The new law took effect in January, banning state employees and officials from using tax money to go to states with laws it deemed discriminatory in regards to LGBT issues — starting with Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee.
And on Thursday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that the list had doubled. The ban now includes Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota and Texas, the second-largest state in the U.S.
“Our country has made great strides in dismantling prejudicial laws that have deprived too many of our fellow Americans of their precious rights,” Becerra said in a statement. “Sadly, that is not the case in all parts of our nation, even in the 21st Century."
The new country on the left coast now has a host of issues to resolve:
- name?
- government?
- security, e.g. border wall?
- motto?
- flag?
- and many, many others
image by Timothy Vollmer
all 49 states of the US wishes its new neighbor well.
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