Pastor Protection Tabled in GA

The Atlanta Journal metro page B1 for Wednesday January 11, 2017 published “Georgia leaders patch up divide”. What it says it that “Religious Liberty” will not be reintroduced in the 2017 GA legislative session. 

Last year voters objected to predatory behavior on the part of the LGBT movement to allow ordinances to be written making it unlawful for a bakery to refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.  The case resulted in a $135,000 fine against the bakery.  We also thought that Pastors should be free to hire members of their own church to serve on the parish staff.  We also knew that Mayors were demanding that Pastors submit their sermons to them.

Coke, Delta and other Atlanta companies came down on the side of the LGBT community and against the voters. The Georgia governor sided with the corporations and vetoed the Bill. We voters would like to see these corporations amend their mission statements to exclude issues that would allow predatory behavior on the part of minorities and not meddle in our legislature. 

To their credit, the Georgia legislature ignored the bathroom issue for trans-genders.

Now Trump is about to become the President and he has vowed to end the “War on Christianity”.  The Georgia legislature is rightly engaged in drafting Bills they will need to navigate the changes coming from the Trump administration.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader