Unisex restrooms throughout Colorado
Can you believe this - EVEN IN SCHOOLS??????? I certainly hope when Ritter speaks on this Monday - it will NOT involve schools.
http://www.9news.com/news/top-articl...?storyid=92754
Unisex restrooms could be in Colorado's future
DENVER - Opponents of a recently-signed anti-discrimination law say it will make all of Colorado's bathrooms unisex.
Senate Bill 200, quietly signed by Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colorado) with little fanfare on Thursday, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or identity. It protects those who identify themselves as gay, bisexual or transgender from discrimination in areas including housing, business and education.
The law also prohibits discrimination in "public accommodations." That is where the debate took a turn toward the toilet.
"As of right now, in the state of Colorado, we have gender-neutral bathrooms," said Gary Schneeberger of Focus on the Family. "That, to us, is a recipe for danger and disaster."
Focus on the Family launched an ad campaign in an attempt to convince Ritter not to sign the bill. The effort failed.
"It is now legal in the state of Colorado for a grown man to walk into a girl's restroom in an elementary school for whatever purpose, and it is illegal for the school to say you can't do that," said Schneeberger. "What we're really concerned about is sexual predators … who want to prey on young boys or young girls in particular, who would use the confusion caused by this law to victimize our children."
The law's proponents dismiss Focus on the Family's argument as a narrowly-tailored scare tactic that ignores the greater purpose of the law.
"This is an important step forward for the state to make the state's laws of fairness and justice applicable to everyone who lives here," said Bruce DeBoskey, executive director of the Anti-Defamation League's Rocky Mountain chapter.
"It's not controversial. It's not a stretch. It's not an exaggeration," he said.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Jennifer Veiga (D-Denver) was unavailable for comment Friday afternoon.
The governor signed the bill privately. When reached for a comment Friday afternoon, his spokesman said Ritter would be available for a public comment on Monday.
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Originally Posted by Day1BroncoFan
The thinking - do what SOME want, NOT WHAT IS RIGHT!!!!!!!!
This is probably not a restroom that meets 'regulations', but as long as there's a way to lock the outside door to the bathroom, I don't see a problem, just no way in hell should there be a boy and girl (teens especially) in the bathroom at the same time pulling down their pants.
Also, most of the time kids use the bathroom during class breaks, lunch breaks, etc., so I can't see how they can lock the outside door, when there could be a line of 20 or more kids waiting to use the bathroom. And, I have no idea if there are inside door locks on these restrooms. And, I certainly would not want to go to WM to shop and be in the same restroom with men, and then, will these unisex restrooms have urnals in them for men. That would be VERY interesting!!!!!!!
