Posted on 03/28/2016 7:19:56 AM PDT by madprof98
Gov. Nathan Deal said he will veto the “religious liberty” bill that triggered a wave of criticism from gay rights groups and business leaders and presented him with one of the most consequential challenges he’s faced since his election to Georgia’s top office.
The measure “doesn’t reflect the character of our state or the character of its people,” the governor said Monday in prepared remarks. He said state legislators should leave freedom of religion and freedom of speech to the U.S. Constitution.
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That’s the irony on the film business. States actually lose money because of the tax credits. The main reason States pursue Hollywood is the “prestige”, but study after study shows it’s a net-loss for the States.
Now you know why Trump carried the Southern States. Most Republicans are just old Democrats which at best makes them RINOs
I've always thought that we conservatives have lost the culture war and that we are now like the Jap soldiers hiding out on remote islands in the South Pacific, not knowing that the war was lost and over.
Now you know why Trump carried the Southern states. Most Republicans in the South are just converted Democrats like him. Makes them all liberal Republicans
I wish a someone would look for gay/pro-gay businesses to have them discriminate against them and then sue them to give them a taste of their own medicine
Yeh our native Georgia values are just fine its the RINO legislators that keep getting voted back in causing the problems.
“I will sill take Deal over Michelle Nunn or Jason Carter or Kasim Reed”
That’s how Deal got re-elected. Nobody could stomach the thought of Jason Carter.
I think it’s insane we need a law to protect someone from not being forced to work for someone else or not allowing men to dress like women and use the women’s restroom.
Gay, lgbt, pervets. What difference does it make?
Well, do you really want my answer? As long as America has become so depraved as to now legally and morally equate faggot-marriage as being the same as a husband-and-wife, then I no longer have the slightest interest in seeing this nation preserved. It is the signifying demarcation point for me that America has become a truly sick, perverted entity, of which I’ll no longer be willing to lift even a finger to help.
If the GOP is the first to die, because of its endless betrayals, then that is perfectly fine with me.
Southerners have been too polite for too long.
I appreciate your answer even if I don’t agree with all of it. I would like to think that if we at least slow the decline by preventing total control for the democrats, then we have a chance to restore — or at least retain what is left of — our freedoms and our republic. Therefore, I maintain some hope of turning the tide by working within the GOP. If the GOP collapses or fails at this juncture, when the shape of the supreme court could be irreparably twisted into a leftist star chamber for decades, I believe our country as we have known it will be gone forever.
I really question the benefit of voting when our "elected" leaders listen to corporations over We the People.
GA has solid "red" majorities and what did it give us?
A sniveling gubner who got on his knees for coke and home depot and rob reiner.
Well, the slow-the-decline argument just doesn’t resonate with me anymore, because I’m already at a point where I belive “the country as we have known it” is already dead and gone. Faggot-marriage was that point for me.
If there’s any remote optimism in my bleakness, it’s that I believe the death of the GOP will not necessarily empower the leftist Dem onslaught (as one’s first blush might conclude), but continue the tearing of the fabric that will ultimately engulf them as well, and send more people into defensive, tribalistic modes.
What region would you suggest actually holds true conservative values? Hhmmm?
Southerners finally realized the old Dem party was not them anymore, nor is the old Repub party the same as the one that offended them. Truth be told.
Fortunately, the NRA is one of the few entities on “our side” which has deep pockets, power, and a big microphone. The “religious lobby”, if there is such a thing (and there’s not, though the left likes to pretend that there is) has nothing like that, we’re not even a coherent group amongst ourselves on the Protestant side, and the Catholics, which do have deep pockets and a huge microphone, have not been choosing to engage (officially, from the top level-there are plenty of good solid Christian Catholics who do what they can individually and as small but mostly powerless groups), to say the least.
I agree with you. It’s over. The only question remaining is what will follow in its wake.
As with Georgia’s flag, the people didn’t get a vote. I wonder if things would have turned out differently if there’d been a referendum or whatever process Georgia uses, on this issue. If it would have turned out the same, I don’t think that Georgia can truly any longer be considered part of the “Bible Belt”.
It would seem that the left will no longer be able to accuse the right of “voting against our own best interests”, by which they have always meant that we voted for principle over material gain, in their opinion. I suppose they can now say that we have “joined the modern world” and are “on the right side of history”, now that we choose a dubious prosperity over doing what’s right whatever it may cost us.
We may now be on the “right side of history”, as they see it, but if they could only see the future as foretold in Revelation, they would rightfully be fearful of going with the momentum of history as it’s going. The only good thing is that we are getting closer and closer to the end of history, and that’s only a good thing for the souls which have been or will be saved before history ends.
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