(April 13, 2016 at 12:16 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:(April 13, 2016 at 11:58 am)Drich Wrote: then if the LGBT community did not have anything to say about the laws the people in those states wanted to enact, then why were they walked back?
Who the hell said that the LGBT community had nothing to say concerning those laws? Obviously, they had strong opinions and many no doubt voiced them. But that wasn't decisive. They were walked back due to certain corporations (who happened to agree with the LGBT community on this issue) also having strong opinions and the wherewithal to hit the state in the pocketbook. Stop being disingenuous about this. We had this very conversation yesterday.
but again a law was voted through all the due process each state has and retain for it's self. Yet this outside force makes a mandate that circumvents this due process. essentially holding the state's economy hostage till the state concedes.
If the LGBT community want to amend the laws through the proper channels that's one thing, but strong arming a whole state/several states is beyond wrong.