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Mississippi Ratifies 13th Amendment Abolishing Slavery … 147 Years Late
Share this: The “not so great” state of Mississippi has FINALLY “officially” ratified the 13th amendment to the US constitution, which abolishes slavery and which was officially noted in the constitution on 6 December 1865...
Predominantly White Baptist Church In Mississippi Refuses To Marry Black Couple – Video
Share this:Just two days before their scheduled wedding, Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson were forced to change venues after the Rev. Stan Weatherford told them that some church members were uncomfortable with the black couple getting married in the...
Mississippi Gay Couple Lives In Fear After Hate Crime Attacks – VIDEO
Share this:Dustin Tasso and Matt James, a gay couple from Toomsuba, Mississippi have become targets of anti- gay abuse and hate crimes in thier neighborhood which have included their home being broken into, windows of their car being bashed in, and the...
Mississippi GOP Legislator Andy Gipson Plays The Victim Card After Calling For Death To Gays
Share this:Mississippi GOP legislator and Baptist minister Andy Gipson is playing the “victim card” after the backlash he is now recieving Gipson posted on his Facebook page anti-gay comments after President Obama came out in support of gay...
Jackson, Mississippi Police Stop LGBT March For Equality Before It Begins. How Very 1961
Share this:LGBT Jackson, Mississippi residents were turned away as they gathered to rally and march yesterday morning despite having applied for a permit to highlight LGBT discrimination. Organizers of the march were informed shortly before the event...
DOMA & Mississippi Denies Gay Man The Right To Sue Spouses Racist Murderer
Share this: On June 25th, 2011 James Craig Anderson was standing in a hotel parking lot minding his own business at 5 a.m. Little did he know that just a half hour earlier a drunk, 18-year-old Deryl Dedmon Jr. proclaimed, “Let’s go fuck with some...
Four Missisippi "Christian" Children Bully and Beat 12 Year Old Girl After a "Christian Fellowship Meeting"
Share this:Four Mississipi so called “Christian” children straight from a “Christian Fellowship” meeting, surrounded and bullied and beat upon a 12 year-old Mississippi middle school student because her name...
Mississippi Corrections Officer André D. Cooley Fired For Being Gay. Lawsuit Filed
Share this: André D. Cooley (pictured left) and The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Monday against The Forrest County Sherriff’s Department of Mississippi alleging that he was fired because his supervisors...
Itawamba School District To Pay Constance McMillan $35,000,00 In Damages And Will Update It’s Sexual Orientation Policy
Share this: The Itawamba School District has agreed to update its anti-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and will pay McMillen $35,000 in damages for denying lesbian student Constance McMillen the right to attend...