Breitbart.com posted an article yesterday about some further ripples in the battle over who gets to use the bathrooms in North Carolina. As previously stated, all that North Carolina HB2 did was to put the laws back the way they were before the City of Charlotte messed with them. Many of the concerts and other entertainment items that are cancelling now because of HB2 booked the events when the laws in North Carolina were the same as they are now. The law passed in Charlotte was the exception–not the rule. It was an interruption–what is now is the same as what was before Charlotte. So if the law was okay when the event was booked, why is it not okay now–the law is the same? It only gets worse.
The article at Breitbart reports:
Canada-based circus and theater entertainment company Cirque du Soleil has canceled its upcoming shows in Greensboro, Charlotte, and Raleigh in North Carolina to protest the state’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.
…The world-famous circus, however, has not canceled its upcoming performances in the United Arab Emirates of Dubai.
Indeed, Cirque du Solei has a planned production, Varekai, scheduled to run from September 16 to 24 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The United Arab Emirates of Dubai has outlawed same-sex marriage, sex or gender reassignment surgery, adoption by same-sex couples, openly gay and lesbian military service, with the aforementioned being punishable by death, fines, or imprisonment.
I need someone to explain the logic of this to me. I don’t see it.
The article concludes:
In fact, Cirque du Solei has performed for years in the anti-LBGT United Arab Emirates, including Michael Jackson: The Immortal Tour in 2014, Dralion in 2013, Alegria in 2009, and Quidam in 2006.
“Over the past years, Cirque du Soleil has had shows in various countries such as United Arab Emirates,” the Cirque du Solei website proudly states.
While calling North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act “an important regression to ensuring human rights for all,” it’s unclear if Cirque du Soleil plans to cancel its upcoming shows in nations that put homosexuals to death.
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