Tracy Morgan Is Boycotting Mississippi Over Its Anti-LGBTQ Law
Lost in the furor surrounding North Carolina’s now-infamous “Bathroom Bill,” the law that essentially legalizes anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the state, is the fact that Mississippi passed a similar law very recently. Maybe it’s because we expect Mississippi to pull this type of bullshit, whereas North Carolina has a much stronger history of progressivism. Regardless, the Mississippi law might be even worse that the one in North Carolina—it even allows doctors to refuse medical care to patients if doing so would compromise their conscience—literally the opposite of the Hippocratic oath—and Tracy Morgan is making his opposition to it known by canceling his scheduled Apr. 29 show in Robinsonville, Miss.