'Religious freedom' law wreaks havoc on Southern Miss baseball schedule
A Mississippi law that allows government and businesses to deny services to same-sex couples will take three home games off the schedule for the Southern Miss baseball team this year.
Stony Brook, a public university on Long Island in New York, was scheduled to play USM in Hattiesburg on Feb. 23-25, but a 2016 executive order by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo got in the way.
Cuomo banned all non-essential state travel to Mississippi on April, 5, 2016, after Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1523, also known as the “religious freedom” bill, into law that same day.
The law went into effect in October. An appeal to have the law struck down has been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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