What Happened?
By Thomas Hampson
Governor Pritzker signed HB 1286, (Public Act 103-0518), allowing any multiple-occupancy restroom to be identified as an all-gender multiple-occupancy restroom at the discretion of the building owner or leaseholder.
Anyone of any “gender” could use it.
Why was this law introduced, why did it pass?
A few years ago, could anyone imagine such a law would ever have been signed? Who would even have thought this was a good idea? How did we arrive at the point where our elected representatives, supposedly speaking for us, believe this is ok? Is it ok?
I can’t see how this is in any way acceptable. The movement toward accepting multiple-occupancy all-gender restrooms is largely an outgrowth of the transgender movement.
Unless restrooms are designated as all-gender, trans-identifying people face what they consider to be discrimination in using the restroom that conforms to their identity. Hence this is part of their more significant movement for inclusion, particularly in sports.
This became thrust on us seemingly so quickly because of a decades-long movement to create social acceptance for what has become known as the sex-positive movement, including the move to normalize LGBT lifestyles and practices.
Essentially, it started with Alfred Kinsey, who was notoriously bi-sexual, and the release of his two seminal works, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).
The publication of these works accelerated the sexualization of our culture that had begun in the early 20th Century. The acceleration sped up during the “Sexual Revolution” of the late ’60s and early ’70s, which propelled and was exacerbated by the removal of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 1973. This added to the “anything-goes” atmosphere surrounding sexuality that grew in those years.
Still, while homosexuality was no longer considered a mental illness,
it remained unacceptable to most Americans.
Not so today.
Most people see it as a normal variation of human sexuality. Even some churches bought into this view early on, as recounted in the book Forgetting How to Blush: United Methodism’s Compromise with the Sexual Revolution by Karen Booth. The United Methodist Church even funded the sellout by backing two of its ministers, Ted McIlvenna and Laird Sutton, to work with the Glide Foundation and later the National Sex Forum (NSF).
Read the Remainder of Tom’s article HERE: https://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/what-happened/
