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.
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
@jasoncollins34 @jimjefferies @PhilBryantMS
Canada….. Just sayin— Blank (@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
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@jasoncollins34 @PhilBryantMS are u serious? Discrimination legal? That's awful, Mississippi should be embarrassed, Obama gotta override day
— Reopen Izod Center (@birdsnets) 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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