Where's common-sense regarding restrooms?

Common-sensewise, who would have ever dreamed that suddenly men would be welcomed in women's bathrooms. Not only bathrooms, but showers, gyms, and even the "right" to play on female basketball teams.

For those who disagree, and have taken common sense action to assure the privacy and sanctity of our mothers, wives and children, we see attacks from the usual suspects: the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Center, who see nothing wrong with Tommy and Sally sharing a shower or toilet.

This while schools and government have already provided, at taxpayer expense, separate, equal and private facilities for transsexuals. Now we see the emergence of a "big brother" approach, as liberal-thinking business and government apply big-money blackmail toward states who stand up against our time-honored separate-but-equal facilities, facilities providing peace of mind from males who allegedly identify as a woman and enter a bathroom or shower occupied by our ladies.

Governors of North Carolina and Mississippi have signed common-sense laws preventing this from happening. Now, suddenly some misguided companies "in the pockets" of ACLU lobbyists, such as Toyota, Apple, Google, Pepsi and AT&T, have spoken loudly that parents don't matter, by taking actions against states calling them discriminatory.

Talk about hypocrisy, and "calling the kettle black." No surprise our ultraliberal President Obama threatens to deny millions in federal funds to strong-arm states that practice the people's right to be heard on such a critical issue.

Meanwhile, certain groups continue to attempt to take God out of our schools, business and government, as they say that in the act of creation that all of us experienced, God got this one wrong also.

May Almighty God have mercy on us, and our country.

Jim Finnegan

Barrington