Feedback about PayPal's Decision in NC

[Roncz]

Glad to see your company is taking a stand on the discriminatory practices in NC. Congratulations.

[kaizen808]

I am a Christian and thank Paypal for taking an educated stand on fairness and justice in NC.  Transgender issues are the current real issue of ignorance and fear among uneducated people.  I was there once also ...until I became acquainted with a transgender woman and she walked me through the daily violence committed against trans people... which is simply heartbreaking.  Trans people are among the most gentle and "meek" people on the planet.  The reality of this law is that now these gentle trans women will have to enter and use mens rooms and gentle trans men will have to enter and use women's facilities so that what they do in the privacy of a stall will match their genetic code.  It's simply barbaric and stupid and puts these people at continued risk of signficant violence.

I also resent other Christians supposing and representing that they speak for all Christians.  Christianity is far from a monolith and there is lots of diversity in opinion about social justice issues within the Christian community.  Lots of Christians are against the NC law --- and they are at peace with the fact that they are actually supporting Jesus' words for acceptance, inclusion, and love for your neighbor instead of trying to use their religion as a weapon to enforce ignorant discrimination they were taught as children.

As far as paypal doing business in other intolerant countries..... "one step at a time."  There are times and places where it is effective to make a stand and times and places where it is not.  Thank you Paypal for choosing to make a stand now in NC.

[AntiFascist]

That description if the NC law is hogwash. It gave businesses the power to make such a bathroom rule.

[MDB1]

What is PayPal's response to the new anti-gay legislation recently passed in the state of North Carolina? As inconvenient as it would be, I am likely to close my account unless PayPal has a stance that is non-discriminatory.

[arambuloa]

I think you should concentrate in the things that you feel, I understand that this pronunce could be offensive for much people, but shouldn't give so much imporntance to comments that you know it doesn't matter, because is your life. Good luck.

[Charlie_Brown]

I live in Charlotte.  Y'all at Paypal are victims to a liberal media agenda.  There were no protections removed from the LBGT community by HB2.  If you read the law the ONLY aspect affecting LGBT is that they now have to sue at the frederal level instead of the state level if they feel they have been discriminated against.  That is where those types of cases SHOULD be tried.  Charlotte passed a poorly written city ordinance proposed by a REGISTERED SEXUAL PREDATOR to allow ANYONE to use the bathroom rhe 'identified with.'  That made it illegal for me to question a woman if she was in the mens room or to question why a man walked in/out of the ladies room.  If I did so I was subject to a possible discrimination case.  It forced private businesses to allow this practice.  Just last week a man was arrested in CA for videotaping women in the ladies room.  In Charlotte all he would have had to claim was sexual preference and he could not have been fully prosecuted except for anything to do with privacy.  No **bleep** crime.  This was passed by a liberal city council despite vast opposition.  The rest of the state saw how poor of an ordinance this was and petitioned the governor to overturn it..  There was no special bathroom priveledge of ANYONE until a misguided city council pushed by a vocal small group led by  a SEXUAL PREDATOR passed one.  You did business here just fine without it.  How many other places that do not have a city ordinance do you do business?

[NC-Biz]

Another customer gone!   I am closing my PayPal account today!

I've enjoyed the convenience and protection of your service, but when you mix Business with Social Engineering, then you are pressing customers to take a position.

My position is that I don't need Paypal.  If establishing your operations center in NC meant Paypal was going to get involved in social agendas, then Thank You for telling me now!

Stay out of NC and stay out of our private lives!!

[WHS300]

From a Georgia citizen, kudos for having a governor and legislature with common sense and back-bone to stand up to the black-mail threats from big businesses that interfere in the political process for the agenda of a minor few lost souls of the devil's crowd.

I will back you by closing my pay-pal account and choosing another way to conduct my personal business, and everyone else that I can persuade.  Pay-pal can boycott anywhere they please but I can boycott anywhere I please, also. 

[OfficerSoldier]

I agree with the gentleman from Georgia. As a Georgia resident, our governor was a coward when it was his turn to protect my wife , daughter and G-daughters from men in a womans restroom and women in my son and my restroom. When did allowing men into the ladies restroom become part of America's corporate culture and values? Do the women working at PayPal want to share bathrooms with men? I doubt it. Homosexual rights really isn't much of a priority for Mr. Schulman or PayPal. This is all about sanctimonious public relations and browbeating the vast majority of Americans into submission. Reverend Franklin Graham declared PayPal to be the winner of the "Hypocrite of the Year Award." Why...because as he quoted Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC),  "PayPal does business in 25 countries where homosexual behavior is illegal, including 5 countries where the penalty is death. . ." 

Graham continued, "Just last month PayPal announced they would be expanding into Cuba, a country in which homosexuals and transgender people are imprisoned, tortured and executed."

[Dennisbe]

I couldn't agree more with the poster.  PayPal and other corporate entities forget about those who may have differing values.  To allow men into women's restrooms and vice versa is bizarre to say the least.  Tolerance???  I guess it's only supposed to flow in one direction.  I'm not a techie, but am seriously considering canceling my paypal account.  I need other safe payment options, but I'm not sure how/where to proceed.  Kudos to North Carolina for having enough common sense to move forward under the threats of blackmail.  The women of N.C. will thank you.  

[Done-Done-Done]

Due to the issue of PayPal taking such a strong stand in the issues of allowing persons of an opposite **bleep** to enter/use restrooms, dressing rooms, etc of specific genders is discrimination against the constitutional rights of privacy and religious beliefs, our household will no longer be using PayPal.  We've enjoyed the service for many years but PayPal has stepped off into an area that we do not/will not support. This is the ultimate invasion of privacy and discrimination against those who disagree with any given constitutional right.

There are other businesses that have bowed to pressuers of LGBT etc and other special interest groups that strongly discriminate against those who disagree with them.  This group strives and vows to strip others of their constitutional rights on basis of personal, privacy and religious freedoms. If this is the stance that PayPal chooses to take, then we have no choice but to make choices which are best for us and our family.  We will no long use PayPal services.  I am also sharing my opinions with many of our friends.  

Sorry to see you go.

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