The following events can be presented without comment as they speak for themselves.
About ten years ago, as I recall, the State of North Carolina was passing some laws intended to protect their kids against having school and like restrooms used by children from use by the opposite sex and beyond. The National Basketball Association (NBA) took their “high ethical and moral” stance of threatening to cancel the All-Star game and related high-revenue state events. This caused the state to cave in and not pass the child protective legislation.
This past month, one minor Houston Rockets lower executive made a personal comment ...