Congress to Hold Hearing on Unconstitutional Bill
Late last night, we learned the good news that a federal judge stopped Mississippi’s harmful HB 1523 from going into effect because it was unconstitutional.
But Mississippi didn’t dream up HB 1523 and its sweeping discrimination on its own. It’s modeled on a federal bill that was first introduced in 2013. The federal bill, the deceptively named First Amendment Defense Act, is equally troubling.
This bill, aimed at permitting discrimination against same-sex couples, also sanctions discrimination against unmarried couples, married couples in which one person had been married before, single mothers, and individuals who have had sex outside of marriage.
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