Who are the REAL victims in North Carolina?
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The people who just want to be left alone to discriminate against people in peace, of course.
The Justice Department notified Gov. Pat McCrory in a letter Wednesday that the state’s House Bill 2, which restricts transgender bathroom access and has become a focus in the LGBT rights fight, violates sections of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It gave the state until Monday to “remedy” the violations.
On Thursday, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore said legislators would not meet the federal government’s deadline.
“We will take no action by Monday,” Moore told reporters in a video broadcast by the Raleigh News & Observer. “That deadline will come and go. Obviously, we don’t ever want to lose any money, but we’re not going to get bullied by the Obama administration to take action prior to Monday’s date. That’s not how this works.”
In a statement, McCrory said he would review the letter to determine the state’s next steps. “The Obama administration has not only staked out its position for North Carolina, but for all states, universities and most employers in the U.S.,” the governor said.
Yes, and that position is don’t discriminate, even if you think you can spin discrimination into a Noble Cause.
“The right and expectation of privacy in one of the most private areas of our personal lives is now in jeopardy.”
Yep, protecting people’s privacy by interfering with their ability to pee is exactly the sort of bonkers bullshit one expects from Republicans, who view restrictions on their ability to harm various groups of people as dreadfully unfair and will yell about government overreach even as they hold out their scabby little mitts for federal cash.
And in North Carolina, Gov. McCrory and the state legislature are more likely to stop being trash monsters for five seconds than they are to admit this all started with government overreach.
The North Carolina conflict initially began as a showdown between city and state. In February, the state’s largest city, Charlotte, passed an ordinance that expanded nondiscrimination protections to sexual orientation and gender identity and allowed people to choose restrooms according to the gender with which they identify.
All NC’s legislature had to do in response was – Nothing. But it chose to do something and it doesn’t like the consequences because these are people who have all the self-control of practicing addicts. I couldn’t begin to guess what the mean and stupid people who have made imaginary toilet fiends the hill they’re going to die on will do next, beyond some other mean, stupid thing. But I assume the Protect Our Potty PACs are hard at work gathering funds.
