ACC Joins Boycott Of North Carolina; Pence Objects

First it was the NBA; then it was the NCAA; and now it’s the ACC.  All three sports entities have pulled their championship events out of North Carolina because of its discriminatory “bathroom bill” law known as HB2. The NBA pulled the 2017 All Star Game out of Charlotte. The NCAA has pulled seven championships out of North Carolina and will relocate them elsewhere. This includes the NCAA Regional basketball championship which has perennially been held in Charlotte. And now the ACC has vowed to move any neutral-site championships that it holds out of the state.

And what does Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Mike Pence have to say about all this. “Donald Trump and I simply believe that these decisions are best made at the state level, by the people”, says Pence. I’m pretty sure why we know he thinks it has to be done at the state level – because that’s where Republicans have control. In actuality, the decision was made by the people, the people of Charlotte who voted to allow transgender people the option of using the bathroom of their choice. It was the state that stepped in and forced the people of North Carolina to use the bathroom of their gender at birth. It always amuses me that Republicans always talk about “local control”, but as soon as the locals do anything the GOP doesn’t like, the state steps in to override the will of the people.