Posted on 06/02/2016 6:47:05 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Maya Dillard Smith, interim director of the Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, has resigned over the ACLU’s position on who can use which public restrooms. The resignation occurred after her two daughters were traumatized by encountering men in the women’s restroom. Dillard Smith explained:
"I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults, over six feet [tall] with deep voices, entered. My children were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of questions for which I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer."
Dillard Smith complained that the ACLU has become “a special interest organization that promotes not all, but certain progressive rights” and that the “hierarchy of rights” the ACLU chooses to defend or ignore is “based on who is funding the organization’s lobbying activities.” Further expressing her disillusionment, Dillard Smith stated:
"I understood it to be the ACLU’s goal to delicately balance competing rights to ensure that any infringements are narrowly tailored, that they do not create a hierarchy of rights, and that we are mindful of unintended consequences. I believe there are solutions that can provide accommodations for transgender people and balance the need to ensure women and girls are safe from those who might have malicious intent."
Unfortunately, as she has learned, Dillard Smith’s view of the ACLU bears little relation to reality. The ACLU’s goal — like that of the LGBT movement — is to shove a radical agenda down the throats of the American people, not to balance rights and find reasonable accommodations.
A transgender activist — a biological male who goes by the name Cheryl Courtney-Evans — responded to Dillard Smith’s resignation by calling her “lazy,” “ill-educated,” and a “b–ch” who needs to sit down and “STFU.” No one who has seen LGBT activists in action will be surprised by this charming response.
Actually, Dillard Smith is well educated. She earned a degree in economics from Berkeley and a master’s degree at Harvard.
She’s also a liberal Democrat. And until she resigned, she was one of the youngest ACLU directors in the nation and one of only three African-Americans employed by the ACLU in that role.
These days, one hears intelligent people assert that the “culture war” is over. It isn’t, and won’t be soon, because the left will keep looking for new cultural battlegrounds. Today, public restrooms; tomorrow, the world.
Even the blind can see sometimes.
traumatized by encountering men in the women’s restroom.
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First, make sure she can read (or interpret pictures).
Maybe she was in the mens’.
Old definition of a conservative: A liberal who’s been robbed.
New definition of conservative: A liberal who’s been accosted by a he/she.
It’s okay, the men dent do nuffin’
I guess there is some point at which even the black vote will start to leave the Democrats......keep it up, you radical nutcases!
no dullard, she...
Oh my!
Even the Liberals do not want to live in the “Liberal Paradise” they have created.
The ACLU has been long known to be split between screaming liberals and libertarians of principle even if fanciful.
One might be able to reason with the latter. Driving the libertarians out will remove all remaining restraint from the ACLU and it really will go so cuckoo that it falls of its own madness.
Hey Ma’am you might give Jay Sekulow a buzz, there is the other ACL... and he’s far more friendly to libertarians than the screaming screwballs who have taken over ACLU.
Obama’s America!
Well, we see the clash of liberals here.
This woman is liberal, yet not liberal enough for the ACLU.
It’s funny that she’s a woman and black. Yet the ACLU is not considered racist or sexist against her.
Well, as somebody smarter than me has said, if you want to know who rules you, make note of who you are not allowed to criticize.
In today’s culture, you cannot say anything against the homosexual community or “LGBT” political agendas, without being condemned and attacked. And if you run a business, your business will be targeted for destruction, if you end up on the wrong side of the LGBT peoples.
Sad to say, but that’s the world we live in today.
She’s libertarian, which is a little different. The “liberals” will swing their fists on principle even if it hits your nose, which they will say never should have been there. The libertarians will say your right to swing your fist ends wherever my nose has a right to be.
Your statement reminds me a bit, of when Juan Williams was terminated from NPR. He had made statements to the effect that he was afraid of Muslims or Muslim influence. His boss at NPR suggested that these feelings should be between Juan and his psychiatrist!!!!
And the happy ending for Juan, was that he was hired by allegedly bigoted racist Fox News!!!!! There was no place for him at allegedly sophisticated liberal open minded tolerant NPR.
I hope this woman can find some happy ending for herself and her family out of all of this.
I’m convinced that most of them have no concept of the implication of the policies they support. They are, for the most part, mindless, bigoted followers. If they think a conservative, a Christian, or white people generally—whichever group represents the designated “unpersons” of the day—would oppose Policy A, then they’re all-in for Policy A, consequences be damned. Very small minds we’re dealing with.
ACLU....Americas Communist and Liberals Union!
When he was fired (in less than a day) for expressing concern about muslims,
NPR was firing its ONLY on air black commentator.
I tol’ you, but no.
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