Restaurants will respond to Mississippi's new anti-LGBT law by hanging 'Everyone's Welcome' Signs

[Beacool]

Source: AOL

On Tuesday, Mississippi legalized a business's right to refuse service to gay and trans people if the owner feels religiously or morally obligated to do so, and (huge shocker) lots of restaurateurs immediately started sweating the fallout for the service industry and tourism in their state. The law will clearly rally some restaurants to discriminate even more boldly than they already were, but the Mississippi Hospitality & Restaurant Association is trying to get out ahead of this and neutralize the public's blowback now by making it very easy to distinguish an establishment that plans to avail itself of this new right from establishments that consider it an egregious injustice.

The industry group says it's going to hand out free door decals that read "Everyone's Welcome Here" to restaurants and other hospitality businesses that want to convey a message of inclusivity. "While we may not be able to manage the image and brand of the entire state," the group's executive director, Mike Cashion, says in a press release, "we can affect the image of our restaurants, hotels and other hospitality businesses." The association says it will assume all costs for designing, printing, and distributing the decals; all interested parties have to do is ask for one.



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Good for them. The law is as outrageous as the laws that in the past established segregation.

[handmade34]

1. they are a confused group, there in Mississippi...

I just came home from working in Tupelo for a few weeks (have to go back in a few months to Biloxi) ..overall people are good... although lots of Confederate flags in rural areas ( their state flag celebrates it)

picked up this magazine while there...

Lesbian news anchor Robin Roberts is the face of Mississippi's official state tourism publication this year

https://www.facebook.com/changetheflag/

[Beacool]

4. Go figure........

One step forward, two back.

[Chan790]

7. That's a two-fer for Mississippi.

They not only didn't seem to be aware that she's a lesbian...they also didn't notice that she's black.

It's like they want people to think they're a welcoming and inclusive state or something. That can't be true though...they keep passing bigoted laws to allow discrimination against minorities and LGBTQQI... people.

[Delphinus]

2. Indiana businesses

did that same thing last year (yikes, was it only a year ago?).

[Pakhet]

3. Didn't bigoted businesses in Indiana complain

that it wasn't fair for non bigoted businesses to put those signs up?

[Beacool]

5. What the heck is going on in this country???

Some states reverted to the 50s?

[cynzke]

6. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SERVE EVERYONE!

[Beacool]

8. Not only is it a disgusting law, it's just plain stupid.

Why discriminate against people who are bringing money to your business? It's dumb.

[romanic]

9. Good.

It just boggles my mind to see such bigotry become law in some places. Not to mention the economic stupidity of such a decision; the pink dollar is nothing to scoff at.