After Springsteen’s announcement, the guitarist from the E Street Band Steven Van Zandt said North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law is like an “evil virus” in explaining why their concert was cancelled for this Sunday.
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American Unity Fund was started by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer in 2012 and encourages Republicans to support same-sex marriage and other LGBT causes.
North Carolina’s HB 2 is Jim Crow 2.0 leaving its droppings all over the U.S. Constitution’s civil rights protections.
Speaking to TMZ, Lauper said she would donate all of her profits from the show to Equality North Carolina, an organisation fighting against HB2.
North Carolina’s governor is asking lawmakers to change part of a state law criticized for its anti-discrimination policies, but he sees no need for a wholesale repeal or reversal of its provisions on transgender bathroom access.
German-based Deutsche Bank as well as credit company PayPal have both announced they are cancelling scheduled expansions into the North Carolina, possibly costing the state hundreds of proposed jobs, reported The News and Observer. While the order seeks legislation restoring the right of private sector employees to sue their employers in state court if they were discriminated against, the order largely stands by the original intent of the law.
Down in the now consistently insane state of North Carolina, wholly-owned Governor Pat McCrory is trying to save his state’s economy, tourist and otherwise, from the fallout occasioned by his signing a viciously discriminatory anti-LGBT bill sent to his desk by his wholly-owned state legislature.
Executive Order 93 is supposed to “affirm and improve the state’s commitment to privacy and equality”, but does little to undo the damage of the anti-gay bill passed a few weeks ago. It also expressly requires transgender people to use public bathrooms and locker rooms that do not match their gender identity. It also excluded sexual orientation and gender identity from the state’s antidiscrimination policy.
“Governor McCrory’s executive order is a day late and a veto short”, Cooper said in a statement. “With the executive order, LGBT individuals still lack legal protections from discrimination, and transgender people are still explicitly targeted by being forced to use the wrong restroom”.
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“This will not satisfy all the critics who have a litmus test of purity on each side of this issue”, McCrory said in an interview, adding “my job is to find a common sense solution to where we have conflicts between privacy and between equal rights”. “If Gov. McCrory thinks anyone is going to fall for this, he has completely underestimated North Carolinians – and the rest of the nation”.
