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Real or the transgender kind?	False	non-toxic
The Democrats also fought for gay rights, civil rights, abortion rights, etc. Lyndon Johnson said the Democrats would lose the South, when he signed the Civil Rights Act. He was quite correct.	False	non-toxic
That is too easy. What you fail to understand that being a member of a protected class does not grant you special rights. If you are gay, that does not mean you can demand a political or terrorist type cake can be made for you. It just means that you have the same rights as everyone else. Every person is a member of a protected class, think about it. Here are some protected classes in Colorado: Race, Color, Disability, Sex, Sexual Orientation (including Transgender Status), National Origin/ Ancestry, Creed, Marital Status, Every person is a member of at least one of those. That does not grant a person any special rights. So, your gay KKK guy does not have some special right that grants him the ability to force anyone to make political or as you call it, ‘terrorist’ type, pastries or baked items.	False	non-toxic
First, transgendered individuals are not "confused". But given the number of municipalities with ordinances in place that allow individuals to use the washroom corresponding to their gender (over 200 in the US alone - plus several states and any number of school districts) if your concern were justified we'd have seen hundreds (thousands?) of cases of this happening. Instead, nothing - not a single reported case of anyone using transgender protections to enter a women's washroom in order to commit a crime. But, I do have a question for you? How are you going to know? And, if this was your daughter would you be willing to send her into the men's washroom? http://tinyurl.com/z6amznq	False	non-toxic
Dave, you are absolutely right. I am a gay woman and I'm also republican. I can't imagine why anyone would vote for her, especially gays and women!	False	non-toxic
Actually, what was originally intended was destroyed. I would almost call the disregard of the result Apostacy en masse except those who disagreed were correct. If you understand the Asexual Orientation of most bishops (celebate gays never get the job), the teaching, which alien to the experinece of healthy heterosexuals, was bound to fail. Of course, if you conveniently reject the concept of diverse sexual orientations in humanity none of this can make sense to you, which is like believing that Galileo had to be wrong because God had to be here, at the center of the universe. Those deductive reasoning ”have to bes” are the Achilles heal in most of the Catholic Doctrine that can’t cope with modern science and medicine. Nothing ”has to be” if the evidence life provides contradicts it. That is common sense, not modernism.	False	non-toxic
"How to know if your child is transgender" The real problem for grownups is how to know if that hott person you met at the supermarket has the correct parts for what the spaceship pilots call "rendezvous and docking."	False	non-toxic
Easy-peasy. Determine the percentage of transgender people among eligible candidates. Ensure the perecentage of appointments of MtoF and FtoM corresponds. Ignore merit. That's how it's supposed to work with all of the other groups -- it would be grossly unfair to treat anyone differently. Of course, if people refuse to self-identify, it would create its own set of problems.	False	non-toxic
Indeed, you must be right, Frank, for it says at the top of this very story: By The Associated Press. This just in from Les Nessman and the "AP news wire" . . . two special nuggets were left out of the original version from The Oregonian: 1) "Men, especially homosexual men, account for the majority of cases in Oregon and nationwide." 2) Multnomah County leads the VD way in Oregon with a fun-loving 250 cases per 100,000.	False	non-toxic
The downside of Pro-Choice is, Adoption is rarely considered as an option. With adoption - the child lives, and a wanting couple become parents - everybody wins! With the rise in same-sex marriages, and heterosexual couples wanting to become parents at a later age when they are less fertile, we need more children for adaption. Promote Adoption, and rid the shame surrounding Adoption!	False	non-toxic
I guess I could whine and moan, and say how "perplexed" I am that Kate Brown, our liberal bisexual governor (that's what she claimed) was elected, and how an extension of Kitty Piercy (the hateful Lucy Vinis) was elected mayor, but what good would that do?	False	non-toxic
Just now when I Googled "transgender transabled" the first few entries that turned up were (unsurprisingly) from right-wing web sites: Breitbart, Americafreedomblog, the Federalist, etc. Funny that. Sounds to me like an ideology in search of an analogy. While, unlike you, I would never be so bold as to question a person's understanding of his or her own identity, upon further reading I found that the incidence of trans-abled people is actually quite small, unlike the 2-5% of the population who identify as transgender, and that transability was recently added to the emerging measures and models appendix section of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It seems that this disorder (and it is classified as a disorder) is starting to be thought of as a neurological problem with the body’s mapping, rather than a mental illness. Suffice it to say that in both the case of transgendered people and transabled people, unlike you, I believe they are to be taken at their word.	False	non-toxic
'the two poles in the party’s leadership race are libertarians and social conservatives.' Please elect someone from either end. Signed, the Liberal Party. Anyway, the winner may have some ideas, but the cpc itself won't put them into a policy paper if they think it will lose them an election. Both those poles come into that category. And when did scheer suddenly become second favourite? It's difficult to keep up with a competition that sometimes seems to have more candidates than seats in Ottawa, but I thought chong was up there? One thing the article informed me on. The cpc hasn't yet recognized trans-gender rights? Wow. But then it was only a few months ago they agreed on same-sex marriage. The cpc should get into the 20th century sometime soon..	False	non-toxic
"an era in Hollywood when men were men and women were women and nobody apologized about it." Not exactly. It was also a period when gay men and women felt they had to hide their sexuality or destroy their careers - Rock Hudson for one..	False	non-toxic
Not disagreeing that Transgender individuals have higher suicide rates than the regular population. Just saying this is a major problem that will not go away. Just be thankful that you don't have this problem. It would be nice to know more about this study such as did it include any reasons why this may be so?	False	non-toxic
Those laws were in large part the result of "Those who know best" do-gooders who used electroshock and concepts of eugenics and "Cuckoos Nest" treatments on the unwilling or gay or otherwise undesirables in the guise of psychology. The courts finally acted and then the Legislatures.	False	non-toxic
The law is not based on your personal experience with gay and transgender people -- or your belief that transgender females will not seek to shower in wide open shower rooms or use women locker rooms. The law applies whether the transgender population is .4 percent, 4 percent, or 40 percent of the population. It does not matter one whit if the transgender person has no resemblance to the sex they identify with. It only matters what sex the transgenders identifies with in their mind. What I wrote is not unnecessary rhetoric, it is the law.	False	non-toxic
Please enumerate for me the EXACT amendment to the US Constitution that addresses and guarantees the right to gay marriage. I can't seem to find it in my copy.	False	non-toxic
Yes name calling is alive and well on both sides. You are floored by this offensive albeit obscure insult. It is certainly rude. As a centrist, I however, am equally floored by the cavalier use of "alt-right" by the leftist media - a label attached to virtually anyone who questions the immigration system, the subversiveness of some "equal rights groups" (who fund riots and discourse directly, in order to gain funding) under the guise of equal rights for all, or someone who takes a sovereign/protectionist (you call nationalist) stance on other issues. Just look at Berkeley - many of you applaud the efforts of the students to riot, and destroy property with the goal of muzzling someone whose ideas conflict with theirs. The individual in question also happens to be a gay jew and immigrant. Do we call these individuals who chant "no borders no nations" and tag "kill trump" on the campus walls, the "alt-left"?	False	non-toxic
I want my child and grandchildren to have healthy sexual principles. I want them to respect their own minds, souls, and bodies and to respect the minds, souls and bodies of the ones they love. I want them to look at sexuality in the context of the whole person, and to see the value of fidelity and monogamy, one to the other, to the one they each commit to spend their lives with, when they find that person. I think those are healthy sexual principles, and I think those principles apply equally to heterosexual and homosexual.	False	non-toxic
And people choose to be gay. I do not. I have no problem with them choosing it as I have a number of gay friends, but they chose to be with a same sex. And I choose not to be offended by them.	False	non-toxic
Firsts usually get mentions in our society. Transgender is also a big issue to talk about these days so anyone running this story is going to get a lot of clicks. The DP and other "news" sources are trying to make money, not intelligently and responsibly report news.	False	non-toxic
The question a journalist ought to have posed to Trudeau is this: If an apology from Ottawa is so appropriate and needed, then why sir did YOU YOURSELF not deliver the apology? I mean, come on, after all, Trudeau is an apology-issuing machine, having issued past apologies on everything from west coast migration events ("Trudeau apologizes in House for 1914 Komagata Maru incident") to Ontario-originating partner laws ("Egale Applauds Trudeau’s Announcement of Apology to Persecuted Gay Canadians") to shoulder-checking politicians ("Trudeau apologises for elbowing opposition MP in Canada's parliament) to choice of language ("Trudeau apologizes for answering English question in French at Sherbrooke town hall"), the list goes on and on. Sorry, Trudeau, you cannot have it both ways. Either an apology is TRULY a paramount need and therefore YOU step forward to deliver it in full throated fashion, or else an apology is not that at all and you play manipulative games today with your words.	False	non-toxic
The "faith" of the people has changed since the introduction of the Novus Ordo Missae. Lex credendi, lex orandi indeed. Here are some of the things that New Order "Catholics" believe today, which we see in their very own posts daily on this site alone: -A belief that the murder of unborn children is acceptable - gay "marriage" is acceptable -gay sexual relationships are not intrinsically sinful - situational ethics are fine - divorced and "re-married people living in a state of sin aren't actually sinning and should be allowed to receive the Novus Ordo cookie - only 22% of "Catholics" believe in the Real Presence - sins against the 7th commandment are fine if the government sanctions such activity - De fide sacramental theology is to be tossed aside in favor of "equality" - all are saved, including heretics, pagans, Jews, Muslims, and even atheists, in contravention to Catholic dogma To allow the traditional Mass is to undo the political machinations & heresy of the New Order.	False	non-toxic
