What about gender-neutral restrooms?

Houston Mayor Annise Parker has withdrawn subpoenas aimed at five local pastors' sermons – after a national firestorm during which she was accused of anti-religious intimidation and abuse of power.

But Mayor Parker, who is openly lesbian, is still defending her gender-neutral bathroom bill.

Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, who challenged the subpoenas on behalf of the five pastors, said the mayor "had no choice but to withdraw these subpoenas, which should never have been served in the first place. The entire nation – voices from every point of the spectrum from left to right – recognized the city's action as an abuse of power."

As Mayor Parker still defends her gender-neutral bathroom bill, the Los Angeles Times' Charlotte Allen, writing in the National Review, noted the following:

• "Believe me, co-ed bathrooms will soon be universal, thanks to our friends in the LGBT lobby and their mush-headed allies among cisgender liberals. In 2013, progressive-paradise California enacted a law mandating that public school students be allowed to use the restrooms and locker rooms of the gender they identify with. A group called Privacy for All Students tried to challenge the law with a referendum in this November's election, but was unable to get enough signatures."
• "In May of this year, Maryland's Democratic governor, Martin O'Malley, signed into law a measure similar to California's – except it applies to all public accommodations used by anyone of any age. Again, opponents of the law failed to gain enough signatures to put a referendum on this November's ballot."
• "There's only one little problem. Most Americans are actually in accord with me: They hate the idea of sharing private activities with members of the opposite biological sex. A CBS poll released in June showed that 59 percent of Americans thought people should use the bathroom and locker room of the gender to which they were assigned at birth. Only 26 percent thought they should be able to choose freely which restroom to use. Even self-described liberals split 50-50 on the issue."
• "According to UCLA Law School's Williams Center, there are only about 700,000 transsexuals in America's population of more than 300 million, or less than 0.25 percent. My chances – and anyone else's – of randomly encountering a transsexual in a ladies' room on any given visit are vanishingly slim."
• "Why not just take down those little men in trousers and little women in skirts on the doors of the multi-stall "ladies" and "gentleman" restrooms and open them both to all comers, of whatever gender they happen to identify with? And if you don't believe this could ever happen, guess what: It already has – in co-ed dorms on practically every college campus. In fact, one argument that the LGBT crowd always raises in defense of gender-neutral bathroom laws is that we already do that in college, so what's the problem with doing it from graduation day until death? For a good 25 years or so, colleges and universities have conducted a kind of conditioning experiment in co-ed showering, shaving, toilet-using and teeth-brushing."

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Thanks go to the LGBT lobby and your straight-world allies for increasing the grossification of daily life for the 99.7 percent of people who aren't suffering from gender-identity mix-ups.

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