“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.
In case anyone cares, the measures are largely symbolic, banning non-essential travel through the states by state government employees while conducting official state business. Private citizens, of course, are free to travel anywhere they please, whenever they please. But conservative blog “Truth and Action” rarely lets facts get in the way of their “reporting”.
Proud to be from Mississippi! Oh by the way, we have no problem with anyone until they try to cram c**p down our throats! Don’t believe me, come see for yourself! I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
And the liberals and Hillary are always so forth coming with the truth.
Good, stay home!
Good we don’t want u here anyways!
So laughable…sorry, but you can’t fucking ban people from traveling to another state
Why?
Wtf I’m not having Cuomo the$#%&!@*or anyone for that matter tell me where I can and cannot go
Yup, there actually are people out there that are this STUPID! Unfortunately, there is NO CURE for it
Absolutely childish political behavior.