There is no "homosexual agenda", other than a desire to (1) be accepted for who they are and (2) to be left alone to be what they are. Your fear and loathing for them does not speak well of you.	False	non-toxic
Some of the women in Romans 16-17 likely presided at Eucharist. One, Prisciala, was the first bishop of Rome (Paul did not mention Cephas). While these men and women might be missionaries coming in, they still included females. I have no problem with male priests, female, gay or married, but they need to reject the ideal of Continence, which seems to be the root of all dysfunction in Catholic sexuality. Beyond that women priests need to be the voice of the pro-life movement, particularly married women.	False	non-toxic
The entrenchment of the fringe? No, sir. The resurgence of the main street. Love him or hate him, Trump built his campaign around issues that matter to the voters like economic revival, rule of law and immigration control. The fringe lost, on all electoral levels, because they embraced issues that don't matter like transgender bathrooms, global warming, outsourcing, massive illegal immigration, politics of racial divide, etc. The fringe wants to push the main street into believing it's the fringe, but not many are buying it outside of the bubble.	False	non-toxic
He is bitterly attacking Fr. Martin using anti-gay slurs; he isn't engaging in respectful dialogue.	False	non-toxic
Is that the same "alt right" who oppose abortion, contraception, homosexual marriage; and who defend the traditional family, the rule of law, and the principle of subsidiarity? You know, all those things in conformity with 2000 years of Church teaching. Just askin....	False	non-toxic
First of all where is there a Muslim bakery? Secondly, the baker probably wouldn't refuse. I know lots of Muslims, and, while they do not agree with homosexuality, do not mistreat gays in any shape, form or fashion.	False	non-toxic
Trudeau has more important things to do like promoting gay lifestyle and same sex marriage	False	non-toxic
By religious right do you mean Islam too? Seen what they do to gay people in some Muslim countries?	False	non-toxic
This is so going to backfire. The result will be that people will draw into their own enclaves and refuse to associate with those they might suspect to be trans, even if they are not. You can't prove that a company with 20 qualified applicants disqualified anyone they suspected being trans/gender diverse because they don't want to have to deal with pronoun questions. Gender neutral, not definitively masculine or feminine enough, any question at at will lead to skewed stats as well because any stats on gender/identity hiring will not accurately reflect hiring practices because the decision will be based on an internal impression rather than any information and the data will be impacted more by a given hirer's perception than any reality.	False	non-toxic
Amen! If the transgender individual has a high-enough GPA (or military equivalent), has passed all coursework, and his/her rank within the graduating class qualifies for graduation, then s/he deserves to be treated like the other graduates. If this person is willing and able to serve, the Air Force should salute and say "Thank you!"	False	non-toxic
so let me get this straight. Because 20% of the Canadian Conservatives don't agree with gay marriage it is okay to bring in a group of people who would be 100% against gay marriage and gays and feel that it is their moral duty to take action against it? There are basically no Canadians (Liberal, Conservative, NDP, or Green or PQ) that think that women are second class life forms and should be subjugated to the will of their male betters. There is a significant number of the would be immigrants that have as their basic belief system the rights of male dominance. Is the plan to adapt Canadian Society to this belief system or ghettoize them within Canadian society. I would like the to understand the plan. I believe that the default plan is integration to Canadian society that has been successful with wave after wave of immigrants. Has there every been a wave of immigrants that have had such a contrary basic belief system?	False	non-toxic
Was that special 'gay money' they used? My argument was that if these allegations are true it's just an an abuse of power, it has nothing to do with his orientation.	False	non-toxic
That is only one of the arguments made by North Dakota and Minnesota two days ago in front of the US Supreme Court. By June 30, 2017, we will know whether that is still the law or not. Just like gay marriage, firearms rights, and any other laws, the last word from the US Supreme Court is what the law actually is. Since the US Supreme Court is still wrestling with breathalyzer evidence admissability at least 50 years after they became common, your Hound Labs Inc. test is not likely to be useful for marijuana detection, or useful to fire someone, or useful to convict someone of Driving Under the Influence in the immediate future.	False	non-toxic
The Constitutional 'protections' depend on the interpretation of 5 of 9 unelected judges. "Protected classes" depend on a majority of legislators state by state or maybe in the US Congress. And then by that decision of the 5 of 9 unelected judges. Only the decision of one judge made 'gay marriage' legal in Oregon, despite the majority votes of the people of Oregon.	False	non-toxic
Then you reject the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the entire tradition of Catholic moral theology. "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God." (1 Cor 6-11).	False	non-toxic
Actually you're wrong about Neil. He lost his job when he brought the legislature into special session to approve homosexual marriage.	False	non-toxic
"It's good you are acknowledging that LGBT people are "hurting, afraid ... often alone" and "broken"." No, it isn't. Why is it good? If you hung around self-accepting LGBT people in good relationships you would know it's a lie--pathologizing perfectly normal people who have challenges overcoming a hostile world, although that hostility is vanishing as more and more people stop buying the ancient taboos.	False	non-toxic
Why do you believe Islam to be a religion where men and women aren't equal or that gays aren't tolerated? Have you read the Bible recently? Here are some interesting excerpts for you to ponder: “In the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.” (Romans 1:27) “Do not allow a sorceress to live.” (Exodus 22:18) “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.” (1 Timothy 2:12) So, as you can see, there are similar beliefs in other religions as well. But, I don't hear you complaining about those.	False	non-toxic
You can distinguish between facts and values. For instance, it is a fact that a very large majority of humans are either clearly male or clearly female, and the adults are heterosexual. It is also a fact that there is a very small minority whose physiques have both male and female characteristics, another very small minority who are physically one sex and psychologically the other, and a somewhat larger minority who are homosexual or bisexual. There is another small minority of adults who have no sexual orientation; they are simply not interested in sex. All of these facts can be taught. The differences between male and female physiques can be taught. The mechanics of sexual interactions can be taught, even those interactions that some people consider "sinful" or "perverted", without introducing any opinions about the rightness or wrongness of particular interactions. In short, teach facts at school; teach values at home, or church.	False	non-toxic
Most Christians understand that consenting adults have whatever relationship they want, and the vast majority of younger Christians feel very strongly about this. The "Religious Right" consists of old guys like you that think Charles Wohlforth still uses a typewriter. Here's a newsflash - "leftists" would consider it an improvement if the "Religious Right" began referring to homosexuals as the "Gay Left." Their current terms are far more derogatory. The many gay republicans might take issue with this, though. Eddie - you should analyze your impact in these discussions. Despite your loud protestations, Anchorage recently elected Berkowitz and a more liberal Assembly majority. I'm guessing thoughtful comments moved some voters to toward the other side. In fact, I'm guessing the liberals applaud every time you post.	False	non-toxic
That's what I mean. The bakers are claiming a civil ceremony is a religious belief, yet they don't seem to think that gay people can also hold such religious beliefs about the civil ceremony.	False	non-toxic
Well, at least Trump did not need to go all over the country to march in gay parades to get elected, as another "leader" we all know has.	False	non-toxic
This is the military we are talking about where an order on the Transgender ban from the top - the commander-in-chief is a military order. There is no such thing as being "blindsided" by an order from the top in the military.	False	non-toxic
The parents need to join the 21st century. Reckless behavior happens because we marginalized gay sexuality. Redefining it as differently ordered allows us to encourage monogamy with a straight face. Calling their sexuality always disordered gives away the standing to say anything, as does including this conversation in a larger moralist rhetoric designed to pander to the the lowest common denominator in the Alt Right. That is messed up. Interestingly, many gays and lesbians follow monogamy naturally because it is the natural thing to do, More would if it were not for the hate mongers.	False	non-toxic
God doesn't need money, but people and institutions do. God runs on love, but churches need heat, electricity, rent or mortgage payments, staff salaries, etc. Would you be so upset with Paula Williams if she was still in the closet as Paul Williams making tons of money for homophobic churches? As far as God's attitude towards trans and gay people, I'll leave that up to God. S/he's more merciful than a lot of His/Her followers.	False	non-toxic
I suspect that any court will support both the gay couple and Cheyenne Mountain Resort. And that both would be consistent with established law. But please, Nazi lovers, take it to the Supreme Court - if they will let you in the door.	False	non-toxic
When was the last time Jews went into gay bars and killed people dancing?	False	non-toxic
hello PGTL so calling a person a "leftist" is name-calling? I thought it was complimentary that i recognize them and respect their "identity" much like acknowledging a person is transgender and using the right gender pronoun why do you take the word "leftist" as derogatory name-calling you insult leftists	False	non-toxic
