Mississippi Religious Lib Law Violates First Amendment and Shuts Out Religious Progressives | Religion Dispatches

I predicted after the first two lawsuits were filed against Mississippi’s House Bill 1523, a third suit now claims that the state’s outrageous new religious liberty law violates the First Amendment.

A group of pastors, community leaders and activists sued the state’s governor and other officials last week, arguing that the law—which will soon grant legal protections to people who deny public services based on three specific beliefs (that marriage should be between men and women only, that sex outside of marriage is immoral, and that gender and sex are only determined by anatomy at birth)— “was clearly enacted for religious purposes.”...
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