Another Republican Scumbag
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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory
"The measure signed into law late Wednesday by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) prevents local governments from extending civil rights protections to gay and transgender people and also bars transgender people from using bathrooms that do not match the gender they were born with. The effort, which Mr. McCrory tried to justify as stopping “the breach of basic privacy and etiquette,” was triggered by the adoption in Charlotte of an anti-discrimination ordinance. Mr. McCrory’s hyperbole is rooted in fiction about the supposed dangers of transgender people using public restrooms that don’t match the gender on their birth certificates. Despite the lack of any credible evidence of this ever being a problem, efforts to legislate toilet use have proliferated across the country, emerging as a wedge issue.
It’s been encouraging to see major businesses willing to take a leadership role in speaking out against ignorance and prejudice. A number of high-profile companies, including Disney, Marvel, Time Warner and the National Football League, have threatened to pull out or curtail their business in Georgia if Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signs a bill that under the guise of “religious liberty” legalizes discrimination against the gay and lesbian community. Raising concerns about North Carolina’s law were such companies as American Airlines, Wells Fargo and the National Basketball Association. "
Deal had enough smarts to reject that bill.
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"Corporate leaders have found success on a number of fronts.
Exactly one year ago, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) signed into law a controversial religious freedom bill. Then, under pressure from businesses and the NCAA, which was holding the Final Four last year in Indianapolis, he pushed the legislature a week later to pass an amendment in order to clarify that businesses and service providers could not use the legislation as a justification to discriminate based on a client’s sexual orientation.
In Arizona, then-Gov. Jan Brewer (R) vetoed a religious liberty bill in 2014 under pressure from the business community. Her move angered social conservatives, but it ensured that the state could continue to host last year’s Super Bowl.
In Arkansas, Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson refused to sign a religious freedom bill that passed the legislature last year after Walmart publicly opposed it. He later signed a watered-down compromise bill, which basically reiterates existing federal law.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard (R) recently vetoed legislation that would require students to use the bathroom or locker room of their biological sex at birth.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, very much from the business wing of the party, expressed concern about a bill similar to what passed in North Carolina, and has pigeonholed it — at least for now.
Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, argued that there does not need to be an “inherent conflict” between the faith community and the business community.
“The notion that this is a Manichean choice between money and morality is largely a myth,” he said. “The faith community needs to be clearer about what its objectives are, and some in the business community need to stop mischaracterizing what the legislation actually does.”
The new North Carolina law showed how, in some places, evangelicals have found a way to win, at least in the short term.
The law was passed quickly during a special legislative session, reversing civil rights protections for gay and transgender people that had been enacted in the city of Charlotte. The measure made North Carolina the first state to require transgender individuals to use the restroom that corresponds with the gender on their birth certificate. But the language also included broad limits on local anti-discrimination ordinances.
The new law has drawn loud protests from the business community and editorial pages. The National Basketball Association has threatened to move next year’s all-star game, scheduled to take place in Charlotte."
North Carolina's McCrory is going to cost his state a lot of money and a lot of jobs so as of today he is just another Republican Scumbag
Telcoman