By Chad Felix Greene
This week Mississippi passed their own religious freedom bill, House Bill 1523, which has been repeatedly dubbed the ‘horrific anti-LGBT law’ in the media with promises to make the lives of LGBT citizens an oppressive living nightmare. Naturally, like all other religious freedom bills in the country, LGBT citizens are not even involved, let alone discriminated against. But the narrative cry is so loud no one is capable of grasping this simple and logical point.
As with North Carolina and Georgia, Mississippi is being threatened with federal funding withdraws and many large companies ranging from Disney to PayPal have declared they will not do business in the state any longer. Several states have also halted official state-funded travel to the offending states.
The left, of course, believes this kind of intimidation will force the hand of the governors to back down on their respective laws, and they are likely correct. Withstanding the tsunami of liberal outrage is a challenge few in any officials can handle.
The boycotts will continue and the left will grow more outraged and more dramatic. Sobbing and terrified LGBTers will continue cranking out article after article detailing their imagined discrimination while absolutely none ever occurs. Uninformed average people will imagine restaurants putting up ‘no gays allowed’ signs and ambulances turning away transgender people regardless of the truth of the situation......However, with the promised exodus of liberals it provides an opportunity to fill elected seats with rational people not swayed by propaganda......States rely too much on federal funding as it is...... If the state can stand on its own, generate its own revenue and build its own economy the federal government has less to manipulate....... I am a gay man, but I have no fear of religious freedom laws. In fact, I fully and enthusiastically support them......
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