[Margaret Spellings, University of North Carolina’s Anti-Gay President, Will Enforce Anti-LGBTQ Law](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/04/08/margaret_spellings_university_of_north_carolina_president_enforces_hb_2.html?google_editors_picks=true)
It’s really just an Anti-T law, right? I guess I’m not seeing how this law affects your average gay person.
NC HB2 also overrides and nullifies local laws against LGB (as well as T) discrimination.
^^ Thanks, I didn’t know that. Thought it was just about who has to use which restroom.
I don’t know what people expect UNC to do about it. It would be foolish for the University to openly defy a democratically enacted state law.
They could speak out against the law and could quietly choose not to go out of their way to enforce it, taking a don’t ask, don’t tell sort of approach. Is NC going to post a state trooper at every bathroom door, checking in each person’s underwear before before they’re permitted to enter?
Kudos to Bruce Springsteen. Sick and tired of states who are trying to find ways to legalize discrimination.
Can you imagine being the parent of a transgirl who is now required to have a male roommate for her freshman year at unc? Or going out with your boyfriend during orientation, only to be refused service in the name of ‘religious freedom’?
The school’s Chancellor just sent out a campus wide email voicing the school’s disagreement with this law. Margaret Spellings just came out against this law. The surrounding towns put forth resolutions to repeal this law, and are considering joining the numerous lawsuits going on. The UNC community is NOT in agreement with this and will not tolerate any form of discrimination.
It will almost certainly be repealed.
I mean this sucks but it really doesnt affect 98% of applicants so there is no reason for the school to fight the law. The school doesnt care about losing 600 applications a year, if even that.
That is not the attitude of the school and the community.
@thrussianbadger: it affects everyone, just like discrimination against African Americans affected everyone. Not sure what you know about civil rights and discriminations in the past, but I would hope that if you intend to be a student at a top university, you understand that if you only care about yourself, you lose, and selfishness isn’t really cultivated at great universities.
The definition of discrimination is that it does not affect everyone. It only applies to a certain group of people.
@thrussianbadger: the concept is that everyone loses if some of us are treated as being inferior. The discriminated group is a victim and is penalized. The other groups lose by “missing out”, by being comforted in wrong views, by being encouraged in their baser instincts instead of trying to elevate themselves. That’s why I spoke about your knowledge of civil rights - the “moral argument” was preeminent when AG Kennedy had to decide on the Civil Rights Act.
@THRUSSIANBADGER , your attitude is why these problems persist. You are effectively saying “this law only affects 2% of people, so what’s the problem?” It matters, even if it’s .2%. Discrimination is wrong.
I am quite disgusted by your attitude. Less than 10% of the USA population are under the age of 5. Why don’t we make discriminatory bathroom legislation for them? I don’t want to use a bathroom where some toddler has peed on the toilet seat. I don’t want to be in a restaurant or on an airplane with obnoxious children under 5 years old. There are 90% of us over the age of 5, so we should be able to make unfair laws against them.
What a crock of bs.
I cannot understand how the fact that “only x %” of people are affected has any bearing on a discriminatory law. Would it be ok to pass a law discriminating against people in a wheelchair? Or people from Wyoming? Or people who have AIDS (oh yeah, we did that). Or people who have red hair? Each of these are minorities. So what? Ever hear of the tyranny of the majority?
Perhaps THRUSSIANBADGER might understand if the law was directed towards discriminating against Russians. I doubt >2% of applicants are Russian, but it might actually affect him.
On the other hand, maybe it’s an opportunity for current and future students to become involved in getting this law repealed. In telling the world UNC doesn’t condone bigotry. If what locals say is true – that this law is against the grain of the UNC community – they would have widespread support. Seems like it would be a cause worth fighting for.
May be more productive to get the NCAA to say any school that discriminates in accordance with this law is in violation of Title IX and ban all their teams from NCAA play. If they can force NC and Duke Basketball from the NCAA sanctioned games, that would really hurt the state.