One of the founding principals of our country is equality. All people are equal. They all deserve equal opportunities, equal pay, equal rights and equal representation. A person has a freedom of religion so therefor it is NOT within the rights of the government to make laws based on any one religion. This means NO laws against people marrying who they want to marry. A man who wants to marry a man or woman wanting to marry a woman has just as much a right to do so as a man wanting to marry a woman. Marriage in the legal sense is not a religious ceremony and not at the mercy of religiously based bigotry.
Religion has no place in politics, we have a fundamental separation of Church and State for a very good reason. We fear middle eastern countries for their religious dictatorships and their religious oppression, are we any better than they are if we continue to allow religion to drive our legislative processes and directions? My personal religious and spiritual beliefs are inconsequential, and so are every politician's if we are going to have an effective and just government.
A person who identifies as a woman is a woman, a person who identifies as a man is a man. If something makes you uncomfortable then it is on you to avoid that discomfort, not to attempt to legislate against it. I will tolerate no laws that legislate one person's discomfort as a crime for another. It is discriminatory and wrong. Transgendered people are people, and forcing them to use another restroom for your bias and discomfort is wrong. I want to get rid of HB2 and prevent any further attempts to limit the rights of others and discriminate based on squeamishness, and every city should be allowed to enforce their own non-discrimination laws. It brings back things that our country is supposed to be long past. Segregation, discrimination and separate but equal laws were wrong before and they are wrong now. North Carolina is the state I was born and raised in and have spent the majority of my life in, and it has become an embarrassment worldwide because of the "bathroom bill". As a state it has hurt us financially (for example Paypal not opening their offices here), other nations have made public travel warnings against coming to our state, cities in other states have banned publicly funded transportation to our state, this has to stop. North Carolina should not be the poster state for intolerance.
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