Mississippi stands firm

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Mississippi stands firm

 

The governor doesn't hesitate to sign a religious liberty bill:

 

Mississippi's governor signed a law on Tuesday that allows public and private businesses to refuse service to gay couples based on the employers' religious beliefs.

Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1523, despite opposition from gay-rights groups and some businesses who say it enables discrimination. Some conservative and religious groups support the bill.

The measure's stated intention is to protect those who believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman, that sexual relations should only take place inside such marriages, and that male and female genders are unchangeable.

"This bill merely reinforces the rights which currently exist to the exercise of religious freedom as stated in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution," the Republican governor wrote in a statement posted to his Twitter account.

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Mississippi Is The Next Battle For Religious Freedom

By Steve Berman | April 10, 2016, 08:10am

 

Rob Hill is a Methodist pastor at Broadview United Methodist Church in Jackson, MS. He’s also the state director of Human Rights Watch, the Orwellian name for the LGBT group that places civilspecial rights for their victim class above God-given rights of conscience.

 

Hill went on CNN with Don Lemon to tell us that “religious freedom” (using scare quotes) is just a code-word for discrimination.

 

LEMON: Religious liberty — is that just a code for discrimination? I don’t want to provide services to certain people? Isn’t that just a code, Rob?

 

ROB HILL, MISSISSIPPI STATE DIRECTOR, HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN: Yes, it is a code. We have robust protections for religious beliefs under the first amendment of the constitution. So people have the right to believe whatever they want to about God and practice their faith and I certainly treasure that as a person of faith, but never has the first amendment been used or been allowed to — it was not intended to be used as a way to deny somebody else their civil rights. If you work for the government, if you are paid by tax payers, then you need to do your job. And if you can’t do your job, you need to find something else to do.

http://theresurgent.com/mississippi-is-the-next-battle-for-religious-freedom/