“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.
Omg
Good gosh.
Oh really-they aren’t going to have any luck at that!! No one tells Americans where they can travel in America! Not
Those elected officials do NOT have the authority to something like this, can we say$#%&!@*much
This is great will keep all the riff raff out of the south.
They have banned travel by state employees on state business, you IDIOTS!!!! They can do that!!!
what country do we live in? this is all the government sabatoging us into a civil war.
Not that the U.S.Constitution should enter into this conversation, but interstate commerce is the exclusive power of Congress. No state has any power to regulate or tax or interfere with travel and trade between and among U.S. citizens state to state. We are residents of our home state, but we are citizens of the United States. The governors of these states, nor any of it’s subdivisions has any citizens to control. The only discretion they have in this regard is to control their own budget expenditures such as employee travel , purchases of commodities by the jurisdiction (but not by citizens within the state) can be directed anywhere their laws permit, and state grants can be withheld. These politicians are grandstanding.
fascists
Insane