“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.
Idiot
good hope they ban travel to Texas as well we do not want them here
Really! BS
I don’t have a problem with that at all.. banned from going to one of the stupidest places in the world? Darn..
I wish there was another civil war… I’m sick of being associated with the retards in the south
That’s right Telling us what to do!!! Be there next week!!!Love Mississippi.
Protect our bathroom rights! Men in men’s, women in women’s! Period
It looks like the South is rising. Good for you Mississippi
I don’t believe Obama got a second term by the voters choice it was bought an paid for
I feel the need to go to Mississippi
All States will soon be doing the same thing! What’s good for some is also good for others