Mississippi allows gays to be banned from any business
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I just read this article..
This is disgusting, but after all, that's the usa… what a great country :laugh:"Mississippi’s governor on Tuesday signed into law a bill that allows businesses to refuse services to gay couples based on religious objections,"""that businesses can determine who is allowed to access bathrooms, dressing rooms and locker rooms."“This is a sad day for the state of Mississippi and for the thousands of Mississippians who can now be turned away from businesses, refused marriage licenses, or denied housing, essential services and needed care based on who they are,"
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i live in Mississippi. Not all of Mississippians agree with out stupid governor and senate. It is a shame and it shows the world that ms has not changed. Not all Mississippians are like that, but what i don't get is that some gay people here in Ms voted for Bryant and the republican senate. They just don't get it. They are so self hating that they would vote for these people.
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I don't see the problem. Privately owned businesses should be allowed to refuse service to anyone based on their beliefs and moral convictions. Of course, I'm a business owner myself, so I can see it from both perspectives. If you've never owned a business, it may be hard for you to see it from that point of view.
Not that I'd ever dream of refusing service to anyone. If you're a paying customer, you're money is as good as anyone's and you're more than welcome to my business.
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Privately owned businesses should be allowed to refuse service to anyone based on their beliefs and moral convictions
Suuuure that was great in south africa right?….
well different culture and laws, coz here if you " refuse service" your business is closed by legal decision and that's a very good thing. You can't have both money,freedom and no obligation towards society. crazy wild capitalism , no thank you
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I can actually see the grey in this. My family runs an emmergency accomodation for homeless individuals discharged from mental health hospitals. As you can imagine things can get hairy very quickly. The worst situations are usually from drug users and the types of people that they bring.
I believe that we should have the power to refuse "service" to someone if we anticipate dangerous situations. Having to wait for it to actually is ridiculous. We are trying to do a community service (obviously we are paid) but at the same time we aren't equipped like a secure unit.
The flip side is a rule like "privately owned business have the right to …"
Well unfortunately that blanket statement doesn't work either. The vast majority of businesses are privately owned. I doubt you would love starbucks refusing service. -
I don't see the problem. Privately owned businesses should be allowed to refuse service to anyone based on their beliefs and moral convictions. Of course, I'm a business owner myself, so I can see it from both perspectives. If you've never owned a business, it may be hard for you to see it from that point of view.
Not that I'd ever dream of refusing service to anyone. If you're a paying customer, you're money is as good as anyone's and you're more than welcome to my business.
You would think this was true, but I disagree with you and think it is illegal for a business to refuse service to anyone because of their beliefs and moral convictions. That is discrimination. If you are a public business you must open to everyone, if not then you should be a private business.
I am a business owner, and it is pure crazy to think that I have a right to put my beliefs over someone else. -
This is extremely shocking
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If you are running a legal business, you are subject to business laws, including the ones involving taxes. You are also subject to the laws of the United States of America, which say you cannot discriminate against customers on the basis of the race, sex, etc. Thus, North Carolina's failing attempt to intrude into bathrooms is on the verge of costing that state over a billion bucks for illegal bigotry and discrimination.
Sex discrimination laws also mean you cannot charge women differently at Happy Hours at your singles bar. And "conservative" Republic*nt students on campus cannot have a bake sale charging white people more than black people (or vice versa) just to make some political point.
The bathroom b.s. is currently being turned into a travesty of fools because of ideology-based hatemongering men tromping into women's rooms at Target stores because Target doesn't go along with their commitment to their phobia. Yup, men in women's bathrooms because Freedom.
In the same way, a Drumpf dildo was called to use his tow truck to take a disabled woman and her damaged car away from a dangerous road and simply left her there when he saw a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. Everyone has a right to be terrified their political views will expose them to possible death, just as everyone who orders a wedding cake has to know that the god of the baker trumps the law of the nation, which Teddy Crud and other prominent political figures urges citizens to defy.
That trucker is being seriously roasted on social media for defending his boorish failure to demonstrate his alleged humanity, saying his god told him what to do. All I could do is think of the Samaritan who did precisely the opposite when he encountered a stranger in trouble, but apparently the famous one, true god flip-flops all the time. Who knew?
No. Just no. If you don't want to serve blacks at your lunch counter, don't open a lunch counter. If you have a religious test for who gets to buy your cakes or your flower arrangements, then Kristallnacht is on its merry way. You also do not get to require a gender i.d. check, birth certificate, or religious identity card to sit at a lunch counter or call for emergency services.
That is the American Way and if you don't like it, find some other country to be part of. Meanwhile, long as you are here, play by the rules. And if you insist on not paying back child support, on starving your cattle by poor animal management even while stealing from the public by swiping national property (land) for private profit, sooner or later you will have your sorry hypocritical ass hauled into court where your patriotism will bring you free rent and board.
That is the way it is. Don't like it? Get the hell outta Dodge. OR, using the Constitutional system in place for a couple of centuries now, change the law. Nullifying the law, as some states tried and failed in the 1860s, is not a plan whose time has come round at last and is now slouching toward Cleveland to be reborn, like all those christianists who feel, along with porn author Jackie Susanne, that once is not enough.
There's a lot of crap being peddled about "Second Amendment solutions" to political disputes so that poor losers don't have to concede to the radical notion of majority rule, but the first time that was tried, President George Washington himself got on horseback again and put down the rebels. Of course, he was also the one who initiated the No Torture policy, so what does that old fuddy-duddy know about anything? It's not like he created the country himself or anything.
As for Mississippi Goddam, Phil Ochs still has the final word:
"Here's the the land you tore out the heart of,
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of."And just think of the money the rest of the US will save by not giving that
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I thing that with all the hit that they are getting about this crap, they (and others) will learn than in 2016, somethings are just unacceptable.
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I saw a sketch regarding this issue on SNL
It just proves the utter idiocy of the situation.
