“The former president of Charlotte’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce has resigned after he came under fire from a conservative group, which noted that he is on a sex offender list and questioned his role in supporting the city’s expanded nondiscrimination ordinance.
Chad Sevearance-Turner had been the president of the chamber, which supported the newly expanded ordinance that gives legal protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.”
“Sevearance-Turner was arrested in 1998, when he was 20, and charged in Cherokee County, S.C., with a “lewd act, committing or attempting a lewd act upon a child under 16.”
A 2000 story in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal said Sevearance-Turner had been a youth minister at a church in Gaffney. A jury there found him guilty of fondling a 15-year-old teenage church member while the boy slept.
Before he stepped down as chamber president, Sevearance-Turner said the N.C. Values Coalition’s criticism “did not surprise him.”
He said his conviction had not stopped him from achieving success, such as being chamber president.”
““No one who is a convicted sex offender should be leading a campaign to allow men to be in women’s bathrooms and showers,” she said. “It’s just common sense.””
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If you can call being “president” of the local perv chapter “success”.
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Anon. Mind if I call you “Anon” for short?
It’s a big issue in the politics here in NC. But no one is talking about it outside the media.
They call the Charlotte law an “anti discrimination law”.
Bunch of stupid, idiots. What Charlotte did was make it possible for a man to use a woman’s rest room. I can’t imagine a woman, no matter what she thinks she is, deliberately going into a man’s rest room. The men wouldn’t mind that. She would go into one of the stalls, but they wouldn’t care if she didn’t. They would watch with interest.
The real issue: “Does the state law forbid Charlotte from making it possible for a man to use a woman’s rest room”.
If you object to that, you’re discriminating.
Charlotte is a large city.
I’ll bet I could count on one hand, the number of men who want to use a woman’s rest room.
The women should really hate the Charlotte law. A man is either not raise the toilet seat or forget to lower it again.
And women hate that. They should vote out every person who voted for that law.
I think I have told you before about going into a rest stop and noticing that the feet in the stall next to me were facing the wrong direction. Luckily I had a husband waiting outside for me, but I was still scared and got out as quickly as I could. Liberals will pay lip service to women but when they can throw us under the bus for any other special interest group they will.
Well, this is a welcome change. Looks like some drama going on within the Democratic party. I’m getting sick of reading about the tragic train wreck that now passes for the GOP “campaign”:
As the Bernie Sanders campaign accepts the reality that securing enough votes at this point to win the Democratic nomination outright is impossible, it has moved on to a new phase in its long-shot bid for the White House: hijack Hillary Clinton’s so-called superdelegates.
Sanders advisors are targeting these party leaders and elected officials who have outsized influence in deciding who gets to be the Democratic nominee, and whom Hillary Clinton moved swiftly and aggressively to lock down early in the race. Each one of their votes at the convention in July is weighted as heavily as those of thousands of voters.
Clinton has 469 of them in her corner. Sanders has just 29.
Sanders advisors argue that if they can come close to catching Clinton in votes by the time the time the primaries conclude in June — even if they fail to overtake her — they will be able to persuade these lawmakers and other Democratic dignitaries to reconsider their loyalties to Clinton. …
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It also means you can never send a little girl in by herself, which was always the case anyways, but it’s such a problem when you have a little boy with you as well. I can remember the terror of sending a five year old into a men’s restroom at the airport while I hovered outside.
The emperor wears no clothes and the world is turned upside down. As if single mothers don’t have enough to worry about. 😦
Surprising how quickly we’ve lost our heads, isn’t it? A liberal Christian friend posted something positive about the unisex restroom movement recently (to accommodate those poor transgenders who need understanding) — and another friend, raised Christian but never attends church (though considers herself still Christian) posted a heart symbol in response.
I continue to feel more and more disconnected to this election. Am I alone? It really just feels like the bottom has dropped out and we’re doomed no matter who is elected.
Bleak.
Maybe I’ll feel better about it all later.
Otherwise, I’ll just go sit and watch back-to-back reruns of Law and Order with Kim until it’s all over.
Michelle, they had solved that problem by having a “Family Restroom”. Typically it is a single with a locking door. I will start using those when in public.
Can I ask the obvious question, why can’t transgendered people use family bathrooms if they’re that worried? Why does the entire world have to accommodate itself to a relatively tiny number of people?
Probably because it’s a political movement that wants to send out a political statement — also furthering the cause among society as a whole, of course.
