Gov. Phil Bryant has signed into law S.B. 2681, the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which prohibits the state from taking actions that burden a citizen’s right to religious exercise.

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The bill defines burden as “any action that directly or indirectly constrains, inhibits, curtails or denies the exercise of religion by any person or compels any action contrary to a person’s exercise of religion.” Some, like Jason Collins, see the law as making it legal to discriminate against the LGBT community.

@jasoncollins34 @PhilBryantMS it's really disgusting!

— Samantha (@JaSaMorgan) April 4, 2014

@jasoncollins34 @PhilBryantMS pure ignorance!!

— Steve Burns (@BurnsBrodney) April 4, 2014

@jasoncollins34 @PhilBryantMS such a shame and a step backwards ???

— ✨Me. I Am..Cj✨ (@BuBuCj) April 4, 2014

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@jasoncollins34 @jimjefferies @PhilBryantMS
Canada….. Just sayin

— l (@konkratten) April 4, 2014

@jasoncollins34 @PhilBryantMS "A strong fiscal conservative" – No surprises there. Might as well say "Be white and rich and say whatever!"

— Lachlan (@slashVS86) April 4, 2014

@jasoncollins34 @PhilBryantMS it's 2014… things like that should not be happening anymore #AllEquals

— Valérie Lavigne (@LavigneVal) April 4, 2014

@jasoncollins34 @PhilBryantMS he called you out Phil Bryant NOW NULLIFY THE LAW YOU DEVIL

— •landice• (@CarterLandis3) April 4, 2014

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@jasoncollins34 @PhilBryantMS are u serious? Discrimination legal? That's awful, Mississippi should be embarrassed, Obama gotta override day

— Nets (@NetsTalkAllDay) April 4, 2014

@jasoncollins34, keep fighting against discrimination; @WhiteHouse will eventually have a "nice chat" with @PhilBryantMS over this. =:-)

— The Canadian Cat (@TheCdnCat) April 4, 2014

The law becomes effective July 1, 2014.

Thanks for making #Mississippi a great place to live unless… #discrimination #sb2681 #msleg pic.twitter.com/hZy5ZsfcbO

— Sen. Derrick Simmons (@SenDTSimmons) April 2, 2014

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