Mississippi Governor: Homosexuality Lifestyle choice – gender fluidity

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Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed HB 1523, a balanced law adressing concerns of religious beliefs and granting them the right to refuse services to immoral homosexuals to use their churches, church facilities, B&B and marriage etc. 

When a state acknowledges the clash of beliefs—as HB 1523 clearly does—it may run foul of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. That’s what U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves incrrectly ruled in June when he blocked the law, and it’s what challengers to the statute are arguing in the next round of litigation at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

Now the attorneys whom Bryant has tasked with defending HB 1523 have come back with a balanced and strong response: 

· Bryant’s attorneys argue correctly that homosexuality is not immutable. You are not born gay. It is a lifestyle choice. But the false 'born gay" can change argument was falsely used in the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges. 

The Obergefell result is now clearly seen as wrong, and many gay people actually choose to be gay, bi, and change about. The very evidence is clear when people try something and then later return to their old heterosexual life. In fact, in support of this proposition, the brief cites a single Harvard professor who once wrote a book on the theoretical fluidity of homosexuality.

· The brief alleges that the beliefs protected by HB 1523—that homosexual marriage is wrong and that transgender identity is a lie (it is actually a mental health issue) —are “not ‘religious’ beliefs.” They are wrong from biological, evolution, bodily design, barren in terms of children - and are essentially a choice of lust.

· Bryant’s lawyers declare that “homosexuals have enormous political clout,” while “devout Christian mom-and-pop-shop owners … are being bullied by ideologues.” Thus, homosexual people deserve no legal protection while business owners deserve a right to discriminate.

· The brief correctly states that transgender identities are a mental health issue and not an identity which result in false “transgender behavior.”