Franklin Graham thanks NC governor for standing firm on transgender bathroom law
Evangelist and North Carolina resident Franklin Graham has thanked North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory for standing firm on the recently passed bathroom law despite what he referred to as "bullying and intimidation" from the Obama administration.
"I'm thankful to North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory & other state legislators for standing up to the bullying and intimidation of the Obama Administration over HB2, NC's bathroom bill. Our president and his appointees aren't supposed to be making laws and bypassing Congress. That's dangerous," Graham wrote on a Facebook post.
He added, "This is far reaching — it impacts every state and every family in our nation, not just North Carolina. Let's pray for Gov. McCrory and all those fighting this battle for what is right."
The Department of Justice has already warned the state that its bathroom bill, House Bill 2, is in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. House Bill 2 stipulates that people are to use bathrooms according to their biological sex, which is in contrast to the transgender bathroom policy that the Obama administration is pushing allowing the transgender to use bathrooms according to their gender identity. The administration gave the state until May 9 to respond.
The lawmakers did not meet the given deadline and instead filed a lawsuit against the federal government. The Department of Justice has also filed a counter-suit against the state.
The state stands to lose more than $4.8 billion state-funded education budget in the midst of the frenzied lawsuits.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, the governor's Democratic challenger in the recent gubernatorial election, already announced that he will not render his service in support of the state's bathroom bill. Cooper reasoned in a video statement that he thinks the battle is not worth losing billions of dollars in education funding. He added that the governor is not doing the right thing and instead is doubling down on what he knows is already wrong.
