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Also Seeks Records of Collusions with Businesses Threatening Economic Blackmail

RALEIGH— The Civitas Institute and the NC Values Coalition announced today that a public records request has been delivered to NC Attorney General Roy Cooper to determine what communication has transpired between Cooper and the US Department of Justice, among others.

“Attorney General Roy Cooper has refused to defend North Carolina against business bullies and threats from federal bureaucrats,” said Civitas President Francis De Luca. “Instead of doing his job to defend a common sense law in our state that was passed in a bipartisan vote, Cooper has been colluding with business interests to commit economic blackmail against our state. Therefore it is plausible that he has been complicit in the recent federal blackmail from the Obama Administration.  We hope to better understand his collusions with the business community against the economic interests of North Carolina and the extent of any collusion with the federal government against state interests.”

“It seems that Attorney General Roy Cooper, much like the Obama Administration, is willing to engage in political maneuvers to help his campaign. Based on information released to the public last week, we believe that the Attorney General has colluded with major corporate CEO’s to cause economic harm to the State of North Carolina by inciting them to threaten and bully the State.  The public deserves to know whether the Attorney General is colluding in this blackmail and bullying. Let the nation hear loud and clear from the state of North Carolina: we will not be bullied, we will not be threatened, we will not cave to your political pandering and blackmail. We will however, stand firm to protect all North Carolinians’ right to privacy and safety in bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms” said Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of the North Carolina Values Coalition.

Attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom, Kellie Fiedorek drew clarity on why HB 2 fully complies with federal law. Ms. Fiedorek said, “North Carolina’s bathroom privacy law, HB2, fully complies with federal law. It’s absurd to assert, as the Department of Justice does, that by placing the word ‘sex’ in federal nondiscrimination laws, Congress intended to force states to open their restrooms to people of the opposite biological sex. Governor McCrory and the state of North Carolina are fulfilling their duty to protect the privacy rights of their citizens. The DOJ should stop bullying North Carolina with falsehoods about what federal law requires.”

You can view a copy of our public records request here.

For more information, or to schedule an interview with Civitas President Francis De Luca, email Demi Dowdy at demi.dowdy@nccivitas.org or call 919.747.8059.

Founded in 2005, the Civitas Institute is a Raleigh, NC-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit policy organization committed to creating a North Carolina whose citizens enjoy liberty and prosperity derived from limited government, personal responsibility and civic engagement. To that end, Civitas develops and advocates for conservative policy solutions to improve the lives of all North Carolinians.

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  1. Civitas Institute

    Truth seems to be the issue, what are you willing to believe about ” those people” ?
    Facts show transgender citizens, who pay taxes, have professions that contribute to society but who have a history of being abused make easy scapegoats for the politically powerful Civitas Institute. Civitas Institute and similar right wing propaganda mills has make a stradegy decision to villianize transgender citizens as predators without factual data to support such slander.
    Do the research! You can believe politacal modivated propaganda or the factual results of YOUR OWN research.

  2. Lonnie,

    Wrong again – we don’t villainize transgenders we point out that Ill tlhought out laws like Charlottes make it possible for true predators to prey. It is folks like you who have made the link between trains and predators – not us.

    Now will Roy Cooper comply with our Public Records Request?

    Francis De Luca

  3. Enforcing individual constitutional human rights is called ” blackmail” when Jim Crow Authorterians resist freedom guaranteed by the US Constitution.
    Jim Crow Conservatives reacted with similar bigoted false narritives when liberals fought for equal rights for women, people of color, and LBGT citizens.
    Bigots are always looking to dehumanize and bully fellow citizens.

  4. Francis De Luca

    You know you, Art Pope and Civitas Institute are pushing a false narrative to deny transgender citizens their constitutional rights as human beings.
    Your fear mongering this lie is politically motivated and transgender citizens are the scapegoats you’re willing trash because they are an easy target with few citizens who fully understanding their struggle of being born into a body opposite their natural gender. Surely your own personal life experience is not so sheltered to not have personal friends, family or coworkers who believed from very early childhood ( 2-4 years of age ) they identified as the opposite sex of their anatomy. Shame on you and the Civitas Staff.

