“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 three states that are banning travel to Mississippi are hypocrites.
AND WHO THE HELL IS GONNA STOP THEM ? ? ?
I go there all the time so does the rest of the traffic.
Frankly that is the type of people they don’t want there anyway.
All this because some fool wants to go to the girls bathroom.
I don’t know about the rest of you people, but I personally do not take orders from government, especially telling me I cannot go to a particular state or not. Have you not had enough of the “government” giving you orders as to what you can or cannot do, especially when they do not have the right to do so to start with, They have infringed too much as it is, in our lives, our rights etc. Isn’t it about time to oust these insufferable idiots.
i will be headed to Miss. and NC. in july!!!…..
This is all so stupid!
I will travel there
I will be coming to visit Mississippi . Thank you , my wife and children can fill safe when they have to use the Bathrooms . I will not go to any state that allows men going into a Ladies Bathroom .