bojanglefunk
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By way of further example:
Georgia has a "religious freedom" law that allows LGBT discrimination on religious grounds. Still playing games in the ATL?
Michigan allows child welfare agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex couples if ti conflicts with religious beliefs. I assume games in Detroit are off the list.
28 states do not prohibit LGBT discrimination in housing. That knocks out Orlando, Miami, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Cleveland, OKC, Phoenix, Philly (suck it, Townie), Memphis, New Orleans, Detroit (again, yes), Indianapolis, and probably a few more.
Utah, Oklahoma, and Texas prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in school. SLC, OKC, and the Texas cities are all out again.
Oklahoma and Tennessee allow healthcare professionals to deny service to LGBT patients on religious grounds. OKC and Memphis represent again.
That took about 20 seconds on Google to look up the most obvious laws. So where can the NBA now play? The bastion of tolerance known as Boston? Silver really stepped in some shit with this one.
At the end of the day the NBA is a private organization that can do what they want, whether it is hypocritical or not, and they have chosen to yank this the ASG over the law. They aren't the first or last company to do so and aren't the first or last to have some level of hypocrisy involved in their decision making. Social issues aside (although I disagree with the law on that front to), it doesn't matter if they are being hypocritical. They can do that if they want and us hollering about it isn't going to change that. What matters is this stupid law is costing the state millions upon millions in revenue and organization after organization is choosing this as an issue to take a stance against, regardless of what they do elsewhere.