Bad for Business: State law as local ordinance with no local demand for remedy

North Carolina State Senator Buck Newton, a Republican candidate for attorney general, urged them to “wake up” to a cultural battle being waged by liberals. “They insist on forcing us to bow and kiss the ring of their political correctness theology,” he said.

Monopolies have a tin ear to the market's message.  The Republican Party; the party of the managerial class, the party of business, as presently constituted with gerrymandered rural majority rule is proving to be bad for business by giving power to meddlesome busybodies battling for their theology.  The first question a legislator should ask is whether a law is necessary for good social order rather than as an armament for battle.  North Carolina's social order has rural and urban theological elements that do not coincide so that state law much like federal law is a blunt instrument.  LGBT mores call for discretion in rural communities yet that didn't stop rural legislators to force through  as state law a local ordinance for which there is no local demand to remedy.

Just after writing this, ran across the following observation in Christopher Buckley's Relic Master chapter 19: "It was a more arduous way, but the main roads were full of imperial busybodies. Land without a ruler is unpredictable."  BTW the book is a vision of feudal illiterates in charge and fearing witchcraft. Carolina, possibly?