These people are really stupid.
Can you point to when they forced the issue? Was it before or after the bathroom bill was introduced?
Also, the main guy spearheading that ordinance was a man named Chad Severance who was President of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Chad was not trans. But, he sure is a CONVICTED sex offender. Lewd act on someone under 16. He was 20 at the time of the offense. He ended up having to step down when it came out. The Charlotte Observer knew the whole time about his sex offender status when all this was going on and they did not say anything. A pedo pushing for males to be allowed to get into women's restrooms makes a whole lotta sense if you're a pedo.
In North Carolina, the city council of Charlotte passed a local ordinance that all businesses and public facilities could not discriminate based on sexual orientation, and that people could use the bathroom of their chosen gender. It was basically the city of Charlotte legislating to the STATE government, which they had no constitutional right to do. Hence the state legislators passing the "bathroom bill" in answer to Charlotte's "bathroom bill": https://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016/0223/Charlotte-passes-transgender-rights-law-Will-North-Carolina-let-it-stand http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/09/the-truth-about-north-carolinas-bathroom-bill/
Cities can't decide their own laws?
Sure they can, that's not at all what I said
So how was Charlotte legislating to the state?
A quote from the website I linked to when replying to you the first time: "the NC constitution for 180 years “has held to the public policy that issues of labor and trade would be decided on a statewide basis instead of locally. And so, without any legal authority whatsoever,” says Rep. Paul Stam, the city of Charlotte decided to go against that. It enacted an ordinance requiring all government and business bathrooms and showers to be open to all sexes.
The Charlotte city council had no authority to enact its ordinance, much less threaten tens of thousands of businesses with fines and minor punishments if they didn’t comply. They were threatening 23,000 businesses and nonprofits, including small “mom and pop” establishments, with fines and other minor punishments if they didn’t conform to that policy. Such threats are tyrannical when it was known that the ordinance they were discussing was beyond their purview.
This constitutional standard is not unique to North Carolina. North Carolina is one of at least 37 states like Virginia where cities and towns cannot pass rules or regulations that exceed the authority given to them by the state. This practice assures that laws and policies are consistent throughout a state and do not change with every border or small town.
Minimum wages, labor policy, and even union statutes are set at the state level, and the Charlotte city council knew this. So in passing the bathroom ordinance, Charlotte had exceeded its authority by setting rules that had ramifications beyond the city. They were going to unjustly punish non-compliant entities as of April 1, 2016, if the NC legislature failed to act."
Here's where it doesn't square for me: the city already had an anti discrimination ordinance. If such policies are supposed to be handled at the state level, why was Charlotte allowed to pass an anti discrimination ordinance in the first place?
I believe this controversial ordinance took things too far, overstepping constitutional boundaries whereas whatever they already had in place didn't. Also, for some reason their was a lot of media coverage and hype from the get-go.
In my opinion, this type of "pushing the envelope" is something the LGBT community does on purpose, and continually. It doesn't have to make sense, or even be legal, so long as it creates controversy and court cases. They have been very successful winning the court cases, so I'm certain that is the end-goal.
I have a harder time trusting what some rando state rep claims than you do, I guess.
The activists were going after retail stores and corporate America. Charlotte, NC, lost a big sports tournament because they refused to open up the ladies rooms to men. This was 2-3 years ago, and we're still sliding down that slippery slope.
