Discrimination Is Now Legal In Mississippi

[Howey]

Well...at least until it's declared unconsititutional.


The poorest state in the union with the highest teen pregnancy rate, worst education system, second highest murder rate, and second worst obesity rate in the United States. Glad to see their priorities in order, and THIS is all they're worried about?

Oy!

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) has signed into law a “religious liberty” bill that could be used to justify various forms of discrimination, including anti-LGBT discrimination. The bill, SB 2681, was approved by the legislature earlier this week after being a conference between the House and Senate. It differs from other state’s “Religious Freedom Restoration Acts” (RFRAs) because Mississippi law defines the word “person” to include businesses, and thus it applies to corporations instead of just private citizens exercising their religious beliefs.

The Family Research Council, an anti-LGBT hate group, took credit for its passage:
The victory was a huge one for FRC, who worked with local churches and conservative policy organizations to coordinate a pastors’ letter in support of the measures with more than 600 signatures. That, in turn, helped to bring along the business community — which, in Arizona, was so deceived by the media and outside leftist groups that it couldn’t distinguish what the bill actually did. Mississippi companies didn’t have that problem, because the state tuned out the propaganda and focused on the actual language.
Incidentally, Bryant will defend the legislation Thursday afternoon on FRC’s radio show hosted by Tony Perkins.

 

[J.E.D]

Well, they're consistent if anything

 

[Howey]

Unfortunately, there's nothing to boycott in Mississippi.

 

[Katzndogz]

Religious freedom has to start someplace. Why not there? Are you afraid that this freedom notion might catch on?

 

[Howey]

Religious freedom has to start someplace. Why not there? Are you afraid that this freedom notion might catch on?

Legislated bigotry isn't freedom.

 

[Katzndogz]

Has some law been passed that prevents gays from doing something the want or having something they want? It looks like a law that protects people who make their own decisions.

 

[The Rabbi]

Has some law been passed that prevents gays from doing something the want or having something they want? It looks like a law that protects people who make their own decisions.

We can't have that! They might make decision we disagree with. ANd then where would be?
Any article that describes an org as a "hate group" as that one did is obviously biased and unreliable. What else do we expect from the newest Doofus on this site, though?

 

[J.E.D]

Wingnut meme: bigotry = religious freedom

 

[Stephanie]

poor thing, you don't like it don't frikken move to Mississippi

California is calling you or Iran, China, North Korea

 

[The Rabbi]

Wingnut meme: bigotry = religious freedom

Wingnut meme: bigotry equal equality.
See how that works?

 

[The T]

Everyone discriminates. Do you let just anyone into your home without checking out who is knocking at your door? Hmm?

 

[J.E.D]

Wing nuts are OK with businesses prying into the private liv s of free people under the guise of religious freedom to determine whether a potential client or the employee is gay and therefore undesirable.

Wing nuts will be wing nuts.

Staff is a perfect example.

 

[The Rabbi]

Wing nuts are OK with businesses prying into the private liv s of free people under the guise of religious freedom to determine whether a potential client or the employee is gay and therefore undesirable.

Wing nuts will be wing nuts.

Staff is a perfect example.

Gee I dont see anything about prying. Why do libs want to pry into whether people are Christian or not, or why they don't want to do business with a particular person?

 

[Katzndogz]

Wing nuts are OK with businesses prying into the private liv s of free people under the guise of religious freedom to determine whether a potential client or the employee is gay and therefore undesirable.

Wing nuts will be wing nuts.

Staff is a perfect example.

Isn't that what the gays just did to Brendan Eich? They had to dig pretty deep to find a $1,000 donation in 2008.

 

[The T]

Wing nuts are OK with businesses prying into the private liv s of free people under the guise of religious freedom to determine whether a potential client or the employee is gay and therefore undesirable.

Wing nuts will be wing nuts.

Staff is a perfect example.

Gee I dont see anything about prying. Why do libs want to pry into whether people are Christian or not, or why they don't want to do business with a particular person?

Because individual liberty, freedom of association means squat to leftists.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Discrimination is legal everywhere in the United States.
In fact most is government sponsored.

1) Affirmative action.
2) Tax breaks based on the race/sex of a business owner
3) Education grants based on race.
3) Business grants based on race/sex of the owner.
4) Businesses, openly and included in their written policies, basing buying practices on race/sex of a vendor owner.

 

[Iceweasel]

It was impossible to make heads or tails of it in the OP's quoted source given the puerile narrating of the op-ed author. Sounds like they cleaned up the similar Arizona's bill a bit, learning from their mistakes. Hopefully it will make it across all 50 states and expand it to non religious objections so business owners can live free of fear from gay militants.

 

[katsteve2012]

Well...at least until it's declared unconsititutional.


The poorest state in the union with the highest teen pregnancy rate, worst education system, second highest murder rate, and second worst obesity rate in the United States. Glad to see their priorities in order, and THIS is all they're worried about?

Oy!

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) has signed into law a “religious liberty” bill that could be used to justify various forms of discrimination, including anti-LGBT discrimination. The bill, SB 2681, was approved by the legislature earlier this week after being a conference between the House and Senate. It differs from other state’s “Religious Freedom Restoration Acts” (RFRAs) because Mississippi law defines the word “person” to include businesses, and thus it applies to corporations instead of just private citizens exercising their religious beliefs.

The Family Research Council, an anti-LGBT hate group, took credit for its passage:
The victory was a huge one for FRC, who worked with local churches and conservative policy organizations to coordinate a pastors’ letter in support of the measures with more than 600 signatures. That, in turn, helped to bring along the business community — which, in Arizona, was so deceived by the media and outside leftist groups that it couldn’t distinguish what the bill actually did. Mississippi companies didn’t have that problem, because the state tuned out the propaganda and focused on the actual language.
Incidentally, Bryant will defend the legislation Thursday afternoon on FRC’s radio show hosted by Tony Perkins.

Kind of like a fish swims and a bird flys. It's Missisippi. No surprise.

 

[Katzndogz]

The left wants discrimination. They have no objections to the worst discrimination. They just want to be able to discriminate against those they choose.

 

[Zoom-boing]

Wing nuts are OK with businesses prying into the private liv s of free people under the guise of religious freedom to determine whether a potential client or the employee is gay and therefore undesirable.

Wing nuts will be wing nuts.

Staff is a perfect example.

Isn't that what the gays just did to Brendan Eich? They had to dig pretty deep to find a $1,000 donation in 2008.

Well, no. You see, Eich held the wrong pov on ssm so therefore, it was fine to ridicule him and force him out of his job.