Very good point! Nothing wrong about a gay person serving as a judge. Nothing! However it is only right that any party appearing before Judge Carlson in a family matter, especially where child custody or life style issues are present, should be made aware of his alternative life style, in order to decide whether to exercise their legal right to recuse the judge and have another judge assigned their case. It is called a peremptory challenge where no expressed reason need be given. It is used all the time when a party to a court action has reason to believe that a judge may be biased but the person may not have enough to challenge for cause. They simply thank and excuse the judge. Judge Carlson portrayed himself as a heterosexual for many years when he knew he was not. Many parties to domestic relation actions in his court came away feeling they were mistreated and then found out that they lacked information when it came to deciding whether to exercise their peremptory challenge.	False	non-toxic
It will continue this way, the variations in identity are continuing to grow along a spectrum. The problem with your point is that a counter argument would be to just call both groups 'women', but then that would lead to confusion in certain relevant situations (like in these kinds of discussions). So, perhaps 'cis' or 'non-trans' should only be used to refer to groups when we are explicitly discussing gender issues or maybe medical discussions - in normal conversation 'women' should be sufficient. With respect to human rights - generic terms like 'gender identity' could be used which would not exclude women.	False	non-toxic
Why even state such an obvious tautology like that? Is it not just as true that homosexuals find natural man/woman sex acts icky as well? Should that disgust be counted against them like you count the natural disgust of homosexual acts against normal men and women? Or are "gays" somehow special and exempt from such indictments?	False	non-toxic
You won't want to miss the Boston Globe's excellent Michael Cohen on what a disaster Newt Gingrich has been for the US, in so many ways. As for the disapproval of the "homosexual representative," let's be sure we understand there is NO good reason to object to the presence of a gay person anywhere, other things being equal, and that all objection to gay people is an issue of the past that fair-minded people have turned away from. On the other hand, whether we want to call the conduct of Newt and Callista Gingrich sinful or not, there is reason, perhaps, for mistrusting them. For that matter, being not just a Republican but one who is willing to work for the current president is already plenty of a reason for mistrust.	False	non-toxic
I'm glad it worked for you. I know 2 transgendered people and neither seems altogether happy.	False	non-toxic
Outsider: Just re-read your post and couldn't resist another response or two. a) the couple was denied service (the baking of a wedding cake) PRECISELY because they were lesbians....the bakery owners admitted this....their defense was that the refusal was an exercise of "freedom of religion" b) The bakery regularly make wedding cakes for heterosexual couples, it was an integral component of the services they provided...therefore, refusal to make one was refusal of service. c) there are, indeed, specific jurisdictions which have included "political beliefs" in statutes prohibiting discrimination by service providers...Oregon and/or Portland do not have such a statute. If you feel one is needed, support its adoption. d) as a liberal, I will continue to defend the rights of all individuals. Read the article I linked for you. Regards and best wishes, Gary Crum	False	non-toxic
Ignoring the Media Stumping for Hillary, Trumps views are very populist. He isn't extreme. it is his rhetoric that is turning people off. And of course the leftwing media twisting it into to something it isn't. If Utah is the reddist state, then it isn't moderate is it? a purple state would be more moderate. Change from within? Those not towing the line are enemies? Be specific. Its not a matter of being on the wrong side of history. Its a matter of using the Constitution as your guiding document and living with in its confines. You change the law, you don't interpret it differently to suit you as attitudes change. You don't discover rights that never existed. Woman's right to vote was brought by law, not a judge deciding it was a right denied. Slavery was changed by law and a war, not by a judge. The same thing could have happened with Gay Marriage. Calling it a right denied is a perversion of our constitution. It is judicial activism seeking an outcome.	False	non-toxic
"Violent crimes committed against transgender people are drastically under-reported nationwide" Please enlighten the readers and tell us how you know this to be true	False	non-toxic
It took SCOTUS to make gay marriage recognized across all 50 states. I agree that CCW should be recognized across state lines, as much because it falls under the clauses you mentioned in your first post. It may very well take SCOTUS to make that determination as well. Glad to see you are consistent, so many folks are not, when it comes to gay marriage and/or guns.	False	non-toxic
LW1 - That's an awful situation for kids to have to deal with, clearly. I have to believe if the parents knew how it was affecting their kids, they'd make some efforts to change their behavior and at least try to behave more civilly towards each other. I like Amy's idea of writing a letter to them expressing how the parents' behavior is taking a toll on the kids. LW3 - Thank you! I have encountered gay people who make passing references that casually allude to being gay without making a big deal about it. I much prefer that to someone making a big announcement about it or making blunt comments that make it blatantly obvious that someone's gay or whatever (like "Dad of a Transgender" did). Like, am I supposed to throw you a party or applaud or something? Why the need to make a big deal about it and turn it into everyone's business? I honestly don't care whether someone's gay or not. That's their concern and I don't need to know either way unless I'm actually friends with them.	False	non-toxic
IRT Peter (aka Boots), of course there are mutations as you mention, a female with xxy chromosome set, or a male with xyy chromosome set, but sadly they do not survive past puberty with all their physical and mental problems. Therefore, if that is the case, nearly all 99.9% of the transgender is a male or female when entering the military service at 18 years of age.	False	non-toxic
There are numerous incidents of males using women's restrooms to secretly photograph women and act out their perversions. I noticed the author did not expand her argument to highlight we have no reports of normal people "attacking" (authors words) transgender bathroom users. So this was just a (poorly) veiled attempt to argue for letting people play dress up and pretend they are something they are not...FAIL, Mr(s) Wolfe	False	non-toxic
As opposed to pro-abortion, pro-gay-"marriage" Hilary?	False	non-toxic
_CivilSociety: "BTW, I see a court challenge coming, the marginalised are no longer willing to stay silent, suffer silently." Give it a rest. Attempting to connect the U.S. military with the rights of transgenders is misplaced. NO ONE has the right to serve in the U.S. military. Certain medical and aptitude standards must be met. Medical documentation show transgender persons have higher rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse compared to others. That alone is enough to disqualify them from serving.	False	non-toxic
"And I always say that if I ever believed Canada was really the Canada of Stephen Harper and we were going against abortion and going against gay marriage, and we were going backward in 10,000 different ways, maybe I'd think of wanting to make Quebec a country." ~ Justin Trudeau when he was an MP during a radio interview with host Franco Nuovo in February 2012. During the talk show, when Nuovo expressed surprise at Trudeau's remarks, Trudeau doubled down: "Oh yes, absolutely. If I no longer recognized Canada, I know my own values." However to be fair to the Tater Tot he was but a callow youth of 41 years of age at the time... just a seed potato eh? That sound you heard was Pierre Trudeau turning over in his grave.	False	non-toxic
Who your kids marry is up to them. We know that for males whether they are gay is predetermined. No so much for lesbians. Regardless, recent and soon to be unfolding legal developments will give all young people an accepting system that already matches their culture. They don't see this issue as a big deal (unless they are sucking up to coservative parents or bosses, and the latter is less likely). Only bullies are the exception. If we can make them behave (and their parents), society has a good future. Any society that happened to have open homosexuality that fell did so for different reasons, usually having to do with concentration of wealth and the unwillingness to tax it.	False	non-toxic
I wasn't ignoring your Lincoln comment. I've known that for a couple of decades. But it does not undo all he did. I taught that Franklin Roosevelt had affairs but not that Elanore might have been gay. I didn't even know that 30 years ago. Oh, and I got in trouble for what I said about Roosevelt too. So I have been on the front lines. You say you like fact based history but I think you imply hypocrisy on the part of our favored sons. That sounds like judgement to me. I especially like historiography.	False	non-toxic
Every American Service member should declare tomorrow that he or she is transgender. That might lead to Trump's demise.	False	non-toxic
Canada, Sweden and Holland will be the only of 190 countries of the UN to have transgender soldiers When captured by ISIS then what? Putting transgender soldiers in danger not very politically correct	False	non-toxic
Neither political party supports a persons right to bear arms, it's just a issue that works for getting people excited and to vote. Same thing with abortion, gay marriage, ect.	False	non-toxic
So Leah gets axed for a week and Tabby has more space to squeak, about matters quite gay that she wont let go away In a column that’s typically weak.	False	non-toxic
Yet another reason to defund the publicly funded discrimination. What do you expect from a board who routinley fires gay employess and our province knowingly lets them get away with it? Wasn't aware we were still in the 1800's.	False	non-toxic
Did Trudeau say "The Canadian army welcomes illegal immigrants and transgender. Diversity is our strength" Enough strength to win wars, which is the purpose of armies ?	False	non-toxic
Layla herself has previously pointed out that the Garratts would never vote for a "Liberal", let alone Trudeau. As members of the PAoC, they are part of a socially conservative, evangelical Christian movement which very strongly supported Harper in both his leadership bid and in the elections which followed. The PAoC, along with other Christian Right groups (eg: Charles McVety) do not like "Liberals" because of their stance on abortion, gay rights, etc. Kudos to Kevin Garratt for thanking Trudeau, which was probably not easy for him.	False	non-toxic
