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After a 60 years of ideology, when does it matter that words had a meaning once upon a time? "Liberals" are per definition cancer of society, because no sane citizen is a "liberal". People identifying as such should be locked away in a mental asylum, because of what the group is and stands for. Its not a civil rights group for minorities, its not a group that wishes for long term policies, its just a populistic mish mash of media propaganda using a word.
And the same thing applies to the "conservative" side. Its not a real side, its just a media storm over something that was once a word. Are you a "conservative"? Yes? Please apply to the nearest mental institution. They won't help you, its not a part of the list of current defined mental illnesses.

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It depends in what regard. Almost all of them were in agreement that flexible/"creative" interpretations of a document whose function was to serve as a doorstopper for bad or even tyrannical policy was very dangerous. That's why they designed a system where you would need a strong majority to hold a convention to make constitutional changes. Unfortunately, this didn't fully succeed. The Courts perform linguistic gymnastics to slip around the issue and the small majority is able to get its way. You can tell issues are sidestepped because the 2nd amendment - as irritably vague as it is - yet remains unchanged for almost 250 years. It gives me the notion that a full reset of government might be best in the long-term (short of a thermonuclear holocaust, that's probably not going to happen).

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Parents across Massachusetts are upset over new rules that would not only allow transgender students to use their restrooms of their choice – but would also punish students who refuse to affirm or support their transgender classmates.

Last week the Massachusetts Department of Education issued directives for handling transgender students – including allowing them to use the bathrooms of their choice or to play on sports teams that correspond to the gender with which they identify.

The 11-page directive also urged schools to eliminate gender-based clothing and gender-based activities – like having boys and girls line up separately to leave the classroom.

Schools will now be required to accept a student’s gender identity on face value.

“A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day and throughout every, or almost every, other area of her life, should be respected and treated like a girl,” the guidelines stipulate.

According to the Dept. of Education, transgender students are those whose assigned birth sex does not match their “internalized sense of their gender.”

They said gender nonconforming students “range in the ways in which they identify as male, female, some combination of both, or neither.”

“The responsibility for determining a student’s gender identity rests with the student,” the guidelines dictate. “One’s gender identity is an innate, largely inflexible characteristic of each individual’s personality that is generally established by age four…As a result, the person best situated to determine a student’s gender identity is that student himself or herself.”

The new rules would also prevent teachers and administrators from telling parents with which gender their child identifies.

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Another part of the directive that troubles parents deals with students who might feel comfortable having someone of the opposite sex in their locker room or bathroom.

The state takes those students to task – noting their discomfort “is not a reason to deny access to the transgender student.”

And any student who refuses to refer to a transgendered student by the name or sex they identify with could face punishment.

For example – a fifth grade girl might feel uncomfortable using the restroom if there is an eighth grade transgendered boy in the next stall.

Under the state guidelines, the girl would have no recourse, Beckwith said.

“And if the girl continued to complain she could be subjected to discipline for not affirming that student’s gender identity choice,” he told Fox News.

“It should not be tolerated and can be grounds for student discipline,” the directive states.

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A 7-year-old Maryland boy was suspended from school for two days for shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun, according to his father.

FoxBaltimore.com reports that Josh Welch, a second-grader at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, was eating a strawberry tart when he decided to shape it into a mountain.

"All I was trying to do was turn it into a mountain but, it didn't look like a mountain really and it turned out to be a gun [kind of]," Josh told the station.

Josh, who suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, said his teacher was visibly mad when she saw that the pastry looked like a gun, according to the report.

The boy's dad, who was not identified in the report, was later notified that Josh had been suspended for two days for fashioning the pastry into a gun.

A letter was sent home with students explaining that "a student used food to make an inappropriate gesture," the station reported.

School officials declined to a request for comment from FoxBaltimore.com due to privacy issues.

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Oh, and only one comment about requiring little girls to go to the bathroom with little boys?  

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