Posted on 05/26/2016 4:27:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
Debates over the U.S. government's foreign and economic policies have recently taken a backseat to the debate over what bathroom transgender individuals should use. The two sides of the debate both believe that government has the legitimate authority to tell private businesses who they should allow to use their facilities. Few on either side of this debate defend the right of private property owners to decide for themselves who may and may not use their bathrooms.
Some say government must be involved in this issue in order to ensure that private businesses do not violate individual rights. Those who make this claim are accepting the idea that rights are no more than a gift from the government that can be revoked at the will and whim of legislators and bureaucrats. This argument turns rights from a shield protecting our liberties into a sword that can and will be used to increase government control of our lives.
Two weeks ago, the Department of Education waded into this debate by threatening to withhold federal funds from schools that do not allow transgender students to use the restroom of their choice. State and local officials around the country have promised to resist the Education Department's new bathroom rules. However, given how addicted most state and local governments and school boards are to federal funds, it is likely that even most conservative state governments and school boards will eventually adopt the bathroom policies desired by federal bureaucrats.
Many of the conservatives who (correctly) denounce the Obama administration for trying to blackmail local schools either supported or were silent when a so-called conservative administration expanded the federal role in education via No Child Left Behind. These conservatives fail to realize that No Child Left Behind's testing and other mandates are no different in principle from President Barack Obama's bathroom mandates. Both use money stolen from the people and sent back to the states to force states to change their policies according to federal commands. Both are equally unconstitutional. Conservatives who want to defend local schools from federal bureaucrats must work to repeal, not reform, the Department of Education.
One positive result from this latest controversy is that it may encourage more parents to homeschool. Homeschooling is a means for parents to provide their children a quality education that meets the children's needs. Homeschooling allows parents to ensure that their child's education reflects their values and beliefs, not the values and beliefs of federal bureaucrats.
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Just put a sign on the door that says, “NO PUBLIC RESTROOMS INSIDE”, and have the doors to the restrooms locked.
Insofar as I know, only places that serve food are required to have. Restrooms for the public.
Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
I have not heard a conservative make an argument that the government should force private businesses to prohibit "transgender" people from using the women's room. Conservatives argue that the government should do that for public restrooms. Conservatives argue that we should boycott private businesses that let men use women's rooms. But I have never heard a conservative say that the government should force private businesses to do anything.
Hmm neither have I, and think about it if you have an Doctors or Dentist appointment and you have to use the bathroom there is just one bathroom. You just lock the door when you go in and the next person has to wait until you come out.
The legacy of Bathhouse Barry.
If you propose that private businesses should be allowed to exclude black people, you will quickly find conservatives saying the government should force private businesses to do something.
In a Fascist dictatorship they can, so this should tell you whete we are as a country
Saw the Cornea DR about 10 days ago, big building, to use the bathrooms in the building you must get a KEY from the office you are visiting. Even though there are more than 1 stall in the bathroom. Women’s rooms are not set up with urinals. My Pharmacy has 1 bathroom, you must get the key to use it.
Half the time places you eat at the locks are broken on the stalls.
Keep out of women’s bathrooms, and we will stay out of yours. Clean up the nasty stuff that goes on in them and we might not be AFRAID to let our 6 & 8 year old sons use them.
Democrats are shaking the gay money tree.
Democrats don’t give a damn about transgenders... They want gay folks scared. They want traditional American families kicked and bashed and their children frightened. It’s entertainment for liberal elites... shaking the money tree of liberal haters and pedophiles. And the paid filth that pretends for them...
Money money money for their corrupt Clinton types...
Same reason the bathrooms are dirty, no maintenance. You always have to check to see if there is TP in the stalls too. Now that I’m in twin hearing aids, those air dry machines hurt my ears bad, so you end up wiping your just cleaned hands on your jeans.
Another reason I don’t go to the mall, I’d have to take out my hearing aids or the noise would over power them. Bad enough when there is over head music or a loud speaker. Can’t turn them down enough to mute out the over loud noise. I’ve had to learn to turn them nearly to mute to just grocery shop. I have low end Freq. loss of half my hearing.
It’s not about bathrooms, it’s about the Anti-Christ stickin’ it to whitey....
Not about bathrooms. About forcing people to violate the societal norms that they learned when they were socialized as children, and as a consequence, to discard the idea that humans were created male and female.
“The two sides of the debate both believe that government has the legitimate authority to tell private businesses who they should allow to use their facilities. Few on either side of this debate defend the right of private property owners to decide for themselves who may and may not use their bathrooms.”
To my understanding, Charlotte passed an ordinance that forced private businesses to let men use their women’s exclusive areas, and allowed men to use the women’s publically owned sex exclusive areas. The NC law lets businesses choose if they want to let men use their women’s areas, like Target or Trump, and prohibits men from using the publically owned women’s areas.
Freegards
Sometimes they don’t come out for a long time.
I was in my local Fred Meyer store yesterday and happened to need to use the facilities. There “used” to be “His” and “Her” dedicated restrooms. Fred’s solution...both rooms denoted for both sexes.
This actually works here, as the two rooms are not multi-stall, but “one user at a time”, with the door locked from the inside during use. What was the “His” room does have a stand-up urinal. I didn’t check to see if they had added that to what was the “Her” room.
You are correct.
It took me a while to actually understand. The reason is that hardly any articles lay it out that way. Also the term ‘public bathroom’ and ‘publically owned bathroom’ seem to be used interchangeably. Maybe what the NC law should have done was allow Charlotte to let men use their publically owned exclusive areas if they want, but give the right choose back to private business. I don’t know.
Freegards
Paul demonstrates the moral equivalence that is all too common among libertarians. Always willing to equate the defense of a thousand years of western culture with the government enforced cultural depravity of the Left. Russell Kirk never had any use for them.
I don’t think the state legislature could pass a law making a general rule, but excepting the City of Charlotte. On the other hand, if the original Charlotte law had applied only to city-owned property, the state probably wouldn’t have gotten involved.
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