Gov. Phil Bryant. AP Photo.
Apparently, Governor Bryant doesn’t understand the word no, even though it has been explained to him repeatedly.
A federal judge had some harsh words for Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant when he refused—again—to let the state enforce what many have called the country’s most discriminatory law against LGBTs.
U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves refused Monday to stay his injunction against HB 1523 while Bryant organized his appeal, saying that the “absence does not impair the free exercise of religion.”
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Reeves’s irritation with the case came through loud and clear in his brief, claiming he was “passing the baton” to a higher court and openly doubted if the governor would win on appeal.
Maybe that’s because the Magnolia State tried to compare businesses serving LGBT customers with forcing someone to fight in combat or get an abortion.
“Issuing a marriage license to a gay couple is not like being forced into armed combat or to assist with an abortion,” Reeves wrote.
Honestly, you can hear the exasperation in the writing.
I imagine that’s the same exasperation parents feel when presented with a toddler who refuses to take no for an answer. Grow up, Governor.
Via Out.
Strange how they are able to figure out what’s wrong with forcing someone to get an abortion but can’t finish their train of thought to figure out what’s wrong with forcing someone to carry to term.
So has Gov. Bryant/the State of Mississippi/the Republican Party/True Christians™ taken a stance against military conscription now?
‘Bout time!
(Somebody please ask The Donald about this!)
I hope to see more and more of these smackdowns by federal judges as the republican policies are declared unconstitutional.
Last week, a federal appeals court struck down North Carolina’s restrictive voter ID law. The reaction of McCrory and the republican legislature was predictable, but the interview with Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the NC Republican Party, was priceless. The crazy-eyed, spittle-flecked comments he made were totally FUNNY. He basically admitted that the policies were drafted and passed with the purpose of preventing votes for democratic candidates. It is about time that the regressive republican polices were consigned to the trash heap where they belong.
I know! I know!! Businesses serving LGBT customer is like trying to force the mildly deranged penguin to, say, eat a pea. You don’t force the mildly deranged to due anything, you don’t step on superman’s cape, and you don’t serve an LGBT custo—…
(…apologies ladies, gentlemen, and purple things in the ocean, we have a Reality™ malfunction. Please be patient, eat a squirrel, sorry, cookie, and check back minus five centuries from now…)
All these attempts by Republicans to force through laws and policies that erode individual rights and actively discriminate will inevitably lead to massive cognitive dissonance when they begin to simultaneously campaign that the Constitution is a sacred text and that the Constitution must be amended to explicitly allow their hatred and authoritarian demands.
I can only hope it makes their brains explode.
“A federal judge had some harsh words for Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant when he refused—again—to let the state enforce what many have called the country’s most discriminatory law against LGBTs.”
I had to read that sentence four times before I finally realised that it was the judge refusing, not the governor…
Of course the next sentence clarifies thing a LOT, but I kind of froze on a “WTF, has the world turned upside down?!?” moment there.