Q Toon: Need for Speed

North Carolina is the latest state where lawmakers are pushing legislation to overrule municipal ordinances protecting LGBT rights.This is in response to LGBT protections passed by the Charlotte city council in February.

As in Arkansas, Michigan and other states where these laws have been proposed (by some weird coincidence, always by Republicans), the argument is often that having different standards from one locality to another is confusing; therefore, the government mandates conformity to the most negligible level of protections as the statewide rule.