Today as I flitted through my Twitter and Facebook announcements, I realized what happened in
North Carolina and how it affects my LBGTQ brothers and sisters.
What happened? The North Carolina Legislature passed a bill that would permit legal discrimination.
North Carolina has made it a law to allow discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

The only protected classes recognized by the state will be race, color, national origin and biological sex.

Shameful.

So now what?
I personally cannot travel to North Carolina and protest for my brothers and sisters, however I urge anyone who has some vacation time coming or free time to share the outrage and horrible mistreatment of our brothers and sisters.

This means businesses in North Carolina may refuse service to anyone who is openly (or just inferred) LGBTQ. An apartment complex may turn away a family with two dads because they do not agree with the lifestyle. (That same apartment complex may also turn away a single parent family, a group of unrelated people, or a person on state assistance).

It is my understanding that this bill started with a reference to a “bathroom bill” where people must use a public restroom that aligns with a person’s sex assigned at birth (hence, Men’s Room for penises, Women’s Room for vaginas).

If people are so worried about what is in another’s pants, perhaps they must look at themselves and wonder why so many who are looking for smaller government are seeking more laws to invade privacy.

If I must, I will reassure those legislators in North Carolina that they are comfortable in the men’s room. I will sit outside and ask each and every person, “Do you identify as male? Yes? Prove it. Oh, you’re a man, but I can’t be sure – I need you to show me. No? then you must use the women’s room. Wait! If you seek to use the women’s restroom you must prove that you are a woman. You will need to prove it and show me. Wait, you mean that’s an invasion of your privacy? But you just passed this bill that says we may assure you are indeed male if you wish to use the male facilities. Thank you. Now you are under arrest for indecent exposure.”

It seems silly, but perhaps this is the type of action that needs to take place in order to make the point.