JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WordNews.org) May 19, 2012 — Next week, the City Council of Jacksonville will consider a measure that would add gender identity and sexual orientation to a list of protected classes that includes race, age and disability, Liberty Council said.
“This ‘civil rights’ ordinance takes away more rights than it supposedly grants,” said Mat Staver, Founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel.
He said if the measure passes, Jacksonville will be another city whose restrooms and locker rooms will not be segregated by one’s sexual identity at birth, but instead a person’s perceived gender.
Citing a case in Orono, Maine, where a teenage boy, who self-identifies as a girl, is allowed to use the girls’ bathroom at school, he said, “Wherever this is passed, privacy and decency are eroded.”
Jacksonville’s ordinance carries an exemption for churches and religious organizations. But Staver said religious people do not live in churches, but the community.
“Wherever people gather, morality and privacy will be in jeopardy if this ordinance passes,” Staver said.
“This has never been about discrimination,” Staver said. “These ordinances are meant to legitimize and codify the homosexual and transgender lifestyles.”
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