NBA moves All-Star Game from Charlotte
It's being reported basically everywhere, but the NBA is following through on its threat to move the All-Star game out of North Carolina over recent bigoted laws aimed at the LGBTQ community.
Without any movement by state legislators in North Carolina to change newly enacted laws targeted at the LGBT community, the NBA is pulling the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, league sources told The Vertical.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver had threatened to move All-Star Weekend out of Charlotte unless a discriminatory North Carolina law aimed at the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community was changed – and time to do so has run out because of the logistics and planning the NBA needs to run its marquee midseason event, league sources said.
The league is reportedly looking towards New Orleans as a replacement host.
Edit, forgot the link. From Yahoo! Sports
Depending on who you ask, stopping after "Q" is fine, because "Queer" is intended to be a catch-all to include the other categories. I don't think there's any "official" acronym, and people have started to realize that adding letters to the acronym reduces its usefulness.
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The NBA is bigoted.
BLTG is a damn good sandwich.
Yum!
that's what the law is about in this case.
LGB have to do with sexual orientation. This piece of legislation deals with gender identification.
This is a very good point. (And I say this as someone who is happy with this NBA decision)
Sexual orientation and gender identity are very, very different issues.
In some ways, the trans movement shares more with the feminist movement than it does with the gay rights movement.
Lumping everything together isn't helpful. Trans people face very different issues than gays and lesbians.
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So the Hornets can stay in Charlotte because they provide an all inclusive environment but the NBA can't for 1 game. Too hypocritical. Keepin' the game there and bringing out LGBT All Stars at the half and free bathroom choice for all at the game would have been preferable. That would of shamed those NC yahoos.
Make bathrooms great again.
ALL URINALS SHOULD HAVE DIVIDERS BETWEEN THEM. IT'S 2016 PEOPLE. IT'S TIME
If you, as most that have posted thus far, are against the law in North Carolina, then, regardless of the NBA's motivation, this should be encouraging. People tend to vote with their dollars.
This is very tangentially related to the relative viability of professional women's sports among the big four. I think it's safe to say, as laughable as the WNBA is to many, that basketball has the greatest cross-sex (gender?) appeal. I may be making a false equivalency here, but I'd guess that people who support women's athletics in traditionally male-dominated sports also tend to be against NC's law.
I'm rambling, but I find this stuff interesting. After basketball, it's seems to a big drop off in terms of the popularity of women's sports (among "the big four"). I think "football" is a clear loser. Softball is more popular than hockey, but is it really baseball? I'd put hockey second but I love hockey, live close to Canada, was somewhat disturbingly aroused by the recent gold-medal-winning ladies smoking cigars and drinking cans of beer on the ice and in full uniform.
Feel free to ignore me.
I hate that NC law.....BUT isnt the NBA being hypocritical and just trying to be politcaly Correct?? China...because u know China has such a GREAT track record on human rights...so they will take a stand here in the US but anywhere else? doesnt matter
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The NBA cannot affect political change in China. It can, however, do it here. I think the NBA is giving the American people what they want. Its really not OK to discriminate against LGBT anymore. People are saying this is purely a publicity stunt and has nothing to do with morals. Why can't it be both?
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If you seriously think that the "religious freedom" laws (that didn't exist until a few years ago, conincidently only after gay Americans were finally granted their constitutional right to marry) have nothing to do with the gay community you're either hopelessly ignorant or not paying attention.
Listen to the rhetoric of the politicians, their intent, their history on issues and you'll clearly see that these new "religious freedom" laws are purely anti-gay.
Nobody has ever pressured any church to marry people they don't want to, but if you are a private business using the public market you have no right to discriminate against somebody for who they are.
A very religious Catholic restaurant owner can't choose to not serve a man and woman who are cohabiting but not married. So they shouldn't be able to do so for a gay couple either.
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No, no it does not. Not even close.
Why should gay people have to be refused service at a nonreligious business? Why should gay Americans, who pay taxes, serve in the military, and vote, have to worry that at random businesses they won't be served because of who they are?
No Christian has to be worried about not being served at a private business in this country.
Gays have been oppressed in this nation for years (and still are, by the way). If you think that somehow just because they are now closer to being equal that the 5% of the population that is gay is going to suddenly oppress the 75%+ proportion of the population that is Christian, you are insane.
Stopping people from oppressing others is not intolerant to the oppressors, it's protective of the minority.
People used these same arguments for racial issues for centuries, relying on religion as a crutch as well.
Do you think that people should not be able to serve interracial couples because of their religious beliefs? Is that violating religous rights? Because for centuries the majority of this country believed that was ammoral due to Biblical passages.
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Sorry man, but you're wrong.
You basically calling him intolerant because he won't tolerate your intolerance.
If I could insert those "raised hands up in praise" emojis that all the recruits use on Twitter when they get offers, I totally would do so here.
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I just want to point out the irony of your username/avatar with regard to that post.
All Caps=Screaming.
Bold is not. It's making very clear the easy logic that seems to be escaping an angry minority on this thread.
claiming to practice religion want to exclude other groups -- blacks, gays, etc.
Srsly would Jesus approve this law? Did he ever say, "hey those sinner over there go ostracize them?". Did he advocate for the separation or ridicule of non-believers? Think not. These laws are not in keeping with their professed religion. This is discrimination in the name of religion. As a Catholic, every invocation of "religious freedom" makes me puke. I guess ISIS is practicing religious freedom too huh? You might find that extreme but both groups use religion to cover a very non-religious conduct.
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all the people minding their own damn business.
John Lennon
I support your platform of universal and equal hate. Have you ever considered running for office?
1. Good for the NBA.
2. I call bullshit on the people whose position is "If you don't change everything you do to make it all right, you shouldn't change any one thing you do to make it right."
Exactly. The NBA has absolutely no power over the Chinese government, yet it does carry some political power over here.
As a sneakerhead I was looking forward to this one. I was even going to make the trip figuring it being in MJ’s town the limited drops would be exceptional. However, I don’t mind standing on this principal.
I know there are more cases to prove they are hypocrites when it comes to other issues. Aren’t we all? They’re doing the right thing, so what if there will be a litany of idiotic contradictions made by the league. They got this right and lets hammer them when they get the next one wrong.
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