Tom Toles for April 14, 2016

They just flunked their test on the Constitution on that “no religious test”, that goes on to the Amendments and not sticking YOUR relgion in my eye, orfices, or life. They hypocritical “religious right” has gone many steps too far.

Good toon today. NC is bad for business.

Avert your eyes and head to the stall…gone to many men’s rooms as the women’s had a line around the block. When u gotta go, you gotta go. That governor has had too many private privies to ever understand nature’s call.

The irony that they are “protecting” people from STRAIGHT perverts by punishing TRANS people has not been lost on me, though obviously it has been on others.And of course they also snuck in a clause basically forbidding people to sue in state court for pretty much any kind of bias, which certainly makes it easier for the prejudiced to do what they please. Fortunately, bigger firms think otherwise.The NC legislature has become a haven for the brutally ignorant and sadistic. it’s sad. NC used to be the progressive Southern state, with a commitment to fine education. This legislature has gutted the best state university system in the country, and it’s obviously they like it that way. And it is so thoroughly gerrymandered that most of the “representatives” are running unopposed…

Thank you, it is nice to know real Christians still exist.

What happened to SMALL GOVT? When it comes to sex, Republicans can’t stop making laws. I’m sure the BSA is coming, not Boy Scouts of America but Bathroom Security Agency.

Didn’t Romans have public toilets (and I mean really public; seats in a row, no stalls)? Shame on you, Jesus, for not being outraged at that public display of nekkid people! /s

Ok, so my friend Shirley marches into the men’s room because she hasn’t had her surgery yet. In all other respects, she looks exactly like a woman. How’s that going to fly? These people are crazy!

As a follower of Christ, I don’t find any of this having to do with anything Christ ever did, or condoned.~When everyone wore a skirt this was not an issue. The “bathroom” of the day was a ditch or perhaps a tree to lean against.

The plutocracy will force the extremist republicons to shape up or else they will ship out.

Conservative pundit Kathleen Parker, properly ridiculing this nonsense: “The law in question was hurriedly passed last month and signed by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory® in response to what one state official called a restroom free-for-all, referring to sudden hysteria over the possibility of transgender individuals using the “wrong” restroom. How would anyone know? Will officials now post monitors at public restrooms to check birth certificates and human bladder-evacuation portals?”

In 1919, someone anchored a bucket in the baggage compartment of a DH-9, with a hinged toilet seat on top. This was the first airline toilet. Ever since that time, airline toilets have been unisex and no one has panicked. Even Phyllis Shaffley, having abandoned her family to fly around the country to tell people that the Equal Rights Amendment was bad because it would force women to leave their children and use unisex toilets, never noticed. What’s the big deal – other than a way to panic the uninformed into accept the establishment of their strange religion as the only one in the country.

“The North Carolina General Assembly called lawmakers back to Raleigh on Wednesday for a special session. The reason wasn’t a pressing budget crisis, a natural disaster, or court-mandated redistricting. (That happened last month.).Instead, legislators returned to the state house to overrule a local ordinance in Charlotte banning discrimination against LGBT people. A bill written for that purpose passed Wednesday evening and was signed by Governor Pat McCrory, a Republican. In the House, every Republican and 11 Democrats backed the bill. In the Senate, Democrats walked out when a vote was called, resulting in a 32-0 passage by Republicans. The law not only overturns Charlotte’s ban: It also prevents any local governments from passing their own non-discrimination ordinances, mandates that students in the state’s schools use bathrooms corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate, and prevents cities from enacting minimum wages higher than the state’s.”.http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/north-carolina-lgbt-discrimination-transgender-bathrooms/475125/.Republican claim they want locals to have control over their own laws but only when it suits them..Transgender people using which bathroom is unenforceable and only a smoke screen to rally their base and prevent people in their own locals to make decisions for themselves..

How about some common sense. If my granddaughter is using the bathroom and some gender confused individual goes in, who happens to have a penis, that person will not have to worry about their gender again.

Hippogriff brings up another point. In airport restrooms, the accessible stall for the disabled has more room for your luggage and you, and btw, you don’t have to be disabled to use it! I’ve often gotten weird looks for doing that, though I do have multiple “hidden disabilities” like hearing impairment and fibromyalgia/neuropathy, and PTSD. As noted, when you gotta go, you gotta go even if mob scenes relate to long lines at “gender segregated” rooms. Which, if it’s a room with a lock, as on an airplane, what’s the big deal??

These bills, and prejudices ARE oriented to religious dogma, and fear. Hmm, isn’t that oxymoron?

Republicans: The Party of NO … unless there is a chance to get their hands in someone’s pants. Then no means yes, and you were asking for it.

More than one restroom is a waste of plumbing. If while there you consider anything other than waste elimination then you need psychiatric help.

Excellent!

Amen!

What if I don’t want a transgendered woman in the men’s bathroom? There is no end to the levels of bigotry that ooze up here! And if “specialty bathrooms” are built, North Carolina would presumably require at least two. What fools they are.

Last I heard, women’s restrooms have stalls, and the people who use the restrooms don’t stand next to one another in front of urinals.

Were there any transgenders when the constitution was written?