NC Lt. Gov: If Bathroom Law Protects One Child From Being Molested, It’s Worth It

In response to PayPal’s decision to not open an operations center in Charlotte, N.C. that would employ 400 people because of the state’s new law requiring people to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their biological gender, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said if the new law protects one child or one woman “from being molested or assaulted, then it was worth it.” He added that despite the job losses, North Carolina does not put “a price tag on the value of our children.”

“If our action in keeping men out of women’s bathrooms and showers protected the life of just one child or one woman from being molested or assaulted, then it was worth it,” said Lt. Gov. Forest in a statement following PayPal’s announcement on April 5.

“North Carolina will never put a price tag on the value of our children,” he said. “They are precious and priceless.”

“If a corporation wanting to do business in North Carolina does not see the worth of our children in the same light, then I wish them well as they do business somewhere else.”

PayPal is a pro-LGBT company, and in an April 5 statement, CEO Dan Schulman said the North Carolina law “perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture. As a result, PayPal will not move forward with our planned expansion into Charlotte.” (Read more from “NC Lt. Gov: If Bathroom Law Protects One Child From Being Molested, It’s Worth It” HERE)

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