By Gary L. Bauer
Texas Insider Report WASHINGTON D.C. The economy is stagnant. ISIS continues its genocide. But the Obama Administration has the time to launch another blitz in its ongoing war against our American-Christian culture. Having successfully redefined marriage the left is now trying to force its radical agenda into the schools and onto our children. When conservatives warned that would happen we were mocked. Well here we are.
It started last year in the Washington D.C. suburbs of northern Virginia where a left-leaning school board willingly complied. Then Obamas bureaucrats moved closer to the American heartland. There was resistance in Illinois but there was virtually no resistance from leaders in Congress.
Then the radicals went after the entire state of North Carolina. In the face of this federal assault many politicians oddly retreated to 
the fallback position of saying it was a state matter. Dont they get that Obama is refusing to allow it to be a state matter?
So after witnessing one retreat after another the Obama Administration today issued a guidance letter to every single school district in the entire country telling them that they must accommodate boys who want to use girls bathrooms and locker rooms and vice versa. War on women and girls anyone?
According to the New York Times the letter does not have the force of law but it contains an implicit threat: Schools that do not abide by the Obama administrations interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid.
What you are witnessing is what happens when one side essentially declares a unilateral surrender in the culture war while the other side behaves like a juggernaut determined to make America into something utterly unrecognizable.
Civil Rights Charade
It was sickening to see an African American attorney general standing before reporters at a press conference comparing this cultural jihad to the civil rights movement. According to Attorney General Lynch the desire of parents to make sure that boys stay out of their daughters bathrooms is equivalent to the disgusting discrimination that forced blacks to use separate bathrooms.
Surely there are elected officials willing to point out the difference.
Segregating bathrooms based on race is bigotry because it is completely irrational. The color of the persons skin in the stall next to 
you has absolutely nothing to do with the function of the bathroom or your sense of modesty or propriety.
But having someone else in the bathroom with you of the opposite sex is a very different matter. That is the whole purpose of mens restrooms and womens restrooms -- so we have privacy.
The attorney general said she will not allow someones discomfort to prevent people from enjoying their full civil rights. But the entire transgender argument is based on the claim that transgendered individuals are uncomfortable using a bathroom that matches their birth gender.
So in order to accommodate their discomfort the federal government is now forcing the other 99.999 of the population to be uncomfortable.
It is heartbreaking to see the civil rights movement reduced to such a charade.
A movement that began with the noble purpose of ensuring that children got an equal education that a black woman could sit at the front of the bus has been pulled into a crusade that insists boys should be allowed to shower with girls if the boys claim they are girls.
When it comes to crime the progressive left sides with criminals over victims. When it comes to schools it sides with incompetent 
teachers over children. The Reverend Martin Luther Kings noble cause has been turned into left-wing social engineering.
Holding Kids Hostage
My friends I have to reiterate that when the Obama Administration threatens to withhold federal funds from public schools it is threatening poor and minority students. Most federal education programs are heavily weighted toward students at risk and in need.
So lets be absolutely clear about this: Obama is holding poor and minority children hostage to satisfy the demands of urban homosexuals and their transgender allies!
And we cant win this fight? Are we even going to try?
Some people have said to me Gary I agree with you but what are we supposed to do? Check birth certificates at the bathroom door? This completely misses the point.
In the lefts wacky world gender is a state of mind not your genetic or physical characteristics. When a 14 year-old boy walks into the girls locker room all he has to say is I feel like a girl and he will have the full weight of the federal government standing with him 
against your daughter. There is no way to prove the boy is not transgendered.
What Congress Could Do
Will the leadership in Congress do ANYTHING about this latest Obama outrage?
Im not suggesting they shut down the federal government. But heres just one idea: Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority Leader McConnell could send a letter to every school district in America just as the Obama Administration has done. Heres how it might read:
Dear Principals and Superintendents:
Congressional leaders are outraged that federal bureaucrats are trying to mandate local bathroom policies. The threat to withhold critical taxpayer dollars from at-risk students is unconscionable. Moreover we believe it exceeds the federal governments authority. We urge you to resist these unreasonable demands that defy common sense. Should the government press its case we will go into the courts with you to defend you. In the meantime we will be holding hearings to draw public attention to this issue. We are also drafting
legislation to reduce the budgets and the authority of the rogue agencies involved.
Really would that be so hard?
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