The thing missing from discussions of the NC antidiscrimination preemption bill is the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance\u2019s repeal-by-plebiscite a few months ago.
After someone put energy into making it a public issue even an urban, ethnically mixed, \u201csafely tolerant\u201d voter base rejected broad, multi-class antidiscrimination protections wholesale by a 2-to-1 margin rather than endorse transgender mainstreaming. That\u2019ll prove an important precedent.
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