And it’s not a question just of religious zealotry behind this either, though that doesn’t help. This is 99% of the time the result of NATIVE WHITE MALES, church goers or not, who detest, despise, and are otherwise intimidated by women, gay people, catholics, jews, people of color etc etc.. ANYONE NOT MALE AND WHITE.

They have antebellum attitudes about everyone but themselves and reek of resentment all these years later for being the losers of the ‘war of northern aggression’. Yet they reinact having lost all the time. Go figure. Not the brightest bulbs in the pack, by any means.

This is about dominance and control, nothing more idealistic or higher minded than that. The name of Jesus or God just gives their hate an additional kind of power. And they pass this – all of it – down to their kids. And they also pass it to immigrant families who work their fields. They will use, influence, and accept ANY GROUP that supports, tolerates, or encourages their own agenda of total dominion in this state. And, btw, it is NOT a co-incidence that both Carolinas reflect each others attitudes and both Carolinas have a) the highest membership in the Masons and b) in the top 10 of membership in the KKK ( or other racist variant groups ).

These guys have been angry for a long time because they lost power and influence a long time ago in the country and again during the Civil Rights movements. They resent being portrayed as dumb and hateful even though they play the part and rationalize having done so. They despise outsiders, though they love their money, and if your grand-daddy didn’t die here sweetheart, you ain’t from here and never will be. THAT is the attitude.

‘You’ liberals. You yankees. You etc etc etc. YOU are the problem, not their cross eyed, inbred fear and not their massive inferiority complexes and not their sense of social disempowerment. They have mythologized, in general, their families roots and histories and their sense of white priviledge has withered and shriveled over time and they HATE this.

I’m not sure what the answer is but there’s essentially two choices:
1) progressives move in, enjoy the states beauty, and pass laws to catch them up to the modern world
2) progressives stay out of NC, enjoy ( put money into ) some other states beauty, and have zero sum impact

I don’t blame any one in the LGBT community for choosing to leave or never come here. Life is short and it’s too hard to fight against ignorance allllllllllllllllll the time. But what happened to these women will not change if progressives stay away. Boycotting is good up to a point. Personally, I’d rather see several hundred buses full of drag queens and kings pour into the entire state and camp out in front of the state legislature; drag the national media in; and generally do the things IN PUBLIC that must be done in order to, at least, get saner laws passed that will protect and/or prosecute the violently mentally ill bigots that NC native culture breeds and encourages existing.

Good ol’ boys are not boys and never good.

For the two women attacked…do whatever you need to in order to recover. Once you do, talk about it, if you can, anywhere and everywhere someone will listen to you. EXPOSE, EXPOSE, EXPOSE. Bring their darkness into the light of truth. They fear that more than anything.

Steve