Acting on the The Equality Act

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the article raises two points but tries very hard to keep them separate. Lets put them together...

point 1: "the Equality Act has said that RFRA “shall not provide … a basis for challenging the application or enforcement of” any Equality Act provision. This does not simply change RFRA’s legal standard so that government can more freely do what it wants in the areas covered by the Equality Act. This slams the courthouse door to anyone who would even make an argument that government actions under the Equality Act burden their religious freedom."

point 2: "the Equality Act would prohibit discrimination on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity across multiple sectors of American life, including employment and housing, public education and financing — even the credit markets and jury service."

So AACJ - can you explain why laws against employment discrimination are a burden to your religious freedom?

can you explain why laws against housing discrimination are a burden to your religious freedom?

can you explain why laws against the discrimination in education of minority children in public schools are a burden to your religious freedom?

can you explain why laws against discrimination by banks are a burden to your religious freedom?

can you explain why having an LGBT individual on a jury is a burden to your religious freedom?
 
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Perhaps God is answering your prayers by showing you a different perspective than your own.

Your perspective about perspectives is strange. Understanding perspectives does not resolve the issues and facts under dispute.
 
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Your perspective about perspectives is strange. Understanding perspectives does not resolve the issues and facts under dispute.
It seems your own perspectives have become beliefs. And belief often comes at the expense of reasoning ability. Beliefs are not facts. Denial and bias are factors in one's ability to reason. A closed mind works as well as a closed parachute friend. Peace
 
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Your perspective about perspectives is strange. Understanding perspectives does not resolve the issues and facts under dispute.

Don't they? Something you believe to be a problem may not be a problem to God.
 
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If there have been transgendered people in public restrooms while I was there, I'm completely unaware of it. How would I know? I've never seen anyone else's genitals in a public restroom. Why should it bother me?
 
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Young women in schools must not be subjected to the sight of naked males in their locker rooms, or, God-forbid, showers. Without divine intervention, the depravity of man knows no limits.

I think it's fair to say that young men probably shouldn't be subjected to the site of other naked men in locker rooms either.

I remember a homosexual male commenting on another males private parts in my highschool locker room.

Maybe this is an issue with the design of locker rooms and their inherent lack of privacy, rather than an issue of multiple men using a locker room.

The same goes for bathrooms. One male using a urinal may be uncomfortable when a homosexual male uses a urinal next to them. But what are you going to do, ban gay men from public restrooms? Of course not. The solution would be either to increase the privacy of public restrooms and locker rooms, or to create gender/sex neutral facilities.

Of course some people are also born with a combination of sexual traits. I remember a man from highschool who had the breasts of a woman. He was built bigger than most men aside from some of our football team, and yet he had breasts. So what restroom would be best for him? The answer is presumably one that either has private stalls (male or female), or a gender neutral one.

The solution certainly isn't to ban this man from a public restroom however. Which is what this legislation prohibits.
 
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I know that my wife and my daughter do not want to go into a ladies room knowing
there is a male in there. Doesn't matter if he's wearing a dress and makeup

I also know my grandsons don't want to date transgender females who are biologically males. They're not attracted to male genitalia. Does that make
them bigots ?
 
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I know that my wife and my daughter do not want to go into a ladies room knowing
there is a male in there. Doesn't matter if he's wearing a dress and makeup

I also know my grandsons don't want to date transgender females who are biologically males. They're not attracted to male genitalia. Does that make
them bigots ?

People have freedom to have biases against races, ethnicities, sexes and genders.

But the question is, should public services that only serve certain groups, be acceptable as a product of our biases.

Lets be honest. My grandmother would never date a black male. But does that mean that if my grandmother owned a Walmart, that this Walmart also should have freedom to treat blacks differently than whites? No of course not.

In a public sphere, the government is obligated to defend equality.
 
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People have freedom to have biases against races, ethnicities, sexes and genders.

But the question is, should public services that only serve certain groups, be acceptable as a product of our biases.

Lets be honest. My grandmother would never date a black male. But does that mean that if my grandmother owned a Walmart, that this Walmart also should have freedom to treat blacks differently than whites? No of course not.

In a public sphere, the government is obligated to defend equality.

Restrooms are suppose to provide safe space for women. They should have the right
not to have males intruding upon those safe spaces and we as males should be providing
those safe spaces.

That's a far cry from a business refusing to sell a product to a transgendered person.

Equality doesn't mean that we do not discriminate for rational reasons. Equality is
having respect for others and not harassing them because they're different. It means
giving equal opportunity in education and career development.

However, we discriminate against kids by not allowing them to drive cars or vote.

We discriminate against non citizens by not allowing them to vote in our elections.

We discriminate against people with physical disabilities by not allowing them to serve
in the US military.

The same should hold true for the use of restrooms and locker rooms. There is a
difference in biology between males and females. Also, transgendered women, should
not be competing in women's sports.
 
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Restrooms are suppose to provide safe space for women. They should have the right
not to have males intruding upon those safe spaces and we as males should be providing
those safe spaces.

That's a far cry from a business refusing to sell a product to a transgendered person.

Equality doesn't mean that we do not discriminate for rational reasons. Equality is
having respect for others and not harassing them because they're different. It means
giving equal opportunity in education and career development.

However, we discriminate against kids by not allowing them to drive cars or vote.

We discriminate against non citizens by not allowing them to vote in our elections.

We discriminate against people with physical disabilities by not allowing them to serve
in the US military.

The same should hold true for the use of restrooms and locker rooms. There is a
difference in biology between males and females. Also, transgendered women, should
not be competing in women's sports.

So in the case of a man who has breasts, I could easily say that same that I should be able to use a restroom without DD sizes bras around my urinal. But alas, I'm not going to tell a man that he cannot use a public restroom just because I feel uncomfortable with his bra size. Hence why we have stalls so that I can privately use a toilet without seeing other men's genitalia, be it typically of a male or female in its shape and size.

Banning people from restrooms is not the solution. But rather the solution is simply using a private bathroom stall or at least having a private bathroom itself so that men with breasts wouldn't have to choose one way or the other.
 
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straight guys did it too

Indeed.

I won't lie and say that I didn't feel uncomfortable around the bare hairyness of other men in the locker room before swim class. Genetalia beyond my innocent eyes.

I agree that men and women facilities are great, but banning trans people from these facilities cannot be "good". I keep thinking of that man with breasts in highschool. He was built like a man, but he had breasts larger than most women.

I was not in the same gym class, but I dare to wonder what locker room should he have used? Telling him that he couldn't use the locker room would be morally questionable given that all other kids could. I believe he ascribed to a female gender (though I cannot say for sure).
 
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