Citing restroom safety, NotMyBathroom.com opposes Missoula anti-discrimination ordinance

[Newsjock]

Source: Missoulian

An organization called NotMyBathroom.com announced this week its opposition to a city ordinance that would protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The Web site notes 17 affiliated groups but spokesman Dallas Erickson of Stevensville said most of the entities would remain nameless this week.

... So far, the only other group willing to identify itself as affiliated with NotMyBathroom.com is Concerned Women For America, said Erickson. CWA representatives already have come out against the proposed ordinance.

Slated for a public hearing April 12, the legislation would ban discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered folks in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodations, such as restaurants and hotels. It's similar to some 130 such ordinances across the country that protect people based on "actual or perceived ... sexual orientation, gender identity or expression," but it would break new ground in Montana.

In a news release available at MissoulaRedTape.com, NotMyBathroom.com notes a lengthy list of concerns with the ordinance. The group fears the law would create "a government assigned sex," cost businesses money "to provide toilet facilities," and possibly "force ministers to perform homosexual marriages."

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[rfranklin]

1. IRS agents with shotguns will force ministers at gunpoint to...

marry pet owners and their dogs. It's the logical conclusion to this madness!

[brendan120678]

2. I understand the need to protect people from...

discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

I also think that bans on discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered folks in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodations, such as hotels, are very much needed. However, I do not think that this should apply to restrooms.

In my not so humble opinion, no matter what your gender identity may be, if physically you have a penis, you should go into the room labeled "Men" and if you have a vagina you should use the room labeled "Women."

I see it more as a safety issue, rather than a discrimination issue.

[baldguy]

3. The only people they've got to worry about are repressed gay consevatives like Larry Craig.

Most normal people only use bathrooms to evacuate their bowels or empty their bladders when needed, and to clean up afterward. Sex is the furthest thing from their minds.

[LiberalLoner]

4. Hurrah for Missoula! Spent a good portion of my childhood in that town

Hope I can go home to live there someday.

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