  6. Larry

    Civility is just not a personal strength for you. I’m sure you consider yourself a ” Good Christian Man” and a ” Real American” who defends ” family values if they don’t include individual freedom, require practicing the ” Golden Rule” or have anything to do with human rights.

  10. Francis, Larry, Pinto
    I visited this site some weeks ago and saw the posts on the HB2 issue. As this website leans conservative, I was surprised that “Lonnie” was a frequent visitor since he is a member of the Watagua Democrat party and official photographer. Why would such a person want to visit a conservative website where comments could be made.? I have observed many posts by him every day at all hours. Could he just be a “troll” but usually trolls use foul language and are basically an as….e. Is he a shill but usually shills are paid by someone to influence opinion. He is probably not paid by anyone but is willing to push an agenda without getting paid because they are brain washed. I would then refer to him as a “shilltroll” and would basically ignore his comments. He has consumed the KoolAid too long to make any sense. As I visit the High Country and Blowing Rock quite often, I am wondering if Ada knows he spends so much time putting out all the drivel that comes out of his brain. Ignore his comments as his bias will never allow him to see any other view.

  11. Judging by what we’ve seen of leftard “civility” these last few years combined with his mindless and hypocritical citation of the Golden Rule, Lonnie must really be some kind of hardcore masochist who desperately wants to get cancer and be gang-raped in a prison shower, among other things:

    http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/?s=civility

    You know, Lonnie, if you really want to be gang-raped in prison, you could just do a stint there for trying to get a young girl (who actually turns out to be a police officer, of course) to watch you whack off in a Burger King toilet stall like your heroic fellow leftard child-abuser Scott Ritter did. As for getting cancer, studies show that having lots of oral sex might give you throat cancer, so the gang-bangers in prison should be able to get you some of that too.

  13. BBJack

    It could also be that I strongly oppose injustice, bigotry, scapegoating, gerrymandered political districts, voter supression and oligarchy.

  14. Lonnie,
    Get a life and find some other task for amusement rather than spending so much time on a conservative web site that you disagree with. All of your talking points mentioned yesterday are just regurgitated from all the other far-left websites that you visit when not on the Civitas site.
    You are just like your friend Jerry Wayne from his Watauga Watch bloq that constantly writes drivel about McCrory and the little R’s in Raleigh. Did you learn from Jerry Wayne or did he take lessons from you?
    Sickening

  15. BBJack

    The John William Pope Civitas Institute Inc. is a tax deductible 501 (c ) which Art Pope donates nearly 1.5 million dollars per year to influence NC public policy to favor his interest and political world view and is the primary donor.
    The comments section is open to the general public, my comment generally remained focused on public policy.
    Authoritarians are always wanting to dictate other people’s lives, tell them how to live their lives.
    I believe more citizens should be pushing back against the well established oligarchy in NC not fewer.

  16. Lonnie,
    In fact, you strongly support injustice, bigotry, scapegoating, gerrymandered political districts, vote fraud and tyranny.

  18. Instead of learning from their experience, politicians who pass transgender laws – which male pedophiles could use to find new victims – turn the tables by implying the victims are the problem.

    Triller says this is not a hypothetical concern. Shortly after Washington state changed gender identity status under the law, a man exposed himself to a girls swim team. When asked what he was doing, he replied, “The law has changed, and I have a right to be here.”

    “The message that sends really loud and clear to those teenage girls,” Triller says, finally breaking out into tears, “is that that’s OK, that a grown man can come and watch them shower, and we’re not going to do anything about it. That tells me that the lack of education isn’t on our side.”

    The only way to end the “rape culture,” a continual concern of feminists, is to deny men access to potential victims and protect women from the jarring, scarring memories that always lurk near the surface.

    “That’s a piece of this conversation that’s been missing,” she says.

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/these-sexual-assault-victims-want-you-to-know-why-open-bathroom-bills-are-a

    Lonnie, you misogynist bigot, why do you hate rape victims so much?

  22. Meanwhile, Target continues to circle the toilet bowl:

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/12/target-ceo-says-reaction-bathroom-policy-just-like-first-used-blacks-ads-2/

    In the company’s initial April 19 statement, the store said, “we welcome transgender team members and [customer] guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.”

