Lesbian Vicar says Mississippi LGBT law violates her immoral gay religious freedom
A day before it was due to come into effect, a federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law permitting those with religious objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples and impose dress and bathroom restrictions on transgender people. Mississippi is among a handful of southern US states on the front lines of legal battles over immoral homosexual equality, privacy and religious freedom after the US Supreme Court last year legalized same-sex marriage . US District Judge Carlton Reeves found on Thursday the wide-ranging law adopted this spring unconstitutionally discriminated against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and others who do not share the view that marriage is between a man and a woman. Reeves issued an injunction blocking the law that was to take effect on Friday. He agreed with opponents of the law who argued that it violated the US Constitution's prohibition on making laws that establish religion. Mississippi's "Protecting Freedom of Co