Good for him. We need to start an avalanche of such legislation all throughout the country.
These states need to band together and support each other in resisting the gay mafia.
Way to sack up Gov.
Tennessee was recently voted the most conservative legislature in the country yet with a GOP House, Senate, and governor, they can’t seem to pass legislation to keep perverts out of little girls’ bathrooms, or protect those with religious objections from being forced to service gay weddings or be fined, or pass constitutional carry or repeal the hated Hall income tax.
Seems he has the support of his state to do it, so that is up to them.
Just like the other states leave CA to support the crazy stuff they do.
I don’t know how the bill is worded, but I think it should be a “conscience” bill directed at the protection of a spectrum of religious conscience, not specifically aimed at LGBTs. For instance, any caterer, window blind maker, kitchen installer or plumber should be able to decline to render services to a brothel, a gambling establishment, a liquor store as well as for an LGBT wedding, if it is for conscience reasons. Likewise, a muslim butcher should not have to provide pork, and a Hindu butcher should not have to provide beef.
(In fact, a business owner should not have to provide a reason, but that’s another whole thread.)
Legislators need to make it clear that a religion is not an inborn status like race. It is pretty well accepted in this country that racial discrimination is unacceptable if the persons behavior is socially acceptable — you should be able to throw a black person out of your store if he or she is cursing or disrobing in public, but not deny service simply because they are black. This is a comparable thing — religious persons should not have to violate their own religion to serve a person of a different religion. That’s not racist or bigoted.
Most of the providers cited in these human rights cases do already serve persons of other religions, except where their beliefs are in direct conflict, such as regards food taken into the body, participation in the rituals of marriage or providing for sleeping together under someone else’s roof outside of religious marriage (which the state shouldn’t get to define).
The governor better keep his eyes peeled for drone attacks.
Great ! Let freedom ring !
You mean there is a state that believes in the First Amendment?
Really?
Someone alert PayPal.
Oh Crap, There goes all the Seattle business in Jackson.
Shouldn’t need a law to refuse to work for someone in the first place. I’m surprised the LGBT haven’t targeted Curves which already discrimates against mem, but it would interesting to see if Feminist Curves would allow a transgender in its man-hating club
The notion that the government has the right to tell anyone who they can do business with is in and of itself a violation of freedom of association.