    The statement came as Americans were recognizing and rejecting the revolutionary political agenda behind the push for transgender status.

    Since April 19, “We had a lot of tough feedback. But sitting here today, we know we made the right decision,” Cornell insisted.

    That tough feedback includes a consumer boycott that now has 1.2 million supporters, much damage to the company’s brand, and a massive sell-off on Wall Street that has chopped the company’s share price from almost $84 on April 19 to $75.70 on May 11.

    That’s a loss of $8.30 per share, or 10 percent, or almost $5 billion since April 19.

  24. You’d do well to learn to learn some basic biology, Lonnie. Here’s scientific reality speaking:

    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change

    The transgendered person’s disorder, said Dr. McHugh, is in the person’s “assumption” that they are different than the physical reality of their body, their maleness or femaleness, as assigned by nature. It is a disorder similar to a “dangerously thin” person suffering anorexia who looks in the mirror and thinks they are “overweight,” said McHugh.

    This assumption, that one’s gender is only in the mind regardless of anatomical reality, has led some transgendered people to push for social acceptance and affirmation of their own subjective “personal truth,” said Dr. McHugh. As a result, some states – California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts – have passed laws barring psychiatrists, “even with parental permission, from striving to restore natural gender feelings to a transgender minor,” he said.

    The pro-transgender advocates do not want to know, said McHugh, that studies show between 70% and 80% of children who express transgender feelings “spontaneously lose those feelings” over time. Also, for those who had sexual reassignment surgery, most said they were “satisfied” with the operation “but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn’t have the surgery.”

    “And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a ‘satisfied’ but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs,” said Dr. McHugh.

    The former Johns Hopkins chief of psychiatry also warned against enabling or encouraging certain subgroups of the transgendered, such as young people “susceptible to suggestion from ‘everything is normal’ sex education,” and the schools’ “diversity counselors” who, like “cult leaders,” may “encourage these young people to distance themselves from their families and offer advice on rebutting arguments against having transgender surgery.”

    Dr. McHugh also reported that there are “misguided doctors” who, working with very young children who seem to imitate the opposite sex, will administer “puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerous – even though the drugs stunt the children’s growth and risk causing sterility.”

    Such action comes “close to child abuse,” said Dr. McHugh, given that close to 80% of those kids will “abandon their confusion and grow naturally into adult life if untreated ….”

    “’Sex change’ is biologically impossible,” said McHugh. “People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.”

    When are you going to stop abusing children and promoting mental disorders, Lonnie?

  26. American Thinker lays the smack down on Loretta Lynch and her gaystapo goose-steppers’ lies about Title VII:

    Sensing something amiss (citing an EEOC opinion as primary foundation for federal law signals desperation), I looked into whether Title VII protects against discrimination on the basis of gender identity. After spending about thirty minutes researching at my local law library, I found the following cases, all of which hold that Title VII does not protect against discrimination on the basis of gender identity alone:

    Johnston v. Univ. of Pittsburgh of Com. Sys. of Higher Educ. (Western District of Pennsylvania – 2015): “[N]early every federal court that has considered the question in the Title VII context has found that transgender individuals are not a protected class under Title VII.”

    Lopez v. River Oaks Imaging & Diagnostic Grp., Inc. (Southern District of Texas – 2008): “Courts consistently find that transgendered persons are not a protected class under Title VII per se.”

    Etsitty v. Utah Transit Auth. (10th Circuit – 2007): “[This Court] concludes discrimination against a transsexual based on the person’s status as a transsexual is not discrimination because of sex under Title VII.”

    Sweet v. Mulberry Lutheran Home (Southern District of Indiana – 2003): “Discrimination on the basis of sex means discrimination on the basis of the plaintiff’s biological sex, not sexual orientation or sexual identity, including an intention to change sex.”

    Oiler v. Winn-Dixie La., Inc. (Eastern District of Louisiana – 2002): “After a review of the legislative history of Title VII and the authorities interpreting the statute, the Court agrees… that Title VII prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, i.e., biological sex. While Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex includes sexual stereotypes, the phrase “sex” has not been interpreted to include sexual identity or gender identity disorders.”

