Human Rights - The Controversial HB2 Bill*

Human Rights - The Controversial HB2 Bill

1.     March 23, 2016, North Carolina passed House Bill 2 in response to an ordinance banning discrimination based on your sexual orientation and gender identity.

2.    It made it [technically] legal to discriminate against gays and lesbians (and incidentally veterans, on the state level, and individuals on the basis of familial status).

3.    This means, for instance, businesses can refuse to serve you for being gay for any reason and you have to use the bathroom of your birth versus your gender identity.

4.    This new bill wiped out protections for gays and lesbians in all of North Carolina, super ceding even the cities who previously had no such ban in place.

5.    Incidentally, it also bans local governments from passing living wage ordinances regulating things such as hours and benefits.

6.    According to the Declaration of Human Rights, established in 1948 by the United Nations, “Human rights are born free and equal in dignity and rights”.

7.    North Carolina Legislature is not upholding our residences human rights.

8.    Article Seven (of the Declaration) states, “Equal protection of the law, against any discrimination, against violation or incitement to such discrimination”. That is not what is happening in our great state.

9.    It is my philosophy that our Government has perverted sexual orientation and gender identity, while slipping in a few other protections for their pockets and because bigotry runs rampant in our state.

10.  In doing so, they have embarrassed us both nationally and internationally and shone an ugly light on our beautiful state and set us back a hundred years [or more] of human rights progression.