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Transgender bathroom laws an assault on freedom, expert says

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MONTCLAIR, CA, November 15, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A Los Angeles-area gym is under fire for a transsexual’s claim that he was asked to stop using the women’s locker room after revealing his past life as a man to his personal trainer . Yanel Valenzuela, 29, told  KCAL-9 Los Angeles  that a female manager at the Montclair location of the LA Fitness gym chain told him he was no longer welcome to use the women’s changing and restroom area after he confessed to a personal trainer that he had been born a man, but had surgery to remove his male sex organs and replace them with female facsimiles. According to Valenzuela, he told the trainer his secret because he wanted fitness advice targeted toward his unusual situation. But he claims a manager took him aside later and told him he couldn’t use the women’s locker room anymore.  “I felt hurt because I don’t understand why she did it.  She had no reason. She had no complaints from anyone,” Valenzuela told KCAL. He said he sh

Homosexuality Is Not a Civil Right

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Image via Wikipedia Early in 2004, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom began giving out marriage licenses—illegally—to same-sex couples. One of the homosexuals who traveled to San Francisco in search of a marriage license explained his rationale succinctly: “I am tired of sitting at the back of the bus.”1 The allusion, of course, was to the famous story of Rosa Parks . Parks is the African- American woman who, one day in 1955, boarded a racially segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sat down near the front, and refused the driver’s order to “move to the back of the bus.” Parks’ act of civil disobedience violated one of the “Jim Crow” laws that enforced racial segregation in various public services and accommodations in some states. Parks’ arrest for her courageous defiance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott , led by a young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr. , which is generally viewed as the beginning of the great civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It culminated