We, the comrades of Unit 1012,
give our utmost thanks to Maya Dillard Smith for quitting the ACLU
Demons. It makes us glad that ACLU gets exposed.
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Maya
Dillard Smith, former executive director for ACLU Georgia, says her children
were 'concerned about their safety.'
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State leader
quits ACLU after daughters were ‘visibly frightened’ by men using women’s
restroom
ATLANTA, May 31, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The African-American
woman who leads a state chapter of the ACLU has resigned, citing her own
daughters' “frightened” reaction to biological males using the women's
restroom.
The organization's increasing focus on
legislating the transgender lobby's concerns pushed Maya Dillard Smith, interim
director of the Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, to
tender her resignation.
“I have shared my personal
experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s
restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults, over six feet
[tall] with deep voices, entered,” she wrote.
“My children were visibly
frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of questions for
which I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer,” she continued.
In a statement, she said
that the ACLU has become “a special interest organization that promotes not
all, but certain progressive rights.”
The “hierarchy of rights” the ACLU
chooses to defend or ignore, she wrote, is “based on who is funding the
organization’s lobbying activities." She did not elaborate on the
group's funding.
Dillard Smith is no conservative. She
earned a degree in economics from Berkeley and a masters degree at Harvard,
while working for the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals and the California Supreme Court.
She is a 2003 graduate of
the program Emerge America, which states its “goal is clear: to increase the
number of Democratic women in public office.”
But this self-described “progressive”
who called herself “unapologetically black” cannot go along with the ACLU's
transgender legal agenda.
Georgia was one of first 11
states suing the Obama administration over its controversial
federal guidance requiring public schools and universities to allow
transgender students to use the restrooms,
showers, and overnight accommodations of the opposite biological sex.
The ACLU's North Carolina chapter is
suing Gov. Pat McCrory for signing H.B. 2, which requires individuals use the
restroom of the biological sex noted on their birth certificates in the lawsuit
Carcano v. McCrory.
The liberal legal group's opposition
to the bill – which otherwise leaves restroom policies up to business owners –
proved the ACLU holds a legal philosophy Dillard Smith says she can no longer
support.
“I found myself principally
and philosophically unaligned with the organization,” Dillard Smith said.
“I understood it to be the
ACLU’s goal to delicately balance competing rights to ensure that any
infringements are narrowly tailored, that they do not create a hierarchy of
rights, and that we are mindful of unintended consequences,” she said in a statement.
“I believe there are
solutions that can provide accommodations for transgender people and balance
the need to ensure women and girls are safe from those who might have malicious
intent,” she
said.
Numerous sexual
assault survivors have shared how transgender restroom laws render women
vulnerable and stir painful memories of abuse in a video released by the Alliance Defending Freedom.
Dillard Smith has already started a
new website, Finding Middle
Ground, dedicated to creating a “safe space” to discuss the new, red-hot
national issue.
“How can we ask these kinds of
questions without being called a homophobe?” the video asks. “How do we prevent
predators from preying on kids in bathrooms?”
The website features a young black
girl standing near a swing set, clasping its chain as she shares her own
feelings. “I don't want him to be uncomfortable in the boy's bathroom, either,”
she said. “I don't want them to be uncomfortable anywhere. But what about me,
too?”
A transgender activist, a biological
male who goes by the name Cheryl Courtney-Evans, responded to the resignation
by calling
Dillard Smith “lazy,” “ill-educated,” and a “b--ch” who needs to sit down and
“STFU.”
"What am I doing in a men’s room
looking as luscious as I am, putting myself in danger?" the transgender
activist asked.
Dillard Smith's departure will leave
the ACLU shorthanded in the state and even shorter on diversity nationwide.
As of last November, she was one of
the youngest ACLU directors in the nation, and one of only
three
African-Americans employed in that role in the progressive
organization.
Fox Business
Mother
Says LGBT Rights Come At Young Children's Expense
Published on Jun 3, 2016
Maya
Dillard Smith, a former Georgia ACLU executive director, discusses why she
resigned from her post after reaching a breaking point with the organization's
transgender policy.
Fox
Business: The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan
Fox Business
VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt2WpjpFPTA
Georgia
ACLU director resigns over transgender directive
Published on Jun 2, 2016
Maya Dillard Smith speaks out on 'The Kelly File'
about why she left her post
VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1418DIRQcg4
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