Attorneys defend Mississippi law on denying LGBT services
Source: Associated Press
Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
Updated 5:41 pm, Monday, November 13, 2017
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Attorneys for Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant are defending a state law that lets government workers and private business people cite religious beliefs to deny services to LGBT people.
In arguments filed Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court, they wrote that the law protects people from being penalized for refusing to participate in activities they consider "immoral," such as same-sex marriage.
Legal experts say the 2016 Mississippi law is the broadest religious-objections law enacted by any state since the high court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015.
The law took effect last month amid multiple court challenges. It protects three beliefs: that marriage is only between a man and a woman, that sex should only occur in such a marriage and that a person's gender is determined at birth and cannot be altered.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Attorneys-defend-Mississippi-law-on-denying-LGBT-12354279.php
sandensea
(21,657 posts)In the great tradition of holier-than-thous, they're probably not too different from the people they're attacking.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)God took Eve from Adam
Adam had both sexes within him
Man therefore has two sexes within him
The rib taken from Adam had both sexes within it because it was taken from Adam
So who are these people that they are better than their god??
Here endth the Lesson..............
Behind the Aegis
(53,979 posts)Even with stories like this, too many seem to think the GLBT movement is "done" because our struggle "ended" with marriage equality. Wrong! This is also why it is so fucking annoying that self-identified liberals and progressives who support "fag jokes" (using homophobia as the punchline to attack right-wingers like the "president" ) is counterproductive and damaging to the GBLT community.