Parties on both sides are saying the repeal of HB2 is a compromise. But is it really? Let’s jump back to when this all started. It was the Mayor of Charlotte, Jennifer Roberts, who made it her sole mission to pass a “non-discrimination” ordinance back in February of 2016. It’s effect was to force her preferred redefinition of sex on private entities. This was despite the fact that the City Council had rejected it the year before. Shortly after that, the General Assembly rightly responded by passing HB2 to prevent other cities from passing similar ordinances.

Now after the repeal of HB2 for HB 142 by the General Assembly, many are dissatisfied with the compromised outcome. What’s gotten the Human Rights Campaign and its surrogates up in arms is over the moratorium that prohibits cities from passing “non-discrimination” ordinances until 2020 in the new law. Which has even gotten Mayor Roberts upset, calling the repeal a “rejection of Charlotte’s and North Carolina’s progressive, inclusive values.”

But a greater concern is not what went wrong with alternative bill to HB2, but why HB2 needed to be repealed in the first place. 

The General Assembly repealed HB2, not because it was bad law (in their mind), but because they caved to the pressures of the NCAA.

You see, the NCAA forced an ultimatum: If North Carolina had any chance of hosting postseason collegiate sporting events (in the future), then they needed to repeal HB2 by March 30, 2017.

Their case, along with the pundits on the Left, was to say HB2 is hateful and an offensive law, and that it is bad for business. So many on the Left took to the streets to say that HB2 has wreaked havoc on North Carolina. That HB2 has destroyed jobs, and created a distrust among other states and businesses from wanting to work in North Carolina. So the only way to restore trust again, and no longer be viewed as discriminatory — is to repeal HB2 and replace it with a more LGBTIQ friendly law.

Yet, despite the fake news reports about the damage HB2 has had on North Carolina’s economy, the state’s revenues and job creation has remained strong. North Carolina Lieutenant Gov. Dan Forest stated that all the boycotting over HB2 was “less than one-tenth of 1 percent” of the state’s annual gross domestic product.

Furthermore, lest we forget, HB2 was never an attack on any transgender person. It was a common-sense law that was put on the books to protect the safety of women and children from those who would seek to take advantage of the non-discrimination ordinances.

This repeal will cause more harm than good.

Thus, I got to say, although members of North Carolina’s legislature feel this was a favorable outcome to repeal HB2, I disagree. And I say that as a Charlottean who has raised my family in North Carolina for the past 12 years. This repeal will cause more harm than good. The ultimate compromise with the repeal was that our state legislatures let the bullying tactics of political correctness led by the NCAA and the NBA to persuade them to overturn good common-sense law, for a law plagued with corruption.

Since when does a nonprofit organization that exists to entertain fans through sports, get into the business of enforcing what they want from state legislatures? And since when does a state legislature comply to such demands? Will the NCAA now have veto power over other states laws? Do we really want legislatures caving to big companies and organizations, rather than representing their districts with dignity and respect?

Jason Jimenez is a worldview expert, national speaker, and best-selling author of The Bible’s Answers to 100 of Life’s Biggest Questions and Abandoned Faith with Focus on the Family. For more information, check out www.standstrongministries.org