It’s more about the message it sends that solving any real, logistical problem that exists
It appears a second federal judge has ruled that Judicial Watch could take depositions from Hillary’s senior aides, under oath, under the FOI request originally dismissed when the State Dept said that they had no Clinton emails. These are the same aides that the FBI are preparing to interview. The link shows who those aides are, and was published before the judge ruled.
“Florida police have charged Donald Trump’s campaign manager with simple battery in connection with an incident earlier in the month involving a reporter.
After examining the evidence, Jupiter, Florida, police determined that probable cause existed to charge Corey Lewandowski, who has served as Trump’s top political aide for his entire presidential run. Police on Tuesday morning issued Lewandowski a notice to appear before a judge on May 4 for the misdemeanor charge, which carries up to a year in jail.
A surveillance video released by the police appears to show Lewandowski grabbing Michelle Fields, who worked for Breitbart News at the time, as she tried to ask Trump a question during a March 8 campaign event.
The Trump campaign said Lewandowski “is absolutely innocent of this charge” in a statement released Tuesday. “He will enter a plea of not guilty and looks forward to his day in court,” said the statement. “He is completely confident that he will be exonerated.””
It will be interesting to see if Hillary’s aides take the Scooter Libby method, and take one for the team. Or will they take the immunity offers that are sure to come and risk being Vince Foster’d? Probably best to stay away from public parks until they decide.
“But when Holmes was released from prison last year, officials in this city offered something unusual to try to keep him alive: money. They began paying Holmes as much as $1,000 a month not to commit another gun crime.
Cities across the country, beginning with the District of Columbia, are moving to copy Richmond’s controversial approach because early indications show it has helped reduce homicide rates.
But the program requires governments to reject some basic tenets of law enforcement even as it challenges notions of appropriate ways to spend tax dollars.
In Richmond, the city has hired ex-convicts to mentor dozens of its most violent offenders and allows them to take unconventional steps if it means preventing the next homicide.
For example, the mentors have coaxed inebriated teenagers threatening violence into city cars, not for a ride to jail but home to sleep it off — sometimes with loaded firearms still in their waistbands. The mentors have funded trips to South Africa, London and Mexico City for rival gang members in the hope that shared experiences and time away from the city streets would ease tensions and forge new connections.
And when the elaborate efforts at engagement fail, the mentors still pay those who pledge to improve, even when, like Holmes, they are caught with a gun, or worse — suspected of murder.”
Washroom politics – vastly amused by the actions and reactions of both sides. If you look male, use the men’s, if you look female, use the women’s. If your equipment doesn’t match the the washroom you are using, make sure to use a stall. I’m not sure what anybody is worried about, most people are there for one purpose and want to get out of there as soon as possible given the smell and hygiene of public washrooms.
Chas mentioned he can’t think why a woman would deliberately use a men’s room. Easily — they really need to go and the women’s room has a huge lineup. I can’t count the number of times at a club, bar and even theatre a woman or a group of women have asked if they could sneak in an use the men’s stall. Since most men are only using the urinals, we never had a problem with it.
Really, I don’t know why any of this require legislation either way. People just need to go to the toilet. Gov’t overreach.
Apparently a Trump campaign aide has quit — based on her story, it appears Trump never intended to actually win rather he wanted to come 2nd or 3rd just to send a message and create PR for his books/shows.
The Sanders campaign isn’t trying to use super delegates to overturn the delegate count rather they are trying to encourage super delegates to vote according to their state and/or respect the actual delegate count.
Wandering Views 
Anybody else shocked that a registered sex offender is one of the deviants behind the Charlotte transgender bathroom law? Me neither.
NC made the right move by banning it.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article64943682.html
“The former president of Charlotte’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce has resigned after he came under fire from a conservative group, which noted that he is on a sex offender list and questioned his role in supporting the city’s expanded nondiscrimination ordinance.
Chad Sevearance-Turner had been the president of the chamber, which supported the newly expanded ordinance that gives legal protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.”
“Sevearance-Turner was arrested in 1998, when he was 20, and charged in Cherokee County, S.C., with a “lewd act, committing or attempting a lewd act upon a child under 16.”
A 2000 story in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal said Sevearance-Turner had been a youth minister at a church in Gaffney. A jury there found him guilty of fondling a 15-year-old teenage church member while the boy slept.
Before he stepped down as chamber president, Sevearance-Turner said the N.C. Values Coalition’s criticism “did not surprise him.”
He said his conviction had not stopped him from achieving success, such as being chamber president.”
