May 9 (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday said it filed a lawsuit in federal court to block a Mississippi law allowing people with religious objections to deny services to gay and transgender people.
The law is due to take effect in July.
The ACLU said the measure is discriminatory and contradicts the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year that legalized same-sex marriage.
(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
The following is my response to this story:
"Yet another example of the ACLU trying to eliminate religious freedom from our way of life. The gays can do and say pretty much anything they want these days, destroying business owners immediate and future incomes and demanding that upright and good people violate their personal morals, yet have ZERO TOLERANCE for anyone with the temerity to say something different than the message they are hammering into everyone about tolerance, acceptance "Love is Love, " etc.
I grew up knowing that Freedom of Religion actually meant something to this country. The prevailing message these days is, Religion is OK only so long as the gays aren't offended by pretty much anything any religion teaches about morals, personal conduct and anything else the LGBT community decides is objectionable.
So much for the ACLU defending the Constitution for everyones benefit. If only one person says boo about a particular issue, the ACLU will go to extraordinary lengths to assure that the other 350 million people in this country conform to that singular person's opinion. That isn't freedom; it's coercion through litigation. In this case, they are demanding that business owners everywhere violate any personal morals or religious objections regarding the LGBT community because a few people are offended that their minority lifestyle is not embraced by everyone.
Let me say this again...Coercion through litigation is not freedom at all. And anyone who tells you it is has an agenda all their own in which the vast minority are free to dictate to the vast majority what to think, say and do on any particular issue.
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