“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.
Debra Baker That’s unfortunate. I myself don’t think of this as anti-gay but I’m not a homosexual. I think of it more as a necessary check and balance. I’m okay with gay marriage and so forth personally even though I’m a traditional family and sexual roles guy myself. But because of the society we live in we have to do something to protect the religious. Gay people need to come to an understanding that we can never force all the people of America to be 100% supportive of them. Like in the case of the lesbian couple and the cake I posted above. They could have understood the couples religious objections to homosexuality and taken their business elsewhere instead of making a big deal over it and suing them. There has to be a fair compromise in the middle to make both sides happy. ..I personally feel it is laws like this.
I guess stupidity is not exclusive to Washingron…..
How are these 3 states going stop anyone from going to MS?
I went to Tupelo Mississippi last week.
This is great news! After people wreck their states with their political decisions, they then move to other states and take their voting record with em! This way the morons who wrecked NYS can’t migrate to Mississippi and tain the election with their vial ways!
Americans should send government a real message and plan their vacation in North Carolina and Mississippi
Oh, and banning travel to Mississippi is not “mean spirited”, is that it? Washington, New York and Vermont suck.
We all should go to these states on vacation.
Yesssss
I live in Washington State, and I’ll be damned if the goofy governor makes rules for my travel.