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Obama: Mississippi and North Carolina anti-LGBT laws 'should be overturned'
Politico ^ | April 22, 2016 | Nick Gass

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Mississippi; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: bathrooms; homosexualagenda; obama
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The Democrats back the homosexual and transsexual agenda. I don't want the Republicans to join them.
1 posted on 04/22/2016 11:13:10 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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It appears our defacto nominee has.


2 posted on 04/22/2016 11:15:45 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: reaganaut1

Barack and Mitchell Obama are a pain in the butt.


3 posted on 04/22/2016 11:15:49 AM PDT by ZULU (Trump is the answer. The Establishment is the problem.)
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To: reaganaut1

Yeah.

The question is:
Is Obola a homosexual Muslim extremist atheistic communist?
An atheistic Muslim-symnpathizing communist?
A Muslim-extremist agnostic Christian-Jewish hating homosexual?

All of the above?


4 posted on 04/22/2016 11:15:51 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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Let me guess...Obola *specifically* encouraged foreign tourists to avoid NC and MS.
5 posted on 04/22/2016 11:16:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: reaganaut1

Thanks for checking in Odumbo. But this is a States issue. You and your federal jagoffs needn’t bother with all this hand-wringing.


6 posted on 04/22/2016 11:16:41 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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To: reaganaut1

Screw you, Zero.

The states tell the federal government what to do on matters such as this, not the other way around.


7 posted on 04/22/2016 11:17:37 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: reaganaut1

The leading republican nominee has taken the same position as every other leftist freak on this. Sad.


8 posted on 04/22/2016 11:18:13 AM PDT by optiguy
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To: Resolute Conservative

Quote:

“It appears our defacto nominee has.”

Bull.


9 posted on 04/22/2016 11:18:59 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: reaganaut1

Can my CAT used the restrooms?

its a he but that problem was taken care of so can he use the ladies’ room?


10 posted on 04/22/2016 11:19:09 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Gay State Conservative

he can take a flying leap .
He has no say about the Uk leaving the Euro , and he damn sure is a pervert by pushing these perverted homosexual , cross dressing views.


11 posted on 04/22/2016 11:19:30 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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How dare the citizens of those states live under laws of their own devising as per the Constitution.

Every knee shall bend.


12 posted on 04/22/2016 11:19:32 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo ( Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx)
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The laws we had were for people. Now we have special laws for special people.


13 posted on 04/22/2016 11:19:57 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: optiguy

Quote:

“The leading republican nominee has taken the same position as every other leftist freak on this. Sad.”

Bull. Trump said this is a state matter and the Federal government should stay out of it. Don’t lie.


14 posted on 04/22/2016 11:20:20 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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“I think it’s very important for us not to send signals that anybody is treated differently.”

For goodness’ sake. Why do we bother with separate men and women’s bathrooms, then? Or Affirmative Action, for that matter?


15 posted on 04/22/2016 11:21:44 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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(Sigh) These aren't "anti-LGBT" laws, and there's a perfectly functional system for their overturning if that is what the state governments desire. 0bama's problem is that he thinks it's the function of the federal government to overturn them whenever and wherever its godlike occupants feel like.
16 posted on 04/22/2016 11:23:07 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Because being a pervert is the same as being Black—both are naughty to the Bible-thumping white rube (Bible-thumping Black rubes are “gxds” to liberals, though).[/sarcasm]


17 posted on 04/22/2016 11:24:21 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: TTFlyer

You are the liar. Trump said “people should use whatever bathroom they FEEL appropriate”. Stop soothing your guilty conscience by calling other people liars who tell the truth. Or not. I don’t give a crap either way.


18 posted on 04/22/2016 11:24:21 AM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: Billthedrill

Obama always wants to wade in on stuff like this but pays no mind to what his actual duties as executive are to protect the borders and protect the US from foreign degradation of our trade and sovereignty.

Of course, that is what the knuckleheads who elected wanted, some weird social cultural warrior for their BS issues.


19 posted on 04/22/2016 11:27:11 AM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: reaganaut1

O and Reggie sittin in a tree.


20 posted on 04/22/2016 11:28:11 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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