Hollywood Stars, Producers Call For Georgia Boycott If Anti-LGBTQ Law Passes

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Source: Huff post



02/27/2018 08:51 am ET

The bill could allow adoption agencies to reject same-sex couples.


Hollywood heavyweights have vowed to call for a boycott on filming in Georgia if a bill that would make it legal for child welfare organizations to stop same-sex parents from adopting on grounds of religious liberty becomes law.

Georgia’s Senate voted 35-19 in favor of Senate Bill 375, or the Keep Faith in Adoption and Foster Care Act, Feb. 23. Introduced by Sen. William Ligon (R), the legislation would permit taxpayer-funded adoption agencies and foster care providers to refuse referrals if they are deemed to violate “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

SB 375 now heads to Georgia’s House of Representatives for consideration.

Ligon and his supporters believe the legislation will encourage more faith-based adoption agencies to open in Georgia. “We’re failing these children by not doing everything that we can do to ensure every door of opportunity is open and available to them for placement,” the senator told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “There are agencies that are willing to do this if they’re given legal certainty.”

Opponents, however, see SB 375 as little more than government-sanctioned discrimination targeting the LGBTQ community.

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Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hollywood-georgia-lgbtq-law-boycott_us_5a9492aee4b02cb368c4e0c4

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The vile GOP keep up the discrimination day after day!




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Opponents of Senate Bill 375 see the proposed legislation as state-sanctioned, anti-LGBTQ discrimination.

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[7962]

1. This is one instance where it may have an impact. GA is #2 in the country in entertainment money.

Only California makes more money from it than GA

[DallasNE]

2. Alarming NRA Recruitment Ad

Didn't know where else to post but it is important that this message gets out.

http://billmoyers.com/story/new-low-nra/#.WpNXB1ldsPW.facebook

[hueymahl]

3. I sometimes hate my state

Hopefully more rational minds will prevail. Gov. Deal, the shitbag he is, has shown willingness to veto these bigoted laws before.

[Glorfindel]

5. Me, too, hueymahl. Georgia seems determined to become East Mississippi

Lose Delta because of the NRA? Check.
Lose the entertainment industry because of homophobia? Check.

And not that long ago we were the MOST Democratic state in the union.

[louis-t]

4. Bring it back to Michigan. Maybe this time

our state will get it right. Just having a discussion with other Michigan people on another site. Of course, the Repug trolls are there claiming the "money wasn't there" to keep offering the film incentives in Michigan. Georgia makes $9.4 billion every year off of the movie industry. $9.4 billion and growing.

[miyazaki]

6. Did'nt they film Gran Torino there?

What has happened since then?

I know they film The Walking Dead in Georgia. Could be a huge loss for them. But who knows how much longer that series will last.

[forkol]

7. Oh, a lot....

They film here (in GA) quite a bit.

Fast and Furious, Marvel Films (Cap America, Black Panther, Ant Man and the Wasp, Spiderman), Hunger Games,
TV show: Stranger Days, Vampire Diaries

And tons more....

I stay at the end of the movie and watch the ending credits just to see if it's filmed in Georgia. Almost every movie that I have watched recently ends up with the Georgia 'Peach' movie credit logo in it, usually meaning that it was either filmed or produced here in some way.

I seem to see a location shoot at on average about once a month in my travels around Georgia. I got delayed checking in for an international flight because of a film Owen Wilson was starring in had taken over part of the International Terminal at Hartsfield and they had shut down some of the departure dropoffs, making the taxi guy have to go all the way around again to drop me off.

In 2017, Georgia was the #1 location for feature film 'filming'.

If they were to pass this, and the movie companies left, it would HURT BADLY.

[louis-t]

9. But repugs have their "ideology".

It shows they don't care about people, only money.

[louis-t]

8. Gran Torino was filmed in Highland Park, MI

"Get off my lawn." There was a series on A&E that was called Halt and Catch Fire about the beginnings of the personal computer industry. My SIL worked on all 3 seasons of that. That was the first thing she worked on in Georgia. When things dried up here, they moved down there.

[YOHABLO]

10. I have friends who work here in GA in the film industry. It provides a lot of revenue.

Again we see these conservatives shooting themselves in the foot .. they're going after Delta, now the movie industry .

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. wtf

What business does "sincerely held religious beliefs" have in government?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

That's the supreme law of the land and thus outrules any state law. Yet, it appears Georgia wants to discriminate on the basis of religious beliefs, thereby "respecting an establishment of religion".