the crowd that promotes religious freedom as forcing others to
do what they want

don't like civil rights very much

..... as they "govern" here in NC by pet peeve.

Award for a perfect description of latest NC politics.

Strategic move to engage Roy Cooper in a game of political wits, no doubt. Let the palm greasing begin. As if the good folks of NC have nothing else on their minds but how to waste money and look like fools. I cannot wait to see the rear end of McCrook!

Note should also be made that HB2 has implications beyond the bathroom that are being overlooked.

I'd be ashamed if I weren't so angry.

North Carolina doesn't deserve this.

North Carolina is getting what they voted for!

:/

express their oppresseive "freedom" after getting kicked out of a couple other European countries... Mainly England and then Holland, I believe is correct.
In no way did the Pilgrims establish our government as a "Christian nation". Our government was arrived at after the Revolutionary War long after the Pilgrims arrived.

News flash NC: USA has separation of church and state.

Ya gotta have priorities!

This standing in the bathroom door is getting old.

-- Mal

... confusing Ft Bragg with Ft Benning. All those CSA generals run together after awhile.

-- Mal

The Army can't intervene in this anyway...the Posse Comitatus Act says the military can't do civil law enforcement in the US. During the Hurricane Andrew relief effort my division took part in, we could only use our Military Police to direct traffic - an extreme need in an area with no traffic lights and no street signs. This left the civilian cops free to arrest looters. We even tried getting our people deputized into the Dade County Sheriff's Office - no dice. The attorney general wouldn't hear of it - "they are in the military, the military cannot enforce the law against civilians no matter what, end of story." This has good parts and bad parts. The good part is it showed Posse Comitatus was inviolable. The bad part is the shortage of cops in the area caused vigilantism to rise dramatically.

I was so hoping for an end to this stupid fucking chapter in my home state.

Looks like our Republicans are going for the gold. Fucking a.

Once that idiot McCrory is voted out of office'

New Democratic governor John Del Edwards overturned the Anti-LGBT laws Jindal enacted.

Edwards was considered a moderate Democrat but so far he's done good in Louidiana, enacting Obamacare too.

"Um........................ it might be best if you just let it go.......... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmkay?"

and spend a lot of NC tax dollars doing it.

yup

Maybe next N.C. will repeal integration?

will take great delight in seeing the courts tell McCrory that his Hate Bill 2 is unconstitutional and repeal it, ignore enforcing it, or
get out his red pencil to figure out how to make up for federal dollars no longer coming to NC.

I cannot begin to tell you, as a resident of NC, how utterly disgusted I am with McCrory and his merry band of bigots in the Legislature.
These Republican a$$holes have done a very good job of destroying what was--only four years ago--a progressive southern state.
They have really done a lot of harm. I almost wish we could bring back the practice of tar and feathers and riding them out of town
on a rail. They deserve it.

(It probably would work better for women to protest since they're the people supposedly being saved from attack by this bill.) Gather all your friends and go to a public restroom. Then call the police. If this is a law that must be enforced, the police must determine who is eligible to use the women's room and who is not. Make a point of stressing how badly you have to use the restroom . . . a very brave move might be to pee on the sidewalk. This is a stupid, stupid law that apparently requires police to check both birth certificates and genitalia . . . so force the issue. How will the people of North Carolina feel about police officers doing gyn exams?