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Judge strikes down Mississippi religious freedom law
baptistnews.com
A federal judge has struck down a controversial Mississippi bill allowing citizens with “sincerely held religious beliefs” to deny services to gays, lesbian and transgender persons.
U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves issued a 60-page opinion June 30 blocking enforcement of House Bill 1523, titled the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act,” which was set to go into effect July 1.
The law — sponsored by House Speaker Philip Gunn, a Southern Baptist layman who recently completed service as chair of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary board of trustees — was intended to protect the right to refuse services based on three religious or moral beliefs: that marriage should be recognized as the union of a man and woman, that sexual relations are reserved for marriage and that the terms male and female refer to an individual’s “immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth.”
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