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.
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Oh, those haters.
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????
Aren’t all sodomites sex offenders?
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.
‘LGBT Chamber President’ is sex offensive by nature. Ijuts
They are to ME!
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.
Is he kidding? That was probably a resumé enhancer.
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!
I would encourage him to do it. Oh, and he can use the womyn’s room anytime (s)he likes.
Win, win, win, WIN!
quelle surprise!
It’s simply crazy that youth ministry people are not allowed to get married.
“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.
Did Chad receive Sevearance-Turner pay? From Snape.
The damage has been done.
Surprise, surprise.
Known as pederasts throughout history with good reason.
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.
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?
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?
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