San Francisco Mayor Bans City Workers From Traveling To North Carolina
The mayor of San Francisco is joining the long list of people outraged over North Carolina's new law discriminating against LGBT people, and has now banned his city employees from visiting the state on public business.
Mayor Edwin Lee spoke out against Governor Pat McCrory after he approved the bill that bans all the state’s cities from enacting nondiscrimination ordinances designed to protect LGBT people.
"We are standing united as San Franciscans to condemn North Carolina’s new discriminatory law that turns back the clock on protecting the rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals," Lee said.
North Carolina is not alone in trying to get bigoted bills turned into law, and Georgia has been in the headlines lately for the very same reason.
"With other states like Georgia on the verge of passing more discriminatory laws, let me be clear that San Francisco taxpayers will not subsidize legally-sanctioned discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in any City or State," Lee added.
Lee joins the mayor of Charlotte, as well as big businesses like Apple, Google and Facebook in condemning the legislation.
