The propaganda campaign about House Bill 2 has reached a fevered pitch, and the media have been complicit in fueling hysteria and gross misrepresentations about the bill. The truth is that HB2 made very few substantive changes to North Carolina law. In fact, the policy of the state with respect to bathrooms, employment and most other matters did not change one iota when the bill was passed.
In a March 29 blog post on its website, the ACLU–North Carolina exclaims, “North Carolina’s lawmakers passed and Gov. Pat McCrory signed the most egregious, sweeping, hate-filled anti-LGBT legislation in this country’s history. Overnight, Governor McCrory and lawmakers transformed North Carolina into one of the most hateful states in the nation for LGBT people.”
This is outrageous! Quite the contrary, HB2 was passed to rein in a rogue city council in Charlotte that acted beyond its legal authority, to establish a statewide bathroom privacy and safety law clarifying existing state policy and to enumerate existing state policy as it relates to discrimination in employment and public accommodations.
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David DeGerolamo
The commenters all follow the adage to never allow logic and reason to outweigh emotion and hyperbole. The Left has achieved its goal of an illogical, reactionary, ignorant electorate through seven decades of control of the educational system. No political solution lies ahead….
Any sentient man or woman understands that there is no political solution. As I have stated before: why would we expect the government to fix the problems that they have created? However, my challenge still stands: I will register and vote for any pResidential candidate who outlines a plan to pay off the country’s debt.
NC should sue the ACLU and collect damages. That should bankrupt the American Communist Lawyers Union.
Why do we let gays bully us all. There should be equality for all but the tearing down of what has been built by our fore fathers is crazy. I feel a lot of what they want if I understand what that is a fantasy. They need help not enabled to keep their fantasy on going.
This was never about gay rights: it was about power and the transformation of a moral country into a statist government. Once “they” achieved their goal of destroying the definition of marriage, they had no further political agenda. At least for a period of time. Their goal is the same as the government: more.
The Pig Lesbo mayor must be brought up on charges for breaking existing state laws as well as Copper our dirt bag lying Attorney General. Cooper should have been impeached for violating his oath of office three years ago when he refused to legally handle the states case against same sex marriage, he should be sitting in jail at this time wearing an orange jump suit. I blame our legislature and the governor for not indicting him and removing him from his position, instead our republican leaders have this filthy Pig A.G. running around supporting all sorts of democratic bolshevik filth and garbage and what is worse he is running for Governor.