How Southern states are now challenging gay marriage
Source: yahoo news
Four more states joined a broad conservative push against same-sex marriage this week, as several moved forward legislation that protects businesses, officials, and organizations who refuse to serve gay couples. In Kentucky, lawmakers pushed to create separate marriage licenses for gay and straight weddings.
Citing religious liberty, lawmakers in Virginia, Georgia, and Mississippi approved bills that they say offers equal protection for same-sex marriage opponents and supporters alike. These are states where there is far less public support for the Supreme Court's June 2015 effective legalization of gay marriage than polls show nationwide.
Although majorities of Americans support the right to gay marriage, Southern states, in particular, show a different story. In Mississippi, for example, where support for gay marriage is the lowest in the country, only 25 percent support it, and just 54 percent believe it should be illegal to discriminate against gay individuals, according to polls by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). Overall, 53 percent of Americans support gay marriage, while 37 percent oppose it; 71 percent support laws against discriminating against gay or transgender people for housing or jobs.
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On Friday, Mississippi's House voted 80-39 to pass a bill protecting state officials, faith leaders, and religious organizations who act on their beliefs that marriage is between a man and a woman, that sex is only acceptable between husband and wife, and that gender is established at birth. The protections would include circuit clerks and judges, as well as employment decisions, such as firing an employee whose actions are considered out of line with a religious organization's views. The bill is now being held for further debate before going to the state Senate.
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)it will only get worse
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)gonna be interesting to see how that plays out down the road.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)target for them. I feel so sorry for many of the people in these backward states. I was in one and moved, I just could not tolerate the dumb backward haters any longer. And for them their religion is a license to hate. I know, we're supposed to stay and work to change things, but eventually life is too short to spend what's left with a bunch of really stupid backward people. My sincere apologies to any DUers in those states.
Botany
(70,551 posts).... when the civil rights movement was trying to make them live by the rule of law that
black people were just as "American" as they were.
I am sick of those bastards using their "cloud guy" as cover for their hate.
keithbvadu2
(36,865 posts)I will believe that a business has religious rights when the business takes Holy Communion.
Not the owners or employees; the business.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)rurallib
(62,433 posts)they'll jail half their legislature won't they?
Calling David Vitter, calling the Blue Ridge hiker on and on.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Conservatives always have to be oppressing someone.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)beliefs that marriage is between a man and a woman, that sex is only acceptable between husband and wife, and that gender is established at birth.
What do they do with babies born with ambiguous genitalia (hermaphrodites)?
Ambiguous genitalia is a birth defect of the sex organs that makes it unclear whether an affected newborn is a girl or boy.
If it was god's decision, why would he leave it so ambiguous?
Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)keep their doors open.
I can't stop them from hating.
I can take all my business elsewhere.
WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Shoppers should be able to make an informed decision on who to patronize and who NOT to as well.
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)My state is acting stupid about it too. We can't fix our roads, educate our kids, or create jobs for our citizens, but by gawd we can dig in and act like morons to make sure grown-ass adults aren't allowed to get married.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)for opposite sex couples to rent hotel rooms and apartments now? Good luck with having any conventions or businesses come to your state. Remember this says sex is only acceptable between husband and wife. Gays are only the first step here.