Hello Friend,
Recently a compromise settlement
negotiated by Governor Cooper and approved by a federal judge opened
more public bathrooms to transgender individuals. As you may now be
aware, the consent order continues Governor Cooper’s bathroom
plan that he announced as an executive order at the beginning of his
term. In government buildings controlled by his executive agencies,
individuals can continue to use public bathrooms that match their
gender identity.
Normally, it's impolite to say "I told
you so," but we think this incident demands
it.
Why?
Because we have been
warning about an important slippery slope for many
years now; and we're seeing it play out right before our eyes. Our
society is spiraling off into a confused cultural chaos. Do you
remember just a couple years ago when we were claiming that gay
marriage would lead to a slippery slope of confused sexual identities
and attacks against the first amendment and our religious
liberty?
The slippery slope we warned about is real. Just take
the three incidents pictured above:
- All over the country, public schools are hosting drag queen
story hours where adult performers with X-rated performer names are
reading LGBTQ stories to kids. In one incident, the reader was found
out to be a sex offender.
- 11 year old boys are being encouraged by their parents to dress
up in drag, dance seductively onstage, and collect dollar bills from
adult men watching.
- In Canada, a transgender who was born male and still has his
genitals is targeting, reporting, and putting women out of business on
discrimination allegations because they refuse—for moral,
professional, and religious reasons—to wax his genitals. This same man
has also advocated for topless pool parties for LGBTQ youth 12 and up
that bar parents from attending, and is also well documented
displaying predatory behavior to little girls in locker rooms.
Bizarre incidents continue to reinvent themselves at an
alarming and dizzying pace. The culture is confused, and it tells you
that this is simply the new normal. But this is the
cultural slippery slope that we warned about. We live in a
confused culture that wants to tell you that people can choose their
bathrooms regardless of a girl's right to privacy and safety. We are
witnessing transgenders utilize their post-puberty biological
advantages to unfairly compete in women's sports; we're seeing the
Governor open bathrooms to opposite genders; we're seeing pornographic
sex taught to kids in middle school, and much more.
This will continue unless you do something about it,
and organizations like the NC Values Coalition exist to push back by
protecting the privacy and innocence of all our
children.Friend,
as we approach the halfway mark of an important fundraising month, we
need your support to continue advocating for your values in the public
arena. Please, if you can, would you support our work by making a
$100, $75, $50, or $25 donation
today?
Tami Fitzgerald NC Values Coalition Executive Director
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