State Lawmakers Protect People of Faith

Mississippi lawmakers are moving to protect people of faith in a stronger way.

A proposal that proponents argue became necessary when the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) legalized same-gender “marriage” has passed in the Mississippi House and has been forwarded to the state Senate for consideration.

What the SCOTUS’s decision failed to do is provide for the 1st Amendment rights of Christians and others who have Biblical views to the contrary. 

Rob Chambers, National Field Director for American Family Association Action (AFAAction), points out that homosexual activists complain the proposal is a license to discriminate against them.  “It’s not a sword to use against people to discriminate against people,” he asserts.  “It is an act designed to help defend people who have views that marriage is between one man and one woman; and also that sex is within that confines; and also who believe that gender identity is something that is fixed at birth.”

So if this measure is approved, men would not be allowed in women’s restrooms or locker rooms, bakeries would not be forced to promote the homosexual message, and so on.  “If there’s an adoption agency that believes that children should only be placed into the home of a heterosexual, monogamous couple, then state funds in other states have been refused or denied from those adoption agencies,” Chambers poses.  But that would not be so in Mississippi if this proposal passes.

The AFAAction spokesman adds that where the SCOTUS created a right for homosexuals, it also opened season on Christians and other faith groups.  But the Mississippi proposal is designed to correct that.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel