“Thou shalt not travel to Mississippi” demand the governors of Washington, New York, and Vermont. Mississippi’s new legislation is believed to be mean spirited and discriminatory and thus these governors feel it is in their power to limit travel of their own citizenry.
Reminiscent of the big brother behavior of the Mayor of San Fransisco, who made similar demands of city employees banning travel to North Carolina, these governors are overstepping their authority.
The mayoral panties are all twisted up because North Carolina has passed legislation preventing anti-discrimination protection for lesbian, gay and transgender people thus nullifying a Charlotte ordinance that allowed for transgender bathroom use of the opposite gender.
City workers were banned by the Lee from “non-essential” travel to North Carolina, Truth and Action reports.
The Mississippi legislation is viewed as discriminatory against the LGBT community, yet in actuality it protects all citizens of Mississippi from government over reach by protecting “sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of individuals, organizations and private associations.”
Citizens of Mississippi who hold religious convictions are given the freedom to exercise their faith without repudiation. Under this legislation, people of faith will be protected if they deny wedding services to same-sex couples. It also allows employers to take their religious beliefs to inform such work place values such as dress code and bathroom or locker access.
The legislation does not remove civil rights from any one group, but strengthens the First Amendment for all.
That’s hysterical
That should alleviate traffic problems for those many visitors that want to be here.
B******t!…. No governor is telling me where I can go….
MORE MEDIA B******T OR SOME REALLY DUMB$#%&!@*GOVERNORS
I think those 3 states are pushing a dictatorship. This is America and people have the right to travel where they want no matter what some idiots that never should have been put into office think. I hope those state leaders don’t get reelected and end up homeless without welfare.
Why tell us ?
This was the federal governments only real job to eliminate all restrictions between States.
They can’t do that and we all know it!
That mean that 46 other states have not issued travel bans.
You are right