Snopes Gets It Wrong

"Why is the Obama administration's Transgender 'guidance' for public schools dangerous?"

The Left won't accept just any answer to that question. If I say that I as a woman am endangered by it, they have an answer for that. If I say that my child is endangered by it, they have an answer for that. Liberal women will have to be quick on their feet to keep up with the many directions they are being pulled. (So will Americans in general). But to a Liberal, all change is good change, so long as it is not a regression toward moral absolutes. That means a whole lot of justification of some anti-women dictates coming their way.

Here's why I think the May 13 "guidance" is dangerous: It is a third nail in the coffin of America's moral fiber. We can rank it as such, along with Roe v. Wade and last year's Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. While the letter is not legally binding, it carries the threat of a loss of Federal funding. Bullying in schools is acceptable, it would seem, as long as it's the Left doing the bullying.

This is precisely the point where liberals and conservatives split. The liberal believes morality itself is the whole problem. The conservative either answers to a higher power or at least believes in the rule of law and the individual liberty the law provides.

The Obama administration has dispelled the illusion that the Left is chipping away at American values. They've brought out the sledge hammer.

You've probably used Snopes.com to check up on the more shocking stories you see on the Web. Today, I happened upon Snopes's disappointing representation of the May 13 "guidance" for schools. According to Snopes under 'What's False,' "no students would be forced under its provisions to share bathrooms or locker rooms."

Have you read the letter? It directs, under the heading of Restrooms and Locker Rooms, " A school may provide separate facilities on the basis of sex, but must allow transgender students access to such facilities consistent with their gender identity. A school may not require transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so. A school may, however, make individual-user options available to all students who voluntarily seek additional privacy."

Snopes is wrong. Let's take your average American kid who expects to use a public bathroom designated for his or her sex. And that's most of them. (Their parents expect it, too). This average American kid will, contrary to Snopes, be forced to share a bathroom and/or locker room with people he or she considers to be of the opposite sex. "Oh, but there's the bit about individual-user bathrooms that schools may make available. Your kid can use those." The school may make them available. Then again, the school may not. And in a large district, individual-user bathrooms may be in high demand.

Snopes, I have used thee and loved thee. I now cast thee to the gutter without a second thought. I'll do my own fact-checking, starting with reading the documents in question, which diligence thou seem'st unable to manage.

The letter is not just about bathrooms. It's about supporting gender confusion by all. While Snopes masquerades as your friend in the quest for truth, it's deliberately downplaying the destruction of America's conscience.

It's the old foot-in-the-door technique. Will we accept this affront to the American religious right? Because the next one will be bigger. Conservatives and Christians may not be able to stop the tide of confusion and discrimination coming down on us, but we can speak out against it.

Public Schools, Transgender Kids, and a Breakneck Run Toward Totalitarianism

"Have a nice weekend," Obama says to the world. "And here's my latest totalitarian manifesto for your reading pleasure."

What the Department of Justice and the Department of Education call "guidance," Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick calls "blackmail" and Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas "social engineering."

David French of National Review puts it bluntly: "You may not have realized it yet, but the Obama administration just destroyed the traditional American public school." The battle has come home. If you are a parent, it now affects your child. If you are a public school teacher, it now affects your workplace, your calling, your livelihood.

This isn't about what the Bible says about sex. (For biblical perspective on the transgender bathroom issue, I wouldn't steer you to the usual passages about sex just at this moment. Instead, check out Romans 9:20, and in the King James at that: "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?") Instead, this is about what the United States Constitution says about government interference in the daily lives of American citizens.

Even before legalized gay marriage, the Obama administration was passing off the word "sex" in Title IX for the word "sexual orientation." Now schools are told, under threat of being defunded, to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their sexual orientation. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Students and staff alike will have a new lexicon to learn.

The letter, while not legally binding, has Texas considering cutting ties with government-funded schooling altogether. And how will Christian parents respond? Will there be a mass exodus from public schools? As Christian parents, what is the right response?

The Christian citizen should not react by saying, "I believe homosexuality and sex changes are sinful, so this is an outrage." We're talking about a fallen world, a human-made government, and a government school system. Expecting that system or that government or that world to follow the laws of the Bible would be naive (or worse). America does have a Constitution, however. It's there to protect the citizen from tyranny by government.

I commend to you the words of Ronald Reagan: "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

Obama may be on his way out, but voters have bleak options at the polls this election cycle. The likely nominees of both major parties appear all too willing to issue Obama-like fiats guiding individual Americans toward more help from the Government. Is it time to lose hope?

God would not have us despair. Paul wrote to the Romans, "Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." That's not just for when things are going well and the economy is good and there's a conservative President and Congress and Supreme Court doing things our way. It's for when we need hope the most. Paul certainly knew persecution for faith--he'd doled it out to others, and, after his conversion, endured it.

Teachers, let's continue in hope. And let's be praying.