EDIT: FORMATTING
Ok this law breaks the 14th amendment section 1:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Essentially this law is refusing people the right to property (I’m counting adoption as property here, as well as refusing business).
But my second note is has anyone read this law to its completion? Because I have. And let me tell you, it’s terrifying.
This law revolves around section 2 in that the following are the moral/religious beliefs and convictions that people are allowed to refuse service to (i fixed these so that it’s easier to read):
A) Marriage is or should be recognized as a man and a woman.
B) Sexual relations are reserved for a man and a woman
C) Male and female refers to a person’s sex as decided by anatomy and gender at birth.
Sections 3 refers to actions allowed by this law. They are (shortened of course):
1A) people are allowed to perform (yaay) or refuse to perform (not yaay) a marriage, as well as refuse to serve people goods that will be used in a marriage as long as one of the 3 things in sec. 2 are met.
1b) employers are allowed to refuse, terminate, or discipline an employee of the employee if the employee meets the things in sec 2.
1c) Homeowners are allowed to refuse the sale of property to people pertaining to section 2.
2) Adoption facilities are allowed to refuse service based on sec 2
3) /*This one is a bit hard to understand. I don’t know how to paraphrase it, but it is Mississippi HB 1523 Section 3 subsection 3.*/
4) A person is allowed to refuse treatments, counseling, or gender reassignment that is offered to them as long as it pertains to sec 2. They can also refuse psychological, counseling, or fertility services.
5) People are allowed to refuse service to people if their goods are going to be used in weddings that don’t follow sec 2. /* both part a and b of this go into detail on businesses. Basically everything you would use in a wedding. */
6) Employers are allowed to create sex-specific standards concerning dress, restrooms, spas, baths, locker rooms, or anywhere else like that /* eg intimate */
7a) Employees in a workplace are allowed to speak out in agreement with sec 2.
7b) Outside of the workplace, it is the employee’s freedom to speak as they like.
8a&b) Anybody from the state with the power to perform marriages are allowed to deny marriages based on sec 2.
Section 4-7 is what you aren’t allowed to do, and what you can recieve grievances for. I’d list it, but it mostly has to do with taxes.
Section 8 subsection 3 /* the only subsection I found interesting */ States that this law supercedes all other laws passed in Mississippi.
Section 9 explains terms used
Section 10 States that this law does not break the Mississippi religious freedom act (Section 11-61-1).
Section 11 says that the law will be applied, with force on July 1st 2016.
That is the bill in its fullest.
I will tag a few people who I think should see this @thesocialjusticecourier @takashi0 @angryinkeddrunk
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