BOSTON – The Massachusetts Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill to guarantee access to public facilities, including sex-segregated bathrooms and locker rooms based on their self-selected gender identity.
The so-called bathroom bill (S 735) passed by a lopsided 33-4 in the 40 seat chamber, with all four votes cast against it coming from Republicans. A similar measure is pending in the state House of Representatives, where passage is less certain.
Compassion — or a skewed definition of it — has become one of the left's most insidious weapons in the ongoing culture war. Like so many other arguments that the left makes these days, the notion of "compassion" has been twisted. And conservatives find themselves completely disarmed when this bomb gets dropped.
Oppose men being in little girls' bathrooms? You lack sufficient compassion for transgender people. Think that children do best in a family with a married mother and father? You are uncompassionate to gay people and single parents. Argue that welfare cripples the poor and entrenches them in poverty? How cruel and uncompassionate! Express concern over the United States' porous borders being exploited by those who intend us harm? So uncompassionate to immigrants!
