Providing these districts with more funds for smaller classes, intervention programs, and early childhood education will help low-income children achieve more in school and later in life. NC's General Statutes still include outdated laws that legislate sexual behavior that occurs between consenting adults in their own homes. The crime against nature law makes it illegal for a person to engage in oral or anal sex with any other person even if this activity occurs in private, between two consenting adults. The existence of this law allows for discrimination in custody cases, housing, and employment. Landlords can refuse to rent to unmarried couples, lesbians, and gay men under the guise that they did not want to aid in a crime.
Employers can use the same rationale to deny people jobs.
The pretense of not wanting to aid and abet a crime provides a convenient justification for discrimination. North Carolina should guarantee a future of privacy and equal rights for all citizens by repealing antiquated laws that sanction discrimination. Abolish open lagoons for hog farms NC should also guarantee a future for its wetlands and other natural resources. The expansion of corporate hog operations in the eastern part of NC has created numerous environmental problems. Heavy rains from recent hurricanes caused hog lagoons to overflow and spill nitrates and bacteria into waterways.