“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.
MISSISSIPPI is coming out ahead
I LIKE GOOD SOUTHERN FOOD SO IF I WANT TO GO TO OLE MISS I WILL !!!
how can they ban are they check everyone……stupidity
Not me
No way!
actually it is a dictatorship now…….the government wants to tell you what to eat, what to drink, the bathrooms you must go to, what your children learn in school, what words you are allowed to say, etc.
No governor of any state is going to ban me from going to another state
Paradise MS.
why we have 500+ politicians that we pay, I don’t know why since obama makes all the rules and breaks the laws while they just sit on their butts and do nothing
Try and stop me! Assholes!