies you would know where the bathroom is in every business you frequent;-).
You’re not weird. Most people make a pit stop before leaving the house. Especially nowadays.
Meanwhile, faggies are acting more like flies - they eat s*** and they bother people.
For abortion clinics, be sure to do more than leave it on the stairs.
Throw it into the windows. And replace pee with gas.
I wonder what’s going to happen when someone gets arrested and insists on being put in the women’s lockup instead of the men’s.
Is peeing on the seat in the men’s room going to be considered a hate crime now?
A law should be passed clarifying that urine is a “waste product” and mailing it is a felony.
Until then, where is this guy’s office so we can send him some urine. Or maybe something else.
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