Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Kalamazoo Equal Rights Ordinance Suspended

Last month I wrote about the Kalamazoo City Council passing an Anti-Discrimination ordinance, well the Christian Conservative Right managed by spreading lie and fear to suspend the ordinance. The American Family Association of Michigan on other petition that they circulated used the title "IS THERE A MAN IN YOUR DAUGHTER'S BATHROOM?" The American Family Association of Michigan also claimed that “as well as possibly violate the privacy of women and children.” This is fear mongering!

The National Organization of Women (NOW) in Massachusetts wrote in testimony of the Massachusetts Anti-Discrimination bill that “…It does not alter individuals’ privacy nor expectations of safety in restrooms. CMF’s [Coalition for Marriage and Family] claim that this bill will "threaten bathroom and locker room safety" for women is a deliberate scare tactic. An individual who enters a women’s bathroom to harass or attack women would emphatically not be protected by this law.”

How can these so-called “Family” organizations that say they are protecting the American family lie? Is lying one of their family values?

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  1. It's hardly "Christian" of them, is it?

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