Mayor Anise Parker became furious when Lance Berkman came out in a TV ad against her pet project, an equal rights ordinance which allows transgenders to use women’s public restrooms
Houston Mayor Anise Parker is a lesbian who has a pet project she hopes will be approved by the voters next month. Parker’s proposed city ordinance, known as the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and includes the federal laws prohibiting discrimination based on sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, pregnancy and genetic information, as well as family, marital or military status.
HERO applies to businesses that serve the public, private employers, housing, city employment and city contracting. Religious institutions would be exempt. Violators could be fined up to $5,000.
Lance Berkman is a former Houston Astros baseball great. Last month Berkman appeared in a TV ad in opposition to HERO because the proposed ordinance would allow transgenders access to women’s public restrooms. Here is what Lance said:
“My wife and I have four daughters. Proposition One, the 'bathroom ordinance,' would allow troubled men to enter women's public bathrooms, showers and locker rooms. This would violate their privacy and put them in harm's way. That's just wrong.”
The mayor was furious. How dare he attack her pet project. Parker responded by attacking Berkman in a series of tweets:
Lance Berkman played in St. Louis. Guess his girls didn't go to his games! SL has a non-discrimination ordinance.-A http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/cco/ords/data/ord8715.htm …
When Lance Berkman went from NYC to STL to play ball did he do it to escape NYCs scary nondiscrimination law?-A
Then Lance Berkman went to Dallas. Oops. Dallas amended its Charter to clarify gender identity protections. Can you spell hypocrite?-A
Then Parker attacked Berkman on her Facebook page:
"For me, this fight is about how much I love this city. I don't want anyone to ever disparage Houston. That someone who made his name in our city would inject himself into this debate by taking to the airwaves to discredit an effort to ban discrimination in all forms did upset me. This ordinance protects all Houstonians and his remarks diminished it to something trivial."
Talk about a hypocrite. Parker and her “how much I love this city” and that disparaging of Houston crap is itself the height of hypocrisy. By that I don’t mean that Parker does not love Houston. I’m sure she does. But this ordinance is not so much about discrimination as it is about Parker pushing her personal GLBT agenda.
My family has been a victim of discrimination, both in Germany and the U.S., and for that reason I strongly support laws banning discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion and sex. I have several gay friends and I have a beloved cousin who is gay. I have never wanted gays and lesbians to be discriminated against.
But I do draw the line when it comes to transgenders. I do not want any of them to be in the same restroom with any female members of my family! If these weirdo misfits have a dick, they should be banned from women’s restrooms, and if they have a crack, they should be banned from men’s restrooms. It’s the transgender part of HERO that turns me off.
I’m with Lance Berkman on this one and am voting against HERO for that reason.
1 comment:
If you are a good liberal sucking up to the 1% is much more appropriate than protecting the 99%. The mayor doesn't care if someone who is clearly anatomically male wants to stroll through the junior high-school girls shower room. The people who that makes uncomfortable are the rotten, insensitive bastards as far as she is concerned. Her point of view is fair, reasonable and morally superior (to her), that's what's important. Especially the morally superior part.
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