Peacock Panache

Probing further than any other reporter thus far, Fox's Megyn Kelly grilled North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory last night on the Kelly File over his effort to pass ‪#‎HB2‬ - the bill that (among other things) forces transgender men and women to use the bathroom aligning with the assigned sex on their birth certificate.

It’s too late for “fear of God” wedge issues. America has had same-sex marriage for a year now, and the apocalypse hasn’t occurred. Young people are more irate about their student loans than about who’s peeing in the next stall. The population keeps moving into cities, where there tend to be gay people and black people and brown people, and women in executive positions, and Americans have gotten used to the idea that the diversity is sort of nice.

A judge just found Omaha, Nebraska resident Cameron Mayfield guilty of a hate crime in the burning his lesbian neighbors' pride flag last year. Though he attempted to argue in court that it was a misunderstanding stemming from a drunken prank, evidence showed otherwise.

Waiting until the very last moment to take action, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed ‪#‎HB1840‬ into law yesterday effectively legalizing the right to refuse to treat mental health patients using religious belief as justification. The bill (HB1840) was billed as ‘patient referral’ legislation but goes much further than allowing a mental health professional to simply pass on a patient based on that person’s personal characteristics.

Thanks, Obama! The Right's Obsession With Misplaced Blame