Since Mississippi has very little in the way of corporate investment and is for all intents and purposes a third world economy (“developing” implies hope), It will be difficult to pressure them from the outside.
And the next flood along the Mississippi will be “God’s Will.” Right?
We should start accepting refugees from Mississippi now.
What morons. Good job, make your crappy state even more crappy while encouraging normal people to avoid it like the plague.
The measure’s intention is to protect those who believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman, that sexual relations should only take place inside such marriages, and that male and female genders are unchangeable.
What about the people who believe that the Earth is flat, the moon is made of green cheese and that reptilians actually control everything that happens on our planet?
Where’s the law that accommodates them, Governor?
if I had a business in Mississippi and I had a sincerely held belief to not do business with a bigoted asshole would I be able to refuse service to the Governor?
I wonder how this garbage would affect foreign companies such as Airbus from opening plants in the Deep South (which, apparently North Carolina is a part of)? I mean, I understand that foreign companies open shops down there because they’re Right to Work for Less but how could they entice their management people to come over here and, well, manage the plants?
Fortunately Mississippi is such a wealthy state that it can easily afford the mountain of litigation and legal fees this law will bring about.
Mississippi isn’t “crappy”. It’s quite beautiful. But you’d have to ditch the Northern bigotry to see that. It’s not surprising to see the GOP in the state do something like this. But you have to ask…just how much of an asshole do you have to be to want this? Jews don’t believe Christ is the Messiah. That belief is what Christianity is about. Denying it should be much offensive to Christianity then homosexuality or gender identity changes. So you don’t have to serve a Jew a burger? Or treat him as an ER patient? Can I buy meat on Friday or a broom on Sunday or are we going back to the 50’s blue laws too? Where does this stop?
I’d say the economic boycotts were coming, but Mississippi doesn’t make or sell anything that anyone wants.
Even China has no use for Mississippi.
Swish! Mississippi SCORES. Of course, what the score was was to retain it’s position as the absolute toilet bottom of the country. During the civil war, most people–the majority–decided that Mississippi (and the south’s) odious opinion that African Americans were somehow not human and therefore available to be bought and sold, was wrong. Because the north failed to utterly decimate the south, it has been able to cling to the notion that somehow it was correct, and that it was only defeated militarily and by a cheat.
Bullshit.
This bill is superfluous as to people moving to Mississippi. That coffin was nailed shut years ago.
Mississippi is like Tajikistan, only with easier access to Little Debbie Snack Cakes.
Zebedee Crow’s other son John has some laws very similar to his brother James Crow.
This law gives a whole new meaning to the title “Mississippi Queen” now, doesn’t it?
I hope Mississippi is made to suffer economic effects from this law like NC is on its way to doing…Of course there’s not as much economic activity in Mississippi that could get any worse than it already is, I would think.
Oh Man! Here come the Yankees. Time to go to Huff Post and avoid listening to a bunch of Northern pricks yak on about Mississippi. Go fucking shovel some snow assholes.,.
I didn’t think MS had that much of a cattle industry?
Dude. I live in Texas.
BTW, sure, Mississippi has loads of natural beauty and lots of nice people, but it also has a terrible school system and is overrun (like Texas) with evangelical assholes who ruin it for everyone else.
That foul scumbag.