The refrain is becoming old. If GLBT people have the same rights as other citizens, they will be enjoying special rights.

Losing your job for any reason other than poor performance, and being able to correct that wrong, is your right, except if, in spite of doing your job and doing it well, you are GLB or T. But to do that same thing gives you something no one else has?

It would be beyond moronic to deny someone one of the eight slices from a pizza because their getting a piece would be more than what the other seven people have.

The religious right is the major group that fights the bestowing of “special rights” more than any other group.

This is also the group, however, that has argued that the laws of the land, while not being subject to Sharia law override, should have to pass the acceptability according to Christian laws. According to their way of thinking, religion should not be held to any law with which the faithful do not agree if the claim is made that it violates some established or personally held religious belief.

But these are the very same people who, while the savior they follow admonished that we are to render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s, defend not having to pay taxes and speak out in support or opposition to what is Caesar’s political domain, while enjoying the infrastructure that is Caesar’s paid for by those who pay taxes.

These are also the people who, while demanding that laws are relative to their accepting tnem, are the first to call on that legal system to support them’

Taking people to court costs money and uses the time of judges who are paid through the taxes they do not pay, and, ironically, the use the legal system to get out of having to abide by it.

A recent example of religion choosing to ignore law while using the legal system to defend their right to ignore it comes from Alaska where a Christian homeless shelter has filed a lawsuit against the city of Anchorage for the right to refuse services for transgender people. They want the court to rule it does not have to follow nondiscrimination laws because they don’t like that they apply to everyone about everyone.

Alliance Defending Freedom argues that the Hope Center should be able to deny services because other clients “shouldn’t be forced to sleep or disrobe in the same room as a man”, again, as is so often done, denying the truth of what “Transgender” means so it can be twisted to fit their need.

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This seems related to the response to Target stores saying they were not going to ban Transgender people from using the restroom that correspond with their gender, and Christian groups announced they would stand outside of the restrooms and ensure Transgender people could not enter.

I am sure that when entering the restroom the only announcement made would be desperate, “get out of my way. I have to pee real bad”, not “Here comes a Transgender person.”

So, how would they know who was entering without being inappropriately intrusive.

Many women at shelters are survivors of violence and ADF claims that allowing biological men in a shelter would be highly traumatic. Anyone assaulting anyone in a shelter regardless of gender should be dealt with seriously, but to base an action on a possibility, a possibility based on someone having violated another person by carrying out an inappropriate examination without cause, perhaps as they slept, seems to be a whole other issue.

Is this shelter further traumatizing these women by introducing a theoretical threat the fear of which they can add to their need to find food, shelter, and clothing? Are they further traumatizing them by announcing there is a monster, an unknown one that could be in the shelter that very moment, under the bed.

Meanwhile, data, research, and common sense tells us that transgender people, especially victims of domestic violence, are no greater threat to society than a cisgender person.

Jesus asked no one his or her politics when he performed miracles at no cost. He cured 10 lepers without any personal questions. He cured a Roman soldier’s significant other, restored sight to a blind man, fed a multitude of people with no tests, praised the actions of a man who His being Jewish would have assumed he should at least dislike, with the only people he ever really got angry with and condemned were those who hid behind their religion to excuse anything they did.

Just another paranoid fear claimed to be religiously based that should allow them to ignore an existing law to which the rest of us have to adhere.

But these people find special rights abhorrent.

Right?