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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks before presenting the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor awards during a ceremony in the White House East Room in Washington, U.S., May 16, 2016.
USA – President Barack Obama has said that his understanding of the Bible and his Christian beliefs led him to issue the directive at public schools calling on students to be allowed to use the bathroom of their choosing regardless of their biological sex.
The directive issued earlier in May states that students should be free to use the bathroom of their choosing should a parent or guardian call and notify his or her school district that the student’s identity “differs from previous representations or records.”
“My reading of scripture tells me that that [the] Golden Rule is pretty high up there in terms of my Christian belief,” he said during a town hall in Elkhart, Indiana, according to Breitbart News on Thursday.
As the Christian Post reports, when asked why he decided to make such a big issue out of school bathrooms, Obama explained that his concern stems from the bullying that transgender students experience.
“What happened and what continues to happen is you have transgender kids in schools and they get bullied and they get ostracized and it’s tough for them,” the president explained.
Obama said that he understands not all people agree with him, and added:
“I have profound respect for everybody’s religious beliefs on this, but if you’re at a public school, the question is, how do we just make sure that, children are treated with kindness.”
Eleven American states filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration at the end of May over the directive, however, arguing that the guidance has “no basis in law.”
A joint statement from the states of Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin further stated that such a directive would turn educational settings across the U.S. “into laboratories for a massive social experiment, flouting the democratic process, and running roughshod over common-sense policies protecting children and basic privacy rights.”
On the other hand, Red State (dot) com says that this is a cynical ploy to convince Christians to feel better about his massive overreach and abuse of constitutional authority, as well as the idea of pretending that allowing males access to female bathrooms and locker rooms could never cause a problem.
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