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LGBT Chamber president steps down after criticism of his sex-offender status
charlotteobserver.com ^ | 03/09/2016 | STEVE HARRISON

Posted on 03/09/2016 7:59:19 AM PST by massmike

The former president of Charlotte’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce has resigned after he came under fire from a conservative group, which noted that he is on a sex offender list and questioned his role in supporting the city’s expanded nondiscrimination ordinance.

Chad Sevearance-Turner had been the president of the chamber, which supported the newly expanded ordinance that gives legal protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.

Tami Fitzgerald, who leads the Raleigh-based coalition, first mentioned Sevearance-Turner’s record at a Feb. 8 news conference outside the Government Center, which Sevearance-Turner attended.

Sevearance-Turner was arrested in 1998, when he was 20, and charged in Cherokee County, S.C., with a “lewd act, committing or attempting a lewd act upon a child under 16.”

A 2000 story in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal said Sevearance-Turner had been a youth minister at a church in Gaffney. A jury there found him guilty of fondling a 15-year-old teenage church member while the boy slept.

The most controversial part of Charlotte’s expanded nondiscrimination ordinance would allow transgender individuals to use either a men’s or women’s restroom. If the person identifies as female, they would be allowed to use a women’s restroom in places of public accommodation.

Opponents have said that would make it easier for men to prey on women and girls inside women’s bathrooms. Supporters said there are already laws against that, and that transgender people are the ones who face danger in bathrooms.

The N.C. General Assembly is considering a special session to overturn part of the ordinance.

The N.C. Republican Party issued a news release Monday highlighting Sevearance-Turner’s role in the nondiscrimination ordinance.

(Excerpt) Read more at charlotteobserver.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; pederastagenda
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1 posted on 03/09/2016 7:59:19 AM PST by massmike
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To: massmike

Oh, those haters.


2 posted on 03/09/2016 8:00:47 AM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
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To: massmike

and that transgender people are the ones who face danger in bathrooms.


Can someone explain to me how it is, under current law and social norms, that “trans” individuals face danger in bathrooms????


3 posted on 03/09/2016 8:01:05 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: massmike

Aren’t all sodomites sex offenders?


4 posted on 03/09/2016 8:01:57 AM PST by fwdude
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To: massmike

So, now that they have shoved homosexual marriage down our throats, the next frontier is to get rid of concept of male and female public restrooms.


5 posted on 03/09/2016 8:02:21 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: massmike

‘LGBT Chamber President’ is sex offensive by nature. Ijuts


6 posted on 03/09/2016 8:02:33 AM PST by stanne
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To: fwdude

They are to ME!


7 posted on 03/09/2016 8:02:38 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Same reason I threatened an obvious offender that sat behind my “kids-party” at a Harry Potter movie a few years back.

He left quickly.


8 posted on 03/09/2016 8:05:04 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: massmike
"[Sevearance-Turner] said his conviction had not stopped him from achieving success, such as being [queer] chamber president."

Is he kidding? That was probably a resumé enhancer.

9 posted on 03/09/2016 8:10:45 AM PST by fwdude
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To: massmike

My son is thinking of self-identifying as a black female on his college applications.

Doing so will result in:

- being held to lower admission standards
- greater eligibility for grants and scholarships
- being paired with a female dorm mate

Win, win, win!


10 posted on 03/09/2016 8:11:06 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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I would encourage him to do it. Oh, and he can use the womyn’s room anytime (s)he likes.

Win, win, win, WIN!


11 posted on 03/09/2016 8:14:25 AM PST by fwdude
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To: massmike

quelle surprise!


12 posted on 03/09/2016 8:15:29 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: massmike

It’s simply crazy that youth ministry people are not allowed to get married.


13 posted on 03/09/2016 8:16:24 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Who'd'a thunkit?)
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To: massmike

“If the person identifies as female, they would be allowed to use a women’s restroom in places of public accommodation”

Wrap your head around this for a moment. Total insanity.


14 posted on 03/09/2016 8:20:30 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: massmike

Did Chad receive Sevearance-Turner pay? From Snape.


15 posted on 03/09/2016 8:26:10 AM PST by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: massmike

The damage has been done.


16 posted on 03/09/2016 8:26:49 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: massmike

Surprise, surprise.

Known as pederasts throughout history with good reason.


17 posted on 03/09/2016 8:31:49 AM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: fwdude

See, it’s everyone else’s fault for forcing them into the closet.
If they’re encouraged to grope children openly and without shame, that makes it all better.


18 posted on 03/09/2016 8:35:14 AM PST by mumblypeg (Reality is way more complicated than the internet. That's why I'm here.)
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To: Fido969

Sevearance-Turner was arrested in 1998, when he was 20, and charged in Cherokee County, S.C., with a “lewd act, committing or attempting a lewd act upon a child under 16.”

What was the sentence he received?


19 posted on 03/09/2016 8:45:25 AM PST by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Point!

A transgender with huge hands can defend itself in a restroom, a 16 year old slim boy or big girl cannot....unless armed....how about constitutional carry?


20 posted on 03/09/2016 8:45:50 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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