(April 14, 2016 at 10:25 am)Drich Wrote:(April 13, 2016 at 1:02 pm)BlackBird Wrote: Should anyone making a law circumventing due process? Of course not. But I'm not seeing any circumventing of due process. If you are speaking of the economic pressure that is being put on legislators to rethink the bills they are passing, that is a) not pressure applied solely by transpeople, but by lots of people who think the law is terrible, b) perfectly legal and c) a time honored aspect of our government. Government officials are rather well known for following the money, and they are supposed to be listening to their constituents, after all.
No 'alot of people' (a whole state's worth) want those laws on the books for their state. But the LGBT community in other states puts pressure on the companies who are threatening to pull out of those state. That is circumventing due process.
So how do you propose people should protest laws they are opposed to, if voting with their money is coercive? Choosing where you do or do not spend your money is a pretty basic right, and it seems strange to me that this is suddenly "circumventing due process" when Christians seem to so love the idea of boycotting.
