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Double click bait?
Same here.
And the God of the South … football!
“NFL policies emphasize tolerance and inclusiveness, and prohibit discrimination based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other improper standard,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement. “Whether the laws and regulations of a state and local community are consistent with these policies would be one of many factors NFL owners may use to evaluate potential Super Bowl host sites.”
Atlanta, whose new Falcons stadium is set to open in 2017, had hoped to host a Super Bowl in 2019 or 2020.
Edited to apoligize for the extra crap Think Progress has started adding to their linked articles. Doesn’t diminish the article itself.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/03/19/3761847/georgia-religious-liberty-bill-super-bowl/
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The NFL has “strongly suggested” that this bill could prevent the Atlanta Falcons from hosting a Super Bowl.
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Well then, its a toothless urging. So what’s the point? These are multi-billion dollar corporations who have the ability to move and transfer numerous employees on the company dime if need be and to relocate their major divisions as the need arises. They are not some fly by night operation that merely got special tax deferments. They could sue as well for making the state an inhospitable place to do business, not present when they first put down roots there. But if that’s the best they can do…give a strongly worded urging, rather than make a financial impact boycotting or leaving the state if the Governor signs the legislation, their impact really isn’t worth reporting on. Its just words.
All I’m saying is most of those companies have divisions within them…Perhaps they should just begin chipping away at moving them slowly out of state if this becomes law…leaving them with a much smaller footprint in GA by not helping them with a tax base where the revenues will be used to provide legalized discrimination.
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Too bad no one caught the anti-LGBT law NC just passed in a mere 12 hours in their legislature and signed by their governor. They managed to avoid this kind of blowback by passing it like they do all laws in my state of MI now, using the ALEC model of doing it when no ones looking or paying close attention. That one is truly an abomination. I hope pray NC goes blue in the Presidential election. They deserve so much better then the shit they got there now running the place.
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“a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction”
Forgive the obvious-stating, but the chronological order isn’t that these a-holes started with such beliefs.
What they started with was having nothing better to do than hassle people about parts of their lives that are none of said a-holes’ business.
Lying about how they figured it’s what Jesus would have wanted comes afterward [1].
[1] So it’s not as if they believe this stuff, either. Last I looked, taking the Lord’s name in vain was a straight ticket to box seats in Hell.
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It’s been working for me since it came back online yesterday or whenever.
Hell, the NC law was pushed through so quickly that even most liberal reporters haven’t caught on to the fact that the anti-trans part that they make so much noise about is the least odious part of the bill. It also undoes any local wage or labor laws, and bars any discrimination lawsuit on any basis, essentially making the entire state anti-discrimination law pointless.
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