North Carolina's Bathroom Law Just Keeps on Backfiring on Pat McCrory

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/36301-north-carolinas-bathroom-law-just-keeps-on-backfiring-on-pat-mccrory

When Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed into law one of this year's most controversial and heated bathroom bills last month, we predicted that it could backfire on him. And so far, that's exactly what seems to be happening.

After taking heat from businesses, newspapers, the LGBT community and Democrats, McCrory announced Tuesday that he's signing an executive order aimed at mitigating some provisions in the law — but not the parts that LGBT advocates and businesses have beef with. The whole thing gives the appearance that McCrory has backed down under pressure, but it's unlikely to actually alleviate any pressure on him.

In truth, from the moment the North Carolina legislature decided to convene a special section to override a Charlotte transgender-bathroom ordinance, things haven't gone McCrory's way. He opposed the Charlotte ordinance, which let transgender people use the bathroom of the gender they identify with. Such an ordinance would invade people's privacy, he said. But he didn't necessarily want the legislature to call a special session to deal with it, either.

Lawmakers called one anyway, and roughly 12 hours later, McCrory signed the expansive bill, preventing any municipality from making their own protections for LGBT people, into law.

From the jump, McCrory's camp lost the messaging war. What the law does or doesn't say got so muddled that McCrory's team felt they needed to send out talking points to explain their understanding of it. But fact checkers called him out on some of those"facts."

[Sherman A1]

1. I hope

that the good folks in the NC & Mississippi legislatures get a very pointed education in the Free Market that is often so near and dear to our conservative politicians.

[Lil Missy]

2. I have wondered - how would they enforce that law?

How would anyone know someone else's gender at birth when in a public bathroom? Does everyone have to display their sex organs upon entrance to the bathroom?

It's a stupid law on many levels.

[lagomorph777]

7. Plenty of GOPpers would line up for the job of

inspecting genitals and demanding birth certificates.

Judging by the wave of bathroom bills, Republicans must love inspecting other people's genitals.

[mercuryblues]

11. ask people

that are defending and supporting this law if they are willing to show their genitals and birth certificate to a bathroom monitor every time they need to use a public bathroom. And who makes sure that the bathroom monitor is not a sex offender taking the job just to look at their private areas?

[Gothmog]

3. The GOP may lose North Carolina due to this stupidity

[mnhtnbb]

4. And wouldn't that be wonderful!

[Gothmog]

6. Karma is fun sometimes

[gratuitous]

5. McCrory's latest is "What we need is dialog instead of threats"

The poor guy! He just targeted a few select groups for a little good, old-fashioned discrimination and intimidation, and everyone's losing their freakin' minds! He just used the power of his office to give free rein to violent ignoramuses to run wild in the state, and the likely targets of this violence are all up in Gov. McCrory's grill. It's shameful, it is.

[lagomorph777]

8. Well, he's not getting threats

he's getting action, as corporations and star entertainers pull out of NC.

[Initech]

9. He doesn't get it does he?

That law needs to be repealed completely, not re-visioned.

[gratuitous]

10. Keeping his phony-baloney job requires that McCrory doesn't get it

Having knifed so many of his own citizens in the back with this misbegotten bit of prejudice masquerading as legislation, McCrory now feels incredibly put upon.

[usedtobedemgurl]

12. I think everyone needs to educate themselves ......

on this bill. I think the transgender part is shameful but this bill is a whole big ball of hate besides that. I can be fired, now, just for being a woman and I have no real recourse. Just as bad, someone can be fired due to the color of their skin or even their religion. I am waiting for one of these Christians to be fired and start crying about the damn bill because people's rights don't matter unless they are yours. (how Republicans think)