Posted on 06/15/2009 10:18:46 AM PDT by virtuous
Massachusetts lawmakers are considering what is commonly referred to now as a "bathroom bill."
Activists want to add transgender to the Bay State's existing "hate crimes" bill. Evelyn Reilly, director of public policy for the Massachusetts Family Institute, tells OneNewsNow that lawmakers who support the measure are bowing to a fraction of the population -- and in that process, are endangering women and children.
"[For example] if...a man believes or pretends to believe that he is actually a woman, then you could not question, challenge, or stop him from entering a woman's bathroom, shower, locker room, fitness facility, or whatever," she explains.
And that, she notes, provides opportunity for a rapist or child molester.
But according to Reilly, activists pushing H.B. 1728 are not worried about the potential price people will pay. "They seem so bent on getting what they want that they don't care how it impacts anyone else," she laments. "But we as citizens need to be concerned about the common good."
The website NoBathroomBill.com -- which is co-sponsored by Riley's organization -- provides resources and contact information for individuals and churches that wish to lobby lawmakers to vote the bill down.
A hearing will be held July 1 at the state house.
Wow! Suddenwy Bawney Fwank has twice as many bathwooms to choose fwom.
Part of the Gay guy’s snide dismissal of women. Their belief that they are women makes them feel that they are actually a superior form of women over the real ones. Our mothers, daughters, wives, girlfriends MUST stand aside in deference to them.
How can you tell if someone is a hate monger?
They’re straight, white, male and Christian....
No more is needed to prove my thesis: (see my user name)
The sponsors of this bill don’t really give one rat’s tail end if some pervert goes into the wrong restroom and commits a crime. The innocent victim is just one more lamb sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
Would this mean that you can send your daughter in to a rest room at a restaurant and some freak of nature can go in the ladies room after her and you can not go beat the tar out of it?
One thing : the same kind of laws are already in effect for 38% of the US population by the way, in 13 states. They’re already in effect in large parts of Mass., including Boston and Cambridge, and have been for some years without incident. Still, better safe than sorry, and as Peter LaBarbera said, he’s just waiting for the first incident to happen. It’s only been 33 years in some places.
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