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Bruce Springsteen Cancels North Carolina Concert Over LGBT Legislation
WPTV ^ | 4/9/16 | Eugene Daniels

Posted on 04/09/2016 8:34:43 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

"You can't start a fire. You can't start a fire without a spark!"

Bruce Springsteen fans in Greensboro, North Carolina, won't be dancing in the dark anytime soon, because The Boss canceled an upcoming concert. And you can blame the governor and state lawmakers.

Springsteen moved the concert in protest of the state's so-called "bathroom" law, which, among other things, forces transgender people to use the restroom associated with the gender on their birth certificates, not their gender identity.

Springsteen released a statement saying, "Right now, there are many groups, businesses, and individuals in North Carolina working to oppose and overcome these negative developments. Taking all of this into account, I feel that this is a time for me and the band to show solidarity for those freedom fighters."

The Boss is right: More than 80 business leaders, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook, signed a letter calling for a repeal of the law.

And PayPal canceled plans to open an operations center in Charlotte because of the bill, taking 400 new jobs with it. The CEO released a statement saying the "new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal's mission and culture."

Fans who bought tickets for Springsteen's show will get a refund.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New Jersey; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: aholecelebrities; brucespringsteen; greensboro; homoagenda; homosexualagenda; transgenderbathrooms
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To: Impala64ssa

Too bad they didn’t move the show to SC. Nikki could have held open the ladies room door for them.


21 posted on 04/09/2016 8:48:38 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: JPG

LMAO!


22 posted on 04/09/2016 8:50:15 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Impala64ssa

As a proud Tarheel...who give a rat’s a*s about springsteen?


23 posted on 04/09/2016 8:54:58 AM PDT by EverRight
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

North Carolina should make it clear Bruce has to sing since bakers have to bake cakes.


24 posted on 04/09/2016 8:56:03 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: taterjay

Very good.


25 posted on 04/09/2016 9:01:24 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Impala64ssa

Wonder how he’d like it if a man walked in on his wife or his mother, gay or not?


26 posted on 04/09/2016 9:01:33 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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To: Sacajaweau

Never has been able to “carry a tune in a bucket.”


27 posted on 04/09/2016 9:01:43 AM PDT by STARLIT ((Tea Partier))
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To: Impala64ssa
Trans genders are mentally ill, and so are any one who wants to let them in women's restrooms.

Here is a Trans-Gender Nutjob that didn't think pretending to be a Woman was good enough. Now this kookburger wants to be a "Trans-Dragon. Literally, this kook thinks it can become a "Dragon" through body modification.

Transgenderism is as rational as trans-chickenism.

28 posted on 04/09/2016 9:05:25 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Transdragon? Looks like James Carville’s long lost brother.


29 posted on 04/09/2016 9:08:38 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

And in Oregon the Governor is a mixed up sex weirdo...surprised he isn’t coming here instead


30 posted on 04/09/2016 9:13:49 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: Impala64ssa

Another so-called performer who thinks that because he’s well known, or had a hit whatever, his IQ has gone up 60 points. (IMO he can’t sing nor can he really play the guitar.)


31 posted on 04/09/2016 9:13:57 AM PDT by Banjoguy
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To: paintriot

Has Bruce yet passed that stone he’s been trying to pass for the last 40 years?


32 posted on 04/09/2016 9:15:34 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: Impala64ssa
Springsteen's an Obamarrhoid from waaaayyyy back; I tossed the bastard's albums and CDs some time ago.

Can't stand his pontificating horseshit.
33 posted on 04/09/2016 9:21:56 AM PDT by farming pharmer ('Your work will warm you' - overheard in a Soviet gulag...)
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To: kiryandil

Bruce also is exempt from paying thousands of dollars in property taxes because the estate he lives on is designated a “farm”. I think he has a few bee hives and horses. Typical liberal. Babs Streisand did the same thing a few years back. She was actively campaigning for higher taxes while making sure she re-arranged her personal finances to avoid paying the new higher taxes.


34 posted on 04/09/2016 9:22:53 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Impala64ssa

Sacrificing the right to women’s privacy for the sake of the transgender male. Look at what is happening to North Carolina by liberals. The NC House Bill #2 protects the woman’s right to privacy and is being persecuted by the lefties. Do women understand what is going on? It is their women’s rights to privacy being trod upon!


35 posted on 04/09/2016 9:29:49 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Bruce Springsteen Cancels North Carolina Concert Over ISLAM’S VIEW OF HOMOSEXUALITY.

There fixed it


36 posted on 04/09/2016 9:30:00 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: paintriot
BS sucks.

Yeah he does.

Anything to shut the hollering bastard up.

37 posted on 04/09/2016 9:31:41 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Ohhh....Derka derka derka!)
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To: Olog-hai

Ummm... Tom Waits wrote that song. Bruce just covered it.


38 posted on 04/09/2016 9:34:19 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (Strong minds discuss ideas., average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people -Socrates)
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To: Impala64ssa

I wonder what the venue’s deposit policy is.


39 posted on 04/09/2016 9:37:24 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Impala64ssa

He ain’t my boss. The stinkin’ Viet Nam War draft dodger cancelled a concert because of the faggotry legislation?

Who cares? He’s a celebrity whore with no talent other than a reasonable ability to play a guitar. Can’t sing worth a $hit.


40 posted on 04/09/2016 9:38:09 AM PDT by laweeks
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