Posted on 07/01/2016 4:11:04 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A federal judge blocked a controversial Mississippi law that would’ve gone into effect Friday, which would’ve allowed businesses and government employees to deny services to gay and transgender people based on religious grounds.
U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves issued a 60-page opinion in which he described the Mississippi law, known as House Bill 1523, as “state-sanctioned discrimination.”
“There are almost endless explanations for how HB 1523 condones discrimination against the LGBT community, but in its simplest terms it denies LGBT citizens equal protection under the law,” he wrote.
He cited many
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Discrimination is not only good but saves lives.
We’ll defy the judge.
We bow only to God.
He can take his edict and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
According to liberals, Christianity is a form of bigotry and discrimination.
We got your biased viewpoint, judge Reeves. We don’t accept it as legitimate.
I’d take bets if the law mandated Sharia, the judge would have upheld it.
He’s not neutral on religious freedom as he dishonestly claims.
An Obama judge. Mississippi did not stand a chance. The bill should be rewritten to give more people protection against having to enter into a contract that violates their beliefs religious or otherwise. Protection for religious organizations should be a separate bill. That bill should emphasize that no religious body shall have to perform or witness any marriage which is contrary to the belief of the minister or the teaching of the church.
Then the state needs to clearly define a protected class under any anti-discrimination statute they might have on the books. Then make it clear that local governments that draft anti-discrimination statutes most afford protection of conscience into those laws. JMHO.
Such a ruling on sharia in Mississippi would be a death warrant for the judge
It wasn’t the wording of the law the judge objected to. It was to the principle of religious freedom.
Which ran counter to the Gaystapo agenda the judge pandered to in his execrable ruling.
Why?
Separation of religion and state applies only to Christianity.
If you don’t understand how liberals think, you understand nothing.
Which incidentally, is why they favor special treatment for Islam.
My thought that the good Christians of Mississippi would rise up and slay such a judge for the ruling has nothing to do with how liberals think
This judge is a terminal cancer to Freedom in this country.
You got that right. This judge should either be hanged or ignored.
What happens if a state just flat out refuses to follow a judges order?
This is simple: Boy Reeves is no judge. Disregard his 60-page term paper.
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