For businesses backing HB2, privacy and religious freedom

Before North Carolina’s House Bill 2 passed, Lighthouse Electric owner Judy Hale said she and her husband were considering moving the electrical contracting business from Charlotte to Fort Mill because they opposed Charlotte’s newly passed nondiscrimination ordinance.

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Businesses that support HB2, like the legislators who ushered the measure into law, largely focus on its bathroom provision, which mandates that transgender people use the bathroom of the gender that corresponds with their birth certificate instead of the gender with which they identify, as the Charlotte ordinance would have allowed.

After House Bill 2 passed on March 23, scores of major corporations, performing artists, colleges and religious institutions came out against the measure, which they say discriminates against LGBT individuals.

A smaller but equally passionate smattering of North Carolina businesses have come out in favor of the measure, saying it lets business owners make their own decisions. Many of them appear on KeepNCSafe.org’s list of businesses that support the measure. Over 300 favor it, the group says, though it only gives the names of 68 because of “vocal threats and bullying from the LGBT community.”

Read more: http://democratsforever.freeforums.net/thread/7740/businesses-backing-privacy-religious-freedom

The issue of bathroom mandates has taken on some importance within my family. My commentary is provided at the link.