An open letter is nice, but unless Mississippi actually feels it in itâs wallet they will just ignore the letter.
Exactly, they need to start pulling business from Mississippi or at least a lot have to pull out of NC in order to scare Mississippi into repealing their law. Unfortunately, there are more of these laws being introduced and passed lately.
Iâm exhausted excoriating Mississippi and the other TEAliban GOPig dominated RedStates for their disgusting and flagrant bigotry and hate. And the legendary Nina Simone did it better with a simple song, long ago, anyway. Change comes slowly. Iâll leave this right here:
BTW: North Carolina is already beginning to feel the backlash in a tangible way, and all over a nonsensical, unnecessary and bigoted piece of hateful, pandering legislative crap that is destined for the scrapheap when the courts shred it.
"The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and
principles that are at the core of PayPalâs mission and culture. As a result, PayPal will not move forward with our planned expansion into Charlotte."
â Dan Schulman, PayPay CEO
Just look at the face in the post photoâŚnot the sharpest knife in the Governor drawerâŚand, with no GOP establishment any moreâŚwhat agency is coordinating all these absurd yet nearly identical state legislative efforts across the South?
Mississippi! You have 999 problems and âpotty problemsâ ainât one! Enjoy your rapidly approaching legal humiliation to go with the ridiculeâŚoh, come to think of it, you must be used to that. So, enjoy any future hope of business development and investment while you continue to praise JuhâŚeeeâŚzusâŚuh! and take, take, take from the Big Gummitâ you profess so to hate, in order just to survive as the backward craphole you are.
You SHOULD be offended by a poor child with little or no education and with little or no hope for a decent future. THAT doesnât seem to bother you. But someone using the bathroom in a manner you deem âincorrectââŚand you go bible-thumping batshitcrazy. Absolutely bewildering.
Donât be so quick to put this entirely on the backs of the GOP. Mississippi has a large AA population, with strongly religious (Southern Baptist) AA communities all over, and they are very anti-gay in general. My 83-year-old neighbor is AA and very active in her Baptist church and she is vehemently anti-gay. Or was until I started talking with her about LGBT issues and the struggles she personally faced when it came to civil rights. I simply asked her âWould you think differently of me, think I should face discrimination, if you found out I was gay?â She was very taken aback - my son and I do a lot for her because her own children rarely show up to help her out - and she asked me âAre you?â I returned with âDoes it matter? Would you think less of me?â I finally told her that I am not lesbian but it really got her to think about the issues in very personal terms.
Itâs sadly ironic how many AA life-long Democrats are willing to accept discrimination of another minority because they hear it preached from the pulpit.
And cranked into ShariaâŚer, lawâŚ
Go watch the Jessica Williams piece posted on TPM. âApples and applesââŚwe have to show them!
Ah Mississippi, their constitution must be the bible. Thatâs just what the âfounding fathersâ subscribed to???
Why is all this happening right now?
Oh, Iâm sure thereâs some of that. Fact of the matter is that thereâs nothing an oppressed minority loves more than having someone else under them in the hierarchy. Thatâs why the blacks, who should have been supportive of the homosexualsâ quest for rights, werenât supportive - people donât mind being near the bottom nearly as much as long as someone else is actually at the bottom.
I would place my bet on ALEC.
Nuff said! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7fgB0m_y2I
For states like MS and NC it is more important to the governors to hold together the social conservatives who support them and keep the Rs in power than to care about business interests that would affect their states. Tyson, MGM Resorts International, Toyota donât get Brantley reelected, and neither do the business interests in NC get McCrory reelected. In McCroryâs case heâs facing a tough reelection this year , and even his biggest supporter and the company he worked for, Duke Energy, is opposed to the religious freedom laws.
Mississippi is a state full of alcoholics?
Yes, but being a bunch of Baptists (basically, theyâre like any other judgemental evangelicals, but they pretend they donât drink so they donât say hi in the liquor store) they never get past the first step because they refuse to admit they have a problem.
There is not a SINGLE PERSON I know who does not support âreligious freedom.â EVERYONE has the right to worship as they see fit. But a business is not a church. It doesnât matter whether youâre talking about a bakery or a restaurant, a photo studio or a factory. They arenât in the business of providing spiritual guidance or enforcing moral doctrines. They are there to turn a profit. As such, they are obligated to abide by prevailing civil rights laws, whether those laws protect people from discrimination based on race, religion, or sexual orientation. You can decide which goods and services to provide, but you donât get to turn down certain paying customers just because you have theological disagreements with them. Doing so would be coercing your customers into abiding by your personal religious doctrines, and thatâs not what âreligious freedomâ is about.
@rfscalf The Teanderthals and the FauXians trying to get as much done before they lose the House, Senate and White House.
SPN (State Policy Network - a version of ALEC. http://www.prwatch.org/files/spn_national_report_final.pdf