The reaction of most people to the transgender bathroom wars
(North Carolina, Target, etc.), is “Why?”
After all, it’s not like this was a problem. Nobody ever told a transgender person to get
out of a particular public bathroom, did they?
Because if there had been such a case, we would all know the name of the
poor beleaguered soul who had been embarrassed and humiliated by us Christian,
Bible-thumping haters when all he or she had ever wanted to do was take a leak. It would be Rosa (or Roosevelt) Parks all
over again. So why, suddenly, and for no
apparent reason, are places like Charlotte passing laws making it a violation
of law to question anybody, of any
sex, with any sort of sexual organ or organs or secondary sexual
characteristics, about their choice of a public restroom? Why can’t a store manager ask a guy with a
full beard, tattoos up both arms, a well-earned reputation as a child molester,
and a boner in his pants why he is
going into the little-girls’ room?
There was no need for these laws. There is no epidemic of anti-transgender
bathroom discrimination, is there? In
fact, it hasn’t happened even once. So
why did the radical left start this war?
The only purpose was to excite a reaction from the state
legislature in North Carolina, which promptly restored the status quo by
annulling Charlotte’s ordinance.
Recognizing that the subject matter did not need to be addressed in the
first place, and that all Charlotte was doing was to encourage frivolous
lawsuits, the state shut down the entire issue.
And this is exactly what the radicals in Charlotte
wanted---a war. Charlotte could now wail
that it had been trying to prevent the scourge of anti-transgender
discrimination that was sweeping the nation, and to protect the (four? five?)
transgender people in Charlotte from the degradation of being questioned about
which bathroom they were using, even though they had never been questioned
about it before. It doesn’t matter that
there was no underlying problem. Once
the state reacted, the activists could accuse them of bigotry.
From the French Revolution to the Soviet Union, from Mao’s
China to the faculty lounge at Harvard, the people who want the state to rule
every aspect of our lives hate two institutions that have been foremost in human
hearts and minds since we all emerged from the caves. Marriage and religion are the two things that
drive totalitarians mad because they are the only things that prevent most people
from having a primary loyalty to the state.
One of Stalin’s biggest disappointments was his inability to break the
emotional bond of marriage that made spouses cherish each other more than they
loved the Soviet Union. And while
churches were destroyed and clerics murdered, the Soviets were unable to
obliterate their subjects’ love for God.
In Obama’s America, this battle continues. The assault on religious freedom (explicitly
protected by the 1st Amendment) is relentless, with Obama repeatedly
characterizing the Constitutional right as merely a “freedom to worship” while
demanding that his federal government define the actual mission of religious
institutions like Notre Dame University and the Little Sisters of the
Poor. And as for the marriage that
humans have recognized for millennia, it has now been transformed, warped, its
original purpose disguised behind an array of feel-good justifications
including a state-mandated recognition of love, self-esteem and
self-actualization. For ten thousand
years, marriage provided safety for women and children, and allowed families to
flourish. That original meaning is still
there, somewhere, but since the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell, it is buried under rainbow
flags and waves of narcissism. I gotta
be me, you know---that’s the real purpose of marriage, according to Justice
Kennedy. Our children will now be
somewhat confused about the meaning of marriage, and its purpose; our
children’s children will have no idea what it once meant. Obama has succeeded in a way Stalin could
only dream of.
So for the radicals, the Charlotte bathroom law is
necessary, even though it addresses no existing problem, because it starts a
fight over the two beasts the Left forever dreams of slaying. Issues like this (and LGBT issues in
general), are twofers. They provide a
path to attack both religious freedom and
the family. For those that dream of
an all-powerful state, they are irresistible.
It’s an opportunity to make their case that all our traditional beliefs
about sex and gender and family are hateful and discriminatory.
And where do our hateful ideas come from? Where do we get the idea that people with
penises are men, and that they are different from women? And who told us that men and women should
marry each other and have children and raise those children? These most fundamental notions of the sexes
and marriage and family come from the Old Testament, the New Testament, the
Quran, and other religious traditions from around the world, all of which are
in basic agreement on these points. That
is why, once these scriptures are thoroughly discredited, they will have to be
suppressed.
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