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So main outcome of this? State employees have LGBT protection. That's it. Discrimination cases can't be brought to state court still. And Bathroom Ordinance still struck down. Companies are sure as hell still going to leave the state still. Pat must think they are so stupid and will fall for it.
I guess under his "diminished thinking", state employees are 1st class North Carolina citizens and the rest of us are 2nd class citizens subject to the "vagaries of the marketplace" in respect to our civil rights. Gov Pat's "I got mine ...too bad for you!" Isn't he a real piece of s...!
Why would someone from the LGBT be protected as a guest when I don't have those same protections? A privately owned restaurant can refuse service to anyone. They can chose to refuse service to me, to you, to anyone ...
... Again, why should there be human rights protection for the gay customer and not for the heterosexual customer? ...
I think you are mistaken. Many people believe if a business owner operates a Public Accommodation he or she can refuse to serve anyone they like. Not true. Open a restaurant and refuse to serve Black folks. Open a hotel and refuse to take bookings from Jewish folks. You are liable to be sued and get slapped with criminal penalties and heavy fines. Did you know that?
A business owner can eject a customer because of legally objectionable behavior or conduct - such as "no shoes, no shirt, no service." Certainly if a person is abusive, threatening, or even loud you can politely ask them to leave.
You can not put a sign that says 'No Blacks" or 'No Irish' or 'No Buddhists' or 'No Handicapped' or 'No Gays' in your business.
I am a landlord. Every landlord in my state - and I'm pretty sure it's for all the other state - are given instructions when they get their business license whom they cannot discriminate against in housing.
Heterosexuals are covered in all states and municipalities that have the words "sexual orientation" in their ordinances and codes. "Heterosexual" is a sexual orientation.
[quote=skinsguy37;43691927]Why would someone from the LGBT be protected as a guest when I don't have those same protections? A privately owned restaurant can refuse service to anyone. They can chose to refuse service to me, to you, to anyone.
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I guess under his "diminished thinking", state employees are 1st class North Carolina citizens and the rest of us are 2nd class citizens subject to the "vagaries of the marketplace" in respect to our civil rights. Gov Pat's "I got mine ...too bad for you!" Isn't he a real piece of s...!
"A solution looking for a problem. . ." That says it all. Someone should tell him that HB2 was a solution looking for a problem. It was a list of solutions looking for a problem.
I have to agree, Emissary, he is a real piece of work.
Read the executive order before assumptions . Link to the executive order is in post 9
North Carolina law allows private businesses and nonprofit employers to establish their own non-discrimination employment policies;
Adding sexual orientation to state clause is great for LGB state employees
City goverments can have their own nondiscrimination policies
Companies can have like it was before have their own non-discrimination policy
Best part is the way Charlotte oridnance should had been written is
Yea too bad it's a order and the bill overrides it. They have to write legislation to allow someone to sue for discrimination in state courts. So basically the city can have non-discrimination ordinances but still can't enforce it in state court. So it renders this executive order useless except if you are a state employee. You obviously like it like you likes HB2. Amazing really...
The reality is LGBT people were never protected in North Carolina though, even before HB2. By adding the clause about state employees this executive order actually gives more rights to LGBT citizens statewide than we had before, it's sad, but it's true.
It was only local governments and businesses that have instituted laws against discrimination of LGBT people, and this order gives them back the right to do so which HB2 took away (assuming I am reading everything correctly).
It isn't so much that nothing has changed vis-a-vis the past as it is about how HB2 prevents any progress that would surely come in time. Charlotte was the first city to move in that direction and others would have surely followed in short order. Clearly it was paramount to stop the ordinance from becoming effective for the Republican leadership. All I can figure is that generating fear as a political tool is much stronger before something goes into effect than it would be to sustain that fear once the ordinance took effect.
Now that the backlash is in full swing to their backlash, the governor is in a pickle. He's losing jobs and revenues in an election year. He puts out his executive order and some periphery statements about what he would like to see done in the upcoming short session to backtrack parts of the law. However, even with his executive order, it's very obvious that the power (money) behind the NC Republican party does not want to extend human rights to the entire LGBT community and it continues to use the bathroom scare as the mechanism by which to make it happen.
The irony might come if all of this tightrope walking isn't enough and the Republican led government has to cave and extend basic human rights to lgbt citizens to stop the bleeding. But, there's a silver lining in all of this for the Republicans. If they did add protections for lgbt citizens to a modified HB2 law, they can always brag in twenty years that they (and not the Democrats) brought lgbt equality to NC when it will be seen as less of a big deal to future generations. Maybe the Republicans have painted themselves into a corner on this one and their only way out is to be reluctant heros to the lgbt community?
It is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their religion, gender, color, national origin, age, sex or handicap in the state of North Carolina (and nationwide for that matter).
Do you not also feel it should be illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their sexual orientation (or gender identity)? Many states have passed such laws. Many local governments in NC also passed such laws, until HB2 took away their ability to do so.
You're not understanding what I am saying. Yes, I think it is wrong to discriminate based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity, but you guys are only thinking about this from one angle. If an ordinance is passed forcing all businesses, public and private, to have all-gender bathrooms, while that "solves" the issue with transgenders and bathrooms, it then creates a privacy issue for the rest of us who are not transgender. So, an ordinance passed on the basis of making a certain section of our population "comfortable" has in turn, made the rest of us uncomfortable. It discriminates against those of us who do not wish to relieve ourselves in the presence of the opposite sex.
And before you say anything about having used the restroom with a transgender at some point in my life, I am not talking about transgenders. I'm talking about that 14 year old girl who should not be exposed to a man's genitalia.
You're not understanding what I am saying. Yes, I think it is wrong to discriminate based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity, but you guys are only thinking about this from one angle. If an ordinance is passed forcing all businesses, public and private, to have all-gender bathrooms, while that "solves" the issue with transgenders and bathrooms, it then creates a privacy issue for the rest of us who are not transgender. So, an ordinance passed on the basis of making a certain section of our population "comfortable" has in turn, made the rest of us uncomfortable. It discriminates against those of us who do not wish to relieve ourselves in the presence of the opposite sex.
No ordinance has been proposed that forces all businesses to have all-gender bathrooms. Plus, all-gender bathrooms, where they exist, are single occupant rooms.
Incorrect. A privately owned business can not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, and national origin. See the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In 2012, sexual orientation and gender identity were also included under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, after a federal court ruling. This is the biggest reason why HB2 will be overturned once it reaches the higher courts.
Yes, they can refuse service, on the basis of:
Patrons who are unreasonably rowdy or causing trouble
Patrons that may overfill capacity if let in
Patrons who come in just before closing time or when the kitchen is closed
Patrons accompanied by large groups of non-customers looking to sit in
Patrons lacking adequate hygiene (e.g. excess dirt, extreme body odor, etc.)
Patrons who are unreasonably rowdy or causing trouble
Patrons that may overfill capacity if let in
Patrons who come in just before closing time or when the kitchen is closed
Patrons accompanied by large groups of non-customers looking to sit in
Patrons lacking adequate hygiene (e.g. excess dirt, extreme body odor, etc.)
Um, none of those meet the test of race, color, religion, and national origin. Thats the point several people have tried to make to you many times. I cannot fathom your inability to understand.
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