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WaPo: If North Carolina doesn’t change discriminatory LGBT legislation, NBA must move All-Star Game
Washington Post ^ | March 25, 2016 | Tim Bontemps

Posted on 03/25/2016 6:41:48 AM PDT by Zakeet

The National Basketball Association has, in recent years, been a league that's been ahead of the curve when it comes to responding to discrimination.

When former Clippers owner Donald Sterling was taped uttering racist remarks, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned him from the league for life. It was the first of the four major professional sports leagues to have an openly gay player on one of its teams when Jason Collins played for the Brooklyn Nets in 2013. It also became the first league to have a full-time female coach when the San Antonio Spurs named Becky Hammon one of its assistant coaches in 2014.

So, while commendable, it wasn't surprising when the NBA came out with a strong statement Thursday evening in the wake of North Carolina's passing of a discriminatory law against the gay, lesbian and transgender communities, hinting that it could impact whether the league will allow Charlotte to host to the 2017 All-Star Game.

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There would only be one right decision for the league to make: take the All-Star Game from Charlotte and hold it somewhere that isn't establishing laws that discriminate against whole portions of the community.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: familyvalues; homosexualagenda; nba; publicdecency
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To: Zakeet

Even better, why not have male cheerleaders at the game and instruct them to drop trou and bum hump each other for the approving throng.


41 posted on 03/25/2016 9:03:46 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (uff said.)
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To: MadIsh32

Then man can live by bread alone.


42 posted on 03/25/2016 9:09:23 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: Zakeet

The battery is dead.


43 posted on 03/25/2016 9:46:06 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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44 posted on 03/25/2016 11:46:09 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Zakeet

No slimy ass drag queen (that’s a man with something dangling between his legs), is getting in a female bathroom in NC. The PC liberal NBA can stick their All Star game where the sun don’t shine. There’s still some people in this country that will not cave the LBGWBT lobby or whatever in the hell you call these degenerates. God bless the Tar Heel state. Lock up the damn perverts and get them as far away from women and children as you can!


45 posted on 04/10/2016 8:27:01 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Steamburg

Don’t forget ESPN gave drag queen Bruce Jenner their “courage award” for telling the world he likes to run around dressed up like a woman.


46 posted on 04/10/2016 8:28:24 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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