The U.S. vs N.C.

Well, now I’ve seen and heard it all.

The (Ultra-Liberal, Politically Correct) Obama Administration strikes again.

Today the Attorney General of the United States appeared before the press and made what has been referred to as a historic announcement. 

Following is the text of her speech:

“Good afternoon and thank you all for being here. Today, I’m joined by Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. We are here to announce a significant law enforcement action regarding North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, also known as House Bill 2.
The North Carolina General Assembly passed House Bill 2 in special session on March 23 of this year. The bill sought to strike down an anti-discrimination provision in a recently-passed Charlotte, North Carolina, ordinance, as well as to require transgender people in public agencies to use the bathrooms consistent with their sex as noted at birth, rather than the bathrooms that fit their gender identity. The bill was signed into law that same day. In so doing, the legislature and the governor placed North Carolina in direct opposition to federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity. More to the point, they created state-sponsored discrimination against transgender individuals, who simply seek to engage in the most private of functions in a place of safety and security – a right taken for granted by most of us.
Last week, our Civil Rights Division notified state officials that House Bill 2 violates federal civil rights laws. We asked that they certify by the end of the day today that they would not comply with or implement House Bill 2’s restriction on restroom access. An extension was requested by North Carolina and was under active consideration. But instead of replying to our offer or providing a certification, this morning, the state of North Carolina and its governor chose to respond by suing the Department of Justice. As a result of their decisions, we are now moving forward.
Today, we are filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state of North Carolina, Governor Pat McCrory, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and the University of North Carolina. We are seeking a court order declaring House Bill 2’s restroom restriction impermissibly discriminatory, as well as a statewide bar on its enforcement. While the lawsuit currently seeks declaratory relief, I want to note that we retain the option of curtailing federal funding to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and the University of North Carolina as this case proceeds.
This action is about a great deal more than just bathrooms. This is about the dignity and respect we accord our fellow citizens and the laws that we, as a people and as a country, have enacted to protect them – indeed, to protect all of us. And it’s about the founding ideals that have led this country – haltingly but inexorably – in the direction of fairness, inclusion and equality for all Americans.
This is not the first time that we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress for our nation. We saw it in the Jim Crow laws that followed the Emancipation Proclamation. We saw it in fierce and widespread resistance to Brown v. Board of Education. And we saw it in the proliferation of state bans on same-sex unions intended to stifle any hope that gay and lesbian Americans might one day be afforded the right to marry. That right, of course, is now recognized as a guarantee embedded in our Constitution, and in the wake of that historic triumph, we have seen bill after bill in state after state taking aim at the LGBT community. Some of these responses reflect a recognizably human fear of the unknown, and a discomfort with the uncertainty of change. But this is not a time to act out of fear. This is a time to summon our national virtues of inclusivity, diversity, compassion and open-mindedness. What we must not do – what we must never do – is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fellow Americans, for something they cannot control, and deny what makes them human. This is why none of us can stand by when a state enters the business of legislating identity and insists that a person pretend to be something they are not, or invents a problem that doesn’t exist as a pretext for discrimination and harassment.
Let me speak now to the people of the great state, the beautiful state, my state of North Carolina. You’ve been told that this law protects vulnerable populations from harm – but that just is not the case. Instead, what this law does is inflict further indignity on a population that has already suffered far more than its fair share. This law provides no benefit to society – all it does is harm innocent Americans.
Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past. Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight. It was not so very long ago that states, including North Carolina, had signs above restrooms, water fountains and on public accommodations keeping people out based upon a distinction without a difference. We have moved beyond those dark days, but not without pain and suffering and an ongoing fight to keep moving forward. Let us write a different story this time. Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity and regard for all that make our country great.
Let me also speak directly to the transgender community itself. Some of you have lived freely for decades. Others of you are still wondering how you can possibly live the lives you were born to lead. But no matter how isolated or scared you may feel today, the Department of Justice and the entire Obama Administration wants you to know that we see you; we stand with you; and we will do everything we can to protect you going forward. Please know that history is on your side. This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for all, and we have always managed to move closer to that promise, little by little, one day at a time. It may not be easy – but we’ll get there together.”
I want to thank my colleagues in the Civil Rights Division who have devoted many hours to this case so far, and who will devote many more to seeing it through.”

I have heard it all before, and no doubt will hear it again. But something about the words and tenor of Ms. Lynch’s announcement riled me more than ever before.

There are any number of reasons why this national charade startles my sensibilities, and simply infuriates me.

1.     For those among us who recognize the inspiration of scripture, we have only to read Genesis 5:2 –

“Male and Female created He them.”

Simply put, man and woman were created with two different kinds of ‘plumbing’ and not even gender reassignment surgery changes the chromosomal predisposition which led to the subsequent physical characteristics of every man and woman, boy and girl in the first place.

2.     The current administration, as well as the LGBT ‘community,’ CNN, ACLU, etc. continue to equate the struggle for ‘bathroom equality’ with the Civil Rights Movement. Nothing could be more asinine, or further from the truth.

Since biblical times the rights of women, people of color, lower socio-economic status, and slaves have been trampled upon. During my adolescent years I was exposed to the blight of segregation. Separate schools, separate water fountains. Separate restrooms. However, the hullabaloo over ‘transgender bathroom rights’ is, contrary to popular belief, a fairly recent creation, and one which worships the god of Political Correctness. Having lived a long, and well-informed life I can honestly attest that, ‘til now, I have never been exposed to such a ludicrous comparison between an altogether legitimate quest for human rights and an altogether illegitimate attempt to infringe on the rights of the majority.

3.    Whereas in days gone by the rights of the legitimate minority were threatened by the majority, in recent years the rights of the majority are increasingly being trampled upon by what I construe as an illegitimate minority.

4.     There is every reason to believe that any number of social maladies will arise as the result of the forced “integration” of public bathroom facilities.

Public school children will avoid using the bathroom throughout the entire school day, as the result of embarrassment, or concern for their own safety. They who have been referred to as ‘transgender’ students will risk life, limb and dignity by darkening the thresholds of restroom facilities of the opposite birth gender. Persons whom I refer to as ‘transgender pretenders’ will legally intrude into what was previously considered ‘the last bastion of privacy.’

5.     The false indignation of the ‘genitally incorrect’ who happily infringe upon the privacy of the ‘genitally correct’ for the sake of two minutes spent behind the closed door of a bathroom stall; whereas, they might just as easily use the facilities they once privately occupied in the past.

6.     The liberal agenda, and its incessant march towards the proverbial sea.

Nine men dressed in black robes. The remaining third of our 50 states bowing to the will of a 5-4 vote mandating homosexual marriage. Ministers forced to perform marriage ceremonies for gay and lesbian couples. Private businessmen denied the right to deny service. The metamorphosis of the current transgender bathroom rights movement to include duel-gender use of public and school locker rooms and shower facilities.

7.     The ‘characterize it in the garments of human dignity’ (matter of fact, an everyone knows we’re right, you’re a bigot if you don’t agree with us) approach.

The entire charade would be pathetically humorous if it were not for the gradual erosion of the rights of the majority, and the degradation of the moral fiber of this nation.


 By William McDonald, PhD.  Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary," Vol. 36. Copyright pending

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