North Carolina sues for right to be bigots

[packman]

North Carolina officials sued the U.S. Justice Department on Monday after the department challenged the state’s law on public restroom access for transgender people, accusing the agency of “baseless and blatant overreach.”"

Sad - really depresses me to read how a state wants the RIGHT to discriminate and hate. Then again, the governor looks like he's trying out for the cast of The Living Dead



Makes me think we should just give these ass-holes a state or two - maybe an island - and let them fester and rot in their own bile. Hell, even let the government pay for relocation costs. It would be worth it IMHO.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-bathroom-bill_us_573081c1e4b016f378963c87

[yellowcanine]

1. That is, North Carolina.

[stage left]

2. Shouldn't the headline read North Carolina.

South Carolina thought this was not a good idea.

[packman]

3. Sorry - apologies to South Carolina

[lagomorph777]

4. Potty Boy Pat commits political suicide on live national TV

Buh-bye McRory!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. No! The right to be a bigot is constitutionally protected; this is more than that.

The right to be wrong - even wickedly, bigotedly wrong - is an absolute cornerstone of democracy.

But what NC is suing for is not just the right to hate transgender people - which they have, and should have - nor even the right for private citizens or businesses to discriminate against them, but the right for the state to discriminate against them.

I think that's quite an important distinction.