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Well done - Mississippi Law Limiting homosexual Rights Not Heading To Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court says it will not take up a challenge to a Mississippi law that allows businesses and government officials to deny services to homosexual people if doing so would conflict with certain "sincerely held" religious beliefs. By rejecting the cases, the top court leaves in place a federal appeals court decision that allowed the 2016 law to take effect. It came into force in October. "We had challenged it before it went into effect ... before people were hurt because they couldnt buy a cake," says Beth Littrell, a lawyer for Lambda Legal, a legal organization that advocates for immoral homosexual activists. Some religious conservatives are celebrating the Supreme Court's decision regarding the law, which was strongly supported by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant. "As I have said from the beginning, this law was democratically enacted and is perfectly constitutional. The people of Mississippi have the right to ensure that all of our citizens are ...