California's state school basketball teams cannot travel to certain states

[bonarae]

... due to those states' anti-LGBT laws: Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee. Will there be much impact in the short term or even in the long run?

http://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2017/02/08/potential-kansas-cal-home-and-home-series-dropped-due-to-anti-lgbt-law-in-kansas/

[OhioHen]

Time for the NCAA Basketball Tournament Committee to assign those California schools to the South Regional - the Regional Semi-Finals and Final are scheduled in Memphis.

Anybody expect the schools to say "Sorry, we won't accept the invitation. If we win two games, we would have to forfeit in the third round because we're not allowed to go to Tennessee."?

[BEAR]

There are no ANTI-LGBT laws.....good grief. How pathetic. xcoffeex

[bonarae]

There are no ANTI-LGBT laws.....good grief. How pathetic. xcoffeex

But there are clauses in those laws in which they deny the basic rights of LGBT persons, hence the states who give LGBT persons much free will (e.g. NY and CA) decry the actions of the states that pass such laws that deny such rights.

OTOH, it will be interesting which UC and CSU teams (UCLA and any CSU team winning Big West tourney, possibly Cal) will get shafted by bad luck if they get seeded in the South Regional come Selection Sunday.

[citdog]

But there are clauses in those laws in which they deny the basic rights of LGBT persons, hence the states who give LGBT persons much free will (e.g. NY and CA) decry the actions of the states that pass such laws that deny such rights.

OTOH, it will be interesting which UC and CSU teams (UCLA and any CSU team winning Big West tourney, possibly Cal) will get shafted by bad luck if they get seeded in the South Regional come Selection Sunday.

"Deny the basic rights" how? Off to the gas chambers for those who put on a costume and pretend to be a sex that they don't have the correct marriage tackle to actually be? **** those teams from that piece of **** State. **** that Ronstadt banging sack of **** that those ****s were dumb enough to vote to be their Governor ONCE!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoA_zY6tqQw

[BEAR]

But there are clauses in those laws in which they deny the basic rights of LGBT persons, hence the states who give LGBT persons much free will (e.g. NY and CA) decry the actions of the states that pass such laws that deny such rights.

OTOH, it will be interesting which UC and CSU teams (UCLA and any CSU team winning Big West tourney, possibly Cal) will get shafted by bad luck if they get seeded in the South Regional come Selection Sunday.

I've heard all that before. Apparently some states don't inform their population about "power of attorney" or what documents to sign that make all things equal without forcing those with mainstream views to support it. If I want to see my wife's medical records, since she's over the age 18, even as her husband I am not allowed. Now she can sign a document that states she give me access to them and that works. Same thing with educational records etc. There are too many similar legal things ANYONE can do that already puts those couples on equal ground. There is no "legal" argument LGBT couples have that make their case. They just want it normalized and those who disagree to be punished.

[Laker]

Our idiot governor did the same thing last spring- preventing all "non-essential" travel to North Carolina. He got a lot of backlash for that. Who are you hurting? Your own athletes who did nothing wrong. They are simply replaced by a school from a state without those restrictions.

Jimmy Carter had the Olympic boycott in 1980 after the USSR invaded Afghanistan, after which the Russians did the same in 1984. It really didn't solve anything.