'Bathroom law' puts North Carolina governor in crossfire of GOP civil war

The Washington Post:  RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Pat McCrory is living the Republican Party’s identity crisis.

This week began when McCrory, looking pale from a virus, emerged from the executive mansion to tell reporters that he would not discuss the raging national controversy over the state’s new law rolling back local government protections for gay and transgender people — which he has been defending since he signed it three weeks ago.

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