The Robert's Court is extremist. The government belongs to the people. All the people. The idea a person cannot be served by a government worker (ie: marriage license clerk) is wrong.
If government is going to impose laws and there is a religious nut case in the office that carries out the law, that is institutional religious bigotry. What this is going to cause is oppression of anything where the government has laws, of people deserving of the service of a government worker. If a person working for the government carries this level of bias because of the doctrine of their religion, then they will have to be placed in a capacity that does not effect the smooth operation of government where it interacts with the people.
This is boiling down to a civil rights problem and there needs to be amendments to state constitutions carried out in all states to insure there is no discrimination of any citizen.
This is boiling down to a civil rights problem and there needs to be amendments to state constitutions carried out in all states to insure there is no discrimination of any citizen.
January 8, 2018
By Greg Stohr
The justices turned away two appeals by state residents and organizations that contended the measure violates the Constitution. A federal appeals court said the opponents hadn’t suffered any injury that would let them press their claims in court.
The Mississippi fight in some ways represented the flip side of a Colorado case the high court is currently considering; the question in that instance is whether the state can require a baker who sells wedding cakes to make one for a same-sex couple’s wedding.
The cases are testing states’ ability to regulate what happens when LGBT rights come into conflict with religious freedoms. Colorado is aiming to bolster gay rights by enforcing an anti-discrimination law, even though the Denver-area baker says he has a religious objection to same-sex marriage....
The Mississippi Law was to protect people from lawsuits, it has nothing to do with refusing service to the people. The people cannot be oppressed in any way when satisfying THE LAW. Basically, the Mississippi law protects people from their own religious bias. YES, RELIGIONS CAN BE BIASED.
So, government workers in sensitive positions where they interact with the people satisfying THE LAW, cannot hold those jobs. The religious bias makes them unfit for the job. Every job description in government that interacts with the people has to have specific wording to provide for service to all people. I don't care if another person has to be called, but, government MUST allow the people to satisfy THE LAW.
...The measure says religious people can’t be sued or penalized by the government for declining to provide services for same-sex marriage ceremonies. The law also protects people who believe gender is an immutable characteristic or who object to sex out of wedlock....
The Mississippi Law was to protect people from lawsuits, it has nothing to do with refusing service to the people. The people cannot be oppressed in any way when satisfying THE LAW. Basically, the Mississippi law protects people from their own religious bias. YES, RELIGIONS CAN BE BIASED.
So, government workers in sensitive positions where they interact with the people satisfying THE LAW, cannot hold those jobs. The religious bias makes them unfit for the job. Every job description in government that interacts with the people has to have specific wording to provide for service to all people. I don't care if another person has to be called, but, government MUST allow the people to satisfy THE LAW.
...The measure says religious people can’t be sued or penalized by the government for declining to provide services for same-sex marriage ceremonies. The law also protects people who believe gender is an immutable characteristic or who object to sex out of wedlock....
