From opposite ends of the country, two stories that will either make you laugh or simply shake your head.

First, from North Dakota:

Okay. Sounds simple enough. Another outdated law removed from the books.

Except:

That's right, the measure barely passed. Forty-one legislators voted to keep it a criminal offense.

The mind boggles.

Next we head south to sunny Largo, Fla., where the city found itself having to make a decision about whether to keep its city manager of 14 years. The sole reason? He wants to have a sex-change operation and become a woman.

That's right, fired for wanting a sex-change operation. It'll be interesting if that one survives an anti-discrimination challenge, although his status as a manager makes him more vulnerable to such things, as the "ability to lead" argument shows.

I love the logic of some of the residents who wanted him fired:

He wasn't "truthful" because he hadn't revealed his gender issue until now. Of course, if he had revealed it, he would have been attacked for "flaunting" his sexuality.

But this one takes the cake:

The speaker? Ron Sanders, pastor of Largo's Lighthouse Baptist Church.

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Man up.

In regards the first.
Equating living together (outside of marriage) with a sex crime is just stupid.

What reason did the 41 geniuses give for keeping it?

And Jesus if were here would probably say something...
such as "Your having a what?"

Evidently being turned into a woman makes you incompetent?

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"Better to die on you feet than live on your knees" - Emilio Zapata

Funny, but taxpayer dollars paying for sex change operations in San Francisco seem to have passed under Raytri's radar.

With all the deviancy taking place in American culture, I'm encouraged by these two stories. It's comforting knowing there are still a couple of places in America supporting traditional moral behavior.

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"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
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^Crazy people enforcing their crazy moral values on others...how refreshing.

I think that government aid programs in general should be cut and overhauled, but why is there anything worse about paying for SRS than paying for any other procedure that isn't a life or death necessity? Transsexuals have, probably because of prenatal hormones, the wrong bodies for their core brain identities. A transsexual woman, for example, can no more live as a man than you could live as a woman. Suppose you woke up tommorow in a woman's body but with the same mind. That is what transsexuality is. Granted, there are some people who simply have psychological gender issues that can be treated, but actual transsexuals (and there are only a very few of them) have inborn brain idendities that can't be changed. SRS is thus corrective surgery whether it makes you personally uncomfortable or not. A transsexual woman was born a female with the wrong body, and a transsexual man was born a male with the wrong body. A person's true self is in the brain.

So the government should enforce your religion? Why not Islam or Judaism or some form of Christianity other than yours? Why not left-wing political correctness? Legitimate laws apply only to what is necessary to keep society safe, not to what offends your sensibilities or mine. I too consider fornication immoral. I also consider it none of my business and none of the government's.

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"Some people complain about the system. The system is not good, so they can't do anything. It's an excuse. Freedom is in your heart." (Jin Xing)

http://www.tbnweekly.com/pubs/largo_...107_lle-02.txt

I have absolutely no sympathy for a married man and father who decides late in life to come out of the closet. If you want to lie to yourself, fine, but when you bring other people into your lie, don't expect me to defend you.

Here's a comment from a Largo citizen:
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/wt...7ATT7JI569C47G
Stanton is apparently both a liar and a hypocrite.

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Yes, it was very wrong to bring other people into the drama. Then again, Stanton probably wouldn't have engaged in such self-deceit if it weren't for the social stigma of the medical issues.

That may be true, but if a person is fired for being Black I'll still defend their right to employment even if they are a liar and a hypocrite. I don't see this as any different.

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"Some people complain about the system. The system is not good, so they can't do anything. It's an excuse. Freedom is in your heart." (Jin Xing)

I live about 40 mins away from Largo and I watched the city council meeting on local TV. The city is actually divided on this whole issue.

The pastor's comment says it all...

Its the return of the Pharisees....

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"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet."

That's a really easy thing to say when you're not on the receiving end of the social stigma. And Stanton's wife has known about this for more than two years, and they've been preparing for it together, though they haven't decided whether to stay together or divorce.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17420981...wsweek/page/2/

The link also notes that Stanton was going to pay for the surgery himself.

You're basing that on the testimony of one anonymous poster.

If Stanton's job performance was an issue, fine. But the council nor most of the people who commented never really referred to that -- it was all about his upcoming sex-change operation. So best I can tell the only variable here was his coming out of the closet.

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Man up.

How long has he been married? Marriage is not an experiment.



It's in the first story I posted and there are plenty of other stories about it.

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