Supporters are pleased with her response to Republican calls to repeal the city’s ordinance that would enable LGBT people to seek protection from discrimination in hotels, restaurants and restrooms. That ordinance, which bans LGBT discrimination and includes language about letting transgender people use the right bathrooms, is why the legislature had to pass HB2 in the first place, argue the Republicans. “We urge the Charlotte City Council to stand firm on its commitment to protecting the LGBT community from discrimination by leaving its ordinance intact”. But they said House Bill 2 wouldn’t have been needed if Charlotte hadn’t first overreached. Pat McCrory for recognizing the need to repeal HB2, which she said the state could do at any time without action from her city council.
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Berger, the House speaker and Gov.
Holleman said the state legislature shouldn’t have acted to override local authority when it passed HB2 in response to the Charlotte ordinance. It also affirmed the right of trans people to use the bathroom of their gender identity in public spaces, which is what freaked out state Republicans into passing HB2.
Previously, the National Basketball Association had announced it would move the 2017 All-Star Game, scheduled to be played in Charlotte, after a deal to modify portions of the controversial bill fell through during the last week of this year’s legislative session.
“When the City Council first took up this issue in 2015, the Democrat majority couldn’t agree on the particulars – in particular as it related to bathroom access – and the issue was shelved”.
The announcement from NCRLA comes after both the NCAA and ACC moved championship games from North Carolina because of HB2. The NBA didn’t sign HB2. “2”, said state Rep. Chris Sgro, D-Guilford and executive director of Equality North Carolina, said in a Monday release.
But it’s far from the end of legal sparring over the issue: McCrory will continue to defend the law in two other cases, including one in which the government sued McCrory and the state.
The questions, which The Observer labeled “softballs”, were about what McCrory plans to do with his next term, how he would reduce the state’s rape-kit backlog, and how the state’s crime lab performed under Attorney General Roy Cooper, McCrory’s Democratic opponent.
Governor Pat McCrory has twice dodged Charlotte reporters at campaign events over the last week. “It is absurd, dishonest and wrong to blame the damage caused by H.B. 2 will accomplish this”, Cooper’s statement said.
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Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts got a loud ovation when she walked into the City Council chambers for Monday night’s zoning meeting.
Roberts, a Democrat, was cheered again when she was introduced along with the rest of the council, and then again when she announced that she and the council would not discuss repealing the ordinance at the zoning meeting.
In point of fact Charlotte’s ordinance is unenforceable due to HB2’s preemption of local nondiscrimination laws.
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There’s also no guarantee that McCrory and GOP legislators would follow through with getting rid of HB2, even if Charlotte officials rescinded their anti-discrimination measure.
