In North Carolina NBA and Political Correctness Win – Church Militant

RALEIGH (ChurchMilitant.com) - The National Basketball Association (NBA) is announcing Charlotte, North Carolina will host the 2019 All-Star Game, after dropping the city from consideration in 2017 owing to the state's so-called transgender bathroom law.

Adam Silver, NBA commissioner, made the announcement at a press conference on May 24 that North Carolina could again host the 2019 All-Star Game since the highly-controversial House Bill 2 (HB2) was overturned in March 2017.

Passedin March 2016 by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, HB2 mandated that so-called transgender people must use the bathroom coinciding with the sex on their birth certificate. It raised a massive uproar among LGBT activists, causing celebrities,businessesandlawmakersto boycott the state over "transphobia."

In July 2016, the NBA announced it was moving its 2017 All-Star game from Charlotte to New Orleans, Louisiana in protest against HB2.

McCrory lost re-election in December to Democrat Roy Cooper, who promised to overturn HB2. As attorney general under McCrory, Cooper commented that HB2 made the state a "national embarrassment" that "will set North Carolina's economy back if we don't repeal it." He even refused to represent North Carolina when the Obama administration threatened to file a lawsuit against the state.

In March 2017, Cooper repealed HB2 but instituted a bill that LBGT activists claim keeps the "worst part" of HB2 intact. He approved HB142, which critics suggest Cooper rammed through the state legislature, is more "restrictive" than HB2 ever was since it bans cities and localities from instituting transgender bathroom policies for nearly four years as opposed to 180 days legislated in HB2.

A critic with the Charlotte Observer called HB142 "[A] betrayal of the promises the governor made to the LGBT community and a doubling down on discrimination by Republican legislators who have backed it all along," adding it "literally does not do one thing to protect the LGBT community and locks in HB2's most basic and offensive provision."

Silver noted that critics of HB142 may have a point but noted it "eliminates the most egregious aspects of the prior law." He added that all businesses associated with the 2019 All-Star Game are required to "apply a set of equality principles to ensure that every All-Star event will proceed with open access and anti-discrimination policies."

People, however, are growing weary of having politics mixed into sports. It has been reported that ESPN has been losing millions of viewers over hyper-politicization of its sports coverage had laid off over 100 people including on-camera talent.

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