Few events thrill sports fans more than a local college football or basketball team challenge against top-ranked teams in other states -- like the Crimson Tide of Alabama or the Texas Longhorns.
But a new California law that prevents state-funded travel to states deemed to have anti-LGBT laws could derail team trips to hotbeds of sports like Alabama, Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee.
Under AB 1887 which took effect Jan. 1, the California attorney general -- currently Xavier Becerra -- is empowered to add states that enact laws and policies deemed to be biased against the LGBT community and their families.
This week Becerra announced he was adding four new states -- Texas, Alabama, Kentucky and South Dakota -- to the list of places to which travel cannot be paid for with state funds. Texas, for example, just enacted a law last week allowing foster care agencies to block adoptions and related services to children and parents on the basis of “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
Becerra says measures like that disadvantage LGBT families by limiting their opportunities to adopt or foster children.