"Son, I don't know where to begin ... "
Posted on 10/19/2017 11:10:03 AM PDT by markomalley
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order yesterday making “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” protected classes, forcing businesses to allow men in women’s restrooms and vice versa.
The order applies to employment in state government and the provision of government services, including programs and services concerning public safety, health, and welfare.
In order to be awarded a state contract or grant, a business will have to comply with the pro-transgender order. Public facilities must also allow men to use women’s restrooms in accordance with their “gender identity.”
Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of NC Values Coalition, called the Democrat governor’s order “a massive power grab, with sweeping changes that only the Legislative Branch has the authority to enact.”
“Governor Cooper has betrayed the people of North Carolina with an Executive Order that not only allows boys and men into girls' and women's showers and bathrooms but also forces private businesses to adopt sweeping LGBT privileges,” said Fitzgerald.
Earlier this year, Cooper signed HB 142 into law. HB 142 “kept in place longstanding laws that required that showers and bathrooms be used in accordance with one's sex on their birth certificate,” Fitzgerald explained.
HB 142 was supposed to be a compromise of HB 2, North Carolina’s famous bathroom privacy bill. The left was upset that Cooper didn’t sign a full repeal of HB 2. HB 142 weakened but still left in place some key parts of HB 2. It also prevents cities from passing pro-LGBT “public accommodation” nondiscrimination laws until 2020.
“Bathroom privacy and safety are sacrificed under Roy Cooper's bathroom plan, which is more akin to Harvey Weinstein's bathroom plan,” the NC Values Coalition wrote in a press release.
The pro-freedom, pro-family group warned that this executive order means religious business owners will have to choose between following their faith or losing government contracts.
“Anyone who has or seeks a government contract with the state or receive government benefits (like churches and religious organizations) will have to adopt internal operating policies that favor and give preference to people who are gay, lesbian, or transgender,” NC Values Coalition explained.
Cooper’s executive order cites Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision imposing same-sex “marriage” on the U.S., and a study from the National Center for Transgender Equality.
“The majority of federal courts that have addressed the issue to date have held that discrimination on the basis of transgender status is unlawful,” the order says. “It is necessary to provide state and local government actors with clarity and guidance regarding existing laws and policies prohibiting discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.”
Fitzgerald said North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is “elevating LGBT privileges above the rights of common everyday people to privacy and safety in bathrooms and showers.”
She blasted him for not “failing to defend the laws of the state.”
The executive order claims it’s “not inconsistent” with existing state and federal laws.
“It is despicable, and the voters of NC will hold (Cooper and Stein) accountable,” said Fitzgerald.
The LGBT lobby said Cooper’s order doesn’t go nearly far enough, especially because HB 142 is still on the books.
It’s just “a step in the right direction,” the interim director of Equality North Carolina, Matt Hirschy, said of Cooper’s major olive branch to the LGBT movement.
“It’s not nearly enough,” said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Elect a Democrat, get the horns. I hope NC is happy, embroiled in turmoil from now on.
Elect a Democrat, get the horns. I hope NC is happy, embroiled in turmoil from now on.
NC officially gives more rights to pretend-women than actual women. WTG!
As do stupid actions by elected officials
Incredible that this is happening in the state of Jessy Helms. This is what happens, ladies and gentlemen, when people from the northeast states flood into North Carolina.
"Son, I don't know where to begin ... "
Democrats are Evil and Vile....this is both!
“Elections have consequences.”
Go tar heels! Jesus North Carolina must have really been overrun by New York and New Jersey democrats. The destruction of the old south continues unabated since Sherman. Its like a formerly lovely and charming neighborhood being destroyed by nearby high rise section 8 housing.
““It’s not nearly enough,” said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.”
I detest how every lousy left wing cause calls itself a “center”. As if they were veritable beehives of intelligent activity. In reality, they are maybe a handful of turds working out of a dilapidated store front or someones pad. Should be ignored and told to go play on the expressway.
Lawsuit against NatGeo, MyHeritage, Ancestry for being unable to do Y chromosome testing in 5 -4 - 3....
If liberal activists can file ridiculous claims against every single thing Trump does, why don’t conservatives do likewise?
Certain women can join me in the men’s room....
Persons with gender confusion are in a class of seriously mentally ill people. Because gender confusion is a treatable mental disorder, where is the common sense to provide proper care and to protect the public?
What is the government of North Carolina doing to provide mental health help to these confused people with mood swings, depression, anger, guilt, and unwillingness to take corrective action? What is the government doing to protect their constituents from exposure to mentally ill people? Passing a law that pretends that gender confusion is normal certainly is not the answer.
Is Roy Cooper a Democrat? Does he have a disordered mind himself? I guess that it is cheaper to pander to the insane instead of providing proper treatment.
It is time again for women to go to the restroom as a group. One to stand guard for the others.
From the NC Constitution ...
"ARTICLE II
LEGISLATIVESection 1. Legislative power.
The legislative power of the State shall be vested in the General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives."
I’m seeing the same thing happening in NC that we saw with lawless Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders and corrupt Congress.
Noting that Congress had wrongly remained silent when lawless Obama stole state powers to make his unconstitutional pro-LGBT executive orders, we’re now seeing NC state lawmakers protect their voting records by letting lawless governor get away with stealing legislative powers to effectively make pro-LGBT laws.
In fact, consider the following about government powers from NC Constitution.
"ARTICLE I
DECLARATION OF RIGHTSSec. 6. Separation of powers.
The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers of the State government shall be forever separate and distinct from each other."
Also consider that NC governor and congress are arguably trying to effectively establish LGBT people as a protected / privileged class which is prohibited by the US Constitution.
"Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility [emphasis added]."
NC citizens need to make sure that there are plenty of patriot candidates on their state primary ballots and pink-slip career state lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to Raleigh on election day 2018.
Corrections insights welcome.
Just close the public bathrooms altogether and when people complain, blame the Governor.
Nope. Soon they will be suing straight men who won’t date trannies for “discrimination”.
It’s already been proposed and in the works
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