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The Thing About Bathrooms

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     If you had told me a few months ago that the hottest political debate would soon be about who uses what toilet, I would have laughed at you.   Yet here we are, in June, still arguing about bathrooms.   This has to be a joke, right?   I mean, who cares about where you go to the bathroom?   Apparently, a lot of people do.      If you don't know what this is all about, North Carolina made a rule saying that people born male should use the male bathroom and people born female should use the female bathroom.   Many people took this as an act of oppression against the transgender population.   In retaliation, Target announced that transgender people could use whatever bathroom or dressing room they liked in their store, causing many Christians to boycott the company.      You may think that as a Christian that I support North Carolina and do not agree with Target.   This is not the case, nor is the other extreme.   I think both parties did wrong in this instance, and here'