North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory let a bill become law yesterday that shifts money dedicated to the state’s disaster relief fund to the legal defense of the state’s discriminatory new law HB2, which has been challenged in federal court by opponents who seek “a preliminary injunction blocking parts of the law that limits protections for LGBT people.”

HB2 has become a cause for Religious Right activists nationwide, who are determined to see other states approve laws rolling back LGBT rights.

The News & Observer reports that McCrory let a bill moving disaster aid into HB2’s defense fund become law without his signature: