And so it begins.
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are following in the footsteps of their bigoted peers in Indiana. A bill has been introduced in the North Carolina House and Senate mirroring Indiana’s “religious freedom” bill signed into law by Governor Mike Pence last Thursday. Only North Carolina wants to take it one step further.
Indiana’s draconian law gives business owners the legal right to pick and choose who they want to discriminate against based on their own religion. North Carolina’s law will extend that right to hospitals as well.
That’s right, if signed by Governor Pat McCrory, the law would allow gay people in North Carolina to be turned away or fired by shops, restaurants, hotels, schools and, yes, even hospitals. Because that whole Hippocratic Oath thing impedes upon doctors’ religious liberties. And gay people are gross.
“Nobody wants to see this. You’ve got a handful of legislators that are pushing this on the state of North Carolina,” Chris Sgro, executive director of Equality NC, told WNCN. “North Carolinians don’t want this, North Carolinians actually believe overwhelmingly in protections for LGBT and other people against discrimination.”
But Rep. Skip Stam (R-Wake), one of the bill’s sponsors, begs to differ.
“It’s what a lot of people came to North Carolina for originally, was to have religious freedom, at that time from the Church of England,” he told WNCN.
He also assured people they needn’t get too worked up over the matter. There will be stipulations to the bill that protect certain groups of people. For instance: “If you had a person who believes in child sacrifice as part of their religious principles,” he explained, “we’re not going to allow that.”
A person who believes in denying service or medical care to gay people as part of their religious principles, on the other hand, are perfectly, 100 percent acceptable.
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Jerry Payney
and these dumb fucked folks don’t see what they are doing here? Blame the Church and tax those Fucks like the Bigoted Ass Holes they really are.
Allen Walter Leach
Wow, what is wrong with these people, another state that is stupid
Steven Jones
What the hell is going on in America.They are supposed to be leaders of the free world, unfortunately they are becoming anything but that.
Will Gore
See in a Christian, but I’m also gay. So if I get turned away, isn’t that a contradiction?
Carlos Zuniga
Who the F are these ” lawmakers”? And from what past century were they transported here from?!
onthemark
To me, all Southern guys seem kind of gay. It’s the way they talk, and that swishy, phony “politeness” cr@p.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
So anyway, with this law, how would they be able to tell who’s gay?
Paco
These “Religious Freedom” laws are scary and make me wonder what is to come next. It feels like these laws are trying to pave the way for Christian dominionism to take over. Or something like it.
Giancarlo85
So where are all the gay log cabin and libertarian backstabbers? Particularly the one that said he would vote for Rand Paul? Hey, what’s your excuse over what North Carolina is doing? Do you vote with your checkbook only? Never mind, republicans are fucking awful for everyone and bad for the economy too.
GG
Solution: VOTE!
Bruce Dillon
DISLIKE! Let the unintended consequenses of our corrupt, ignorant, hate-filled, money loving, war-mongering republiKKKlans state-sanctioned sharia hate laws BEGIN!
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DarkZephyr
@onthemark: same sex couples tend to be obvious when they show up together and announce that they are a couple. One of the biggest issues with hospitals and same sex couples in the past is that they have kept the one partner from being by the bedside of the sick partner. That was originally because the couples couldn’t legally marry so the partner was not considered family by the law. NOW it looks like even if same sex marriage becomes the law of the land they want to make it so that same sex couples can still be denied the right to be with each other even if they are legally family now. And recall recently the doctor who turned away a lesbian couple’s baby because she didn’t want to have to deal with lesbian parents due to her religious beliefs.
Bruce Dillon
EYE Wonder whose bankrolling this CRAP? ALEC Or the KochSuckers! I meant brothers. Since this same CRAP is on the dockets in 19 states!
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Ron King
Imagine…. One of these Zealot’s becoming leader of the “free” World.
Robert Earl Guddy
So if a nurse or a doctor were of the LGBT community can they refuse bigtory in the name of their practice or would that be mal-pratice.. I guess the gov’t chooses what laws can and cannot be used against us.. Because the “good book” told me so
Alex Rothwell
The flood gates are open.
Tricia Gatte Andrews
The Governor of NC is not in favor of any “Religious freedom” law in North Carolina. He has just said so in an interview. It won’t be happening in North Carolina. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article16900370.html
Jesse Erickson
people have weird priorities
AL Quin
Oh ignorance at its best lol
James Sigmon
Cluless republicans
Eddy White
Hypocratic oath!
J.r. Graff
Typical of NC.
Donald Martin
Bringing hospital ER care and EMT ambulance concerns into it should be cause to bring in the National Guard and haul these people out for deliberately endangering their fellow citizens. Monsters!
Keith Summers
Whoever drafted this insane legislation needs to get his ignorant a$$ kicked!
What century is this again?
Errol Semple
If I was turned away, I would sue for malpractice.
Curty
The bigotry is real and thank goodness j belong to no religious group. These right wing nutjobs are taking this country backwards. They can’t do it openly to racial minorities anymore so the glbt community as a whole has become the target. I will never spend my money in any of these states.
Lasse Agerup
Jesus protected the outsiders!
