While the left freaks out about President Donald J. Trump’s limited and temporary “travel ban” for 7 countries with connections to terrorism, California is doing something we should all take note of.
Instead of focusing on national security or enforcing immigration laws, California is now passing a draconian law to punish people who don’t think like they do.
The state has invented their own travel ban, which prohibits state-funded travel to any state deemed to be unfriendly to LGBT causes.
Now, all students of California State University and University of California are no longer allowed to travel to North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, or Kansas, according to California attorney general Xavier Becerra. Outrageous!
From the LA Times:
UC Davis senior Acacia Keith was excited to present her research on the anti-abortion movement at what would have been her first national conference this spring.
The Council on Undergraduate Research conference, which showcases work by more than 3,000 undergraduates, is considered a premier opportunity to make an academic mark and network for jobs and graduate programs. UC Davis was going to pay for Keith to travel there.
But there’s a problem. The conference is being held this year at the University of Memphis in Tennessee. A new California law bans state-funded travel to states that discriminate against the LGBT community. And the California attorney general has listed Tennessee as one of them, along with Kansas, North Carolina and Mississippi.
At least 18 students at UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara and Cal State Long Beach planned to attend the Memphis conference with their trips paid by the state schools. More than 100 Californians were selected for the April gathering, but Elizabeth Ambos, the council’s executive director, could not say how many attended public universities that are subject to the law.
The law also has led to the cancellation of preliminary talks between UC Berkeley and the University of Kansas for a men’s basketball series, the Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World reported.
The football team at UCLA will be able to play in North Carolina in March because the game was scheduled before the law went into effect January 1. But after that, it would no longer be allowed to send sports teams there.
What happened to the outrage over “travel bans?”
This is open anti-Christian bigotry from a state that has far worse problems to fix.
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