{"id":45212,"date":"2022-04-11T10:55:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45212"},"modified":"2022-04-11T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:55:37","slug":"a-step-in-the-right-direction-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45212","title":{"rendered":"A Step In The Right Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, The Gateway Pundit<\/a> reported that the South Carolina Senate has passed a bill prohibiting businesses from refusing to serve unvaccinated people. The should prevent vaccine mandates from being instituted in the State.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Senate approved the bill 29-12 on Wednesday. Senators made changes to a House bill which that chamber\u00a0passed in December<\/a>, meaning the proposal returns to the House to see if it accepts those changes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Senators initially put in a large unemployment tax penalty for private businesses that fired unvaccinated workers. But instead they compromised to allow fired workers to collect unemployment benefits, retroactive to the last nine months.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opponents of the Republican-backed bill questioned why a group that typically says government shouldn\u2019t tell businesses what to do is taking up this fight.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supporters of the bill said they were trying to protect the choice of people who don\u2019t want to take the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The proposal bans state and local governments and public schools from requiring vaccines for their employers, contractors or students and also says first responders can\u2019t be fired for refusing a COVID-19 shot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The House can either agree to the Senate\u2019s changes, sending the bill to Gov. Henry McMaster\u2019s desk, or insist on its version of the bill, meaning a small group of House members and senators will have to work on a compromise between the two versions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I agree that the area of government telling businesses what they can and cannot do is difficult. However, the civil rights laws passed in the 1960’s told businesses that they had to serve people regardless of race. I believe that principle applies in the area of vaccine status also. It is, however, a very tricky area–the amount of power that the government has over private businesses needs to be kept as small as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, The Gateway Pundit reported that the South Carolina Senate has passed a bill prohibiting businesses from refusing to serve unvaccinated people. The should prevent vaccine mandates from being instituted in the State. The article reports: The Senate approved … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13374,448,11716,14126],"class_list":["post-45212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19-vaccine","tag-south-carolina","tag-the-gateway-pundit","tag-vaccine-mandates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45213,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45212\/revisions\/45213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}