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A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) urged the National Basketball Association on Tuesday to relocate the upcoming “All-Star Game” from North Carolina over the state’s recently enacted anti-LGBT law.

In a letter dated April 12, the U.S. senators call on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to move the 2017 NBA All-Star game away from Charlotte because “discrimination has no place in modern America.” The game is currently set to take place Feb. 19, 2017, at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, which is home to the Charlotte Hornets.

“We hold no ill-will towards the people of Charlotte, who passed an anti-discrimination measure that HB2 overturned, or towards the people of North Carolina,” the letter says. “However, we cannot condone nor stand idly by as North Carolina moves to legalize and institutionalize discrimination against the LGBT community. Nor should the NBA allow its premier annual event to be hosted in such a state. Doing so, we believe, would be inconsistent with the NBA’s history and values.”

Echoing words from NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley, who said the NBA should relocate the All-Star Game after passage of House Bill 2, the senators say they “call on the NBA to move the All-Star game from Charlotte.”

In addition to Merkley, the signatories of the letter are Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Sens. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who are co-sponsors of the Equality Act.

The NBA, which has already said it’s considering whether it can still host the game in Charlotte now that the anti-LGBT law has been passed, didn’t immediately respond to the Washington Blade’s request to comment late Tuesday on whether the association would accede to the request from senators.

Also calling for moving the game from Charlotte is Detroit Pistons president and coach Stan Van Gundy, who on Monday likened HB 2 to laws enforcing segregation against blacks in the South, according to Mlive.com.

Signed by Gov. Pat McCrory after a special session of the legislature last month, House Bill 2 bars cities in North Carolina from enacting pro-LGBT non-discrimination ordinances and prohibits transgender people from using public restrooms in schools and government buildings consistent with their gender identity.

News the NBA would move the All-Star Game over HB 2 was, incorrectly, reported over the weekend after a fake report fooled media outlets into believing Silver had given North Carolina 30 days to repeal the law, or else he would relocate the game. A hoax website with the address, “abcnews.com.co,” which has a logo similar to the real ABC News, published the bogus story.