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Planting Peace Erects Billboard On North Carolina Border In Response To Anti-LGBT Law

"Due to our stance on LGBT rights, please set your clock back 100 years."

Nonprofit organization Planting Peace has a message for the very few people still interested in visiting North Carolina after the birth of the state's controversial new anti-LGBT law, and they erected a billboard on the state's border to spread the word.

"Welcome to North Carolina," reads the billboard. "Due to our stance on LGBT rights, please set your clock back 100 years."

The group says the billboard is meant to remind people that laws like HB2 set us back in our quest for equality, but that they won't be put into effect without a fight.

"Laws such as HB2 are not about bathrooms. They are about discrimination," said the president of Planting Peace, Aaron Jackson. "They paint a negative picture of the LGBT community, and in doing so, make LGBT children feel they are somehow broken or less than."

And it's the children that the advocacy group really hopes to protect in its fight against the discriminatory law.

The group's website has a message addressed to LGBT youth that reads, "You are loved, valued, supported, and beautiful. There is nothing wrong with you, and we will stand by you. You are not alone."

The group put up another billboard in Mississippi last week in response to the equally-troubling new anti-LGBT law that was recently put into place there as well.

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