“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.
All for it if they make Ol Miss an only black state, then no one is allowed to leave either. Plus all federal money refused to the state..
They make it sound like you need paper’s to travel. Papers please. Are they in order… Tell me why you wish to leave the DDR ?
Go Mississippi
Thank you governor! Do I still have to worry about my daughters seeing a mentally ill man that “thinks” he’s a woman exposing himself to them in the ladies room? I hope your bill covers this insanity too!
Its not anti lgbt. It protects the religious rights of all citizens which is what the constitution does. Well done Mississippi!
Mississippi here I come, now that the trash is staying away.
Men use men’s room no matter what they dress like. Women use women’s no matter if they dress like a man or not. If these states want men dressed like women to be able to use women’s bathrooms what’s stopping a child racist or a Muslim in a burka from goin into a women’s bath room and raping a young defenseless child.
These Govs.should be held for being traitors and tried.Removed now put in jail,until a trail is held.
Travel the great state of Mississippi.
So what are you going to do? Set up border guards and start a passport system for travel within the U.S. like communist and Muslim countries do?