Posted on 04/22/2016 11:13:10 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Mississippi and North Carolina ought to rethink their laws affecting the rights of its LGBT citizens, President Barack Obama said Friday, while inviting all Britons to visit the states nonetheless.
Before ending a news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Obama fielded a question about the United Kingdom issuing travel advice to its citizens on Friday about the new laws in Mississippi and North Carolina that affect the rights of British LGBT travelers.
Attempting to assuage concerns and not offend the citizens of those states, Obama told the British people that they should come visit North Carolina and Mississippi, noting their "wonderful" and "hospitable people."
"And you should come and enjoy yourselves, and I think you’ll be treated with extraordinary hospitality," the president said. "I also think that the laws that have been passed there are wrong and should be overturned, and they’re in response to politics in part — in part to some strong emotions that are generated by people, some of whom are good people but I just disagree with them when it comes to respecting the equal rights of all people regardless of sexual orientation, whether they’re transgender or gay or lesbian."
Obama said that while he respects the "different viewpoints, I think it’s very important for us not to send signals that anybody is treated differently." He then pointed to the United States' federal system as a reason for the trans-Atlantic warning.
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Obama and his fed jackals have no say in state law, so he should just STFU.
Oh, yeah. That has always been the attraction of control of the federal government to social activists, the notion that it is ultimate power in the hands of a select few, which in an increasing number of cases, it is. The Anti-federalists saw it coming and warned us. Hamilton argued that the federal government would never intrude in areas where it had no specifically enumerated powers. I’m guessing he lost that one.
If liberals really have a problem with Mississippi and North Carolina, and any other state that has laws they don't agree with, why don't they call for all of them to be kicked out of the United States?
Be bold, Obama, demand they leave the Union.
And the NBA? Why don't they confiscate the franchise from Charlotte, and move it to Vermont.
They want to bully here and there, but they don't want to pick a big fight that would make the states fight back.
As far as I'm concerned, we'd be better off if we had more free and independent states that didn't have to be cower at the whims of the elite.
Hopefully these two states are leading a charge to bring back some common sense and decency to America.
Bruce err Catlin Jenner will still be confused, or has he had his package surgically removed yet?
Obama doesn’t get to cast a vote for our state legislative representatives here in NC, he isn’t a resident and not their constituiant.
So, from the bottom of my heart to him, I say, just f**k you, you f**king f**k.
“Travel advice?” It sounds like they’re afraid they’d be pulled over by ISIS members and beheaded. Thanks, Media.
“constituiant.”
You know I meant constituent. :-)
Yes, and the same people here support him because he is “anti-establishment”.
Dear Mr. Obama,
In the new spirit of human/canine
trans-specieist thinking I want you to understand that my urinating on
your leg is not marking territory,
I just don’t like you.
Be very careful when you cheer laws that are passed. They often end up in courts that rule in ways folks really don’t like
The Democrats are good are fighting back against the system that they do not like. Why can’t Republicans (conservative) do the same.
When the Supreme court overturns a state law against something that only rational people want. Let the state’s legislature immediately pass another law with SIMLIAR language and force the heathens to take the new law to court and then do it again and again. . .
Freedom of Association is a fundamental right, as is private property. You may serve or not serve anyone you please. The market will punish those who choose not to serve certain customers and reward those who do. If the government mandates you serve those you would rather not, you’re really just managing a government-owned property.
Take off your Trump knee pads and review what Trump actually said. He said people should be allowed to use the restroom they "FEEL" comfortable using. If your safe space has been violated by my post, get over it. I did not lie.
Well said, but we haven’t had freedom of association since the civil rights movement and we don’t seem likely to return to it :(
Thank you; I am painfully aware of the erosion of our individual liberties.
FUBO.
Wonder how the Secret Service would react if a transgendered woman was about to enter a restroom that Malia or Sasha were in?
Hey, here’s another thing Trump and Obama have in common!
Try to be honest, they are NOT anti-homosexual/transvestite laws.
They are just commonsense laws reinforcing laws we already have had for hundreds of years,
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