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mhw

(678 posts)
Sun May 21, 2017, 01:26 PM May 2017

If you're not a godly bigot, then get outta Texas as fast as you can [View all]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/eyes-trump-texas-may-soon-154645136.html

With All Eyes On Trump, Texas May Soon Pass Horrific Anti-LGBTQ Laws

Michelangelo Signorile
HuffPost•May 21, 2017

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A pharmacist could decide not to fill a prescription for hormone therapy for a transgender customer, claiming doing so goes against his or her religious beliefs about gender.
Or, in another example TFN offers, a “pharmacist could use religion as a justification to refuse to serve African-American customers because she believes the Bible mandates the segregation of the races.”

And two bills that would regulate legal services, SB 302 and SB 303, now have amendments which allow for religious refusal by state-licensed attorneys.

If these bills become law with these amendments, an attorney could deny his or her duty to inform a client about his or her rights in a divorce proceeding, for example, even trying to talk the client out of getting a divorce, all based on the attorney’s religious objection to divorce.
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With all eyes on the constant distractions of Trump, the White Right moves in for the kill.

I'm wondering how thes new Laws that sound an awful lot like Sharia or Saudi, with 'christian' thrown in just for personalization, are going to play with the many who've just moved to Dallas from CA, with the relocation of Toyota Headquarters.

I have heard nothing in local news even speak a word about these bills.
Texas is about to become one giant Mega fu'ked up Church.

How sanctamonious & sick headed can people be to legislate themselves the purist of all.

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... shenmue May 2017 #1
Exactly! n/t Different Drummer May 2017 #3
My neighbors who are of Indian descent and American born are moving kimbutgar May 2017 #2
Austin has PLENTY of rednecks, luvMIdog May 2017 #4
I am just sickened and saddened by the level of hate in this country. smirkymonkey May 2017 #6
I kid you not when I say I'm terrified for them :( luvMIdog May 2017 #7
I hope they're in D and not FW DFW May 2017 #11
This kind of thing happens in the street..at a store.. at the post office. They live in Arlington luvMIdog May 2017 #16
I don't know Arlington DFW May 2017 #18
I'd have lost my ever loving mind and gone after them too, but I have to keep my son calm luvMIdog May 2017 #20
That makes me sad to hear this happening in Arlington. tammywammy May 2017 #43
These people are not human. They are animals. Initech May 2017 #13
Although I understand your point, theaocp May 2017 #24
Yes, I think "monster" is a more appropriate word! Initech May 2017 #26
lol, never! n/t theaocp May 2017 #29
there are already a lot of indian people in texas along with hispanics, blacks etc JI7 May 2017 #44
Religious freedom laws are not religious freedom! Initech May 2017 #5
Religious freedom laws atreides1 May 2017 #8
Can we ban Christian law the same way they ban Sharia law? Initech May 2017 #10
Honestly I go out of my way to avoid setting foot in TX Runningdawg May 2017 #9
Some of us are just used to it DFW May 2017 #12
Funny, I live in DFW area and go out of my way to avoid Oklahoma snooper2 May 2017 #23
The reprehensible right, indeed. J_William_Ryan May 2017 #14
That's why Title II is so unfair to women & LGBT people Crash2Parties May 2017 #30
White bigotted Texas is dying and they know it. That's what makes them dangerous. hunter May 2017 #15
Same problem as in some other states: Racist hicks outside the big cities dalton99a May 2017 #37
Not all of Texas is like that oberliner May 2017 #17
yes there are some wonderful people, but this Trump mess has brought out ghouls luvMIdog May 2017 #27
And they have been herded into a small handful of legislative districts nullified Crash2Parties May 2017 #31
I travel to Texas a lot... dhill926 May 2017 #19
The rascist South has risen again! workinclasszero May 2017 #21
ACLU Issues Texas Travel Advisory yortsed snacilbuper May 2017 #22
They are sick bastards. sheshe2 May 2017 #25
I already left and Texas ranks one step above Florida on my least favorite list. sinkingfeeling May 2017 #28
I'm well out of there. Aristus May 2017 #32
I know there are good people in Texas, but I still think of it as a crap place, never to RKP5637 May 2017 #33
Well, the Framers foresaw this problem.. Permanut May 2017 #34
It is tough living in Texas as times Gothmog May 2017 #35
That law would be immediately challenged. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #36
So despicable... POC please #StayWoke in TX iluvtennis May 2017 #38
Left Texas a month ago bluecollar2 May 2017 #39
I return to see my mother or special events, I am always Alice11111 May 2017 #42
Fucking Pharmacists should do their Fucking jobs! maveric May 2017 #40
I did, 30 years ago. There are some great Texans, but, like Alice11111 May 2017 #41
horrible trueblue2007 May 2017 #45
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