Discussion: GOP Mississippi Governor Signs Sweeping Anti-Gay Law

[meri]

I lived there for fifteen years.

How long did you live there, drama queen?

[fourlegsgood]

Where does it stop? It won’t stop until the evangelical assholes have forced everyone to believe what they do and live their lives the way the evangelical crowd wants.

Same thing in Texas. They won’t ever stop. That’s why I’m leaving.

[meri]

There’s Northrop Grumman on the coast. Nissan has a plant in Canton. Army Corps of Engineers has one of their two primary data centers in Vicksburg.

That’s about all I can think of.

[misterneutron]

…male and female genders are unchangeable.

In related news, the MS legislature is considering a bill that would round π to an even 3.

[jloomis3]

“The measure’s stated 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.”

Protect them from what?

[arc_of_the_universe]

That does it. I’m not going to relocate Apple global headquarters to Yazoo City! - Yours truly, Tim Cook.

On the plus side, maybe Hobby Lobby will open a store in Pasgagoula.

[dickweed]

I hope neither NC nor Mississippi suffer due to the few dorks that some, but not all, of those state’s voters voted for, happen to have their heads up their ass. Especially those of us that didn’t vote for them…and did for for non-dorks.

[itsjibba]

Some things never change.

Here’s to the State of Mississippi
For underneath her borders, the devil draws no lines
If you drag her muddy river, nameless bodies you will find
Whoa the fat trees of the forest have hid a thousand crimes
The calender is lyin’ when it reads the present time

Whoa, here’s to the land you’ve torn out the heart of
Mississippi, find yourself another country to be part of

Phil Ochs, 1963

[meri]

SURPRISE BUTTSECKS!

[Lacuna-Synecdoche]

TPM:

GOP Mississippi Governor Signs Sweeping Anti-Gay Law

Explaining his reasoning, the Governor said, “I don’t give a fuck what those libtard corporations think. There’s no jobs here, and I’m not about to let that change on my watch. The only thing to fear is fearlessness - the less people fear losing their jobs and starving, the more likely they are to vote Democratic.”

[nova]

well, this bill violates MY “religious” beliefs, in that my “God” is all-inclusive, and hates discrimination and bigots. so I want MY federal tax dollars to stop flowing to this ass-backwards shitstain of a state. thanks.

[Lacuna-Synecdoche]

@fourlegsgood

Good job, make your crappy state even more crappy while encouraging normal people to avoid it like the plague.

I’m not sure it’s gonna make that much difference. Most normal people were already avoiding MS like the plague.

[geofromnj]

These evangelical crackers are totally obsessed with sex, and most especially with other people’s sexual practices. The rest of the country has a healthy attitude towards sex. Not these cracker assholes. They’re opposed to contraception, premarital sex, and any sexual practice not approved by their reading of Leviticus. Yet while they claim to be chaste, their demand for legislation is a clear indication of their sexual obsession.

[Lacuna-Synecdoche]

@charliee

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?

Oh, come on. Everyone know reptilians don’t control everything that happens on the planet; they only control everything that happens in the GOP.

[ronbyers]

This experiment in hatred might stick. Mississippi doesn’t have an economy large enough for any of the big corporations to actually care.

[machoneman]

Yeah, like Mississippi has the funds to hire outside lawyers to fight for a law even they know will be rescinded by the MS Supreme Court, a regional Federal Court and likely the US Supreme Court if it ever gets that far!

[Lacuna-Synecdoche]

@brooklyndweller

I understand that foreign companies open shops down there [in the South] 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?

I don’t know about the rest of the world, but in Europe there are still a small number of neo-Nazi and Nazi-symp parties they can recruit from. I hear those guys love the former Confederacy.

[machoneman]

My similar thoughts… exactly!

[ronbyers]

Know what retired people living on Social Security are called in most Mississippi counties? Rich. Without federal tax dollars flowing to Mississippi the entire state would go bankrupt.

[paulw]

I’m wondering if (like the NC so-private-lawsuit rule) the kicker in this so-obviously-unconstitutional law is the part about sex only within straight marriage. So basically any woman who refers to a boyfriend can be fired from her job. (Or any man who refers to a girlfriend, but what are the odds on that.) Plus all the usual doctor and pharmacy and hospital stuff. “Nope, I won’t let you get in the ambulance to go to the hospital and deliver your baby until I see your marriage license.”