Readers took their opinions to Howard County Patch sites this week, flocking most to stories about a ‘historic’ bill passed by the Howard County Council
Here’s what readers had to say in our comments section:
A DESTRUCTIVE CHOICE: "Yet another victory for the intellectually challenged. What….behavior is being changed here?! What this bill will do is keep people from speaking out against this very psychotic and destructive choice. Isn't it interesting that so many males want to be females? Guess all that feminism worked." — Veridicus
CONGRATULATIONS HOWARD COUNTY "Perhaps if you all read some books and did not depend on Jerry Springer, Saturday Night Live and Fox News as your primary source of education on issues, you would understand the neurological medical condition that many transsexual women and men face. This is not about feminism or sexual fetish, it is about providing protection to a minority group who is misunderstood as evidenced in the posts I am reading here. I say congratulations Howard County for finally closing this gap in minority civil rights." — Michiko Ota Eyre
NO RIGHT TO CROSSDRESS “Will the county council ever think about protecting children? Instead, this law protects perverts and other sexual deviants. A man doesn't have a ‘right’ to crossdress and then use the girl's locker room. We need to stop teaching our children that it is an acceptable choice to be a homosexual or transgender.” – Laquita Brown
STOP BIGOTRY “Laquita, Being gay is no more a choice, than being black is. I think we need to stop teaching our children to be ignorant, un-educated, bigots. Just a thought...” - Andrew Kanicki
If we don't protect thier rights, if we let them be attacked, if we allow this to happen to "them", then we can't be supprised when this happens to "us". We are all members of ONE HUMAN FAMILY!!!!
I don't see why gender identity disorder is any different? The real problem is that some parents don't allow their children to identify with their birth gender. When boys to play with Barbies or girls with toy trucks, good parents use it as an opportunity to to teach about how God created each person as a man or a women. Its a shame some parents teach their children that gender is a choice and deny their children the necessary psychiatric and spiritual support.
Although anyone ~could~ practice homosexual or transgender behavior by choice, individuals who are truly homosexual or transgender were born that way. There is no "cure", anymore than you can "cure" a person of being Black or suffering from dwarfism. And before you go on quoting Jesus, I suggest you research the text you are living your life by. Jesus never directly condemned homosexuality, even if the religious code at the time opposed it. However, Jesus ~did~ directly condemn people judging others in his name... that is solely the purview of God.