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Title: Ron Paul: Why almost everyone has the whole bathroom debate wrong
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TulsaWorld
URL Source: http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/o ... 01-5c7a-85bc-0e011d354273.html
Published: Jun 6, 2016
Author: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2016-06-06 05:50:51 by buckeroo
Keywords: None
Views: 413
Comments: 3
Some say government must be involved in this issue in order to ensure that private businesses do not violate individual rights. Those who make this claim are accepting the idea that rights are no more than a gift from the government that can be revoked at the will and whim of legislators and bureaucrats. This argument turns rights from a shield protecting our liberties into a sword that can and will be used to increase government control of our lives. Two weeks ago, the Department of Education waded into this debate by threatening to withhold federal funds from schools that do not allow transgender students to use the restroom of their choice. State and local officials around the country have promised to resist the Education Department's new bathroom rules. However, given how addicted most state and local governments and school boards are to federal funds, it is likely that even most conservative state governments and school boards will eventually adopt the bathroom policies desired by federal bureaucrats. Many of the conservatives who (correctly) denounce the Obama administration for trying to blackmail local schools either supported or were silent when a so-called conservative administration expanded the federal role in education via No Child Left Behind. These conservatives fail to realize that No Child Left Behind's testing and other mandates are no different in principle from President Barack Obama's bathroom mandates. Both use money stolen from the people and sent back to the states to force states to change their policies according to federal commands. Both are equally unconstitutional. Conservatives who want to defend local schools from federal bureaucrats must work to repeal, not reform, the Department of Education. One positive result from this latest controversy is that it may encourage more parents to home school. Home schooling is a means for parents to provide their children a quality education that meets the children's needs. Home schooling allows parents to ensure that their child's education reflects their values and beliefs, not the values and beliefs of federal bureaucrats. Working with a team of top scholars, I have created my own home schooling curriculum. My home schooling curriculum provides students with a rigorous education in history, math, English, and other subjects. The curriculum is designed to benefit both college-bound students and those interested in pursuing other educational or career opportunities. The curriculum features three tracks: natural sciences/math, social sciences/humanities, and business. Students may also take courses in personal finance and public speaking. The government and history sections of the curriculum emphasize Austrian economics, libertarian political theory, and the history of liberty. Unlike government school, my curriculum never puts ideological indoctrination ahead of education.Debates over the U.S. government's foreign and economic policies have recently taken a back seat to the debate over what bathroom transgender individuals should use. The two sides of the debate both believe that government has the legitimate authority to tell private businesses who they should allow to use their facilities. Few on either side of this debate defend the right of private property owners to decide for themselves who may and may not use their bathrooms.
Go Ron Go!
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#1. To: buckeroo (#0)
This whole issue has come about because we, the citizens, have supported asshole politicians that have encouraged & allowed perversion to spread & flourished. We are becoming a modern day Sodom & Gomorrah. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Go Ron go to hell!
Amen! A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.
#2. To: buckeroo (#0)
#3. To: buckeroo (#0)
No Child Left Behind's testing and other mandates are no different in principle from President Barack Obama's bathroom mandates. Both use money stolen from the people and sent back to the states to force states to change their policies according to federal commands. Both are equally unconstitutional.
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