March 30, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- North Carolina's GOP-led legislature voted today to repeal the HB2 law, after agreeing to a deal with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to strip away its language requiring people to use only public bathrooms that match their biological sex.
“Transgender” and “gender-non-conforming” activists are crusading nationwide to use restrooms and locker rooms that match their subjective “gender identity,” even if that would allow biological men with male genitalia intact to occupy private spaces once used exclusively by women and girls.
The revised North Carolina law retains two provisions opposed by “transgender" and “gay” activists: "one that leaves all matters related to bathroom regulation to the state, and another that prevents local governments from enacting certain LGBT protections until the end of 2020," Business Insider reports.
The compromise legislation passed 32-16 in the state Senate and 70-48 in the state House, and is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Cooper—just hours ahead of a NCAA (National College Athletic Association)-imposed “ultimatum” that would have prevented the state from hosting championship college sports events like March Madness over the next five years.
KTLA-5 reported, “The 2017 NBA All-Star Game, which was held in February, was moved from Charlotte to New Orleans. The NCAA relocated several college athletic championship events for the 2016-17 season over the law and implied four more years of tournaments are at stake if HB2 stands.”
LGBTQ outrage, socialcons disappointed
Social conservatives and LGBTQ activists alike opposed the quasi-repeal effort.
Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of the NC Values Coalition, the main state group defending HB2, chastised the “bullying and intimidation tactics” of groups like the NCAA, the NBA (National Basketball Association) and “billion dollar corporations who care more about their political, hypocritical agendas than the well-being and dignity of the people in our great state." .
So it is only a partial win for commonsense, but why not a complete win? The article goes on:
In a statement, Fitzgerald chided the NCAA and business community’s “full-court press” against HB2 and said, “Today, the leaders of our State have let the people of North Carolina down...No basketball game, corporation, or entertainment event is worth even one little girl losing her privacy and dignity to a boy in the locker room, or being harmed or frightened in a bathroom.”
Let’s read that again:
” No basketball game, corporation, or entertainment event is worth even one little girl losing her privacy and dignity to a boy in the locker room, or being harmed or frightened in a bathroom.”
Not very long ago, that would have been the final word. That is the common sense, the common decency and the common moral position. Unfortunately, sense, decency and morality have all fallen aside in the path of the sex activists.
Wed 4/5/2017 11:01 AM The latest victim of the homosexual agenda: Our candy! It seems that everything must be tainted by the homosexual agenda; now, even the humble Snickers bar has been depicted in a rainbow wrapper.
“Oliver says he supports encouraging people to be who they are because it's difficult to be mentally healthy if one is hiding an element of himself. “
Why would one hide “an element of himself”, if not because he realises that it is harmful to him? And if harmful, should he advertise it to the world, or seek help to remove it?
Help, you ask? Yes, help. It is available, but it is not politically correct to raise the matter. Senator Eric Abetz had the temerity to state this a few days ago, as reported in The Australian article Gay people can turn heterosexual: Abetz
Of course, a predictably lightweight response from the Left was quick to appear:
“So do you personally believe that gays and lesbians can pull up their bootstraps and show a bit of discipline and become heterosexuals, do you actually think they can stop being who they are?” Sky News’ Samantha Maiden asked. [He didn’t actually say it was that easy – just possible]
To this, Senator Abetz, with customary courtesy and from an evidential background, replied:
“The evidence that has been given to Senate committees where people who have been in gay relationships have then gone into heterosexual relationships”.
I personally know of one case where this has occurred, and I am sure many others do, too, but it is not popular to admit it.