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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 11:17 AM
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How long before the Christian Right forms the "Restroom Defense League"?
"A few weeks ago we noted that organization called NotMyBathroom.com was formed in Missoula, Montana in order to oppose a proposed city ordinance that would protect people from discrimination in their jobs and homes based on "actual or perceived ... sexual orientation, gender identity or expression."

The organization is associated with Concerned Women for America and the focus of its campaign is on the claim that the ordinance will make it legal for men to use women's restrooms, thereby leading to assaults on women and children.

While the group's effort is obviously aimed at stirring up fear in order to defeat the measure, CWA's Wendy Long admits that they have absolutely no evidence that anti-discrimination ordinances lead to such assaults and that their real mission is to fight the anti-discrimination out of fear that it'll eventually lead to marriage equality:

"Even one of the most staunch opponents of those laws can't point to increases in frivolous lawsuits or sexual predation. Still, Concerned Women for America president Wendy Wright said such ordinances lead the country down the wrong track.

Wright said one big reason Concerned Women opposes such laws is because the group does not want local ordinances to be used as stepping stones toward making gay marriage legal and teaching it in the public schools."

In essence, the less society tolerates discrimination against gays, the more likely gay marriage becomes ... and so groups like CWA must fight to protect the right to discriminate."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fight-their-right-discriminate

I can see it now, Christian Rightists using stalls as barricades, guns and bazookas always pointed in every which direction.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 11:20 AM
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1. That's why CWA is discredted.
Wendy Wright is a fucking idiot.

"In essence, the less society tolerates discrimination against gays, the more likely gay marriage becomes ... and so groups like CWA must fight to protect the right to discriminate."

Let me repeat.

"In essence, the less society tolerates discrimination against gays, the more likely gay marriage becomes ... and so groups like CWA must fight to protect the right to discriminate."

That's all it needed to be said.
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 11:21 AM
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2. Larry Craig.
I got first.
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 12:04 PM
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3. Isn't that basically what Schlaffly used to
defeat the ERA?

I guess they should be applauded for being so green, and recycling that one.
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