And now Mississippi has passed Religious Freedom Protection Bill

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None of the legislators speaking in support of it were ever able to name even a single instance of a Mississippi Christian being forced to do something against their religion.


Also, there were rumors that Phil Bryant might veto it, since his son is gay, but no, he signed it proudly.

WHAT? He's even more disgusting than the legislature/

A quick Google search has revealed that the governor's son is one Patrick Bryant. He graduated from Southern Miss and works as an interior designer in Jackson.

The younger Bryant is shown below, on the far right, at something called Seersucker and Sombreros (I don't even want to know). The dark-haired girl second from left is Bryant's daughter Katie.

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Anything described by its supporters as "common sense" is almost invariably a bad idea.

This is surprisingly accurate.

     It shouldn't be that surprising. If they had good justification for their proposals, then they would not fall back on "common sense". Like the call of "that's immoral", it means that they know they don't have a leg to stand on.

"Common sense" is the first crutch that weak conservative arguments try to lean on, in the way that "fairness" is the first crutch that weak liberal ones struggle to stand on.

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"The bill will also add "In God We Trust" to the state seal."

I am now truly convinced we are in the death throes of the Christian Right.  A smile forms across my face and a single tear flows down my cheek. 

Was the Christian Right in its death throes when they forced Teddy Roosevelt to add that bit of sacrilegious triteness to the double eagle in 1908?

I think I'll run for the Texas Legislature as a Republican and make my signature legislative platform be to revise our state seal to show Baby Jesus pistol-whipping an abortion doctor while a pair of bald eagles hold a banner overhead that reads "FAITH. FAMILY. FREEDOM."

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This is a state version of the federal law passed in the 1990s that stopped the feds from prosecuting peyote use in the Native American Church.   Of course it couldn't be passed today because gay rights.

I swear the left's memory is getting shorter and shorter.

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I guess you just ignored the fact that THIS EXACT EXAMPLE is specifically excluded from protections in this bill, per its authors? I guess all you cared about was getting in your little quip, facts be damned...

For it to be specifically excluded from protections of the bill it would need to be specifically excluded in the bill itself.  Some of the people who voted for this bill probably aren't interested in government accommodating the religious freedom of Muslims, but legally that's what this means, and religious minorities are disproportionately likely to need these protections when it comes to state law.  Instead of decrying this bill, anyone who believes in pluralism and tolerance should be pushing for something like this to be put in the state constitutions.

That's why Republicans in Oklahoma and other states passed laws to ban Sharia law.

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So basically, 5(b) provides cover for the State of Mississippi to only enforce 5(a) when it concerns groups of people and things they happen to like.

If a Muslim opened a halal butcher shop in MS, the local lawmakers would probably swoop in and try to make him offer pork products since not doing so would be "un-American/un-Mississippian."