““No one who is a convicted sex offender should be leading a campaign to allow men to be in women’s bathrooms and showers,” she said. “It’s just common sense.””
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If you can call being “president” of the local perv chapter “success”.
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http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/28/surprise.-convicted-sex-offender-behind-charlotte-ncs-boys-girls-bathroom-law/
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Anon. Mind if I call you “Anon” for short?
It’s a big issue in the politics here in NC. But no one is talking about it outside the media.
They call the Charlotte law an “anti discrimination law”.
Bunch of stupid, idiots. What Charlotte did was make it possible for a man to use a woman’s rest room. I can’t imagine a woman, no matter what she thinks she is, deliberately going into a man’s rest room. The men wouldn’t mind that. She would go into one of the stalls, but they wouldn’t care if she didn’t. They would watch with interest.
The real issue: “Does the state law forbid Charlotte from making it possible for a man to use a woman’s rest room”.
If you object to that, you’re discriminating.
Charlotte is a large city.
I’ll bet I could count on one hand, the number of men who want to use a woman’s rest room.
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The women should really hate the Charlotte law. A man is either not raise the toilet seat or forget to lower it again.
And women hate that. They should vote out every person who voted for that law.
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I think I have told you before about going into a rest stop and noticing that the feet in the stall next to me were facing the wrong direction. Luckily I had a husband waiting outside for me, but I was still scared and got out as quickly as I could. Liberals will pay lip service to women but when they can throw us under the bus for any other special interest group they will.
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Shaking my head.
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Well, this is a welcome change. Looks like some drama going on within the Democratic party. I’m getting sick of reading about the tragic train wreck that now passes for the GOP “campaign”:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-bernie-sanders-superdelegates-20160328-story.html
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As the Bernie Sanders campaign accepts the reality that securing enough votes at this point to win the Democratic nomination outright is impossible, it has moved on to a new phase in its long-shot bid for the White House: hijack Hillary Clinton’s so-called superdelegates.
Sanders advisors are targeting these party leaders and elected officials who have outsized influence in deciding who gets to be the Democratic nominee, and whom Hillary Clinton moved swiftly and aggressively to lock down early in the race. Each one of their votes at the convention in July is weighted as heavily as those of thousands of voters.
Clinton has 469 of them in her corner. Sanders has just 29.
Sanders advisors argue that if they can come close to catching Clinton in votes by the time the time the primaries conclude in June — even if they fail to overtake her — they will be able to persuade these lawmakers and other Democratic dignitaries to reconsider their loyalties to Clinton. …
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It also means you can never send a little girl in by herself, which was always the case anyways, but it’s such a problem when you have a little boy with you as well. I can remember the terror of sending a five year old into a men’s restroom at the airport while I hovered outside.
The emperor wears no clothes and the world is turned upside down. As if single mothers don’t have enough to worry about. 😦
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Make that single parents. I can’t imagine how dads manage when they have a daughter who needs the restroom now, Daddy.
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Surprising how quickly we’ve lost our heads, isn’t it? A liberal Christian friend posted something positive about the unisex restroom movement recently (to accommodate those poor transgenders who need understanding) — and another friend, raised Christian but never attends church (though considers herself still Christian) posted a heart symbol in response.
It all leaves one quite speechless.
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I continue to feel more and more disconnected to this election. Am I alone? It really just feels like the bottom has dropped out and we’re doomed no matter who is elected.
Bleak.
Maybe I’ll feel better about it all later.
Otherwise, I’ll just go sit and watch back-to-back reruns of Law and Order with Kim until it’s all over.
🙂
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Michelle, they had solved that problem by having a “Family Restroom”. Typically it is a single with a locking door. I will start using those when in public.
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Come on back Donna. Briscoe and Green are my favorites anyway. I think they had good “chemistry” together.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/trumps-popularity-nosedives-in-critical-stretch-221320
I’m one of those who wishes there were some way to nominate someone (like a Paul Ryan) who isn’t tainted by this moronic, ugly campaign 😦 😦
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It would be entirely unorthodox (in a highly unorthodox year) and it carries its own risks.
But I believe it could be the GOP’s best (only) chance to prevail in November.
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Can I ask the obvious question, why can’t transgendered people use family bathrooms if they’re that worried? Why does the entire world have to accommodate itself to a relatively tiny number of people?
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Probably because it’s a political movement that wants to send out a political statement — also furthering the cause among society as a whole, of course.
