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Actually it did, since it repealed all city and local ordinances that did have anti-discrimination laws on the basis of orientation and gender identity. Furthermore, it prevents any local jurisdictions from passing laws that provide that protection. So Asheville can no longer require restaurants, hotels, shops, etc. to serve gay people. This bill is like putting a giant "No Gays Allowed" sign on the State.
It took away gay people's rights in cities/local areas that had anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBT people.
Prior to this bill, Buncombe, Mecklenburg, and Orange counties, Asheville, Charlotte, Boone, Raleigh, Greensboro, Chapel Hill, and Carborro cities, the entire NC university system, and pretty much all universities in the state, and the NC Housing Finance Agency all had laws that prevented discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
That meant you couldn't be denied admission to school, denied housing, denied employment, denied accessed to businesses, etc. in any of those locations. With the passing of this law, every single one of those laws is repealed and void.
I don't think you, like most people grasp how drastic this law was, because idiot Republicans want you to think its only focus is transgenders in bathrooms. That's not the bulk of what the bill did.
The bill repealed all LGBT anti-discrimination laws and makes it illegal for any law to be passed protecting LGBT people from discrimination in any regard in the State of North Carolina. If that doesn't seem like an issue to you, I really don't know what to tell you.
North Carolina has now surpassed Mississippi and Alabama as the most regressive, backwards state in the country. Congrats, quite an achievement.
Sunny - are you going to admit you were wrong, or are these statements false?
Clinton supports equality for some, and just a few.
Corrected for you, she has yet to prove that. I often see dem candidates run on the ticket of supporting equality but always turns out to be supporting friends and donors.
I am not being snarky or insensitive by asking, but your post compels me to ask what i've wondered all along:
Why do we need to make bathroom accessibility an issue?
If the above pictured person walked into a ladies room, would *anyone* give her a second glance?
I realize that the bill takes away so much more from LGBT community but I had the same exact thought.
I wonder how many times a transgender has already been in the ladies room with me. I've never paid attention and I'm sure it's happened many times. Nothing ever happened to me or my child.
Why is the media playing up this aspect of it and not the rest of it which is more important.
I really do not care about this stuff at this point. Total equality will never take place among human beings. Striving for it is noble and generous BUT - people will in the end jostle for supremacy. I remember as a young guy having a drink in gay bar...I remember a gay man who commented about me..."do not listen to him...he is just a common breeder" What he was saying was that in his world...gay men were superior to straight men...go figure.
Perverts can already go into any bathroom they want. You will be fine. Breath.
On another note, I want to share that I'm a lesbian in a man's body. Love women. Well, mainly my wife.
You should talk to Caitlin Jenner.
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