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Some grandstanding legislators should get a job, a real job

Dennis Dalman by Dennis Dalman
April 28, 2016
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Some Minnesota legislators should get a life. And a job. A real job.

They are the ones who love to waste their time and our money on dumb legislative proposals.

Their latest stunt is a bill that would require transgender people to use bathrooms that match the sex on their birth certificates. It’s the same fear-mongering stunt recently passed into law in North Carolina, causing that state to lose billions of potential revenue from corporations and others who raised a storm of protest.

It makes you wonder what kind of naughty boy comic-book dreck lurks in the minds of these legislators. They are pretending so hard to be “protecting privacy” and “insuring bathroom safety.” What they are doing, in fact, is transgender bashing while – irony of ironies – posing as moral guardians.

Most of these knee-jerk reactionaries are those who just cannot stand the fact Minnesota legalized same-sex marriages, which the U.S. Supreme Court has also defined as the law of the land. Thus, in their bitter disappointment over progressive laws defending the civil and legal rights of LGBT people, these legislators – like those in North Carolina and elsewhere – are spoilsport termites determined to nibble away at progressive legislation. If they cannot overturn such laws, they will try to gnaw them to death. Well, the joke’s on them because most of society approves of laws that protect the civil and legal rights of LGBT people. In flaunting their backlash attitudes, all these so-called legislators are doing is exposing the moral bankruptcy and baseless bigotry of their “moral” stances.

If these paragons of virtue, so-called, have their way, they’d require everybody who has to use a bathroom to present a birth certificate to a Potty Cop at the entrance. Sound ridiculous? Of course it does because the proposed bill is ridiculous.

To hear these bathroom guardians tell it, you’d think there are swarms of sex-crazed transgender people barging into bathrooms to leer at others – or worse, molest or rape them.

There is already a law against such behavior, as well there should be. Quite a few people, including at least one legislator, have been arrested for such illegal behavior. Such acts, isolated as they are, will unfortunately continue with or without a lunatic bathroom bill.

Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen (R-Glencoe) wrote the House version of the proposed bill. There is little chance such a silly bill will pass, and the supporters know it. They just want to do some “moral” grandstanding, being the “Holy Knights” defending “family values.” All show and pretense. Utter nonsense.

Gov. Mark Dayton said he would veto such an “appalling” bill.

“They just keep bashing people for their own political advantage,” Dayton said.

He should have said “ . . . for what they think is their own political advantage.” What they are doing will more than likely become a political disadvantage. They threw out a boomerang, and it’s going to come right back and zonk them a good one.

The ludicrous bathroom legislation has support from many legislators in the central Minnesota area. When re-election time rolls around, let’s help these politicizing busybodies get new jobs – real ones.

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Dennis Dalman

Dennis Dalman

Dalman was born and raised in South St. Cloud, graduated from St. Cloud Tech High School, then graduated from St. Cloud State University with a degree in English (emphasis on American and British literature) and mass communications (emphasis on print journalism). He studied in London, England for a year (1980-81) where he concentrated on British literature, political science, the history of Great Britain and wrote a book-length study of the British writer V.S. Naipaul. Dalman has been a reporter and weekly columnist for more than 30 years and worked for 16 of those years for the Alexandria Echo Press.

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