Mississippi Governor Signs 'Right to Discriminate' Bill Into Law

Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 3 months ago to Legislation
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*sigh*

Looks like we're going to have an extended battle all the way to the Supreme Court. Oh well, I guess that's what it takes to preserve human rights in some states.


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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As far as I'm aware, "convicted felon" is not a legally protected status, so you should be good there.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A home is not a business. The regulations which govern commercial property must naturally be different from the regulations which govern residential property. A home owner may deny entry to his or her home to anyone for any reason. A business owner, however, does not have that same level of authority.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you take away someone's basic human rights, they're not going to care what your reasoning for doing so is. Whether by principle or by malice, the result is the same.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually, science validates the existence of an innumerable host of intersex conditions.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Business owners actually don't get to choose that, at least not if they're open to the general public.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Business transactions do not qualify as associations. If we're talking about private clubs, you may have a legitimate argument there. But businesses which are open to the general public are a different story.
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  • Posted by Bobhummel 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The rights that need to be enforced at the point of a gun are those right reserved for the people against government intrusion of those rights as codified in the Bill of rights. Unfortunately many in the current regime are trying to eliminate the threat to their power by taken to rights of a free people to protect their rights at the point of a gun.
    Cheers
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    To my understanding, Eich resigned on his own. That said, had he been fired, that would be the right of the company to do so.

    The point is that the LGBT community has been discriminating very effectively for a few years now.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed, you are right, but I assume you agree Mozilla should be allowed to act as they see fit.

    These situations are distinguished by the polarity of the overwhelming media pressure each side. Which is also a problem, since media can almost legislate with their power.

    This media freedom is Constitutional, but the outcome is decidedly one sided. One could easily make the argument that the bias of the press is more powerful and seditious than anything derived from the 2nd Amendment.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It is once you are told that your business is not wanted and you are asked to leave. At that point, if you don't leave, you are trespassing.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's not what I read, although I thought this law provided anyone the right to discriminate. Apparently only religious people get it.
    Also think adding "In God we trust" to the state seal, makes them vulnerable to a unconstitutionality due to separation of church and state.

    I predict they have foolishly set us all up for a federal government response in retaliation that will reduce our freedoms, rather than increase them as they could have, by singling out Christians and LGBT, when they could have easily just written it anyone. For example, LGBTs should also be allowed to discriminate against the Christians that persecute them, shouldn't they?

    (cant' help it again) - Now where are you going to get your homes decorated?
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  • Posted by mckenziecalhoun 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Then don't force people to serve those they disagree with. People have a basic human right to congregate as they choose.
    You FORCE them to do business with people they disagree with, you are violating THEIR basic human rights.

    If you are demanding it, you saying you are owed.

    They don't owe you to serve you. There is no persecution you can name because I won't do business with you, whatever the reason, because I don't owe you to do business with you.

    And the "discrimination" card? That's cheap. The antonym of "discrimination" is "tolerance".

    Many an atrocity has been committed because people were tolerant of behavior that was contemptible.

    EVERYONE discriminates, chooses who they marry out of a crowd, chooses who they associate with, who they chat with, who they do anything with.

    To use "discrimination" like a bad word is insane.
    It's alternative is to tolerate anything.
    That's a total lack of ethics.

    That's not for me nor for most people who still have ethics.

    You have NO right to demand they do business with whom YOU choose. They get to choose that. We get to choose who we buy from.

    This goal of making people sell to EVERYONE equally regardless of their behavior is very unethical and infringes on their right to freely associate as they choose.

    Don't like it? Tough. Like I said, glad you don't think they owe you. They don't and never will.

    Want to send in a gay store owner who won't sell to straights? My answer is the exact same. HIS right stands to sell to whomever he chooses.
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  • Posted by $ iamfrankblanco 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    True. I suppose that the phrase I really wanted to use was suspect classes. Those subsets of people who are traditionally underrepresented in the political process.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's ridiculous. Initiation of force requires an action to be taken. A refusal to take an action qualifies as an initiation of nothing.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No. A business does NOT have the right to refuse service to anyone. They can only refuse service to people on certain grounds, as established by regulation.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The term "protected classes" does not refer to particular groups of people, but rather to certain characteristics, such as race and gender, both of which are things that white males have.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No one is making any claim that anyone owes anyone anything. The claim being made here is that discrimination and persecution are a violations of an individual's basic human rights.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The right of business owners to set the rules for their own establishments has limitations on it. It is not absolute.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 3 months ago
    Why in the world anyone would want to take pride, celebrate, and work so hard to force others to treat them as normal, with a birth defect that denies one the ability to fully participate in the joys and experiences of a normal human life is beyond me.

    It goes beyond that to a pretense that accomplishing any of that, particularly the application of force to others, is a reward for suffering that birth defect.

    Personally, I truly feel sorrow for those that suffer from such an affliction, that refuse to accept their situation and move on to living the best life they can achieve without causing others pain and some type of payment as recompense for their condition.

    What a waste of a human life and the reasoning ability that is a part of that life.
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  • Posted by superfluities 11 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    All religions demand intolerance of others by it's followers-that's why there are different religions. Of course many religions embrace all for the purpose of drafting them to be followers.
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