'Religious Freedom' Law Impacts Southern Miss Baseball

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A recently passed Mississippi law that makes it legal for businesses to refuse service to anyone based on religious belief has thrown a wrench in the schedule of the University of Southern Mississippi baseball team.

According to the Biloxi Sun Herald, the law, known as House Bill 1523, was signed in April of 2016 by Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant. On the same day that the bill was signed into law, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order barring non-essential state travel to Mississippi. Cuomo had, earlier in 2016, signed a similar order banning travel to North Carolina, after that state passed a law that required people to use public restroom facilities that matched the gender that appeared on their birth certificates.

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