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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“I’m a d*mn transplant, but am very comfortable with native Georgia values”
Ditto here, Jason Spencer is pretty good also (not my rep but I know him and some of his works), I’m in South Ga. However my reps are a JOKE! Penny Houston, and Tyler Harper! Both should be ejected from State offices!
More like southern democrats who switch parties because the dems went to far left
I will sill take Deal over Michelle Nunn or Jason Carter or Kasim Reed
Good question!
I figure a lot of us are who won’t blink on this may be facing the same consequences soon.
May it be Lord!
They always cave to whoever they're most afraid of. Americans once knew how to handle pusilanimous politicians like this.
The first conflict of the American Revolution might be said to be the result of the Stamp Act of 1765. In August of 1765, Andrew Oliver, the Crown's stamp agent in Boston was hung in effigy from the Liberty Tree and forced to resign his commission.
"What a greater Joy did ever New England see
Than a Stampman hanging on a Tree".
Lt. Gov Thomas Hutchinson, regarded by the colonists as much too cozy with the Crown agents, and the sheriff attempted to break up the crowd around midnight only to be driven off by a hail of stones and harsh commentary.
A couple of weeks later a crowd gathered and lit a bonfire on King St in Boston. They then moved on to the house of William Story, a Crown agent in the admiralty court. The crowd swarmed the house, destroying Story's papers and his furnishings as well as Court records held there.
The crowd then moved on to the home of Boston's Controller of Customs, Benjamin Hallowell. They tore down his fence, broke out his windows, stormed the house and stripped it of contents.
The next target of the night was Hutchinson's home. The Lt. Gov. had gotten warning and sent his family to safety. But his eldest daughter had returned and declared she would stay unless Hutchinson also departed. Hutchinson retreated with her to a neighbor's house. The crowd did its work again and left only a shell and a partial roof to greet the dawn.
Thus our ancestors met overreaching government. It was not the last battle but merely a beginning. There followed the Declaratory Act and the Townsend Acts and the Tea Act. Martial law and direct resistance pushed back and forth until "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" and then it was game on.
Yay!! Let’s vote GOP for the win! Spit!!
And how do you think that would help?
Nathan Deal is just another soulless Big Business whore. Georgians: Remember thuis craven sellout to the perverts if and when Deal seeks re-election or to become another USCC whore Senator. Georgia state legislators should treat him as the pariah that he is and resist his every effort in state government until he is erased from public life.
I guess he’s tired of being governor. Catch the wave our get out of the water!
They should impeach and remove the governor, and then pass the law a second time. Then maybe the next one will sign it.
I wouldn't be so sure...the Muslims are coming. And the left will lay down for the Muslims.
He did. So disappointed in this Republican Georgia Governor. Christians are being targeted world wide and now it’s hit Georgia. I hope this comes back to bite him hard. Conservatism has to be given a new meaning... for they have trashed the freedom part of it. There is no freedom where the minorities can wield their threats and the leaders capitulate and remove our rights as citizens.
Voting for the GOP doesn’t change anything for the better putting social issues aside the folks like Paul Ryan talk about a balanced budget ten years down the road.
That needs to happen ten months down the road and if the Washington D.C. unemployment rate needs to hit 30 percent, so be it.
Emotional diversionary issues like terrorism don’t cut it either, since our elite leaders only want limited war with it and the business elites behind the GOP ultimately want to do business with Muslim nations and move cheap labor from Muslim countries across borders.
Raw deal
He caved to degenerate big money.
I will never vote for him again.
What a coward. There doesn’t appear to me to be anything unreasonable in this bill; the opponents are mischaracterizing it.
They don’t have the numbers in the House to overide. This battle is lost in Georgia.
A legal challenge was filed this morning. The law will be suspended and probably defeated in court. Such are the way things are now.
The bill was watered down to be almost meaningless, as I understand it, and so ultimately this may just be symbolic. That said, this veto is very revealing. The earlier watering down is also very revealing.
Let’s be honest about this: virtually all big business, and virtually all of our institutions are compromised and actively working for the enemies of Jesus Christ. Christians, churches, small businesses and religious organizations are the target.
I am more interested in how Georgia Christian leaders (at least the ones who are still preaching the Gospel) respond to this development. Will they stand up for small businesses which refuse to bake “Sodomite whatever” cakes? Because standing up for what is right, is what it is going to take to turn this thing around.
They’ don’t want to touch it. We need to face facts, the GOPe is embarrassed by Christians. They want us to give them money but stop talking about those pesky life issues.
>>Coca Cola would never pull out of Atlanta. The cost would be outrageous. It was a bluff.
Same for most of the film people. The GA film tax credits and the overall low cost of doing business made it such most weren’t going anywhere.
And I guarantee I could scare up an ATL metro-area gay anything - florist, baker, caterer, you name it - in about 30 minutes or less. This law wouldn’t affect that.
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