First, some
background prior to me expressing outrage, disappointment and commenting on
same. Any American who has sought refuge
from politics by escaping into the world of sports realizes now that there is
no escaping politics. In the last few months, it has become completely
impossible to follow sports without being lectured about the oppressive ways of
the United States, and its failures to achieve the highest of today's cultural
goals: "inclusion." Leave that word in quotation marks because in the
guise of "inclusion" people will be most righteously excluded. In the
name of "tolerance," those condemned for intolerance will be
boycotted and punished, unless they genuflect to ever-evolving
"anti-discrimination" dictates.
My state of residence, North Carolina is being tarred and feathered in the sports world because it passed a measure in March stating that the state's public schools would abide by boy-girl divisions dating back to the arrival of man. The law said, "Local boards of education shall require every multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facility that is designated for student use to be designated for and used only by students based on their biological sex." This, according to the gender-deconstructing left, is the "new Jim Crow," a cruel and unusual punishment of students who reject the gender they were "assigned at birth." Obama's Department of Justice used the media-created clamor, replete with a specter victimology, to mandate bathroom "inclusion" on every public school in America. Liberal state and local governments banned travel to North Carolina. Hollywood studios cancelled plans to film there. Musicians cancelled their concerts. But the most dramatic action came in the sports world.
While I recognize this legislation is complicated by society’s continued blurring of the lines of gender and sexual identity, I also recognize the profound hypocrisy of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), National Coooegiate Athletic Association) NCAA, professional sports leagues and other companies and organizations who are making calculated business decisions disguised as moral outrage. I am vexed by the vote of the ACC Council of Presidents to move conference championships from North Carolina in protest of legislation requiring people to use public bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender. The NCAA and ACC’s say their decision is “one of principle” and that “core values…are of utmost importance.” Well, millions of us who oppose the decision do so as a matter of principle and core values—values of privacy, safety and protection of our children in public restrooms, and the principle that God created just two genders and assigned them at birth. Furthermore, I take offense to both the NCAA and ACC who continue to use student athletes as pawns for both political and financial gain. And don’t continue to offend millions of Americans who endorse thousands of years of gender-specific privies/bathrooms while you continue to accept corporate sponsorship money from companies proudly conducting their business in countries that discriminate against homosexuals to the point of death. Where is this outrage? Has the committee pulled the plug on sponsorships by Dr. Pepper, Toyota and any number of other companies? Does not the ACC and NCAA accept sponsorship money from enterprises that operate in nations that are oppressive to those who live the gay lifestyle and who are gender confused? Is this not the height of hypocrisy?
My state of residence, North Carolina is being tarred and feathered in the sports world because it passed a measure in March stating that the state's public schools would abide by boy-girl divisions dating back to the arrival of man. The law said, "Local boards of education shall require every multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facility that is designated for student use to be designated for and used only by students based on their biological sex." This, according to the gender-deconstructing left, is the "new Jim Crow," a cruel and unusual punishment of students who reject the gender they were "assigned at birth." Obama's Department of Justice used the media-created clamor, replete with a specter victimology, to mandate bathroom "inclusion" on every public school in America. Liberal state and local governments banned travel to North Carolina. Hollywood studios cancelled plans to film there. Musicians cancelled their concerts. But the most dramatic action came in the sports world.
While I recognize this legislation is complicated by society’s continued blurring of the lines of gender and sexual identity, I also recognize the profound hypocrisy of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), National Coooegiate Athletic Association) NCAA, professional sports leagues and other companies and organizations who are making calculated business decisions disguised as moral outrage. I am vexed by the vote of the ACC Council of Presidents to move conference championships from North Carolina in protest of legislation requiring people to use public bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender. The NCAA and ACC’s say their decision is “one of principle” and that “core values…are of utmost importance.” Well, millions of us who oppose the decision do so as a matter of principle and core values—values of privacy, safety and protection of our children in public restrooms, and the principle that God created just two genders and assigned them at birth. Furthermore, I take offense to both the NCAA and ACC who continue to use student athletes as pawns for both political and financial gain. And don’t continue to offend millions of Americans who endorse thousands of years of gender-specific privies/bathrooms while you continue to accept corporate sponsorship money from companies proudly conducting their business in countries that discriminate against homosexuals to the point of death. Where is this outrage? Has the committee pulled the plug on sponsorships by Dr. Pepper, Toyota and any number of other companies? Does not the ACC and NCAA accept sponsorship money from enterprises that operate in nations that are oppressive to those who live the gay lifestyle and who are gender confused? Is this not the height of hypocrisy?
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