USC Athletic Director To Boycott NCAA Meeting: I Have A Gay Son

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

The athletic director at the University of Southern California, Pat Haden, said on Tuesday that he would not attend the NCAA's College Football Playoff committee meeting in Indianapolis this week, due to the new Indiana religious freedom law that may allow discrimination against gays and lesbians.

Pat Haden ✔ @ADHadenUSC

I am the proud father of a gay son. In his honor, I will not be attending the CFP committee meeting in Indy this week. #EmbraceDiversity

12:15 PM - 31 Mar 2015

Numerous groups and conventions have announced or threatened boycotts of the state, but the NCAA will not move this week's Final Four games out of Indianapolis and did not indicate that it will move the league's headquarters from the city either.

"We will work diligently to assure student-athletes competing in, and visitors attending, next week’s Men’s Final Four in Indianapolis are not impacted negatively by this bill," NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement last week. "Moving forward, we intend to closely examine the implications of this bill and how it might affect future events as well as our workforce."

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[maindawg]

1. Move the meeting

Dont wait until 50 or 60 coaches announce they will not attend and it becomes an embarrassment. Just move it now.

[Delphinus]

10. Let us hope

(or pray) that 50 or 60 coaches announce it!

[SoapBox]

2. Pat...

[HockeyMom]

3. From the Mother of a Lesbian Daughter

Kuddos to HIM. I would not be a party to their discrimination against my child either.

[Helen Borg]

4. Boycott those sumbitches!

[olddots]

5. the world is trying to progress

but the so called conservatives of the world want the good old days of the dark ages .

[underpants]

6. Good move Pat

USC plays at Notre Dame in October. Hopefully the law will be changed at that point.

[knitter4democracy]

7. Fight on!!

That's what being a Trojan is about.

[Cha]

8. Pat Haden ✔ @ADHadenUSC I am the proud father of a gay son. In his honor, I will not be attending

the CFP committee meeting in Indy this week. #EmbraceDiversity"

Mahalo Don

[Thespian2]

9. Who

will be next to publicly disavow the dangerous legislation in the freedom to discriminate laws?