The graphic with this article is the State Flag of the Republican Theocratic Dictatorship of McCrorystan, formerly North Carolina, led by Religious Reichsfuhrer Pat McCrory. You are probably aware that McCrorystan has taken some major economic hits over their recent display of hatred for Transgender folks who want to use the rest room. To try to stem that tide Religious Reichsfuhrer McCrory pretended to duck.
Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina, whose state has been the subject of withering criticism since he signed legislation limiting bathroom access for transgender people and eliminating anti-discrimination ordinances based on sexual orientation, announced Tuesday that he would strengthen workplace protections for state employees and urge the General Assembly to modify part of the law.
But he stopped short of opposing limits on which bathrooms transgender people could use, and the law will be left largely intact. Critics said his action was more cosmetic than real.
Mr. McCrory signed the legislation immediately after it was passed last month and, 20 days later, made his slight retreat with an executive order that he said would alter the equal employment policy for state workers to cover discrimination claims related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
He also said he would urge lawmakers to reverse course and allow people to bring discrimination cases in state court… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <NY Times>
Rachel; Maddow covered the story and extended it to Tennessee.
Note that neither the Times, nor Rachel came out and said McCrory’s pretense at ducking is just smoke and mirrors. I say so because it’s all talk. He hasn’t actually done anything.
It wouldn’t surprise me if xhamster is Religious Reichsfuhrer McCrory’s favorite site. Whether it is or not, threatening Bubba Bagger’s access to Republican family-values porn, could crash the state government.
It will be interesting to see what Tennessee does.
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The right to sue in federal court was already there so that is a non-improvement. ACLU and the others who have filed in court to nullify the law as unconstitutional should easily prevail. It is nice to seek to protect state workers from having their rights violated–sort of like the water Synder sent to those working in Flint.
It's just hard not to enjoy some of the stellar disingenuous malarkey Gov. McCrory includes in his Executive Order “clarification” – Governor McCrory Takes Action to Protect Privacy and Equality
Take a moment to try and digest this gem from the governor:
Of course you do, governor. Well, except for your state’s history of slavery …
We probably shouldn’t forget that “tradition” of yours WRT segregation …
And then there are the lynchings — don't forget the lynchings …
We’d be derelict in our duties if we didn’t remind you of your state fighting on the WRONG side in the Civil War
But aside from all that, North Carolina clearly has “long held traditions of equality.”
Nailed the bastard!
What Mitch said!
When I first looked at the headline, I misread it as "promoted to Duck" and thought it must have something to do with Phil Robertson. Well, I thought it was funny.
As JL points out, protecting state employees does nothing for the rest of the sttate – in fact, discrimination in employment may make the group more likely to have no job, let alone a state job.
Tennessee is also looking at a law that allows mental health professionals to turn away LGBTQ patients. Now, I do not believe, and I doubt if anyone here believes, that LBGTQ has anything to do with mental health, although of course anyone can have mental health issue. But we are talking about Republicans, many of do believe exactly that – that LGBTQ is a mental illness. So, if you can manage to look inside their heads for a second, what this law proposes is to take away from citizens, the only therapy that can help them. Can you say vicious?
PS KUDOS to your mayor for making the US Navy back down and send the USS Portland to Oregon to be commissioned – over the issue of anti-LGBTQ laws !!!
Thank you!! I'm glad Inoyiced this yesterday, because it the story was going to be a short take, Oregon leads the way!
As a mental health professional for over 40 years, I feel it is quite safe to say unequivocally, that LBTGQ issues are not mental health issues!
Now, if the Feds would only nail Michelle Bachman's husband for his BS "Cure the queer," treatment, for which Medicare has apparently been billed for years!!
That new "law" is just about the WORST one I have ever heard of! This is discrimination to the NTH DEGREE!!! What happened to the First Amendment? Have they not read this thing they base THEIR party decisions on??? It is just insane the way that rethuglicans try to hear EVERYONE down with THEIR religion!!! They say that Christians are under attack? When? Where? When EVERY Christian holiday is scheduled in to EVERY school year? When EVERY Christian holiday is marked on EVERY calendar as a LEGAL HOLIDAY? But any other religions are just a after-note on SOME people's news broadcast?
Yeah, Christianity is REALLY under attack. When unicorns are out in the pasture and the rainbows have gold at the end of ALL of them!!!
Any person that is prosecuted under this law should take it to SCOTUS, if we get a Justice in there that has half a brain!
I'm happy to attack Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity. It is the antithesis of authentic Christianity, Jesus often rebuked Republicans.
Unbelievable! And the hits keep on coming for this ID! I can see TX trying this too, besides TN.
Thanks for this post, Tom.
Thanks, Joanne for your info on the commissioning of the USS Portland in OR. Kudos to your mayor, Tom.
Here's the link/video of the Portland:
http://katu.com/news/local/after-mayor-refuses-trip-to-mississippi-navy-will-bring-uss-portland-to-pdx
I read today on Daily Kos that NC is losing money big time from the loss of the porn site. So much fo Christian values. If the Republicans paid more attention to the economy and environment, and less to people's sexuality, they and we would be better off.
NC hs a porn site? Of its very own? Oh, yes, tht's right, it is at McCrory.porn!
I doin;t think so. Bubba Bagger is just a major custimer.
"Mr. McCrory signed the legislation immediately after it was passed last month and, 20 days later, made his slight retreat with an executive order that he said would alter the equal employment policy for state workers to cover discrimination claims related to sexual orientation and gender identity."
Is there something special about NC state workers over all the other workers in the state such that they should appear to get a special dispensation? This is McCrory double speak, smoke and mirrors.
More and more entertainers and companies are signing on to the protest/boycott. I heard this evening that Ringo Starr has cancelled his concert specifically because of this legislation.
LOL, McCrory didn't give the bill not a moments thought and signed it immediately; he didn't reconsider when over 120 entrepreneurs and CEO's put up an ad to make it clear this would have repercussions, nor did he when PayPall canceled expanding in NC with 400 new jobs or when Deutche Bank did the same, nor could he have cared less when lefty Spingsteen canceled his show. He held out for twenty days despite warnings that NC's economy would crash even further than it has, not caring that federal funds would be withdrawn for education. None of that touched him personally. But the moment his access to his favorite porn site is blocked because of this new law, McCrory tries to soften the effects of the law, at least that is how he's like it to appear to the outside world. Shows where this governor's priorities lie and what kind of stuff this man is made off, doesn't it.
Let's hope this "ducking" doesn't fool anyone and the "moratorium" on NC stays in place until the law in repealed entirely.
It fooled the MSM,
As Vivian says, there is no one attacking Christianity…though there may be some people pushing back against the numerous attempts to further insinuate the religion into the lawbooks! Despite Falwell's Liberty University Law School's BS about the intent of the Founding Fathers regarding separation of Church and State, the Founders' letters and other writings show, clearly, that they wanted such separation to be fundamental, as opposed to Fundamentalist:
– Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Danbury Baptists (1802)
Mitch Republicans attack Christianity every time they preach their pseudo-Christian gospel of violence greed and hate.
Morning Digest: A new poll has Pat McCrory losing re-election by 4 points as HB2 backlash continues
McCrory has done much damage ever since he became Governor of NC., pollution, voting rights and so on.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/14/1514915/-Morning-Digest-A-new-poll-has-Pat-McCrory-losing-re-election-by-4-points-as-HB2-backlash-continues
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I do miss the days when Terry Sanford was governer. Of course, had he lived, he's be 99 now and probably would no longer be interested.
Thanks all! Hugs!!