The Time For Dialog We Before Not Afterward

The Republicans were so hell-bent to pass the bill they had no idea what the ramifications were, now they say let’s talk.

NC governor: More dialogue needed on transgender issues
LGBT Nation
By Martha Waggoner, Associated Press
Monday, April 18, 2016

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina‘s governor called Sunday for more dialogue on the issue of transgender people and bathroom use while saying he stands by provisions of a bill regarding access to facilities.

Gov. Pat McCrory appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to talk about the bill, which he signed into law last month. On Tuesday, he issued an executive order expanding protections for many state workers based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

“But I will tell you what I have learned through this is we’ve got to have more dialogue, not threats,” McCrory told the show’s host, Chuck Todd.

These are not threats. This is reality, businesses and people don’t like Jim Crow laws. Business know they are put between a rock and hard place, that if they have an employee who objects to a trans woman and cites the North Carolina law to discriminate, the companies know that can be sued for violating federal law.

McCrory said that “what we’ve got to do is deal with this extremely new social norm that has come to our nation in a very quick period and have these discussions about the complexity of equality while also balancing the concept of privacy in the most private areas of our life, which is a restroom, locker room or shower facility in our high schools.”

McCrory reiterated that he will ask legislators to repeal a part of the law that bans workers from filing discrimination claims in state court. Even when he signed the bill into law, he disagreed with that provision, he said. That part of the law “was very poorly thought out,” he said.

Sorry governor, that will still not undo it, you need to repeal the law.

And no matter what you do you will never undo the black eye you gave your state. This is what happens when you rush through legislation without proper hearings and a time for the public comment.