running script from the video (all caps unfortunately)
ATT. GEN. LYNCH: GOOD AFTERNOON, LADIES AND GERMAN. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. I’M JOINED BY THE HEAD OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION HERE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. WE ARE HERE TO ANNOUNCE A SIGNIFICANT LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION REGARDING NORTH CAROLINA’S PUBLIC FACILITIES ACT KNOWN AS HOUSE BILL NUMBER TWO. THE NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED HOUSE BILL NUMBER TWO IN SPECIAL SESSION ON MARCH 23 OF THIS YEAR. THE BILL’S SHOT — THE BILL SOUGHT TO STRIKE DOWN AN ANTIDISCRIMINATION PROVISION IN A RECENTLY PASSED ORDINANCE AS WELL AS TO REQUIRE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN PUBLIC FACILITIES TO USE BATHROOMS CONSISTENT WITH THEIR SEX AS NOTED AT BIRTH RATHER THAN THEIR GENDER IDENTITY. THE BILL WAS SIGNED INTO LAW THAT SAME DAY. IN SO DOING, THE LEGISLATURE AND THE GOVERNOR PASTE NORTH CAROLINA — PLACED NORTH CAROLINA IN PROHIBITION AGAINST FEDERAL LAW BASED ON SEX AND GENDER IDENTITY. REPORTEDLY, THEY CREATED STATE-SPONSORED DISCRIMINATION AGAINST TRANSGENDERED INDIVIDUALS WHO SEEK TO ENGAGE IN MOST PRIVATE OF FUNCTIONS IN A PLACE OF SAFETY AND SECURITY, A RIGHT TAKEN FOR GRANTED BY MOST OF US. LAST WEEK, OUR CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION NOTIFIED INDIVIDUALS IN NORTH CAROLINA THAT HOUSE BILL NUMBER TWO VIOLATES FEDERAL CIVIL LIGHT — CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS. WE ASK THEY CERTIFY BY THE END OF THE DAY THEY WILL NOT COMPLY WITH OR IMPLEMENT THE RESTRICTIONS ON RESTROOM ACCESS AND AN EXTENSION WAS REQUESTED BY NORTH CAROLINA AND WAS UNDER ACTIVE CONSIDERATION. INSTEAD OF REPLYING TO OUR OFFER OR APPLYING FOR CERTIFICATION, THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND ITS GOVERNOR CHOSE TO RESPOND BY SUING THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. AS A RESULT OF THEIR DECISIONS, WE ARE NOW MOVING FORWARD. TODAY, WE ARE FILING A FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT AGAINST THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. GOVERNOR PATRICK CORI, THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. WE ARE SEEKING A COURT ORDER DECLARING THE LAW DISCRIMINATORY AS WELL AS A BAR ON IT. I WANT TO KNOW WE RETAIN THE OPTION OF CURTAILING FEDERAL FUNDING TO THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AS THIS CASE PROCEEDS. THIS ACTION IS ABOUT A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN BATHROOMS. THIS IS ABOUT THE DIGNITY AND RESPECT WE ACCORD OUR FELLOW CITIZENS AND THE LAW WE AS CITIZENS AND A COUNTRY HAVEN’T ACTED TO PROTECT THEM. IT IS ABOUT THE FOUNDING IDEALS THAT HAVE LED TO THIS COUNTRY, HALTINGLY INEXORABLY IN THE DIRECTION OF FAIRNESS, INCLUSION, AND EQUALITY FOR ALL AMERICANS. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE SEEN DISCRIMINATORY RESPONSES TO HISTORIC MOMENTS OF PROGRESS TO OUR NATION. WE SAW IT IN THE JIM CROW LAWS THAT FOLLOW THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
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Where did you find that info?
Note that the GOP never, ever went after Democrat sanctuary cities like this.
This is a joke right?
