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Title: Sherrod Brown Hurts Kids
Post by: Shana A on October 30, 2012, 12:52:19 PM
Sherrod Brown Hurts Kids
posted by Donna Calvin
Andrea Lafferty
President Traditional Values Coalition

http://blog.beliefnet.com/watchwomanonthewall/2012/10/sherrod-brown-hurts-kids.html (http://blog.beliefnet.com/watchwomanonthewall/2012/10/sherrod-brown-hurts-kids.html)

Meet Mary.Mary is a little, shall we say, confused....but Mary isn't confused about whether or not the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is going to allow someone like him to keep teaching your kidswhile he undergoes his transformation from ugly caterpillar into a beautiful... something or other...This is a crucial election.

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Expanding the scope of traditionally protected minorities to those with gender identity issues will produce immediate and direct consequences to children in Ohio.

...because in Ohio, Sherrod Brown supports ENDA.

From cross-dressers to those who have surgically operated on their bodies to alter their gender, all would share in the same protections designed for underprivileged minorities — all these sexual preferences would share in ENDA's protection.

In the classroom, students would be forced to remain in Mr. Mary's classroom during his (her?) transition, given 30 days to figure it out, and if they didn't address "Mary" by his proper gender — face punishment.  (AP, September 6, 2006)