Bathroom War Shows Federal Government is No Longer Limited

I think North Carolina's bathroom war is starting to make people think about the amount of power the federal government has gathered into the executive branch and its regulatory agencies. The US Justice Department and President Obama have ordered North Carolina to repeal a law that requires people to use the bathroom assigned to the gender on their birth certificate.  The Administration wants to accommodate transgender people, people who were born boys but identify as girls or vice versa.  The Feds say you should be able to go to the bathroom of the sex you identify with.

I never knew that taking a walk down the hall was engaging in interstate commerce that needed to be regulated by the Feds! Or that the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, as implemented in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was really all about bathroom choice! I am such a cave man. No wonder the Feds have to take care of people like me for my own good.

Bathroom wars are an illustration of how liberal jurisprudence works. Nothing in the 14th Amendment, passed in 1868, says anything about sexual orientation. It's about making sure that free blacks, especially recently freed black slaves, are not mistreated in state courts. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was intended to do a lot of things. Among others, it was intended to end racially segregated bathrooms. It was not intended to end sexually segregated bathrooms. If it had been explained to Congress that if you pass this act, bathrooms will no longer be sexually segregated, do you think it would have passed? Congress has considered transgender legislation several times. It has never passed. How can the Attorney General threaten North Carolina over a state law based on a regulation that Congress refused to pass as a law? 

Let’s be clear about this.  I don’t care about the issue itself that much.  I think both sides are pushing things to extremes.  I would be comfortable with a don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t show policy.  But the way the federal government is reaching into grade school bathroom regulation bothers me a lot.  There’s no basis in the Constitution that gives the Feds the power to regulate local school bathrooms.

The federal government was not supposed to be able to control local laws from Washington, DC, The fact that it can, without any hindrance from the courts, should explain to everyone why liberals are not fit to be judges in federal courts, especially the Supreme Court. Liberal judges believe in their cause so completely that they are not bound by the law. They redefine the law to make it come out the way they think it should be. They don't care if you vote for it or not.

The Big Changes For The Worse Since 1950

The country today is just a passing resemblance of the country where I was born in 1950. In the process of solving our problems with racial prejudice and sex based bias, we threw the baby out with the bath water. Straight old white men like me are a free fire zone.  Everyone can be a racist today without any penalty, as long as they hate straight white old men, especially if they are Christians or Vietnam Era Veterans. I ain't never been the flavor of the month my whole life and believe me, it's been obvious.

Gradually, the federal government has taken over all the levers of power. The states take federal money and then find out that if the Feds pay the piper, the Feds call the tune. Congress has ceded almost all of its powers to unelected regulatory agencies so Senators and Representatives can get credit for acting to solve problems but avoid responsibility for unpleasant decisions. Regulatory agencies have executive, legislate and judicial functions all in one agency. There is no separation of powers anymore.

The Supreme Court can take the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868 when homosexual acts were illegal in every state, and make it mandate same sex marriage. This is not what the 14th Amendment was intended to do and it is not what the governed consented to during ratification. The Supreme Court can rewrite Obamacare twice, without Congress, because Congress is a vestigial organ that has only symbolic purpose.

Liberals have "the fierce urgency of now" and they are on "the right side of history." It's kind of like the divine right of kings, in that the masses, especially straight old white Christian men, have no right to question anything liberals do. When cranky old white guys like me do question liberals, it's assumed we're racist bigots. Nobody reads our arguments, because "liberal" education skips Charles I, James II and John Locke. "Liberal" education also assumes the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of rights are all tainted because they were written by slave owners.

The key ingredient to our demise is entitlements. Rome called them bread and circuses. When we have to pay so much for entitlements that we can't afford to defend ourselves, then the US will be dead, beyond anyone's ability to revive. By encouraging everyone to depend on the government, liberals remove the instinct for self-defense. The end result will be sharia law. How do you think ISIS and Al Qaeda will feel about LGBT bathrooms?