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Mississippi in the shitter
April 2, 2014 at 12:04 pm
Quote:The Mississippi legislature has passed legislation that would allow people to use their religion to justify discrimination.
Mississippi does not currently have any state or local nondiscrimination protections for the LGBT community, but a business could use this legislation to justify discrimination against anybody not protected by federal law.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/04/02...imination/
What is wrong with this country? What is so difficult about understanding that
everyone deserves the same basic human rights and that there should be a clear separation of church and state. I guess theistitards simply will not be happy until this stupid country is a theocracy.
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RE: Mississippi in the shitter
April 2, 2014 at 1:26 pm
It's a knee-jerk reaction to what they probably perceive as the crumbling of modern society as it abandons god, or something to that effect. I would like to think that it's a sign that the country is moving away from the influence of fundamentalist religion; seeing that their influence is waning, they decide to go nuts and wind up accelerating their decline.
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