The issue is whether he discriminated against gays or whether he discriminated against "offensive art" he was being asked to "create"....just as a "vegan music composer" can decline to come up with a jingle for a hamburger chain. - "People" might enjoy "special class protection." "Offensive works of art" might not. Gay guy goes into his bakery and buys already-made cupcakes. No problem. But when a customer asks him, as an "artist," to design, decorate, and create an "edible work of art" that celebrates "anything" the baker finds "offensive," does "offensive art" enjoy the same "class protection status" that "people" do?	False	non-toxic
Santa Claus parade does not play politics so did not get finger burned Pride Toronto plays politics so deserves to get fingers and toes burned- . worst case was when QuAIA marched (Queers against israeli apartheid) Israel has gay rights Palestine does not QuAIA were not logical	False	non-toxic
Current Conservative ideology seems to be mostly composed of ideas that deny reality. The problem isn't that Conservatism's opinions and policies are disagreeable--it's that those opinions are far out of touch with known facts. Evolution, global warming, economic theory--tax cuts for the wealthy are proven to not fix much of anything. Gay marriage, how exactly can it hurt straight marriage again? O'Leary will be perfect in the Land of Myths, peopled by the myth-makers and true believers.	False	non-toxic
Maybe this will help: I'm classified as lesbian, or is it Lesbian? Is it a noun, maybe a proper noun, or an adjective? Certainly there's a descriptive in the word. Maybe Gay Woman? Is this the tack I want to take, correcting people to make sure that they refer to me and mine as "lesbian women" or "gay woman"? There are, IMO, words that clarify something about us without necessitating further qualifiers: She's American. (American woman) They're gay (that group of people) The Christians. The gays. The lesbians. The druggies. The Socilaists. The transgenders. Anyway, if you're the Seda from the article, I applaud your courage in coming out and I very sincerely wish you and your family all the best.	False	non-toxic
How is our right to worship hurting the LGBT community.	False	non-toxic
I have not read his book. None of the reviews I've read, positive or negative, has claimed that Fr. Martin has exhorted us to reject Church teaching. The negative ones fault him for not repeating it. I have not seen anything which indicates Fr. Martin has argued to accept gay conduct as acceptable. Some have claimed that Fr. Martin has implied acceptance because he has not specifically condemned such conduct. I don't buy that claim. Even if true, it is not an exhortation. Can you cite a source for your claim? How has Fr. Martin not held "true to the one true faith?"	False	non-toxic
It's not a matter of discrimination. It's a matter of added costs to provide sex change surgeries to the transgender. Transgender people should get their sex change operations at their own expense.	False	non-toxic
Ontario was both our manufacturing hub, and at certain times a technology leader (Nortel, Blackberry). Now due to terrible mismanagement the provincial government has made it the place for industry to flee from due to outrageous taxes, regulations, and energy costs. In addition our transfer payment system rewards low productivity, and Manitoba and all points east are over-taxed welfare states. The role of government is to create the environment for business to flourish, full stop. If that happens we can afford to build safe spaces and transgender washrooms. Until then we just add to debt for the nice-to-haves.	False	non-toxic
A misdemeanor. A fine. And under a recent Montana law, maybe expungement. "If your expungement is successful, the case is dismissed and all legal records relating to your misdemeanor, including court records will be destroyed. This means there will be no record that you were ever arrested, charged, convicted, or sentenced." Only the media will still care. It will be like that 'civil compromise' we had a year or so ago of the pedophile charge against the gay rights activist and fund raiser, Terry Bean, here in Eugene. Spend enough money, Republican or Democrat, and such things go away.	False	non-toxic
I can relate. I'm a male lesbian. I only like women.	False	non-toxic
What a peculiar article. Transgender people believe they are the opposite gender and are just trapped in the wrong body. No evidence is given in this article that any of these people believed this. One woman liked dressing in men's clothes. She didn't claim to be a man. Others indulged her eccentricity, but I've always been told that crossdressers, like this woman, are not the same as transgender people. "Researchers at the National Archives have found evidence that at least 250 women dressed as men to fight in the 1860s, some motivated by ideology, some by a taste for adventure and some by the need for a job. Most of those who survived presumably returned to their lives as women. But others continued to live as men after the war." The fact that women DISGUISED themselves to do the jobs they wanted in a world where women weren't allowed has absolutely nothing to do with women or men who truly believe they are the opposite sex from their biology.	False	non-toxic
Yet, when asked whether there should be provisions that include protections on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender identity, 57% of the Anchorage voters voted NO. http://www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Clerk/Elections/Election%20Results/2012ElectionResultsOFFICIAL.pdf Personally, it makes no difference to me. But the matter should not have been dictated by the Assembly, as it was.	False	non-toxic
I believe every province has criteria and a process for people to change their sex designation from male to female or vice versa., but changing to a sex designation other than male or female is yet to be fully addressed. Although Ontario issues health cards and drivers licenses with the sex designation X to indicate a non-binary gender identity, nobody has issued a birth certificate with the sex designation X yet, and the federal government hasn't announced any plans to allow a third sex on passports either. By the way, as to someone's identification matching how they present publicly, I have no idea how a non-binary person is supposed to look and I doubt anybody else does either.	False	non-toxic
"...and statistics?" From Wikipedia, quoting the CDC: "It finds a victimization prevalence of 43.8 percent for lesbians, making it the second most affected group after bisexual women (61.1 percent), ahead of bisexual men (37.3 percent), heterosexual women (35 percent), heterosexual men (29 percent) and homosexual men (26 percent)." I think the operative saying is seek and ye shall find.	False	non-toxic
Lots of ideas? Anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-lgbtq, anti-healthcare, pro-lower-taxes-for-the-rich may not be ideas you want to take to the voters. And it would be better if the platform was not only 'to oppose the current Liberal administration' but to show voters what you have to offer in return. That seems difficult for conservatives to understand.	False	non-toxic
On the contrary, there is very strong evidence of the biological origins of transgender identities. From Chung and Auger, European Journal of Physiology, 2013: http://tinyurl.com/hbvmgmm "Gender-dependent differentiation of the brain has been detected at every level of organization -- morphological, neurochemical, and functional -- and has been shown to be primarily controlled by sex differences in gonadal steroid hormone levels during perinatal development." Transgender identities appear to be a genuine mismatch between primary sexual characteristic and neurological phenotypes during prenatal development. Or you could try reading this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654067/	False	non-toxic
All forms of hate needs to be eliminated. All forms of racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, anti-semitism and laws discriminating against Transgenders. We need to get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne and fight all forms of hate which includes Trump and this law in Quebec!	False	non-toxic
Correct. This sort of propaganda is supposed to distract the masses from the fact that this wasn't about Hillary but rather was about how the democrats basically became republicans in all but name, pro-choice, and gay marriage issues. It wasn't just Hillary who lost: the dems were wiped out from local straight on up to state, congress, and yes, the white house. And no amount of messages reinforcing the 'cult of personality' will change people's minds. We are done with the neo-liberal agenda.	False	non-toxic
I would appreciate it if someone who has a better handle on these issues would answer this question: what criterion do we use to distinguish the situation of transgender people from that of transabled people? Is the answer that we support both groups in their search and, if so, are we enabling transabled people as they harm themselves? Thank you for any light you may shed on this for me.	False	non-toxic
8 justices voted for gay marriage and sodomy rights and the one who voted no died. It is a non-issue. Indeed, ENDA will likely happen by Court decision before the term is out. The GOP has no room to actually propose anything on gay rights and won't on abortion (I told it how). Last I checked, the ACA was enacted and I suspect the Trump orders to gut it won't survive, nor will his simplistic presidency. Wait until you see the backlash. It will make 1974 look bipartisan.	False	non-toxic
Paul McHugh, former Johns Hopkins University psychiatrist in chief, has noted in the Wall Street Journal that the suicide rate among transgender individuals is 20 times higher than in the normal population. Its not the panacea everyone believes, as the emotional stress leading to hormone therapy, and/or surgery, to counter DNA assignment, needs to be dealt with in a compassionate way. Speak the truth in love as this has long term consequences	False	non-toxic
It's not an "understanding" of his faith, but rather, a misunderstanding. In order to assuage his conscience, all he need do is read and follow the precepts of Jesus. Kennedy may very well be a "classic conservative," or one that is not so hateful. I never could understand why modern conservatives bought the line that homosexuality (or sex in general) is a sin," punishable by some sort of action or law. One would logically think they would object to Big Government's intrusion in this regard. When I see pictures of this baker, I do see anger and hate.	False	non-toxic
Yes, it is dysphoria, but that doesn't really do anything but put a formal name on it. And, yes, becoming transgender is one treatment option, allowing the individual to at least largely reconcile the dysphoria.	False	non-toxic
That's a decent argument if the facts support it. However, the article states that Bearden was a top amateur male, and the top amateurs race with the pros so he was clearly on the same level as top-tier domestic male riders. The only meaningful difference between pros and top amateurs in the U.S. is the level of sponsorship and the team's decision to go pro. It looks like she is a pro mainly because she developed a transgender awareness-oriented team with that level of sponsorship. Also, she's not winning every race or smothering the competition. Unless she starts dominating the women's peloton or there is a proliferation of transgender athletes dominating the races, I don't see a major change in the near future.	False	non-toxic

