Posted on 04/29/2016 7:26:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Pastor, lawmakers weigh in on controversial issue
Lawmakers in North Carolina sparked a national debate when they passed legislation requiring people to use the restroom that corresponds with the gender of their birth. Could Texas follow suit?
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, said he would support passing laws similar to what North Carolina has done.
"I'm not interested in the reasons why a man wants to go into the ladies room. It's just not appropriate. There's no merit in this argument," Patrick said.
Texas state Sen. Donna Campbell (R-New Braunfels) said she's on the same page as Patrick.
"I fully support the lieutenant governor on this. If it's me, I most certainly will joint-author or sponsor legislation that protects Texans from political correctness run amok."
Campbell underscored that she feels attempts to be politically correct have gone too far. Patrick took that sentiment a step further.
"PC is choking off the thought process in America, and people (are) just not making logical, well-thought-out decisions. How disgusted I am at this whole movement," Patrick said.
Pastor Bart Roush said he tries to welcome everyone in his downtown San Antonio congregation at Madison Square Presbyterian Church. As a matter of fact, his church recently installed transgender restroom signs.
"I guarantee you that you have shared a bathroom before with someone who is transgendered," Roush said.
Robert Salcido, a spokesperson for Equality Texas, said the push to legislate transgender people out of their choice of restrooms is discriminatory.
"It's really not about bathrooms; it's not about restrooms. We really need to start addressing it for the issue that it really is. It's a clear way that they're trying to enact discrimination to the transgender community," Salcido said.
Some opposing viewpoints on the issue at least partially converged where business is concerned. Richard "Doc" Allen operates a San Antonio-based conservative Internet radio talk show. Allen, who is also a cybersecurity professor and a management consultant, said we're trying too hard to appease too few people, and that it makes no business sense whatsoever.
"There's 318.9 million people in the U.S. as of the 2014 census. We're talking about 0.3 percent," Allen said.
Democratic Texas Sen. Jose Mendez agreed, sort of. He wondered aloud how legislation for policing bathrooms usurps education, health care and road repairs. He said he feels this is a case where big government should back off.
"Small businesses around the state of Texas don't need Texas government telling them who can use the restroom and who can't," Menendez said.
Might solve their problem of invading Californians fleeing a state spiraling down the toilet in search of one that actually works.
Any predatory male can dress up like a woman to gain entry to the women’s washrooms and attack whatever female, young or old, that is in there. They don’t have to be truly transgender, just pretend to be one in order to attack women of all ages in the women’s rooms. I would never want to use a bathroom in a store or business of any sort that has an announced and overt policy of welcoming transgenders into women’s washrooms, just on principle, which means I will not go into any of those stores again. What fools they are.
“”Small businesses around the state of Texas don’t need Texas government telling them who can use the restroom and who can’t,” Menendez said.”
Interesting question. When this becomes law, who is criminally liable if a transgendered person goes into the wrong bathroom?
Is the business or its management liable or is it just the person?
Can a business permit mixed gender use of a bathroom?
Ok, let's. Males who think they're females and females who think they're males are quite mentally ill and need treatment, period. But libs can't handle the truth.
I think the population of trannies is about to be diminished in Texas if this is passed.
Women in this state carry guns.
Have a good day.
No such thing. You're XY with a pecker, you're male. Albeit, a very mentally disturbed male.
Might attract some of the not totally insane ones too.
I hope it causes all the liberals to leave the state.
Slightly off topic, but, its crazy to me how the liberals and media frame the issue.
Charlotte,NC passed a city ordinance to explicit allow these trans whatever people to go in any restroom.
The state passed a law to override this, and restore the state quo.
For wanting to restore the status quo on restrooms, the left has been having a meltdown.
People who want to maintain the status quo are told that we are taking steps into the dark ages, rolling back equality and all that, return to Jim Crow etc., when what is actually happening is a movement to simply maintain the status quo.
How is it that maintaining the status quo is a step backwards for the transwhatever people’s???
Yet this is how the media is presenting the issue. Some are already boycotting North Carolina over being such a hateful backward state. All because they are maintaining the status quo.
If a male perv dresses as a woman to get into the ladies room, that can happen regardless of these laws. But with the laws they will be emboldened, or wont’ have to risk punishment if they don’t “pass”.
Can you believe we are even talking about such crap? Everyone knows there are two sexes and two bathrooms and how they are to be used!
It’s putting them in danger.
No policy of target or Charlotte requires dresses. Their policy does not require these Transwomen to have had sex change surgery. Nor does it require them to wear a dress. Nor cosmetic enhacement, or heels or hair style or anything. The only requirement is no requirement other than saying “I feel like a woman”. It could be a man in wife beater, jeans, nikes, and crew cut.
IOW, a man with all of his equipment, all of his testosterone, all of his sperm, and all of his strength.
And all he has to say when he walks into your daughter’s restroom is “I feel likea woman.”
Prescription for disaster.
That's a lot of truth in two sentences.
Two sexes??? I thought there are about 54 different gender identities.
Liberals lecture us that we need to get beyond binary hetero normative thinking.
Well, looked what happened during the homosexuals in the military debate. They “compromised” to just don’t ask don’t tell. Then when Obama was immaculated, they went for the jugular. Now homosexuality is in the military.
Sex, not gender. Which side are you on, anyway?
This isn’t complex. Stay out of public bathrooms, they’re crawling with cooties and worse.
As in previous threads on the North Carolina law.
I favor the law, but think it is going to be hard to enforce, especially with some who have had a sex change operation.
How does a business owner or manager make the determination that a person that appears to be female is actually a male?
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