It turns out that anti-LGBT activists are
right that men are taking advantage of a transgender-inclusive policy at Target
to go into women’s restrooms — and those men are anti-LGBT activists. In an
interview this morning with “Breitbart News Daily,” the American Family
Association’s director of governmental affairs, Sandy Rios, said that activists
have been “testing” Target’s policy by sending men into women’s rooms at the
retail chain.
On Monday, May 3, 2016
www.joemygod.com ran a story on several
male members of The Truly Religious trying to invade women’s restrooms to
protest Target’s stated policy that their customers may use the restroom for
their gender identity. Are people so willfully
ignorant that they cannot understand that transgender does not mean a guy wants
to use a women’s locker room so he can watch them shower? Is it so difficult to admit that a man may be
trapped inside a woman’s body or vice
versa?
In the post, this thread appeared:
zhera
Why aren't they protesting and disrupting
Catholic churches? You know, where there are REAL pedophiles...
Reality.Bites
Not to mention actual men in dresses.
Bluto
Why aren't WE
disrupting catholic churches? Seriously, I'm so damn fed up with these assholes[?]
[F]uck the high ground & strike back. Reason & civility do not work.
David Walker
The Civil Rights movement had both Dr. King and Malcolm X. There are times, and I know you and I are in
the minority, that something must be done to attract attention. The suffrage movement demonstrations for
women's votes in England were not particularly "lady-like." I just wonder sometimes if we....
There
are times I think we need our own Mrs. Pankhurst:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HdQ0iVrl2Y
Another area of comments sparked me to write this:
“In response to Bluto in zhera's observation, currently above
this one, I suggested something a bit more violent, using Britain's suffragette
movement as an example. I am all for protesting at churches, although we would
have to be aware that open carry and concealed weapons laws exist. However, I
am serious about this. As I said, the Civil Rights movement had both Dr. King
and Malcolm X...and, I'm convinced, it needed both. Mrs. Pankhurst in London
lived her convictions, she was in the trenches and chained in jail and force
fed like the others. We made progress with the AIDS drugs by making noise,
blocking streets and entrances to buildings, and by educating ourselves AND
OTHERS about AIDS. I can see marriage equality going the way of abortion rights
in the US. Abortion is legal, but it's also being chipped away and women soon
will find it impossible to exercise that choice in many, many states. And
what's being done? Nothing that anyone notices. We don't even have legal status
as individuals. And we won't because The Truly Religious will continue to press
their hateful advantage to make sure we are not in any way considered equals. I
don't advocate violence, but I sure as hell advocate visibility, action, and
maybe protesting at churches is the way to start.
“I
understand that this may well offend a lot of you. However, being nice has got
us where we are, with assholes making totally invalid accusations and winning
elections and now demonstrating inside Target stores. Activism is needed now as
much as with AIDS, as much as with sodomy laws, as much as with marriage
equality. I like being nice. It's brought us a long way. But being nice is the
HRC (organization) approach, and while we need to make nice with the money
people, we also need to be more forceful in our standing up for ourselves, our
brothers, and our sisters. Yes, it's different than it was in the '60s and the
'70s. One of the differences is that this time it's about us.”
Why do we excuse ignorance,
hate, and fear regarding our fellow humans…especially when the ignorance, hate,
and fear come from The Truly Religious?
Why do our objections to their dysinformation need to be gentle, framed
with deference that is neither earned nor deserved? We should not shoot and kill people…that’s
their game. However, being gentle and
understanding has not given us our equality.
Something needs to make them pay attention, to learn, to grasp how
filled with hate their Christian Love™ is, and maybe even to help them
understand just how not-Christian they are.
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