“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.
The bill protects the rights of the religious community.
good yall stay out of there so i can go ..like my girl /boy bathrooms ..you use your it dont matter one.IT MATTERS TO ME
so your telling me you guys in the States do not live in a free country any more? they can tell you it is illegal to travel to a free state in your country? why not just kick the whole state out of your union?
Do we even need Mississippi, its name is long and confusing
Ruth yes they did. Keep your penis out of the ladies room.
I live in MS and we have a great governor to thank for having sanity and morals.
The rest of America could take a lesson from that. Common sense in this country seems to be on vacation.
Let them keep their yankee$#%&!@*up north!
I’m going thru Mississippi, North Carolina, in about 3 weeks.
pretty sure GOD won’t have a problem with blocking transgenders from using the womens bathroom.