It’s Wake-Up Time, City of Charlotte

Husbands, do you want your wife showering at the local gym next to a man who identifies as a woman?

This is what the new bill would allow, and it is nothing less than social madness.

And while I am absolutely not implying that people who identify as transgender are sexual predators, there are now documented cases of male heterosexual predators or voyeurs posing as transgenders in order to invade women’s bathrooms and locker rooms.

Women of Charlotte, mothers and daughters, how do you feel about this?

It’s time to wake up!

3) The bill “will require the City to engage in impermissible discrimination on the basis of religion when it chooses businesses with which to contract.”

If you don’t embrace the bill, you will be labeled homophobic and bigoted, and there is every reason to think that the city will not want to do business with you.

Businessmen and women of Charlotte, is this what you want?

Pastors and spiritual leaders, are you going to let this happen on your watch?

What makes this new bill all the more ironic is that Charlotte is not suffering from all kinds of discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Quite the contrary.

The Human Rights Campaign, the world’s largest gay activist organization, is welcomed to the city each year like royalty, with companies like Bank of America and Wells Fargo boasting of their support.

As for “discrimination” based on gender identity, surely we can agree that the rights of all need to be protected, and no one should be able to force a nursery school to hire a man who is “transitioning” to be a woman to teach and play with 4-year-olds, while those who struggle with gender identity issues cannot expect “male” and “female” distinctions to be banished from society because of their very real struggles.

The good news is that there’s still time to act, so I appeal to every reader who lives in Charlotte to visit the North Carolina Values Coalition website as well as email and call every council member, respectfully asking them to vote against the bill, assuring them that you will not be able to vote for them in the future if they vote for the bill. And if you live outside of Charlotte but have friends who live there, then pass this article on to them.

Don’t let an unwise, discriminatory bill pass in the name of equality and tolerance.

And don’t hit the snooze button after you read this last line.

It’s wake up time!

 Michael Brown is the author of 25 books, including Can You Be Gay and Christian? and host of the nationally syndicated talk radio show “The Line of Fire.” He is also president of FIRE School of Ministry and director of the Coalition of Conscience.