Posted on 04/03/2014 1:45:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Mississippi Lawmakers Approve Religious Freedom Bill SB 2681, Gov. Phil Bryant Will Sign; Gay Activists Call it Discriminatory
[My take: Judge will rule it unconstitutional and void it ]. We've seen this movie before...
Mitt Romney tweeted against a similar bill in Arizona and John McCain joined loudly in the chorus that supported Governor Jan Brewer in vetoing it.
Any chorus here from the GOPe.
The courts will step in eventually I would suspect.
RE: The courts will step in eventually I would suspect.
Yep. In 21st century America, the people have allowed one judge sitting on the bench to override the legislature and the will of the people in referendums.
I am very wary of the Christian Post as a source
LGBT activists oppose this, tells you all we really need to know about these SAD, SAD People.
So am I. They use "Christian" like a sheeps skin.
There’s talk just to the south of me in Maryland of a country commissioner praying in defiance of a federal judge’s order at public meetings.
The athiests want a contempt ruling with fines in the matter.
We’ll see how far that goes?????
Apparently their foreign versions are very leftist according to something I read on FR the other day
I’m sure local media will repeat the gay talking points like they did for the TN version of this bill.
Glad that in MS the first amendment is respected by the state legislature and they don’t collapse like a wet noodle in the face of criticism by those hostile to Christians.
RE: I am very wary of the Christian Post as a source
They can’t lie on this news even if they wanted to.
Here are others reporting the same thing:
Los Angeles Times:
Mississippi Business Journal
http://msbusiness.com/blog/2014/04/02/legislators-approve-final-version-religious-practices-bill/
New American:
Washington Blade
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/04/01/mississippi-legislature-approves-turn-away-gays-bill/
Buzzfeed:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tonymerevick/mississippi-approves-religious-freedom-bill-governor-expecte
Call me nuts, but I thought it was already illegal to deny services based on religion.
RE: Call me nuts, but I thought it was already illegal to deny services based on religion.
Can you cite any Federal law that says that?
As a consequence of the parents of LGBT activist evidently not making sure that their children were taught about 10th Amendment protected state powers versus constitutionally enumerated rights, misguided LGBT activists unsurprisingly do not understand the following.
Regardless of PC, pro-gay interpretations of the 14th Amendment's (14A) Equal Protections Clause, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called gay rights. This is evidenced by the Supreme Court's decision in Minor v. Happersett which clarified that 14A added no new constitutional protections.
3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had (emphasis added). Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
So the states are free to make laws which discriminate on the basis of anything not expressly protected by the Constitution, PC gay "rights" for example, as long as such laws don't also unreasonably abridge enumerated protections such as 1st Amendment-protected religious rights.
Just the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act.
Yes! SCREW YOU, BREWER!
Is this the same measure that that silly governor of AZ was afraid to sign?
Yes, very similar. That’s why the homos are up in arms against it.
RE: Just the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act.
I can cite the first amendment and the bill of rights.
Which one came first?
After all, nobody wants to be an "uncle tom" like all those folks in Africa.
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