The North Carolina House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to repeal the state’s controversial bathroom law with a 70-48 vote.
The bill, which the state Senate passed earlier in the day, now goes to Gov. Roy Cooper for his signature. Cooper has said he supports the repeal bill.
LGBT groups immediately criticized the deal, saying it’s a “repeal” in name only — with one advocate calling it “HB2.0” — and that it fails to protect transgender people from discrimination.
Chris Sgro, executive director of Equality NC, called the agreement a “shell piece of a legislation,” on which the LGBTQ groups had not been consulted.
Though the deal would repeal key provisions of HB2, critics contend it would keep objectionable parts of it alive, including keeping bathroom regulation in the legislature’s hands.
They also object to this language: “No local government in this state may enact or amend an ordinance regulating private employment practices or regulating public accommodations” until December 2020.
Berger, the GOP Senate leader, said the temporary moratorium on such ordinances is designed to “allow federal litigation to play out.”
That section effectively would stop, for the next three years, a repeat of Charlotte’s ordinance. Charlotte’s City Council had passed a rule that expressly permitted transgender people to use the bathroom that matches the gender they identify with.
“The initiative is not a repeal,” Sgro said. “It’s doubling down on the discrimination that HB2 exacts — it’s HB2.0. It doesn’t allow municipalities to protect people from discrimination ’til 2020.”
“It doesn’t do anything to better the lives of LGBT North Carolinians.”
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What about the lives of North Carolinians who don’t want a swingin’ dick in the lady’s room?
ENOUGH ALREADY!!!! THIS IS TOO MUCH OF A TANGLED WEB FOR A DRUNKEN BENITO!!
EVERY TIME I READ A STORY LIKE THIS, IT TAKES ME BACK TO THE WRESTLING TEAMS WHO ARE WRESTLING WITH WHO IS ALLOWED TO COMPETE WITH WHAT TEAM!!! I HAVE TO START OVER AT THE BEGINNING TO TRACE IF TYPE A IS TRANSITIONING TO FULL TYPE B AND FINISHING THE PROCEDURE, OR IF TYPE A IS A PARTIAL TYPE B AND TO STAY WITH TYPE A PRIVATES, VICE VERSA OR VERCE VISA!!! WHICH WRESTLING TEAM WOULD BRUCAITYLYN JENNER BE ALLOWED TO JOIN OR BATHROOM TO PEE IN????
THEN, I HAVE TO BREAK OUT MY HANDY-DANDY POCKET LGBTXY-FUCKING-Z CALCULATOR TO DETERMINE THE LETTER ASSIGNMENTS AND DEFINITIONS OF THE BEGINNING TYPE AND THE END TYPE AND EVERYTHING IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE OF THIS PREPOSTEROUS, PERVERTED, PENILE PLANTING OR PLUCKING!!!
BY THE TIME I AM THRU ABOUT 3/4 OF THE 6TH READING, I JUST SAY FUCK IT!! WHAT THE FRESH HELL WAS WRONG WITH NORMAL?????!!!!! SEND ME BACK TO YESTERDAY OR HURRY ME TO THE END!!!!
I don’t get why so many normal heteros are behind giving rights to perverts. It’s got to be money right? Soros, closet rich people, gay biz leaders, entertainment biz are funding our demise. But why do straight people make this the number one issue of the day? It’s got to be pay offs.
If nothing else does it, this nonsense will facilitate the spread of Sharia Law throughout America. I’d think seriously of voting for it just to get a chance to see some of these LGBT freaks hanging from the bucket of a imam’s pay loader. Where you go to pee should be determined by your DNA, not by whatever fantasy you happened to entertain last night.
Never has been about LGBT rights….it is nothing more than a fake argument designed by the liberals to try and destroy the normality of society….it’s all they ever do….how else will they achieve their sacred Utopia
Life was so much more pleasant when the fackin’ weirdos just stayed home.
The NCAA must be full of more queers than Jerry Sandusky has in his little black book.
[x] Acceptance under the guide of ‘tolerance’
[x] forced Advocacy (cakes, motels, Boy Scouts, etc)
[ ] Annihilation of all remaining opposition
Those are the three A’s of where we are on the sodomite movement’s continuum.
All I heard about on the radio today was this and how
much money the state was losing on sports. Is it true
or just more made up bullshit?