‘Not about bathrooms’: Critics decry North Carolina law’s lesser-known elements
Source: Washington Post
DURHAM, N.C. In this state where the modern bathroom wars began, some church and civil rights leaders have begun to spread the word that theres plenty else to worry about in the controversial new law known formally as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.
The law not only reverses a Charlotte ordinance that had extended some rights to gay and transgender people. It also prevents city and county governments from setting a minimum-wage standard for private employers and limits how people can sue for discrimination in state court. And it contains a provision allowing for remaining parts of the law to stand if others are struck down in court.
Those provisions, opponents say, are pernicious attempts to roll back rights, and they have been tucked into a bill that has a very different public face.
This is really a devious bill that harms workers under the guise of regulating bathrooms, said Harold Lloyd, a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law.
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Wounded Bear
(58,799 posts)The Talibangelists in our midst are getting more devious, and they're working with other forces trying to roll back personal rights all over the country.
Everyone focuses on the bathroom bullshit while they are attacking workers' rights and trying to repeal rights protections across the board.
The Blue Flower
(5,451 posts)They won't try to pass these provisions out in the open because they know the people are against them. What is it about taking care of their constituents that's so odious to them?
notemason
(299 posts)and I have marveled for weeks that no one was mentioning the other provisions of the bill as if the rest room was just a smokescreen. These people are power-cray-cray.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)So Obama lost control of the bill? Why is he going to bat for it? Why not expose these elements?
I'm really confused.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)President Obama is not the Governor of North Carolina, and the OP pertains to a NC state law.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)Thanks.
They are so rotten.
Igel
(35,393 posts)That's what it's called. Otherwise, imagine something like the ACA--if one part was struck down, then the entire thing would die. Instead, it, too, is apparently sneaky in that it has a fairly standard severability clause.
There are times when you want the opposite. Some states and such have standard legislation saying legislation should be generally construed as severable or inseverable.
paleotn
(18,015 posts)It never was. That's just the wedge our duly elected, lying bastards are using as a smokescreen. It's always been about not letting more liberal metropolitan areas pass ordinances the lying bastards don't like.
lark
(23,206 posts)They go to great lengths to hide their anti-worker bias, tuck the pernicious provisions away in unrelated bills. They are truly heinous people, and I'm being kind to say they are even part of the human race.
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)Beartracks
(12,847 posts)It's like the rightwing activists are now actually willing to let people think it was about bathroom regulation all along, willing to let their reputations sink even lower, just to pass all the other nefarious stuff -- while STILL, in the end, regulating transgender bathroom use.
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alfredo
(60,082 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)how much worse can they make it"
rpannier
(24,353 posts)But, it's there
Thanks for posting