Hazmat suits, rainbows and unicorns, oh my!!!

Hazmat suits, rainbows and unicorns, oh my!

 

I never thought we would live in a time like this.

Let’s see…EBOLA, ISIS, IRA scandals, VA scandals, deadly viruses, bank accounts hacked, private info hacked, NSA spying!  Good material for fiction writers, right?  Uh, except that it is real.  It is FOR REAL!

The latest thing that got a little under my skin is the city of Houston demanding copies of pastors’ sermons.  Apparently it started because someone got offended because a pastor mentioned something about homosexuality and that didn’t set well with Lesbian mayor Mrs. Parker, or um, Ms. Parker?  So apparently it was related to the city’s HERO act or Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).  Awh, cute, huh?  The name.

Don’t mind me, I’m just glooming and dooming about the state of this nation, or am I?

Before you call me out for hatin’, cause someone will, understand that I am not hatin’.  I am simply thinking of that “thingy,” ya know that “OLD OUT-DATED” document called the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.  It states that we have a right to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press and freedom to petition.  So, why is it that a pastor has to turn over any sermon or “speeches” as the city decided to call them to the city?  What if a pastor spoke out about not believing in the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) because it states that a man who is transgendered may be allowed to use the women’s potty facilities?  I’m OK with being able to tinkle without a dude in the room.  I don’t care if we like the same brand of mascara.  A bathroom should be a safe place to drop one’s drawers and pee in peace!!

AND for the love of chocolate, if pastors want to discuss the changing world in which we live with their congregation, I believe that they should have a right to do that.  Oh sure, you’re going to say “but they they they have a right to do that, just they can’t talk bad about transgendered and homosexual people!”  

Look friends, I have a few friends who identify in this category and none of them are total whinebags about strong arming the general population into believing exactly as they do or demanding special bathrooms. 

This past year, California passed a law requiring that schools allow kiddos to use whatever bathroom of whatever gender of which they choose to identify.  Most Americans do not believe this was a great idea.  I get it, as a mom I have visions of little boys pretending to be transgendered to check out little girls in their bathroom.  My daughter even said she wouldn’t feel safe…SAFE, there’s that word, using her own bathroom because transgendered boys might not really be that way.  And she brought up the point that the push to get the transgendered kids their own bathroom in an effort to make them feel normal would in reality make them feel less normal.  Oh, little Chris, or Kris, is using the special kid bathroom.  Yep, that is the term my 11 year old daughter used, “special kid bathroom.”  It’s not her term but one she’s heard.

The people at CBS news polled the public, cause we love polls, to get a feeling of what we all really think of this.  Check it out for yourself here. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-transgender-kids-and-school-bathrooms/

Back to why I felt moved to write this.  You cannot legislate your way into making people feel better…period.  Houston can take copies of pastor’s sermons in search of pulpit hate.  Governments can try and force schools into funneling transgendered kids into special bathrooms.  You will never mandate that the so-called alleged bullying be stopped.  And anyway, who gets to call out what is bullying anyway?

So who is in for a night of pre-Halloween season scary NEWS watching with me?

~Anne Boswell Taylor