Pat McCrory Says He Signed the Broadest Anti-LGBT Bill in the Nation to Prevent Government Overreach

[KamaAina]

Not The Onion!

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/pat_mccrory_says_he_signed_the_broadest_anti_lgbt_bill_in_the_country_to_prevent_government_overreach

On Wednesday in a special session North Carolina lawmakers rammed through HB2, a bill that they were granted a mere five minutes to read before beginning debate. A bill that literally made its way through both chambers of the General Assembly, onto the governor's desk, and signed into law in a mere 12 hours.

Even before the City of Charlotte began debate on a bill to extend nondiscrimination protections to LGBT people, North Carolina's Governor Pat McCrory issued a strong threat. He told City Council members, "this action of allowing a person with male anatomy, for example, to use a female restroom or locker room will most likely cause immediate State legislative intervention which I would support as governor."

As soon as the Mayor of Charlotte signed the nondiscrimination ordinance, McCrory and top elected Republican lawmakers sprung into action. They threw the state into chaos, which affected even school aged children. One, a sixth-grader whose best friend is transgender, wrote an op-ed in a local paper urging Gov. McCrory to stop his hypocritical campaign. Wisely, she said, "many people have a similar opinion to McCrory’s, and this opinion is that it puts cisgender people at risk. They say that some people may pretend to be transgender just to 'stalk' people in the bathroom."...

“The basic expectation of privacy in the most personal of settings, a restroom or locker room, for each gender was violated by government overreach and intrusion by the mayor and city council of Charlotte," McCrory trumpeted in a statement after signing the bill Wednesday night.

[abelenkpe]

1. More like prevent the government from protecting

Citizens targeted by bigots.

[Initech]

2. Fuck those people and their religion of hate.

[BigDemVoter]

17. My sentiments exactly.

I have no plans to EVER visit that place or really any other place to speak of in the South. I have better places to spend my money than in states run by Republican swine.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

26. Well, I suggest you then spend your energy (not saying you arent) convincing Bernie

supporters (Hillary supporters dont seem to suffer from this same issue at the same degree) that they better vote Democratic in November or else this sick and twisted agenda of hate will be official US policy all over the country.

[malthaussen]

3. Completely illogical.

So what else is new?

-- Mal

[Oneironaut]

4. I love the mental Olympics of taking something that was never a problem

and claiming that laws to solve the invented problem were actually created to stop the Government from overreaching its authority. Nobody gave a shit about this 2 years ago. TG men and women generally used the bathroom that fit their gender. This whole thing is a false issue invented by bigots, much like how Hitler invented the 'Jewish problem' in Germany.

What's almost comical about this is that the wholr anti-trans lobby we have here basically uses the same arguments that the KKK used to use against black people. Very sad.

[Duval]

5. ARGH!

Those of us who live in NC, please sign, and let's get these turds out of here. What a total bunch of El Toro poo poos.

[YOHABLO]

6. Let's organize a march on N.C... we can do it.

[KamaAina]

7. They can do it themselves. Quite well, actually.

Google "Moral Mondays".

[SMC22307]

9. Reverend Barber and Moral Mondays has it covered.

But the more the merrier.

Protesters amassed pretty quickly outside of the Executive Mansion yesterday:



http://www.wral.com/news/local/image_gallery/15598619/

[No Vested Interest]

8. A lot of convention and tourist business will be at stake, if this action.bill is not reversed. nt

[KamaAina]

15. It'll be interesting to see if the NFL weighs in

as it did when Arizona refused to recognize the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

[barbtries]

10. yeah.

bastard. republicans with their super majority have been destroying the state of NC with glee and cruelty for years now. yes, elections have consequences. i wish i could go home.

[octoberlib]

11. This bill is extremely broad.

It basically wipes out all protections against any form of discrimination including racial and gender. In other words, it's perfectly legal under NC state law now for a business to put a sign on it's door saying " No LGBTQ, Blacks, Muslims, or Women allowed."

[Sunriser13]

14. This was going to be my point

This basically removes all local and state discrimination protections placed in the '70's. The only other state with no local/state recourse is Mississippi.

Now the only resort is Federal court, which could be so time-consuming and potentially expensive that many seeking protection would be discouraged to even try.

McCrory and his cronies have put what was becoming a somewhat progressive state, attractive to businesses and citizens alike, further and further back into the "dark ages".

UGH!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Overreach? Perhaps he thinks the 1964 Civil Rights Act was "overreach". . . . nt

[freebrew]

13. 'Over-reach' is probably ...

what he'll get. These actions by this and other states will prompt action from SCOTUS, eventually.

I can't see this ending well for 'states rights', IMO.

[King_Klonopin]

23. I think he secretly desires a reach-around... nt

[dropboss11]

16. What if...

dangerous people and perverts claim they are of the opposite sex and using opposite sex bathroom for dangerous purposes? you all acting like those people are not out there. The Governor did the right thing.

