Governor of Mississippi signs 'insane' new anti-gay law despite pleas from business leaders

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/05/governor-of-mississippi-signs-insane-new-anti-gay-law-despite-pleas-from-business-leaders/

Pink News/By Nick Duffy   04/05/2016

"Governor of Mississippi signs 'insane' new anti-gay law despite pleas from business leaders

The Governor of Mississippi has signed a new law that discriminates against LGBT people – ignoring pleas from business leaders in the state.

Republicans across the US are attempting to push a new wave of state level anti-LGBT legislation in response to the introduction of same-sex marriage last year."

Just one more reason the fastest growing religious affiliation In the US is none of the above.  This effort will be another turd in the dustbin of history looking back at a time when it was OK to hurt with hate and call it my religious right to do so.

Time for another supreme court decision or federal law that recognizes the rights of all people to be free from persecution and discrimination in all facets of our lives.  Housing, education and work place protections are piecemeal with local, city, county and state protections being the new battleground. 

Preempting the hate and fear mongers with a national effort is where this will end up IMO.

Here's a link to an LA paper:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-mississippi-law-service-denial-gays-20160405-story.html

Please, everyone, lets vote these horrible people out of office. Don't sit on the sidelines.

I already told my family that I won't be coming to visit them in Mississippi anytime soon. We can meet up someplace where I'm not going to be legally treated as subhuman. I'm so sick and tired of that place, and how the state continuously wastes money passing unconstitutional laws, and all in an effort to make other people miserable. The place is enough of a dump as it is. There is no need to make it even more of one.

Dead-end resistance like this is to be expected in the South.  Here's a parallel from history: After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education outlawed racially-segregated public education in the 1950s, the dimwits of Prince Edward County in Virginia closed their entire public school system just so their children wouldn't have to attend racially-integrated schools.

Southern states will have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century on LGBT rights, just as they were dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th Century about the prohibition of racial discrimination.

I agree with you, April. I just wish we could drag their congressional reps into their respective chambers and make them vote on nominations and bills.... you know, like, do their jobs.