“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 PERVS IN THE BATHROOM WITH MY GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER. I JUST CAN’T BELIEVE WE ARE EVEN DISCUSSING THIS. WE SURLY HAVE ENOUGH MORALS TO NOT ABUSE YOUNG INNOCENT CHILDREN.
You cannot banned people from traveling wherever they want to go.
i like mississippi
THAT is an UNCONSTITUTIONAL interference with INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
the citizens if those 3 states should be warned….how long will it be before the governor tells you when you can use the bathroom or get written permission to do so?
Mississippi will be free of many idiots then
Is one of the state’s that want to keep the confused male subjects out of the women’s rest rooms? If yes I know where my next vacation will be!
Way to go Mississippi
I will make a point of vacationing and spending my money in Mississippi!!
How stupid can people be?