Judge Rules Separate Restrooms Unconstitutional

Scrappleface.com ^ | March 15, 2005 | Scott Ott

[The Great Yazoo]

by Scott Ott

(2005-03-15) -- A San Francisco County judge, who yesterday struck down California's ban on homosexual marriage, today ruled on the same basis that separate restrooms for men and women are unconstitutional.

Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer likened the division of washrooms to laws requiring racial segregation in schools, and said there appears to be "no rational purpose for denying women access to men's facilities and vice versa."

"The state's protracted denial of equal protection cannot be justified simply because such constitutional violation has become traditional," Judge Kramer wrote. "The court finds that the legal principle of lavatorio proportio [potty parity] offers inadequate protections. In practice, it leaves women stranded in line while men swiftly accomplish their objectives. Beyond practicality, the idea that you can bar access to some citizens from restrooms which are open to others smacks of a concept long rejected by the courts -- separate but equal."

The decision was hailed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Organization for Women (NOW).

"This ruling offers recognition that men and women are not only equal, but identical," said a spokesman at a joint ACLU-NOW news conference. "The bigoted era of sex descrimination is over. From now on, the United States is one gender, under God, indivisible."

[The Great Yazoo]

Inadequate protections under the legal principle of lavatorio proportio compels court to strike down traditional practice.

Amid cries of "No unination without socialization," legal scholars say they are uncertain whether ruling will require men to pair-up to potty.

[Tuefel Hunden]

I want to be there the first time a guy drops a bomb in the ladies room.

[LauraleeBraswell]

The decision was hailed by the National Organization for Women (NOW)?

Can NOW please stop pretending they are the national organisation for women. NOW is a prime example of when an organisation outlives it's mission.

[goldstategop]

Its satire but its points up the idiocy of the judge's findings. If laws discriminating on the basis of gender are unconstitutional, then ALL separate and equal treatment on the BASIS of gender is unconstitutional. No more special programs for women only. I love the sight of liberals being hoist on their own petard!

[goldstategop]

Its satire but its points up the idiocy of the judge's findings. If laws discriminating on the basis of gender are unconstitutional, then ALL separate and equal treatment on the BASIS of gender is unconstitutional. No more special programs for women only. I love the sight of liberals being hoist on their own petard!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[KC Burke]

I will be testing that as I leave the hotel resturant tonight.

[srm913]

If the San Fransicko courts keep up their current trend, this isn't completely beyond the realm of possibility.

[Petronski]

This guy is seriously off his gob...or is it the perfectly normal
behavior of a denizen of Bizarro World!?!

[Diogenesis]

"Good idea. I, Triumph, shall put in a Motion tomorrow
for my own Constitutionally protect right ....
to use the Judge's own toliet for my poop!"

[HarleyLady27]

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!! It is WAY time to get rid of all these nutcases, next thing we know they will be ruling that chewing gum and whipping your butt is unconstitutional....

[calex59]

Scrappleface strikes again. Sounds real doesn't it? This lets you know how easy it is for the MSM to write entirely false articles and make them sound real. Scrappleface does a good job and always fools someone!

[Petronski]

I'm such a sucka. Dayum.

[Samwise]

Sounds like the judge has his panties in a knot.

[Petronski]

I mean, "I knew that! That's why I called it Bizarro World!"







Yeah, right....

[Nik Naym]

You had me going there for a minute.

LOL!

Nik

[CJ Wolf]

Bathroom pickup lines for guys:

1. (After Courtesy flush) "Sorry little lady, didn't think you wanted to take that all in for the duration"

2. "Well of course it's perfectly natural to watch, all guys check each other out and talk to their stall mates about sex, heck sometimes we give each other massages and go out for drinks after, don't girls do that in the bathroom too?"

3. "Let me freshen it up in here?" (Lights a match.)

4. "Wanna nurse a Guinness with me?" (That works even outside the bathroom)

5. Damn, you smell good tonight, what you eat for dinner, roses and pumpernickel?

[Jaysun]

I want to be there the first time a guy drops a bomb in the ladies room.

I want to be there the first time a woman sits on a wall urinal in the mens room.

[Tuefel Hunden]

Will the men be required to lift the seat or will the women be required to lower it? Will they install urinals in both rooms?

How come you never see a woman carry a magazine into the can?

[apackof2]

Today's satire is tomorrow's headlines

[Jaysun]