Posted on 07/01/2016 8:46:41 AM PDT by ColdOne
JACKSON, Miss. – A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law that would let merchants and government employees cite religious beliefs in denying or delaying services to same-sex couples.
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U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves filed orders in two lawsuits blocking the law just moments before it was to take effect Friday.
State attorneys are expected to appeal.
The law would protect three beliefs: That marriage is only between a man and a woman; that sex should only take place in such a marriage; and that a person's gender is determined at birth and cannot be altered.
It would allow clerks to cite religious objections to recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and could affect adoptions and foster care, business practices and school bathroom policies.
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Screw em. Ignore the Feds.
In other words, this “federal judge” blocked a real common sense law....
God does not like to be ignored...haven’t you figured that out yet?
Could be why this Country is in such bad shape, you took God out, look what has happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a witness that virtually all world faiths, even the “evil” ones, bear.
Attempting to force a whole country into officially denying this, is going to court major kickback from heaven to the agents.
In the meantime Christians should sit tight. Maybe God doesn’t want a lot of them in government when SHTF, to protect them from the consequences.
And is this not what the federal courts have done with "same-sex marriage" and "gender identity?" Indeed, what this law does is the exact opposite of what Judge Reeves claims; it allows the individual to refuse to accept what the federal courts have proclaimed all must believe.
Obammy 2010 Fed. Judge appointee
Exactly.........
Once again, the Feds issue their unconstitutional decrees, which are null and void. But, they have the “force” to enforce their tyranny.
What we are seeing is a slide from soft tyranny into hard tyranny.
Bake that Cake, the Master orders his Serf!
Another Feral Judge.
The national government is corrupt beyond hope.
I have a major issue with the part “sex should only occur within a marriage”! I don’t know why the States just get out of the marriage business. Let the Churches handle the Marriage part. If the state want to issue a license let it be a civil union contract/license. Once the Gay agenda gets this issue behind them, next on the list will be forcing the Church to perform their marriages.
It’s time to repeal the 1964 civil rights law. When a law has more power than a constitutional amendment it is no longer valid.
Land of The Free. Home of The Brave.
My ***.........
Another liberal judge deciding the gay agenda must be rammed down American throats.
Happy Independence Day!
One more compelling argument for why we must go all out for Donald Trump.
The religion of Sodom and Gomarrah has regained their power. They were kicked to the closet for 3000 years, but now they are back.
The Creator seems to be falling behind on His smiting.
We are ruled by tyranny of the left. It shall end.
I wouldn’t be surprised if FReepers know the Constitution better than the referenced judge does. If this judge read FR, then he would know the following about the Mississippi religious objection law.
First, when the states ratified the 14th Amendment (14A), they prohibited themselves from abridging all constitutionally enumerated rights which they have amended the Constitution to protect. This is evidenced by Section 1 of 14A.
14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
So the Mississippi religious objections law actually compliments Section 1 of 14A, Mississippi citizens constitutionally protected from state abridgment of their religious freedoms, protections which pro-LGBT activist judges have been wrongly ignoring, even if Mississippi lawmakers hadn’t made the religious objections law.
And speaking of constitutionally enumerated rights, note that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called LGBT “rights.” So the referenced judge is unthinkingly attempting to use politically correct, constitutionally unprotected LGBT “rights” to trump constitutionally enumerated rights, just as low-information government officials in several pro-LGBT activist states have been doing to harass Christian business owners.
Next, the Founding States had constitutionally prohibited both the feds and the states from establishing protected / privileged classes which is effectively what this federal judge is trying to do for LGBT people imo. These prohibitions are evidenced by the following clauses.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States [emphasis added]: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility [emphasis added].
This misguided, institutionally indoctrinated gentleman shouldn’t be on the bench imo.
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