Real or the transgender kind?

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The Democrats also fought for gay rights, civil rights, abortion rights, etc. Lyndon Johnson said the Democrats would lose the South, when he signed the Civil Rights Act. He was quite correct.

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That is too easy. What you fail to understand that being a member of a protected class does not grant you special rights. If you are gay, that does not mean you can demand a political or terrorist type cake can be made for you. It just means that you have the same rights as everyone else. Every person is a member of a protected class, think about it. Here are some protected classes in Colorado: Race, Color, Disability, Sex, Sexual Orientation (including Transgender Status), National Origin/ Ancestry, Creed, Marital Status, Every person is a member of at least one of those. That does not grant a person any special rights. So, your gay KKK guy does not have some special right that grants him the ability to force anyone to make political or as you call it, ‘terrorist’ type, pastries or baked items.

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First, transgendered individuals are not "confused". But given the number of municipalities with ordinances in place that allow individuals to use the washroom corresponding to their gender (over 200 in the US alone - plus several states and any number of school districts) if your concern were justified we'd have seen hundreds (thousands?) of cases of this happening. Instead, nothing - not a single reported case of anyone using transgender protections to enter a women's washroom in order to commit a crime. But, I do have a question for you? How are you going to know? And, if this was your daughter would you be willing to send her into the men's washroom? http://tinyurl.com/z6amznq

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Dave, you are absolutely right. I am a gay woman and I'm also republican. I can't imagine why anyone would vote for her, especially gays and women!

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Actually, what was originally intended was destroyed. I would almost call the disregard of the result Apostacy en masse except those who disagreed were correct. If you understand the Asexual Orientation of most bishops (celebate gays never get the job), the teaching, which alien to the experinece of healthy heterosexuals, was bound to fail. Of course, if you conveniently reject the concept of diverse sexual orientations in humanity none of this can make sense to you, which is like believing that Galileo had to be wrong because God had to be here, at the center of the universe. Those deductive reasoning ”have to bes” are the Achilles heal in most of the Catholic Doctrine that can’t cope with modern science and medicine. Nothing ”has to be” if the evidence life provides contradicts it. That is common sense, not modernism.

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"How to know if your child is transgender" The real problem for grownups is how to know if that hott person you met at the supermarket has the correct parts for what the spaceship pilots call "rendezvous and docking."

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Easy-peasy. Determine the percentage of transgender people among eligible candidates. Ensure the perecentage of appointments of MtoF and FtoM corresponds. Ignore merit. That's how it's supposed to work with all of the other groups -- it would be grossly unfair to treat anyone differently. Of course, if people refuse to self-identify, it would create its own set of problems.

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Indeed, you must be right, Frank, for it says at the top of this very story: By The Associated Press. This just in from Les Nessman and the "AP news wire" . . . two special nuggets were left out of the original version from The Oregonian: 1) "Men, especially homosexual men, account for the majority of cases in Oregon and nationwide." 2) Multnomah County leads the VD way in Oregon with a fun-loving 250 cases per 100,000.

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The downside of Pro-Choice is, Adoption is rarely considered as an option. With adoption - the child lives, and a wanting couple become parents - everybody wins! With the rise in same-sex marriages, and heterosexual couples wanting to become parents at a later age when they are less fertile, we need *more* children for adaption. Promote Adoption, and rid the shame surrounding Adoption!

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I guess I could whine and moan, and say how "perplexed" I am that Kate Brown, our liberal bisexual governor (that's what she claimed) was elected, and how an extension of Kitty Piercy (the hateful Lucy Vinis) was elected mayor, but what good would that do?

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Just now when I Googled "transgender transabled" the first few entries that turned up were (unsurprisingly) from right-wing web sites: Breitbart, Americafreedomblog, the Federalist, etc. Funny that. Sounds to me like an ideology in search of an analogy. While, unlike you, I would never be so bold as to question a person's understanding of his or her own identity, upon further reading I found that the incidence of trans-abled people is actually quite small, unlike the 2-5% of the population who identify as transgender, and that transability was recently added to the emerging measures and models appendix section of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It seems that this disorder (and it is classified as a disorder) is starting to be thought of as a neurological problem with the body’s mapping, rather than a mental illness. Suffice it to say that in both the case of transgendered people and transabled people, unlike you, I believe they are to be taken at their word.

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'the two poles in the party’s leadership race are libertarians and social conservatives.' Please elect someone from either end. Signed, the Liberal Party. Anyway, the winner may have some ideas, but the cpc itself won't put them into a policy paper if they think it will lose them an election. Both those poles come into that category. And when did scheer suddenly become second favourite? It's difficult to keep up with a competition that sometimes seems to have more candidates than seats in Ottawa, but I thought chong was up there? One thing the article informed me on. The cpc hasn't yet recognized trans-gender rights? Wow. But then it was only a few months ago they agreed on same-sex marriage. The cpc should get into the 20th century sometime soon..

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"an era in Hollywood when men were men and women were women and nobody apologized about it." Not exactly. It was also a period when gay men and women felt they had to hide their sexuality or destroy their careers - Rock Hudson for one..

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Not disagreeing that Transgender individuals have higher suicide rates than the regular population. Just saying this is a major problem that will not go away. Just be thankful that you don't have this problem. It would be nice to know more about this study such as did it include any reasons why this may be so?

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Those laws were in large part the result of "Those who know best" do-gooders who used electroshock and concepts of eugenics and "Cuckoos Nest" treatments on the unwilling or gay or otherwise undesirables in the guise of psychology. The courts finally acted and then the Legislatures.

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The law is not based on your personal experience with gay and transgender people -- or your belief that transgender females will not seek to shower in wide open shower rooms or use women locker rooms. The law applies whether the transgender population is .4 percent, 4 percent, or 40 percent of the population. It does not matter one whit if the transgender person has no resemblance to the sex they identify with. It only matters what sex the transgenders identifies with in their mind. What I wrote is not unnecessary rhetoric, it is the law.

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Please enumerate for me the EXACT amendment to the US Constitution that addresses and guarantees the right to gay marriage. I can't seem to find it in my copy.

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Yes name calling is alive and well on both sides. You are floored by this offensive albeit obscure insult. It is certainly rude. As a centrist, I however, am equally floored by the cavalier use of "alt-right" by the leftist media - a label attached to virtually anyone who questions the immigration system, the subversiveness of some "equal rights groups" (who fund riots and discourse directly, in order to gain funding) under the guise of equal rights for all, or someone who takes a sovereign/protectionist (you call nationalist) stance on other issues. Just look at Berkeley - many of you applaud the efforts of the students to riot, and destroy property with the goal of muzzling someone whose ideas conflict with theirs. The individual in question also happens to be a gay jew and immigrant. Do we call these individuals who chant "no borders no nations" and tag "kill trump" on the campus walls, the "alt-left"?

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I want my child and grandchildren to have healthy sexual principles. I want them to respect their own minds, souls, and bodies and to respect the minds, souls and bodies of the ones they love. I want them to look at sexuality in the context of the whole person, and to see the value of fidelity and monogamy, one to the other, to the one they each commit to spend their lives with, when they find that person. I think those are healthy sexual principles, and I think those principles apply equally to heterosexual and homosexual.

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And people choose to be gay. I do not. I have no problem with them choosing it as I have a number of gay friends, but they chose to be with a same sex. And I choose not to be offended by them.

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Firsts usually get mentions in our society. Transgender is also a big issue to talk about these days so anyone running this story is going to get a lot of clicks. The DP and other "news" sources are trying to make money, not intelligently and responsibly report news.

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The question a journalist ought to have posed to Trudeau is this: If an apology from Ottawa is so appropriate and needed, then why sir did YOU YOURSELF not deliver the apology? I mean, come on, after all, Trudeau is an apology-issuing machine, having issued past apologies on everything from west coast migration events ("Trudeau apologizes in House for 1914 Komagata Maru incident") to Ontario-originating partner laws ("Egale Applauds Trudeau’s Announcement of Apology to Persecuted Gay Canadians") to shoulder-checking politicians ("Trudeau apologises for elbowing opposition MP in Canada's parliament) to choice of language ("Trudeau apologizes for answering English question in French at Sherbrooke town hall"), the list goes on and on. Sorry, Trudeau, you cannot have it both ways. Either an apology is TRULY a paramount need and therefore YOU step forward to deliver it in full throated fashion, or else an apology is not that at all and you play manipulative games today with your words.

