The Last Stand

I'm beginning to think that's how the "Christian" right sees the whole trans rights battle: they've lost on gay rights, they've lost on marriage, abortion is still up for grabs, so trans rights are their last chance to enforce their anti-reality biblical sexual agenda on the rest of us. Take, for example, James Dobson:

“Have we gone absolutely mad?” Dobson asked. “Did it upset you when the president of the United States ordered every public school in America to open all its bathroom facilities including those that are in use by a member of the opposite sex? The president’s order made me furious, and then sick to my stomach. How dare this man do something so audacious and unthinkable!”

Accusing Obama of “warping our children” and “wielding dictatorial powers never envisioned in the law,” Dobson accused the president of being a “tyrant” who is “is determined to change Western civilization forever.”

Dobson then predicted that transgender women or men dressed as women will stare at women in restrooms, an act that Dobson said would get them shot, just like back in the good ol’ days: “Would you remain passive after knowing that a strange-looking man, dressed like a woman, has been peering over toilet cubicles to watch your wife in a private moment? What should be done to the pervert who was using mirrors to watch women and girls in their stalls? If you are a dad, I pray you will protect your little girls from men who walk in unannounced, unzip their pants and urinate in front of them. If this had happened 100 years ago, someone might have been shot. Where is today’s manhood? God help us!”

This is the "child psychologist" who recommended that parents beat their children. So now he's recommending that trans folk be shot when they use the bathroom? He's really kicked it up a couple orders of magnitude. Note this, from RawStory:

It is not clear if Dobson is aware that he is using the language of protecting a woman’s honor by killing those who might violate it, but his language is reminiscent of the ways that mobs were whipped up to hang black men and boys for perceived slights to white women. His argument connects his beliefs that Obama is a tyrant with his beliefs that any confusion about gender identity “must be seen as damaging not only to our sons and daughters but also to the long-term stability of society itself.”

Offhand, I'd say Dobson regards his use of inflammatory language as a plus. And of course, can't miss a chance to bash Obama. (Scratch a right-wing evangelical and you'll find a racist.)

It's not surprising that Dobson would reiterate all the bullshit being pushed by the bathroom conservatives. That's what he does. But can't you just see the spittle flying from his mouth?