And they aren’t showing any signs of stopping.
On Monday at 4 pm, Missouri Senate Democrats began to filibuster against a bill which would amend the state’s constitution to officially prohibit the penalization of “clergy, religious organizations, and certain individuals for their religious beliefs concerning marriage between two people of the same sex.”
The bill, which would make it legal for, say, a florist to refuse to provide arrangements for a same-sex wedding, was condemned by the eight-member Democratic caucus as discriminatory.
“A lot of the arguments I’m hearing of proponents of this bill harken back to the same arguments we heard back in 1964 when people were fighting for segregation in Mississippi,” State sen. Jason Holsman (D-Kansas City) said to the Kansas City Star. “I see a mean-spirited attempt to try to make the laws apply differently to me than they do to you.”