Bravo. This would never happen under a Republican administration!
Thatâs true. Take Larry Craig (R Minnesota). When Republican men want to proposition people in a public restroom and grope around under the stall dividers, they damn well choose the Menâs room to do that!
Actually Craig was Idaho senator. He got caught in airport in Minesota.
I think folks who have been following this issue realize that this 1-day legislation goes far beyond a âbathroom billâ to allow broad gay and racial discrimination (was there a religious 'free speech discrimination clause also?), and override any local ordinances, effectively making NC a police state.
However, the press (bless their hearts) tends to ignore these tendrils, as does the govâna, who only expresses it as a âbathroom billâ, which is bad enough, but not the whole story. Unfortunately, most of the public probably see it as just a bathroom bill.
I just heard on NPR radio that the NC govâna, or spokesperson proclaim in response to the DOJ lawsuit that âthese peopleâ are not protected by this âradical interpretationâ of the Civil Rights Act and Title IX, which is just plain false. Once again, no mention of the tendril discrimination of this bill.
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Man I hope not!
Those types are dangerous in a completely different way. 
(MARVELâS Agents Of S.H.I.E.LD. fans out there know what Iâm talkinâ about!)
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Aw, darn.
I so wanted legislation banning gun fanatics from churches because the state has deemed them anti-christian.
Câmon, Loretta. Canât we? Please?
Iâm pretty sure that predators attacking women in bathrooms is already illegal.
Although, I wouldnât be surprised if the NC legislature made it legal.
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Anybody see where Pat Buchanan was absolutely livid over the DOJ suing NC? He said, and I quote, âWhy canât the minority get over this?â
He said the same thing about Jim Crow.
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The law is focused on gender identity/presentation, not sexual orientation but your point still stands.
The Republicans have done a good job framing it as a âbathroom billâ, because they know those are the only provisions they can actually do some fear mongering around. Of course, the press played right along.
What sucks for them, however, is that the tide is turning against them even on that issue. And itâs had the counter productive (from the Republican perspective) effect of probably hastening gender rights and protections.
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First, let me just say GO LORETTA GO!!!
Second, that cartoon is funny because itâs not the other way around, with someone who looks like Jenner getting taunted and ridiculed or even catching a beating upside the head in a menâs room for being a âfagâ.
Either way, THAT is what they really want: the humiliation and debasement of these folks by forcing them to live an uncomfortable and alienating lie.
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Pat Buchananâs nearly wet himself with fury that the DOJ is suing the crackers. âI was at Dr. Kingâs March on Washington and this is vulgar compared to the sublime.â
Course Pat doesnât say what SIDE he was on at the March; the marchers or the people screaming âni(CLANG)â at them.
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Agree. I shouldnât cheapen this with comments about gender and race, but I take even more pleasure in the fact that McCroryâs arguments were mocked by a smart, successful, black woman.
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Iâm not sure, but I thought I heard Lynch mention the North Carolina Middle.
Iâm with the DOJ in this fight. These laws are simply despicable and bigoted. Yes, lets the courts decide.
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âThis is about the dignity and the respect that we accord our fellow citizens and the laws we as the people and as a country have enacted to protect them, indeed to protect of all of us.â
Absolutely!
Donât let the religious zealot, red necks ruin our country!
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True â demons are not human.
Pat is the one that talked St. Ronnie into visiting that cemetery in Germany that held the graves of the Waffen SS. What St. Ronnie didnât know was that to Pat, it was a family reunion.
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Pat should do us all a solid and pull a Scalia.
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Loretta Lynch made what is probably one of the most important human rights speeches since MLK tonight and it is being totally ignored by the main stream media
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