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... WE SOUGHT IN THE FIERCE ARGUMENTS AGAINST BROWN VERSUS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE FIGHT AGAINST SAME-SEX UNIONS DESPITE AND AGAINST THE HOPE THE DAY THAT GAYS AND LESBIANS MIGHT BE AFFORD THE RIGHT TO MARRY. THAT RIGHT IS NOW GUARANTEED IN THE CONSTITUTION AND IN THE WAKE OF THAT HISTORIC TRIAL, WE HAVE SEEN BILL AFTER BILL IN STATE AFTER STATE TAKING AIM AT THE LGBT COMMUNITY. SOME OF THESE RESPONSES RECOGNIZE A HUMAN FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN AND A DISCOMFORT WITH THE UNCERTAINTY OF CHANGE. BUT THIS IS NOT A TIME TO ACT OUT OF FEAR. THIS IS A TIME TO SUMMON OUR NATURAL VIRTUES OF INCLUSIVITY, COMPASSION, AND OPEN-MINDEDNESS. WHAT WE MUST NEVER DO IS TURN ON OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR FAMILY MEMBERS, AND OUR FELLOW AMERICANS FOR SOMETHING THEY CANNOT CONTROL AND DENY WHAT MAKES THEM HUMAN. THIS IS WHY NONE OF US CAN STAND BY WHEN A STATE ENTERS THE BUSINESS OF LEGISLATING IDENTITY AND INSISTS A PERSON PRETEND TO BE SOMETHING OR SOMEONE THEY ARE NOT. OR IN THE AND SOPRANO THAT DOES NOT EXIST AS A PRETEXT FOR DISCRIMINATION AND HARASSMENT. LET ME SPEAK NOW DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT STATE, THE BEAUTIFUL STATE, MY HOME STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS LAW PROTECTS VULNERABLE POPULATIONS FROM HARM, BUT THAT IS JUST NOT THE CASE. INSTEAD, WHAT IS LAW DOES IS PUTS FURTHER INDIGNITY ON A POPULATION THAT HAS ALREADY SUFFERED FAR MORE THAN ITS FAIR SHARE. THIS LAW PROVIDES NO BENEFIT TO SOCIETY AND ALL IT DOES IS HARM INNOCENT AMERICANS. INSTEAD OF TURNING AWAY FROM OUR NEIGHBORS, FRIENDS, AND COLLEAGUES, LET US INSTEAD LEARN FROM OUR HISTORY AND AVOID REPEATING THE MISTAKES OF OUR PAST. LET US REFLECT ON THE OBVIOUS BUT NEGLECTED LESSON THAT STATE SANCTIONED DISCRIMINATION NEVER LOOKS GOOD AND NEVER WORKS IN HINDSIGHT. IT WAS NOT SO VERY LONG AGO THAT STATES INCLUDING NORTH CAROLINA HAD SIGNS ABOVE RESTAURANTS, WATER FOUNTAINS, ON PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS KEEPING PEOPLE OUT BASED ON A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE. WE HAVE MOVED BEYOND THE START DAYS, BUT NOT WITHOUT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF PAIN AND SUFFERING AND AN ONGOING FIGHT TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD. LET US RIGHT A DIFFERENT STORY THIS TIME. LET US NOT ACT OUT OF FEAR AND MISUNDERSTANDING, BUT OUT OF THE VALUES OF INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY AND WITH REGARD TO ALL THAT MAKE OUR COUNTRY GREAT. LET ME ALSO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THE TRANSGENDERED COMMUNITY ITSELF. SOME OF YOU HAVE LIVED FREELY FOR DECADES AND OTHERS OF YOU ARE STILL WONDERING HOW YOU COULD STILL LIVE THE LIVES YOU HAVE LEARNED TO LEAD — YEARNED TO LEAVE. NO MATTER HOW ISOLATED, FRAYED, AND ALONE YOU FEEL TODAY, NOTE THIS — THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE ENTIRE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE SEE YOU, WE STAND WITH YOU, AND WE WILL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PROTECT YOU GOING FORWARD. PLEASE KNOW THAT HISTORY IS ON YOUR SIDE. THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON THE PROMISE OF EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL AND WE HAVE ALWAYS MANAGED TO MOVE CLOSER TO THAT IDEA, LITTLE BY LITTLE, DAY BY DAY. IT MAY NOT BE EASY, BUT WE WILL IT THERE TODAY.
I have question is transgender now amongst the federal list of protected classes? Race national origin etc? Anybody?
SEX AND GENDER do not have the same definition. The 1964 Civil Rights law addressed Sex, not the gender of a word!
HIS ACTION IS ABOUT A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN BATHROOMS. THIS IS ABOUT THE DIGNITY AND RESPECT WE ACCORD OUR FELLOW CITIZENS
IT IS ABOUT THE FOUNDING IDEALS THAT HAVE LED TO THIS COUNTRY, HALTINGLY INEXORABLY IN THE DIRECTION OF FAIRNESS, INCLUSION, AND EQUALITY FOR ALL AMERICANS. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE SEEN DISCRIMINATORY RESPONSES TO HISTORIC MOMENTS OF PROGRESS TO OUR NATION. WE SAW IT IN THE JIM CROW LAWS THAT FOLLOW THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
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