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03-31-2016, 11:51 PM
**rth Carolina faces massive backlash after anti-LGBT law
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**rth Carolina is facing an ever-growing wave of backlash after Gov. Pat McCrory signed a law last week erasing discrimination protections for LGBT residents and forcing transgender people to use bathrooms that align with the gender on their birth certificates.*
Dozens of businesses, politicians and other organizations have lambasted the state and called for legislators to repeal the law.
SEE ALSO: Georgia's Republican gover**r blocks anti-LGBT 'religious liberty' bill (http://mashable.com/2016/03/28/georgia-lgbt-veto/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
The range of those opposed to the law includes CEOs of more than 80 businesses who initially signed a letter addressed to McCrory, voicing opposition to the law. The letter was published by the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocacy group. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/**rth-carolina-backlash-anti-lgbt-law/)
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**rth Carolina is facing an ever-growing wave of backlash after Gov. Pat McCrory signed a law last week erasing discrimination protections for LGBT residents and forcing transgender people to use bathrooms that align with the gender on their birth certificates.*
Dozens of businesses, politicians and other organizations have lambasted the state and called for legislators to repeal the law.
SEE ALSO: Georgia's Republican gover**r blocks anti-LGBT 'religious liberty' bill (http://mashable.com/2016/03/28/georgia-lgbt-veto/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
The range of those opposed to the law includes CEOs of more than 80 businesses who initially signed a letter addressed to McCrory, voicing opposition to the law. The letter was published by the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocacy group. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/**rth-carolina-backlash-anti-lgbt-law/)
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