And the Spring of Corporate Outrage looks set to continue as Mississippi readies to pass its own legislation, as reported by The New Civil Rights Movement:
The GOP-controlled Mississippi Senate is expected to vote today on House Bill 1523, which has already cleared the House. Gov. Phil Bryant told Mississippi News Now he would sign the measure.
“I don’t think it’s discriminatory,” Bryant said. “I think it gives some people as I appreciate it, the right to be able to say that’s against my religious beliefs and I don’t need to carry out that particular task.”
By “that particular task,” Bryant ostensibly means treating LGBT people with any shred of dignity whatsoever. But it’s not just LGBT people who’d be affected. HB 1523 would also open the door to discrimination against anyone who’s had extramarital sex — a category of people which, according to one study, includes 95 percent of Americans.
(h/t Libby Summers)
This serves to remind me of a YouTube of Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell.
It’s a little hard to understand, but as I hear it, he suggests that without the money from New York and other liberal, northern states, southern states such as Alabama and Mississippi would be pretty much in the same boat as Bangladesh.
