(Freedom.news) In September a county clerk in Kentucky caused a stir, mostly among Left-wing extremists, for refusing to grant same-sex marriage licenses in violation of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last summer, which mandated that every state redefine marriage to include those between partners of the same sex.
Not only was the ruling a horrendous insult to the Tenth Amendment, but it also assailed First Amendment religious freedom. Kim Davis, the county clerk, refused to issue licenses to same-sex couples on the basis that, as a Christian, homosexual sex and marriage are deemed sinful and improper.
As you likely recall, her beliefs did not matter; she was roundly criticized by the radical gay, lesbian and transgender community and their allies in politics and the media for failing to do the job she was elected to do (and then mandated to do by the nation’s highest court). Many called for her removal from office if she continued to deny licenses, though after a short stint in jail she eventually complied.
Fast-forward to the present day.
The attorney general of the state of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has just announced he will not defend a duly-passed law requiring only biological men to use male public bathrooms and biological women to use only women’s public bathrooms. The law was not passed to “discriminate” against anyone, it was passed to protect the privacy rights of the vast majority of North Carolinians, as well as defend young residents from potential creepers who are only posing as a transgendered person.
That said, regardless of your position on the law and/or the political/religious implications behind it, as it stands now, it is a valid statute and one that is already being challenged in state and/or federal court; and it is the attorney general’s job to ensure that the state has adequate defense.
As reported by Yahoo News:
One day after civil liberties groups filed suit to fight a controversial “bathroom bill” in North Carolina that they say discriminates against the LGBT community, state Attorney General Roy Cooper announced that he would not defend its constitutionality.
“We should not even be here today, but we are. We’re here because the governor has signed statewide legislation that puts discrimination into the law,” Cooper told reporters in Raleigh Tuesday.
According to Cooper, House Bill 2 (HB2) is in direct conflict with nondiscrimination policies at North Carolina’s justice department and treasurer’s office, as well as many of the state’s businesses. Though the LGBT community is targeted, he said, it could ultimately result in the discrimination of other groups as well.
“House Bill 2 is unconstitutional,” he said. “Therefore, our office will not represent the defendants in this lawsuit, nor future lawsuits involving the constitutionality of House Bill 2.”
Cooper called the new law a “national embarrassment” that will hurt North Carolina’s economy if not repealed.
First of all, if we’re talking about discrimination, straight men and women in North Carolina could certainly make a case that without the law their rights to, and expectations of, privacy, even in a public place, are being discriminated against.
Secondly, Cooper may have his finger on the judicial pulse of his state, but he cannot in any meaningful, convincing way predict what judges and juries will decide when it comes to this particular law, let alone federal courts (especially when the current vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court is filled). It it is indeed “unconstitutional,” that is up to a court to decide, not him.
But even if Cooper is 100 percent correct in his assessment of the legislation, he nevertheless has an obligation as the state’s highest elected judicial official to defend the North Carolina government in court, regardless of the case. If this law so offends his sensibilities, he had no business running for attorney general in the first place because his “sensibilities” are immaterial to his duty a his state’s chief legal advocate. He should resign; if he won’t, he should be forced out.
In the meantime, don’t expect to hear any outcry from the same lunatics who were ready to all but lynch Kim Davis in Kentucky over her initial refusal to violate her own closely-held Christian beliefs. If there is one constant about Left-wing extremism, it is hypocrisy.
As an aside, when a nation’s political system and social values become so fractured and maligned by fanaticism that neither is capable of recognizing even basic sexual and gender distinctions, how far away can the end really be?
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