Thread by @LaraFriedmanDC

Rare good news: resolution intro’d in Missouri that "Celebrates diversity and affirms the right to boycott"

house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill…

Maybe this will be picked up in other states by reps who care about free speech…

Key excerpts are:

"WHEREAS, boycotts have played a strategically significant and celebrated role in United States history, utilized by individuals with grievances against government, such as the colonial boycotts of British tea and the Montgomery bus boycott”

And

WHEREAS, criticism of a nation by individuals, including as a nonviolent citizens’ boycott, does not constitute bigotry against the citizens of that nation…"

"Rather, the boycott of a nation is an expression of encouraging the government of the nation to modify its policies and practices to uphold the inalienable human rights of all people within its borders…"

Resolving that Missouri: "is guided by the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights, including the assertion that all people have the constitutional right to boycott any entity when they have conscientious concerns with the entity's policies or actions…"

“...and that the government of the State of Missouri shall not punish individuals by denying them a state contract for exercising their constitutional right to boycott.”

/end