Apparently, business cannot be required by the government to bake cakes for gay people but they can be required to put their employees and customers lives at risk by serving unvaccinated people.
South Carolina House Bill 4848, also called the “don’t ask” bill, would make questions about a person’s COVID-19 status a misdemeanor crime.
It says, “Notwithstanding another provision of law to the contrary, any employee, officer, agent, or other representative of a public, nonprofit, or private entity who inquires about the COVID-19 vaccination status of any student, employee, member, or anyone else seeking admission on the entity’s premises is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than fourteen thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”
Republican state Rep. Bill Chumley said, “South Carolina didn’t want to get in this fight, It was brought to us by the federal government. States have a right to impose certain laws if they want to, and to not impose others we feel are unconstitutional.”
South Carolina and states’ rights. Some things never change. We even fought a bloody civil war over that very issue and they lost but they still insist on it.
This is purely a situational excuse, however. If a different state wants to require private businesses or citizens to follow some rule they don’t like, the right would be the first in line to start screaming about overbearing government interference and individual rights.
I still find it hard to believe that they are evoking this nonsense in 2021 in order to spread a deadly disease but that’s where we are: a death cult.