Posted on 05/09/2016 8:51:17 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae
North Carolina has filed a lawsuit today against the Department of Justice in an effort to push back against a warning that House Bill 2, a controversial law that critics have called "anti-LGBT," violates the Civil Rights Act.
Gov. Pat McCrory is expected to respond publicly at 5 p.m. today after an agreement to postpone his reply could not be reached. ~snip~
McCrory, speaking to Fox News Sunday, spoke in discordant terms about the DOJ's warning, calling the federal government "a bully".
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This is the kind of stand up and fight that we need in this country!
The Fed ruling will affect every State, not just NC.
The NC HB2 law allowed private sector to set their own standards. The Fed ruling will affect private industry also.
Every State and group/organization has a stake in this.
How can transgendered be protected and not others? That would be discrimination.
How could a trans protection law be enforced? It can’t be.
There are assault and battery laws on the books already.
As I’ve written before. The resolution to this is simple.
Charlotte retract their ordinance, the State retract HB2.
Trans use the bathrooms as they have been.
The governor did a good job yesterday on TV.
He pushed one line of the argument that I think America needs to hear:
The STATE did not start this. Charlotte, NC started it. THEY passed the law that had no restrictions whatsoever in it. It didn’t require surgery, it didn’t require cross-dressing, cosmetics....anything. As they wrote it, ANYONE could walk in ANYWHERE claiming to be ANYTHING.
The state SHOULD HAVE responded as they did.
If Charlotte had just left it alone, everything would have been just fine.
I like that one. Today I happen to be presenting as Boaty McBoatface a submarine. Who are you to judge meeee!
The fed is claiming that the word ‘sex’ in 1964 meant gender identity.
They are nuts.
In 1964(62?) those civil rights supporters would have tarred and feathered a guy walking into a girls restroom.
Don’t worry Governor McGrory, Justices John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy have your back. Not.
McCrory just guaranteed his reelection. Reminds me of another NC governor that told the Federal gubment to hang it in their ear.
North Carolina- John W. Ellis, Governor of North Carolina, to Simon Cameron, U.S. Secretary of War, 15 April 1861...
“Your dispatch is received, and if genuine, which its extraordinary character leads me to doubt, I have to say in reply that I regard the levy of troops made by the Administration for the purpose of subjugating the States of the South as in violation of the Constitution and a gross usurpation of power. I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. You can get no troops from North Carolina.”
Shortly after, the Tar Heel State seceded from the Union.
DOJ denies a woman’s right to privacy in restrooms and locker rooms.
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