Miss. lawmakers feel pressure over religion bill

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Miss. lawmakers feel pressure over religion bill
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press | March 7, 2014 | Updated: March 7, 2014 6:37pm

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Lawmakers in conservative Mississippi find themselves in a tug-of-war over a religious-practices bill that some say is uncomfortably similar to one recently vetoed by Arizona's Republican governor.

A group that lobbies for the state's influential Southern Baptist Convention is urging lawmakers to pass the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Others say that Mississippi, with its history of racial oppression, should avoid any law that could lead to discrimination against gay people and other groups.

Similar religious-freedom bills were filed this year in several states, including Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee. A bill was withdrawn in Ohio, and similar measures stalled in Idaho and Kansas. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill after critics said it would hurt the state's image by allowing businesses to discriminate against gay people.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Miss-lawmakers-feel-pressure-over-religion-bill-5298555.php

[juxtaposed]

1. U are fucking good!!! I do not know you and need not.. We are few ,, but we are the mass.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Huh?!

[AngryDem001]

4. ??????

The HELL?

[AtheistCrusader]

5. I think someone left their account logged in at the library.

Or the bar....

[sakabatou]

10. O.o?

[DreamGypsy]

3. Here's to the churches of Mississippi ..

...there's no one learning such a foreign word as 'fair'.

[greymattermom]

6. Who wrote this bill and what is their agenda?

Why is this happening at the same time in so many states? I also don't get how businesses are supposed to have gaydar.

[christx30]

12. It's because of those cases

where a gay couple go into a bakery and ask for a wedding cake and are refused. "I'll sell you a dozen cookies, but I won't sell you a wedding cake."
The couple sues the baker and gets the business shut down.

[another_liberal]

7. These "Gay-bashing on religious grounds is legal" laws have got to be coming from ALEC.

There are too many of them, they are too much alike and they are all coming at once. The Justice Department should investigate that outfit on suspicion of instigating discrimination on the basis of sexual preference.

[packman]

8. Might agree with you about ALEC

But , I believe that there is a religious network - highly organized and well supported - that is behind the multitude of bills pouring out of the statehouses. They know they can't get very far on the national level, so they are picking the state fruit off the tree one at a time.

[another_liberal]

9. They undoubtedly gain a good deal in donations from the ignorant . . .

For their otherwise pointless efforts along these lines as well.

[Wolf Frankula]

11. I'm Sorry

We don't serve Christians here. They eat human flesh and drink human blood. It would be a violation of our religious beliefs to serve Christians.

Wait till that happens wingnuts.

Wolf