Last week the North Carolina legislature passed a fairly common sense bill (PDF) that, among other things, required municipalities and schools to designate bathrooms by gender — that is, a person’s biological gender, not the gender they may say they are.  The State also specifically limited protected class status to biological gender.

As with other efforts in this vein, a smattering of companies have implied they may take their business elsewhere in response to this “bathroom bill” that would segregate boys from girls during their private endeavors.  (The San Francisco mayor said the same, though why he in particular is notable is unclear.)

This law also generated an open letter on Facebook by US Navy LT(JG) Megan Joan Willingham, who describes herself as a Sailor stationed in Okinawa, Japan: 

An Open Letter to North Carolina’s General Assembly and Governor McCrory…

I am completely astounded that while my wife and I are serving and protecting our country, our rights as American citizens are being taken away. When we return home, we can be refused jobs, housing, even entrance into establishments. People can post signs that say “No Gays Allowed” and we can be physically assaulted for being gay but it will not be prosecuted as a hate crime.

This seems to demonstrate some of the ignorant entitlement culture increasingly prevalent today.

First, no one’s rights “are being taken away.” Rather, the law is consistent with the same protection of rights present for the past 200 years in the United States, and millennia elsewhere.

Second, can she really be denied employment or services because of her sexuality? In actuality, the law has zero effect on that, as it makes no reference whatsoever to sexual behavior.  Perhaps she could be discriminated against, though that is unrelated to this law and there is little to indicate that’s even a realistic threat. Still, if she was, she would be free to patronize another establishment that supported her lifestyle choices, just as any other American is.

By contrast, the same cannot be said for the businesses upon which she seeks to impose her views about sexuality — an imposition she seeks to make with the help of the government, of course. That’s the situation in other states, where companies have been run out business not by the free market, but by the government imposing an ideology on them — Willingham’s ideology.

It’s almost as if there’s a conflict between religious liberty and erotic liberty, and some people seem to honestly think sexuality trumps faith.  Interesting that only one of those two “freedoms” is protected by the US Constitution Willingham and every other member of the military swears to defend — and it isn’t sexual activity.  Most people seem to have forgotten that, or they’re willfully ignoring it.

In an interesting announcement of her political intentions, the young Sailor Willingham tells her Governor she’s going to “cause [him] nothing but trouble”:

We will not give up until every single one of you is out of office. Until then, you can expect endless protests that cause you nothing but trouble. Unfortunately, I cannot march to your office myself because I am busy fighting for the freedom you are trying so hard to remove.

Who knew the US military was fighting for a man’s right to use a woman’s restroom?

While she is a Sailor (as is her homosexual partner), Willingham may be a bit motivated by her other role, a member of the Board of Directors of the homosexual advocacy group Military Partners and Families Coalition.

Notice, too, that Willingham won’t receive an iota of criticism for voicing her political and sexual views as a member of the military.  By contrast, what do you think would happen if an active member of the US military wrote a letter to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, lambasting him for vetoing a similar bill while claiming it would endanger the religious rights for which the military fights?

You don’t really need to hypothesize.  Christian members of the US military have been sanctioned for writing far more benign comments than Willingham’s “open letter,” even when those statements were clearly religious in nature.  By contrast, there is no public record of a member of the military being similarly sanctioned for making affirming statements about homosexuality — or making bigoted statements about the religious beliefs of their peers, subordinates, or commanders who may object to homosexuality.

Willingham closed with a bit of blind hypocrisy:

We North Carolinians will not rest because we understand this fantastic country of ours was built on the idea of liberty and justice for all.

Yes, LT Willingham, that’s liberty and justice for all — including those with whom you disagree, like those exercising their religious liberty and using their democratic process in support of this law — and including people who just want to pee in peace.

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