In Red States, Businesses Gearing up to Fight Bathroom Bills

[riversedge]

Source: AP










FILE- In this March 24, 2016, file photo, people protest outside the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh, N.C. Tennessee businesses have banded together to try to convince their state legislators to snub laws similar to the infamous bathroom bill in North Carolina, which has consumed that state's politics for months and scared off businesses and sporting events. (AP Photo/Emery P. Dalesio, File )




NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jan 1, 2017, 1:41 PM

Sean Henry, the president of Tennessee's NHL team, is stunned he even has to explain why he hopes state legislators will snub bills similar to North Carolina's transgender bathroom law, which has consumed that state for months and scared off businesses and sporting events.

The Nashville Predators team is among about 300 companies, ranging from health-care giant HCA to FedEx, joining under the moniker Tennessee Thrives to oppose bathroom and religious objection bills, which they consider discriminatory and bad for business. Companies in other GOP-led states have had success voicing opposition under similar names: Georgia Prospers, Opportunity West Virginia, Missouri Competes.

"I honestly cannot believe that in 2016 I'm actually asked a question as to why I would support anti-discrimination groups," Henry said. "I think the real question is: who hasn't joined?"

After the United States Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, social conservatives turned to statehouses, seeking state laws to let businesses, pastors and government refuse services to LGBT people based on their religious objections to same-sex unions........................................

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The article writes about other states also.

[Turbineguy]

1. Maybe they can just make some videos for

republicans to watch.

[riversedge]

2. K and R.

[wincest]

3. some info from the aclu

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/transgender-people-and-law

https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu-action/issues/alert/?alertid=72196666&ms=web_160517_LGBTrights_DentSmith

Nc governor phone #[phone]

Tennessee governor phone # [phone]

Addresses, Phone Numbers and E-mail
of State Governors https://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/governors.html

contact them and voice your opinion

[Sunriser13]

6. I just wanted to gently say

that the Governor who started this crap in NC, Pat McCrory, has been replaced with Democrat Roy Cooper, who I'm quite sure will be doing everything possible to get the situation taken care of.

Cooper, the former Atty. General of the state, refused to defend the law, prompting the McCrory administration to turn to expensive (and futile) efforts to defend it and other laws curtailing civil rights.

So please don't cuss too awfully hard at the current Governor - he's on our side! Additionally, the new Atty. General, Josh Stein, is also an ally.



PS - I'm not saying not to voice your opinion, though!!

[Midnight Writer]

4. Small government conservatives...need to tell folk which toilets we can use

Government doesn't get much more intrusive than that.

As an old timer, I remember when other folk couldn't use the same toilets, the same fountains, eat in the same room, the same parks, the same swimming pools. It was simple hate and oppression then, it is the same now.

[greymattermom]

5. The red state where I live is building a new football stadium

and wants the super bowl. The red governor vetoed the bathroom bill.

[Lanius]

7. It's predictable

Republicans can be counted on to do the right things when their pocket books are threatened.