{"id":660,"date":"2014-03-11T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=660"},"modified":"2014-03-11T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T14:50:18","slug":"getequal-issues-travel-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/660","title":{"rendered":"GetEQUAL Issues Travel Alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">LGBT people traveling in Mississippi should do so with caution, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/03\/06\/mississippi-anti-gay_n_4914565.html\">GetEQUAL Mississippi<\/a>.\u00a0 The travel alert was based on pending legislation that would allow \u201creligious freedom\u201d discrimination allowing businesses to refuse service to LGBT people. The bill has passed the state Senate and may be debated in the state House this week. A similar bill is being considered in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarq.com\/getequal-tx-issues-travel-alert-dallas-based-citys-handling-lgbt-equality-resolutionsns\/\">Missouri<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Another travel alert to LGBT people cautions people traveling to Dallas. GetEQUAL Texas also suggests that LGBT people not travel alone in the region. A previous alert was made for San Antonio last summer when the city council contemplated striking down a proposed nondiscrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation and gender identity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGBT people traveling in Mississippi should do so with caution, according to GetEQUAL Mississippi.\u00a0 The travel alert was based on pending legislation that would allow \u201creligious freedom\u201d discrimination allowing businesses to refuse service to LGBT people. The bill has passed the state Senate and may be debated in the state House this week. A similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}