“We are reviewing North Carolina’s new law to determine any potential impact on the state’s federal education funding”, said Dorie Nolt, spokeswoman for the Education Department.
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Meanwhile, North Carolina recently passed a measure that bans local governments from approving policies that protect the LGBT crowd from housing and employment discrimination, in much the same way as different races are protected.
Nikki Haley said a bill that’s winding through the legislature to limit transgenders to public restrooms that correspond to their birth genders is not needed – that she hasn’t fielded any complaints that would require such legislative steps.
A SC state senator is proposing a bill that would restrict people from using public bathrooms or changing areas unless they are of the same biological sex as others using the facility.
“I mean, years ago we kept talking about tolerance, tolerance and tolerance”, Bright said. The House votes next week on a bill, passed by the Senate last month, which would use $400 million annually from the general fund to cover state road repairs.
In South Carolina, the bill is on the senate floor. “This is also the smart thing to do”, Wolf said, citing PayPal’s decision in North Carolina.
Mississippi’s governor signed a law Tuesday allowing religious groups and private businesses to deny services to gay and transgender people – echoing attempts made in other states with varying levels of success following last year’s Supreme Court ruling that effectively legalized gay marriage nationwide. In every other region people tend to say that they should use their current gender’s bathrooms.
The story echoes the ‘Religious Freedom Restoration Act, ‘ signed into law in IN in March 2015, which critics said sanctioned discrimination against gay people on religious grounds.
The North Carolina law was passed after the City of Charlotte passed an ordinance giving protection to transgender men and women and allow them to use the bathrooms of the gender they identify as. “And it’s not something that we see the citizens are asking for in SC”.
“Sen. Bright is trying to create a political crisis that doesn’t exist to save his political career”, said chamber president Ted Pitts, in the newspaper.
Numerous protests and gatherings have been held in Raleigh and throughout North Carolina, both for and against HB2.
So far, only a few proposals have become law. “Government simply has no place in our bathrooms”.
More than 60 state legislative measures allowing for religious refusals at the expense of LGBT rights have been introduced, according to the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign.
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Rep. Andy Gipson, R-Braxton, a lawyer and Southern Baptist minister who shepherded the measure through the House, said under the law, “people cannot only believe what they believe, but act in accordance with their beliefs and not violate their conscience”.
