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I was that poster, Cpt. A better term would be "endorses hate speech".
And again, you are free to say what you want. No one is going to jail for saying mean things. Just don't expect a gay woman to hire you if in your interview you say "I don't like women or gays".
Who would say that? Nobody that seriously wanted the job.
It will be interesting to see with the election results soon to come, whether North Carolina retains any of its "New South" persona or abandons it entirely for a "Same as the Old South - Jim Crow II - the Revenge" mantle. If it choses the latter, I suspect that NC will be the first East Coast "flyover state" for businesses with even a hint of a progressive edge. They will no longer be able to figure out how many jobs thay've lost because they'll no longer be in the running to get much of anything. Over time, the state will be more like West Virginia than Virginia or South Carolina! That would be a real shame!!!
It will be interesting to see with the election results soon to come, whether North Carolina retains any of its "New South" persona or abandons it entirely for a "Same as the Old South - Jim Crow II - the Revenge" mantle. If it choses the latter, I suspect that NC will be the first East Coast "flyover state" for businesses with even a hint of a progressive edge. They will no longer be able to figure out how many jobs thay've lost because they'll no longer be in the running to get much of anything. Over time, the state will be more like West Virginia than Virginia or South Carolina! That would be a real shame!!!
I know that laws are written differently in every state but I thought most states and cities did not have any anti-discrimination laws in place for gays. Richmond Va. no law in place.
So they move to a state that is looking to enact similar laws? Don't the people of Charlotte already live in this dispicably bigoted community? It didn't say they were transferring jobs, it said they were creating jobs. They are not forcing new hires to live in this state. They should be helping the movement by opening up their bathrooms and company as a safe haven from the bigotry. Don't run and hide.
My guess is this annoyomous person enjoys politics and the real reason was a business decision.
Virginia is not enacting a similar law. Some idiots tried but our governor vetoed the bill.
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I know that laws are written differently in every state but I thought most states and cities did not have any anti-discrimination laws in place for gays. Richmond Va. no law in place.
Read HB2, in its entirety, and I trust that you can figure out the problem. The bill had an effect on every person in the state who had or wanted to have a job. Everyone, gay or straight got a kick in the teeth from the brain surgeons in Raleigh.
I know that laws are written differently in every state but I thought most states and cities did not have any anti-discrimination laws in place for gays. Richmond Va. no law in place.
There are three basic camps with regards to statewide laws that protect LGBT citizens:
Those states that do have some of them or all of them
Those states do not have them at all
Those states that actually prevent all communities (cities/counties) from enacting any of its own protections and purposely excludes the entire LGBT group from the statewide protections.
Guess which category NC belongs to after HB2?
In the state of NC, it's actually against the law to locally extend human rights protections beyond the state law: the law that cleverly and purposely excludes lgbt people as a protected class. The net effect of this law is that it creates a legal underclass without ever uttering a word about them.
It would seem to me that the G.A. and governor thought that they had cover for the law based on the "publicly palatable" ostracization of trans people based on fear. What they probably didn't expect is that their tactic would galvanize rather than divide the lgbt community, the business community, many faith communities and opponents of the law.
Virginia is not enacting the law. Virginia is looking to enact the law. They had one religious liberty bill vetoed, while another was dropped to wait for a court ruling.
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