“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.
Ugh!!! I just hope everyone here gets treated as they treat others… Enough said…
How the hell can any body ban anyone from going to another state. I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA.
Figures Uncle Andy would be in on this, he does not represent us or our opinion in up state NY. We tried real hard to vote him out. One of these days we will. I stand with Mississippi.
Guess I will go there if I want
we don’t want you Yankee boys any way so keep your Ivy league carpet baggin asses up there in the frigid North
i don,t care if any type man (Policemen firemen or a man in a dress) is in the bathroom with my wife or daughter their will be trouble
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Like you all really spent a lot of time in Mississippi !!
So, Daniel, if they are “gay” and “pedophiles” would we want to keep them out of the men’s room? Please make up your mind. Just because they walk through the opposite door a switch goes off in their head that they are now a pedophile? I think if that’s the case they would have already been that way even using the correct gender toilet… Some ppl are just ridiculous. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
What happened to America land of the free?