Mississippi Lawmakers on Brink of Passing Georgia-Style Anti-LGBT ’Religious Freedom’ Bill - The New Civil Rights Movement
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According to Protect Thy Neighbor, a project of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, here are a few other potential consequences of HB 1523:
a government clerk could refuse to issue a marriage license to a couple because one person had been previously divorced;
a taxpayer-funded adoption agency could refuse to place a child with a happy and loving family because the parents lived together before they were married;
a taxpayer-funded organization that provides shelter to kids who have suffered child abuse could turn away a pregnant teenager;
a counseling group practice could refuse to see a mother and her teen who is experiencing severe depression because the woman is unmarried;
a counselor could refuse to help an LGBT person who called a suicide hotline;
a fertility clinic could refuse to treat a veteran and his partner because they are not married;
a car rental agency could refuse to rent a car to a same-sex couple on their honeymoon; and
a corporation could fire a woman for wearing pants.
After the bill cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, the Human Rights Campaign noted that it would also allow foster parents to subject LGBT children to “conversion therapy,” in addition to legalizing “Kim Davis-like discrimination” on the part of government employees.
HB 1523 passed the House 80-39, and today is the last day for the Senate to take it up.
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