Justice
After Backlash, North Carolina's Governor 'Clarifies' Anti-LGBT Law
His new executive order seeks to walk back the law slightly, but critics aren’t buying it.
First, big businesses denounced North Carolina’s anti-LGBT bill, then they began to pull out in protest. It started with the NBA, which said it might not host the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte. Then PayPal withdrew, taking 400 jobs with it. On Tuesday, another 250 new jobs set for North Carolina were lost after Deutsche Bank suspended its plans to expand in the state.
Perhaps more than the moralizing of the law and the hurried manner in which it was passed, it’s likely that this business backlash is what prompted Governor Pat McCrory to issue an executive order to “clarify” HB 2. Here’s McCrory, in a statement: