I was going to say this is a foolish move that will only hurt the economy… then I remembered we were talking about Mississippi: the impoverished state with no business being impoverished. They’re going to be tough to pressure, considering their list of non-fast-food corporations has got to be pretty thin…
This creates some international ripples. I.e .made headline on leading German news sites.
Just thought y’all would like to know.
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Are the sex police who determine if the people having sex in part B are married the same officers who determine if the person ordering the wedding cake is gay?
I hear a lot of the GOP base - especially Trump supporters - complain about not being respected, being looked down on, attacked for their beliefs by city folk and educated “coastal elites,” etc.
I’m sorry, but where were you lot when I and my friends faced abuse and exclusion and unrelenting hatred for who we love? Oh right, you were the ones ladling it out on us. Doesn’t feel too good now that the shoe’s on the other foot, does it?
These crocodile tears of oh boo-hoo, nobody respects my rural right-wing sensibilities anymore just infuriate me. Respect is a two-way street, and I’ve been getting nothing but unbounded hatred from the John Deere set since I was 13.
It’s all about them all the time. They want respect and tolerance for their political and religious beliefs but are entirely unwilling to reciprocate, and in fact will go well out of their way to stick it to anyone who doesn’t look, love, and worship like them.
So no, I don’t feel bad for looking down on Trumpists and people backing these asinine “religious freedom laws” as uneducated hick bastards. I don’t feel bad referring to them as the malignant cancer on our body politic. And I certainly don’t feel bad for saying they are the single largest impediment to any meaningful social progress in this country. They’ve been far harsher to far more people for far longer.
So I’ll be over here playing the world’s smallest fiddle for your delicate redneck republican sensibilities.
Remember: as ye sow, so shall ye reap.
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Part B doesn’t distinguish between gay and straight sex. It says that you can fire someone, refuse services to them, or refuse to sell or rent property to them if you find out that they engage in sex outside of a heterosexual marriage, and that offends you.
Given that, I wonder how many Mississippi legislators could be legally discriminated against under this law.
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At what point do we have to impose a government review panel on all legislation coming out of certain states that have an established record of pissing on the Constitution? These local governments have devolved into running up one idiotic flag after another, just so they can do a little dance before the ACLU can shoot them down after a few months/years/decades of court proceedings. Why not just stop all this BS in its tracks before it becomes law? It would save a lot of money, but maybe that’s the whole point. Keep the ACLU busy running after the turdlets while the truly profitable abuses fester.
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Not gonna happen. π in the sky.
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States rights = widespread discrimination and voter disenfranchisement.
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Clearly the only solution there is to CUT TAXES so that the TAX CUTS can help pay for that legal defense.
Woo!
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We all know that this law is grossly unconstitutional, and that it violates a wide variety of rights granted by the Constitution.
I just hope that the lawsuit challenging it is filed before the end of the month.
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This reminds me of the time Sammy Davis Jr. told of being on a flight that got deverted to a more southerly route and flew over Mississippi at the time he was in the bathroom, thus fulfilling a life long dream.
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So let’s say two women (or two men) are having dinner in a restaurant. They could be:
- Siblings, parent and child, cousins or other relatives.
- Friends.
- Colleagues.
- A gay couple.
How exactly does the restaurant tell, unless they start having sex on the table, which would be grounds to kick them out without any law.
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Yep. They are the most backward state and they want to make sure it stays that way.
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Also, purple unicorns. That “objectively determined” line leaves out all the intersex people, all the people with anomalies that cause their bodies to present as one sex while the chromosomes say they’re of the other (sometimes permanently, sometimes only until puberty, whee).
But then “objectively determined” and “religious belief” never were very good bedfellows.
If they’re men and don’t have the right kind of tattoos or talk about their guns, or don’t swear.
If they’re women and they have short hair or wear pants or have the wrong kind of tattoos.
Good Christians have infallible gaydar.
(Like my old best friend’s ex-mother-in-law, who was sure he was gay because he wore hair over his collar, had glasses and owned neither a pickup truck nor the rifle to keep on its gunrack.)
Basically this law is intended to be a “be a bigoted asswipe in whatever way you want with no consequences” card.
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No matter how good your gaydar is, you would be guaranteed to throw out a whole bunch of people who weren’t a gay couple. Guaranteed. And you would spend the rest of your life in court…
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Lincoln got it WRONG: he should have let the south go.
Slavery would have died anyway, and everyone would be off without the south’s sick racial hate.
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So everyone is off of Toyotas and Nissans?
Just went you thought Mississippi’s future economic prospects could not get any worse, they just did.