90 Big-Name Business Leaders Just Took A Stand Against North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law

90 Big-Name Business Leaders Just Took A Stand Against North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law

by Elise Foley at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ceos-north-carolina-lgbt-law_us_56faeb83e4b0a06d5803e81d?ir=Politics&section=us_politics&utm_hp_ref=politics

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The fight against North Carolina’s new anti-LGBT law gained some high-profile support on Tuesday, when more than 90 prominent business leaders signed a letter calling for a full repeal.

“Discrimination is wrong, and we believe it has no place in North Carolina or anywhere in our country,” reads the letter to North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), released by LGBT civil rights groups Human Rights Campaign and Equality NC. “As companies that pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming to all, we strongly urge you and the leadership of North Carolina’s legislature to repeal this law in the upcoming legislative session.”

The legislation, which McCrory signed into law last week, prevents local governments from creating their own rules and ordinances to protect LGBT rights. The governor on Monday dismissed backlash against the legislation as “well-coordinated and more political theater than reality.”

Pressure from corporations has worked before in other states, and the letter made the same arguments that discrimination is bad for business.




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