Discussion: Mississippi's Sweeping Religious Freedom Bill Heads To Governor's Desk

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… Kristofacists don’t do parsing… remember “kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out”…?..

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… yes, and they’re gonna make sure they drag the rest of us down with them…

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As long as there is one within 150 miles, that isn’t an undue burden on their right to practice their religion.

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I’m not a lawyer, but don’t laws like these that specifically rely on protecting a religion run directly afoul of the Constitution’s clause about there being no official religion? Seems like this is heading directly to SCOTUS.

And if one state that can make a law saying that Christians should be allowed to discriminate, couldn’t another State make a law saying that a business has a right to refuse service to women not wearing burkas? How about a law saying that hotels have a right not to rent rooms to multi-racial couples?

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“sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage”

So what is the penalty for an unmarried woman getting pregnant? After all, having sex is the leading cause of pregnancy and it sounds like sex outside of marriage would be illegal and breaking the law should have a penalty, right Donald? And just think if the same bill making sex outside of marriage illegal was passed in Alabama and presented to Gov. Bentley for his signature…

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I hope you aren’t suggestin’ that this fine piece o’ legislatin’ was motivated bah big-o-tray. Gaawd commands us to love* everbody.

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You, sir or madam, win the Internet for the day.

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So if one walks int a store, will the owner, manager, etc. ask every potential customer what their religious beliefs are? Will churches have to give parishioners an ID card for proof? This should be interesting.

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Kansas, another mighty fine red state, is planning on impeaching its Supreme Court justices who don’t vote for continuing anti-abortion laws, who overturn death penalty verdicts and in general don’t adhere to the right wing course the state is on.

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I think this is an unanswered question in Trumps “block the Muslims” insanity. What stops a Muslim desperate to leave some Middle East hellhole, and otherwise eligible for some form of entry into the United States, from telling an immigration screener they’re an atheist?

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I would even dare to say that having sex even has a connection to evolution…

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…based on the belief that marriage should be between a man and a woman

…based on the belief that “sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage” and that the belief that gender is determined at birth

Why not complete this shit sundae with clauses prohibiting dancing, music with a beat, short skirts, alcohol, fornication, and, as the cherry on top, shariah law.

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AND there is at least one in Mississippi. Even the regressive 5th Circuit realized that “We … hold that Mississippi may not shift its obligation to respect the established constitutional rights of its citizens to another state. Such a proposal would not only place an undue burden on the exercise of a constitutional right, but would also disregard a state’s obligation under the principle of federalism – applicable to all 50 states.”

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Once the opiate of the masses, religion is now more frequently like huffing paint.

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It’ll fail, state that is in 50th in almost everything will throw more money down a hole.

Will then blame homos and blacks, the source of all the world’s problems.

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Man, the Reynolds Company must sell a lot of aluminum foil in North Carolina in order to keep up the demand for all of those hats.

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This is great news. As a devout atheist, I am overjoyed to find a state that will legally allow me to discriminate against people who believe that a particular book is the literal word of a God that I don’t believe in. I will soon be establishing a network of convenience stores in Mississippi that will not sell to anybody wearing Christian ornamentation or bearing Christian reading materials of any kind.

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Religion is the meth of the masses.

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LOL. Every bit of that is explicitly uconstitutional under SCOTUS precedent. Apparently, Christian conservatives have decided to start trying their own nullification laws and will be yelling about seceding come January 2017 when HRC takes the oath.

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