Federal judge stops Mississippi anti-LGBT law
Click here for reuse options!“Under the guise of providing additional protection for religious exercise, it creates a vehicle for state-sanctioned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,” U.S. District Court Carlton Reeves wrote of the law. “It is not rationally related to a legitimate end.”
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed the bill, HB 1523, into law on April 5. The bill provided protections for individuals, religious organizations, and certain businesses who take actions due to their “sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions” to same-sex marriage — or any sex outside straight marriage. It also provided similar protections for those who object to transgender people.
The law prohibited the state from “discriminating” against people who act or refuse to act because of one of those beliefs. As Reeves put it, “An organization or person who acts on a [protected] belief is essentially immune from State punishment.”
The law also provided that county clerks could recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses based on their religious or moral beliefs — a provision Reeves criticized in another ruling earlier this week.
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whatthe46 July 1st, 2016 at 10:18
Take that haters.
Mandy Mazzeo July 2nd, 2016 at 05:20
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Mike July 1st, 2016 at 10:39
Mississippi, doing their part to remain in the 17th century
anothertoothpick July 1st, 2016 at 14:04
Do you know what they do with abandoned cars in ole Miss??
They build a house next to it.
labman57 July 1st, 2016 at 11:22
Why do so many folks in the Bible Belt appear to believe that their warped interpretation of Biblical law supersedes federal law?
The bigotry-obsessed folks in Mississippi who have been striving to legalize discrimination against the LGBT community are the same God-fearing Christian folks who still lament the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s and who cannot stomach the notion of interracial marriage.
Racial, religious, and gender identification intolerance — all variations on a theme that is all too prevalent in many of regions of America to this day.
amersham1046 July 1st, 2016 at 19:52
“It is not rationally related to a legitimate end.” , now how many people in Mississippi understand that statement as it has too many BIG words