“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.
Who cares?
Another Dictator in the USA!
How about the states that are against the law ban travel in favor of it. Turn the tables on the liberals.
Good!
Good I should beable to get a hotel room this time when I come down.
Maxie and Connie, I want to thank you so much for your comments. I feel the same way about all this and will not shop or go into places who have open bathrooms. By picking and choosing where we will shop will have a great impression as to who is important and to who???? Changing our way of life matters so stop trying to please everyone who is not happy—it will never work—-always unhappy people that like to cause others pain.
Then vacationers and businesses should avoid travel and commerce to/with these 3 states. Seems perfectly fair to me.
I feel a strong desire to see Gulfport real soon.
Mississippi should put a ban on anyone from those states to ever even drive thru their state. So the liberals are at it again. They think they are going to be able to just bully everyone around. We Southerners know how to deal with bullies.
Well let’s just ban those states don’t need Washington New York or New Hampshire