Roberta Kaplan
The statute that the state of Mississippi just enacted, HB 1523, clearly violates the fundamental principle of equality before the law. It authorizes, even encourages, discrimination against LGBT people in Mississippi, re-creating, only months after the Supreme Court clearly held it unconstitutional, another form of second-class citizenship for LGBT Mississippians. State officials cannot circumvent federal court injunctions and evade the Constitution by passing laws that seek to stigmatize LGBT people and segregate them from everyone else.
— Roberta Kaplan, Paul Weiss partner and ATL’s 2013 Lawyer of the Year, arguing against Mississippi’s House Bill 1523, a so-called religious freedom law, in federal court today.
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