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Seattle Mayor Prohibits City Employees From Traveling to Indiana
ABCNews ^ | March 28, 2015 | EMILY SHAPIRO

Posted on 03/29/2015 8:15:53 PM PDT by Steelfish

Seattle Mayor Prohibits City Employees From Traveling to Indiana Mar 28, 201 By EMILY SHAPIRO

The mayor of Seattle today prohibited municipal employees from traveling to Indiana on city funds, as the backlash spread against the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray's decision comes in response to the law signed Thursday by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence that allows businesses to refuse service to gays and lesbians for religious reasons.

Murray said Indiana's new law "doesn't reflect the values" of Seattle.

"Seattle has been a leader in the fight to protect civil rights and ensure equality for all people -- no matter who you are, or who you love," Murray said today in a statement.

"This is why I am ordering that none of our taxpayer dollars should go toward supporting this discriminatory law," Murray's statement continued.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; indiana; mikepence; rfra; seattle; washington
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1 posted on 03/29/2015 8:15:53 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Americans are still free no matter how much they hate that fact.


2 posted on 03/29/2015 8:17:08 PM PDT by The Toll
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Murray you idiot - Washington has the same sort of law!


3 posted on 03/29/2015 8:17:25 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Why would city employees need to travel on official bidness outside the State?


4 posted on 03/29/2015 8:17:32 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: The Toll

EBT Americans are NOT free.


5 posted on 03/29/2015 8:18:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Why would city employees need to travel on official bidness outside the State?

My first thought, also.

6 posted on 03/29/2015 8:19:39 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: Steelfish

Tolerance for anyone except for those who disagree with you. Liberal bigots.


7 posted on 03/29/2015 8:19:40 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: Steelfish

Is Seattle Mayor Ed Murray insane?

Or is he just a hate-filled idiot?


8 posted on 03/29/2015 8:20:05 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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I wonder if he is going to do the same for Illinois, Connecticut, and Rhode Island? All have nearly the same law, BEFORE Indiana enacted it.


9 posted on 03/29/2015 8:20:14 PM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: Zeppo

Actually, he’s gay.


10 posted on 03/29/2015 8:20:35 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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The false narrative continues. 20 states have pretty much the identical laws in place. There are a lot of people in these states protesting the Indiana law as though it something unprecedented and saying it is something that it is not.


11 posted on 03/29/2015 8:22:08 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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As members of the Ruling Class’ JV, they’re afforded some piece of the jet set lifestyle. I’m not even kidding.


12 posted on 03/29/2015 8:22:44 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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Sue the mayor into bankruptcy AFTER firing them...


13 posted on 03/29/2015 8:22:44 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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"Seattle has been a leader in the fight to protect civil rights and ensure equality for all people -- no matter who you are, or who you love," Murray said today in a statement. "This is why I am ordering that none of our taxpayer dollars should go toward supporting this discriminatory law," Murray's statement continued.

So passing a law to protect people against discrimination = discrimination. Were your city employees planning to go there to force people to participate in a same-sex wedding ceremony against their will and then be harassed out of existence, Mr. Mayor? How would taking a trip there "support this 'discriminatory' law"? Makes absolutely no sense all around. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

14 posted on 03/29/2015 8:26:44 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Actually, he’s gay.

No, he isn't. He's a hate-filled, intolerant homosexual. There's nothing glad or cheerful about that.

15 posted on 03/29/2015 8:28:57 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Paladin2; Sooth2222
Why would city employees need to travel on official bidness outside the State?

If you check the City of Seattle travel expense reimbursements for the past several years I'm sure you will find numerous trips to LA, San Fran, Vegas, NYC maybe even Honolulu, London, Paris, Geneva...

"In 1987 there was a Seattle delegation trip to Reykjavik"
Seattle's 21 Sister Cities / Reykjavik, Iceland

16 posted on 03/29/2015 8:29:49 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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“Sue the mayor into bankruptcy AFTER firing them...”

What would be the grounds of the lawsuit?


17 posted on 03/29/2015 8:30:47 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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It might be better for business if Indiana banned city officials from Seattle.


18 posted on 03/29/2015 8:34:12 PM PDT by excalibur21
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He's a hate-filled, intolerant homosexual. There's nothing glad or cheerful about that.

There's no reason I would want to go to a city with a mayor like him.

A sick pervert

19 posted on 03/29/2015 8:36:18 PM PDT by TYVets
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Is not this law darn near a mirror image of
Religious Freedom act signed by Clinton in 1993?

Do not about half of the states have a similar law on the books.

Is not the Mayor just playing to his low information constituents?

I thought so,


20 posted on 03/29/2015 8:37:01 PM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
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