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发帖数: 29846 | 1 New York Times Throws Massive Fit over Houston Voters Rejecting Transgender
Bathroom Measure
By Curtis Houck | November 4, 2015 | 1:47 AM EST
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In what was already a big night for conservatives on Tuesday with election
wins in Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, and Virginia to name a few, voters in
Houston, Texas overwhelmingly rejected a pro-transgender measure dubbed “
the bathroom ordinance.” Not surprisingly, that did not sit well with The
New York Times as it lamented the loss for the “equal rights ordinance.”
With the piece entitled “Houston Voters Reject Broad Anti-Discrimination
Ordinance,” writers Manny Fernandez and Mitch Smith griped that the “
yearlong battle over gay and transgender rights” had “turned into a costly
, ugly war of words” came to a head when “voters repealed an anti-
discrimination ordinance that had attracted attention from the White House,
sports figures and Hollywood celebrities.”
The pair explained that the Democratically-controlled City Council had “
passed the measure in May, but it was in limbo after opponents succeeded,
following a lengthy court fight, in putting the matter to a referendum vote.”
In an earlier version, The Times whined that “[t]he rejection signaled that
the country’s fourth-largest city and one that has been run by Democrats
for decades was more conservative than its national reputation as a gay-
friendly city might suggest.”
Predictably trying to make the supporters of the ordinance seem reasonable
and opponents out of touch, the paper hyped:
Supporters said the ordinance was similar to those approved in 200 other
cities and prohibited bias in housing, employment, city contracting and
business services for 15 protected classes, including race, age, sexual
orientation and gender identity. Opponents said the measure would allow men
claiming to be women to enter women’s bathrooms and inflict harm, and that
simple message — “No Men in Women’s Bathrooms” — was plastered on signs
and emphasized in television and radio ads, turning the debate from one
about equal rights to one about protecting women and girls from sexual
predators.
Fernandez and Smith later invoked Democratic lesbian Mayor Annise Parker as
having a variety of supporters who all “accused opponents of using
fearmongering against gay people, and farfetched talk of bathroom attacks,
to generate support for a repeal.” Speaking of Parker, the duo dubbed it a
“a personal blow” to Parker.
Looking to belittle Christians and conservatives against the pro-LGBT
measure, they continued (with the link inserted by this writer):
Opponents of the measure — including Mr. Patrick, pastors of
conservative megachurches and the former Houston Astros baseball star Lance
Berkman — said the ordinance had nothing to do with discrimination and was
about the mayor’s gay agenda being forced on the city. They denied that
they had any bias against gay people, and said the ordinance was so vague
that it would make anyone who tried to keep any man from entering a women’s
bathroom the subject of a city investigation and fine.
Also in the previous version, the article mourned:
Supporters failed to counter campaign signs and ads by opponents that
cast the ordinance as a safety issue. Opponents deployed signs with the
slogan “No Men in Women’s Bathrooms” and produced ads playing on fears
that male sexual predators dressed as women would gain new freedom to enter
women’s restrooms. The ordinance says nothing specifically about whether
men can use women’s restrooms.
Turning to the broader impact of the rejection, Fernandez and Smith
attempted to employ the same line of thinking the liberal media used against
Indiana and the City of Indianapolis in March concerning religious freedom:
The immediate effect of the vote is unclear. Ms. Parker and her
supporters said Houston would lose tourism and convention business if the
city had to repeal the ordinance and became known for intolerance, just as a
backlash in Indiana over a religious-objections law led to convention
cancellations and boycotts before that law was changed. Supporters worried
that a repeal of the Houston ordinance could also jeopardize its selection
as host city for the Super Bowl in 2017. | D****9
发帖数: 10889 | 2 为什么吃饱饭没事做要共享厕所？
做了手术后是男的就进男厕，女的就进女厕。
没做手术，你认为是什么性别就进什么厕所，凭什么呢 | D****9
发帖数: 10889 | 3 为什么吃饱饭没事做要共享厕所？
做了手术后是男的就进男厕，女的就进女厕。
没做手术，你认为是什么性别就进什么厕所，凭什么呢 | M****o
发帖数: 4860 | 4 以后厕所都分三种好了
Man Women Others
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: New York Times Throws Massive Fit over Houston Voters Rejecting Transgender
: Bathroom Measure
: By Curtis Houck | November 4, 2015 | 1:47 AM EST
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: In what was already a big night for conservatives on Tuesday with election
: wins in Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, and Virginia to name a few, voters in
: Houston, Texas overwhelmingly rejected a pro-transgender measure dubbed “
: the bathroom ordinance.” Not surprisingly, that did not sit well with The
: New York Times as it lamented the loss for the “equal rights ordinance.”
| B*******t
发帖数: 1623 | 5 你是说那些人不男不女？人告你歧视！
【在 M****o 的大作中提到】
: 以后厕所都分三种好了
: Man Women Others
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: Transgender
: in
| r****r
发帖数: 439 | 6 用“男女”这俩词本身就是歧视，新流行的说法叫“micro-aggression". 只能说：人
不过再过两年“人”也不能说了，因为歧视动物。只能说：being.
welcome to the fucking liberal world!
【在 B*******t 的大作中提到】
: 你是说那些人不男不女？人告你歧视！
| l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 7 那也要被告阿.
自认为是男人的女人不愿意和自认为是女人的男人共享一个洗手间.
【在 M****o 的大作中提到】
: 以后厕所都分三种好了
: Man Women Others
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: Transgender
: in
| X***R
发帖数: 2410 | 8 德州人民有正气。啥时变得和北加一样，天天处处得和 LGBT fight，就有些病入膏肓
太晚了。
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: New York Times Throws Massive Fit over Houston Voters Rejecting Transgender
: Bathroom Measure
: By Curtis Houck | November 4, 2015 | 1:47 AM EST
: 0
: shares
: In what was already a big night for conservatives on Tuesday with election
: wins in Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, and Virginia to name a few, voters in
: Houston, Texas overwhelmingly rejected a pro-transgender measure dubbed “
: the bathroom ordinance.” Not surprisingly, that did not sit well with The
: New York Times as it lamented the loss for the “equal rights ordinance.”
| A*********l
发帖数: 2005 | 9 小心大法官盼投票结果违宪。这个世道，大法官就是太上皇。
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: New York Times Throws Massive Fit over Houston Voters Rejecting Transgender
: Bathroom Measure
: By Curtis Houck | November 4, 2015 | 1:47 AM EST
: 0
: shares
: In what was already a big night for conservatives on Tuesday with election
: wins in Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, and Virginia to name a few, voters in
: Houston, Texas overwhelmingly rejected a pro-transgender measure dubbed “
: the bathroom ordinance.” Not surprisingly, that did not sit well with The
: New York Times as it lamented the loss for the “equal rights ordinance.”
| y*****n
发帖数: 11251 | 10 Well， Ben Carson said similar thing....
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: 你是说那些人不男不女？人告你歧视！
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