If you live in the blue county of Charleston, in the red state of South Carolina, you may feel like a deer staring in the head lights of an 18 wheeler that’s about to push you out into the ocean, full speed ahead. Though we’re a predominant Republican state, there has been enough Democratic strength here to hold off similar legislation that’s plagued our neighbors to the north, or that Lone Star state out west. Yet gone possibly, are the days when former Republican Governor Nikki Haley said of a similar N.C. bathroom law proposal here, “I don’t believe it’s necessary. When I look at South Carolina, we look at our situations, we’re not hearing of anybody’s religious liberties that are being violated, and we’re again not hearing any citizens that feel like they’re being violated in terms of freedoms.
Even though she spoke out against Trumpzilla, she accepted a position as UN Ambassador. She left SC in the hands of her Lt. Govenor Henry McMaster, an old toad, sitting proudly on his pre-civil rights era ideology. Yet, with his slightly pro-“heritage” stance, even he believed that an anti-transgender bathroom bill in South Carolina was not needed. So why is this muse nervous? The reason is Catherine Templeton, and where does she kick off her campaign? Her first town hall in Pickens County, a Republican stronghold, in the very red Upstate area, to gather the red coats. When it comes to the opposite end of the state from the coast, we are talking the heart of S.C.’s Republican soul. This is the home of Bob Jones University, which only after being boycotted by the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, did they stop expelling students for interracial dating…and it wasn’t immediately.
McMaster is expected to run for Governor in his own right. There is little confidence the 70 year old is expected to win in a state that’s average median age continues to lower, and who has spent a lifetime in state politics. In the era of Trump, non lifetime politicians are the preferred choice. That leaves 46 year old, shamelessly proud confederate, Catherine Templeton, who already has the eye of Trump and an upstate darling to all the bigots, transphobes, and separatist of the state.
Recently in Columbia, at her first town meeting as a gubernatorial candidate, a woman at the Republican town hall asked Templeton if she would back a law banning transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice like one passed and rolled back in North Carolina.
“Would you buckle like North Carolina did or would you stand up for the Lord’s word?” the “upstate” woman said.
The GOP hopeful running in her first race said, she believed people should use bathrooms based on their birth gender but did not say anything about putting that into law. On another social conservative issue, abortion, Templeton told the town hall that she would allow exceptions for incest and if the mother’s life is endangered.
Side note, Templeton was summoned to Trump Tower to meet with President-elect Trump when he was picking his cabinet, but she turned down a job in the U.S. Department of Labor. She remains a supporter of Trump.
To all the state’s LGBTQIA activist, prepare to RESIST!
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