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.
Penis/No Penis.
Well, if somebody has their body mutilated I guess we can say they are truly trans, that the dude really really wanted to be a girl???
How many people have really been cut on and rearranged? It must be a tiny number. So, what are the odds that your daughter will have to share a restroom with a woman who has a penis? Probably lower than the odds of you winning the weekly lottery. And this is certainly a lottery that you don’t want your daughter to win.
We are being asked by progressives to throw out thousands of years of human custom for what and to be nice to how many people? Hardly any. And in the process we open ourselves up to perverts and sexual predators. Are we crazy to even entertain this demand?
I read these hot rants and I just have to muse in wonder.
Where was all this “righteousness” when the gays overran the land? Apparently it only appeared when you thought you might have to meet them?
No there have not been thousands of years of bathroom customs. However marriage can boast that.
No wonder the US has been a pushover for these shenanigans. It really didn’t care until its own oxen were gored.
I think it should be up to the businesses. I mean my God we need to a law to protect people when the are too dumb not to go in an unsafe bathroom in one of the these places? Trump couldn’t let Bruce Jenner use any of the bathrooms in his buildings? Let his women customers decide if he wants to let a man who is still attracted to women in their bathrooms. He must know his women customers, right?
Pass a law saying businesses can choose what to do, even if a local or municipal gov’t wants them to choose to let men use the women’s bathroom.
Freegards
Maybe this has been covered in recent posts, but wasn’t this bathroom business held up as an imagined boogeyman of antigay reactionaries, back in the eighties or sometime?
It was like “Oh, you silly people! Nobody’s going to mess around with your bathrooms!”
Anybody remember that?
If trannies or “gender confused” people are ruled as a protected class, there will be prosecutions and hate crimes legislation to punish those honest enough to point out what is pointing out, whether it be boobs or penis. “Look away honey, that man is peeing in the womens room sink” may become a crime as soon as the Mother says the words.
The sexual deviants have forced us to takeaway all their loopholes. They’re going to wish they’d never tried forcing their agenda own our that when all is said and done.
Yeah, those laws are completely ridiculous. But I don’t think I want laws saying businesses can’t make business decisions one way or the other. If Trump wants men using the women’s bathroom’s in his buildings, hey they are his bathrooms. If his customers don’t dig it, they are free to not be his customer.
Freegards
If that’s true I hope TN does too
Nashville is another target for Kali exodus folks
Plenty are lib hipsters
Some are refugees
You have brought up an important point about the status quo. Or IOW, the most basic concept of right vs. wrong, which is not to be found in the sky or across the sea, but is written in the human heart. (Deuteronomy 30.)
The left is forever dreaming up new heights of depravity, then insisting such behaviors were mainstream all along.
Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that mothers murdering their own babies in the womb, or giving their children oppositional hormones and grooming them for genital mutilation, would now be celebrated ?
Gender confusion is a treatable mental disorder.
Common sense suggests that it is a good idea to keep people with disordered minds out of restrooms.
Perhaps Salcido should take a basic biology course and talk to a competent psychiatrist.
“When this becomes law, who is criminally liable if a transgendered person goes into the wrong bathroom?”
NOTHING WILL HAPPEN! You have to remember...It’s what sex they feel they are that day...not what sex they really are.
“For wanting to restore the status quo on restrooms, the left has been having a meltdown.”
If you look at leftist newspaper comments, they’re looking at it as virtually a hate crime now to be against this crap. Equivalent to lynching blacks, in their world.
How does a business owner or manager make the determination that a person that appears to be female is actually a male?
if every trans male looked even marginally like a woman, in both appearance and wardrobe, there would be no need for any laws to have changed in the first place...but therein lies the entire problem...
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