    Ulane v. E. Airlines, Inc. (7th Circuit – 1984): “While we recognize distinctions among homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals, we believe that the same reasons for holding that the first two groups do not enjoy Title VII coverage apply with equal force to deny protection for transsexuals.”

    Sommers v. Budget Mktg., Inc. (8th Circuit – 1982): “Although this circuit has not previously considered the issue raised on this appeal, we are in agreement with the district court that for the purposes of Title VII the plain meaning must be ascribed to the term “sex” in absence of clear congressional intent to do otherwise. Furthermore, the legislative history does not show any intention to include transsexualism in Title VII”.

    Powell v. Read’s, Inc. (District of Maryland – 1977): “A reading of [Title VII] to cover plaintiff’s [gender identity discrimination] grievance would be impermissibly contrived and inconsistent with the plain meaning of the words.”

    Grossman v. Board of Education (District of New Jersey – 1975): “In the absence of any legislative history indicating a congressional intent to include transsexuals within the language of Title VII, the Court is reluctant to ascribe any import to the term “sex” other than its plain meaning. Accordingly, the Court is satisfied that the facts as alleged fail to state a claim of unlawful job discrimination based on sex.” (This decision was later affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.)

    Again, this was after spending only thirty minutes searching.</blockquote.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/justice_department_ignores_crucial_precedents_on_the_north_carolina_bathroom_bill_.html

  27. American Thinker lays the smack down on Loretta Lynch and her gaystapo goose-steppers’ lies about Title VII:

    Sensing something amiss (citing an EEOC opinion as primary foundation for federal law signals desperation), I looked into whether Title VII protects against discrimination on the basis of gender identity. After spending about thirty minutes researching at my local law library, I found the following cases, all of which hold that Title VII does not protect against discrimination on the basis of gender identity alone:

    Johnston v. Univ. of Pittsburgh of Com. Sys. of Higher Educ. (Western District of Pennsylvania – 2015): “[N]early every federal court that has considered the question in the Title VII context has found that transgender individuals are not a protected class under Title VII.”

    Lopez v. River Oaks Imaging & Diagnostic Grp., Inc. (Southern District of Texas – 2008): “Courts consistently find that transgendered persons are not a protected class under Title VII per se.”

    Etsitty v. Utah Transit Auth. (10th Circuit – 2007): “[This Court] concludes discrimination against a transsexual based on the person’s status as a transsexual is not discrimination because of sex under Title VII.”

    Sweet v. Mulberry Lutheran Home (Southern District of Indiana – 2003): “Discrimination on the basis of sex means discrimination on the basis of the plaintiff’s biological sex, not sexual orientation or sexual identity, including an intention to change sex.”

    Oiler v. Winn-Dixie La., Inc. (Eastern District of Louisiana – 2002): “After a review of the legislative history of Title VII and the authorities interpreting the statute, the Court agrees… that Title VII prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, i.e., biological sex. While Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex includes sexual stereotypes, the phrase “sex” has not been interpreted to include sexual identity or gender identity disorders.”

    Ulane v. E. Airlines, Inc. (7th Circuit – 1984): “While we recognize distinctions among homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals, we believe that the same reasons for holding that the first two groups do not enjoy Title VII coverage apply with equal force to deny protection for transsexuals.”

    Sommers v. Budget Mktg., Inc. (8th Circuit – 1982): “Although this circuit has not previously considered the issue raised on this appeal, we are in agreement with the district court that for the purposes of Title VII the plain meaning must be ascribed to the term “sex” in absence of clear congressional intent to do otherwise. Furthermore, the legislative history does not show any intention to include transsexualism in Title VII”.

    Powell v. Read’s, Inc. (District of Maryland – 1977): “A reading of [Title VII] to cover plaintiff’s [gender identity discrimination] grievance would be impermissibly contrived and inconsistent with the plain meaning of the words.”

