California bans state-funded travel to eight states in protest at ‘anti-LGBT’ laws allowing those with ‘religious objections’ to stop gays adopting or joining student societies

Friday, June 23, 2017
By Paul Martin

State employee travel restricted to Texas, Alabama, South Dakota and Kentucky
North Carolina, Kansas, Mississippi and Tennessee blacklisted earlier this year
Was a response to laws seen as hostile to gay, bisexual and transgender people

By RORY TINGLE
DailyMail.com
23 June 2017

California has banned state-funded travel to Texas and three other states in protest at what it sees as anti-LGBT laws enacted this year.

Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra added Texas, Alabama, South Dakota and Kentucky to the list of places where state employee travel is restricted.

California taxpayers’ money ‘will not be used to let people travel to states who chose to discriminate,’ Becerra said.

North Carolina, Kansas, Mississippi and Tennessee were blacklisted earlier this year over laws considered to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Texas was added to the list because of legislation that lets child welfare organizations deny services and adoptions to families because of ‘sincerely held religious beliefs’.

The bill, passed in May, was criticised by LGBT activists including and the American Civil Liberties Union.

The ACLU’s Kathy Miller said: ‘These religious refusal bills radically redefine a fundamental right by allowing religion as a justification to discriminate or refuse to obey laws you don’t like.

‘[They] essentially turn religion into a weapon to hurt people who are different or don’t share the same beliefs.’ Similar laws were enacted in Alabama and South Dakota.

Kentucky’s new law could allow student groups at high schools and colleges to reject LGBT people out of religious objections.

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