Georgia governor to veto 'religious liberty' bill

[Deborah]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/28/us/georgia-north-carolina-lgbt-bills/index.html

By: Ralph Ellis, CNN

(CNN) Under increasing pressure from major corporations that do business in Georgia, Gov. Nathan Deal announced Monday he will veto a bill that critics say would have curtailed the rights of Georgia's LGBT community.
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Some good news to kick off a new week.

[Tysilio]

Yes indeed. And he even said sensible things about it:

'The Republican rejected the bill on Monday, saying "I have examined the protections that this bill proposes to provide to the faith based community and I can find no examples of any of those circumstances occurring in our state."

Deal added, "I do not think that we have to discriminate against anyone to protect the faith-based community in Georgia." '

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/georgia-governor-vetoes-religious-exemptions-bill/2016/03/28/050ebe24-f4f1-11e5-958d-d038dac6e718_story.html

[BeverlyAnn]

And the pressure was mounting on him.  A convention scheduled in May worth $10-15 million was going to look for another city starting this coming Friday so they would have time to move.  Something like 15 other conventions were questioning whether they needed to move.  Georgia Economic Development announced two major "projects" they were working on that would have brought more business to Georgia dropped the state from their list last week.  Deal may be a Republican but he is also a realist.  He has generally watched out for what's good for Atlanta and he really doesn't want to be the governor who wrecked Georgia's economy.

Now if we can avoid a special session to attempt an override.

[Eva Marie]

Now if we can avoid a special session to attempt an override.

If the governor is overridden then the politicians in Georgia that are promoting this hateful law have earned all of the bad things that they'll have coming to them. Bigotry has a stiff price tag as North Dakota is about to discover.

It warms my heart that these businesses stepped up and made this happen. It wasn't that long ago that this type of thing would have been unheard of. The governor said that the pressure didn't matter to his decision but I think it clearly did. Lets hope that the politicians in Georgia have learned something from their folly.

[KristyWalker]

I am from and live in Atlanta and I am proud of him for vetoing this bill! I am also proud that today is my first day on hrt as well!

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[Denise]

I am also proud that today is my first day on hrt as well!

First - congratulations.

Second - I would have liked the Governor to have said "This is wrong.  I will not sign it because it's not Georgia's way to discriminate this is the 21st century not the 18th.  I'm disappointed that such a bill came to my desk."  Instead of saying "Yeah I don't want to hurt our pocket book."

[Deborah]

First - congratulations.

Second - I would have liked the Governor to have said "This is wrong.  I will not sign it because it's not Georgia's way to discriminate this is the 21st century not the 18th.  I'm disappointed that such a bill came to my desk."  Instead of saying "Yeah I don't want to hurt our pocket book."

He pretty much did say what you wanted him to say.

[BeverlyAnn]

I am from and live in Atlanta and I am proud of him for vetoing this bill! I am also proud that today is my first day on hrt as well!

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Congratulations from one mile south of the ATL city limits.  I have an appointment at Emory for my second try at HRT.