Pat McCrory Would Rather Defend Discrimination Than Protect North Carolinians From Zika

In a move straight out of House of Cards, lawmakers in North Carolina have moved to divert $500,000 from the state’s Emergency Response and Disaster Relief fund and use it instead on defense of the state’s anti-transgender bathroom law, HB2.

The controversial law, which forbids transgender people from using public restrooms matching their gender identity and limits anti-discrimination rules protecting LGBT people, was passed in March and immediately came under national attention. Businesses and events have pulled out of the state in protest, and the Department of Justice informed North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory that the law violated the civil rights act.

In response, McCrory sued the federal government — just one of a number of lawsuits involving the law, including a federal suit against the state and a challenge mounted by transgender NC residents..

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democrat running against McCrory in the upcoming gubernatorial elections, has refused to defend the law in court, calling it a "national embarrassment" that provides for "broad-based discrimination."...
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/07/01/3794947/mcrcrory-boosts-disaster-funding-for-hb2/