“This legislation negatively impacts the well-being of all North Carolinians.”
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Letter writer: The ethical problems of living in North Carolina
“Similar problems arise when I contemplate following Bruce Springsteen’s example and boycotting North Carolina over HB2.”
Smoke screen: Deciphering the heart of HB2
“It’s the latest iteration of an eternal attempt to eviscerate existing civil rights laws and, yes, a death struggle between rural and urban North Carolina over the state’s future.”
One on one with D.G. Martin: Finding our way out of a locked bathroom
“Would it be possible for a small group of public-minded citizens to design a pathway out of this crisis?”
Letter writer: Where’s sensibility in locker-room scenario?
“Come on folks, where’s sensibility?”
Letter writer: Thanks for HB2 commentary
‘The climate of hate, fear and violence darkening our beautiful state will clear as the rest of us find the courage to stand up and speak up for all of God’s children.’
Letter writer: Why isn’t the governor pushing to fix HB2?
“If the governor sincerely believes that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is just as bad as racism, why isn’t he pushing as hard as he can to get those groups added to HB2’s list of protected classes?’
Letter writer: In inclusive world, we must legally embrace all
“It seems a slap in the face to so blatantly exclude protection on the basis of sexual orientation/gender identity.”
Parkway Playhouse loses West Side Story due to HB2 boycott
The Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville recently announced that permission to stage the classic musical Westside Story have been pulled by the rights holders. That loss came as a reaction to the state’s controversial House Bill 2, aka “the bathroom bill.”
Letter writer: HB2 prompts Asheville company’s decision
“While we will continue to keep our headquarters here in Asheville, a city dear to us, we will move our U.S. operations to Colorado with its more progressive policies.”
Letter writer: Converting chicken manure into chicken salad
“I was especially grateful for yet another example of the capacity of our community’s progressive-liberal-socialists to convert chicken manure into chicken salad.”
Letter writer: In HB2 issue, what about locker rooms and showers?
“I don’t want to see transgendered people’s rights violated in any way, but given the transgendered make up only around 0.03 percent of the U.S. population, what about the rights of the other 99.7 percent? Just asking.”
A community in danger: Why bathrooms aren’t the issue in HB2
“We have a responsibility as a community to show up for each other and to speak up when someone is in danger. Our transgender community is in danger.”
Updated: HB2 costs Asheville $1.6 million in lost bookings so far, says CVB
At the regular monthly meeting of the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, Convention and Visitors Bureau staff outlined HB2’s effects felt in the local tourism industry since the bill was passed on March 23.
State NAACP president Barber speaks at Hill Street Baptist
The so-called Bathroom Bill is no more about bathrooms than the so-called Voter ID bill was about identification, the Rev. Dr. William Barber II told a gathering of about 150 people at Hill Street Baptist Church on Tuesday, April 26. “Read the rest of it,” Barber said. The new law, HB2, takes away the rights […]
Letter writer: New law takes 300 steps backward
“I ask that everyone who is directly affected and not directly affected use their voice and speak up, because until we do, we will live in the world with many technological advances but an ignorant society.”
Letter writer: Stand together for equality
“This law states that it is now legal to discriminate against LGBT+ people for no reason other than their sexual or gender orientation.”
Letter writer: Listen to people facing discrimination
“There are so many people, not only transgender but of many other minorities, who may be fired from their jobs, kicked out of their houses, and otherwise discriminated against just because of who they are.”
Letter writer: Religious exemptions institutionalize bigotry
“As to the religious aspect [of HB2], might I remind you that the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution forbade states (which are signatory) from passing such (specifically, and intentionally discriminatory) laws — even though the South has traditionally held to retention of the ‘old ways.'”
200 attend meeting to learn more about HB2, how to fight it
What Emily Dawson wants in life is a workplace where she doesn’t feel threatened. At least that would be a good start. Instead, she feels more threatened since the passage of House Bill 2, which she says relegates her to a restroom full of men, who likely will be hostile at the thought of seeing […]
