United States Navy Takes Backhanded Swipe At Mississippi Discrimination Law In The Perfect Way

Good for him for taking a stand and good for the Navy to move the commissioning. All the best ships are built in Pascagoula but at the same time we shouldn't abide discrimination.

Also, the commissioning should have been scheduled for Portland regardless.

I suppose it only makes sense that a ship named USS Portland be commissioned in the city it is named after, regardless of the situation surrounding the decision.

People forget that these so-called religious freedom laws, which are a direct swipe at the lgbt community, don't just affect the resident population of the states in which they're enacted. They're also a swipe at all those military people who may be stationed there, or pass through in transit, and who are, or care about lgbt people, including those they serve with now and for however long such laws remain on the books. The actual people who stake their lives defending the Constitution, including the actual religious freedoms therein, should never be subject to perverse laws designed to discriminate against them.