Rodgers and Hammerstein called. They’d like their musical back, please.
“This directive is Biblically wrong, a violation of our state’s sovereignty and it is a serious public safety issue," he added.
Three lies in such an economy of words!
And where in your bible does it speak about bathroom policy? Please do tell.
Stupidity∜
Well, I’ve got MY hand-basket ready.
“… would provide religious accommodations for students who do not want to share a bathroom with transgender students.”
Wait, what? I swear, I’m reading these words multiple times and I still don’t understand what this choad means. So, if there are students who don’t want to use a bathroom with transgendered students they get to claim Jesus and then piss in the sink?
EDIT TO ADD: A few years ago, the state was experiencing serious problems with earthquakes caused by fracking. THIS is their idea of an “emergency”?? Honestly, America needs to build some walls around these places with haz mat caution signs displayed.
Legislation introduced on Thursday by Republican lawmakers in the state senate and house would provide religious accommodations for students who do not want to share a bathroom with transgender students.
Fail
Schools would have to provide a restroom only used by people with the same sex “as identified at birth” for students who request a religious accommodation, and the bill states that letting those students use a single-occupancy restroom “shall not be an allowable accommodation.”
Fail and its at odds with the 2016 Republican [nominee] 1 views…(though like most things Sith related)
“It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public space, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval,” the text of the legislation reads.
Who knew that Lance Berkman was an Oklahoma senator?
“Oklahomans are simply not going to stand for this utter nonsense,” Rep. John Bennett (R), one of the resolution’s authors, said in a statement.
Mary Fallin is your governor and an Oklahoma jury let the corrections dept off the hook…
“This directive is Biblically wrong, a violation of our state’s sovereignty and it is a serious public safety issue," he added.
The modern day GOP is becoming a serious public safety issue, but you don’t see me complaining. However Mister Bennett, is Oklahoma a state or is it a country?
decisions, decisions…
I’m tempted to edit “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet…” in the obvious way, but that would be wrong.
The only “bathroom emergency” is these back-assward Oklahoma legislators publicly shitting all over themselves and then wiping with the Constitution. On this bill, on the disgusting criminialize-abortion-providers bill, and I’m guessing probably on plenty of other issues that just haven’t risen to the attention of the national press.
Self-induced incontinence is not a religious right. Accommodating those who have their panties bunched is an act of kindness, but does not require any particular belief in a deity – just the same bathroom we all utilize.
“Our phones and emails are being flooded by citizens who are enraged by this President’s attempt to use our children as pawns in a liberal agenda.”
A small taste of what it’s like living in DC.
Next they’ll have to pass a law saying public employees can refuse to help provide services for transgendered persons. Emergency room doctors can turn them away or insist they be treated by another physician on staff. And finally…***.NO CAKE FOR YOU!!!***
Maybe institute some variation of the pink triangle for their clothing.
And Jesus spake unto the crowd “love the neighbor as thyself”
Dang it, wrong quote.
“Let he who is without sin cast…”
Jeez, this stuff is hard.
“Share thee not thy urinals with those who identify themselves as otherly gendered for thou art pure and they are sinful.”
Finally found it in the the Bible appendices “The Book Of Shit Jesus Never Said, King Okie Version”
It’s on the page after the big, bold call-out that condemns gay wedding cakes and mandates gun hoarding. In the 'Murican version. It’s hard to miss because there’s a photo of Ted Nugent right above it.
Okay. We all know that a bunch of crows is a ‘murder’, a collection of geese is a ‘gaggle’, and so on. So (portentous pause), what is a large number of flaming assholes? Anyone?
A ‘stank’, I believe.
Deuteronomy 23:13
And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou
wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back
and cover that which cometh from thee:
That doesn’t address the issue at hand, but it is a bathroom policy of sorts.
existential question I posed yesterday on DKos… which bathroom would a transgender person be allowed to use when the airplane is traversing Oklahoma airspace?
Day after day, you see the same handful of states rotating through the news, competing for the “Craziest Goddamn State Legislature in the Nation” award. One day, you’re sure it must be Oklahoma, the next day Tennessee tops it, the day after that Texas goes through the looking glass, the day after that it’s Missouri, and then here comes Florida to prove it’s the craziest, most fucked up of them all. Then they all get put back in the bin, it’s given a spin and they all get drawn out at random again.
It’s just been a real joy seeing North Carolina, beacon of progress in the South, deciding it needs to join that competition. And I’d like to thank every damnfool here who couldn’t be bothered to vote in 2010 for making it possible.