After a U.S. District Court issued an injunction against the Obama Administration’s mandate for transgender bathrooms in public schools, the Justice Department has filed a notice that they will appeal the ruling to the Fifth District Court of Appeals – which is one of the most conservative federal appellate courts in the nation.
Writing for LifeSiteNews.com, Father John Hodges is reporting on the latest legal maneuver against a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor in which he issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting enforcement of Obama’s redefined Title IX law that mandates opposite sex use of showers, locker rooms and toilets. The Administration has threatened public schools with losing federal funding if they fail to comply.
The Justice Department had requested that O’Connor’s injunction be limited to just the 13 states where attorney generals are suing to stop the government from imposing transgender bathrooms in the nation’s schools. However, O’Connor issued a ruling last Tuesday in which he reminded the Administration that he not only has the authority to issue a nationwide injunction, but said that a “a geographically-limited injunction would be ineffective” because “both Title IX and Title VII rely on the consistent, uniform application of national standards.”
In response to this ruling, the Department of Education filed a notice that they are planning to appeal this decision to the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, a court that is widely considered to be the most conservative federal appellate court in the nation.
“President Obama’s obsession with this destructive transgender ideological agenda exposes his rank opposition to Constitutional rule as well as natural law and biological reality,” Arthur Christopher Schaper, director of California MassResistance, told LifeSiteNews.
This is a civil rights issue, Schaper explained, but not one that concerns the granting of rights to gender-confused children to use opposite sex bathrooms. Rather, it’s to protect the rights of citizens and schools not to have transgender ideology forced upon them.
“Male and female are clear, distinct identities, and any attempt to ignore or remove recognition of these distinctions is destined to fail, hurting children physically, mentally, and spiritually, and undermine the long-held truths of our society,” Schaper said.
However, Schaper’s colleague at Mass Resistance, Executive Director Brian Camenker, is more skeptical of the outcome.
“Unfortunately, this is probably only a temporary reprieve,” he told LifeSite. “A federal judicial system that is capable of mandating ‘gay marriage’ is not going to be stopped here.”
Camenker went on to blame conservative citizens who remain passive in the face of this encroaching meance.
“Our side is paying the price for not fighting this aggressively. Only talking about bathrooms and ‘privacy’ instead of attacking the core issue – the insanity of transgenderism – is a losing argument in the long run.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading the charge against this mandate, saying it is an issue of executive overreach and vowed that Texas would not sit idly by while President Obama ignore the Constitution.
“The president cannot rewrite the laws enacted by the elected representatives of the people and then threaten to take away funding from schools to force them to fall in line.”
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