    Grossman v. Board of Education (District of New Jersey – 1975): “In the absence of any legislative history indicating a congressional intent to include transsexuals within the language of Title VII, the Court is reluctant to ascribe any import to the term “sex” other than its plain meaning. Accordingly, the Court is satisfied that the facts as alleged fail to state a claim of unlawful job discrimination based on sex.” (This decision was later affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.)

    Again, this was after spending only thirty minutes searching.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/justice_department_ignores_crucial_precedents_on_the_north_carolina_bathroom_bill_.html

  28. You’d do well to learn to learn some basic biology, Lonnie. Here’s the scientific reality Lonnie and his fellow charlatans at the far-left Stinking Hogwash don’t want you to read:

    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change

    The transgendered person’s disorder, said Dr. McHugh, is in the person’s “assumption” that they are different than the physical reality of their body, their maleness or femaleness, as assigned by nature. It is a disorder similar to a “dangerously thin” person suffering anorexia who looks in the mirror and thinks they are “overweight,” said McHugh.

    This assumption, that one’s gender is only in the mind regardless of anatomical reality, has led some transgendered people to push for social acceptance and affirmation of their own subjective “personal truth,” said Dr. McHugh. As a result, some states – California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts – have passed laws barring psychiatrists, “even with parental permission, from striving to restore natural gender feelings to a transgender minor,” he said.

    The pro-transgender advocates do not want to know, said McHugh, that studies show between 70% and 80% of children who express transgender feelings “spontaneously lose those feelings” over time. Also, for those who had sexual reassignment surgery, most said they were “satisfied” with the operation “but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn’t have the surgery.”

    “And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a ‘satisfied’ but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs,” said Dr. McHugh.

    The former Johns Hopkins chief of psychiatry also warned against enabling or encouraging certain subgroups of the transgendered, such as young people “susceptible to suggestion from ‘everything is normal’ sex education,” and the schools’ “diversity counselors” who, like “cult leaders,” may “encourage these young people to distance themselves from their families and offer advice on rebutting arguments against having transgender surgery.”

    Dr. McHugh also reported that there are “misguided doctors” who, working with very young children who seem to imitate the opposite sex, will administer “puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerous – even though the drugs stunt the children’s growth and risk causing sterility.”

    Such action comes “close to child abuse,” said Dr. McHugh, given that close to 80% of those kids will “abandon their confusion and grow naturally into adult life if untreated ….”

    “’Sex change’ is biologically impossible,” said McHugh. “People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.”

    When are you child-abusing Commie traitor thugs going to stop abusing children and promoting mental disorders, Lonnie?

  29. Bruce Jenner and Diane Sawyer could benefit from a history lesson. I know, because I suffered through “sex change” surgery and lived as a woman for eight years. The surgery fixed nothing—it only masked and exacerbated deeper psychological problems.

    The beginnings of the transgender movement have gotten lost today in the push for transgender rights, acceptance, and tolerance. If more people were aware of the dark and troubled history of sex-reassignment surgery, perhaps we wouldn’t be so quick to push people toward it.

    The setting for the first transgender surgeries (mostly male-to-female) was in university-based clinics, starting in the 1950s and progressing through the 1960s and the 1970s. When the researchers tallied the results and found no objective proof that it was successful—and, in fact, evidence that it was harmful—the universities stopped offering sex-reassignment surgery.

    Since then, private surgeons have stepped in to take their place. Without any scrutiny or accountability for their results, their practices have grown, leaving shame, regret, and suicide in their wake.

    http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/04/14905/

    When are you child-abusing Commie traitor thugs going to stop pushing people into mutilating themselves and promoting shame, regret, and suicide, Lonnie?

  31. Lonnie,
    With all the facts Pinto and I have made available to you have you read any of them or are you to thick to understand any of them?

  32. Larry
    You confuse your opinion and right wing propaganda with facts. National Review is the voice of plutroacy with little factual information. American Thinker is a similar conservative propaganda publication mostly void of facts.
    CNS News is also conservative propaganda pushing Theoaracy in America much like a Chritstian version of Islamic Sharia Law.
    All of the outlets push an Authorterian, repressive form of government controlled by and favoring the super rich.

