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Federal judge rules Mississippi can begin legal discrimination July 1 Mississippi residents and businesses now have a federal judge’s okay to begin denying wedding services to same-sex couples based on their religious objections, beginning July 1. And that’s just the beginning of what the so-called Hospitality State’s anti-LGBT law will do, from forcing women to wear skirts to restricting transgender students from using gender-appropriate bathrooms. One more federal hearing is all that stands in the way of the law taking effect next month. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves on Monday issued a four-page order, rejecting a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the law from going into effect. Reeves wrote that would be inappropriate, since none of the lawsuit’s plaintiffs would be harmed by the law in the immediate future, “Here, none of the plaintiffs are at imminent risk of injury,” Reeves wrote. Those plaintiffs include Mississippi residents Nykolas Alford and S...