Mississippi needs its head examined?

[mikeymikec]

Mississippi Bill Would Let Churches Create Armed Security Squads
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mississippi-church-gun-law_us_56fb4361e4b0a06d58040696

"The Mississippi Senate just passed a bill that would allow churches to train members to carry guns and act as security guards during religious services — and exempt them from legal action if they use their weapons."

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/03/30/3764798/mississippi-anti-lgbt-bill/
"Many states have considered bills that enable discrimination against the LGBT community, but Mississippi’s proposed legislation is perhaps the most explicit in this regard. HB 1523 spells out in storied detail all of the different ways that a person should be able to mistreat people for being LGBT without consequences from the government."

Did Mississippi look at Islamic State and became jealous or something?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

hey, hey, hey. there's no theocracy happening in NC or MS, cause, you know christians are doing it.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Holy shit some of that stuff is ridiculous.

Any person can establish “sex-specific standards or policies concerning employee or student dress or grooming,”

Don't wear pants ladies...

 

[alien42]

"Any foster or adoptive parent can impose their religious beliefs on their children."

404 freedom of religion not found.

 

[ivwshane]

Does that mean that ISIS would be a legal entity in Mississippi?

 

[thraashman]

I'd like to thank Mississippi for making my home state of Georgia look not all that bad in comparison. At least our governor vetoed the stupid anti LGBT bill (and he's a Republican even!).

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I'd like to thank Mississippi for making my home state of Georgia look not all that bad in comparison. At least our governor vetoed the stupid anti LGBT bill (and he's a Republican even!).

my cynical take on that is that he vetoed it ONLY due to the financial backlash that would have occurred had he signed it. It had NOTHING to do with reason or empathy.

 

[Atreus21]

Mississippi Bill Would Let Churches Create Armed Security Squads
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mississippi-church-gun-law_us_56fb4361e4b0a06d58040696

"The Mississippi Senate just passed a bill that would allow churches to train members to carry guns and act as security guards during religious services — and exempt them from legal action if they use their weapons."

How does the above lead to the below again?

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/03/30/3764798/mississippi-anti-lgbt-bill/
"Many states have considered bills that enable discrimination against the LGBT community, but Mississippi’s proposed legislation is perhaps the most explicit in this regard. HB 1523 spells out in storied detail all of the different ways that a person should be able to mistreat people for being LGBT without consequences from the government."

Did Mississippi look at Islamic State and became jealous or something?

Let me know when Christians start beheading people at 1/10 the scale that the Islamic State does. Or hanging homosexuals from cranes. Or who knows what else.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

How does the above lead to the below again?





Let me know when Christians start beheading people at 1/10 the scale that the Islamic State does. Or hanging homosexuals from cranes. Or who knows what else.

how about we don't allow ANY discrimination due to race, creed, gender or sexual preference? isis set a pretty low bar, we don't need to use them as a measuring stick of what we should and shouldn't do.

 

[mikeymikec]

How does the above lead to the below again?

Two different articles, two different laws...

Let me know when Christians start beheading people at 1/10 the scale that the Islamic State does. Or hanging homosexuals from cranes. Or who knows what else.

From which I assume you're implying that everything up to that point is A-OK? Wow, that gives them a lot of lee-way in your book.

 

[kage69]

This is pretty typical right-wing religious fail really. More than half a century of Southern black churches being burnt down with alarmingly regularity, their goers harassed and killed, but it produced little more than crickets from the morally upright white politicians in the capitols. Dr Tiller was assassinated in his own church during service, you'd think the security issue would have come up by then, no?

I see this as more of an absurd reaction by the religious republican southerners for not being able to legally discriminate against those they want to, paired with their ever present christian victim complex so as to afford them a more respectable sounding reason.

I'm guessing there are elderly black folks laughing their asses off over this latest news, of the poor oppressed white christians and their struggle against violence.

'Welcome to the party pal' - now you idiots know how black churchgoers and abortion clinic workers feel.

 

[Atreus21]

how about we don't allow ANY discrimination due to race, creed, gender or sexual preference?

Again, what has that to do with Mississippi's bill?

isis set a pretty low bar, we don't need to use them as a measuring stick of what we should and shouldn't do.

The OP didn't seem to mind. And of course we should hold them to some standard of behavior. We should look at them as an example of horrific, evil, murderous behavior.

 

[Atreus21]

From which I assume you're implying that everything up to that point is A-OK? Wow, that gives them a lot of lee-way in your book.

But it's okay in the meantime to compare Christians to ISIS without a shred of reasonable similarity between them?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Again, what has that to do with Mississippi's bill?



The OP didn't seem to mind. And of course we should hold them to some standard of behavior. We should look at them as an example of horrific, evil, murderous behavior.

my mistake, I was thinking about the law in NC and the one that got vetoed by the gov of ga.

 

[mikeymikec]

But it's okay in the meantime to compare Christians to ISIS without a shred of reasonable similarity between them?

Is this an admission that you're not standing by the previous point you made?

I don't know about you, but I see two states advocating positions where religion trumps the freedoms of others. I'd call that a similarity.

And no, I'm not "comparing Christians", because what some fucktards do in Mississippi do has no bearing on the positions of Christians worldwide.

 

[Sonikku]

The persecution of Christians continues.

 

[Atreus21]

Is this an admission that you're not standing by the previous point you made?

The fact that you took my statement and made a ridiculous implication from it makes no difference to me. I said Christian behavior vs that of ISIS is incomparable.

I don't know about you, but I see two states advocating positions where religion trumps the freedoms of others. I'd call that a similarity.

ISIS murders homosexuals. Christians refuse to bake them wedding cakes.

And no, I'm not "comparing Christians", because what some fucktards do in Mississippi do has no bearing on the positions of Christians worldwide.

You referenced ISIS in your OP, and multiple others in this thread started with the silly equivalence.

 

[Jhhnn]

It's a kill for Jesus thing, right?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

It's a kill for Jesus thing, right?

who would jebus gun down?

 

[WHAMPOM]

The fact that you took my statement and made a ridiculous implication from it makes no difference to me. I said Christian behavior vs that of ISIS is incomparable.



ISIS murders homosexuals. Christians refuse to bake them wedding cakes.



You referenced ISIS in your OP, and multiple others in this thread started with the silly equivalence.

It is so cute to meet someone so ignorant of past Christian atrocities.

 

[IronWing]

Bill text is here:
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1523PS.htm

The other bill:
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0786PS.htm

For purposes of this act, "church" or "place of worship" means and shall only be applicable to a bona fide duly constituted religious society, ecclesiastical body or any congregation thereof that was operating as such at the time of any actions described in this act.

Do we shoot the State here or wait until we take it home?

 

[swamplizard]

Greetings,

What do you expect from a state that still sports the CBF? http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/02/24/3753109/mississippi-confederate-state-flag/

best regards,
swampy

 

[flexy]

Mississippi has about 8 million transgender people where most of them use the wrong bathrooms.
This means that the odds for a Mississippian to encounter a transgender scare when they go pee at McDonalds is (statistically) at least 300%.
So, this was a law urgently needed, no question about it.
(The number of transgenders and gays who order, say, birthday cakes or commit similar other crimes "against Jesus" not even counted)

 

[Fern]

-sniip-
More than half a century of Southern black churches being burnt down with alarmingly regularity, their goers harassed and killed..

Typical lib BS and hyperbole.

Fern

 

[Fern]

A "thinkprogress" link? No thanks. You lefties are always criticizing other's links and then post this crap?

Fern