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The "faith" of the people has changed since the introduction of the Novus Ordo Missae. Lex credendi, lex orandi indeed. Here are some of the things that New Order "Catholics" believe today, which we see in their very own posts daily on this site alone: -A belief that the murder of unborn children is acceptable - gay "marriage" is acceptable -gay sexual relationships are not intrinsically sinful - situational ethics are fine - divorced and "re-married people living in a state of sin aren't actually sinning and should be allowed to receive the Novus Ordo cookie - only 22% of "Catholics" believe in the Real Presence - sins against the 7th commandment are fine if the government sanctions such activity - De fide sacramental theology is to be tossed aside in favor of "equality" - all are saved, including heretics, pagans, Jews, Muslims, and even atheists, in contravention to Catholic dogma To allow the traditional Mass is to undo the political machinations & heresy of the New Order.

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There is no "homosexual agenda", other than a desire to (1) be accepted for who they are and (2) to be left alone to be what they are. Your fear and loathing for them does not speak well of you.

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Some of the women in Romans 16-17 likely presided at Eucharist. One, Prisciala, was the first bishop of Rome (Paul did not mention Cephas). While these men and women might be missionaries coming in, they still included females. I have no problem with male priests, female, gay or married, but they need to reject the ideal of Continence, which seems to be the root of all dysfunction in Catholic sexuality. Beyond that women priests need to be the voice of the pro-life movement, particularly married women.

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The entrenchment of the fringe? No, sir. The resurgence of the main street. Love him or hate him, Trump built his campaign around issues that matter to the voters like economic revival, rule of law and immigration control. The fringe lost, on all electoral levels, because they embraced issues that don't matter like transgender bathrooms, global warming, outsourcing, massive illegal immigration, politics of racial divide, etc. The fringe wants to push the main street into believing it's the fringe, but not many are buying it outside of the bubble.

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He is bitterly attacking Fr. Martin using anti-gay slurs; he isn't engaging in respectful dialogue.

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Is that the same "alt right" who oppose abortion, contraception, homosexual marriage; and who defend the traditional family, the rule of law, and the principle of subsidiarity? You know, all those things in conformity with 2000 years of Church teaching. Just askin....

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First of all where is there a Muslim bakery? Secondly, the baker probably wouldn't refuse. I know lots of Muslims, and, while they do not agree with homosexuality, do not mistreat gays in any shape, form or fashion.

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Trudeau has more important things to do like promoting gay lifestyle and same sex marriage

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By religious right do you mean Islam too? Seen what they do to gay people in some Muslim countries?

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This is so going to backfire. The result will be that people will draw into their own enclaves and refuse to associate with those they might suspect to be trans, even if they are not. You can't prove that a company with 20 qualified applicants disqualified anyone they suspected being trans/gender diverse because they don't want to have to deal with pronoun questions. Gender neutral, not definitively masculine or feminine enough, any question at at will lead to skewed stats as well because any stats on gender/identity hiring will not accurately reflect hiring practices because the decision will be based on an internal impression rather than any information and the data will be impacted more by a given hirer's perception than any reality.

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Amen! If the transgender individual has a high-enough GPA (or military equivalent), has passed all coursework, and his/her rank within the graduating class qualifies for graduation, then s/he deserves to be treated like the other graduates. If this person is willing and able to serve, the Air Force should salute and say "Thank you!"

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so let me get this straight. Because 20% of the Canadian Conservatives don't agree with gay marriage it is okay to bring in a group of people who would be 100% against gay marriage and gays and feel that it is their moral duty to take action against it? There are basically no Canadians (Liberal, Conservative, NDP, or Green or PQ) that think that women are second class life forms and should be subjugated to the will of their male betters. There is a significant number of the would be immigrants that have as their basic belief system the rights of male dominance. Is the plan to adapt Canadian Society to this belief system or ghettoize them within Canadian society. I would like the to understand the plan. I believe that the default plan is integration to Canadian society that has been successful with wave after wave of immigrants. Has there every been a wave of immigrants that have had such a contrary basic belief system?

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Was that special 'gay money' they used? My argument was that if these allegations are true it's just an an abuse of power, it has nothing to do with his orientation.

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That is only one of the arguments made by North Dakota and Minnesota two days ago in front of the US Supreme Court. By June 30, 2017, we will know whether that is still the law or not. Just like gay marriage, firearms rights, and any other laws, the last word from the US Supreme Court is what the law actually is. Since the US Supreme Court is still wrestling with breathalyzer evidence admissability at least 50 years after they became common, your Hound Labs Inc. test is not likely to be useful for marijuana detection, or useful to fire someone, or useful to convict someone of Driving Under the Influence in the immediate future.

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The Constitutional 'protections' depend on the interpretation of 5 of 9 unelected judges. "Protected classes" depend on a majority of legislators state by state or maybe in the US Congress. And then by that decision of the 5 of 9 unelected judges. Only the decision of one judge made 'gay marriage' legal in Oregon, despite the majority votes of the people of Oregon.

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Then you reject the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the entire tradition of Catholic moral theology. "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God." (1 Cor 6-11).

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Actually you're wrong about Neil. He lost his job when he brought the legislature into special session to approve homosexual marriage.

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"It's good you are acknowledging that LGBT people are "hurting, afraid ... often alone" and "broken"." No, it isn't. Why is it good? If you hung around self-accepting LGBT people in good relationships you would know it's a lie--pathologizing perfectly normal people who have challenges overcoming a hostile world, although that hostility is vanishing as more and more people stop buying the ancient taboos.

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Why do you believe Islam to be a religion where men and women aren't equal or that gays aren't tolerated? Have you read the Bible recently? Here are some interesting excerpts for you to ponder: “In the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.” (Romans 1:27) “Do not allow a sorceress to live.” (Exodus 22:18) “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.” (1 Timothy 2:12) So, as you can see, there are similar beliefs in other religions as well. But, I don't hear you complaining about those.

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You can distinguish between facts and values. For instance, it is a fact that a very large majority of humans are either clearly male or clearly female, and the adults are heterosexual. It is also a fact that there is a very small minority whose physiques have both male and female characteristics, another very small minority who are physically one sex and psychologically the other, and a somewhat larger minority who are homosexual or bisexual. There is another small minority of adults who have no sexual orientation; they are simply not interested in sex. All of these facts can be taught. The differences between male and female physiques can be taught. The mechanics of sexual interactions can be taught, even those interactions that some people consider "sinful" or "perverted", without introducing any opinions about the rightness or wrongness of particular interactions. In short, teach facts at school; teach values at home, or church.

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Most Christians understand that consenting adults have whatever relationship they want, and the vast majority of younger Christians feel very strongly about this. The "Religious Right" consists of old guys like you that think Charles Wohlforth still uses a typewriter. Here's a newsflash - "leftists" would consider it an improvement if the "Religious Right" began referring to homosexuals as the "Gay Left." Their current terms are far more derogatory. The many gay republicans might take issue with this, though. Eddie - you should analyze your impact in these discussions. Despite your loud protestations, Anchorage recently elected Berkowitz and a more liberal Assembly majority. I'm guessing thoughtful comments moved some voters to toward the other side. In fact, I'm guessing the liberals applaud every time you post.

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That's what I mean. The bakers are claiming a civil ceremony is a religious belief, yet they don't seem to think that gay people can also hold such religious beliefs about the civil ceremony.

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Well, at least Trump did not need to go all over the country to march in gay parades to get elected, as another "leader" we all know has.

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This is the military we are talking about where an order on the Transgender ban from the top - the commander-in-chief is a military order. There is no such thing as being "blindsided" by an order from the top in the military.

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The parents need to join the 21st century. Reckless behavior happens because we marginalized gay sexuality. Redefining it as differently ordered allows us to encourage monogamy with a straight face. Calling their sexuality always disordered gives away the standing to say anything, as does including this conversation in a larger moralist rhetoric designed to pander to the the lowest common denominator in the Alt Right. That is messed up. Interestingly, many gays and lesbians follow monogamy naturally because it is the natural thing to do, More would if it were not for the hate mongers.

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God doesn't need money, but people and institutions do. God runs on love, but churches need heat, electricity, rent or mortgage payments, staff salaries, etc. Would you be so upset with Paula Williams if she was still in the closet as Paul Williams making tons of money for homophobic churches? As far as God's attitude towards trans and gay people, I'll leave that up to God. S/he's more merciful than a lot of His/Her followers.

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I suspect that any court will support both the gay couple and Cheyenne Mountain Resort. And that both would be consistent with established law. But please, Nazi lovers, take it to the Supreme Court - if they will let you in the door.

