(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.
I think you better look up due process of law, because it doesn't mean what you think it does. It applies only to government actions against individuals which deprive them of life liberty or property. It has no application to the decision of a company to boycott a state. Companies have every right to choose not to do business in states because they find the laws of those states repugnant, burdensome, or just because. Boycotts are a time honored and perfectly legitimate method of applying political pressure.
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