Donna Tartt, John Grisham, Natasha Trethewey and Kathryn Stockett among group calling for repeal of House Bill 1523, allowing businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples
Ninety-five Mississippi writers, including Donna Tartt and John Grisham, have condemned the state’s new anti-LGBT law, describing it as “the rhetoric of hate, thinly veiled”.
Passed last week, House Bill 1523 allows businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples, if their relationship goes against the business owner’s “sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions”. It also says that marriage “is or should be recognised as the union of one man and one woman”, and that “male (man) or female (woman) refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth”.
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