The homophobic thread :>

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Never ever pick a fight with fabulously creative opponents.

The TV news also said something about my Henderson County losing an event, but I can't track seem to down more info. at the moment.

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http://www.hendersonvillelightning.com/ ... &item=5033

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http://www.hendersonvillelightning.com/ ... &item=5033

Thanks.

... “There’s no doubt there is a well-coordinated, national campaign

As was 100% predictable.

to smear our state’s reputation

The GOP did that.

after we passed a common-sense law to

... seriously harm our economy.

ensure no government can take away

The GOP detests local control.

our basic expectations of privacy

Nope, they're still public, "privacy" has nothing to do with it.

in bathrooms, locker rooms and showers,”

Pants on fire, the bill goes far beyond that.

McCrory and NC bigots' spokesman Josh Ellis said last week....

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Remember when they said the concept of discriminatory refusal of service would only be done by the "religious" to the gays? Opps...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigan-tir ... 00082.html

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McCrory blinks. Actually does nothing.
http://europe.newsweek.com/north-caroli ... llArticles

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McCrory blinks. Actually does nothing.
http://europe.newsweek.com/north-caroli ... llArticles

True dat.

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The first comment I saw was, "Too little, too late." McCrory sounds like the folks that became domestic partner fans well after their opposition to it threw open the door to going for full marriage rights.

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Our Governor is worse than Georgia's....

Worse than SC's, too ...

... Seriously, we're as bad as MS or AL these days and things aren't looking to improve anytime soon....

Meanwhile:

Louisiana governor signs non-discrimination order protecting LGBT employees

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Tonight: Air Horn Orchestra outside Governor McCrory’s Mansion.

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“Can you hear us now, Pat?”

McCrory on House Bill 2: ‘I knew there would have to be corrections’

Pfft, that's when a leader with balls vetoes and offers an alternative, not after being spanked by the nation.

Ringo Starr Cancels North Carolina Concert to Protest Anti-LGBT Law

Companies continue HB2 pushback following McCrory’s executive order

... Facebook said Wednesday McCrory’s order doesn’t change the stance of the company, which previously said it was “disappointed” by HB2....

Google ...

Apple ...

The Southern Sociological Society, which had booked its yearly meeting in 2019 at the Westin Charlotte, previously announced plans to cancel that event over HB2. The group said McCrory’s actions Tuesday did nothing to change its mind.

“We do not think that anything substantial has changed and will not hold our conference until the HB2 is repealed,” said President Barbara Risman....

Charlotte-based Bank of America.... And American Airlines ...

At least 13 conventions have canceled their events in Charlotte because of HB2 ...

More than 130 executives across the country, including the CEOs of Twitter and Marriott, signed a letter issued last month asking for the bill’s repeal.

None of those executives have asked to have their names removed from the letter since McCrory’s action Tuesday, said Matt Hirschy, director of advancement for Equality NC, one of the groups that sent the letter to McCrory.

“In fact, we’ve had companies calling us back and asking what they can do to engage further and continue in this fight,” Hirschy said....

Dallas Woodhouse, the N.C. GOP executive director, said NBA “has a dozen teams in states that have similar levels of non-discrimination protections as North Carolina. Are they going to ask the NBA to move those teams as well?” ...

Idiot, of course, no one has asked the NBA to move the Charlotte Hornets. Plus, I'm almost positive that “has a dozen teams in states that have similar levels of non-discrimination protections as North Carolina" is a bald faced lie.

Six US senators (including one GOP) ask NBA to move All-Star Game out of Charlotte

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Plus, I'm almost positive that “has a dozen teams in states that have similar levels of non-discrimination protections as North Carolina" is a bald faced lie.

My guess is that would refer to other states that don't have specific protections against discrimination toward LGBT. While IMNVHO that protection should be federal, applicable everywhere, not having that law isn't direct evidence of condoning discrimination. NC is different in that it had no individual discrimination law before, but created one intentionally and conspicuously leaving out LGBT and then putting an exclamation point on it by doing the bathroom thing. You won't be finding anybody else that's done that...yet.

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I'm guessing the drooling right-wingers in the NC Legislature didn't bother to read that EEOC interprets and enforces Title VII's prohibition of sex discrimination to include employment discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. These protections apply regardless of any contrary state or local laws. Here's what they should have read... https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/wysk ... orkers.cfm

On the list of specific actions considered discriminatory - "Denying an employee equal access to a common restroom corresponding to the employee's gender identity."

Further, just because the droolers say a person can't sue under state law for discrimination doesn't mean they can't sue the state (or state units that follow the discrimination requirement such as UNC, etc.) under federal law and in federal court.

So even though the EEOC doesn't give any protection to a non-employee being required to use a cross-gender loo, every state agency and organization has employees who will be directly affected.

Idiots.

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Plus, Title IX can really zap our federal school funding. The laws are what they are, but some of the federal aggressiveness on behalf of LGBTQs will potentially be affected by who the next POTUS is.

Part of the bald faced lie is that NC also went significantly beyond states that don't include LGBTQ protection in their nondiscrimination law by precluding localities from enacting their own nondiscrimination protections. If it weren't so sad it would be funny watching the GOP trying to weasel out of what everyone knows they did.

Idiots.

North Carolinians to NBA team owners: Stand up to hate! (petition)

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...NC also went significantly beyond states that don't include LGBTQ protection in their nondiscrimination law by precluding localities from enacting their own nondiscrimination protections. ...

Idiots.

