Saturday, April 09, 2016

No, Gays and ‘Transgenders’ Are Not Being Bullied. They Are The Bullies

No, Gays and ‘Transgenders’ Are Not Being Bullied. They Are The Bullies. | TheBlaze.com
This week, Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi signed a religious liberty bill protecting businesses and individuals from being forced to participate in gay marriages.
The legislation also fortifies the rights of business owners to keep their bathrooms segregated by sex, as all business owners have done up until 4.5 seconds ago.
Meanwhile, a few weeks earlier, North Carolina signed a now infamous bill that will require men to pee in rooms with other men, and women in rooms with other women. 
Again in keeping with the reasonable and totally normal policies that have been in place everywhere in America for the entirety of your life and your grandparents’ lives.
...But the left is not accustomed to being disobeyed in such a manner, which explains the utterly shocked and stunned reaction from leftists across the country to these two pieces of legislation.
While the vicious attacks against Mississippi over their bill are just beginning, the outrage over the “anti-trans” law in North Carolina has reached apocalyptic volumes.
...Anyway, the next step in this North Carolina “controversy” was inevitable.
Dozens of massive corporations began putting pressure on North Carolina to scrap the law.
Mayors of major American cities banned travel to the state, prohibiting people from going to a place in order to protest North Carolina’s attempt to prohibit people from going to a place.
...It is the seemingly total lack of kindness, magnanimity, and rationality displayed by many in their camp that necessitates this sort of legislation.
If gays would simply respect the beliefs of Christian business owners, and if “transgenders” would simply respect the privacy of women and children, there would be no need for laws forcing the matter. 
But here we are.
And it’s not the fault of Christians and conservatives that we arrived here.
On the contrary, it’s the fault of the very people now whining about being persecuted.
Here’s the reality: gays and “transgenders” are not being victimized, nor are they are being martyred, oppressed, bullied or otherwise put upon. 
You can walk through Mississippi and find nary a business with a “We Won’t Serve Gays” sign hanging in the window.
You can travel down to North Carolina and not find a single instance where a government agent showed up at a so-called transgender’s house and instructed him to take off his wig and blouse.
For the most part, these people are free to do what they want and be who they are — or, in the case of “transgenders,” who they aren’t.
The only caveat is that the half dozen “transgenders” in North Carolina have to do what every other human in North Carolina has to do, and what most humans in the civilized world have to do, and share public restrooms with people who share their anatomy.
In Mississippi, gays can get married, as per the royal decree of the Supreme Court, but if they happen to stumble upon a baker or photographer who’d rather not participate in the event, they simply must find someone else.
That’s it.
In other words, they are just being asked, and now being forced, to display the faintest modicum of tolerance and respect for their fellow citizens..."

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