“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.
GOOD
If I was from Miss I would stop giving feds tax paying honest working men and women hard earned money. Close federal court houses in Miss. And claim States Rights.
I support Mississippi on their stand. Use the bathroom listed for the gender on your birth certificate!
Well, they won’t have to worry about the door hittin ya where the good Lord put a split in ya!!!!
Isn’t this reverse discrimination
could you imagine the amount of wasted tax dollars they’d spend sending people across the country lol. The thing I’ve always wondered with these types of laws has always been enforcement on the trucking industry or say any branch of the D.O.D. I think the Reprocusions of enforcing something like this might teach radical leftists a valuable lesson
These bans on state-funded travel to other states are cowardly gestures whereby politicians pander to their local voters,while risking nothing because the people offended are in another state. They will quickly cry foul if other states and cities retaliate and ban travel over “sanctuary cties” or other laws. The whole thing is destructive and un-democratic. They should govern the state or city that elected them a respect the voters of other states.
How do these dipshits think they would enforce it ? Follow everyone traveling out of state. Either this post is BS, or these are some really dumb mf’ers.
Mississippi probably does not want trouble makers and activists from those states anyway.
Lmfao