The president criticized the law and others targeting LGBT people while speaking in London as part of a three-day visit.
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US President Barack Obama said Friday (22 April) that controversial anti-LGBTI laws recently enacted in North Carolina and MS should be repealed. “I think you’ll be treated with extraordinary hospitality”, the President said at a joint press conference in London with the British Prime Minister, David Cameron. “In light of recent legislation in North Carolina and MS, I stand aside my fellow musicians…to help overturn these absurd new laws”, Frampton said. “They are hospitable people”, he said.
The new laws in the U.S. states are considered to be “anti-gay” and are expected to cost the United states significant revenue from leisure and business travel.
North Carolina’s Republican governor, Pat McCrory, signed the law last month after its passage by the state legislature which sought to stop a non-discrimination ordinance passed by Charlotte, the state’s largest city.
Matt Horwood of Stonewall charity said: “What’s happened in MS and North Carolina proves that equality is never secure”.
A similar law has been passed in MS several weeks back, providing that businesses and people are allowed to deny services to gay individuals and couples by invoking religious beliefs.
The British Foreign Office recently issued an advisory warning British citizens they could face discrimination in parts of the United States based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Despite disapproval from the TV and film industries, projects due to shoot in the two states have yet to say whether they will relocate their productions. As such, we are joining the growing list of entertainment professionals in protest of North Carolina’s HB2 law by canceling our upcoming tour performances in Charlotte.
North Carolina passed the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act on March 24, banning anyone from using a public bathroom not intended for their biological sex as.
Obama also emphasized that some of the laws’ proponents are “good people”.
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“The Governor respectfully disagrees with the political left’s national agenda too mandate changes to basic, common-sense restroom norms”.
