The Federal Constitution and its Bill of Rights was intended originally to apply ONLY to the Federal government, not to states or to the cities that they incorporate. Massachusetts taxed the populace on behalf of the Congregational church until 1839. The so-called "bright line between church and state" was meant for the Federal government, originally.

If you want to argue a unified nation, where states are mere administrative units of the central government, that's fine. It could be objectively defensive of individual rights. But it is not the framework of so-called "states' rights federalism." Most of the people who self-identify as "conservatives" do not want the federal government interfering in local affairs.

Myself, I have a totally different take on this. However, I do note the apparent contradiction in what I perceive as your other opinions versus this.

I agree. The claim that "predators" dressed as women will enter women's restrooms is a strawman, by which I mean "strawperson-of-chosen-gender."

I note also, the slight against "6-year-old Coy Mathis – a boy who says he thinks he’s a girl..." As I understand the case, Mathis is a girl, in her head where it matters most. We accept that people can be born with six toes or no color perception. Gender and sex are equally variable. The real problem is law: making criminal offenses out of civil suits. Invest in your own pubic restroom, charge admission, make your own complicated rules, and enforce them at your own expense.

It doesn't matter what your personal experiences have been in non-gendered restrooms. What if I were an OB/GYN and said, "Oh, I've spent countless hours between women's legs and hardly ever got excited. There's nothing to worry about. Let others do it too." Total hogwash argument.

I pity the creep who sneaks into a bathroom behind my wife or daughter. Go to the "not particular sexy environment" in the men's room.

No. Of course not. Muslim mosques are special, haven't you heard?

Not up there with ebola and ISIS, but buried with the national debt and the failure to colonize Mars... Houston is just a city, like many others its size. The founders of the American republic were educated in the classics of Greek and Latin literature:
E pluribus unum - just another one of a lot of the same
Sic transit gloria mundi - Nothing new under the sun.
Aurea mediocritus - Read your Aristotle
Repetitio est mater studorium - If at first you do not succeed, try, try again.
O tempes! O mores! - you people are idiots.

Houston has a huge Asian population that is forced to embrace a wide ethnic across Vietnamese and Chinese, as if they are all the same. No one cares about that in screaming headlines, nor should they.

it can keep a series going a long time :)

Of course. It's a favorite tactic of side show hucksters. Distract with shiny bright loud noisy sleight of hand tricks, whilst one's pockets are getting picked clean.

Well, NASA would qualify for that... former Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (replaced with Ted Cruz) was opposed to private space launch firms in Texas. See here - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badast...)

A useful political axiom: What it shows the most, it is the least.

Bullying libtards think they are Animal Farm more than equal. Our betters in every way.

.. as opposed to conservatives, who care about the liberal agenda? (BTW barwick: when are you going to pony up your four bucks month and buy out of Moocherdom?)

How do you know what I believe that America "should be"? You, Abaco, and I would likely disagree about that, beginning with the fact that you are a Moocher, a long time poster, a bandwidth consumer, who does not pay for the privilege. Ultimately, you must believe that all of us $Producers$ were put here to pay for your opinions. Somehow, that seems unAmerican. Are you a crypto-communist?

This is where the Nazis started kid...

Have you never heard Martin Niemoller's poem?