Plaintiffs: Mississippi law 'unconstitutional religious gerrymander'

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Blocked law lets businesses, government employees deny service to same-sex couples



Mississippi religious freedom law blocked SOURCE: AP/Rogelio V. Solis

Updated: 12:15 PM EST Dec 16, 2016
Emily Wagster Pettus, The Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. — Gay rights groups and others are asking a federal appeals court to keep blocking a Mississippi law that would let merchants and government employees cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples.

U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves halted the law before it could take effect July 1, ruling it unconstitutionally establishes preferred beliefs and creates unequal treatment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

The law championed and signed by Republican Gov. Phil Bryant sought to protect three beliefs: marriage is only between a man and a woman; sex should only take place in such a marriage; and a person's gender is determined at birth and cannot be altered.

Bryant filed papers in late October asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the hold to let the law take effect.

http://www.wyff4.com/article/plaintiffs-mississippi-law-unconstitutional-religious-gerrymander/8507815

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Good grief, a relatively dim first year law student could've figured out

that law was unconstitutional. You can't pick and choose which religious beliefs to protect: you have to protect either all of them, or none of them.

[Angry Dragon]

2. However they truly believe that only theirs are correct beliefs ..............barrel of idiots