GOP freshman seeks to make English NC's 'official language'

Freshmen House lawmaker Kelly Hastings (R-Gaston) has filed a proposal for a constitutional amendment to make English the official language of North Carolina. 

Hastings said he was inspired to put forth the amendment when he was “reading it [the U.S. Constitution] again this weekend.”

“English is the language of business across the world,” he noted. “And so I just thought it should be enshrined in the Constitution with an amendment.”

I asked whether he felt the English language was under threat in North Carolina. “I don’t get the sense that it’s really under threat,” Hastings said.

But, he added, "We need to respect the fact that English has been very important to the history of North Carolina.” 

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