Nice article. Thanks.

Yes, it's a huge agenda issue. And I can't see how the libs making laws over stuff that should just be common sense can fail to continue to enslave (should I say EnSheeple?) our peoples.

I also (highly) disagree with the Gub'mint forcing their socialist-agenda crap down our throats. I don't want to hire someone because they're a transgender, I want to hire them because they're the best damn employee I can hire... I don't give a d@^^n if they're a lesbian, or gender-questionable, or even married to Curly, their pet Sheep (tho thinking about it, there seem to be a plethora of married (and single) sheep in this country)... Can they do the job, do it well, for what I'm paying them? THAT is the bottom line...

I *do* know there's a lot of discrimination out there - from the highway superintendent that wants to fire a frigging dynamo worker because he brought his boyfriend by when he picked up his check, to the person who talks crap behind someone's back to discredit him to his boss because they heard a rumor (unfounded, BTW) he was once a dike named Sheila (seen both firsthand), to the person who wouldn't hire someone because their name was Abdul (even tho they had more mechanics certs than I thought possible, and stood up to the certs, and undercut his competition on wage-expectations by 15%)...

Yeah, there're problems out there. But what it will take to straighten this mess out - other than some people growing up mentally - is NOT the nannystate telling us who we must and must not hire, but all of us employers taking a stand, and telling these people who practice this (dare I say the word?? --giggles--) bigotry and discrimination against people they should be damned glad to have on their team.

It's like the whole Minimum wage bullc*@p... As a good employer, I'll pay someone what they're worth, but if they're doing $5 an hour work, I'll be damned if I'll willingly pay them $11.73 (or whatever they say I pay them). And forcing a floor (minimum) wage and then jacking it up over and over - does NOTHING but accelerate inflation.

And THAT gets me more pissed than my former rant... because it affects ALL of us.

(So, what IS this creepy popcorn smiley thingy? Damnit, now I want to know...)

while I agree with your mini-rant, I am curious if you read the article? This has nothing whatsoever to do with how people live their lives, but how they push a social agenda to impact how I live mine: who I associate with, who I hire, what my legal status is. The agenda has force behind it. President Obama just signed an ACT recently imposing on government agencies hiring and workplace standards that give preferential treatment to transgenders. Figure out how to get hired on your merits! That's all I'm saying. Whenever the govt passes things like that imposing new regs on themselves, the private sector is one step behind. There are radical movements to FORCE so-called social justice on people. It's not a right that you get to feel comfortable while putting the full force of the federal and state government against me. Realizing this is a real agenda with big teeth behind it important. We do NOT need anymore laws recognizing this or that group. and we need to repeal a few others doing so.

Sorry, but that's like calling Objectivism an "agenda". What those people do - to themselves - that has NOTHING to do with me or mine - is none of my damn business. I don't know any of the people involved, it's not my place to stick my nose into their personal lives and tell them how to live.

Its not like an actor on a TV show or some same-sex couple is gonna make me go out, take those male enhancing drugs I keep getting spam over, and try to grow a dingus and a beard. (OK, at my age, most women in my family get facial hair... damn)

What someone does with regards to this stuff - whether I know them or not (and I don't know these folk) don't make one whit to me. Are they a straight shooter? Can I trust them? Will they rip me off? Can they work their ass off for an honest paycheck? If they say something can I take it to the bank?

Strangey enough, THAT'S what's important to me - not whether they married or live with someone who's the same sex, not whether they went through some psych wringer to try to straighten out whatever's making their mind all fubar, but if they're someone who I can trust, and like, and maybe even stand back-to-back with during a shootout.

Those are my values. People that degrade others on shit those others can't control - I just can't understand them.

Like I said before - if your marriage or life is so fragile that someone who's gay or lesbian or transwhatever is gonna cause you to get divorced or go off the deep end... it's not on that person, it's on you.

(Frigging hornets!)

Oooo, kicking the hornet's nest!

Since my Maurice Moss popcorn gif creeps you out, here's my cute fluffy bunny popcorn gif.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/uhbErqE2UXAZooDqMeK...