North Carolina Lt. Gov.: Biology has everything to do with bathrooms
“A person’s biology has everything to do with
which bathroom they use,” North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest said
Friday morning at Values Voter Summit.
Forest noted that North Carolina’s contentious
bathroom law preventing men from having unfettered access to women’s restrooms
and vice versa was passed in response to an “unconstitutional” Charlotte
ordinance.
“The person that pushed the Charlotte city ordinance …
was a registered sex offender,” Forest said. The ordinance would have allowed a
“free-for-all,” he said, and it was “telling all private businesses what to
do.”
“This is not purely an ideological battle. … This is a
political battle as well” that is led by progressives who are upset at
conservative victories in the battleground state, Forest said.
He said people should not be forced to accept
practices previously reserved for subcultures, “but no one should out-love
Christians,” who can offer “hope and redemption to all” through their
religion’s teachings.
“Never fail to be courageous,” he exhorted the crowd.