Barbara Richie Pond: Others to blame for N.C.’s issues

Congratulations to the LGBT activists, the ACC, NCAA and NBA, for their almost single-handed, unnecessary wrecking of North Carolina’s economy over the House Bill 2 privacy law, which was ratified by the NCGA, signed by Gov. Pat McCrory, judicially challenged and now making its way through the courts (slated for a decision in almost seven months).

They are to blame for smashing the state’s good reputation and negatively impacting this state’s economy – not McCrory, not the NCGA, not the pro-HB2ers! The ACC, NCAA and NBA didn’t leave this state over the marriage amendment conflict. They waited for a court decision. They have waited on court decisions on a thousand other to-protest-for issues (civil rights, racial inequality, pay inequity, etc.). So why leave North Carolina now? Because they have been eating on the insane root.

We have a government of laws, not of men and sports organizations. When faced with critical constitutional issues, our state tradition has always been to send these issues through the courts and to wait patiently, while obeying the current law, until a final decision is reached. This is still the only acceptable path to constitutional conflict resolution.

This story was originally published September 19, 2016 at 5:13 PM with the headline "Barbara Richie Pond: Others to blame for N.C.’s issues."