.@PatMcCroryNC didn't know that the LGBTQ discrimination bill he signed in NC repeals a fair housing

[riversedge]

Planned Parenthood Verified account
?@PPact
@PatMcCroryNC didn't know that the #LGBTQ discrimination bill he signed in NC repeals a fair housing ordinance. http://ppact.io/1RHu0Il He only listens to @foxnews! #p2



March 28, 2016 4:05 PM


McCrory blames ‘inaccurate’ news stories for backlash against NC LGBT law

Governor says ‘we have not taken away any rights that have currently existed’ in cities

But new law revokes local nondiscrimination ordinances

1 of 2
Gov. Pat McCrory blames ‘inaccurate’ news stories for backlash against LGBT law while responding to reporters questions at a groundbreaking for a Novo Nordisk facility in Clayton, NC on Monday, March 28, 2016. Elena Boffetta News & Observer

By Colin Campbell

[e-mail]


In his first news conference since signing a controversial bill on LGBT discrimination, Gov. Pat McCrory said Monday that the outcry from dozens of major corporations is due to news reports that are “distorting the truth” and “smearing our state.”

McCrory spoke with reporters after a groundbreaking event for Novo Nordisk in Clayton. He said reports that House Bill 2 revokes discrimination protections are wrong.

“We have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina, from Raleigh to Durham to Chapel Hill to Charlotte,” he said. “Every city and every corporation have the exact same nondiscrimination policy this week as they had two weeks ago.”

.....................
The new law creates a new statewide discrimination policy that doesn’t protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It says the statewide policy will “supersede and pre-empt” all local ordinances on the subject – effectively revoking several city ordinances that specifically banned discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. The law was triggered by a Charlotte nondiscrimination ordinance allowing transgender people to use bathrooms of the gender with which they identify.

Republican legislators have said a single uniform statewide policy is less confusing for businesses and that cities and towns never had the power to enact their own nondiscrimination ordinances. They rejected Democrats’ attempts to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the state policy, saying the terms are too confusing.

............................
“You’re blindsiding me with a question,” McCrory said. “I’ve been traveling all day, so you’re telling me something I’m not aware of.”

....................

McCrory said the news media is to blame for the outcry against the new law. “I frankly think some of the media has failed miserably in communicating the clear facts,” he said, specifically naming national publications such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.

.......................

Opposition from the business community continued to mount Monday, with the state’s biggest furniture market saying the law will result in “significant economic damage.”

The annual High Point Market said that “dozens” of its customers have said they won’t attend the April event, which draws 75,000 people.

“Based on the reaction in just the last few days, hundreds and perhaps thousands of our customers will not attend Market this April,” the High Point Market Authority said in a news release, adding that it “does not discriminate, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity.”


..................




Under the Dome
LGBT protections end as NC governor signs bill
Fact-checking Gov. McCrory’s Title IX claim
McCrory blames ‘inaccurate’ news stories for backlash against NC LGBT law
UNC-Chapel Hill professors blast LGBT discrimination law
Debunking negative reverse mortgage myths
Sponsored LendingTree.com
Obama administration calls NC’s LGBT law ‘mean-spirited’



Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article68657772.html#storylink=cpy

[Iliyah]

1. Apparently he didn't read the bill he signed