not too long ago we were we were successful in getting Arizona to strike
down
their license to discriminate law a bill that many people believed would have
allowed
for the religious to discriminate against religious minorities
homosexuals and things like that that is not law in Arizona but unfortunately
during all of that in the wake up the Mississippi was able to pass a very
similar bill
weaker in some areas but just as strong in the important ones
and so that was Senate bill 26 81 the mississippi Religious Freedom
Restoration Act
all I got that is our from little exercise in Orwellian language
it would allow businesses and individuals to deny services to anyone
if serving that person organization would substantially burden individuals'
religious exercise which might make sense
if you never define what religious exercise actually supposed to mean
and allow it to mean in operation those people are picky and I don't want to
serve them
at sounds childish but I'm only doing this because it is incredibly freaking
childish
yeah I don't think there's any real basis for them to say that there's a
a religious exemption that they that there's anything in the Bible for
example of these are questions that were talking about their have indelible
questions or super right-wing evangelical Christians anyone about it
that way
that are saying this is not like some other group who's gonna
try to come in I would be awesome it atheists with day
yeah we're not at work and is our business and we're not gonna serve
christians in evangelical
got a fish thing on your car for get it done it might not be a good business
decision that will never do anything up with Odom about it is the idea that you
know these businesses think that they have
that they should have some kinda for exemption to this that these people that
run these businesses
you know there's a distinction to be made when you are
somebody who's generally serving the public you know selling your services to
the public that you're not allowed to discriminate you're not allowed to use
putting find an exemption for yourself from federal law
no your not exempt from the law starry not help
know they will say that they actually they they took a little bit of a
different assertive
on I guess angle on this when they were trying to accomplish much the same thing
as the arizona bill
they actually patter did patterned after earlier federal legislation that
provide some protections for religious %uh practice and things like that
and %uh so they would basically say that now with that the current that that 20th
681
it requires the government to provide a compelling interest to force business
owners to go against their beliefs that's the sort of language that had
been in
earlier nineties federal legislation but I i think that it's
ridiculous I mean there they don't mention homosexuals they don't mention
atheists or anything like that there's nothing I gender identity or married
explicitly
but we understand from the previous public debate that happened during the
run-up to this version of the bill
that that's what they mean it also by the way adds the words in God We Trust
the official state seal see understand where they're coming from
but look I I would be the first person
if people were actually interfering with the significant and non harmful
religious exercise that you have if a homosexual
was coming up and knocking the way for out of your hand before you put in your
mouth
that would be a bad thing if you lit a candle and an atheist blew it out every
time you lit
okay they should not be able to interfere with you actual practice with
an actual practice religion but has said nothing in the Bible about not covering
gay weddings when it comes to making cakes or something like that that's that
the fiction that they made up in the past decade
and it's ridiculous that they feel the need to protect themselves anytime you
hear republican by the way talking about rights need to be protected you can be
damn sure
that its up the biggest majority in the country the strongest group
meeting what they already do one hindered to be further protected every
single time without fail raising hot from I get tired of having
everything in you know the again he said in the strongest group like
put into play all the time yet to visit because the victim
the religious freedom restoration act would've lost call it was a lot of pink
on any event how much would you give me the day
when just lost to religious freedom yeah the creek without any finally stepped
foot in mississippi get paper
at long last so one group that had been trying to fight against this bill
unsuccessfully as a group called get equal they have a a local here
we hope that the governor would see that this bill will further isolate
mississippi within the business community which is a damn good point
we hope the governor would see this bill will hurt those who live in the state
who are considering moving their people who now probably will not
we hope the governor would see this bill will in fact for his own family and
people who he loves
we hope that the family values the governor spouse would hold true
and he would act in a way that fully values his own family
unfortunately hatred and ignorance went out today and our hearts are with those
fair-minded mississippians to call the stay home
that's a great point the the the governor will sign this analog their
members of his family who
probably with good cause don't feel comfortable revealing perhaps their
sexual orientation
or if they're a ps2 him and they are being heard and their lives are harder
for no reason other than for this guy to feel a bit more comfortable
about an orientation that he has Christianity that every segment of
society says just awesome and great
already