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When was the last time Jews went into gay bars and killed people dancing?

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hello PGTL so calling a person a "leftist" is name-calling? I thought it was complimentary that i recognize them and respect their "identity" much like acknowledging a person is transgender and using the right gender pronoun why do you take the word "leftist" as derogatory name-calling you insult leftists

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Very good point! Nothing wrong about a gay person serving as a judge. Nothing! However it is only right that any party appearing before Judge Carlson in a family matter, especially where child custody or life style issues are present, should be made aware of his alternative life style, in order to decide whether to exercise their legal right to recuse the judge and have another judge assigned their case. It is called a peremptory challenge where no expressed reason need be given. It is used all the time when a party to a court action has reason to believe that a judge may be biased but the person may not have enough to challenge for cause. They simply thank and excuse the judge. Judge Carlson portrayed himself as a heterosexual for many years when he knew he was not. Many parties to domestic relation actions in his court came away feeling they were mistreated and then found out that they lacked information when it came to deciding whether to exercise their peremptory challenge.

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It will continue this way, the variations in identity are continuing to grow along a spectrum. The problem with your point is that a counter argument would be to just call both groups 'women', but then that would lead to confusion in certain relevant situations (like in these kinds of discussions). So, perhaps 'cis' or 'non-trans' should only be used to refer to groups when we are explicitly discussing gender issues or maybe medical discussions - in normal conversation 'women' should be sufficient. With respect to human rights - generic terms like 'gender identity' could be used which would not exclude women.

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Why even state such an obvious tautology like that? Is it not just as true that homosexuals find natural man/woman sex acts icky as well? Should that disgust be counted against them like you count the natural disgust of homosexual acts against normal men and women? Or are "gays" somehow special and exempt from such indictments?

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You won't want to miss the Boston Globe's excellent Michael Cohen on what a disaster Newt Gingrich has been for the US, in so many ways. As for the disapproval of the "homosexual representative," let's be sure we understand there is NO good reason to object to the presence of a gay person anywhere, other things being equal, and that all objection to gay people is an issue of the past that fair-minded people have turned away from. On the other hand, whether we want to call the conduct of Newt and Callista Gingrich sinful or not, there is reason, perhaps, for mistrusting them. For that matter, being not just a Republican but one who is willing to work for the current president is already plenty of a reason for mistrust.

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I'm glad it worked for you. I know 2 transgendered people and neither seems altogether happy.

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Outsider: Just re-read your post and couldn't resist another response or two. a) the couple was denied service (the baking of a wedding cake) PRECISELY because they were lesbians....the bakery owners admitted this....their defense was that the refusal was an exercise of "freedom of religion" b) The bakery regularly make wedding cakes for heterosexual couples, it was an integral component of the services they provided...therefore, refusal to make one was refusal of service. c) there are, indeed, specific jurisdictions which have included "political beliefs" in statutes prohibiting discrimination by service providers...Oregon and/or Portland do not have such a statute. If you feel one is needed, support its adoption. d) as a liberal, I will continue to defend the rights of all individuals. Read the article I linked for you. Regards and best wishes, Gary Crum

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Ignoring the Media Stumping for Hillary, Trumps views are very populist. He isn't extreme. it is his rhetoric that is turning people off. And of course the leftwing media twisting it into to something it isn't. If Utah is the reddist state, then it isn't moderate is it? a purple state would be more moderate. Change from within? Those not towing the line are enemies? Be specific. Its not a matter of being on the wrong side of history. Its a matter of using the Constitution as your guiding document and living with in its confines. You change the law, you don't interpret it differently to suit you as attitudes change. You don't discover rights that never existed. Woman's right to vote was brought by law, not a judge deciding it was a right denied. Slavery was changed by law and a war, not by a judge. The same thing could have happened with Gay Marriage. Calling it a right denied is a perversion of our constitution. It is judicial activism seeking an outcome.

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"Violent crimes committed against transgender people are drastically under-reported nationwide" Please enlighten the readers and tell us how you know this to be true

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It took SCOTUS to make gay marriage recognized across all 50 states. I agree that CCW should be recognized across state lines, as much because it falls under the clauses you mentioned in your first post. It may very well take SCOTUS to make that determination as well. Glad to see you are consistent, so many folks are not, when it comes to gay marriage and/or guns.

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LW1 - That's an awful situation for kids to have to deal with, clearly. I have to believe if the parents knew how it was affecting their kids, they'd make some efforts to change their behavior and at least try to behave more civilly towards each other. I like Amy's idea of writing a letter to them expressing how the parents' behavior is taking a toll on the kids. LW3 - Thank you! I have encountered gay people who make passing references that casually allude to being gay without making a big deal about it. I much prefer that to someone making a big announcement about it or making blunt comments that make it blatantly obvious that someone's gay or whatever (like "Dad of a Transgender" did). Like, am I supposed to throw you a party or applaud or something? Why the need to make a big deal about it and turn it into everyone's business? I honestly don't care whether someone's gay or not. That's their concern and I don't need to know either way unless I'm actually friends with them.

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IRT Peter (aka Boots), of course there are mutations as you mention, a female with xxy chromosome set, or a male with xyy chromosome set, but sadly they do not survive past puberty with all their physical and mental problems. Therefore, if that is the case, nearly all 99.9% of the transgender is a male or female when entering the military service at 18 years of age.

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There are numerous incidents of males using women's restrooms to secretly photograph women and act out their perversions. I noticed the author did not expand her argument to highlight we have no reports of normal people "attacking" (authors words) transgender bathroom users. So this was just a (poorly) veiled attempt to argue for letting people play dress up and pretend they are something they are not...FAIL, Mr(s) Wolfe

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As opposed to pro-abortion, pro-gay-"marriage" Hilary?

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_CivilSociety: "BTW, I see a court challenge coming, the marginalised are no longer willing to stay silent, suffer silently." Give it a rest. Attempting to connect the U.S. military with the rights of transgenders is misplaced. NO ONE has the right to serve in the U.S. military. Certain medical and aptitude standards must be met. Medical documentation show transgender persons have higher rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse compared to others. That alone is enough to disqualify them from serving.

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"And I always say that if I ever believed Canada was really the Canada of Stephen Harper and we were going against abortion and going against gay marriage, and we were going backward in 10,000 different ways, maybe I'd think of wanting to make Quebec a country." ~ Justin Trudeau when he was an MP during a radio interview with host Franco Nuovo in February 2012. During the talk show, when Nuovo expressed surprise at Trudeau's remarks, Trudeau doubled down: "Oh yes, absolutely. If I no longer recognized Canada, I know my own values." However to be fair to the Tater Tot he was but a callow youth of 41 years of age at the time... just a seed potato eh? That sound you heard was Pierre Trudeau turning over in his grave.

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Who your kids marry is up to them. We know that for males whether they are gay is predetermined. No so much for lesbians. Regardless, recent and soon to be unfolding legal developments will give all young people an accepting system that already matches their culture. They don't see this issue as a big deal (unless they are sucking up to coservative parents or bosses, and the latter is less likely). Only bullies are the exception. If we can make them behave (and their parents), society has a good future. Any society that happened to have open homosexuality that fell did so for different reasons, usually having to do with concentration of wealth and the unwillingness to tax it.

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I wasn't ignoring your Lincoln comment. I've known that for a couple of decades. But it does not undo all he did. I taught that Franklin Roosevelt had affairs but not that Elanore might have been gay. I didn't even know that 30 years ago. Oh, and I got in trouble for what I said about Roosevelt too. So I have been on the front lines. You say you like fact based history but I think you imply hypocrisy on the part of our favored sons. That sounds like judgement to me. I especially like historiography.

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Every American Service member should declare tomorrow that he or she is transgender. That might lead to Trump's demise.

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Canada, Sweden and Holland will be the only of 190 countries of the UN to have transgender soldiers When captured by ISIS then what? Putting transgender soldiers in danger not very politically correct

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Neither political party supports a persons right to bear arms, it's just a issue that works for getting people excited and to vote. Same thing with abortion, gay marriage, ect.

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So Leah gets axed for a week and Tabby has more space to squeak, about matters quite gay that she wont let go away In a column that’s typically weak.

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Yet another reason to defund the publicly funded discrimination. What do you expect from a board who routinley fires gay employess and our province knowingly lets them get away with it? Wasn't aware we were still in the 1800's.

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Did Trudeau say "The Canadian army welcomes illegal immigrants and transgender. Diversity is our strength" Enough strength to win wars, which is the purpose of armies ?

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Layla herself has previously pointed out that the Garratts would never vote for a "Liberal", let alone Trudeau. As members of the PAoC, they are part of a socially conservative, evangelical Christian movement which very strongly supported Harper in both his leadership bid and in the elections which followed. The PAoC, along with other Christian Right groups (eg: Charles McVety) do not like "Liberals" because of their stance on abortion, gay rights, etc. Kudos to Kevin Garratt for thanking Trudeau, which was probably not easy for him.