Rebecca Poskitt
Fucking Pharisees.
Billy Budd
This is madness.
vive
As opposed to adult sacrifice, which will be allowed?
Steve Oleszczuk
Boycott them as well as Indiana.
Matthew DiFlorio
Omg, this religious freedom hogwash is what is driving young people away from the church in droves. Any business or institution that serves the public should not be allowed to discriminate, period. I consider myself a gay Christian and there is not one quote from the Bible in which Jesus speaks against same sex monogamous relationships. Lately, I feel like I’ve hopped in a time machine back to 1965, why are these debates even still going on in 2015?
Arkadiusz Innocenty Gejdel
Jesus was a gay….
Alex Teoh
democracy is stupid
if u allow many ppls to bully few ppls
Ogre Magi
@Matthew DiFlorio: I don’t know why any gay man would want to identify with a religion that has devoted the past 2000 years to persecuting their own kind?
Mike Price
GET BENT!!!!!
Michael Cook
where, show me!
Christian Williams
it’s still the 1800’s apparently
Adam Shift Change Hrincevich
So disgusting.
J.r. LeJeune
These people are crazy…..
Giancarlo85
What’s with all these double and triple posts? This site is having issues it seems.
Stephen Bate
bollocks
polarisfashion
The conservatives have gone out of their way to ban Sharia Law but have no problem shoving their religious beliefs down everyone’s throats. Their hypocrisy is so obvious to everyone else. I hope that SCOTUS rules all of these stupid laws as unconstitutional!
Matthew Allen Butler
So when you fill out forms in the hospitals are they required to ask “do you believe in child sacrifice?” or “are you atheist?” This is stupid
Roger Honeycutt
I was waiting for this refusal. Glad the gov is against it. It could not only place a financial burden on GLBT but could be deadly
Roy Lewis
So where does this bullshit end? I think gay people are going to have to get focused on things we can do together against these kind of people.
Roger Honeycutt
Time to start a bunch of gay rumors about these politicians. If we have to go down with the ship let’s drag them with us
Roger Honeycutt
Isn’t it against federal law to refuse health care to anyone
Xavier Alamo Maldonado
Wtf…is wrong with people we are supposed to be advancing not going backwards
Xavier Alamo Maldonado
Irma Luz Baker lets see what you think about this.
darian
North Carolina will not pass such a thing. I live here and this place is already broke and won’t survive a boycott here. Businesses are fleeing this place due to the high business taxes and setting up shops in border states like south Carolina.
Luis H. Lopez
It’s time to remove these governments that deny people equality !
Johnathan-Perry O'Brien
Has the world gone crazy
Johnathan-Perry O'Brien
Another state gone stupid
Ron Russell
This is a libel on Jesus who never said any such thing.
jwtraveler
Christians will kill us with their love.
Derek Williams
This law is arrant hypocrisy designed for one reason and one reason only, to refuse service to gay people.
If religious business owners are allowed to refuse to sell food, clothing, housing, clothing, insurance, education, healthcare to gay people, then in a one-horse Bible Belt town, where there’s only one foodstore, one school and one doctor, that is tantamount to genocide.
The Bible condemns gluttony, yet how many cake shops refuse to sell their cakes to morbidly obese customers? The Bible condemns marriage between people of a different religion. Does any Christian business even bother to inquire? Jesus never condemned gay people or same sex marriage, but he railed against divorce, condemned throughout the Bible, but I’ll bet anything you like that not a single divorced customer has ever been turned away by a religious bakery, even if they’re into their 4th marriage. The Bible condemns marriage between people of a different race. Has even ONE Christian bakery ever turned away a mixed race couple because of “deeply held religious belief”?
The Jewish deli doesn’t stock foods that are against his religion, such as shrimps or mussels, but he DOES sell his products to everybody, even homosexuals. If the Christian baker would bake a cake for a straight couple but not a same sex couple, that is discrimination.
The Christian baker should do as the Jewish deli does, and only stock products he is willing to sell to everybody. Then he can sell all the cakes under the sun, just not wedding cakes.
Ralph Vendegna
Assholes under Jesus NC Lawmakers are really looking to hang themselves with a Lawsuit.
Kyle Jorden
What next the hanging of gay people like they do in Iran. Its getting very sickening!
Pedro Gonzalez
This is not true !!!!! That would never happen !!!
NE Estes
I was under the impression that Governor Pat McCrory was not a supporter of this bill? However if he is his state will go through what Indiana is going through. People don’t want this and it starts with voter’s! #BoycottIndiana
William Bryant Jacobs
Jesus NEVER said that…
Kaare Korsbek
Isn’t it time for all gays to “out” all the closetgays there? Must be some beteeen the bigots there?
John A. Savage
Unbelievable!
Atrius
It’s just like I said, they couldn’t stop us from getting married, but when we do and now that they know who we are, they’re going to let people discriminate the hell out of us.
Cam
Their religion is now only about being able to harm others. Discriminate, deny them treatment, etc…
That is all religion means to them. That they can now hurt anybody they choose.
GritsRgr8
Today’s math lesson: Republicans = Hate.
I Support Same Sex Marriage in Missouri
I thought we were better then this. #GuessNot