Jim Crow returns

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It seems a little too rushed and predetermined with a smattering of theater to give the appearance of proper procedure.

It’s conveniently called “freedom of religious expression”, like slavery and beating your wife was, and by some people’s reckoning should still be. But, in reality, it is just finding an excuse to express long withheld spoken prejudices that laws and national maturity have prevented a person from expressing.

It is based on the simple concept that a group of people feel their religion is better than anyone else’s and that, since they cannot convert others with the message of their religion, they will do it by legislation.

It’s important to remember that Republicans have traditionally railed against government overreach. They have argued that local governments know their own people and their needs better that some centralized and distant government, and should be able to pass laws accordingly.

Just as they believe that the federal government should not be telling states what to do, you would think for consistency, the state should not tell local communities what they can and cannot do for the same reason.

So, keeping to that, the State of North Carolina has passed a bill banning local communities from passing nondiscrimination ordinances and raising the minimum wage within their jurisdictions.

Republican leaders of the North Carolina General Assembly failed to protect the rights of all of its citizens by passing a bill that will repeal all local GLBT non-discrimination ordinances, and has done it at warp speed.

Lawmakers were given just five minutes to read the bill before beginning the debate. It took all of ten hours for the bill to be introduced, debated, and passed. How much actual discussion could take place, and how much information was dealt with?

House Bill 2 allows state law to supersede all local ordinances concerning wages, employment, and public accommodations.

A town can’t raise the minimum wage there, something that could benefit its population regardless of conditions in another town.

A town, regardless of the make up of its population, cannot enact a local ordinance to protect them from discrimination

It is an obvious knee-jerk reaction to Charlotte’s recent passage of a city ordinance to protect the LGBT community from discrimination.

The bill also restricts the use of single-sex public restrooms and locker rooms in publicly run facilities, to people of the sex that is on their birth certificate regardless of reality. This also goes for public schools.

And it could apply to a typographical error overlooked in the excitement of a birth where a female could be listed as male. This is known as a ‘gender error” and is not the same as gender reassignment, but correcting a typo.

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Governor McCrory took to twitter to announce his epic reason for rushing to sin this hurried bill:

“I signed bipartisan legislation to stop the breach of basic privacy and etiquette, ensure privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms”.

How paranoid do the legislators in North Carolina have to be to think that they are the objects of a stranger’s sexual attraction, especially when they try to justify what they have done as a way of protecting people from the predatory Transgender people  when there are no cases of Transgender people preying on people in restrooms.

The major basis for segregation in the South was to protect the White  women from the predatory Black men, something that was assumed to be inevitable perhaps because knowing their own inadequacies the men there felt threatened.

How will these men deal when a female to male transgender person who favors the gym and sports is required to use the ladies’ room. Worse, how will the girls and women in there react when the burly man walks in and finds out he has to be there by law.

This bill merely presents a group of people as an unproven threat from which protection is needed so legislators can appear to actually be doing something constructive.

Georgia is another state that has chosen this Jim Crow route by passing a similar bill.

All in the name of religious liberty that will allow a person to refuse to do business with someone merely by claiming that to do so offends their deeply held religious belief no matter how individual, far fetch, or not in alignment with the tenets of their parent religion.

They can no longer discriminate because of race, but needing to have someone they can treat as second class citizens, North Carolina and some other Southern States, have chosen the GLBT Community.

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