Many legal experts and gay-rights groups say the bill allows several specific potential harms to people, while s supporters say merely protects relig rights.
Contents:
- MISSISSIPPI LAW ON SERVG GAYS PROV DIVISIVE
- MISSISSIPPI ERNOR SIGNS LAW ALLOWG BS TO REFE SERVICE TO GAY PEOPLE
- ANTI-GAY LAWS BRG BACKLASH MISSISSIPPI AND NORTH CAROLA
MISSISSIPPI LAW ON SERVG GAYS PROV DIVISIVE
* mississippi lgbt bill *
Geia Governor Nathan Deal said last month he would veto a bill recently passed by his state’s Republin-ntrolled legislature that would allow clergy to refe to perform gay marriag and protect people who refe to attend the ceremoni.
MISSISSIPPI ERNOR SIGNS LAW ALLOWG BS TO REFE SERVICE TO GAY PEOPLE
Another replit Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Act. Mississippi has not prohibed the e of the gay or transgenr panic fense as a legal strategy.
ANTI-GAY LAWS BRG BACKLASH MISSISSIPPI AND NORTH CAROLA
This legal strategy is employed by lawyers who try to exce their fendant’s crim, such as murr or asslt, by claimg that the victim beg gay or trans ed the fendant to react vlently. Allison also currently wr for her llege newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, as sophomore at the Universy of Pennsylvania. By Letia Ste(Rters) - Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Tuday signed a far-reachg law allowg people wh relig objectns to ny weddg servic to same-sex upl and protectg other actns nsired discrimatory by gay rights measure also clears the way for employers to ce relign termg workplace polici on drs , groomg and bathroom and locker accs, drawg cricism om civil rights, a Republin, said a statement he signed the law "to protect scerely held relig beliefs and moral nvictns of dividuals, anizatns and private associatns om discrimatory actn by state ernment.
"Mississippi is the latt state drawg natnal prott for a law seen as anti-lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT). Supporters say the law protects the relig eedoms of those opposed to homosexualy; opponents say the law amounts to a state sanctn of discrimatn agast LGBT people. A Mississippi measure that would allow people wh relig objectns to ny weddg servic to same-sex upl and provi wi protectns for actns cried as discrimatory by gay rights advot passed the state legislature on Friday.