Posted on 05/12/2016 5:47:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
Standing on principle, not to mention common sense, is so rare these days that when someone does it they make headlines. That's because you can quickly be labeled a "bigot" if you oppose a lot of the sludge dumped on us by the secular left, and few can withstand the onslaught.
North Carolina's Republican governor, Pat McCrory, is unafraid.
On Friday, the Department of Justice sent him a letter warning that North Carolina's House Bill 2, also known as the bathroom bill, violated the Civil Rights Act. The bill, which requires that transgender people use public bathrooms that match their birth certificates, was swiftly labeled anti-LGBT, which was all DOJ needed to hear. The government gave McCrory until Monday to confirm that North Carolina would not comply with or implement HB2. McCrory pushed back. On Monday, he filed a lawsuit against the DOJ, targeting Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta. The suit, according to ABC News, "accused the DOJ of a 'radical reinterpretation' of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and wrote that the federal government's position was 'a baseless and blatant overreach.'"
The government's letter, according to North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC's Jeff Tiberii, who obtained a copy, warned that "The State is engaging in a pattern or practice of discrimination against transgender state employees and both you, in your official capacity, and the state are engaging in a pattern or practice of resistance."
In a statement following the announcement of the lawsuit, Gov. McCrory said, "The Obama administration is bypassing Congress by attempting to rewrite the law and set restroom policies for public and private employers across the country, not just North Carolina. This is now a national issue that applies to every state and it needs to be resolved at the federal level," meaning Congress and the courts.
McCrory added that Washington is "telling every government agency and every company that employs more than 15 people that men should be allowed to use a women's locker room, restroom or shower facility."
The push and pull continues.
If you are a woman reading this, how would you feel about showering with a naked man? If you are a man who has daughters, would you be OK with allowing them to use a women's restroom knowing that a man could be in there? Target is fine with it, apparently. In a blog last week, the company stated that it welcomes "transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity." Target stores are now the target of a boycott.
What about school gyms? Are you fine with having your daughter changing and showering with a boy who believes he's a girl? What happened to the right to privacy, so revered by the progressive left?
Does the fact that we are even having this debate say something about the state of our culture and the attempts by secularists to undermine what remains of its creaking foundations, traditions and what used to be known as common sense? Who gets to decide? And on what is that decision based?
Are morals and ethics now up for grabs, depending on which group makes the most noise and promises the most votes? Perhaps Loretta Lynch and her deputy should lead by example and shower with a transgender male. Even better, how about first lady Michelle Obama? Media coverage could be discreet. I'm betting that neither Lynch nor the first lady would go that far. In fact, I suspect that very few on the left would want to live under many of the laws and dictates they like to impose on the rest of us.
Have we gone mad? The question all but answers itself.
Gov. McCrory has already directed state agencies to make reasonable accommodations to transgender people by installing single-occupancy restrooms. North Carolina also allows private companies to set their own bathroom policies, but that is not what the Obama administration wants. It wants to "fundamentally transform the United States of America." It's one of the few promises the president has managed to keep.h
Good for NC!!! Stand up to that witch Loretta Lynch and Barky...
States have rights, and if they (feds) cut NC funding, America needs to help them out!!!
This is the way a country should run...it’s been so long since we have had anyone stand up for anything it’s amazing...if Trump does nothing else in this election, he has shown that men are finally finding their balls again!!!
Yet all it takes is one lowlife homosexual Federal judge and the vile agenda is forced on the people.
With this SCOTUS, God only knows how this will end.
Not that there’s any conspiracy, but I wish more commentators on this would mention that it was CHARLOTTE, NC who changed the law, not the state of NC. They simply restored what had been prior to Charlotte beginning its bullying act.
What gets me is PayPal. They pulled out because of the LGBT thing but yet do business in countries that execute gays. Do I sense a bit of hypocrisy???
“”Perhaps Loretta Lynch and her deputy should lead by example and shower with a transgender male. Even better, how about first lady Michelle Obama?””
Let’s see changes made first in the WH and in the DOJ. Remove all rest room signs designating gender in every government building including the capitol building. What do you want to wager that the government will insist it only applies to PUBLIC facilities? Well, all agencies exist for the “good” of the public so they must be public facilities.
Today when no one can even go to the privy without their telephone, I’ll be waiting for the first pictures to be published of a female in a man’s restroom and vice versa! They want the attention, let’s give it to them.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2016/05/culture-anti-culture-and-nostalgia
Carl Trueman, in this article on the “First Things” website, mentions the peculiar fact that the overwhelming might of the Federal Government, corporations, and the entertainment industry is marshalled in “aid” of the most miniscule “minority group” against everyone else.
Or her daughters.
Many/most liberals want to be on the opposite side of every issue that religious people hold, regardless of common sense.
Unfortunately, many churches nowadays have decided to go along to get along rather than take a stand for what is right.
A "transgender male" is a woman.
People are posting that because of the Governor’s stance, they intend to bring their families & vacation in North Carolina. This is good.
I ask those so doing to email the governor’s office & the state tourism bureau to express their solidarity & support.
Enough of these will translate into real political power opposing DOJ’s hateful agenda.
Geee..............
Is Barry gonna send in the NATIONAL GUARD, NOW?
Transformers are very important to him. He may try it.
Good for NC in that they are enforcing the 10th amendment.
If more states would invoke the 10th, maybe the feds would let up on all this garbage. The feds won’t protect the state’s rights so the states had better band together.
and now for something completely different....
Last week I climbed the stairs to the Buccaneer State Park elevated rest rooms placed high above the ravages of hurricane seas to find a gaggle of little girls. I entered the men’s to find one hanging on the stall door.
In a grand fatherly manner I shouted out, out, get out. The girl on the door pointed in the stall and shook her head. They were perhaps 6 or 7. Their cousin who was probably 12, came in and pleaded sorry, sorry , sorry while motioning wildly for them to leave the men’s room. At the door were 5 or 6 more girls with hands covering mouths as they giggled at the spectacle.
I later complimented the grandfather, the real grandfather, about his large crew of all girls. He told me that was just part of them....he had 40 grand kids
It is time to make the Federal government use force to enforce the pronouncements of wacky/evil individuals wearing the robes & title of "Federal Judge".
Ignore these obscene judicial rulings! No one died and made either these judges or Obama King!
BTW, BRAVO for Gov. McCrory! Now we need more governors and States to join the fight.
Wrong--The Constitution does not empower the federal government to determine gender or set bathroom policy.
“Does the fact that we are even having this debate say something about the state of our culture...Have we gone mad? The question all but answers itself.”
This is what I thought when we started to have votes on what marriage was.
Now, I think the really bad indicator is that women might not really care about this. I buy that Target might do this for social justice reasons, but I don’t buy that from Trump. So Trump doesn’t really know what his women customers think about it? I suppose we’ll see what happens to Target in a few months. If it’s nothing, then we are way far gone. To the point that one probable candidate is seemingly down for it in his own business, the other wants to impose it on all businesses. Yeah, madness.
Freegards
Thank you!! I am from NC, so I know the truth about the law. The MSM will not mention it because it does not fit their narrative, just as they won't mention that it was the LESBIAN mayor of Charlotte who urged the City Council to pass it in the first place!
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