  33. Pinto,and anyone else that thinks Lying Lonnie is an idiot.Don’t answer the idiot.He is too stupid to know what facts are anyway.Ever time he posts just answer back,You can’t fix stupid.

    YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID.

  34. Yep. Leftard Lonnie keeps confusing his delusions and hate propaganda for arguments. That’s why he has no answers to the facts we’ve presented.

  35. Larry
    Have you noticed, I don’t make personal attacks on you? I keep my comment on facts and issues. I understand when you don’t have facts on you side, the issues you support lack moral high ground or fail to comply to the golden rule the only thing left is a personal attack.
    Every time you make a personal attack, I know, I’m winning the factual debate dealing with issues.

  36. Answer the facts and issues, Lonnie:

    Johnston v. Univ. of Pittsburgh of Com. Sys. of Higher Educ. (Western District of Pennsylvania – 2015): “[N]early every federal court that has considered the question in the Title VII context has found that transgender individuals are not a protected class under Title VII.”

    Lopez v. River Oaks Imaging & Diagnostic Grp., Inc. (Southern District of Texas – 2008): “Courts consistently find that transgendered persons are not a protected class under Title VII per se.”

    Etsitty v. Utah Transit Auth. (10th Circuit – 2007): “[This Court] concludes discrimination against a transsexual based on the person’s status as a transsexual is not discrimination because of sex under Title VII.”

    Sweet v. Mulberry Lutheran Home (Southern District of Indiana – 2003): “Discrimination on the basis of sex means discrimination on the basis of the plaintiff’s biological sex, not sexual orientation or sexual identity, including an intention to change sex.”

    Oiler v. Winn-Dixie La., Inc. (Eastern District of Louisiana – 2002): “After a review of the legislative history of Title VII and the authorities interpreting the statute, the Court agrees… that Title VII prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, i.e., biological sex. While Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex includes sexual stereotypes, the phrase “sex” has not been interpreted to include sexual identity or gender identity disorders.”

    Ulane v. E. Airlines, Inc. (7th Circuit – 1984): “While we recognize distinctions among homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals, we believe that the same reasons for holding that the first two groups do not enjoy Title VII coverage apply with equal force to deny protection for transsexuals.”

    Sommers v. Budget Mktg., Inc. (8th Circuit – 1982): “Although this circuit has not previously considered the issue raised on this appeal, we are in agreement with the district court that for the purposes of Title VII the plain meaning must be ascribed to the term “sex” in absence of clear congressional intent to do otherwise. Furthermore, the legislative history does not show any intention to include transsexualism in Title VII”.

    Powell v. Read’s, Inc. (District of Maryland – 1977): “A reading of [Title VII] to cover plaintiff’s [gender identity discrimination] grievance would be impermissibly contrived and inconsistent with the plain meaning of the words.”

    Grossman v. Board of Education (District of New Jersey – 1975): “In the absence of any legislative history indicating a congressional intent to include transsexuals within the language of Title VII, the Court is reluctant to ascribe any import to the term “sex” other than its plain meaning. Accordingly, the Court is satisfied that the facts as alleged fail to state a claim of unlawful job discrimination based on sex.” (This decision was later affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.)

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/justice_department_ignores_crucial_precedents_on_the_north_carolina_bathroom_bill_.html

    Every time you mindlessly recite some irrelevancy about “dueling banjos” or “the Golden Rule” or “a false narrative” or “fear” or try to smear Art Pope or the writers of Civitas and otherwise change the subject, we know that you’re losing the factual debate dealing with the issues because you have no answers to the facts we’ve presented. These facts prove that you bathroom bandits are on the wrong side of history, morality, and reality, and we’re on the right side; and that’s all.

  37. Lying Lonnie,
    Your so called facts are a joke.Your moral high ground is to let 14 year old boys in a locker room with 14 year old girls.Then to send your idiotic posts about scapegoating and the Golden Rule.Go back to your picture taking company.It failed because of capitalism.If only we had communism you could have made it work.Oh,by the way you and your buddies just put a lot of high school kids out of work.Wendy’s announced they are putting kiosks in 6000 stores.No more part time jobs for kids.Maybe you can unionize the kiosks.
    YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID.

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