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    SktroopMonique Judge
    4/01/17 4:46pm

    “As God-fearin’, Christian conservatives, we stand arm in arm, firm in our resolve to never waver from our conservative principals...unless there’s money involved, of course.”

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    BrigitMonique Judge
    4/01/17 8:35am

    Thing is the bathroom part wasn’t the most offensive part of the bill. That part was canoeing but probably unenforceable. The part where you could get denied a place to live or similar measures was probably worse and I asume that wasn’t appealed.

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      I Palindrome IBrigit
      4/01/17 9:13am

      North Carolina offers no anti-discrimination protections for queer people at the state level. HB2 was passed to stop Charlotte from enforcing its own city-level protections. And there are no federal protections for queer people, either.

      So yes, in North Carolina, it remains 100% legal to discriminate against queer people in employment, housing, and service at public accomodations.

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    I Palindrome IMonique Judge
    4/01/17 7:19am

    This was a repeal in the most half-hearted, half-assed, low-effort “in name only” sense. HB2’s moratorium on cities enacting their own queer-inclusive anti-discrimination laws remains intact. The state offers no state-level protections for queer people, meaning laws such as Charlotte’s non-discrimination ordinance (NDO) remain unenforceable — and any new laws at the city level cannot be passed until the year 2020. This repeal does nothing at all to protect queer people from discrimination.

    If this had been a “clean” repeal that allowed Charlotte to enforce its NDO again, I would be applauding it, even if it was passed for the wrong reasons. But this was not a “clean” repeal. This was a sham perpetrated by everyone in the North Carolina State Legislature who voted “yes” on this bill and Governor Roy Cooper (who refused an earlier repeal attempt because of its six-month moratorium on new city-level NDOs) so the ACC, NBA, and NCAA would move playoff and championship games back to the state. Fuck every single one of those people, and if the sports organisations reward those lawmakers for their bullshit, fuck those organisations as well.

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