ACC pulls championship games from North Carolina, citing bathroom law

Yet try as he might, he can’t shake the narrative from the law’s opponents of bigotry and intolerance.

The decision was made not only because “North Carolina law provides legal protections for government officials to refuse services to the LGBT community”, but also due to the fact that five states – Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Minnesota and Washington – and numerous cities now prohibit travel to the state for public officials and employees of public institutions. Entering the final weeks of the nation’s most closely watched governor’s race, McCrory is trying to reset the focus for voters. The NCAA said bids for those events are due September 27 and hopes to decide the new sites by October 7. “Are we really talking about this?”

But it may be the single biggest protest to date of the law.

Law supporters say it was created to keep men or boys from sharing school restrooms or locker rooms with girls. “We know that Charlotte has stood up for the right thing, stood up for equality, yet we are in a state that has preempted that”, Roberts said. “This is hurting us and it’s got to stop”. The law, passed in retaliation after the Charlotte City Council permitted transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender identities, says those people must use facilities corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificates.

While the league was announcing the eventual launch of its network during ACC media days in Charlotte in July, Swofford deferred any decisions as a result of the HB2 law to the conference’s October meeting.

The conference was founded in Greensboro, North Carolina.

How you might ask, does that potentially help Florida State?

The two college sports conferences made the move because of North Carolina’s state’s anti-LGBT House Bill 2 – legislation hastily approved by lawmakers and signed by Gov. The public still puts national security, education and the economy ahead of it, Wrenn said.

“I think it was the right decision – a hard one in ways, but an easy one in ways considering the principles involved”, he said.

Government overreach? McCrory and his largely Republican partners in the state legislature consider it overreach when the federal government tries to tell the state what it must do on a particular issue, such as gay marriage or LGBT rights. “Sadly, the NCAA, a multi-billion dollar, tax-exempt monopoly, failed to show this respect at the expense of our student athletes and hard-working men and women”, according to the statement.

It also makes the ACC the third major sporting organization to pull championship games from the Tar Heel State, after both the NCAA’s decision earlier this week and the NBA’s decision last month to relocate its 2017 All-Star Game to New Orleans.