North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory
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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA — North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights protections and can’t be enforced, The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.
The Justice Department’s intervention puts the state in danger of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal school funding.
In a letter to Gov. Pat McCrory, the Justice Department put the state on notice that federal officials view the state law as violating federal Civil Rights Act protections barring workplace discrimination based on sex. Provisions of the state law directed at transgender state employees violate their anti-discrimination protections, the letter said.
McCrory has defended the state law, which limits legal protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. It also requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that conform to the sex on their birth certificate.
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Although I am in complete agreement that the law is a violation of Civil Rights, I can’t help feeling that defunding education is a very poor choice. Children should NOT have to pay for this. Now, more than ever, we need America’s children to have the best education ever.
I agree with Sharon: why penalize the children? How about fining the Governor personally (including salary & asset garnishment) for each day these individuals are not protected per our country’s laws? No one should be singled out as “ok” to bash etc by any level of government.