So is no one going to talk about the pro-discrimination bill that just passed in NC yesterday? The one that removes several legal protections on employment (including race), bans unisex bathrooms, makes it illegal to use bathrooms that don't match up with your assigned-at-birth gender? The one that is modeled after official Republican policy, and will likely be put in across the country if the Rs win this election? The one that 9 other states are trying to follow suit on right at this very moment? Including a Kansas bill that puts a bounty on outing transgendered kids in school bathrooms (oh, that's going to be great)?
Tell me again how the Republicans and the Democrats are the same, please, as one of these parties starts building hate directly into legislation.
Wow.....well at least Kansas makes me feel slightly better about living in North Carolina.
And yes, I just want to go around punching Republicans in the face for this. All the uproar is "some pervert tranny is gonna go into the ladies' room and molest your daughter, and WE CANT STOP HIM without this law". Because the women's room is apparently some kind of inviolate sanctuary where the rule of law doesn't apply normally.
I'm still wondering how the fuck they intend to enforce this. Penis Police? Body scanners?
I've been disgusted with our state legislature and our governor for a long while now. The most galling part is that our Governor is a greedy pro-business Republican, not a Bible thumper or social conservative. McCrory's just signing this as an election-year gimmick to bolster his support with the knuckledraggers.
The best part is that there's also language in there preventing any county or municipal governments from passing LGBT protections *and* a rider that apparently prevents them from raising the minimum wage. Our "limited government" Republicans are actually power-hungry tyrants that have been steadily eroding local control for years, because they know the major cities think they're batshit crazy and don't intend to cooperate.
I hope November sees every one of these backwoods, trailer-trash, Bible thumping, cockmongers sent back home. But I know it won't because gerrymandering.