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PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: PayPal Holdings Inc on Tuesday canceled plans to open a global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina and invest $3.6 million in the area after the state passed a controversial law targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens. In a letter on March 29, founders and chief executives of more than a hundred companies, including Apple Inc, Twitter Inc, and Alphabet Inc urged North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to repeal the legislation.
PayPal is one of the first companies to protest the controversial measure requiring people to use bathrooms or locker rooms in schools and other public facilities that match the gender on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity. "The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal's mission and culture," Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman said in a statement. PayPal's original plan was to open the operations center in Charlotte and employ 400 skilled workers there.
That SCOTUS ruling didn't amend the Civil Rights Act or Title 9 protections to include LGBT people though.
The civil rights act has served its purpose and just needs to be repealed at this point, as there are other cases where it's causing harm.
The purpose of the Civil Rights Act is not "Forcing people to be generally inclusive"; it is to eliminate a very specific injustice, which was Slavery, and the Culture surrounding it of oppressing an entire race of people.
LGBT is interesting, But it's not a race of people; It is a new phenomenon, proving it artificial: it is a behavior, a choice, and a lifestyle, and has no merit deserving protected class status, when that status infringes upon the religious rights of other people to decline personally-rendered professional services.