“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.
Let them be !
And we don’t give a$#%&!@*either
I would tell them to kiss my country$#%&!@*I will go where I want
WTF. ***********************
Good we don’t want them here anyway
Guess I won’t have Mississippi stamp my passport.
Your right Kevin, it’s their personal business. It shouldn’t be aired through the media but they are the one that wanted to come out the closet and tell the world. Stand up in court and fight for it. Well guess what, they got it. Tell them that. Not everyone is comfortable being around gay people. The ones who aren’t have just as much rights as the one who do! It goes both ways
Mississippi good job you are protecting your young girls thank you
Angel, it would probably behoove you to actually read the law as passed. There is nothing there that calls for anyone to be arrested. The law is to protect those who do not believe in certain things.
B******t! We go where and when we won’t to.