CHARLOTTE: City Council Considers Rescinding LGBT Rights Law In Deal For Amending Of State’s HB2

The Charlotte Observer reports:

As the Charlotte City Council prepares for a possible vote Monday on repealing its own nondiscrimination ordinance, the Human Rights Campaign has mounted an intense lobbying effort to keep it in place and has accused the Charlotte Chamber of being an “anti-LGBT bully.”

The Washington-based HRC, a gay rights group that helped the city write the language to extend the nondiscrimination ordinance to LGBT people, criticized the chamber for what it called lobbying of council members to support a compromise with Republican leaders in Raleigh.

Under the proposal, the Charlotte City Council would remove the ordinance from its books, even though House Bill 2 nullified almost all of it. In return, the legislature would modify some of HB2, the controversial law that, along with other provisions, requires people in government facilities to use the bathroom that matches their birth certificate.

The council meets at 5PM and I’ll post a live-stream if one is available.