It’s more about the message it sends that solving any real, logistical problem that exists
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It appears a second federal judge has ruled that Judicial Watch could take depositions from Hillary’s senior aides, under oath, under the FOI request originally dismissed when the State Dept said that they had no Clinton emails. These are the same aides that the FBI are preparing to interview. The link shows who those aides are, and was published before the judge ruled.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/shut-up-and-color/
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It will be interesting to see how Trump handles this. 🙂
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/police-charge-trump-campaign-manager-with-battery/ar-BBr4Whf?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U142DHP
“Florida police have charged Donald Trump’s campaign manager with simple battery in connection with an incident earlier in the month involving a reporter.
After examining the evidence, Jupiter, Florida, police determined that probable cause existed to charge Corey Lewandowski, who has served as Trump’s top political aide for his entire presidential run. Police on Tuesday morning issued Lewandowski a notice to appear before a judge on May 4 for the misdemeanor charge, which carries up to a year in jail.
A surveillance video released by the police appears to show Lewandowski grabbing Michelle Fields, who worked for Breitbart News at the time, as she tried to ask Trump a question during a March 8 campaign event.
The Trump campaign said Lewandowski “is absolutely innocent of this charge” in a statement released Tuesday. “He will enter a plea of not guilty and looks forward to his day in court,” said the statement. “He is completely confident that he will be exonerated.””
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Tychicus,
It will be interesting to see if Hillary’s aides take the Scooter Libby method, and take one for the team. Or will they take the immunity offers that are sure to come and risk being Vince Foster’d? Probably best to stay away from public parks until they decide.
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I don’t even know where to begin with this one.
It’s. Just. So. Wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/cities-have-begun-to-challenge-a-bedrock-of-american-justice-theyre-paying-criminals-not-to-kill/2016/03/26/f25a6b9c-e9fc-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html
“But when Holmes was released from prison last year, officials in this city offered something unusual to try to keep him alive: money. They began paying Holmes as much as $1,000 a month not to commit another gun crime.
Cities across the country, beginning with the District of Columbia, are moving to copy Richmond’s controversial approach because early indications show it has helped reduce homicide rates.
But the program requires governments to reject some basic tenets of law enforcement even as it challenges notions of appropriate ways to spend tax dollars.
In Richmond, the city has hired ex-convicts to mentor dozens of its most violent offenders and allows them to take unconventional steps if it means preventing the next homicide.
For example, the mentors have coaxed inebriated teenagers threatening violence into city cars, not for a ride to jail but home to sleep it off — sometimes with loaded firearms still in their waistbands. The mentors have funded trips to South Africa, London and Mexico City for rival gang members in the hope that shared experiences and time away from the city streets would ease tensions and forge new connections.
And when the elaborate efforts at engagement fail, the mentors still pay those who pledge to improve, even when, like Holmes, they are caught with a gun, or worse — suspected of murder.”
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I’ll go them better.
I’ll promise not to commit a gun crime for $500 a month.
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I said to Cheryl, somebody better pay me, ‘cuz I’m ’bout to go gangster if they don’t….. 😯
I’m serious man! 🙂
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Here’s a good read on Trump’s evangelical support……. amongst the non-church going type evangelicals.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/where-is-trump%E2%80%99s-evangelical-base-not-in-church/ar-BBr52QJ?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U142DHP
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Jake Tapper @jaketapper / CNN
President Obama a flawed messenger to call for aggressive journalism http://cnn.it/1pIL2zk #TheLead
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Washroom politics – vastly amused by the actions and reactions of both sides. If you look male, use the men’s, if you look female, use the women’s. If your equipment doesn’t match the the washroom you are using, make sure to use a stall. I’m not sure what anybody is worried about, most people are there for one purpose and want to get out of there as soon as possible given the smell and hygiene of public washrooms.
Chas mentioned he can’t think why a woman would deliberately use a men’s room. Easily — they really need to go and the women’s room has a huge lineup. I can’t count the number of times at a club, bar and even theatre a woman or a group of women have asked if they could sneak in an use the men’s stall. Since most men are only using the urinals, we never had a problem with it.
Really, I don’t know why any of this require legislation either way. People just need to go to the toilet. Gov’t overreach.
Apparently a Trump campaign aide has quit — based on her story, it appears Trump never intended to actually win rather he wanted to come 2nd or 3rd just to send a message and create PR for his books/shows.
The Sanders campaign isn’t trying to use super delegates to overturn the delegate count rather they are trying to encourage super delegates to vote according to their state and/or respect the actual delegate count.
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