North Carolina is getting sued for its terrible, horrible, no-good, very anti-LGBT law

March 28, 2016

It’s official: North Carolina is getting sued for the passage of HB2, the law that bans LGBT nondiscrimination protections and forces transgender people to use the wrong bathrooms.
Lambda Legal, the ACLU, the ACLU of North Carolina, and Equality North Carolina filed a lawsuit challenging HB2 on behalf of three individual plaintiffs and two advocacy groups (the ACLU of NC and Equality NC).
The lawsuit argues that the new law denies LGBT people equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment because the new law was designed to single LGBT people out for discrimination and less protection.
“H.B. 2 was motivated by an intent to treat LGBT people differently, and worse, than other people, including by stripping them of the protections afforded by the City of Charlotte’s Ordinance and precluding any local government from taking action to protect LGBT people against discrimination,” the lawsuit alleges. By doing so, it continues, “H.B. 2 imposes a different and more burdensome political process on LGBT people than on non-LGBT people who have state protection against identity-based discrimination.”
Hell yes. Do the damn thing, y’all. Take. It. Down.

Burn it all down.

Destroy the “law” that was passed in the dark of the night. Destroy the state government that allowed this to happen. Destroy those who would attempt to defend this measure as some sort of “freedom” or “right to comfort.”

Leave nothing standing.

(Source: gaywrites)

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