CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Coming home Friday morning to Charlotte, Governor Pat McCrory showed no signs of backing off his support for House BIll 2, the controversial new law that led the NBA to take next February's All-Star Game out of Charlotte.
McCrory used four letters from the alphabet to describe his reaction. The first two letters are P.C. for politically correct.
"I said I think this decision is P.C.-B.S.," said McCrory, as he left radio station WFAE where he had done a live interview with Mike Collins on Charlotte Talks.
The Governor said he believes the NBA decision sets a dangerous precedent.
"A corporation would say, 'unless you do this, we will not bring our services to your city or state,'" McCrory said.
Republican Congressman Robert Pittenger from Charlotte said of the decision, "It's your classic liberal hypocrisy."
Pittenger wrote a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver calling the decision to move the game a mistake.
"I wrote the Commissioner saying, "my friend, this is pure hypocrisy. How can you go to China and sell tickets to pre-season games in China? They have the worst human rights abuses,'" said Pittenger, reading from the letter.
Equality NC is a group that is calling for a full repeal of HB2, the law that limits protections for members of the LGBT community.
The group held a rally outside Time Warner Cable Arena where the game would have been played next February.
One of the speakers, Matt Hirschy, said the LGBT community will end HB2 once and for all at the ballot box in November.
"What we are seeing is an unprecedented attack on the LGBT community, and we are going to see an unprecedented response in November," he said.
Another speaker was Chris Sgro, the first openly gay member of the General Assembly.
Sgro had a personal message for Governor McCrory.
"PayPal, NBA, Bruce Springsteen, any performer, any event, any business that has left the state of North Carolina, has stated a simple reason: Pat, HB2," Sgro said.