CNN's Banfield Aghast Mississippi Law Protects Traditional Sex Views

Matthew Balan | April 6, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the 6 April 2016 edition of Legal View, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield deplored part of Mississippi's new religious liberty law. Banfield played up that "there was one other piece of language...it's odd....The law in Mississippi protects from discrimination claims from anyone who believes....that sexual relations are reserved solely for marriage." She asked legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, "Does that mean that cake-baker could refuse a couple that just lives together?" When Toobin replied affirmatively, the anchor was aghast: "Why is that not making bigger headlines?...I think a lot of people are...beyond the whole you can't have sex before you're married issue."

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