May 08
I just got the following press release from Citizen Link, which you can read in full here:
The next time you visit Colorado, you may run into members of the opposite sex when you use a public restroom.
Under a bill sitting on Gov. Bill Ritter’s desk, all “public accommodations” must be open to men, women, bisexuals, transsexuals and “transgendered” individuals.
Senate Bill 200 adds religion and sexual orientation to state nondiscrimination statutes. Supporters claim the bill will prevent discrimination; in reality, the bill endangers religious freedom by opening the door for the state to punish any person or organization — including small and home-based businesses — that refuses, for religious or other moral reasons, to offer or sell goods or services to homosexuals, bisexuals, ‘transgendered’ and transsexual individuals.
Focus on the Family Action began airing radio ads today to inform Coloradans about this over-reaching bill.
SB 200 would:
Apply to all “public accommodations” in Colorado — including gender-specific public restrooms in shopping malls, movie theaters and churches, and public locker rooms in athletic facilities, which would suddenly be required to permit equal access to men, women and cross-dressers.
Require churches or other religious nonprofits that rent facilities to the public to also rent to individuals conducting a same-sex “commitment ceremony” or other activities the organization deems immoral.
“With SB 200, we no longer have two ’sexes,’ ” said Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action. “We enter a brave new world with a myriad of ’sexual orientations.’ This bill, unfortunately, is in keeping with a national effort by ‘transgender’ advocacy organizations to accomplish an open-bathroom policy.”
There’s no consideration that being transgender or transex means that you don’t consider yourself to adhere to your physical sex or gender of birth, of course, and that trans individuals would feel largely more out of place in such a restroom. Basically, Focus’ reaction to SB 200—which is by any measure a way to provide equal facilities to every person living in Colorado—sheer puerile, schoolyard panic that can be boiled down to this:
Visit the Citizen Link release here and be sure to listen to the radio ad that Focus is airing (which contains the line, “Mooooom! A man in a dress came into the girls’ restroom at school today!”) if you doubt that Focus will soon be waging rhetorical media wars on the cootie.
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wow, I feel like boycotting channels 5/30 because they ran this story as their LEAD story tonight. don’t ask why I was watching the 6 o’clock local news, it was a weird day, but I switched to the other channels and they were running much more news-worthy stories. what a bunch of fear-mongers, all those gays really want is to infiltrate the girls’ bathrooms!! If you have ever known anyone who identifies as transgender and know the physical threat they face when they use their “appropriate” bathroom, you know damned well that they are the ones that face down the real fear every day. CC has been progressive in championing “non-gender” bathrooms, though some of the secretaries I talked to complained that the men would pee all over the seats. Sadly, they are right about that.
I can’t believe Focus is allows its members to urinate and defecate in public areas. The Bible says those dirty, shameful biological functions are only acceptable within the sacred confines of one’s own home - between no one but a man*, his toilet and our God. Don’t give in to your filthy urges, no matter how strong the temptation!!!
(*Notice I said “man,” not “wo-man.” So hold it in ladies, or face public stoning and the fiery pits of H-E-L-L, whichever comes first.)