With the recent passage of North Carolina bill HB2 (The Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act), the uproar from business entities such as PayPal, Deutsche Bank and Salesforce made national attention and caused multiple postings on this site and others. National newspapers, such as USA Today, and electronic media portrayed the NC decision as “discriminatory” against those of the homosexual and transgender community.
As to PayPal and Deutsche Bank, let’s take a look at their “consternation” and refusal to open an office in Charlotte, NC because the state passed a law that respects “all” people, not just some of a highly outspoken group (if you listened to the governor’s clarification). PayPal, Deutsche Bank, reacted hastily and hysterically. If the firm really felt that way (had strong convictions) about this issue, you would think that they would also not do business in countries such as Saudi Arabia , Nigeria, Botswana , Yemen and other countries (where homosexuality is punishable by death), or with other countries such as India, Morocco, Senegal, Tanzania, and others (which outlaw the practice of homosexuality altogether). Why? They don’t pull out of those countries because of MONEY. PayPal, Deutsche Bank, and other like business entities, doesn’t pull out of those countries because they have no “conviction” they have stances of “convenience and opportunism”. They are acting hypocritically. It shows how many that “squawk the loudest” is nothing but “hot air” in their own right when it comes to strongly held corporate “beliefs”. Come on PayPal and DB, get real!
The fact that DB might be doing the wrong thing in other countries, doesn't mean that they aren't doing the right thing in NC. The NC decision is discriminatory. One wonders where the NC legislatures think transgender people have been going to the restroom all this time. It's an offensive law targeting a minority that has more than enough ignorance to deal with.
Not Constitutional in any sense of the word! It is a made up "straw man" argument. As I stated earlier, our laws are not based on "you are what you think you are"! To do so is anarchy and chaos. Where does that logical end go? You cannot predict or define that, and you cannot order a civil society based on that concept.
We couldn't agree more, where we may differ is that I think they did the right thing withdrawing from NC and need to extend that sentiment to the rest of their global business footprint as well.
Never, in the history of the US, English or any other modern Western Law, beginning with the Magna Carta through the founding, has the "interpretation" of "sex" EVER meant "You are who you think you are". The law is NOT discriminatory, and the 4th Circuit Justices, who based their decision based on an opinion letter from an unelected government bureaucratic entity (DOE), ought to have impeachment proceedings started against them for failing to execute, faithfully, their oath of office and to defend the Constitution of the United States (which I know Progressive Leftists want discard in the name of "A Living Breathing Document" but they cannot define that, separate from the Amendment process), and not accept “opinion” as fact and Constitutional law. The Congress has no guts to do their part to check the judiciary in our system of checks and balances. If we define HB2 as “discriminatory” then we accept “anarchy” and then we descend into the abyss that ancient Greece fell into : Every Man for Himself”, and we know the end thereof. Maybe you should check out this one: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/2/maya-dillard-smith-georgia-aclu-leader-resigns-ove/ This is a case where an ACLU leader resigned because grown men walked into a women's bathroom, because they said they were really women (which is total crapp) and scared her daughter beyond belief. At this point, she departed from her organization's stance, and resigned in the name of her daughter’s mental and physical safety. If this is what you mean by "discrimination' then you are, indeed, mislead and chasing every "wind of opinion" or "tossed to and fro with every wave of populous opinion".
Whether the law is discriminatory (of course it is) is kind of beside the point, IMO. What we're seeing isn't merely a resurgence of discrimination, but the reductio ad absurdum of a culture war that has nowhere else to go. Fortunately, it appears to be headed down the toilet, quite literally.
To equate this with common sense legislation is so misguided it is like a ship without a rudder. This has NOTHING to do with HB2 in NC. This is a bigot and biased individual against a genetic trait (black skin versus white skin) not "I am what I think I am at the time". This is a non-nonsensical comparison and is so far fetched is is like believing the earth is flat! By the way, he was a Democrat! The Democrats blocked the civil rights legislation of 1965 (do your homework and cut the "ignorant talking points crap!). The Republicans passed the 1965 law in spite of the Democrats! By the way, it was a Republican who published the Emancipation Proclamation; I thought you might like to know and acknowledge that.
You ever heard of the difference between Southern and Northern Democrats back in the day? Southern Democrats were the ones that attempted to block civil rights legislation. Northern Democrats were all for it. You're also talking about the civil rights legislation championed by LBJ, noted Democrat? While we're talking about that, do you also realize that both major parties have changed a little since the 1860s and 1960s? Have you done any homework?