I didn't know that there were 39 states without Home Rule, and 8 others with limits. Being mostly Floridian most of my adult life, I thought Home Rule was common. Here's a good explanation... http://www.nlc.org/build-skills-and-net ... -authority

So the droolers will argue, correctly, that Charlotte had no autonomous right to pass an ordinance on LGBT protection, and that it is within the rights of the State to prohibit Charlotte or anywhere else from doing so - along with stealing Asheville's water, Charlotte and Asheville's airport, and doing whatever else they want to do to punish those they don't like. So far, the law is on their side. But they don't have the authority to trample on rights granted to individuals by the Constitution. I'm guessing it will be mainly a 14th Amendment case. The droolers will argue that with regard to the restrooms, everyone is treated equally because everyone has to use the one matching their birth certificate. Which sounds good in right-wing theory if you think that transgenders are really just cross-dressers. But if you look at the clothing, etc. simply as outward manifestation of an internal condition, then you have to look at whether the underlying condition is protected. A transgendered girl in Maine won her "restroom" case in the Maine Supreme Court, based on the Maine Human Rights Act. The Maine HRA includes "sexual orientation" but not transgender, yet the Supreme Court found the school system to have discriminated in not allowing her to use the restroom matching her identity. I think Federal courts might see it the same way.

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Happening right now:

HB2 protest to be held in Hendersonville

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Protesters swarm courthouse, want repeal of 'Bathroom Bill'
Controversial bill brings more than 120 protesters to call for its repeal on courthouse steps

Pretty cool for Hooterville, but a 120 person demo. is hardly a "swarm". Think the headline writer was trying to make the positive article more negative or is s/he just goofy?

'Bathroom Bill' would be a good name for a character in a raunchy cartoon.

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Embattled NC Governor Calls Gay Rights Group ‘More Powerful Than The NRA’

“The Human Rights Council. My gosh, they’re more powerful than the NRA,” McCrory told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” alluding to the nation’s premier gun lobby.

Duh, that's how it goes with better educated majorities. Politics much?

“And they have millions of dollars, which makes me want to overturn [Citizens] United,

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because I don’t know who their donors are, either.

A better educated majority.

But they are putting on a lot of pressure,

Awww.

instead of having good dialogue.”

:-0?> Where was the "good dialogue" before the hurried special session to enact bigotry and suppress local control?

Despite the group’s power, McCrory didn’t have its name right; it appears he was alluding to the Human Rights Campaign, which lobbies on civil rights for the LGBT community.

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“I don’t think the government should be telling the private sector what their restroom and shower law should be, to allow a man into a woman’s restroom or shower facility at a YMCA, for example,” McCrory said Sunday. He added that, in his opinion, Charlotte “overstepped.”

50 years ago: I don’t think the government should be telling the private sector what their restroom and shower law should be, to allow a black into a white restroom or shower facility at a YMCA, for example,” McCrory said Sunday. He added that, in his opinion, anti-segregationists “overstepped.”

... “Do you want someone who identifies as a woman, born on their birth certificate as a man, [who] may look like a woman, going into a men’s bathroom?” Todd asked. “Is that fair to them?”

McCrory didn’t answer that one.

Coward.

UNC Has No Idea How To Enforce The New Anti-Trans Bathroom Law
The new law has a major hole in it, and it’s unclear whether universities will punish trans students for using the “wrong” bathroom.

... “It is absurd,” Shane Windmeyer, head of LGBTQ student rights group Campus Pride, told HuffPost. “Basically the state of North Carolina passed a law that has no enforcement, strikes fear and threatens safety for trans and LGBQ people, and has negatively impacted the state economy. It makes no sense. The political motivations are highly suspect and lawmakers need to be held responsible.”

... Chapel Hill officials said they will continue to share concerns they have with the new North Carolina law with the UNC system administration, and some of the consequences the flagship university is facing, noting in their April 8 email “the impacts to Carolina go well beyond the personal toll.”

“There are implications to us,” the UNC-Chapel administrators said, “ranging from conferences that will no longer send delegates to North Carolina and our campus; concerns and a pause among some prospective students, faculty, researchers and staff; current and prospective donors who are signaling a reconsideration of their gifts; grants and relationships with businesses that are now in jeopardy; and more.”

Looks like the bigots didn't even have a "good dialogue" amongst themselves about how to make sensible law.

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Trans North Carolina Man Explains How He's Dealing With the State's Bathroom Law

Pearl Jam latest act to cancel NC show in protest of 'bathroom bill'

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL WILL NOT PERFORM IN NORTH CAROLINA

"We therefore choose to cancel our scheduled performances of OVO in Greensboro (April 20-24) and our scheduled performances in Charlotte (July 6-10) and our scheduled performances of TORUK – Avatar in Raleigh (June 22-26)."

‘Survivor’ cast member erects rainbow outhouse on North Carolina’s highest mountain

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Trans North Carolina Man Explains How He's Dealing With the State's Bathroom Law

Pearl Jam latest act to cancel NC show in protest of 'bathroom bill'

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL WILL NOT PERFORM IN NORTH CAROLINA

"We therefore choose to cancel our scheduled performances of OVO in Greensboro (April 20-24) and our scheduled performances in Charlotte (July 6-10) and our scheduled performances of TORUK – Avatar in Raleigh (June 22-26)."

‘Survivor’ cast member erects rainbow outhouse on North Carolina’s highest mountain

I'm pirating pearl jams entire discography tonight in protest of them jumping on the feel good bandwagon. Not for my own enjoyment, but for others.

Why not proceed with the show and donate the proceeds to an LGBT charity? Nah, let's penalize our fans. If anyone wants some pearl jam albums let me know. Don't bother buying them and supporting rich self absorbed douche bags, because I got your back.