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Mike Wenger: Better off in NC

Regarding the Sept. 13 news article “NCAA pulls championship events from North Carolina over HB2”: I submitted the following post to the NCAA’s Facebook page: “Do you people at the NCAA honestly believe that we are going to just give up our long-held moral and religious beliefs for MONEY? Who do you think you are? I have enough trouble (and it is very difficult for me) trying to live anything close to a clean, moral life without other people throwing their self-celebrated immorality in my face – constantly, day after day. That is why God calls us to separate ourselves from evil. My answer to you people at the NCAA is this: Keep your filthy values and your filthy money out of North Carolina. We neither want nor need you. We will never, never, never submit to your blackmail and extortion. We will be far better off without you.”

Mike Wenger

Raleigh

This story was originally published September 13, 2016 at 4:32 PM with the headline "Mike Wenger: Better off in NC."

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