For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below.When North Carolina blocked an expansion of Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance it prompted a backlash that cost the state billions of dollars.The ordinance applies to all employers — private as well as public, both big and small — despite a recommendation by city attorney Patrick Baker to limit it to businesses with 14 or fewer workers, rather than make the city handle a flood of complaints involving large employers.The ordinance doesn't apply to religious organizations, including those with paid employees where a condition of employment requires adherence to tenets of religion.