By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers - but please, don’t be offended. He says he never even expected his plan to become law.
“I was trying to shed a little light on the number one problem in Mississippi,” said Republican Rep. John Read of Gautier, who acknowledges that at 5-foot-11 and 230 pounds, he’d probably have a tough time under his own bill.
He sounds like another Huckaphoney.
Upon further examination of the article (see excerpt below), the lead author of the legislation is apparently very serious...
excerpt from: Junkfood Science: No fat people allowed: Only the slim will be allowed to dine in public!
I called lead author, Rep. Mayhall, and asked if this was serious legislation or tongue-in-cheek to make a point. He kindly took a moment to answer my question while the legislature was in session. He said that while, regrettably, he doesn’t believe his bill will pass, this is serious. He wrote it, he said, because of the “urgency of the obesity crisis and need for government action.” He hopes it will “call attention to the serious problem of obesity and what it is costing the Medicare system.”
So, yes, this is for real and these elected officials actually believe this stuff.
The time is now for all Americans who value their freedom to eat, look, breathe and live their lives how they choose to unite!