and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 06/01/2016 3:17:44 PM PDT by Morgana
An interim director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a major proponent of laws protecting gender identity, has resigned after her daughters were frightened by several transgendered men who came into the ladies room they were using at the time.
Although the mainstream media has utterly ignored this story, LifeSiteNews and a few other outlets are reporting on the resignation of Maya Dillard Smith, interim director of the Georgia chapter of the ACLU, over the organization’s involvement in the controversial transgender bathroom debate.
“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,” Dillard Smith said.
“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,” she continued.
In a statement, she said that the ACLU has become “a special interest organization that promotes not all, but certain progressive rights.”
The “hierarchy of rights” the ACLU chooses to defend or ignore, she wrote, is “based on who is funding the organization’s lobbying activities.” She did not elaborate further.
Dillard Smith, who describes herself as “progressive” and “unapologetically black” says she just can’t go along with the ACLU’s transgender legal agenda which includes suing North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory for signed a law requiring individuals to use the restroom that corresponds to their biological sex.
Dillard Smith says that the ACLU’s opposition to the bill, which essentially leaves restroom policy up to business owners, proves that her legal philosophy and that of the ACLU no longer align.
“I found myself principally and philosophically unaligned with the organization,” Dillard Smith said. “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,” she said.
In response, Dillard Smith started a new website, Finding Middle Ground, which is providing the public with a “safe space” to share their views of the transgender bathroom issue without fear of being called a bigot or hater.
Thus far, the ACLU has made no comment about Dillard Smith’s departure and has merely posted a job announcement to replace her.
Maybe James O’Keefe could do something.
Bump.
we all can't live in Ivory towers or gated streets with 24/7 security guards and to have our children's never, ever to touch a public toilet seat..
A liberal is just a conservative who hasn’t been mugged yet.
GA FReeper ping.
This is interesting.
"Gobsmacked" is a good word
Shes still a libtard. Just a libtard who doesnt want to share a bathroom with trannies.
Shes the reason why this lgbt sh1t has gotten so out of hard the last few decades.
Don’t have time to read all comments, but this is amazing. Whoa!
Corollary to "There are no atheists in foxholes" I suppose.
Too funny, but I knew it would happen sooner or later!
Thanks Morgana.
LOL! You are bad!
+10
lol. You may want to trademark that.
I give her credit for coming to terms with the harm she has caused and taking steps to atone for it, i.e. resigning from the ACLU and publicizing her reasons for doing so.
Sobering dose of reality - Let us be glad she is moral enough to admit it. Courageous enough to admit it publicly.
Thanks, Pollard. I tried findingmiddleground.com and found nothing, so I googled finding middle ground, and found everthing except a linky....
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