[KamaAina]

18. What if...

the moon really was made of green cheese?

Enjoy your stay.

[alp227]

19. Of course, the jury defends this comment as "just an opinion" (I was #3)

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I'm sorry, I don't get it.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: one day the poster will grow up, stop being a colossal bigot and realize just how incredible stupid that comment sounds.

yes, hide this fucking stupid ass comment.
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: This ain't Free Republic or Breitbart comments section.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I strongly disagree, but I don't think someone's opinion, no matter how goofy... warrants a hide.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: This is just ridiculous.
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: We certainly do not have to agree with a poster to allow them an opinion.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

27. Welcome to the new America, same as the old one, just more honest about it.

[Ilsa]

20. check out this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027712387

[King_Klonopin]

22. Logic like this gives me brain bubbles. nt

[Jackie Wilson Said]

28. What if aliens land in your back yard and transform you into the opposite sex but

you then find out that you cant use any public restroom because bigots are afraid of you.

Hopefully those aliens equipped you with a laser gun so you could just zap everybody, I suppose.

[johnp3907]

33. Can you tell us more about your feelings on homosexuals?

Please proceed.....

[johnp3907]

35. A glance at your journal made me curious.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

36. Are you still allowed to post here? HELLO! Bigot alert!!

[uppityperson]

42. no, they aren't.

[LostOne4Ever]

38. Are you a Poe or have you given any real thought to this?

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]First off, those dangerous purposes are already illegal. People who are going to break the law like that...are not going to be deterred. All that is going to happen is that trans people are going to suffer.

Secondly, why would someone who has zero experience trying to pass as the opposite gender, who has had no hormone treatment nor surgery do that?

A person like that would make themselves STAND OUT in public more. They would almost certainly get caught, and they would also be putting themselves at risk from attacks from transphobic bigots? It would be easier for them to sneak into the bathrooms when no one is looking and hide.

Third, how does this law stop these people from going into the opposite sex restroom now? A man could go into the women's restroom and claim to be a cis woman. Or they could simply go in there not even bothering to attempt to dress like a woman and claim to be a FTM now. It stops nothing.

Fourth, how many times has this happened? How about almost never? But Transpeople are frequently the victims of violence!

Of course, transphobes are more concerned about the victims of a crime that almost never happens (because as I mentioned above only a moron of a criminal would make themselves more auspicious instead of less) than they are about protecting transpeople who are facing ACTUAL violence for simply trying to use the restroom constantly.

But that is the real purpose of this, to expose transpeople to more hate and ridicule. To get them arrested for simply trying to use the restroom without getting assaulted. And do you have any idea of what happens to trans people in prison?

It is sick and disgusting that ANYONE would support this bullshit bigoted Piece of shit bill. ESPECIALLY HERE ON DU!!![/font]

[AlbertCat]

39. you all acting like those people are not out there.

O....M.....G

What if dangerous perverted people are using same-sex bathrooms for nefarious purposes! There are those kinds of people out there y'know!

Best just to not allow anyone in bathrooms at all! Just get rid of bathrooms altogether!!!

AAAAAAHHHHHHHGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!

[Rex]

41. So because pervs are out there, an entire group of Americans must suffer for it?

Fuck that! Enjoy your stay.

[LostOne4Ever]

43. @MIRT Thank YOU!!!! Nt

[maveric]

45. Is that something that you worry about?

Really.

[King_Klonopin]

21. "... a partisan reflex in search of a justifying principle."

George Will quote from an op-ed a few days ago, in reference to the SCOTUS nomination.

This is one more example to add to the list of hundreds of GOP fake principles.

[Vinca]

24. Please let this be the next Governor found with his pants down when they shouldn't be.

[Dont call me Shirley]

25. Snap, Pat, your ugly acts of hate will snap back in your face.

[liberal N proud]

29. That like passing laws that the government can't pass laws

[Phlem]

30. "to Prevent Government Overreach"

Umm...... your decades upon decades to late.

Lying sack of

[staggerleem]

44. Kinda like dropping bombs and sending in troops to prevent a war.

Oh - but we've done that already, too, haven't we?

[Gothmog]

31. This is a horrible law

NC needs to get ready for some boycotts

[struggle4progress]

37. Passed a bill forbidding local removal of confederate monuments. Flew the confederate flag

on the state capitol. Passed a bill forbidding local nondiscrimination ordinances

I smell a trend here

[Rex]

40. Wait wait wait...wait.

Ugh. These fucking stupid moronic GOPukers and their reverse logic makes my head hurt! Does he not understand what cisgender means? WAIT...nobody answer that, Republicans are the most stupid backward humans in existence...of COURSE he has no clue.

There should be a TEST for anyone that runs for governor or higher office.