“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.
no one can band you from going anywhere for God sakes. YOUR THE BOSS OF YOU and if your not…….you should go sit in a corner and shut up!!!!
Still wanting to hear what legal right any state in the Union has to prevent its citizens from traveling to any other state in the Union.
Thank you William Nabors for that great comment!! My father served in the Navy in WWII, and my nephew served in the Navy too!! Thank YOU for your service!!
Boys do not go in the bathroom at the same time with girls in our homes why do this in public restrooms…..it is called having respect for one another. .privacy!!
You probably weren’t wanted there anyway.
Why not? If the whole LGBT community moved there they could vote and CHANGE the law.
How dumb can you get
They are “public”. Several fixtures to handle several people at the same time. There is virtually no privacy except withing each individual stall if there is a door on the stall. Older restrooms do not have doors on the stalls … no privacy. The ones that say they identify as the opposite sex want to use the opposite restroom along with people who use that restroom normally.
Mississippi is not bigoted or hateful to gays or anyone else they are just protecting out 1st amendment rights,any time you don’t bend over and kiss a gay persons$#%&!@*then that’s discriminating against them,these friggin gays and the liberal jackasses need to knock their$#%&!@*off and leave the non gay people alone it’s the gays that are friggin BIGOTS.
We don’t need them in Miss.no way