It comes three months after U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Porter Jordan III, in the same Jackson courthouse, struck down the state’s ban against gay couples adopting children. Its ban on adoptions by same-sex couples was the last in the nation. Bryan Adams on April 10 canceled a show in Mississippi to protest a new state law that lets people with religious objections deny services to same-sex couples. The threat of this decision to religious liberty is very clear.”His resulting bill easily passed the Republican-controlled House and Senate. Any private business owner could refuse service to anyone they perceived to be gay by citing the above religious beliefs.

Source: Washington Post July 01, 2016 01:32 UTC