(02-09-2017 11:26 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  Just saw this today - the California law is already having an impact:

Cal nixes Kansas series talks over LGBT law

I predict that within a couple of years, California schools will be unable to play at 1/4 of NCAA arenas.

It's a darn shame - I can't think of any worse way to deepen the divide in the USA than refusing to even be in the same state as those who disagree with you.

Also, I think the bolded is going to end up being wrong. The other part of this with the wackiness of these state legislatures is that they belie the sharp overall trends of the public. There is probably no social issue since the push to end racial segregation that has gained more traction more quickly than support for LGBT rights. The pro-choice/pro-life and gun control/gun rights divide has remained virtually unchanged percentage-wise for the past 4 decades, but support for LGBT rights has SKYROCKETED in the past 10 years and it has been rising exponentially faster during the past 5 years in a sharp curve. This is very similar to how society changed in its views toward racial segregation - it was basically unchanged percentage-wise for decades until the early-1960s... and then the country swiftly turned to where what was "politically acceptable" about that issue completely changed. These anti-LGBT bills are the equivalent of George Wallace making his last stand in the late-1960s/early-1970s to attempt to turn back time. Within the next 5 to 10 years, politicians attempting to take these anti-LGBT stances truly won't be politically viable anymore even in the more socially conservative states. North Carolina already saw this pushback and they got hammered for it (and the state ended up voting the GOP governor out of office even when Trump wildly out-performed expectations at the top of the ticket there). We certainly won't see places like the State of Washington ever pass a bathroom bill.