How Georgia’s Governor sold out his state’s voters for Disney and the NFL

Last updated on: April 1, 2016 at 12:34 pm by Mark Meckler

How Georgia’s Governor sold out his state’s voters for Disney and the NFL 2016-04-01T12:34:33-06:00 Mark Meckler

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Nathan Deal was born in Millen, Georgia. He grew up on a farm in Sandersville as the son of two school teachers — his mom Mary and his dad Noah. He went to college, then law school. In 1966, he joined the Army and achieved the rank of captain.

It’s an all-American story, especially after he ran for Congress – and won – before resigning so he could run for Governor of the state of Georgia. He won that too.

But what happens when normal, good people get into positions of power? It goes to their head. It corrupts. You don’t have to be a Lord of the Rings fan to know about this theme, because you can see it in every newspaper in every small town across this nation.

The people of Georgia learned this lesson, when Gov. Deal betrayed them by vetoing a bill that was passed by the people. National Review describes the bill:

The Georgia bill that Deal refused to defend was modest in scope, protecting the right of clergy to solemnize marriages consistent with their religious beliefs, protecting the right of faith-based institutions to use their property and resources to advance their religious mission, protecting their rights to hire and fire employees on grounds consistent with religious belief and practice, and protecting a person’s free exercise of religion from a “substantial burden” unless the protected person was engaged in “invidious discrimination on any grounds prohibited by federal or state law.” In other words, the bill as drafted could not be used to “bring back Jim Crow,” nor could it offer any person, outside clergy and faith-based employers, any effective defense against the enforcement of state anti-discrimination laws. It wouldn’t block a single gay marriage. It wouldn’t deny a single gay person access to the marketplace. Instead, it would merely offer a bare minimum of legal protections to Georgia citizens who are already confronting anti-Christian bigotry and discrimination.

But Governor Deal couldn’t stand the heat.

Read the rest of this piece on Breitbart.

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