I have noticed over the years that, although they claim the high road of virtue, when the conservative religious right opposes something they do not necessarily stick to the issue’s pros and cons, but somehow go immediately to what we refer in regards to little children as the poopy stuff.

And to do that, they deliberately lie

When opposing same sex marriage they immediately dismissed the actual legal and Constitutional arguments, and dwelt on how Gays do it.

It was almost as if the discussion allowed them the excuse to think and talk dirty.

When the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance came up for a vote of the people recently, because it is important that those rights with which we are endowed by our Creator have to be voted on, they ran to the potty.

Think about this. The conservative religious right might constantly bring up the idea that we, as a “Christian nation” must give ourselves to Him, but we need to vote on people’s rights because He might have made a mistake giving rights to everyone.

Now that Dallas, Texas has passed an inclusive non-discrimination ordinance, the people who opposed the Houston one are bringing their toilet obsessed minds there.

Let me clarify that. The council did not introduce a new group to its 13 year old ordinance, but fine tuned it to include “gender identity expression” specifically, having included that under “sexual orientation” in the original version. They merely clarified the ordinance to match the times.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings stated after the unanimous vote of the city council, “we want to make sure everyone is protected” in the city.

In response to Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s negative response,

“I was very proud to help lead the recent effort where an overwhelming majority of voters in Houston successfully voted down the misnamed and misguided HERO ordinance. That’s why yesterday’s decision by the Dallas City Council, in closed session, to fast-track the enactment of a similar ordinance to allow men in women’s restrooms is both mind-boggling and appalling”,

the mayor hit back with,

“Yesterday’s unanimous City Council vote did not change the scope of our 13-year-old anti-discrimination ordinance. We took action that is consistent with what our voters approved last year and the protections already afforded to our employees. It is not forthright or honest to minimize this issue to a question about where people relieve themselves.”

The tactic being used does not involve actual education about the topic, but a childish and misleading slogan “No men in the women’s bathrooms”, and in his opposition to the Houston ordinance the LT Governor supported a no vote when it came before the voters by saying,
“Prop. 1 is not about equality. That’s already the law. It’s about letting men in women’s locker rooms and bathrooms.”
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Total ignorance, as the claim is that any man at any time could enter a woman’s bathroom simply by claiming to be a woman that day.

Transgender is not about an occasional and capricious daily choice.

There is no record anywhere in the United States of a Transgender person using a restroom as a source of prey.

But that is a fact, and facts should be ignored in favor of unsubstantiated scare tactics if you want to keep people from having equal rights and protections. It’s how mature rational people approach things.

As a matter of fact, Houston already has had a law on the books since 1972 that expressly criminalizes anyone who deliberately enters a sex-segregated bathroom with the intent of harassing someone of the opposite sex.

And as the Advocate noted, “a June study by progressive watchdog group Media Matters discovered that trans-inclusive restroom policies in the 17 largest school districts in the U.S. have resulted in zero incidents of boys “pretending” to be girls, reports of harassment, or any other “negative consequence” of the inclusive policies.”

It has also been found that rather than being the harasser in the restroom, Transgender individuals are the harassed.

Another favored tactic used here by the LT. Governor is to simply lie and let that stand. He claimed the vote was taken behind closed doors so that it sounds questionable and ominous, but, because the council cannot take votes behind closed doors, the vote was conducted in open session.

Two City Council members also defended the vote.

In an email, Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston wrote, “ [The Lt. Governor] is infamous for fomenting mob mentality against the interests of minorities. In Dallas we believe in equal protection under law.”

And Dallas City Council member Adam Medrano pointed out that the Lieutenant Governor is dispensing the same “misinformation that killed the HERO ordinance in Houston. It’s made up of non-truths. This is not a bathroom ordinance. This is about making sure everyone in the city of Dallas is treated equally.”

Jared Woodfill of the Campaign for Houston told the Houston Chronicle that he was prepared to employ the same scare tactics to overturn Dallas’s long-standing LGBT protections that his group used in Houston.
“We said from day one wherever these ordinances appear we’re going to be on the ground and ready for the battle,” Woodfill told the Chronicle. “The Dallas City Council clearly didn’t learn of or hear the message voters sent in Houston, Texas.”

Since voters in Dallas had voted on the ordinance that the City Council merely fine tuned in open session after much discussion, and since during the life of the ordinance there have been no problems, anti-HERO activists might have to struggle to find support in Dallas.

What will be needed is that, instead of the usual play-nice approach that did so poorly in Houston, those who do not want the toilet-heads to win this time may need to be more aggressive in calling out the lies.