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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday denied Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s request that the state be allowed to enforce a recently passed anti-LGBT religious exemption law while the state appeals a trial court’s order halting enforcement of that law.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, in denying the request for a stay pending appeal, also denied the governor’s request to expedite the appeal.
The bill signed into law in April extends "religious freedom" protections to individuals, religious organizations and private businesses that discriminate against gays—or people having any extramarital sex at all—because of their "sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction." Because there's no moral conviction like discriminating against someone because they might be having icky sex. That has nothing to do with you.
That law will remain unenforced until the appeal of a trial court judge's decision to halt it is heard. If Bryant really, really wants to start discriminating against the gays as soon as possible, he could appeal the the Supreme Court to lift the stay. Otherwise, he just has to wait.