North Carolina tells fag lover Obama to get f*cked; 'We're not going to get bullied'

[O, the size of Obama's butthole]

A political showdown between North Carolina and the federal
government loomed Thursday as Republican state leaders vowed to
defy the U.S. Justice Department’s deadline to repeal the
state’s contentious new bathroom law.

The Justice Department notified Gov. Pat McCrory in a letter
Wednesday that the state’s House Bill 2, which restricts
transgender bathroom access and has become a flashpoint in the
LGBT rights fight, violates sections of the 1964 Civil Rights
Act. It gave the state until Monday to "remedy" the violations.

On Thursday, House Speaker Tim Moore said legislators would not
meet the federal government’s deadline.

“We will take no action by Monday,” Moore told the Raleigh News
& Observer. “That deadline will come and go. We don’t ever want
to lose any money, but we’re not going to get bullied by the
Obama administration to take action prior to Monday’s date.
That’s not how this works.”

In a statement, McCrory said he would review the letter to
determine the state’s next steps. “The Obama administration has
not only staked out its position for North Carolina, but for all
states, universities and most employers in the U.S.” McCrory
said. “The right and expectation of privacy in one of the most
private areas of our personal lives is now in jeopardy.”

Other Republican leaders also reacted strongly against the
letter. Phil Berger, the president pro tempore of the North
Carolina Senate, called the letter “a gross overreach by the
Obama Justice Department that deserves to be struck down in
federal court.”

The Justice Department has several options, experts say. The
Civil Rights Division can apply for a federal court order that
will require compliance, putting the case in the hands of a
federal judge. It could also start initiating action to limit
the distribution of federal funds. Last year, the Department of
Education gave North Carolina $4.3 billion for public
kindergartens, schools and colleges.

“This sets up a battle between the state and the federal
government,” said Jane R. Wettach, a professor of law at Duke
University, a private university in Durham, N.C. “Our state
officials are saying that this is federal government overreach,
but the federal government has the power, certainly over federal
funds.”

There is no recent precedent for the federal government
threatening to withdraw public education funds over a state law,
although federal agencies have threatened to exert sanctions on
some school districts to change their transgender restroom
policies.

In November, federal education officials found a high school
district in Palatine, Ill., violated Title IX antidiscrimination
laws by not allowing a transgender student who identifies as a
girl full access to the girls’ locker room. The school
eventually backed down. Yet on Wednesday, a group of families
filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of
Education, the Department of Justice and the school district,
alleging that their actions "trample students' privacy" rights
and create an "intimidating and hostile environment" for female
students.

The North Carolina standoff has echoes of the federal
government’s battle with states over desegregation more than
half a century ago, Wettach said. For about 10 years, school
systems across the South refused to follow the landmark 1954
Brown vs. Board of Education court order that they desegregate –
until the federal government threatened to cut off education
funds.

“There is a precedent for the federal government holding the
purse strings and saying, “Unless you follow our interpretation
of civil rights, you won’t get your money,” she said.

The conflict initially began as a showdown between city and
state. In February, the state’s largest city, Charlotte, passed
a pro-LGBT ordinance that expanded nondiscrimination protections
to sexual orientation and gender identity and allowed people to
choose restrooms according to the gender with which they
identify.

Before the city’s ordinance went into effect, however,
Republicans rushed through a law that orders schools and public
agencies to require multiple-occupancy restrooms to be used by
people based on the sex listed on their birth certificate. The
law, which was signed by McCrory in March, also prevents cities
from extending anti-discrimination laws to LGBT people and
passing any increase in the minimum wage.

In a letter to McCrory, Vanita Gupta, principal deputy assistant
attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, stated that HB2
violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits
employers from discriminating, as well as Title IX of the 1972
Education Amendments, which bars discrimination in education
based on sex.

"Specifically, the state is engaging in a pattern or practice of
discrimination against transgender state employees and both you,
in your official capacity, and the state are engaging in a
pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of Title
VII rights by transgender employees of public agencies.”

To "remedy" the violations, the Justice Department required the
state to confirm that it will not implement HB2, and to notify
state and public employees that they can access bathrooms that
correspond to their gender identity.

The Justice Department also sent letters to the University of
North Carolina, citing an alleged violation of Title IX, as well
as to the state’s secretary of public safety, citing an alleged
violation of the 2013 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-north-carolina-doj-20160505-
story.html

Go fuck yourself, obama.