North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has claimed that businesses support his radical new law attacking LGBT North Carolinians and visitors to the state. In reality, Gov. McCrory quickly signed the measure into law in the dark of night without even consulting the business community or North Carolinians who will be adversely affected by the measure. Despite his claim, the Associated Press reported that Gov. McCrory’s office can’t name a single business that supports his decision, and in fact, the business community is overwhelmingly speaking out against his attack on fairness and equality.
“Given the overwhelming response we have received from businesses who are against HB 2, we are not tremendously shocked that Governor McCrory can’t name a single business backing this dangerous and radical new law,” said JoDee Winterhof, HRC Senior Vice President for Policy and Political Affairs. “This is just one more indication that Governor McCrory and legislative leadership rammed this through on their own without considering the impact on business or North Carolina residents.”
While Gov. McCrory hasn’t been able to name a single leading business who supports this despicable new law, we’ve seen a wave of opposition from leading corporations, including from Dow, Biogen, PayPal, RedHat, the NCAA, American Airlines, Salesforce, IBM, Apple, the NBA, Google, Microsoft, Marriott, Bayer, and others. The message couldn’t be clearer: discrimination is bad for business, and corporate America sees Gov. McCrory’s failed leadership as taking North Carolina in the wrong direction.
Gov. McCrory’s appalling new law eliminates existing municipal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people and some veterans; prevents such provisions from being passed by cities in the future; and forces transgender students in public schools to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity.
North Carolina is now the first state in the country to enact such a law attacking transgender students, even after several similar proposals were rejected across the country this year — including a high-profile veto by the Republican governor of South Dakota on a very similar bill. North Carolina school districts that comply with the law will now be in direct violation of Title IX, subjecting the school districts to liability and putting an estimated $4.5 billion of federal funding at risk. This section of the law offers costly supposed solutions to non-existent problems, and it forces schools to choose between complying with federal law — plus doing the right thing for their students — or complying with a state law that violates students’ civil rights.
We do not understand why Homosexual Americans are against having the phrase In God We Trust printed on all of our Nation’s currency! None of our Nations currency has In Homosexuals We Trust printed on our money! Therefore if Homosexuals are against God then they do not need to have any money since it does not mention the word Homosexual on it!
Diana, I am a gay Christian conservative and the majority of my gay friends also believe in God. Where did you get the idea that homosexuals don’t want “In God We Trust” on our currency?
You are an idiot .
I expect businesses will boycott North Carolina because of this idiotic law. I see that Georgia will avoid this – “Facing threats of a massive economic boycott, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal announced Monday he will veto a controversial religious liberty bill that critics describe as anti-gay and supporters describe as necessary to protect their religious right.” When North Carolina starts losing a lot of money, they will repeal this law.