Imagine this scenario – while at your favorite Charlotte, NC restaurant your eight year old daughter tells you that she has to use the bathroom. However when she opens the restroom door she notices that there are two adult men inside. Does this sound far fetched to you?
The scene above might be totally legitimate if a proposal in Charlotte is passed. The city of Charlotte, NC is voting on March 2 to pass a city ordinance which makes all public and private restrooms as gender neutral. For example this would allow any man who says that he identifies as a woman to enter women’s restrooms. In addition any private businesses who do not comply could be fined if they do not adhere to the ordinance.
“I cannot see why City Council would even consider this,” says Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said. “It is not only ridiculous, it’s unsafe”.
Frankin Graham is speaking out against the proposal which brings up many issues including safety from sexual predators. From billygraham.org:
“And it’s a concern that’s not unfounded in other parts of the country. At Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, where a similar ordinance was passed, a 45-year-old man who identifies himself as a woman was seen naked—genitalia exposed—in the women’s locker room by girls as young as 6 years old (the locker room is shared with a high school swim team and a children’s swim academy).”
Charlotte City Council Contact Info
Mayor Dan Clodfelter
Telephone: 704-336-2241
Mayor Pro Tem Michael D. Barnes
Telephone: 704-509-6141
Claire Green Fallon
Telephone: 704-336-6105
David Howard
Telephone: 704-336-4099
Vi Lyles
Telephone: 704-336-3431
Patsy B. Kinsey
Telephone: 704-336-3432
Al Austin
Telephone: 704-336-3185
LaWana Mayfield
Telephone: 704-336-3435
Gregory A. Phipps
Telephone: 704-336-3436
John N. Autry
Telephone: 704-336-2777
Kenny Smith
Telephone: 704-574-7241
Edmund H. Driggs
Telephone: 704-432-7077
H/T Kathie P.
The guy leading the fight
In 1998, Sevearance worked as a youth minister and in that capacity allegedly lured younger men to his apartment to spend the night where Severance showed them pornography and tried to talk them into sex. One boy testified that he woke up to find Severance “fondling him.” Severance was convicted on one charge of sexual molestation of a minor.