The Bathroom Edict Is A Wake-Up Call To The States.

By Rita Dunaway, Staff Counsel for the Convention of States Project, written for TheBlaze

On one hand, it’s refreshing to see that at least 20 states have now filed suit against the feds over the Obama administration’s bathroom edict. But on the other hand, it’s disturbing to realize that the president and his officials have amassed so much power over every level of state and local policy that we must plead with federal courts over an issue that should be a very basic aspect of self-governance.

Grove City College’s Mark Hendrickson summed it up well: “This administration’s eagerness to dictate new norms for bathroom usage ultimately isn’t about gender or sexuality – it’s about power. It’s about control, it’s about conditioning freedom-loving Americans to bow to federal power in every area of their lives, it’s about reducing people to the status of cattle, a herd-like blob, dumbly obeying the prods of their government masters.”

But there is a silver lining here, in the form of an undeniable wake-up call to the states: there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide from the federal intruders. .....To Read More....