On Monday's ABC World News Tonight, anchor David Muir opened with “the law that’s become a flashpoint,” talking about North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law. Muir highlighted that Bruce Springsteen had cancelled concerts in the state to protest the law, before leaving the rest of the report to correspondent Steve Osunsami who claimed Christians were "cheering" over the law that discriminates against "gay families statewide."
Video played showing Christian protesters and LGBT protesters colliding at a rally in North Carolina. Osunsami then claimed that the Christians protesting had come “to cheer the new law that keeps transgender residents from using the bathrooms they need and overturns discrimination protections for gay families statewide.”
Osunsami then spoke a protester who compared the law to segregation laws in the 1960s, calling the state house “bigots.”
OSUNSAMI: The protesters who say the state house is full of bigots.
PROTESTER: It wasn't about the water fountains in the '60s. And it's not about the bathrooms today.
Though Osunsami had no problem reporting strong derogatory terms and descriptions for Christians, he slammed the Christian protesters for bashing Bruce Springsteen with “unkind words.”
OSUNSAMI: But today, supporters of the law were out in force. There were unkind words for Bruce Springsteen and his band, who are refunding tickets today for a concert he canceled in Greensboro, in protest. Band member Steven van zandt explains.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT: You got to hurt people economically to have them do the right thing morally.
Osunsami also highlighted Canadian singer Bryan Adams cancelling concerts in Mississippi over a similar law.
On NBC, anchor Lester Holt also gave a brief note to Bruce Springsteen boycotting North Carolina citing “what he and others have called anti-LGBT bigotry” about the state’s “so-called bathroom law.”
LESTER HOLT: Days after Bruce Springsteen canceled a North Carolina concert in protest of that state's so-called bathroom law, what he and others have called anti-lgbt bigotry, Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is following suit further south. Adams has canceled an upcoming show in Mississippi, citing that state's new law that allows religious groups and some businesses to refuse service to gay couples. The Mississippi law will take effect July 1.
Earlier today the nets cheered Springsteen’s bullying of North Carolina over the religious freedom law and they spent all last week blasting various states religious freedom laws.
