Quote:<div>PayPal has withdrawn plans for a new Charlotte operations center because it opposes North Carolina’s new law that limits the legal protections of LGBT individuals, the most dramatic display yet of corporate opposition to House Bill 2 and one that will cost the city more than 400 jobs.
 
The payment processor’s move Tuesday led to renewed calls for Gov. Pat McCrory and the state legislature to overturn a law passed last month that has drawn criticism from big companies such as Bank of America and American Airlines as well as sports organizations such as the NBA.
 
N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper called on McCrory, his opponent in this November’s gubernatorial race, to repeal the legislation, which was passed in response to a Charlotte nondiscrimination ordinance.
 
“The threat that HB 2 poses to jobs and our economy is no longer a possibility, it’s a reality,” Cooper, a Democrat, said in a statement. “These are new, better paying jobs North Carolina won’t get because Governor McCrory has put his political ideology above all else. It’s time to reverse course and take actions to undo the damage.”
 
North Carolina’s new law, signed March 23 by McCrory, limits legal protections of LGBT individuals by setting a statewide definition of protected classes of citizens. The new law means schools and local governments cannot adopt more inclusive rules. Legislative leaders said they were responding to Charlotte’s expanded nondiscrimination ordinance that would have allowed transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds to the gender with which they identify.