Protected beliefs
Known as the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act
The act spans §§ 11–11 (10 sections).
Laws, 2016, ch. 334, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 2016.
The sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions protected by this chapter are the belief or conviction that:
Marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman;
Sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage; and
Male (man) or female (woman) refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.