Posted on 04/13/2016 11:52:13 AM PDT by Cyberman
More than 60 businesses including some of Missouri's biggest corporate names joined a coalition opposed to state legislation that would protect businesses objecting on religious grounds to same-sex marriages, the latest sign of a backlash against such proposals across the country.
Agricultural giant Monsanto, prescription drug benefits manager Express Scripts, and pet food maker Nestle Purina are among employers to join the recently formed Missouri Competes, according to gay rights advocacy group PROMO, which released the list just hours before a House committee heard testimony from business, sports and religious groups. Dozens crammed in the Capitol basement for the late-night hearing.
The formation of the coalition comes amid business pushback to legislation in other states protecting those opposed to gay marriage.
Several states and cities have banned travel to Mississippi in response to a law signed by the Republican governor last week to let workers cite religious beliefs to deny services to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
The Missouri Chamber of Commerce, which opposes the Missouri measure, has pointed to Indiana as another example of the business backlash. A public-private tourism group has estimated that Indiana lost $60 million in hotel profits, tax revenues and other economic benefits after Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Pence last year signed religious-objections legislation....
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#EconomicTerrorism
It’s about time there’s some exposure and backlash toward the gay mafia in corporate America!
Big business does not like any moral values, especially American values!
#FaggiesRule
End Times are near.
Unlike the laws in other states, this is an amendment to the state Constitution. Therefore Nixon can’t veto it; if it passes the legislature then it goes to the voters.
I know the First Amendment already does that, but apparently that document got lost when obama had a garage sale at the National Archives.
Somehow I sense that this is really about the oppression of little people and small business. Big business has been really successful in conspiring with the “Washington cartel”, to borrow from Cruz, to make it hard on regular people and especially small business. If small businesses rebel against the “gay mafia” they will reap much business off the big boys. Can’t let that happen.
Most big businesses are in bed with the leftists, even though the left would like to seize their assets.
It’s not just a lack of moral values, it’s a lack of intelligence and plain common sense. They are turning down a defense against lawsuits from a segment of the population that loves to sue. Thye are begging to be ripped off.
Stupid stupid stupid.
Selling their souls.
Has it ever before been done so openly?
All I know is religious freedom is guaranteed by the First-—the FIRST-—Amendment.
What faggots and degenerates do with their diseased organs isn’t mentioned ANYPLACE, so far as I know.
> Most big businesses are in bed with the leftists, even
> though the left would like to seize their assets.
Actually, they are not leftists in the classic sense. Their useful idiots may be, but the elites are not.
They are totalitarian, authoritarian globalists.
They constitute a global oligarchy that will subjugate the rest of humanity after exterminating a large portion of them with a combination of planned wars, epidemics, widespread civil unrest, and “natural” disasters.
Read the Book of Revelation.
Time to pass laws that outlaw blackmail of this nature. Fine these beasts on their way out of the state.
I find this article quite inspirational!!!
If it is NOW “pure and noble” to make one’s decisions purely on SOCIAL and/or RELIGIOUS grounds, I now do the following: Decisons of brands of food, gasoline, clothing, electronics, automobiles, shoes, medicines, work supplies will henceforth be governed by the company’s ethical, political and moral positions of today’s issues.
I shall make up a questionaire, to be sent to those I currently do business with. According to their answers I will utilize the FREEDOM of CHOICE I have as an American.
I will feel better when I spend my money.
Suppose the freaks get absolutely everything they want. Then what will they do?
Big Business thinks it can set the values for the people.
Chamber of Commerce, shove it.
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.
Regarding business owners using 14A to protect themselves from misguided, pro-LGBT state officials and other supporters, note that Acts 22:23-30 indicates that Paul claimed his rights as a Roman citizen to save himself from being flogged.
On a related note, consider that the Supreme Court clarified in United States v. Cruikshank that only the federal and state governments, not ordinary citizens, are obligated to respect the rights which the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect. So while neither federal or state governments can’t make laws or policies which discriminate against citizens on the basis of constitutionally enumerated protections, such protections don’t apply when a citizen discriminates against another citizen.
Oh, big time. Small business and Christianity—NOT in that order—is being targeted by the homosexual lobby and big business.
If you refuse to patronize businesses that are in bed with any part of the leftist-globalist agenda, you will wind up a wealthy man because you won’t be spending much money. I don’t know what you’ll do about transportation, food or energy, but you’ll still have your money.
If the state would pass receiprocity laws banned purchase from those businesses and travel to meetings in cities attacking the star with state or state controlled funds these boycotts and threats would disappear.
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