Apparently not everyone reads my blog...

I thought I explained that boys and girls are different. What up, Maryland?

Three months ago, a new law in Montgomery County, Maryland, was passed that demands co-ed locker rooms and restrooms in all public accommodations. The law was intended to accommodate “transgendered people”—that is, men who say they perceive themselves to be women (i.e. Michael Jackson), and women who claim they consider themselves men (i.e. Michael Jackson). This is one of those slippery slope laws. Well...read on...

Last week, Colorado’s legislature passed—and Gov. Bill Ritter signed—a law that will open all public accommodations, including public restrooms, to anyone who wants to use them. That means men may use a women’s restroom, and women may enter men’s rooms. The rationale for Senate Bill 200 is that transgenders should be able to use the restroom they feel most comfortable using.

What about me? Shouldn't I feel comfortable in the bathroom too? Comfortable being a relative term of course. Having the family bowel's, is potty time ever really comfortable?

Here's where it starts to get serious...

The lack of privacy is not the only problem. Nobody is going to ask a man if he is trangendered before allowing him into the ladies’ room. This means any man—including a child molester—could simply follow a little girl into the privacy of a public restroom. And, if a man decided to expose himself to a young girl there, who is she going to complain to? After all, restrooms, by definition, are places where one exposes the private parts of one’s body.

Men will have even less privacy, because they often do not use stalls.

Appalling as this law is, it gets worse. Tom Minnery of Focus on the Family points out, in the Denver Post, that the law also threatens religious liberty: Colorado’s “public accommodations” law includes not only hotels and restaurants, but also any small or home-based business that offers “goods or services” to the public.

And, as we have seen before, radicals go out of their way to target Christian businesses. As Minnery notes, in Albuquerque, a Christian couple who operate a photography studio politely declined, on religious grounds, to photograph a lesbian “commitment ceremony.” For this exercise of their First Amendment rights, the couple were forced to appear before New Mexico’s human rights commission and fined more than $6,600. Now, if you dare to deny a transgendered “man” access to the women’s room, you can be prosecuted under criminal laws and spend up to a year in jail.

I always use the stalls in public restrooms. Always. I never use the urinals. I hate those things. Dreaded fear that. Let's just say I took too many microbiology classes in college. The stalls are not much cleaner you say. True...true. But at least in the stalls I can cover the toilet seat with so much John Wayne toilet paper that my feet don't even touch the ground. That's sanitary.

John Wayne toilet paper? That's toilet paper that is rough and tough and don't take crap off of no one. (Rim shot.)

What was my point...oh yea...if the transgender people followed my lead and always used the stalls, we'd have no issue. If a man dresses like a woman and uses the womens bathroom, they only have stalls, or so I'm told. No issue. If a woman dresses like a man, use the stalls because frankly the urinals aren't going to be much use to you anyway.

Why do people make things so complicated?