“People feel like they’re under siege and that the terms of the debate are now you either applaud it or you’re a bigot.”
– Former US Education Secretary Bill Bennet (author, talk show host)
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Headline at NH1 (emphasis mine):
Lobby says NH needs law to impose acceptance of transgenders
Once again, Progressives through identity politics and turning our former American melting point into a group of popsicles, believe they can change hearts and minds simply by passing a law and using the threat of fines or jails to “MAKE” people like others.
Impose.
Think of what that really means.
Nonsense; one can’t just sign a piece of paper and instant have people stand there with open arms with what is really desired (both transgendered AND homosexual) – acceptance is not even the goal. What is being demanded is for full approval and then celebration. And you’re a bigot if you don’t. When peoples’ internal sense is attack (and calling them bigots for simply disagreeing is certainly an attack), it only breeds resentment – the opposite of what is desired. But that goes to the Progressive view that citizens must be manipulated to achieve their goal – and their ends justifies their means.
Nay; government is not meant to lead or shape an eventual collective utopia based on some silly notion of “evolved” or “perfected”. Instead, its purpose is to act in a way for citizens to reach their own definition of utopia which is as varied as the number of citizens in our State and nation.
The entire article (reformatted and emphasis mine):
Lobby says NH needs law to impose acceptance of transgenders
CONCORD – Bruce Jenner’s transition to Caitlin Jenner has gotten a lot of attention. Meanwhile here in New Hampshire, transgender men and women have their own challenges. Today they told lawmakers what those are and what policy changes they hope for in the future.
“We need protection from other peoples’ prejudices because that is not fair.”
Get over yourselves – Life isn’t fair and never has been and no law (of dump truck load of laws) can make it otherwise.
That’s Drew Carson of Rochester [sic], a transgender male who says those like him still face discrimination in hiring and housing. New Hampshire is the only New England state that does not outlaw discrimination based on gender identity. Christen Bastani of Bridgewater agrees and says it’s a matter of basic fairness. “Because in the state we need to have laws which provide equality and provide for equal rights for all citizens,” Bastani said.
No, this action, once again, builds yet another protected class of citizens – and how many protected classes can there be before the ideal of the melting pot and where everyone calls themselves American (instead of <adjective inserted here>-Americans) just ends up as “Balkanized-Americans”? This isn’t a better America per se – it is a separate America (and no one can convince me that over the last decade that we haven’t become a more polarized country over, yes, social issues). And all social issues have fiscal and liberty costs. And to that latter one, one cannot grow liberty for a few by taking it away from others.
Christy Hegarty of Durham said she learned early on her child wanted to be a different sex. “By the time she was about four years old, we were understanding that her fascination with being a girl was not just a phase,” Hegarty said. A leader with Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders says these every-day families face much more obstacles than celebrity transgenders like Caitlin Jenner. “But despite the visibility of those success models that we are able now to see on the cover of Vanity Fair and sometimes now on Time Magazine, the reality is very difficult and very challenging,’’ Jennifer Levi of GLAD explained. In 2009, the New Hampshire House passed an anti-bias bill for transgenders by a single vote when then House Speaker Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth, broke the tie.
Opponents dubbed the measure the “bathroom bill’’ and warned it could invite predators posing as transgenders to go into bathrooms to molest women or children. Only a month later, the State Senate voted to kill the bill, 24-0. Bestani said she’s hopeful attitudes have changed and votes will be different when the issue returns to the State House.
There are a lot of people out there that are just plain getting angry that our entire society must be changed for a very few – what is being called the Tyranny of the Minority. It tells the majority that they are being forced to give up their values (and their perception of safety in the case of public bathrooms by bad actors that would take advantage of this). We certainly, here at GraniteGrok and worked hard to see that “Bathroom Bud” lost his election over it.
Yes, if I had a daughter and she was going into a public bathroom, I would be worried (especially if a 5 o’clock shadow was present and an obvious male physique went in afterwards). Just like I have written about some “push the limit” high school teenager basically saying “I feel like a girl today” and demanded that he be allowed into into the girls field hockey team locker room.
Yes, life isn’t fair and society still has flaws. But not all flaws can be corrected and certainly not in a ways that tell the vast majority of society “Agree with me or be called bigots” Or homophobes, misogynists or haters. While many may be cowed publicly into silence, they will seethe privately regardless of any law.r
Or like some, will call out those that try to use the vast force of Government for their own self-interest.
Update: I first started writing this at the beginning ofJune before I took my sabbatical, so we have now had the Supreme Court IMPOSE homosexual marriage on the country – even as the power of the Federal Government does not have an enumerated Power to define or redefine what marriage is. It remains to be seen if now having secured what the militant gay agenda wanted, marriage, or will they continue on the march which many of us have said is the end game – not just legality but acceptance, affirmation, and celebration. Will this be the end forcing Christians and their businesses to participate in a ceremony that they find counter to their conscience and, as Hillary said disdainfully, deep religious beliefs? Or will they continue to force themselves on everyone.
Choices – tolerance or totalitarianism? Affirmation or resentment?
