I disagree that the bathroom issue is distraction. Of course some might think that normalizing pedophilia is just a distraction. I don’t. It’s all part of the LGBT agenda to turn the world into one where sex with children is accepted. The APA is already working to have pedophilia reclassified from a crime to a disorder. The next step will then be to give protections to pedophiles because they are “mentally ill” and “you can’t discriminate against the mentally ill”.
So no, the bathroom issue is not a distraction. This doesn’t make these nuclear problems go away. But I think that the country can handle two problems at the same time. Maybe even three or four.
The bathroom issue distracts from the fact that the North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (last year) along with the Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (this year) and other Republican governors have vetoed religious freedom legislation aimed at protecting people who object to gay marriage.
Big Business is pressuring the Republicans into backing down on First Amendment protection for gay marriage dissenters.
I think McCrory signed this law to distract from the retreat of the Republican Party on First Amendment protection for religious people.
When you accurately describe homosexuals, pedophiles and other afflicted individuals as mentally ill, the leftists get all bent out of shape. They want it both ways. Just a variation on normal when it suits them, and illness when that becomes convenient.