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North Carolina governor signs order forcing businesses to allow men to enter women’s bathrooms
Lifesite ^ | 10/19/17 | Claire Chretien

Posted on 10/19/2017 11:10:03 AM PDT by markomalley

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order yesterday making “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” protected classes, forcing businesses to allow men in women’s restrooms and vice versa.

The order applies to employment in state government and the provision of government services, including programs and services concerning public safety, health, and welfare.

In order to be awarded a state contract or grant, a business will have to comply with the pro-transgender order. Public facilities must also allow men to use women’s restrooms in accordance with their “gender identity.”  

Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of NC Values Coalition, called the Democrat governor’s order “a massive power grab, with sweeping changes that only the Legislative Branch has the authority to enact.”

“Governor Cooper has betrayed the people of North Carolina with an Executive Order that not only allows boys and men into girls' and women's showers and bathrooms but also forces private businesses to adopt sweeping LGBT privileges,” said Fitzgerald.

Earlier this year, Cooper signed HB 142 into law. HB 142 “kept in place longstanding laws that required that showers and bathrooms be used in accordance with one's sex on their birth certificate,” Fitzgerald explained.

HB 142 was supposed to be a compromise of HB 2, North Carolina’s famous bathroom privacy bill. The left was upset that Cooper didn’t sign a full repeal of HB 2. HB 142 weakened but still left in place some key parts of HB 2. It also prevents cities from passing pro-LGBT “public accommodation” nondiscrimination laws until 2020.

“Bathroom privacy and safety are sacrificed under Roy Cooper's bathroom plan, which is more akin to Harvey Weinstein's bathroom plan,” the NC Values Coalition wrote in a press release.

The pro-freedom, pro-family group warned that this executive order means religious business owners will have to choose between following their faith or losing government contracts.

“Anyone who has or seeks a government contract with the state or receive government benefits (like churches and religious organizations) will have to adopt internal operating policies that favor and give preference to people who are gay, lesbian, or transgender,” NC Values Coalition explained.

Cooper’s executive order cites Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision imposing same-sex “marriage” on the U.S., and a study from the National Center for Transgender Equality.

“The majority of federal courts that have addressed the issue to date have held that discrimination on the basis of transgender status is unlawful,” the order says. “It is necessary to provide state and local government actors with clarity and guidance regarding existing laws and policies prohibiting discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.”

Fitzgerald said North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is “elevating LGBT privileges above the rights of common everyday people to privacy and safety in bathrooms and showers.”

She blasted him for not “failing to defend the laws of the state.”

The executive order claims it’s “not inconsistent” with existing state and federal laws.

“It is despicable, and the voters of NC will hold (Cooper and Stein) accountable,” said Fitzgerald.

The LGBT lobby said Cooper’s order doesn’t go nearly far enough, especially because HB 142 is still on the books.

It’s just “a step in the right direction,” the interim director of Equality North Carolina, Matt Hirschy, said of Cooper’s major olive branch to the LGBT movement.

“It’s not nearly enough,” said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.


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1 posted on 10/19/2017 11:10:03 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Elections have consequences.


2 posted on 10/19/2017 11:13:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: markomalley

Once a woman or child is accosted in one of these bathrooms, SUE the state into oblivion. These liberal fools are so blind to consequences.


3 posted on 10/19/2017 11:13:11 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: markomalley
Transgender Freakazoid rapes 10 year-old girl in bathroom
4 posted on 10/19/2017 11:13:30 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: markomalley

The North Carolina governor is probably on Bezo’s payroll. The more people refuse to go to stores, the better online sales get.


5 posted on 10/19/2017 11:13:35 AM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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6 posted on 10/19/2017 11:14:15 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: markomalley

Cowardly act by a coward. But since Gov. Cooper is a Democrat, it’s not surprising. Oh, and when the stories come in of children being assaulted in rest rooms by perverts, I’m sure Cooper will be quite concerned (/s there).


7 posted on 10/19/2017 11:14:39 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: TMA62

The state as an entity will be sue and perhaps have to pay a settlement but the persons responsible like the Governor will not suffer any financial loss.


8 posted on 10/19/2017 11:15:38 AM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Slyfox

What the hell is that?


9 posted on 10/19/2017 11:16:07 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: markomalley
“It’s not nearly enough,” said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Nothing will EVER be enough for mentally ill perverts. Keep putting women and children in danger though.
10 posted on 10/19/2017 11:16:38 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: TMA62

> These liberal fools are so blind to consequences. <

Liberals are NEVER bothered by the consequences of their actions. It’s all about what feels good at the moment.


11 posted on 10/19/2017 11:17:02 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: markomalley

Independents and Rs of NC need to question each other....


12 posted on 10/19/2017 11:18:09 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: bassmaner

See the article I linked above “it.”


13 posted on 10/19/2017 11:18:13 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: markomalley

I’m glad I don’t live in North Carolina.

If I did, and I had a daughter, sister, mother, wife, girlfriend, cousin, aunt or other female relation accosted in a bathroom by one of these freaks, I would intervene and would probably end up in jail (and it would be worth it!)


14 posted on 10/19/2017 11:18:35 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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“Today’s executive order and consent decree are important steps toward fighting discrimination and enacting protections throughout state government and across our state.”

Enacting protections? For whom? For the love of Pete Governor Cooper, how dense can you get....you are not protecting straight humans, you're throwing them to the wolves.

15 posted on 10/19/2017 11:19:45 AM PDT by yoe
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To: markomalley

Literal insanity


16 posted on 10/19/2017 11:25:39 AM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: yoe

The real question: What are the similarities between this and NFL kneeling?


17 posted on 10/19/2017 11:26:48 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

These pressure tactics work. It is not a coincidence that Texas dropped the bathroom bill and Jerry Jones got the NFL to award Dallas with NFL draft.


18 posted on 10/19/2017 11:35:25 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: markomalley

When you elect perverts expect perversion. That kind of stuff should only apply to single use occupancy only lock down faciltiess.


19 posted on 10/19/2017 11:37:05 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin)
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To: markomalley

I am dreaming of the day when people will be able to self declare their own race


20 posted on 10/19/2017 11:43:11 AM PDT by BRL
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