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>Are you aware that the same law also eliminates the right of individuals to bring lawsuits for any kind of discrimination that's covered in NC law? That is, if you think you were fired because of your age, or denied an apartment because of your race or religion, under this law, you can no longer file a civil suit.
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That simply not true. The law provides a framework for handling civil disputes. It's there to protect people from being railroaded - as was the case of the Oregon bakery and the horrible damage done to them.

I'm not going to say that the new law is absolutely perfect - but the fact that the only reaction from the feds is the usual Obama-style petulance ("if you pass this law, you're in danger of losing funding") sort of tells you that the actual ramifications of this new law are much different than the fans of Huffington Post and MSNBC would like you to believe.