The American Family Association boycott machine is getting into gear to launch a pressure campaign against Planet Fitness for adopting an LGBT-inclusive policy. The Religious Right group organized the effort after a Michigan franchise cancelled the membership of one customer who unceasingly complained to staff and other customers after a transgender woman hung her coat up in the women’s locker room while visiting the gym.
The AFA’s Randy Sharp told American Family Radio host Bryan Fischer yesterday that the nondiscrimination policy will put “women and girls in danger of sexual assault and sexual violence,” although he could not name a single incident of that occurring as a result of the policy. Instead, he named three incidents of alleged sexual assaults that had absolutely nothing to do with the policy on LGBT gym members, but somehow managed to blame the policy anyway while describing one case where a woman accused a manager of sexual assault and harassment.
“When you’ve got that kind of policy, what morals does the company have?” he asked.
After alleging that people will begin posing as transgender women to put secret cameras in women’s locker rooms at the franchise, Sharp called on “Focal Point” listeners to “stop this insidious idea that men belong in women’s showers.”