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The issue is whether he discriminated against gays or whether he discriminated against "offensive art" he was being asked to "create"....just as a "vegan music composer" can decline to come up with a jingle for a hamburger chain. - "People" might enjoy "special class protection." "Offensive works of art" might not. Gay guy goes into his bakery and buys already-made cupcakes. No problem. But when a customer asks him, as an "artist," to design, decorate, and create an "edible work of art" that celebrates "anything" the baker finds "offensive," does "offensive art" enjoy the same "class protection status" that "people" do?

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Santa Claus parade does not play politics so did not get finger burned Pride Toronto plays politics so deserves to get fingers and toes burned- . worst case was when QuAIA marched (Queers against israeli apartheid) Israel has gay rights Palestine does not QuAIA were not logical

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Current Conservative ideology seems to be mostly composed of ideas that deny reality. The problem isn't that Conservatism's opinions and policies are disagreeable--it's that those opinions are far out of touch with known facts. Evolution, global warming, economic theory--tax cuts for the wealthy are proven to not fix much of anything. Gay marriage, how exactly can it hurt straight marriage again? O'Leary will be perfect in the Land of Myths, peopled by the myth-makers and true believers.

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Maybe this will help: I'm classified as lesbian, or is it Lesbian? Is it a noun, maybe a proper noun, or an adjective? Certainly there's a descriptive in the word. Maybe Gay Woman? Is this the tack I want to take, correcting people to make sure that they refer to me and mine as "lesbian women" or "gay woman"? There are, IMO, words that clarify something about us without necessitating further qualifiers: She's American. (American woman) They're gay (that group of people) The Christians. The gays. The lesbians. The druggies. The Socilaists. The transgenders. Anyway, if you're the Seda from the article, I applaud your courage in coming out and I very sincerely wish you and your family all the best.

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How is our right to worship hurting the LGBT community.

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I have not read his book. None of the reviews I've read, positive or negative, has claimed that Fr. Martin has exhorted us to reject Church teaching. The negative ones fault him for not repeating it. I have not seen anything which indicates Fr. Martin has argued to accept gay conduct as acceptable. Some have claimed that Fr. Martin has implied acceptance because he has not specifically condemned such conduct. I don't buy that claim. Even if true, it is not an exhortation. Can you cite a source for your claim? How has Fr. Martin not held "true to the one true faith?"

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It's not a matter of discrimination. It's a matter of added costs to provide sex change surgeries to the transgender. Transgender people should get their sex change operations at their own expense.

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Ontario was both our manufacturing hub, and at certain times a technology leader (Nortel, Blackberry). Now due to terrible mismanagement the provincial government has made it the place for industry to flee from due to outrageous taxes, regulations, and energy costs. In addition our transfer payment system rewards low productivity, and Manitoba and all points east are over-taxed welfare states. The role of government is to create the environment for business to flourish, full stop. If that happens we can afford to build safe spaces and transgender washrooms. Until then we just add to debt for the nice-to-haves.

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A misdemeanor. A fine. And under a recent Montana law, maybe expungement. "If your expungement is successful, the case is dismissed and all legal records relating to your misdemeanor, including court records will be destroyed. This means there will be no record that you were ever arrested, charged, convicted, or sentenced." Only the media will still care. It will be like that 'civil compromise' we had a year or so ago of the pedophile charge against the gay rights activist and fund raiser, Terry Bean, here in Eugene. Spend enough money, Republican or Democrat, and such things go away.

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I can relate. I'm a male lesbian. I only like women.

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What a peculiar article. Transgender people believe they are the opposite gender and are just trapped in the wrong body. No evidence is given in this article that any of these people believed this. One woman liked dressing in men's clothes. She didn't claim to be a man. Others indulged her eccentricity, but I've always been told that crossdressers, like this woman, are not the same as transgender people. "Researchers at the National Archives have found evidence that at least 250 women dressed as men to fight in the 1860s, some motivated by ideology, some by a taste for adventure and some by the need for a job. Most of those who survived presumably returned to their lives as women. But others continued to live as men after the war." The fact that women DISGUISED themselves to do the jobs they wanted in a world where women weren't allowed has absolutely nothing to do with women or men who truly believe they are the opposite sex from their biology.

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Yet, when asked whether there should be provisions that include protections on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender identity, 57% of the Anchorage voters voted NO. http://www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Clerk/Elections/Election%20Results/2012ElectionResultsOFFICIAL.pdf Personally, it makes no difference to me. But the matter should not have been dictated by the Assembly, as it was.

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I believe every province has criteria and a process for people to change their sex designation from male to female or vice versa., but changing to a sex designation other than male or female is yet to be fully addressed. Although Ontario issues health cards and drivers licenses with the sex designation X to indicate a non-binary gender identity, nobody has issued a birth certificate with the sex designation X yet, and the federal government hasn't announced any plans to allow a third sex on passports either. By the way, as to someone's identification matching how they present publicly, I have no idea how a non-binary person is supposed to look and I doubt anybody else does either.

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"...and statistics?" From Wikipedia, quoting the CDC: "It finds a victimization prevalence of 43.8 percent for lesbians, making it the second most affected group after bisexual women (61.1 percent), ahead of bisexual men (37.3 percent), heterosexual women (35 percent), heterosexual men (29 percent) and homosexual men (26 percent)." I think the operative saying is seek and ye shall find.

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Lots of ideas? Anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-lgbtq, anti-healthcare, pro-lower-taxes-for-the-rich may not be ideas you want to take to the voters. And it would be better if the platform was not only 'to oppose the current Liberal administration' but to show voters what you have to offer in return. That seems difficult for conservatives to understand.

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On the contrary, there is very strong evidence of the biological origins of transgender identities. From Chung and Auger, European Journal of Physiology, 2013: http://tinyurl.com/hbvmgmm "Gender-dependent differentiation of the brain has been detected at every level of organization -- morphological, neurochemical, and functional -- and has been shown to be primarily controlled by sex differences in gonadal steroid hormone levels during perinatal development." Transgender identities appear to be a genuine mismatch between primary sexual characteristic and neurological phenotypes during prenatal development. Or you could try reading this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654067/

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All forms of hate needs to be eliminated. All forms of racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, anti-semitism and laws discriminating against Transgenders. We need to get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne and fight all forms of hate which includes Trump and this law in Quebec!

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Correct. This sort of propaganda is supposed to distract the masses from the fact that this wasn't about Hillary but rather was about how the democrats basically became republicans in all but name, pro-choice, and gay marriage issues. It wasn't just Hillary who lost: the dems were wiped out from local straight on up to state, congress, and yes, the white house. And no amount of messages reinforcing the 'cult of personality' will change people's minds. We are done with the neo-liberal agenda.

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I would appreciate it if someone who has a better handle on these issues would answer this question: what criterion do we use to distinguish the situation of transgender people from that of transabled people? Is the answer that we support both groups in their search and, if so, are we enabling transabled people as they harm themselves? Thank you for any light you may shed on this for me.

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8 justices voted for gay marriage and sodomy rights and the one who voted no died. It is a non-issue. Indeed, ENDA will likely happen by Court decision before the term is out. The GOP has no room to actually propose anything on gay rights and won't on abortion (I told it how). Last I checked, the ACA was enacted and I suspect the Trump orders to gut it won't survive, nor will his simplistic presidency. Wait until you see the backlash. It will make 1974 look bipartisan.

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Paul McHugh, former Johns Hopkins University psychiatrist in chief, has noted in the Wall Street Journal that the suicide rate among transgender individuals is 20 times higher than in the normal population. Its not the panacea everyone believes, as the emotional stress leading to hormone therapy, and/or surgery, to counter DNA assignment, needs to be dealt with in a compassionate way. Speak the truth in love as this has long term consequences

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It's not an "understanding" of his faith, but rather, a misunderstanding. In order to assuage his conscience, all he need do is read and follow the precepts of Jesus. Kennedy may very well be a "classic conservative," or one that is not so hateful. I never could understand why modern conservatives bought the line that homosexuality (or sex in general) is a sin," punishable by some sort of action or law. One would logically think they would object to Big Government's intrusion in this regard. When I see pictures of this baker, I do see anger and hate.

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Yes, it is dysphoria, but that doesn't really do anything but put a formal name on it. And, yes, becoming transgender is one treatment option, allowing the individual to at least largely reconcile the dysphoria.

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That's a decent argument if the facts support it. However, the article states that Bearden was a top amateur male, and the top amateurs race with the pros so he was clearly on the same level as top-tier domestic male riders. The only meaningful difference between pros and top amateurs in the U.S. is the level of sponsorship and the team's decision to go pro. It looks like she is a pro mainly because she developed a transgender awareness-oriented team with that level of sponsorship. Also, she's not winning every race or smothering the competition. Unless she starts dominating the women's peloton or there is a proliferation of transgender athletes dominating the races, I don't see a major change in the near future.

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